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Student Life
Steven Slaughter Techwood & North Ave.
Best
Bus
Driver
Depending on the time of day, the intersection of North Avenue and Techwood Drive
is either a physical manifestation of the
Atlanta traffic problem or a real-life version
of Frogger. Its difficult enough to force
yourself out of your dorm for late-night
North Ave Dining Hall runs without the
threat of being annihilated by a car trying to
make that green light. Once the crosswalk
light shows white after a solid five minutes,
you say a quick prayer and hope to God no
one turns right on red.
Worst
Intersection
Best
Hangout
Worst
Hangout
Worst
Green
Space
Worst
Supporter
of Tech
BEST OF TECH
Best
&
Worst
Campus Life
Clough Woodruff
Best
Campus
Housing
Worst
Campus
Housing
Worst
Statue
Worst
Water
Fountain
Worst
Study
Spot
BEST OF TECH
Best
&
Worst
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Worst
Game
Worst
Move
Intramural
Team
Best
Intramural
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Best
Female
Athlete
OPINIONS
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MAURA CURRIE
NEWS EDITOR
SPORTS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
This past weekend, Josh Pastner was hired as the new head
coach of the Tech mens basketball
team. Pastner comes to Tech after
seven years as head coach at the
University of Memphis. At Memphis, Pastner had 167 wins
winning 70 percent of his games
and made 4 NCAA tournaments in a row from 20112014.
At 38 years old, Pastner is
now the youngest coach in the
ACC and has a reputation as a
Coach Josh Pastner speaks at his press conference. Pastner looks to hit the ground running on the recruiting trail.
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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Brenda Lin
MANAGING EDITOR:
Nick Johnson
NEWS EDITOR:
Maura Currie
OPINIONS EDITOR:
Vidya Iyer
LIFE EDITOR:
Trishna Chandarana
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Kara Pendley
SPORTS EDITOR:
Harsha Sridhar
DESIGN EDITOR:
Brighton Kamen
PHOTO EDITOR:
Tyler Meuter
TRISTEN ALLEN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
BILL SUMMARY
BILL
Founded in 1911, the Technique is the student newspaper of the Georgia Institute
of Technology, and is an official publication of the Georgia Tech Board of Student
Publications. The Technique publishes on
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FISCAL FUN
SGA passed their fiscal year
2017 budget, determining allocations of SGA funds to various
Tier II and III student organizations including SGA itself
after receiving funding requests
from 94 organizations. Their
budget total came in $10,122
under their goal of $1,390,000,
after JFC, GSS and UHR made
individual amendments to funding requests. Tier II organizations received $880,090, while
Tier III organizations received
$499,788. Nine Tier III organizations received no money from
SGA, while all Tier II organizations received at least a portion
of the money they requested.
Only two Tier II organizations received more funding
than requested the Presidents Council Governing Board
and the Student Organization
Finance Office, representing
around 16.66 percent of all Tier
II organizations. Nine Tier III
organizations received more or
all of the funding they requested, representing 11 percent of
all Tier III organizations. The
raise pools were fully funded in
the budget.
SMOKESCREEN
On April 6, GTPD responded to a hall directors complaint
from Montag Residence Hall.
The director claimed to smell
a strong odor of marijuana from
a certain room.
The officer requested entry
into the room upon arrival, and
upon entering, was hit with a
very strong odor, marijuanaic
in nature and wafting through
the air like delicate cirrostratus
clouds in the sky.
The student admitted to
smoking the illicit substance,
and proceeded to hand over all
the miscellaneous paraphernalia
they possessed.
The students could potentially receive code of conduct
violations if the Dean feels it to
be necessary.
IN MEMORIAM
On Thursday, April 7, Sara Kyung Min Kim, a fifth-year
BIOCHM, regretfully passed away. The Technique extends its
heartfelt condolences to Kims family, friends and fellow Yellow
Jackets. Students in need of support can contact the Counseling
Center 24 hours a day, seven days a week at 404-894-2575.
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RUNOFF
FROM PAGE 1
The results of the first round of Undergrad Executive voting were announced during a presentation in the Clary Theater.
