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Opinions 6

Life 10

Entertainment 14

NUNN FORUM TACKLES EXTREMISM p3

NEWS

Sports 24

LIFE

LMC gives
unique
opportunities
POLLY OUELLETTE, HANNAH LEE
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

LMC is not an acronym Georgia

Tech students hear very often. Unlike the many IE and CS students that
roam Techwood Drive, LMC majors
are few and far between in a school
home to 27 thousand students. In fact,
LMC students make up only 0.5 percent of the undergraduate population
at Tech. Housed in the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, the School of Literature, Media, and Communication
attracts individuals who are interested
to learn how the humanities shape and
are shaped by science and technology.
Lauren Moye, first-year LMC, has
diverse interests and was attracted to
the program because it is accommodates students like her.
When I was looking at schools, I
knew I have always loved liberal arts
and wanted to pursue a major in that
area, she said. But I chose Tech because: one, I knew that it was a great
school, and two, that it was a really
good combination of everything I was
interested in. Its forward thinking and
also marketable, Moye said.
Other students choose to add LMC
as a second major in order to further
explore their diverse intellectual curiosities. This is what Alice Barsky,
fourth-year LMC and Public Policy,
did during her third year.
The year has started off well for
both of these girls. Moye loves her first
taste of LMC classes and says, I find
everything we are learning super interesting. The professors are amazing and
at the top of their fields. The classes are
all tailored to exactly what you like, so
See LMC, page 11

Top L: Photo courtesy of Jazz Burney; Top R: Photo courtesy of Austin Foote; Above: Photo courtesy of Bob Paul

ENTERTAINMENT

Creative Loafing brings together the Best of Atlanta

MONICA JAMISON

ASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Every year, Creative Loafing,
Atlantas only alternative weekly,
sends out a survey to determine
the top readers choice in many
categories, from the best Vine account, to the best work around
and to injustice. All the winners,
along with Critics Picks, are published in the Best of Atlanta issue.
This years Best of Atlanta
event brings that issue to life, putting the citys best restaurants,
entertainment and art under one

roof the Georgia Freight Depot. Hosted by the experienced

design and creative agency, On
Point Creative, the party showcased the best of this city.
As the sun was setting on the
glistening downtown skyline,
Wolfpack ATL kicked off a satisfying night of both surprises and
classics. Voted the best local jazz
act, they took their performance
from the stage to the crowd, dancing around while concluding their
soulful show. Automatic Improv,
the lone comedy act of the night,
also involved the audience as the
source of inspiration for compos-

ing angry letters and as the enforcers in an elimination game.

Inside the Freight Depot,
restaurant tables with samples
lined the perimeter, and a stage
was centered in the back of the
dark, brick interior. The star of
this stage was Okcello, an Atlanta Symphony Orchestra cellist, whose performance attendees
enjoyed while nibbling at samples
from many different restaurants.
One of the most popular restaurants was Mangos Caribbean,
which offered rice and beans that
was worth going back for seconds.

See BEST OF, page 17

Photo by Monica Jamison Student Publications

At the Georgia Freight Depot, the Wolfpack ATL opened the party with jazz. Other performances included CLAVVS and Okcello.

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// NEWS

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ach week, this section of News

will include the coverage of
dierent aspects of bills that
passed through Student Government
This will include the Undergraduate
House of Representatives, Graduate
Student Senate and the Executive
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TRISTEN ALLEN
STAFF WRITERS

BILL SUMMARY

funding to bring Judah and

the Lion to an on-campus concert on Oct. 13, taking place in
Burger Bowl.
The two representatives from
WRECKless asked for $7,500

ROBOJACKETS, ROLL OUT

RoboJackets, Techs competitive robotics organization,
requested funding for materials
and travel costs. The organization requested more funding
than they had in previous years
because the team is traveling to
Tokyo for competition and is
expecting an increase in membership.
Rep. Runnels expressed his
support for the bill saying, This
is an 8 percent increase in funding for a 10 percent increase in
expected membership. I do not
see a problem with this bill.

had been a mistake, and that the

trailer in question had been in a
multipurpose building on 14th
Street, owned by Tech. The officer called his initial contact to
confirm that the trailer had been
located and advised dispatch
that the trailer be reclassified as
not missing.

and staying in his room at Phi

Sigma Kappa, and were preparing to depart that very morning.
The officer confiscated the
mens bong for destruction,
and all three men were issued
criminal trespass warnings. The
solitary Tech student was given a
Code of Conduct violation.

