LINDSAY PURCELLLIFE EDITOR

What do the Gold Rush danc-ers, a rare bacteria and the Inter-national Space Station all have in common? Not much normally, but in just four days, a bacteria swabbed by Gold Rush dancers from the seats in Bobby Dodd Sta-dium will be travelling through space on its way for further testing at the International Space Station in a project known as Operation Mercurii.

Shelby Bottoms, a third year AE major and member of the Gold Rush Dance Team, has spearheaded Techs involvement with Operation Mercurii. Techs bacteria sample, or Curtobacte-rium Herbarum, was one of forty-

eight samples selected to travel to the International Space Station.

Operation Mercurii is led by Science Cheerleader, an organiza-tion devoted to playfully chal-lenging stereotypes by proving to young girls that they can be in-volved in both science and cheer-leading.

Or, according to Bottoms, You dont have to be nerdy to be a nerd.

Growing up, I was dorky, but I kept it a secret. For instance, I went to Space Camp but didnt tell anyone. I wasnt taking apart toasters so I thought I couldnt be an engineer, but girls can be great engineers or scientists or whatev-er, said Bottoms.

Bottoms and other Gold Rush dancers swabbed samples from

their mouth and jazz shoes to send to Project Mercurii. Then, Bot-toms and her coach went to Bobby Dodd Stadium to get samples from an array of objects, including the goal posts, football player seats and student section seats.

The coolest part is that some-thing I actually swabbed is going into space, said Bottoms.

When the samples arrive at the International Space Station, they will be tested on how the bacteria replicates in space as compared to on Earth. One set of the samples will be sent to the International Space Station, while a duplicate set will be sent to University of California-Davis, where Project Mercurii and Science Cheerlead-ers leader Wendy Brown is getting

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So you have a Fight Club reference regarding the Sliver Box? Common, Technique, grow up and stop your petty censorship.The songs kinda catchy.what are the different life styles in zoos for animalsoh and peace outPhi Kaps I hope youre sorry, and not just because you got caught. People like you are scum.Ive blacked in at Cypress at 2AM, fist deep in pub fries, twice already this week.Taco Bell quit closing early!!!And start being open on the weekendsBut really, why is there no food on the weekend? We still existAnd the culc should have a dining hallspoochy snoochy suuuuucheh soooooocho suh-cheh soochIts no use.Im about to graduate and I still dont have the courage to come out. I know my real friends wont judge me, but I am still terrified of what other people will think.That S&M Man song from Phi Kapp is f***ing disgusting. To all the Phi Kapp pledges who sang it without a nanobit of guilt and proudly pledged on, f**k you too.It sucks that Phi Tau will define fraternities on this campus for so manyThe Technique should NOT be posting their opinion on whos the best candidate... What is this Fox News?Calling it now, editor in chief of the Technique, along with Nick, Lucy, Dillon and BrandieHey technique, your bias is showing... Oh and your submissive-ness to the overlords too.Not surprisingly theyre is showing up in full force for this elec-tion

JOSHUA GARRICKNEWS EDITOR

TWO GOLDWATER SCHOLARSTwo Tech students, Thomas

Forrest Kieffer and Mohamad Ali Naija were both named 2014 Goldwater Scholars this past week. The Barry Goldwater Schol-

arship and Excellence in Edu-cation Program was established in 1986 and is meant to provide a continuing source of highly qualified scientists, mathemati-cians and engineers by awarding

scholarships to college students who intend to pursue research careers in these fields.

Kieffer is a senior majoring in physics and applied mathemat-ics, focusing on astrophysics. His goal is to pursue a Ph.D in theoretical physics and become a professor, as well as continue do-ing research to aid in the growth and development of the funda-mentals of science. The award will cover tuition, fees, books and room and board for $7,500 a year.

Naija is a biomedical engi-neering student who chose to enroll at Tech in 2010 because of the biomedical engineering departments reputation and re-search opportunities. He is also an Honors Program student, who went on to become editor in chief of The Tower. Naija hopes to become a professor with help from this scholarship and go on to focus more on his research in genome engineering while being a teacher to the next generation of young scientists.

BUZZINGA!The Buzzinga! case competi-

tion is currently going through its last phases. After semi-fi-nalists were notified on April 6, and presentations from teams to stakeholders going on this week, the winners will be notified on April 14. The annual competi-tion which will award winning solutions up to $10,000 and support from campus has a fo-cus on creativity, sustainability, conformity to case topic and campus reach. This years theme was Student-Faculty Interac-tion.

THE DRIVERS SEATAnnual parking registration

is now open for students, fac-ulty and staff through Parking and Transportations new online portal, The Drivers Seat.

For two weeks only this year, from April 1-15 customers can renew their permits. The first week of sales will be on a first come/first serve basis will begin the week of April 21-27.

JOSHUA GARRICKNEWS EDITOR

BREAKING THE GATEOn April 2, a GTPD officer

was dispatched to the Centergy One parking deck at 75 fifth street, NE in reference to a dam-age to property call. Upon ar-rival, they met with the Director of Security there who stated that four days previously a security officer was watching the CCTV when they observed a group of four unknown males and one unknown female walk from Ab-ercrombide Place into the park-ing decks Abercrombie entrance

gate. The suspects had driven off in a White Toyota Rav 4 SUV and broken off the parking decks gate arm. No additional details are currently known as to what the suspects looked like or what their purpose was.

DRUNK ON THE STREETOn March 4, at 2:33 a.m.,

a GTPD officer was patrol-ling fifth street between Fowler Street and Techwood Drive when he saw a woman holding onto a lamp post at the edge of the street in front of Tau Kap-pa Epsilon Houses volleyball court. The incident report cites a student for an incident type of Possession of alcohol/under 21 and a student conduct code violation, but the report is un-clear as to any additional details about the suspect or what they were doing when cited.

MULTIPLE CARS ENTEREDOn April 4, at 7:01 p.m., a

GTPD officer responded to a call on Tech Parkway directly behind the CRC in reference

to multiple cars being entered. There is currently no suspect for further investigation. At least four victims reported their cars being entered and items being stolen from inside them. The items ranged anywhere from clothing, to weights, to char-gers, to keys, to backpacks and laptops with property damage totaling about $3,125.00.

STUDENT CENTER FIGHTOn April 3, at 10:37 p.m.,

a GTPD officer responded to a call in the Student Center in reference to a dispute that had occurred at 7:40 p.m. Upon Arrival the officer met with the HR Manager who informed the officer that they had already taken witness statements from employees that were in the area and the alleged victim. The in-cident type was listed as simple assault/battery with no more details included about how the altercation started, ended or in-formation as to what would hap-pen to the individuals involved in the altercation.

JOSHUA GARRICKNEWS EDITOR

According to The Wall Street Journal, an encryption tool that is heavily used across a portion of the Internet is flawed and is po-tentially exposing large quantities of data that are meant to be hid-den from prying eyes.The bug, nicknamed Heart-

bleed by researchers at Google Inc. and cybersecurity firm Code-nomicon could have potentially affected 2/3 of active websites when it was announced on Mon-day.

By Tuesday afternoon a num-ber of large websites, including Yahoo, Facebook, Google and Amazon Web Services, said they were fixing the problem or had al-ready fixed it.

While there was some reassur-ance on that part, researchers were still looking at the impact it would have on consumers but warned that it had a potential to be signif-icant because users most sensitive information including passwords, stored files, bank details and even social security numbers could be vulnerable.

According to the New York Times, the most immediate ad-vice from security experts to con-sumers was to wait or at least be cautious before changing pass-words as if the website hadnt yet been fixed passwords are still vul-nerable to attackers.

Larger organizations were ad-vised to download the newest ver-sion of OpenSSL protocol which would include a fix and quickly swap out encryption keys. But without an attacker utilizing the information then victims would not know they had been attacked.