The election will now proceed to a runoff between Nukuna/Mudrinich and Suresh/Nickel in the coming week, beginning immediately.
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EVAN GILLON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
HPCC ANNOUNCEMENT
Tech Square, already the hub
of technological innovation and
research in Atlanta, will be getting a new, monumental addition.
Tech has partnered with the urban real estate developer Portman
Holdings to build the High Powered Computing Center (HPCC),
a 23-story, 750,000 square foot,
mixed-use building composed of
research labs, computing centers
and office space.
The $355 million project is expected to begin in 2016 and end
in late 2018; Tech has disclosed
that there will be a high-profile
announcement with Portman
Holdings on April 20 featuring
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, suggesting that the start-date will be
released then.
The HPCC will serve a variety of academic research needs, as
well as banking and investment,
computing, biotechnical and insurance firms through computer
simulation and modeling. It will
also include large, open-area public space at the ground level to
STAMPS
LINDSEY PLOUSSARD
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
FROM PAGE 2
// NEWS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
On April 13, the Student
Government Associations Government Relations Committee (GRC) ran a public debate,
dubbed Fight Night, between
representatives from both the College Democrats of Georgia Tech
and the College Republicans of
Georgia Tech.
The debate covered a number of topics, including federal
funding of Planned Parenthood,
affirmative action in both education and the workplace, the idea
of government-funded college,
Georgias Campus Carry Act and
obligations of the US towards refugees from Syria.
These topics were followed by
an audience-led Q&A section.
The debate was moderated by
Victoria Doris, third-year PUBP
and the co-chair of the GRC.
Both political clubs fielded two
representatives.
The Republicans sent their
treasurer, Matthew Bowling,
first-year BA and their Fundraising Chair, Cody Jones, firstyear NRE, while the Democrats
sent their president, Jake Orvis,
second-year PUBP, and their
former president, Amanda Nabors, PUBP grad student. Both
teams were given the opportunity
to respond or answer twice per
individual question.
The Republicans and the Democrats agreed on a number of issues including Campus Carry,
indicating that individual universities should have the right to decide an individual concealed carry
policy for themselves.
Both parties also supported
registration of weapons with campus police departments if they
were carried by students or faculty.
The Republicans and Democrats
Current and former presidents of the two prominent political organizations on campus meet.
SGA organized the Fight Night, whose selling point was levelheaded and thoughtful debate.
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For example, SGA carries out administrative and budgetary planning as well as
advocacy efforts on the behalf of all students. WREK radio broadcasts music that
any student on campus can turn in to. The
Student Center Programs Council hosts a
variety of recreational events for the entire
campus. The Technique is available for anyone to pick up in print and can be read online as well. Tier III organizations, in comparison, are more related to culture and
hobbies and frequently focus on students
individual interests within their particular
organizations.
Another consideration is that stipends
allow some students of lesser means to
consider becoming involved in these highly time consuming campus organizations
positions, many of which require specialized skill set, instead of finding a part-time
job unrelated to anything at college.
Due to the work Tier II organizations
provides to students, we believe that the
current positions are correctly stipended.
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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// OPINIONS
On Wednesday morning,
GTPD officers apprehended
and captured an individual
who had earlier failed in his
bank-robbing attempt at the
Midtown Bank and Trust.
He was found attempting to
conceal his person by hiding
under a vehicle parking in the
parking lot of the Kappa Alpha
fraternity. GTPD was able to
complete the arrest following
a tip from the Atlanta Police
Department.
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Life
LIFE EDITOR:
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life@nique.net
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OPINIONS EDITOR
Stephen Go and Avi Ahuja are
both third-year IE and CS, respectively. These two along with
Thomas Rose, another third-year
IE have teamed up to start to new
organization on campus known as
Data Science at Georgia Tech.
The duo realized their passion
for data science when they attended a competition together pertaining to data science. Go described
the experience as very interesting
and rewarding.
Go said, We tried to look for
something similar at Tech, but
couldnt find anything.
Ahuja and Go were determined
to change this, and created this
organization where students could
learn about and explore the field
of data science. The organization
aims to serve as a platform for
students to practice and expand
their knowledge on data science.