BID YOU A-DOOBIE

An officer was dispatched
to the Fifth Street bridge midmorning on Sept. 19 to respond
to reports of three white males
carrying out illegal activities.
The men were situated on the
embankment of the bridge located behind Phi Sigma Kappa,
having accessed the area through
a gap in the Greek houses fencing. The men identified themselves as being in the area to
smoke marijuana, and indicated
that while two of them were not
Tech students, the third was.
This student clarified that
although he was aware of the
illegal activities taking place,
he was not participating, which
the other two corroborated. As
it turned out, the non-students
had been visiting their friend

RAINED OUT
A GTPD officer was called
to the Boggs building at approximately 7 a.m. on Sept. 23
to file a damage to property report. Upon the officers arrival,
the buildings area manager
explained that a flood of sorts
appeared to have taken place
overnight; an unknown person
had left an eye washing device
in room 1-48 on overnight, and
the water had trickled down
through the floor and ceiling of
the room directly below 1-48.
The area manager indicated
that some equipment which had
been resting on the table had
potentially received water damage, though he was uncertain
as to the extent of the damage
or the estimated value of the
equipment.

AMOUNT
$941.18
$915.00
$24,980
$689.56
$2,666.67
$2,037.50

BILL
DJ Mixer for WREK Radio
Tech the Halls Holiday Event
RoboJackets Funding
Alternative Service Breaks
Qurbani Costumes and Fees
Saqafat 2016 Funding

WRECKLESS A-BAND-ON
WRECKless, a campus
spirit organization that aims
to combat drinking culture
through positive community
activities, recently applied for

MAURA CURRIE
NEWS EDITOR

INN A LOT OF TROUBLE

GTPD was called to the
Cough Building on Sept. 14
to compile a theft report. The
building manager for the area
told the responding officer that
the Band Department had been
taking inventory and became
aware that a utility trailer which
they intended to surplus was
missing. Furthermore, the manager explained, it had become
apparent that the trailer was last
seen approximately ten years
ago. Approximately a week after
this initial meeting, the officer
was notified via email that there

to cover a portion of the cost of

bringing the band, with the remaining costs provided by outside funding and a ticket price
at the door.
WRECKless estimated that
tickets would cost students
$5 with the full amount of requested funding and $10 if they
were provided with $5,000 from
SGA. WRECKless expressed
their confidence in a large student turnout, expecting over
one thousand students.

GSS

UHR

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18-0-1
17-1-1
14-0-0

42-0-0
42-2-0
44-0-0
40-0-1
41-0-0
42-0-0

SHERRY CHEN

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
A year after Angela Merkels
open-door migrant policy, headlines seem bleak; the recent elections have been disastrous for her
party, the center-right Christian
Democratic Union. A loss in Berlin came just after a third-place
finish in her home state, behind
the Social Democratic Party and
the right-wing Alternative for
Germany Party.
She admits Germanys was
ill-prepared for such an influx of
migrants, and is suggesting the
introduction of a cap. The number
of new asylum seekers is declining, from 92,000 to 16,000 refugees between January and July.
The biggest challenge for Germany now is to integrate asylum
seekers. While the housing of
refugees was once a concern, there
are now thousands of empty beds
in emergency shelters.
An estimated 23,600 refugees
still live in emergency shelters in
Berlin, but in smaller cities resettlement has been considerably
more successful. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
estimates that there will be a
shortfall of about 200,000 spaces
for language-learning courses this
year. The program suffers from a
teacher shortage, and only those
expected to permanently stay
in Germany have access to the
courses. Many refugees struggle
to break into the job market because they cannot work until they
are granted asylum.
Of the 322,000 refugees,
141,000 were unemployed. Many
of these refugees speak little to no
German, and have education levels inadequate for the jobs available. However, these refugees are
young. The hope is that integration will occur through language
immersion and training programs.