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KENNETH MARINOASSOCIATE EDITOR

Dr. Aby Parsons, who received her Ph.D. at Emory University in Womens, Gender and Sexuality Studies, was named as the direc-tor of the newly opened LGBTQ-IA Resource Center last month. Parsons brings to the position her experience as a volunteer with the Office of Health Promotion at Emory and her perspective as a native of the UK.

Parsons, whose Ph.D. disser-tation was on the subject of the representations of queer identity in the American South through film and literature, warned against making broad generaliza-tions about both the South and the U.K., but acknowledged that there were specific challenges for the LGBT community in the South. Specifically she mentioned that the biggest difference she saw was how religion infiltrates poli-tics in a way that it does not do to the same extent in the UK. She discussed both how the cultural relevance of religion could be a challenge and how a major goal of the LGBT movement in the U.S. was to build relationships with faith-based communities.

I love the South, Parsons said. One of the big reasons I re-ally wanted to stay in the South and do this work is because I think there is so much to be done here. I think a lot of people write off the South as being very regressive and very backwards but what people dont realize unless [they] live in the South is that there are vibrant communities of queer ac-tivists here that are really doing some wonderful things to build bridges between communities to create change--to change laws.

Having arrived just last week, Parsons says that she is still get-ting up to speed but is still avail-able as a resource.

Any time [students or staff ] just want to come in and if they want to talk through a particular situation theyre dealing with, Im very open to listening to those students. Im happy to be that point of contact for students who arent sure where to go.

Parsons short-term goals for the center are finding out what people want and starting to im-plement some of those things for them, developing a strategic plan for the center and revamping Techs Safe Space curriculum.

Im looking at planning an open house for the fall when stu-dents come back so that they can check out the space drop by and meet me and just get a feel for what were doing.

Longer-term, Parsons hopes to use student, faculty and staff input to develop more LGBT program-ming and provide more resources

for LGBT students and staff. I want people to use this cen-

ter and come to our events and not feel like they have to hide part of their identity to feel comfort-able and safe [at Tech]. I [want that to be true] whenever they go on campus, whether its a sports team, a greek formal, their dorm, their classroom [or] their student organization. Wherever they go on campus I want them to feel like they are a whole person.

Despite all of the challenges of building up the office from scratch, Parsons remains excited and motivated to run the LG-BTQIA Resource Center.

I know we have a lot of work to do; I know that some things are going to take a really long time, and there are going to be some things that are more manageable on a [longer] scale, but in the meantime Im just really looking forward to always making for-ward progress and being a little relentless, maybe a little annoy-ing, but never giving up.

LGBTQIA center welcomes new director

Photo by Kenneth Marino Student Publications

Dr. Aby Parsons sits in her new office as she begins work to get the LGBTQIA Resource Center up off the ground and running.

JOSHUA GARRICKNEWS EDITOR

On Wednesday, the two and a half weeks of campaigning closed with the undergraduate student body electing Dillon Roseen as Undergraduate SGA President and Brandie Banner as Execu-tive Vice President. Roseen and Banner came away with 53.6% of the vote and 1,531 votes over-all in comparison to 705 votes to Conrad Rybka and Donovan Shu-man as well as 620 votes to Alex Bandes and Yvonne Ploder.

After SGA Elections Chair Andrew Block announced the results, supporters cheered and rushed to congratulate the SGA President and Executive Vice President elect. Roseen and Ban-ner took to the front of CULC 144 briefly to thank their support-ers as well as their opponents for a great campaign.

Were just really thankful for the support that everyone has shown over the past two and a half weeks. And also just the campaign in general from the other tickets has been really awesome, they re-ally focused on the issues. I think were just looking forward to get-ting to work now and implement-ing, I think someone pointed out, 29 initiatives, so were excited to just get to work, said Roseen.

Yeah super humbled and thankful and excited to get to work so I think we have a lot to do and appreciate your support so much, said Banner.

Roseen and Banner focused their campaign on improving the student experience at Tech in various areas including improving

student life, campus infrastruc-ture, access to technology and revitalizing SGA. The pair already has some of their initiatives in the works as they prepare to step into their new roles.

Rybka and Shuman, who la-beled themselves as a different kind of SGA candidate because neither had been previously in-volved with SGA, ended up pull-ing in 24.6% of the vote.

Bandes and Ploder had gar-nered 650 votes in total but were docked 30 votes and $35 from their budget for violations in four counts of campaigning before the campaign period. The two viola-tions the campaign was found guilty of, which Block described as minor in an email, related to a facebook post and group. The posting in a private soror-

ity facebook group was considered a straightforward and unanimous violation by the elections com-mittee. The committee estimated there were 160 active Tech stu-dents in the sorority group and that at least 50 of these members would be undecided. From those undecided voters it was estimat-ed that 60% of them would be swayed by the post so they docked 30 votes. While the second viola-tion involved Bandes and Ploder knowingly adding people, they had not confirmed to their cam-paign team to a campaign team facebook group. The elections committee felt that it would serve as an advertisement for the cam-paign but not significantly impact votes so they docked an amount of 5% of total budget as it did not warrant the full 10% penalty for a minor violation.

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ALEXA GRZECHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

On April 8, the Student Center Expansion Committee (SCEC) held a town hall meeting in the Smithgall Student Services Build-ing to discuss the upcoming Stu-dent Center expansion plans. The SCEC presented informa-tion about the current student life spaces across Techs campus while seeking to gain input from students on what a new Student Center should look like.

The SCEC has spent time brainstorming smaller design ele-ments that could be incorporated and reaching out to other stu-dents for their thoughts as well.

These ideas, all tentative at this point, range from better lounge space and increased student orga-nization office space to a personal favorite, a visible home for the Ramblin Wreck, said Trey Sides, Chairman of the SCEC.The future location for the

expansion is still being decided: The location for the expansion is also under consideration, but pro-posals include the surface parking lot between the Student Center and the Flag Building, the por-tion of Ferst Drive directly adja-cent to the Student Center, and even an entirely different location altogether, Sides said. Depend-ing on the decision that is made, the Student Center could become

one of the first pieces of the more attractive, welcoming entrance to campus proposed in the 2004 Campus Master Plan.

Although an official date for the Student Center expan-sion project has not been set, the SCEC still developed a general timeline that places groundbreak-ing in 2017. This would coincide with the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the original Wenn Student Center, which is the three-story portion of the facility.The SCEC organized a town

hall meeting to increase awareness regarding the Student Center ex-pansion initiative. The town hall meeting also allowed students to

Student center future discussed in town hall meeting

Photo by Shaoshuai Gong Student Publications

The Student Center Expansion Committee recently held a town hall meeting to discuss the future of student space on campus.

Cross-agency programs cut in federal budget updateHOLDEN LEE

ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

On April 3, 2014, the Tech Office of Government and Com-munity Relations held a budget update that covered how President Obamas 2015 budget will affect the Tech community. While the December congressional bud-get deal allows stability in Techs budget, the meeting explained how budget goals would be more realistic rather than aspirational which the Office of Govern-ment and Community Relations claimed to be a disappointing re-quest.

Despite a lack of new initia-tives and competition for limited funds, the meeting claimed that R & D and basic research are still the top priorities. Over all, the presentation covered eleven differ-ent cross-agency priorities.

According to the spending cuts indicated in the FY 2015 Presi-dents Budget Request, NASA Science will go down by 0.03% compared to FY2014, but larger cuts under the Department of Defense Science and Technology include Basic Research by 6.9%, Applied Research by 4% and DARPA Basic Research by 0.9%.

Compared to FY 2014, Presi-

dent Peterson requested increases for FY 2015 include 2.6% for the Department of Energy and 0.7% for National Institute of Health. The Administration states that in-novation and commercialization are a key point of focus, but Tech must also comply with federal ini-tiatives that include the Obama Administration Big Data, STEM education, cyber security and es-pecially energy research.

Energy research continues to be a high priority for President Obama to advance public goals in energy security, climate change, advance manufacturing, sustain-

Photo courtesy of the Office of Government and Community Relations

(Left to right) Mary Shoemaker, Lucy Tucker and Nick Picon vis-ited the capital to participate in and hear budget discussions.

