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NEWS
NEWS EDITOR
An increasing number of
credit and debit card fraud
cases among members of
the Tech community has
raised concern throughout
the student body.
I was actually on my
bus back from Notre Dame,
and I got a call from my
credit card company saying they found fraudulent
activity. They shut down
my account, [and] then
told me to call them back
immediately said Stephen
Schwahn, a fourth-year
CS. But this wasnt the
first time I had heard about
it; the band organizations
According to Schwahn,
the fraudulent transactions have ranged from $15
items to $700 of merchandise. Originally, Schwahn
had thought that the fraud
was related to transactions
made in the student center, but this possibility was
dispelled when many of the
victims advised that they
had not bought anything
from the student center.
Schwahn noted that
incidence rates of fraud
seemed to be higher within
the organizations Tau Beta
Sigma and Kappa Kappa
Psi, which are both greek
organizations
affiliated
with the Tech band in some
facet.
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Two Tech students who participated in Tech Start-Up Summer, the pinnacle of Create-Xs
learn-make-launch start-up
program, won Georgias TAG
Business Launch Competition.
Create-X is an organization
led by its Director, Raghupathy Siva Sivakumar, PhD.,
who collaborated with the faculty and staff at Tech along
with investors and other startup initiatives to create the program. The program currently
has three components, starting
with the learn portion, which
is a for-credit start-up lab where
students learn about entrepreneurship and explore their own
start-up ideas.
Next is the make portion
called Idea 2 Prototype, where
students get to prototype their
designs for credit. The launch
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Create-X isnt the only startup organization that offers resources to Tech students. StartUp Semester and Venture Lab
both have their own style of
startup related opportunities,
and Create-X additionally works
to support students involved in
these organizations as well. Create-X also plans to implement a
speaker series, junior version of
Start-Up Summer and a scholarship for students interested in
entrepreneurship in the near future. Create-Xs eventual goal is
to have 100 student start-ups per
year from Tech.
Roughly 100 teams can
participate in Techs start-up
summer. During the program,
students form companies using
$20,000 of funding, a team of
mentors, physical space and access to lawyers. Early-bird applications for the program open
Nov. 10.
LA-COST GEAR
SGA discussed bill 16J041,
which would allocate funds to
the Techs mens lacrosse team
for the purchase of equipment.
Among the requested items
were gloves, helmets and away
uniforms. The total amount
came to $12,390, and no
amendments were made.
UHR and GSS both passed
the bill without extended debate
on the subject.
BALLROOM PIANO
SGA also debated another
bill, 16J048, which would allocate funding to the Student
Center for the refurbishment of
the ballrooms Steinway B grand
piano.
The piano, which was built
originally in 1919, required new
base strings, wire and tuning
pins among other things.
UHR and GSS both amended the bill per JFC policy, which
involved separating the funds
into two line items and subtracting $20 from the total amount.
Without exhaustive discussion, both UHR and GSS chose
to pass the amended version of
the bill.
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NEWS EDITOR
Last Tuesday, both Student
Government Association (SGA)
legislative bodies met individually to discuss changes to Joint
Finance Committee (JFC) policy.
Much of the discussion of the
proposed alterations was in regards to the removal of the line,
While funding for food is not
permitted per JFC policy, organizations are still able to receive
funding for events or initiatives
per the legislatures discretion
within the cultural subsection
of Section 4: Specific Exemptions. Officially, no food can be
funded by JFC policy, but in practice, the legislative bodies have
sometimes made the decision to
waive policy in order to allocate
funding for the purchase of food
for a cultural event. The line was
in place to signal various cultural
student organizations that a request for cultural food funding
would be given special consideration by the UHR and GSS.
GSS saw engaged debate on the
issue of whether the line should
have been reinstated, with the
voting blocs almost evenly splitting the body in half. One senator
argued that the cultural food expenditures have historically made
up a very small portion of SGAs
total budget and that the line was
not providing an unreasonable
precedent for the funding of all
food items. After a discussion in
which the Chair of the body had
to remind senators not to speak
over each other, GSS narrowly decided not to revert the striking of
the line.
During discourse on this issue in UHR, the Speaker pro
Tempore of UHR, Brian Shin,
proposed an amendment to JFC
policy which would add the line,
Cultural organizations may request funding for cultural food
if the organization can show how
the cultural food relates to the
event. The event must be advertised and open to all students, and
it must have an educational aspect
organizations must submit an
educational PowerPoint before
meeting with both bodies of the
legislature, of which explanation
of the food is included. Shin argued that an exemption such as
the one he proposed would allow
students to embrace and educate
the culture through the food, and
that cultural organizations should
receive food since other organizations, such as those pertaining to
sports, are sometimes allocated
funding for special specific items.