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Georgia Techs Journal of the Arts and Literature

art, n. - The expression or application of creative skill and
imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting, drawing, or
sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their
beauty or emotional power.
It is art that makes life, makes interest,
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Clough Sam Nunn Forum addresses extremism

alarms
deactivate
MAURA CURRIE
NEWS EDITOR

LINDSEY PLOUSSARD
STAFF WRITER

For weeks, students ears have

been met with the high-pitched
alarm when the Clough doors remain open for too long. Though
this may seem like a design glitch
or a security measure to prevent
students from propping the doors
open for extended periods of time,
the alarm actually increases the
buildings energy efficiency.
The alarms in Clough go
off to remind people to close the
doors, primarily as an energy-saving measure, said Jason Wright,
communications manager for
Techs Library. It is one of the
LEED requirements that contributed to the buildings certification. The alarms are supposed
to encourage students to keep
the doors shut, in order to keep
the climate-controlled air inside
the building.
Clough is one of two LEEDcertified Platinum buildings on
Techs campus, along with the
Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions
Laboratory. Clough earned the
Platinum certification in 2011,
two years after opening.
Originally, the alarms sounded
when the doors were kept open
for longer than 30 seconds. Hundreds of students filter through
the Clough doors between classes,
causing the doors to surpass the
threshold frequently. The Clough
management team has solved this
issue by turning the alarms off instead of extending the time they
can be kept open. This will not affect Cloughs LEED certification.

Scholars, analysts and military

experts gathered at Techs Research Institute Conference Center on Sept. 22 for the Sam Nunn
Bank of America Policy Forum,
which this year addressed the issues of radicalization and ideological extremism.
Were in a different era now.
The world is a lot more complicated, Senator Nunn said in a oneon-one interview after the forum.
The public opinion is crucial in
terms of encouraging candidates
and encouraging people in public office to really understand the
complexity of the issues. ... So I
think the publics opinion is incredibly important, and, therefore, this forum is enormously important, and probably particularly
although its not timed for that
purpose during an election
where everybody wants simple
solutions, and grandiose promises
are totally unrealistic.
Because theres so much technology here and so many people
who are so bright, and also because the students are so interested ... including Tech and Emory and the University of Georgia
and historically black colleges like
Morehouse and Spelman these
are the young people who are going to be faced with this problem.
I can assure you that my generation is not going to be the one
to solve [radical extremism]. Its
going to be a problem thats with
us for decades, and having a sound
strategy that can be implemented
over time and understanding that
in the long run, the Muslims
have to get rid of extremism in
their own ranks. But in the short
run, we have to figure out how to
protect ourselves and work with

our allies and our friends. So all

of thats important, and having
it in a public forum is extremely
important, and also trying to get
rid of an over-simplistic approach
to complicated problems. ... Im
afraid that we have too much of
that going on right now.
The two panels aimed to address two aspects of the prominence of extremism, with the first
addressing the origins of extremism and the second addressing
how it can best be combated in its
present state.
The first panel was opened
by Jon Alterman, Ph.D., senior
vice president at the Center for

Strategic and International Studies and the current holder of

the Brzezinski Chair in Global
Security and Geostrategy.
Alterman framed his speech
with an opening discussion of giraffes: while there are four species
of giraffes, most laypeople generalize them as all being the same.
Similarly, radicalized terrorists are
put together regardless of their
complex organizational structures
and differing motivations.
There is no essential nature
to terrorism in my judgement or
in this kind of terrorism, Alterman said. There is no single driver. And I think very importantly,

differences we might not be paying attention to provide important

opportunities for us to disrupt the
way these groups operate.
The panel continued with
a presentation by Mia Bloom,
Ph.D., of Georgia State University
regarding the use of children in
Middle Eastern war zones, particularly in Syria.
According to Bloom, all
groups active in Syria use children even those which are considered U.S. proxies in roles
ranging from propaganda tools
to soldiers, assassins and strategic assets on the front lines. The
See NUNN, page 4

Photo courtesy of Bob Paul

General John R. Allen delivered the morning keynote address on combating modern extremism.
The Sam Nunn Forum takes place every two years and addresses international policy issues.