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See BUDGET, page 5

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AMERICAN HELICOPTER SOCIETYBill 14J190 was for funding for

the American Helipcopter Society Forum travel funding. The forum is the premier meeting for the ro-torcraft industry in the US and is the only meeting of its type. AHS described it as the best way for students interested in rotorcraft to learn about the state of the art in technology and research as well as meet potential employers, partici-pate in national committees and the national design competition.The student organization has

11 students planning to go and requested $1,673.64.

With little deliberation over additional details about what stu-dents would be participating in the bill was passed by SGA.

TECH THE HALLSBill 14J192 was for the student

organization Tech the Halls who were requesting funding from SGA for items they are currently lacking for the holiday season but will be reusable in upcoming years including a banner, a santa

suit and a holiday tree. There was little discussion over this bill but it was passed by both facets of SGA well in advance of the November 22 event this year.

ROWING CLUBBill 14J193 was brought for-

ward by the Georgia Tech Rowing Team. The team competes nation-ally at many regattas featuring varsity level programs and as a club level team have been able to medal at the national champion-ship over 2/3 of the time they have competed in the last 20 years.

SGA commended the team for coming with this bill after they had already secured land to build a new boathouse which they were requesting funding for. The team had already raised $20,000 to buy new boats for the new lo-cation but the total for the boat-house project was an additional $30,000. After fundraising in the fall they had raised $10,000. SGA voted unanimously to grant the team $19,932.20 of their original request per JFC policy.

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SGA sustainability forum cov-ers Lifecycle of an iphone

KATHLEEN ZHANGCONTRIBUTING WRITER

On Wednesday, April 9, the SGA Sustainability Committee hosted its 4th Sustainability Fo-rum titled the Lifecycle of an iPhone. This series is held once a semester for students to learn more about how they can apply their majors to solve real world programs and interact with pro-fessionals currently working in their fields of interest.

We just wanted to focus on electronics wastebut beyond the iPhone we wanted to look at what the processes [that] are making these products, what happened to them once were done, and think about things in a different way, said Mary Shoemaker, co-chair of the Sustainability Committee. We all use these electronics on a daily basis and only think of them in terms of the functionality it provides instead of the impact it has on the environment.The forum started with a pre-

sentation by Dr. Valerie Thomas, a professor in the School of Indus-trial Systems and Engineering as well as the School of Public Policy on the energy costs in producing an iPhone.

Dr. Thomas discussed how many rare-earth metals are used in an iPhone and how energy-in-tensive production is.

In total, it is estimated that 70 kilograms of carbon dioxide is emitted for each finished iPhone, assuming that each owner uses the device for three whole years. 81% of the emissions come from pro-duction; no rare earth metals exist in the United States, the majority coming from China. There is also no effective process in recycling

Dr. Thomas used the mineral coltan as an example of how min-ing has unexpected consequences.

Coltan is used in the iPhones is mined from the Eastern Demo-cratic Republic of Congo.

Fighters on both sides were taking control of the mines and funding for their war efforts, said Dr. Thomas. The mining opera-tions have affected the neighbor-ing gorilla habitats and the ani-mals are eaten as bushmeat. Your cell phone is really driving the death of the gorillas.

Following the presentation was a question and answer session with a panel of four experts in the field. The panel consisted of Wilson

Kieffer, Georgia Tech alumnus and president of the electronics waste collection and recycling service eWaste ePlanet, Dr. Atalay Atasu from the Scheller College of Business, Dr. Marc Weissburg from the School of Biology, and Steve Ekin the Director of the Surplus Property Division at the Georgia Department of Adminis-trative Services. This committee shared their insights on e-waste recycling in the United States.

If you look at the history of environmental regulation, partic-ularly in the United Statesthere has almost never been a case where companies voluntarily agreed to be regulated, said Dr. Weissburg. It turns out many times when we make these regulations, compa-nies increase their efficiency and they end up actually not doing as badly or even better.

Students interested in recycling their old electronics can do so at the Earth Day Celebration on April 18. Personal e-waste will be collected for the 9th annual Elec-tronics Recycling Drive in con-junction with Atlanta Recycling Solutions. Only personal E-waste will be accepted and not any Tech departmental unit property. Com-pact disk recycling along with their cases will also be accepted.

ask questions and share thoughts about the future expansion.

While extensive campus representation on the expansion committee helps ensure that these goals are met on a consistent basis, the town hall was an opportunity for us to reach a broader audience and hear even more voices. Fur-thermore, many students simply arent aware that an expansion ef-fort is underway, Sides said.The SCEC currently works

with other organizations on cam-pus to promote the initiative.

The committee currently con-sists of about 25 representatives from a wide variety of campus organizations, including strong partners such as ODK and SGA, that have lent their support to this cause, and that number grows by the week, Sides said.

If students have any proposed ideas relating to the Student Cen-ter expansion, they can contact Sides at cwsides@gatech.edu.

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ability and innovation said the Office of Government and Com-munity and Relation. The budget is also squeezed by Obama inno-vation models, Energy Innovation Hubs, Energy Frontier Research Centers, ARPA-E.

Many officials at Tech believe that these budget changes are ob-stacles that need to be overcome in order to maintain Techs image as an institution of innovation, and many believe that Tech must sim-ply adjust and continue to work hard and earn funding.

As federal funding for research becomes less certain, Georgia Tech must be able to adapt in or-der to retain its competitive edge, said Nathan Moon, co-chair of Policy@Tech and Research Scien-tist Efforts by the Office of Gov-ernment and Community Affairs and the information provided by Mr. Knotts assists the Tech com-munity in remaining versatile and successful in these times.

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Oh look, both the SGA Election and Inventure!So glad those in power stay in powerTechnique is doing a worse job at fair and balanced than Fox News:)I completely agree the show took a sour turn, but I feel like you over glorified Friends and condemned the entire series of HI-MYM when only the later seasons/episodes were terrible.Suitssdo you like beating UGA? do you like volleyball? come to OKeefe gym TONIGHT at 7:30 to watch our Mens team kick some ass!I hate the confederate flag and i have a crush on someoneSurprise surprise, shoddy, biased writing from Technique.is it May yet?I feel like all such things, there seems to be a placatory stand from Dr Peterson, and nothing will ultimately happen. like you said, insult to injury, nobody does anything.Everyone who goes here is intelligent, yet some still manage to piss all over the toilet seat. This boggles my mind.My professors: You know what? We should all assign projects, presentations, and homework sets due during dead week so that our students wont have time to study for their finals!Ninh is in control of much of the universe but not all...So excited that Roseen & Banner will be representing Georgia Tech in the coming year!!my littles are SGA Prez y VP #weee!! #RB14Being gay is EXHAUSTING! Did you know that you can order a Mormon? Im just wondering...does she still...have a uterus? Walden is like the Instagram of the 1800sMy idea of a hipster is a guy wearing nothing but mismatching socks, a monocle, and white tighties Is it just me or you dont really realize how drunk you are until you are in a bathroom alone???

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Addressing sexual violence on campusSteps to take after the Phi Kappa Tau suspension

The recent events with Phi Kappa Tau have reminded Tech that sexual violence is a critical issue. Phi Kappa Taus case is also suggestive of larger problems within the Greek community: specifically, a lack of transparency which leads to a disturb-ing culture. These issues cannot be solved internally, nor can the student body be expected to spontaneously bring about change. It is therefore the responsibility of the administration to respond effectively, contrary to their reaction to the rape bait email, and to take concrete steps to ensure tangible change on campus.