He added that this amendment
would allow cultural organizations to have food for events
without UHR and GSS having to
waive JFC policy.
A number of representatives voiced their support of this
amendment. Morgan Foreman,
co-Chair of SGAs Cultural and
Diversity Committee, expressed
that she would be interested in
seeing a provision which would
prevent organizations from advertising cultural food events as
being free food. She also stated
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maintain infrastructures that
improve the lives of residents. To
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Last Monday, Stamps Health
Services started accepting all
forms of insurance.
This change has been nearly
two years in the making. Previously, the pharmacy at Stamps
only accepted Student Blue,
which is the Tech student health
insurance plan, in an effort to
keep drug prices low.
Billing insurance adds a level
of bureaucratic complexity, said
Dr. Gregory Moore, Senior Director of Stamps Health Services.
With Student Blue, theres no
middle man, so that was a big
deal. However, there still are a
majority of students who are insured through their parents.
Stamps Health Services now accepts non-student health insurance plans. The change benefits students with outside coverage.
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of writing is to evoke
emotion and opinion. To
make judgments and criticism based on an authors
name and not his or her
reflections on experience,
opinions and thoughts, is
unnecessary and shallow.
There is a difference
between falsifying personal experiences and
misconstruing the events
of history, and writing
under an ethnically inaccurate pen name but
even rewriting the events
of history, is, for those
non-literary types, a commonly known genre called
historical fiction. If anything, Hudsons altered
pen name should allow
us to think more deeply
about our perception and
judgments of poetry and
other works of literature
based on the ethnicity of
the author.
Writing under a pen
name of a different race
is not racist. Judging a
piece of literature by the
authors name is racist. As
freethinkers, authors have
the right to deliver their
message in any way they
choose, even if it means
changing their name.
If there is no freedom
of expression through
writing, then where is?
Literature is not for the
easily offended, and
should you still oppose
Hudsons actions, dont
read his work.
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Keeping your
head up
Photo by Brenda Lin Student Publications
Pictured is Cook Out, a burgers and BBQ joint popular among Tech students. Crunchbutton
users will be able to have food delivered to them from the restaurant, among various others.
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
As the hush of the evening
settled down on campus on Friday, Sept. 11, a group of students
ramped up to make their voices
heard.
Several expressive paintings
close in the steps of the Campanile as even the familiar spray of the
fountain is absent. Tonight is the
night Danielle Mathis, a thirdyear IE, has been waiting for.
In the summertime, I had a
dream where I saw this happening. It was outside, and we were
just grooving and vibing to music
and art where were speaking out
about whats going on in society.
The title of the event, Whats
Going On, comes from a 1971
Marvin Gaye song, ranked by
Rolling Stone magazine as the
fourth greatest song of all time.
Gayes song was written about police brutality, an issue that persists
today.
This event involved music,
spoken word, dance and artwork
from a handful of talented students and friends with the hope
of bringing awareness of current
social justice issues to campus.
Along with promoting social
justice, Mathis wanted to showcase art at Tech.
I wanted people to see the talent thats on our very campus,
she explains. I feel like Georgia
Tech should make that a goal, to
help students who have talents
ALEX COVINGTON
If you find that youre kicking yourself endlessly over a mistake you made, try to counter the
thought with something youve
done that youre proud of. Give
yourself a little bit of positive self
talk out loud; formulating and
stating the idea of your worth
helps to codify it in your mind.
Excessive worry about the future and regret about the past can
keep you from getting done whats
necessary in a given moment. Take
what you can learn from past mistakes and then leave them behind.
Remind yourself that you have, in
this very moment, the power to
make your future better for yourself. Try to accept the things you
cannot change.
SEEK SUPPORT
Engineer and dancer, Raianna Brown, dances to Tie My Hands by Lil Wayne. Brown
is a third-year student, majoring in Industrial Engineering at Tech and Dance at Emory.
GIVE TO OTHERS
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THE
provided free
popcorn and
soft drinks
to hungry spectators for the entire
length of the event. Finally, for the first time in
The Summits history, the winners
of either competition would receive actual prizes: two tickets to
Six Flags and a $25 gift card, plus
some SCPC swag.