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// NEWS

Tech to lead NASA student program

VATHSAN RAMPRAKASH
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Tech has recently been chosen

by NASA to lead its Innovative
Mars Exploration Education and
Technology (IMEET) program,
a three-year program with a grant
of $1.25 million to nurture, promote and inspire the next wave of
high school students to come up
with new ideas for travel to Mars.
Professor Daniel Schrage, director of the Integrated Product
Lifecycle Engineering Lab (IPLE),
described the program as an initiative to both promote student
interest in space exploration and
progress towards a Mars mission.
NASAs been looking at going
to Mars for the past 30 years, but

unless were able to prove that one,

theres traces of water there, and
two, theres traces of microbial life
there, we wont be able to get the
funding, Schrage said.
The new IMEET program is
the child of an eight-year Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project, in
which Tech hosted summer camps
for high school students about designing and building aerial robots,
ground rovers and wind turbines
suitable for the Mars environment
using computer-aided design. The
two programs are now separate,
having identified different longterm goals, but still share the same
purpose of educating and inspiring students.
DARPA decided to go in another direction, but they liked

what we were doing so continued

to support us, Schrage said.
Tech has played a key role in
the development of this program.
Its programs like this that
allow Georgia Tech to be known
throughout the world. Tomorrow,
Im going to the Nanjing University in China on how and why helicopters can be implemented in the
Mars atmosphere and see whether
they want in, Shrage said.
He also stresses how this approach is ground breaking in its
ability to get students involved
directly in the process in new and
innovative ways.
No one else does it this way,
Schrage said. We are trying to
change STEM into STEAM, in
which Arts and Manufacturing
are also incorporated.

Photo courtesy of Columbus State University

The IMEET program will allow students to be directly involved in the process of Mars research.
Students will be recruited from all over the United States and from a variety of backgrounds.

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Working along with the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, the Museum of Aviation,
the South Florida Science Center and the Coc a-Cola Space
Science Center, and using the
NASA Space Grant Consortias
resources, the IMEET will recruit
students from all over the nation.
The first two years of the program
will be the development stage for
aerial and ground robots, while
the third year will be the piloting
phase. There will be a workshop
Oct. 11 in the Weber Building of
Aerospace Engineering where the
deputy director of NASA will be
the keynote speaker for the initiation of the program.
Schrage has expressed interest
in a variety of ideas via NASAs
The Big Idea initiative that he is
looking forward to incorporating
into the design process, such as
In-Space Assembly.
We realized its difficult to
get payload deliveries to Mars, so
what were looking to do is to send
the parts into the Moons orbit,
assembling it while in orbit, then
sending it to Mars, Shrage said.
In addition, this program will
allow for minority students and
schools in underprivileged locations to be introduced to the
program and careers relating to
space exploration. Recently, Professor Schrage has been involved
with an initiative in which STEM
classes would be integrated into
one thousand high schools internationally, one of them being the
Marymount School of New York,
an inner city, all-girls school.
The objective is to allow 400
students to be a part of this program, but we hope to triple that
in the next few years Shrage said.
He hopes to continue his work
and strengthen the American
workforce through implementation of programs like IMEET.

NUNN

FROM PAGE 3

conversation continued with presentations from Hisham Melhem,

analyst for Al Arabiya News, and
Lorenzo Vidino, Ph.D., director of the Program on Extremism at the George Washington
University Center for Cyber and
Homeland Security.
The former discussed radicalization as a concept independent
of conventional Islam, and the latter analyzed the seeming lack of
connection between societal integration and radicalization.
The second panel opened with
remarks from Admiral James A.
Winnefeld, Jr., USN, former vice
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and current Distinguished
Professor at Techs Sam Nunn
School of International Affairs.
Admiral Winnefeld focused largely on radical groups appeals to
youth culture and the efforts of
nations such as the United Arab
Emirates to rejuvenate patriotism
and redirect vulnerable populations away from radicalization.
The panel then turned to former Ambassador to Yemen Gerald Feierstein; William McCants,
Ph.D., fellow with the Center for
Middle East Policy and director of
the Project on U.S. Relations with
the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution; and Dr. Nadia
Oweidat, Smith Richardson fellow at New America.
The conversation focused on
extremism as a symptom of societal strife and, furthermore, a concept that will never be solved with
military strategy alone. Oweidat
presented a series of modern cultural artifacts which reinforced
or combatted radical notions, including videos designed for children and commercials.
The forum is organized by the
Nunn School and made possible
by an endowment from the Bank
of America, which has partnered
with Tech in this endeavor for the
past 13 years.