Data science is more than just
a pastime. It is a growing field
that has many prospects in the
job market. Theres so much data
these days, Ahuja said, and most
companies actually dont know
what to do with it. If they were
able to go in and extract this data
and really analyze it, they can cut
costs, cut margins and improve efficiency all around.
Stephen Go (left) and Avi Ahuja (right) are bringing a new data science club to Tech. They
are launching the organization by hosting a data-science-themed hackathon: Hacklytics.
// LIFE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Recently, a number of religious
freedom bills have begun winding their way through the Georgia
legislature. One of these is House
Bill 757, also known as the Pastor
Protection Act, sponsored by Rep.
Kevin Tanner (R-Dawsonville).
A BILL to be entitled an Act
to protect religious freedoms; to
amend Chapter 3 of Title 19 of the
Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to marriage generally, so as to provide that religious
officials shall not be required to
perform marriage ceremonies in
violation of their legal right to
free exercise of religion; to amend
Chapter 1 of Title 10 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to selling and other
trade practices, so as to change
certain provisions relating to days
of rest for employees of business
and industry; to protect property owners which are religious
institutions against infringement
of religious freedom; to define a
term; to provide an effective date;
to repeal conflicting laws; and for
other purposes, as found in the
first reading summary of House
Bill 757.
The bill ensures pastors will
not be forced to perform samesex marriages and would allow
all faith-based organizations to
fire, to refuse to hire and to refuse
services if doing so would violate
their faith. It also ensures that
pastors could not be forced to perform same-sex marriages.
Proponents of the bill argue
that the law does not employ
anti-discriminatory language and
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MANAGING EDITOR,
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR
The GT Scuba club recently
participated in a service trip
known as Dive Against Debris.
The organization helped to
clean up over 600 pounds of underwater trash from the island of
Bonaire, which is a special municipality of the Netherlands located
in the southern Caribbean.
Although the group practices the techniques necessary for
proper diving in the CRC pools,
certification must be performed in
open water. The divers have taken
this requirement and turned it
into an opportunity to give back
to the local community of their
dive spot.
Each spring break for the past
six years now, the group plans out
an international trip in collaboration with Campus Recreation,
Student Life and Professional Education, in order to get their divers certified and simultaneously
let them participate in a clean up
project for their dive spot.
This specific project undertaken by GT Scuba was part of a
larger organization called, Project
AWARE, a global foundation of
scuba divers whose goal is to help
protect the oceans.
On each of the six trips taken
so far, an average of over 40 divers participate, with 16 students
becoming certified this year.
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Entertainment
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Kara Pendley
Jamie Rule
entertainment@nique.net
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// ENTERTAINMENT
And Again
Jessica Chiarella
GENRE: Dystopian Science
Fiction
PUBLISHER: Touchstone,
Simon & Schuster
RELEASE DATE: Jan. 12,
2016
OUR TAKE:
KARA PENDLEY
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
For generations, society has
been trying to answer the complex
issue of what it means to be human. Is it flesh and bone or soul?
Or is it the mind that ultimately
defines your existence?
And Again is the incredible debut novel by Jessica Chiarella released in January earlier
this year. Promoted as a sciencefiction/dystopian look at human
cloning, the novel is less sci-fi and
more a character study of four
individuals grasping at a second
chance at life, which turns out to
be a rather daunting prospect.
In the ultimate lottery, SUBLife has chosen four terminally-ill
patients to have their consciousness transferred into perfectly
cloned bodies as part of their pilot program to save lives, but the
metamorphosis is too perfect.
While attempting to integrate
into their previous lives, each
Jessica Chiarella released her debut novel, And Again, earlier this year breaking into the popular dystopian genre. She explores philosophical concepts in this well-written science-fiction story.
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ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR;
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The MTV Movie Awards occurred this past Sunday and recognized many worthy movies. Most
of the contenders were worthy of
their nominations, however, one
was particularly well-liked and
according to some, should have
earned even more wins than its
two wins out of six nominations.