All these perks, along with
curiosity and genuine interest in
hip-hop culture, attracted a good
amount of spectators and by 7
p.m., the Ballroom was filled with
a diverse crowd. In attendance
were graduates and undergraduates from a variety of cultures and
backgrounds.
The group of competitors also
represented a variety of ethnic
groups. As Konstruct, one of the
dancing judges, asserted, Hiphop culture promotes difference
within integration: it pulls people
together, but also sets them apart
in their uniqueness of style.
Konstruct judges these types
of competitions on a regular basis, but it was the first time he
had ever judged at The Summit,
called on by Baucom. He believes
this event was of fundamental
importance in order to spread the
hip-hop culture on international
campuses such as Tech.
While waiting for the workshops to be over, the competitors
began warming up. Tekstyles focused on stretching and practicing some moves, while BuzzBeats
trained their voice for the upcoming challenge.
At 7:30 p.m., the Master of
Ceremonies, Gabe Auyeung, Tech
alumnus and former member of
Tekstyles, kicked-off the event
by describing the rules of Preliminary rounds. Dancing rounds
would be thirty seconds long,
beatbox ing
rounds
would
last an entire minute
and each competitor ,
in the first portion of the
competition,
performed
alone. Auyeung reminded
everyone of the prizes
and started calling on
the individual dancers to perform
with the dynamic formula: Let
me get (name)
on deck!. A
similar
process
brought the beatboxers to perform on
deck one by one. Of
course performers used artistic names and aliases
such as Maniac, Yoshi, Dan the Man,
GoYippy,
Yappas, Grandmaster Thug Lord,
ChoiceBeatz,
and more.
Many spectators who had never
witnessed such a display of hip-hop were
impressed just by watching the freestyle sessions.
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Well the view at UH was nice while it lasted
There is a point where years of edu hurts salary. Room of PhD students: Wait--whats that point?! #gettingout
Our professor referenced a heat pipe article written by George P.
Peterson. Our president does in fact know his engineering.
After hearing a description of League, my Professor said so its like
WoW, but not?
Dancing girl, are you co-oping?
To whoever made this post you dont know sh*t about ronaldo
Italics look way better than quotes.....dumb AP style
Five minutes late to class apparently counts as absent
The new UH crane makes my 10th floor view ever so wonderful...
Tech green sprinklers ruined my beautiful hammock nap
Yaaaaaaas fall weather yaaaaaas, work it girl
What maroon chose maroon as the fall fashion color?
Brace yourselves, flu season is coming
To the students in the library talking sh*t in korean ... I can understand you
I try so hard to not be that stereotypical white girl, but when
pumpkin spice season comes around, I just cant help myself
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dumb new Spotify ad with the cats
I cannot believe the paper did a story on cowboy bebop, looking
forward to more
Freshmen think they have it so hard, wait until sophomore year
Did anyone else notice Subway changed the ham they use? Its gross
now, thanks Subway.
Is there a No Fear Shakespeare for Calculus?
Gt1000 seems like the only class Ill be passing this semester...maybe
Homecoming week is coming soon, whos hype to get high in space?
Why are we building a statue for Einstein. He literally has no affiliation with this school.
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pany that coincides with her passions. She keeps up with her own
music endeavors on SoundCloud
and is part of an inspirational
outlet that will start this weekend
called Caterpillars Promise.
Artwork is showcased along the edge of the campanile. The pieces serve as a barrier between the outside world and their emotional and provocative gathering.
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Friday,
September 25, 2015
Tech Taco
LOCATION: 10th Street
CUISINE: Mexican cuisine
COST: $6-$10
HOURS: Open until 4 a.m.
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OUR TAKE:
JON LONG
SPORTS EDITOR
Midtown Atlanta is no stranger
to Southwestern cuisine. Between
Moes, Willys and Chipotle, Tech
students have a myriad of options
to choose from when it comes
to burritos. In the modest strip
mall on the corner of Hemphill
and 10th Street, a new face has
emerged in the world of affordable
Mexican food: Tech Taco.
Although the restaurants appearance from the outside may
not impress potential customers,
the interior paints a very different picture. Tech Taco radiates
a very modern feel, and it is spacious enough to accommodate
even the busiest of lunch rushes,
while still leaving each table with
a comfortable amount of elbow
room. TV monitors create a casual atmosphere, and the restaurants cleanliness is conducive to
an all-around more enjoyable dining experience.
The restaurants food itself
brings more to the table than
hungry customers would expect
from a strip mall burrito joint.