In any case where student safety is a concern, the Institute is obligated to have decisive response. Taking no action is the worst possible option. The Office of Greek Affairs and the Greek Councils should de-velop and implement an investigation pro-cess for Tech fraternities. The investigation should focus on ensuring that fraternity houses are safe and the organizations to

minimize the chance of sexual violence.The administration also needs to seri-

ously address the long-standing tradition of secrecy in Greek organizations. Though many members of the Greek community believe secrets create bonds, this policy has led to extremely dark problems, as evi-denced by the Phi Kappa Tau case. Mem-bers of the fraternity who did not directly participate in the atrocities surrounding them did not speak up, presumably be-cause of peer pressure of their brothers. This silence strengthened the rape culture in that organization, and resulted in a sex-ual assault case.Therefore, the Institute needs to im-

plement a program to enable concerned students to safely whistleblow, maintain anonymity and still have housing. This protection program is absolutely neces-sary since secrets that are harmful need to be reported. After all, relationships, not se-crets, are what bind students together.

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

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Sam Somani Managing EditOrBrittany Miles dEsign EditOr

Joshua Garrick nEws EditOrNewt Clark spOrts EditOrLindsay Purcell LifE EditOr

Ally Stone phOtOgraphy EditOr

Arvind Narayan OpiniOns EditOrKeith Frady EntErtainMEnt EditOr

Lisa Xia LayOut EditOr

PHI KAPPA TAU SUSPENSION

Coming from someone in Greek life, Im glad theyre gone.

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If we admonish this behavior on our campus wed have to ban every single frat.

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I would argue that the student body is actually highly sensitive to these kinds of things. The whole purpose of article, in my opinion, is to expose the more explicit cultural trends that are found within the community.

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Those lyrics are extremely brutal and glorifying violence, specifically sexual violence, against women. It takes a special kind of deranged person to come up with these ideas. All of the people involved with this need to be evaluated.

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Just because it is typical does not mean that it is okay. It is completely possible to change culture and conduct, it just takes a concerted effort.

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NOT all Greeks are like this and no one should ever group ALL into the actions of SOME (we are smart enough to at least know that) so place your frustration and anger on those responsible, not the messenger.

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Someone once told me that I have very thick hair.

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to me.

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The modern young adult possesses two inherent traits: a natural inclination to put off work till it becomes crunch time and a deep-rooted appreciation for binge watch-ing television. And though there may be online video lec-tures, I think we need to go a step above video lec-tures and appeal to the masses better. How?

Create Class-es as a show on Netflix.

Essentially, each class lecture would star the professor, TAs and old students in different scenarios teaching the class the concepts of each unit through various dialogues with other professors, anxious background music and various camera tech-niques which heighten the view-ers experience.Think about it. It should

come to no ones surprise that many of us are lazy, and many of us just want to stay in bed all day. With classes as shows on Netflix, this takes away a host of problems and makes college much more fun.

Also, if professors could cre-ate shows that engaged their stu-dents like shows such as Greys Anatomy, House of Cards and Game of Thrones do, academia in the U.S. will revolutionize the rest of the world.

Time tickets will be a thing of the past since every possible class will be on the database. The only way to get to courses with prerequisites is by finishing the show (class) before it.

Students have no excuses for sleeping through a class and could take the class at the hour thats most convenient for them.

This also enables students, rather than professors, to con-trol the pace of the class.

Unlike the modern class, where the professor gets a gen-

eral consensus as to how fast their students feel the class is going, classes on Net-flix let the slow learners go slow and the faster learners go fast and everything in-between.

Some old practices can

still stand. Obviously, some of us need the extra help by at-tending office hours. Once the professors have finished filming their shows for each class, their days for years will be cleared so much that holding an hour or three of office hours each week for students will be nothing to the tens of hours each week spent researching.

Classes being put on Netf-lix would force students to talk about their studies like they do any other TV show. Theyll be engaged, learning, intrigued. Over the course of a few years, students could submit ideas of what episodes were better and worse and what the professors could do to improve.This definitely isnt for ev-

erybody. This system promotes solitude over social interaction. It promotes laziness and doing things on your own time rather than learning that the world doesnt revolve around yourself and we have to do things on other peoples schedules. The system also would raise issues on how to prevent students from cheating.

But like any young adoles-cent would say, we can put that off till later.

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Classes being put on Netflix would force

students to talk about their studies...

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Let me start by briefly ex-plaining how we arrived at last weeks Consensus editorial. The members of the editorial board and other Technique staff members sat down and had a freewheeling discussion of all of the issues at play in this elec-tion. Several editors, including myself, supported the Bandes-Ploder ticket. The candidates experience was brought up fre-quently. I myself expressed my opinion that the Bandes-Ploder ticket had the best experience for negotiating with administra-tors and the state governmentI found Yvonne Ploders experi-ence working in the office of a U.S. senator to be particularly impressive. During our discus-sion we brought up many of the major issues facing students in-cluding mental health, dining and the Student Center.

In the end, most of the staff ended up supporting the Roseen-Banner ticket. Those of us who still gave the edge to Bandes-Ploder recognized this and believed that Roseen and Banner would also do well in the positions. Our lengthy dis-cussion was shortened to a few

key points that we thought best highlighted our decision, and the article was printed.

I was saddened to read the letter-to-the-editor written by Alex Bandes this week. It was certainly not my intention, nor I am sure the intention of any edi-tor, to insult or personally attack any candidate, so I am sorry if that is how it was interpreted. In our Consensus, we expressed our difference of opinion on the way sexual assault should be handled but did not intend to impugn on the motives of Bandes or Ploder. The word insensitive appears not a single time in the editorial.

Elections come and go, but the larger issue that this epi-sode has brought up is the rela-

tionship between SGA and the Technique. Quite a few people in both organizations seem to de-light in the politics of the strug-gle between us. What likely started as the inevitable friction between two influential organi-zations has transformed into a kind of swirling meta-narrative where we must be perpetually at warlike the modern-day ver-sions of the Hatfields and Mc-Coys.

I for one have had enough of this. To misquote Rodney King, Cant we all just get along?

Ink and pixels have been shed on both sides, but this feud has done great damage to both organizations and to the student body and needs to stop. Surely

our time can be better spent than with bickering, for instance by advocating for Tech students and serving their interests.

What should unite us is so much more important than what seems to divide us. Both SGA and the Technique are or-ganizations filled with bright, involved students whose pri-mary motivation is to serve the undergraduate and graduate student body. The Technique does this by covering important events and issues on campus and SGA does this by allocating stu-dent funds and advocating for students to the Institute and to state leaders.

One of the candidates brought up improving the dia-logue between SGA and stu-dents by sitting down over cof-fee. In that spirit, Im issuing an open invitation for any of the six excellent candidates or any other current or former member of SGA to meet me for coffee. Seriously, my email is kma-rino3@gatech.edu. As a gesture of goodwill, Ill even pick up the tab. Lets sit down and talk about what our organizations can do together to help students.

Peace, before we all fall to piecesWhat should unite us is so

much more important than what seems to divide us.

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I think its safe to say my gen-eration has become well versed in the use of social media. Some of us may be more active on it than others, but on the whole we all have at least one online medi-um that is used to communicate with our peers. This makes sense, since weve grown up side-by-side with these networks. Take Facebook for instance. Id say its past its in-fancy stage of purely keeping in touch with friends and is in the midst of the obnoxious pubes-cent portion of its life; it chang-es looks almost weekly and cant really decide what it wants to be for everyone.Through all this growth,

weve developed a sense of comfort. Facebook and Twit-ter are common and used daily, and some of us blog in tum-blr, while others enjoy pinning things on Pinterest. None of these interfaces are particularly intimidating, and they all in-tend on showcasing our lives to the public. The networks are there to put names and faces out in the open. For the longest time, identity has dominated our online social scene, but now theres a cheeky little app thats stirring the pot: Yik Yak.

Yik Yak is a Twitter-esque app that allows users to post short messages to a timeline where other users can choose to up- or down-vote them and even reply. One of the standout fea-tures of Yik Yak is the location showcasing. The whole point is that messages are only shown to people within your immediate vicinity, to create a local dia-logue. Theres a kicker though.

Everything is completely anony-mous.