MOVIE OF THE YEAR
While Deadpool was nominated for Movie of the Year,
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
swooped in for the win. This
is understandable as Star Wars
speaks to multiple generations
and brings out the inner-child in
many people. The CGI and visual
aesthetics were out of this world,
but the movie lacked character development and left too many plot
holes for many viewers.
Arguably, this is a more worthy goal than Deadpools lack of
compassion and single-minded
rampage, but the comedic appeal
of the crimson antihero could outweigh the need for morals presented in the much anticipated revival
of the adventures in the Star Wars
movie universe.
BEST FIGHT
Deadpool brought home the
win for best fight for the scene between Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds)
and Ajax (Ed Skrein). This award
is well deserved, but it would have
been a sweeter win if the competition had been a little stiffer.
The fight that took place between Kylo Ren and Rey in Star
Wars was anticlimactic and an
unfair match as Kylo was a trained
Knight of Ren, and Rey had no
training only having touched a
light saber a few days earlier.
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COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
Beating out other contenders
who included Melissa McCarthys
surprisingly competent character
in Spy and Rebel Wilsons misfit character in Pitch Perfect 2
who is blunt to the point of humor, Ryan Reynolds garnered the
title of the Best Comedic Performance with Wade Wilsons fourth
wall breaking movie. The murderous protagonist gave the audience plenty of laughs as he gleefully hunts for Ajax, slaughtering
whoever he chances to encounter
along the way.
BEST VILLAIN
Keeping with the theme of the
Star Wars and Deadpool dynamic duo, Kylo Ren, played by
Adam Driver, from Star Wars
was awarded Best Villain. This
was an interesting decision as
Kylo tended to act like a whiny
teenager who throws tantrums
on a regular bases and damages
expensive property in the process.
(*SPOILER ALERT*) He also
killed Han Solo which was awful.
This horrible act could also have
won him best villain as he was
able to do the unthinkable.
BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
While the Techniques forerunner was not a contender for
Best Female Performance, there
is a possibility of this in future,
as his internal monologues often
embody divers personas.
Charlize Therons Furiosa,
however, would give Wade Wilson
some trouble for the title. Her performance was noteworthy in that
the movie did not emphasize that
she was a woman more than that
she was a capable hero. Furiosa is
one of the few female protagonists
allowed to think for herself and
simply be a human, not a female
in need of others protection or an
ear to whine in.
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
This years television season,
especially this past week, has seen
a veritable slew of minority characters being killed off or leaving
their shows.
This deluge of death includes
no less than six female characters
who were in popular American
shows. The recent events have
stirred fan outrage and even started social uproars, such as was seen
with the death of lesbian character Lexa (Alycia Debnam-Carey,
Fear the Walking Dead) from
The 100.
Most recently, Arden Cho, who
became famous on Teen Wolf,
announced on her YouTube channel that her character would not
be returning next season. Cho
devoted the last three years to
Teen Wolf unable to work on
side projects as the shows creators
were not willing to work around
her schedule, unlike for her fellow
cast mate Dylan OBrian (Mazerunner). Cho did not chose to
leave the show, but the showrunners decided that her characters
Asian backstory was no longer
needed in the shows plot.
This follows Nicole Beharie (Shame) being killed off in
Sleepy Hollow, a show where
she is the leading actress. Cho and
Beharies departures shed more
light on the unapologetic views of
the writers and others in the entertainment industry.
Arden Cho from Teen Wolf gets stabbed multiple times in a recent episode. Minor characters are vital to plots but are often taken advantage of as characters to kill off in abrupt ways.