While the Mexican cuisine may
lack the strong flavor of the ever
popular Moes chain, the subtlety
of each of the included ingredient
allows them all to be experienced
Pictured above is a burrito with its complementary side of authentic flavored chips from
Tech Taco. The restaurant, though low key, has surprisingly good food and a nice atmosphere.
MANAGING EDITOR
Released in the App Store last
week and currently available to
Tech students for free, Trebel Music is a service to deliver free music
downloads to college students.
Think of it as premium Spotify without a subscription, said
Gary Mekikian, CEO of M&M
Media.
Rather than attempting to
compete with paid services such
as Pandora and Spotify, Trebel
Music aims to compete with legalgrey-area torrents and YouTubevideo-to-audio converters.
Trebel is for the college student on a budget, Mekikian
said. Were legitimizing the free
download experience so users can
choose and play the songs they
want whenever they want for
free.
The service offers free, legally
downloaded music with an adfree listening experience, all while
benefitting artists. Trebel does
so by serving static ads while users search for music and video
ads while users download songs.
Viewing these ads nets users
coins, a virtual currency, which
The Trebel Musics brand mark plays off pause and play symbols. Users can watch ads in exchange for music downloads.
millennials.
The plan for Trebel is to have a
wider rollout in December to include even more of the 3000 colleges and universities in the U.S.
Eventually, it will expand to U.S.
high schools before finally going
international.
As the service is in early rollout
and at the mercy of record label
law, there are songs not currently
available to download (recent,
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
From kimonos and bicycleriding robots to anime shops and
samurai demonstrations, the annual Japanese Festival (JapanFest
for short) celebrates the beauty of
the Japanese culture. Every year
during the fall, thousands of curious and fascinated people from
all over the Atlanta and Gwinnett
area flock to the Infinite Energy
Center, or the Gwinnett Center,
to experience the true essence of
Japanese heritage.
JapanFest is not an average festival martial arts exhibitions,
sushi-making demonstrations and
taiko drum performances are just
some of the noteworthy features
highlighted at this event. With
such an enormous space for the
festival, event attendees are able
to venture between floors as well
as room spaces from the 11:30
a.m. taiko drum performance on
Stage 1 to the 3:00 p.m. taido karate exhibition on Stage 3.
Exhibitions and demonstrations aside, various booths in the
Food Court area enable people
to have a taste of common Japanese cuisine as well as promote
Japanese businesses, including
origami art and travel opportunities. Every inch of space is used
to create entertainment; hallways
contained childrens games such
as wanage (ring toss) and balloon fishing, while smaller rooms
consist of beautiful bonsai and
flower arrangements. Needless to
say, everyone at the JapanFest has
the opportunity to enjoy and experience some aspect of Japanese
culture.
Popular attractions that engage children and young adults
are the Japanese-incorporated
games. One of the most memorable games is the rubber-band gun
game. This game features rubberband guns made completely out
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Black Mass
GENRE: Biography/Drama
STARRING: Johnny Depp,
Joel Edgerton
DIRECTOR: Scott Cooper
RATING: R
RELEASE DATE: Sept. 18
OUR TAKE:
NOAH ROBERTS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Director Scott Cooper (Crazy
Heart) recants the stunning biography of James Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp, Pirates of the
Caribbean), an exceedingly power-hungry gangster boss operating
in the late 70s in the crime drama
Black Mass.
The true-story biopic delineates the endemic behaviors of
Bostonians halfway between
brotherly love and being blatantly
independent. Bulger exploits the
former characteristic in his relationship with fellow South Boston
native, an FBI agent, John Connolly (Joel Edgerton, Warrior),
to gain immunity in exchange for
information on a rival gang.
Cooper displays the 70s Boston community by incessantly
returning to characters firmlyplanted Southie roots. Viewers
witness Jimmy (James Bulger)
playing gin rummy with his
mother and eating Christmas dinner with his brother, Billy Bulger
(Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock), ironically a powerful state
politician.
Black Mass netted a fairly
weak opening weekend box office
pull of $22.6 million, a surprising
figure considering the all-star cast
headlined by chameleonic Johnny
Depp. Though the role might
seem strange to viewers introduced to the iconic actor by films
like Pirates of the Caribbean
and Sweeny Todd, Depp is actually no stranger to the gangster
and crime lord persona, racking
Johnny Depp, as James Bulger, plays a nefarious gangster boss in Black Mass, based off of a true story from the 70s.
The screenplay pays meticulous attention to the details, to the detriment of the audiences overall cinematic experience.