Maybe Im overthinking it, but being in while study-ing Strategy and Arms Control

(INTA 4016), Ive learned what kind of power anonymity can give. Weve spent so much time molding an identity for people to see us as we want them to. Now, people can say anything they want with-

out consequence. In theory, I really like this idea. In practice though, Im not sure its been successful.This whole concept of keep-

ing everything anonymous means people will say things without fear. Whats to stop somebody from vicious cyber-bullying? Whats to keep people from being blatantly and pain-fully racist or sexist? There is lit-tle moderation, and a great deal of this tasks rests on the shoul-ders of normal users. This lack of identity, visual consequence and moderation leaves people with a numb sense of reality.

Anonymity means rumors can be spread quickly and easily, identities can be assumed and damage can be caused without anyone knowing. Yik Yak does have an honor code, but Ive no idea how well it is kept up. This isnt to say Tech has been bad as of yet. At least at Tech, Yik-Yak has really only taught me that everyone hates TKE, DTD, KA, ADPis and GDIs/geeds. Theres just a lot of potential for damage to be caused and the forum to be abused. Though, who knows? Maybe given some time itll be in the same ranks as Facebook and Twitter.

Online anonymity comes with a price

Anonymity means rumors can be spread

quickly and easily...

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While we maintain a strong commitment to the safety and security of all members of the Georgia Tech community, recent events on our campus, along with incidents on campuses throughout the nation, have shed a renewed light on a topic that requires our increased attention: sexual assault and violence. It would be easy to assume that this happens only on other campuses, but the unfortu-nate truth is that Georgia Tech is not immune to it. The ongoing work of our Womens Resource Center, Health Promotion, Dean of Students Office, the Counsel-ing Center and others are points of pride, but we can and must do more to raise awareness and take the appropriate actions against those who commit such acts.

Each and every day of my five years as president of Georgia Tech, I am amazed by students who have a deep respect and com-mitment to the Institute. When it is necessary that changes be made in a particular area, our students utilize the skills they have learned and find positive and innovative ways to address and resolve the is-sues. An excellent example of this approach occurred this past week, as two of our students met with me and presented a White Paper calling attention to the issues of

sexual assault and violence here at Georgia Tech and suggested sev-eral steps to improve the current climate.

In this White Paper, Emily Gooding, Maggie Burcham and Annie Hess outlined a series of recommendations, which along with those already initiated by the Institute have the potential to significantly impact the safety and climate on our campus here at Georgia Tech.

Last July, Dean of Students John Stein appointed a commit-tee to review our Student Sexual Misconduct Policy. That group, which included students and rep-resentatives from units across our campus, recommended a number of changes to the policy, which along with changes required to bring our policy and procedures into federal compliance, included (a) the elimination of the option of having a hearing before a student panel in cases of sexual assault or violence, (b) the establishment of a special three-member appeal panel, trained in considering sex-ual misconduct cases and charged with reviewing all cases involving sexual assault or violence and (c) a recommended list of sanctions for various offenses up to and in-cluding expulsion for those who commit acts of sexual assault or

violence.I have endorsed those changes.

They were approved by the Stu-dent Regulations Committee of the Faculty Assembly just this past Wednesday, and will now go to the full Faculty Assembly for final passage.These policy revisions are sig-

nificant by themselves and will have a positive impact, but recent events clearly indicate that we can and must do more in the areas of education, prevention and sup-port. To continue to reinforce our efforts in this arena, I have recon-stituted the policy review com-mittee appointed by Dean Stein, as a presidential task force whose members have been asked to re-view the White Paper, benchmark the best practices in place nation-ally and submit a list of recom-mendations to me for implemen-tation by August 1, 2014.

I often say that Georgia Tech is a special place and I truly believe it. While I am enormously proud of the people who are part of our campus community and how they comport themselves, I am some-times disheartened and disap-pointed by the actions of a few. Sexual violence is never acceptable and will not be tolerated, we can and must do more, hence the need for the actions outlined above.

In almost all cases, our gradu-ates will leave Georgia Tech with an unmatched education and the skills required to succeed and lead. No one should have to leave with the emotional or physical scars of sexual assault or violence. I along with the entire leadership team here at Georgia Tech am committed to doing everything possible to ensure that this does not happen, now or in the future.

Taking action against sexual assault and violence

No one should have to leave [Tech] with the emotional scars of sexual assault or

violence.

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OUR VIEWS | HOT OR NOT

Baseball WinsTechs baseball team is

on an extremely impressive hot streak. After winning six straight games within a week, the team deserves significant praise. Tech played three games against Duke, one of which was a complete shut out. Tech also defeated Georgia State, Georgia Southern and Savannah State with impres-sive scores such as 13-2 and 12-1, leaving the school with an overall 21-13 record.

HOT or NOT

Football SuspensionsTwo of Techs football

players, Dennis Andrews and Anthony Autry, have been sus-pended for the first two games of the 2014 season. Both soph-omores, Andrews and Autry have been found with viola-tions of the Athletic Associa-tions student-athlete conduct policy, and along with Darren Waller, have been suspended for two games. Both players will be missed at the games against Wofford and Tulane.

Pi Mile RaceThis Saturday, April 12,

the 42nd annual Pi Mile Road Race will take place. Spon-sored by the Tech Alumni Association, the race is run around the Tyler Brown Pi-Mile Trail, a 3.14-mile run-ning course around campus. The race will be five kilometers long. As one of the longest-standing road races in Atlan-ta, the Pi Mile Road Race is highly anticipated and will be attended by many.

Competition PoolThe Competition Pool at

the Campus Recreation Cen-ter (CRC) has been drained for regularly scheduled main-tenance. Unfortunately, this means that the swim team now needs to practice in the leisure pool. This leads to problems for both the swim team, which has an inadequate place to practice, and the rest of the students, who now have a very limited time to use the pool.

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Inside look at Tech transportationWYATT BAZROD

ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR

Rain, strong winds, cold fronts and heat waves mixed with lengthy treks across campus all force the average Tech student to strongly consider take some sort of transportation.

Whether that is in the daytime with the trolley and stinger routes or at night with Midnight Ram-bler and the Stingerette vans, the various vehicles play a vital role in connecting students with points in and around campus, and over the years, the transportation has evolved to meet the demands with a growing campus.

Ive been here 10 years. The system that you see in operation right now was pretty much in place three to four months before I got here, David Williamson, the Associate Director for Parking and Transportation at Tech, said.Though the system may not

have changed, a lot of the actual routing has evolved with cam-pus, most notably with the trol-ley when Tech Square opened in 2003.

Tech Square is where a lot of things changed, including the ad-dition of the trolley route, Wil-liamson said. The trolley route was designed to link the east and west side of campus and cross that interstate.

In addition to serving Tech Square, there were discussions on furthering the stops of the Tech trolley to better serve the students.

There was also debate at the time over whether or not the trol-ley route should even go to MAR-

TA.Not only did Parking and

Transportation include MARTA as a stop, but from talks with stu-dent government, they also start-ing serving Publix.

Prior to that, the trolley would loop back up to 10th street

then come back down Spring Street, basically so that the trolley was following the signals. We had a little bit of concern there because there was no light, but we did it, and it seems to be working okay, Williamson said.

On the contrary, the red and

blue routes have remained rather consistent with their original mapping, aside from the incorpo-ration of the North Avenue stop.

With routing, Parking and Transportation takes two main factors into consideration when

Photo courtesy of Ally Stone Student Publications

Both the Stingers and Ramblers are vital to transportation around campus. Routing is decided by demand, or routership, according to David Williamson, Associate Director of Transportation.

LINDSAY PURCELLLIFE EDITOR

On stage, under bright lights and in front of a near silent crowd, Team Sanivation awaits the an-nouncement. They hear their name and the crowd erupts. All of their hard work and dedication

has led up to this moment, and despite their confidence in their life-saving invention, they are shocked.

Team Sanivation, made up of Brandie Banner, third-year CE, Jasmine Burton, fourth-year ID and Erin Cobb, fourth-year ID, recently won first place in Techs

famous Inventure Prize. The team stole the competition with their invention, the Safi Choo Toilet, which is an inexpensive, mobile toilet which will potentially bring relief to many refugees in develop-ing countries.The idea for the Safi Choo Toi-

let came from the teams senior

design capstone class. A large part of the inspiration also came from all the members belief in the im-portance of public health and hu-manitarianism.