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// NEWS

Eco-Commons to be social space, reservoir

JONATHAN JEFFREY,
REEMA PATEL
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS

Techs Capital Planning and

Space Management Office, responsible for maintaining and
developing campus facilities,
has plans to expand landscapes
around campus in the coming
months. The proposed changes
stem from guidelines set forth in
the 2011 update to the Landscape
Master Plan.
The Eco-Commons, part of
the Landscape Master Plans goal
to make campus a Performance
Landscape, will receive and manage storm water from the whole
campus, potentially reducing the
amount of storm water that leaves
campus and enters Atlantas sewer
system by 50 percent. The next
portion of the multi-phase EcoCommons project is expected to
be completed by early 2019.
According to the 2011 Landscape Master Plan, the EcoCommons will run throughout
the campus and mimic a forested
watershed in order to naturally
retain ground moisture while also
guiding water flows into an underground reservoir at its northern end. The changes will revive
old natural water pathways that
were removed when the Atlanta
sewer system was developed.
The water would basically
just be an open cistern ... for irrigation use elsewhere on cam-

pus said Jason Gregory, senior

educational facilities planner. Its
the last spot before it ties into the
citys combined sewer system.
Were trying to collect as much of
it as we can ... to distribute water
where we need to.
This is a way to capture that
water, harvest it when we can, use
it for irrigation, use it for flushing toilets in new buildings before
it overflows into the combined
sewer system, said Howard Wertheimer, director of Capital Planning and Space Management.
The next thing we did was develop a Stormwater Master Plan,
and weve done a feasibility study
on blackwater reclamation where
we could mine the sewers, treat
the water and use it perhaps for
our central plant on 10th Street,
which would save about 60 millions gallons of palpable water
a year. ... Water is a precious resource in Atlanta, and we want to
respect that.
Besides the environmental
benefits, the Eco-Commons will
also help to express the identity
of Tech by also acting as a permanent open space in the heart of
campus for students. To do this,
the Eco-Commons will unite
the ecological landscape with a
human landscape, governed by
the social activities and experiences of people.
The landscape becomes the
fabric that ties everything together, said Gregory. We get a lot of
different building styles over the

years, which is an interesting development in and of itself, and the

landscape can be the one thing
that weaves everything together.
In order to display the technical feats of the Eco-Commons
project to the public, the Capital

Planning and Space Management

Office worked with the IMAGINE Lab to create the GT EcoTour phone app, an interactive
map that allows users to virtually
explore campus. Wertheimer and
Gregory urged those interested in

learning more about or becoming

involved with the Eco-Commons
project to contact them, especially
as they move into the planning
stages of how the Eco-Commons
will mesh with the vicinity of the
upcoming Living Building.

Photo courtesy of Capital Planning and Space Management

When finished, the landscape will operate as a cistern that connects to Atlantas sewer system. The project will provide an open space for students in addition to environmental benefits.

Opinions
OUR VIEWS | Consensus Opinion

The reason I talk to myself is that

Im the only one whose answers I
accept. George Carlin

Personal finance is more than trivial

Preparing students for their financial futures

Despite its wealth of classes, Tech lacks

one in a particularly important area: personal finance. It is appalling that Tech students are allowed to graduate and accept
high-paying jobs out in the world without
basic knowledge of concepts like how to go
about doing taxes, invest money and set up
a 401(k).
It is impossible to know what the future
will hold for institutions such as social security. Therefore, is it not critical to facilitate students abilities to make informed
decisions, regardless of any changes that
may take place? Given the prevalence of
student loan debt, Institutions should provide students with knowledge on how to
deal with the aftereffects. Furthermore, if
a student without financially savvy parents
wants to learn about stocks, they will often
finds themselves without reliable options.
To fill this gap, Tech needs to initiate
the offering of a personal finance course.
Of course, it should be open to students of

technique

OPINIONS EDITOR: David Raji

all majors, and may serve to fill an elective

requirement in most curricula.
Compare the situation to that of the
health class, which comprises a graduation
requirement for all students that ever come
to Tech. Yet, how much will any of these
busy students remember they learned in
health for a significant period of time after having turned in their final exam at the
end of the semester?
And why should they bother to? The information disseminated in the class, while
important, is not new material to most
students. Health is also a mandatory class
in almost every middle and high school in
America at some point or another.
Forget the fringe applicability of engineering economics; most of the material
taught there will either never be used by
students in the real world or is too easily
forgotten. A full-fledged class is necessary
in order to provide students with tools to
deal with their financial futures.