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After a disappointing loss at
Notre Dame, the Jackets offense plans to get on track this
weekend versus Duke. Tech had
a chance to burst onto the scene
with a statement win but had an
extremely difficult game solving
Notre Dames defense. Saturday
marked one of the worst offensive
performances in recent memory
for Tech. The players and coaches
echoed that sentiment.
The blocking was poor, but
we had triple the missed assignments I believe weve ever had in
a game that I was a part of, Head
Coach Paul Johnson said. It was
a terrible way to start, and then
we got rattled a little bit. When
you have a lot of young guys on
the road in a hostile environment
against a good team, sometimes
that happens.
The team had to replace some
key players but returned four out
of five starters on the offensive
line. Despite being one of the most
experienced lines in the country,
the veteran group still struggled
on Saturday.
Frustrations from the offense
showed all game as mistake after
mistake left the team unable to get
into a rhythm or keep any kind of
positive momentum.
Some of the difficulties the offensive line and other players had
blocking could be attributed to
Techs first two opponents of the
year being just not very good, but
credit has to be given to Notre
Dame and their defensive staff.
Give [Notre Dame] credit.
They played well. We played horrible. I dont know if we can play
any worse, especially offensively.
Thats for sure, Johnson said.
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Dame
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more consistent and know our assignments and not get wide eyed
[during the game].
Unfortunately, the Jackets will
be without leading wide receiver
Michael Summers against Duke.
True freshman Brad Stewart will
get the start in replace of Summers, and Johnson raved about
Stewarts physicality in the Notre
Dame game.
Going into the Duke game,
the team will look to recapture
the performances they had on offense at the end of last year and
before Notre Dame. Duke will
be no easy task as they were the
lone team to beat the Jackets last
year at home and held them to a
season-low 25 points.
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Saturdays loss to Notre Dame
hit the Jackets hard. The Jackets had high hopes of making a
name for themselves on the national stage. Like the Blue Devils,
the Jackets entered Game Three
with high hopes after two huge
victories against Alcorn State
and Tulane. However, the Jackets left South Bend, Ind., disappointed after their fourth quarter
scramble wasnt enough to secure
them a victory against No. 8
Notre Dame.
Tech has proven to be a team
with incredible drive, refusing to
lie on their backs and submit to
defeat. However if Duke is able to
rattle Techs option offense early
on, the Blue Devils may be able to
gain the upper hand.
It will be important that Tech
performs well in both halves
against Duke. Techs defense
didnt perform powerfully during the second half of their match
against Notre Dame, and the offensive line did a poor job in both
halves, missing more than half
their assignments.
Coach Johnson expressed
disappointment at the defensive lack of power but later said
that the Jackets will move forward and prepare for their match
against Duke.
Well flush it, Johnson
said. You put it behind you and
move forward.
For defensive coordinator Ted
In Techs Ground-and-Pound style of offense, their success rests almost entirely on the performance of the offensive line. They will need to play sharply this Saturday in Durham versus Duke.
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
College volleyball has been
back in action for a month now,
which can only mean one thing:
conference play starts soon. And
for the Jackets, soon is 7:00
p.m. this evening. The Jackets,
riding high on an impressive 9-3
start to this years season, begin conference play today on the
road with a match against the 5-7
Clemson Tigers.
When the Jackets entered
conference play last season, they
were only one game above 0.500
and started things off on a bad
foot by losing to the Duke Blue
Devils 3-1.
However, that was last year,
and this years Jackets are poised
to show drastic improvement in
comparison to their ACC performance that began twelve months
ago today.
Although [our] preseason performance was good, ACC play is
what really matters, says junior
libero London Ackermann.
In a strong conference filled
with perennial powerhouses such
as Duke, Notre Dame and Florida
State, performance against conference opponents is crucial to
the success of season. The Jackets
look to carry their early season
momentum into their conference
schedule.
Last year, in their first season
under Head Coach Michelle Collier, the Jackets experienced some
JOE SOBCHUK
The Ohio State Buckeyes, last years national champions, went into the 2015 season with a
No. 1 ranking. Although they currently sit at 3-0 this season, they dont look like a No. 1 team.
the rankings. Ole Miss has certainly looked great, forcing five
turnovers against the Tide and
hanging 70 points each on their
previous two opponents. However, maybe Alabama was simply
ranked too highly to start, and
Ole Miss took advantage of an
offensively undisciplined team to
squeak out the victory.
4. Poll inertia and SEC bias
are both real, and its a poten-