Though our areas of studies and life experiences differ dramat-ically, all four members of Team Sanivation share a passion for humanitarian design. We drew inspiration from existing prec-edents, innovative technology just entering the market, and cultural influences specific to Kenya to define our design direction, said Cobb.

According to Banner, her in-terest stemmed from [her] expe-riences in the third world, spe-cifically Kenya, and seeing how repulsive pit latrines can be.

In fact, because the idea came from their capstone course and the team did so well in their capstone expo, they were automatically awarded a place in the Inventure Prize semifinals.

Despite this early success, Team Sanivation was still shocked and ecstatic they had won first place.

For me, it was the shock of them calling our name for first place. After we won Peoples Choice Award, it had not even crossed my mind we could also

Photo courtesy of Team Sanivation

Team Sanivation reacts to the results of the Inventure Prize competition. The team plans of trav-elling to Africa to work to implement the toilet design they entered in the popular competition.

What to do with an excess

of pollenLINDSAY PURCELL

LIFE EDITOR

Springtime. Its a long-awaited break from the cold days of win-ter. Its clear blue skies and warm wind make summer seem just around the corner. But, there is one major flaw with the springiest of seasons: pollen. The dreaded yellow powder

made purely of microgameto-phytes and annoyance covers nearly every surface imaginable. What, with all the excess pollen around, can Tech students do with it? With these few tricks, you wont be able to get enough of the stuff.

MAYBE SHES BORN WITH ITOr maybe it is made-of-pollen.

Because of its fine texture and bright color, pollen can make a fine substitute for even the most expensive of makeups. Before class, rub some on your eyelids as eyeshadow, put some on your blemishes as a substitute for foun-dation or, my favorite, put some on your lips for a cool, I saw this on the Hunger Games look. Ex-ercise caution, though, because an allergic reaction to pollen could cause you too look more bee-stung than beautiful by the end of the day.

ASK SHERWIN-POLLENSHave you been feeling blah

about your dorm room recently? Bare walls can make any room feel more like a jail cell than a home for the school year. An easy solution to a boring room can be found in pollen. Mix it with just a little water to create a bright yel-low paint. One of the best things about pollen paint is it is nearly impossible to run out of it. When you get done with your dorm room, youll surely have enough to paint your friends and neigh-bors as well. Be careful, though, Spending all your time in a room literally covered in allergens may make your doctors bills more expensive than the money youve saved on pollen paint.

YOURE NOT YOURSELF WHEN YOURE POLLEN-FREE

At some point, all Tech stu-dents succumb to hunger. But af-ter a long day of classes, walking to a restaurant or cooking in your dorm can seem unappealing.

See INVENTURE, page 13

See POLLEN, page 10

See BUSES, page 11

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DON'T DELAY, CLASSES START MAY 12.

Tech transforms pre-teaching trackSUSAN STEFFENHAGEN

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Tech: the school of engineers and teachers. However, the Tech Pre-Teaching experience is con-tinuing to grow in both size and interest, much to the pleasure of the pre-teaching advisor, Susan Belmonte. Through the programs information sessions, advertise-ments and other campaigns, STEM-minded students are being encouraged to explore the possi-bility of becoming a teacher.The program is not currently

offered as a certificate or minor, rather, a Career Exploration Pro-gram, and the goal of the program is just as the name suggests.

The student has a lot of chances to explore teaching, and by the time they graduate, they will either know they definitely do or do not want to be a teacher, or they will be unsure, but intrigued enough to keep exploring the prospect of teaching, said Bel-monte.The program also seeks to as-

sist students in any way possible through the job seeking process. In Spring 2013, Belmonte person-ally worked with nine individuals in their efforts to seek employ-ment.

Currently, seven of those nine are full-time teachers, one is a full-time tutor for a tutoring company and the last is a full-time intern in the educational field. These students are not just

thrown into the real world; the

pre-teaching program is intended to both peak students interests and also to prepare them to ulti-mately teach, one step at a time.

Recently, students participated in a mock interview session with Fulton County Schools Human Resources Department. The mock interview with a local school sys-tem gave students immediate feedback on their strengths and weaknesses, highlighting what they can work on to ensure their

future success.Another key goal of the pro-

gram is for participants to gain a relationship with the different Tech departments and student organizations, in the hopes that it will further prepare students.

Another program for students is the Summer Undergraduate Re-search Experience, a paid research experience where students can work with teachers to develop and improve curricula based on find-

ings from their own research. Some would view the program

as good, but a potential waste to all of the time and effort being funneled into becoming an engi-neer, only to end up a teacher, but others would view this as an even better deal.

Why wouldnt you want to graduate from Tech to be your peers or your childs teacher? In my opinion, Tech is only as strong

Photo courtesy of Georgia Tech Pre-Teaching

Tech pre-teaching students are seen learning the basics of teaching science. The pre-teaching track at Tech has recently grown in both size and interest, according to Advisor Susan Belmonte.

POLLEN FROM PAGE 9An easy solution is to cook

up some pollen. Very few people know this, but two teaspoons of pollen has 15.7 calories so, tech-nically, you could survive off of about 75.5 teaspoons of pollen a day. You probably ingest that much pollen just walking to and from class anyway. Some possible recipes include spaghetti with pol-len sauce, chicken la pollen, or just straight up pollen. Remember though, most people are allergic to pollen, so be sure to have some Claritin for dessert.

KEEP YOUR ENEMIES CLOSE, BUT YOUR POLLEN CLOSERDo you have an annoying

roommate, rude professor or irri-tating classmate? Instead of giving derisive glares or curt replies, try fighting back with pollen. Keep-ing a handful in your pocket can be a useful tool in heated situa-tions. At the very least, your en-emies will be so annoyed at the pollen, theyll forget about their hatred of you. Be sure not to get too much pollen on yourself, though.

(POLLEN-DYED) BLONDES DO IT BETTER

Have you always wanted un-naturally blonde hair Have you been jealous of chlorine-streaked locks? Theres a solution for you and it comes in the form of pol-len. Add it to your shampoo and, I promise, only hurricane forces will get it out of your hair.

Hopefully, with these tips and tricks, Tech students will trans-form their hatred of pollen to an appreciation for its many uses.

See TEACH, page 13

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WYATT BAZRODASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR

Classes have entered the final stretch as the promise of summer looms along on the distant hori-zon, but before we can kick back and shamelessly binge watch the shows on Netflix we couldnt this past semester, we have hell week and finals to endure.

Once summer does come around, though, whether youll be running around with friends, chilling at home or staying on campus for summer classes, lets point out some fatal faux pas with summer attire.

Reconsider your stance if youre pro-khaki shorts. They may seem to match with most of your outfits, and I understand the abundance of pockets is allur-ing, but just as our body grows, so must our wardrobe. By middle school, we dropped the light-up sneakers; high school saw the end of Abercrombie and American Eagle. College is the time. Let it go, just as effortlessly as Rose let go of Jack.

Nothing ruins a good tank-top/bro-tank like a frocket. The badly matched patterns mixed with the useless pocket feature

Photo courtesy of Flickr

Simple wardrobes are good, but dont get crazy. Wearing a tank top is fine, but avoid frockets at all cost to major judgments.

make me believe the frocket is where the wearer just hides his or her ability to make rational deci-sions.

Consider investing in a pair of good sunglasses. If anything, with the right pair, theyll just make you look cooler, which could come in handy when you return back home and you have to accus-tom yourself to non-Tech-societal-norms. The better the sunglasses, the less weird people will think you are, at least for a little while.

If youre one for tanning, make

sure you have a portion of outfits that go well with your skin when its burnt because you failed to put on a sufficient amount of suntan lotion. The only thing worse than a bad sunburn is a bad sunburn being drawn out by your horren-dous choice in clothing.