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

technique editorial board

Vidya Iyer EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Nick Johnson MANAGING EDITOR
Alexis Brazier HEAD COPY EDITOR
David Raji OPINIONS EDITOR
Evan Gillon ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
Kara Pendley ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Harsha Sridhar SPORTS EDITOR
Brighton Kamen DESIGN EDITOR
Jon Long LIFE EDITOR
Brenda Lin EDITOR EMERITUS
Kripa Chandran ONLINE EDITOR
Sara Schmitt PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Ross Lindsay WEB DEVELOPER

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The great danger of a

social echo chamber

The world we live in is more is trying to block the other from

divided than ever before. I am not letting them accomplish anything
just making a cutesy blanket state- that might make them look good.
ment here to entice you to be in- Their philosophy is that you canterested in my point. Wherever we not get ahead unless you make
go, wherever we look, people are sure everybody knows that the
judged and grouped together. You other party will destroy the counare either normal or a heathen. try while laughing and kicking
You could be normal, or you puppies.
could be a member of the LGBTQ
So why is it that campaigns
community. You could be smart, look like this now and never seem
or you could be a UGA student.
to actually address the issues?
Do you see how I phrased
Lets not focus on the canthose statements? It makes it very didates for a minute. We know
obvious where I might stand on the platforms of these candidates
these issues and adds a sense of fairly well at this point, so lets
degradation
to
look instead at
somebody that is
the
supporters,
...
it
all
rides
on
being
not normal by
the constituency,
their definition.
and
what
we have
able to talk rationally
These
statethats so radically
ments take on a to those who disagree different from just
very different conwith you. 30 years ago.
notation if you ask
One crazy insomebody if they CAMERON GALLAHUE vention has radiare a Christian
calized the way we
FOURTH-YEAR CS communicate, and
or otherwise, or
gay or straight, or
for better or for
whether they go to Tech or UGA. worse, it is something that defines
Maybe you do have a very strong our generation the internet.
stance one way or another on one
The internet really is an incredor more of these issues, but it is ible creation. It is something that
important to recognize this and was probably inconceivable beact according to the best rule of fore its creation. Even afterwards
thumb anybody can give: dont be it was never expected to become
a jerk. See, the culture we live in such a powerful force in the way
thrives off of the you are or you our world works.
arent mindset. You align with
Nowadays, anyone can pick up
one group, or you are different, a computer or smartphone and get
and nobody really likes being left plugged directly into a live feed of
out.
the world, seeing news as it breaks
It was not always this way, and sharing thoughts and opinthough. Take a few minutes and ions just as fast to a huge number
watch one of the first rounds of of people. Consequently, there is
debates from this campaign sea- a significant danger involved here
son, and then look up some older that I have never really seen addebates from, say, the late 1970s dressed directly, and it is what is
or 1980s. It is not hard to notice referred to as an echo chamber.
a sharp difference in tone beIn physics, or more specifically,
tween them. For example, during acoustics, an echo chamber is a
the Cold War era, debates pretty hallway where you can say somemuch boiled down to how ter- thing into it and hear your voice
rified we were of getting nuked repeated back to you shortly afterinto oblivion by the U.S.S.R. wards. Socially, an echo chamber
But something immediately no- is a community you can speak
ticeable is that there is minimal to and hear the same thing back
bashing of the opposite party, and from more people.
even less of attacking actual canIf you think about why exactly
didates directly.
a social echo chamber is probThis campaign season, it is the lematic, it comes down to who
norm. We have just seen the first is hearing your message and how
presidential debate between Hill- they are responding to it. When
ary Clinton and Donald Trump, we go online, we have a tendenand attempts to stir the pot were cy to form our own echo chamSee ECHO, page 9
at an all-time high. Each party

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YOUR VIEWS | Letter to the Editor

A rape survivors frustration with new USG policies

Photo by Ben Keyserling Student Publications

Take Back the Night deals with raising awareness of incidents of sexual violence. New policies enacted by USG lead to more difficult experiences for survivors, according to this anonymous author.