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FOXTROT BY BILL AMEND
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9. Aviatrix gives listener courage we hear (7)
10. Some birds do this at the speed of a fighter
plane? (7)
11. About to be taking drug to ease pain (7)
12. A moist perfume ultimately designed to make
fine spray (7)
13. Petty quarrel involving river fish (5)
14. Failure to notice supervision (9)
16. Suitable means to an end (9)
19. Rex gets stuck into finest French port (5)
21. I tried swimming with Penny in disturbed sea
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23. Foster childs fuss disturbed Pete (7)
24. Terrible cruelty with knives perhaps (7)
25. Id plunged into river to find spear (7)
26. Furniture of actors assistant from Cardiff?
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3. Closest home houses a Royal Engineer (7)
4. Crazy place to find flag? (2,3,4)
5. Old lady captivates a doctor with snake (5)
6. Plant causing disappearance of pests? (7)
7. Putting up with demeanour (7)
8. Teen regrets bad time in London thoroughfare
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9. They dont want to see Brussels sprout! (12)
15. One removes former motor vehicle (9)
17. Flat pack from Cornish town (7)
18. Writer is awfully rude about Rugbys first students (7)
19. They give better odds (7)
20. Militant leader in Exeter excited radical (7)
22. Mentally defeat some tipsy characters (5)
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CLASSIC
CUL DE SAC BY RICHARD THOMPSON
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// SPORTS
Sophomore guard Tadric Jackson launches a shot. Pastner will recruit top 100 prospects like Jackson once was.
for next season, and from conference play the team loses 80 percent of its scoring, 68 percent of
its rebounding and five of its seven
most played players. Pastner will
inherit a team that will be far less
experienced than the team former
head coach Brian Gregory inherited in his first year where he went
a tepid 11-20.
Over the next couple of weeks,
Pastner is tasked with building
a staff, recruiting not only high
school players, but the current
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Tech freshman catcher Kaylee Ellebracht prepares to throw a baserunner out. Her 10 successful throws lead the ACC, although she has also allowed a conference-high 45 stolen bases.
CLUB TENNIS
On April 4, the United States
Tennis Association announced
the field of sixty-four teams that
will be participating in the 2016
USTA Tennis On Campus National Championship. The Tech
co-ed club tennis team will be
traveling to Cary, N.C., from
April 14 to 16 to compete.
This is the fifth time the team
has qualified for nationals. They
have gradually improved over
those past four appearances, going from a qualifier in 2009 and
2013 to Copper Bracket Champions in 2014 and Bronze bracket
qualifiers last year. To improve
from last year, Tech looks to place
3rd or higher in their group and
move through the bracket they
are placed in.
The team will kick off pool
play in Pool I with Northeastern
University, UCLA and the Illinois
Institute of Technology. Tech will
have to beat at least one of those
teams if they hope to continue the
success they have often seen in
years past.
Illinois Institute of Technology
were this years Midwest Region
Champions. UCLA was among
the final four teams last year, losing in the semifinals to champion
UC Berkeley. Northeastern finished No. 15 in the nation last year
and is a perennial New England
powerhouse. The competition will
be tough for Tech in this years
pool play. In the next few days,
they will determine their place in
that pecking order, and perhaps
find themselves at the top.
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Freshman Christopher Uranga passes the ball to a teammate during a match. Uranga and
the Jackets club soccer team have found more than their share of success this season.
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Friday,
April 15, 2016
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Tech Lacrosse team ended
their 2015 season in an uncertain position. They had certainly
always been a formidable player
in the Mens Collegiate Lacrosse
Association.
But a season that included no
regular-season losses, wins against
numerous top-20 teams and a
tournament run that could only
be stopped by MCLA powerhouse
and eventual runner-up Colorado? This was a level of success that
the Jackets had never seen before.
As such, the big question coming into 2016 was this: was it a
fluke? After the Friday of Feb. 19,
the words fluke and Georgia
Tech were never used together
again. An 18-5 dismantling of the
Boston College Eagles, a rematch
of a narrow overtime victory in
2015, assuaged all doubts about
the Ramblin Wreck.
Seven days later, before a frenzied Tech crowd, the Jackets took
on the team responsible for one of
their two 2015 losses: the Virginia
Tech Hokies. From the first goal
to the final buzzer, the Jackets
led their rivals from Blacksburg
and gave the MCLA conclusive
evidence that they were indeed a
team to be feared. That is a theme
the Jackets have oft repeated over
the course of a wildly successful
Senior goalie Matthew Sommerfeldt defends the goal against Georgia. Tech has deftly dominated its opponents in 2016, finishing the regular season with an unblemished record.