Finally, and most importantly, just say no to the oversized t-shirt trend that makes us all question if youre actually wearing pants.

All of these will ensure you look your best and have a fun-filled summer.

BUSES FROM PAGE 9scheduling the number of vehi-cles. For the green route, we dont want anything less than 20 min-utes. Regardless of the number of people, it could be lightly utilized, but we at least want a minimum of 20 minutes, Williamson said.

However, with the red, blue, and trolley routes, schedules mainly depend on the users, or ridership.

Those routes are the ones that create the demand. Router-ship levels on the trolley require six trolleys during the daylight hours. The reds and the blues will be running four each just because of the heavy routership, William-son said.

As the times have changed, Parking and Transportation has kept a close eye on the volume of students and noticed a growing percentage of students needing transportation late at night.The increased student demand

for a fifth route is what resulted in the Midnight Rambler; however, the road to getting the Rambler had its share of financial troubles. Parking and Transportation re-sponded by making concessions to accommodate both the existing routes and to introduce the Ram-bler.

We cut back the service on the red and blue routes, William-son said. It reached a point where we decided we really needed to put a fifth route in there in the eve-ning, so we created the Midnight Rambler. Initially, we reduced the hours on the red and blue routes from midnight to roughly 10 p.m., to save some hours and then putting those dollars and hours, if

you will, into the Midnight Ram-bler.

Currently, Parking and Trans-portation is dealing with the re-routing of the three bus services due to the closing of Cherry Street and Ferst Drive for construction on the steam lines.

The trolley will essentially stay the same. Weve had to shift the rest of the operations out onto Tech Parkway. People have been very supportive in helping us do that. A lot of the folks in construc-tion and GTPD have been help-ing. It has a big impact on our us-ers, but weve had a lot of support. Were going to be watching it re-ally closely and see if we have to adjust something, we will, Wil-liamson said.

In regards to the 2014-2015 academic year, Tech Transporta-tion looks to continue providing services just as they have to mem-bers of the Tech community, as their budget will remain roughly equivalent to this year.

Im sure were going to be looking at addressing the service between the GLC and Clough and how we are going to fund that. It seemed to relieve some of the concern of the students that were over there in being able to get back and forth to campus.The transportation system is

made up of 50 employees and in-cludes eight trolleys, 16 stingers, and five Stingerette vans.

Sometimes its a policy deci-sion. For the green route, we dont want anything less than twenty minutes. Regardless of the num-ber of people, it could be lightly utilized, but we at least want a minimum of twenty minutes, Williamson said.

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I am not a terrorist. I am not good at math. I am not bad at sports. I am not a bad driver.

Last week, the Asian Ameri-can Student Association (AASA) set out to break stereotypes across Techs campus through their I am not campaign. The AASA stopped students on Skiles and asked them to think of a stereo-type they had recently been a vic-tim of.

Answers ranged from I am not a bad hacker to I am not ruining your idea of marriage, but AASA believes that each student came away feeling more empowered. The I am not campaign was

inspired by Harvards I am Har-vard campaign but AASA hoped to increase the effect by reaching out to all students, not just Asian-American or African-American students, who could be a victim of stereotypes. The I am not campaign is

part of a larger Asian Awareness Month which is being run by AASA. Although Asian Aware-ness Month is typically in May, because Tech students are out of school then, AASA is celebrating the month in March and April.

AASA is hoping to continue the I am not campaign and may even take the best of the stereo-type pictures and display them in the Clough Undergraduate Learn-ing Commons (CULC).

For instance, Anthony Tsous, second-year CS Major and Vice President of AASA, favorite was Grace Halverson, second-year STC major, who said, I am not artistic because I am Asian. I am artistic because I am passionate.

This campaign was a really good opportunity for me, actu-ally. I was able to see stereotypes I had not even considered. It was

an interesting to see what campus has perspective wise, said Tsou.

According to Tsou, a large part of Asian Awareness Month is break Tech students out of their bubble and show how welcom-ing and diverse the Asian Ameri-can culture can be.

We wanted to let campus en-joy Asian-American culture while showcasing different aspects of it. Students sometimes view the Asian American community as a bubble, but we always welcome others, said Tsou.The Asian Awareness Student

Association is an umbrella organi-zation that oversees, interacts and helps with other Asian focused clubs and organizations around campus. Some of these organiza-tions include the Chinese Friend-ship Association, Japan Society and the Taiwanese American Stu-dent Association.

During Asian Awareness Month, each organization under AASA chooses an event to put on. AASA then helps then publicize and prepare for their events. This year, Asian Awareness Month is larger than ever. Some events in-

clude an interracial adoptee speak-er who spoke of his experiences, a wanton and noodle making event, and a Culture Shock dance put on by the Filipino Student Asso-ciation.

Tsou is especially looking for-ward to Night Market, which is customary in many Asian coun-tries but rarely seen in the U.S.

Night Market involves many vendors on the street late at night. When people are hungry, they can simply go out into the street to find a cheap food.

Techs Night Market, which is

being hosted by the Taiwanese-American Student Association, will be at the Campanile and will host many different vendors from different Asian cultures.

One of the reasons Tsou is es-pecially excited this years Asian Awareness Month is the many in-tercollegiate activities, including events with Georgia State Univer-sity and Emory University.

While many of the events are fun in nature, Tsou maintains that the main goal is to challenge stereotypes among the Tech com-munity.

Photo courtesy of Asian American Student Association

The Asian-American Student Association recently started an I am not campaign aimed to dismantle current stereotypes held by some Tech students. The campaign is working in conjunction with Asian Awareness month which is celebrated in March and April.

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PRIZE FROM PAGE 9TEACH FROM PAGE 10her PhD in Biomedical Engineer-ing.

Davis is a Tech alumna with a B.S in BME. She is a former mem-ber of the Gold Rush Dance Team and the Atlanta Falcons. Bottoms and the other Gold Rush mem-bers became involved in Project Mercurii through Davis.

Because none of the bacteria sent are dangerous in any way, there is very little risk in the ex-periment. The scientists at Project Mercurii believe more research on

the bacteria found at Tech, Cur-tobacterium Herbarum, would be especially interesting because of the bacterias resistance to heavy metals.

Project Mercurii is more than just a social experiment to end stereotypes. Bottoms believes it could have a major impact on our knowledge of space conditions.

If people were to live on the moon or live on Mars, or even a space station, its important to be able to see how germs and mi-crobes are going to be growing in space, said Bottoms.

Project Mercurii is not the end of Bottoms space career though. She hopes to one day become an astronaut, but even if her dream does not come true, she is certain she will continue working with space missions.

Interplanetary missions or human space flight sound the coolest. Right now, Im trying to decide whether I want to work with NASA or with a private cor-poration, said Bottoms.

Both she and Project Mercurii hope to inspire more young girls to get involved with STEM.

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Gold Rush recently took swabs of bacteria from the Tech Student Section. Gold Rush member and 3rd year AE major, Shelby Bottoms, is taking charge of theparticipation in Project Mercurii.

win overall, said Banner. In the pictures posted over

social media later, the disbelief on our faces shines through the teary eyes and huge smiles. As a team, we are so grateful and continually humbled by the experience, said Cobb. The best part of the competi-

tion was not at all winning it, though, according to the team.

The most rewarding part of this process has been the ability to impact lives. Thanks to Inventure Prize, our Safi Choo toilet has the potential (and now the financial backing) to change sanitation on a global scale, said Cobb.

Team Sanivations goal for the Safi Choo toilet is to, according to Burton, empower those people who have been marginalized by poor sanitation facilities, especial-ly women.

At the 2011 Womens Leader-ship Conference, Burtons eyes were opened to the sanitation crisis that affects over 2.6 billion people worldwide. Even more, women are disproportionately hurt by the lack of toilets because girls are often forced to drop out of school when they reach puber-ty. Furthermore, women in these areas have to wait to defecate at night for fear of sexual assault.

Team Sanivation puts much on their success on their team dy-namic, which was built off of mu-tual respect and friendship.

The dynamic culture of studio allowed us to collaborate without constraint. As a team, we fed off of each others ideas, got into healthy debates, and explored the limits of our design. Looking back, I can-not imagine a more diverse com-bination of strengths, said Cobb.

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tential long-term benefits as well. For example, there is potential for student loan forgiveness or cancel-lation through the federal govern-ment, with certain requirements. Tech also works in conjunction with Georgia State through a joint-degree program, so inter-ested students can begin working towards a Master of Arts in Edu-cation.

Finally, if a student is not from Georgia, or wishes to teach in another state besides Georgia, Belmonte urges students to not let this deter them from considering this career exploration program.

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Suits cast members litt up Fox Theatererything they were given.

However, Hoffman, who was wearing a leather jacket, boots and a total of five layers of cloth-ing in the 80 degree Atlantan heatbut did not take his clothes off at the request of the audi-enceand Schull, more prepared for Georgias mercurial weather in a sky blue shirt, sat down with the Technique before the event and discussed how important this fanbase has been for their shows success.

Weve now learned that [the college group] is really our key de-mographic; its ultimately whats kept us on USA, Hoffman said. As actors, we are used to having jobs that dont last very long; but when we see these lines around the corner and colleges vying against each other to see us, its a once in a lifetime experience for an actor.The two also revealed how their

characters on the show are going to be changing over the course of the finale and into the new season.

Katrinas becoming more of a human being; she entered the firm in somewhat of a questionable manner, Schull said. She kind of bullied her way and I think it came across as a very hardened, tough person; but in the next epi-sodes, you see more sides of her.

Schull, however, does not see Katrina in the same light as some people do.

SAM SOMANIMANAGING EDITOR

You Georgia Techians are naughty,

Amanda Schulls (Katrina Bennett) response to the audi-ences chuckles from her unknow-ing burn to Rick Hoffman (Louis Litt) in the Suits On Campus tour at Tech showcased exactly how entertaining and witty the inter-action between the audience and the actor and actress was through-out the evening.

However, it was more than the hilarious commentary that won the hearts of the students inside Fox Theatre to see two of the main characters of USA Net-works Suits. It was the loose and liberal feeling inside the room, both when Hoffman apologized for possibly ruining the eyesights of the audience after his partial-ly nude scene and when he sang Greenback Boogie by Ima Ro-bot - the shows theme song - with SympVibes that left the audience applauding the two madly after they left.

It was awesome. Katrina was incredibly attractive and Louis was so much fun, said third-year BMED major Vaibhav Gupta. Their responses were incred-ible and the way they treated the members of the audience was in-sane. You could tell they enjoyed being there and had fun with ev-

ably the finest example of this trend, a loving tribute to the hor-ror genre and filmmaking in the Classic Era of Hollywood. The plot focuses on Dr. Vic-

tor von Frankenstein, the grand-son of the eponymous character in the original Frankenstein, as he attempts to build a career for himself in America separate from his familial identity. The death of his grandfather draws him back into his homeland of Transylva-nia where the associates of his de-ceased ancestor as well as the spir-its of said ancestors persuade him to re-enter the family business of re-animating the dead. The sum-moned monster eventually wreaks havoc, forcing Frankenstein and friends to capture the beast in the hope of civilizing it.

Each of the characters fulfills an exaggerated version of a tradi-tional horror archetype. There is Dr. Frankenstein, the irritable and exasperated scientist who tries to do the right thing, as well as Igor, his comic-relief sidekick. Round-ing out the main cast are Inga, the yodeling lab assistant, and Frau Blucher, the housekeeper whose name frightens animals whenever spoken. Completing the main cast is the monster himself, who struggles to understand his own existence in a world where nearly everyone wants to kill him. This motley cast of characters

generally balances each other well with most of the humor deriving from quirky puns and sexual in-nuendo. What the show lacks in

YAMEEN HUQCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Horror is a genre where the parody is as popular as the target itself. Beginning this past Friday, Apr. 4, DramaTech began its pro-duction of Young Frankenstein, a musical that pays homage to the classic Frankenstein movies star-ring Boris Karloff. A worthy suc-cessor to the original production, it features strong musical and act-ing performances against a fairly minimalist, yet believable, pro-duction backdrop. The best satire often doubles

as great homage. Artists in gen-eral have created an entire genre dedicated to skewering their fa-vorite works with loving criticism. Writer and director Mel Brooks has partly made a career out of this activity through works such as the Western homage Blazing Saddles and the Star Wars parody Spaceballs.

Young Frankenstein is prob-Lead actor John Coombs portrays Victor von Frankenstein in DramaTechs production of Mel Brooks Young Frankenstein.

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DramaTech captures the essence of Young Frankensteinterms of themes and story, it more than makes up for through hu-mor, music and all-around good cheer.

DramaTechs interpretation of this musical is centered around preserving the spirit of the story. Their focus on comedic timing and musical performance en-hances what are the most critical parts of the production, since the original story is sparse on char-acter development and thematic content. Their set still manages to capture the tone and atmosphere of the place and milieu. It is pri-marily an empty space with some very basic doors and shelves in the background to simulate a dingy laboratory. This centerpiece is also surrounded by stairs, which al-low the characters to come from both the back and front-end of the set. Due to the small theater size, there are parts where the charac-ters also sit and navigate amongst the audience, to create a more im-mersive play. The acting and singing is gen-

erally believable and solid. While there are some songs in which the male vocalists sound just slightly cacophonous, these moments are for the most part scarce.

Overall, this is a great produc-tion. The strong performances, music and comedic skill remain the driving force of the story, and the jokes are fresh for anyone who has not seen any previous perfor-mance of this play. Young Fran-kenstein will continue to run from now until Saturday Apr. 19.

Rick Hoffman (left) and Amanda Schull (right) pose with GT gear inside their hotel room for a quick photo. Hoffman and Schull visited Tech, the eighth and final stop in the Suits On-Campus Tour.

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Nintedo Direct reveals information for upcoming Smash Bros.KEITH FRADY

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In order to promote upcom-ing games, Nintendo releases an-nouncement videos through a vid-eo series entitled Nintendo Direct. Masahiro Sakurai, the director of the games, hosted the most recent Nintendo Direct, which streamed on Apr. 8, and covered the highly-anticipated new addition to the Super Smash Bros. series. These as-of-yet-unnamed games follow the 2008 hit, Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

For the uninitiated, Super Smash Bros. is a series of fighting games that star Nintendo charac-ters and utilize an unusual system of gameplay. Instead of a health bar, characters have a percent-age; the more damage taken, the higher the percentage. The higher the percentage, the easier it is to launch the character off the stage, which is the only way to eliminate enemy players. A medley of items and guest appearances from a va-riety of Nintendo franchises assist the player.

One of the greatest draws of the series is this menagerie of Nin-tendo characters coming together to beat each other senseless. The most anticipated part of every new entry into the Smash Bros. series is the roster. Nintendo Di-rect confirmed that the upcoming games will change previous tradi-tions with the roster.

Some characters had the ability to change into different characters with new movesets. These include

Zelda to Sheik, Samus to Zero Suit Samus and Pokmon Trainer, who could switch between three Pokmon. In the new games, this metamorphosis is eliminated. In-stead, these will be treated as sepa-rate characters.

Charizard was announced as his own character, now unshack-led from the bonds of the Pok-mon Trainer. Ivysaur and Squirtle, the other two which completed the triumvirate in Brawl, are as of yet unconfirmed as returning. However, a new Pokmon char-acter was announced in the form of Greninja, a water/dark type ninja frog. Besides confirming the return of Zelda, Sheik, Samus and Zero Suit Samus as four in-dividual characters, Yoshi was an-nounced as a return character as well. While not surprising, there are still a few veteran characters that have yet to grace the con-firmed final roster. The roster now boasts 29

playable characters. Newcom-ers include MegaMan, from the eponymous series, Villager from Animal Crossing, a Wii Fit tra