July 1, 2016. I was raped almost

two years ago, and I submitted
my complaint just before the new
policy took hold. Before I was
raped, I never understood why
anyone would not report their assault. I assumed it was because of
the discomfort and pain brought
up by having to re-live every detail of the attack and present it to
a complete stranger. After having
done this, I can confirm that, indeed, that was one of the hardest
things I have ever had to do.
But that is not the reason I
am currently so frustrated. It did
not drive me to write this article.
I was prepared for that experience. What was I not prepared
for? In a couple days, it will be
three months since I reported my
assault. I still have not received a
decision on my case. Not even an
update from the investigator. Yes,
having to recount one of the most
traumatic events of my life to an

outside investigator was agonizing, but what is more infuriating

is the bureaucratic hold-ups that
have kept me waiting for almost
90 days for a decision on my case
that should be black and white.
Tech, you talk a big game
about being passionate about ending sexual assault, but I would like
to challenge you to thoroughly examine how you treat people once
they have been sexually assaulted
on your campus. I realize the old
sexual misconduct policy under
which I filed my complaint is irrelevant now that the new USG
policy has taken effect, but do not
forget about me. I am still here,
waiting to see if I will have to walk
across the stage with my rapist at
graduation this May.
I consider myself a patient person, but this is ridiculous. Had I
submitted this request right after
I had been raped, waiting three
months for a decision would have

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been unbearable. I have grown

more accustomed to the anxiety
that comes with having one of
your peers rape you the nagging feeling that you will see them
everyday on your walk to class, or
that constant worry that they will
tell their friends what happened.
Yes, I am well adjusted to the
struggles of being a rape survivor,
but that does not mean that it is
okay to keep me waiting this long.
That is why I am so upset and
disappointed.
Tech has hired some of the
most passionate and supportive staff in Health Promotions,
whose help is vital to the success
of a survivors healing. However,
Health Promotions does not
make policies that govern how
sexual misconduct is handled. It
is not their fault that I have been
waiting on my verdict for almost
three months, and it is not Techs
fault that the BOR has enacted a

policy that none of us like. It is,

however, Techs duty to hold their
students to a code of conduct that
ensures each student feels safe and
respected. When someone violates
that code, it should be Techs top
priority to enact justice.
Two years ago, I was violated
in one of the worst possible ways
by a fellow Tech student. Tech, I
implore you to not let every case
in the future end up looking like
mine. I know the new policy is less
than ideal, but the way you implement the policy and support your
survivors can make all the difference. Because while a few business
days may seem like nothing for
you to help expedite a sexual misconduct case, it feels like a lifetime
in the life of a survivor.
To the Tech student body: if
any of this resonates with you, I
urge you to please submit a complaint to the BOR to remedy the
damage that the new policy is undoubtedly causing survivors that
recently reported their incidents.
Lastly, to survivors of sexual
assault in the Tech community:
you are strong, you are loved and
you can make it through this. I
know it seems like the journey to
healing is never-ending, but you
will make it through this stronger than ever. Do not let my frustrating experience with reporting
sexual assault deter you from reporting if you feel led to do so.
You deserve justice if you wish to
seek it. The staff at Health Promotions will support you along the
way, whether you choose to report
or not. They will not pressure
you into reporting if you do not
feel like it is the right move for
you. Talking to them was one of
the best moves I made in my journey, so I urge you to consider talking with them.

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Review

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Almost two years ago, I was

raped. I have never used the word
rape before because I thought it
sounded too harsh. Whenever I
shared my story with someone, I
would always say I was sexually
assaulted, which was true, but
also much easier to say than I was
raped. I wanted to preserve the
comfort of those in whom I would
confided. However, with my current state of extreme frustration, I
will say it. I was raped.
First, a little background. Like
many of you may know, The University System of Georgia (USG)
Board of Regents (BOR) adopted
a new sexual misconduct policy for
all USG schools. Before this new
policy took effect, each university
in the state had its own policy defining sexual misconduct, and its
own standardized procedure on
how to address violations of their
policies. Now, every school must
abide by this new policy set forth
by the BOR.
While the majority of this new
policy lines up with Techs old
policy, one notable difference is
in the hearing process for sexual
misconduct violations. The new
policy includes a looser definition
of consent and the addition of a
testimony to a three-person panel,
which replaces the past model of
reporting individually to a thirdparty investigator. Under Techs
old policy, survivors of sexual assault never had to come face-toface with their attacker; they only
had to testify to the third-party
investigator. Now, however, thats
not the case. If youre interested
in the nitty-gritty details about
the hearings process, read up on
them in Article 4.1.7.5 of the USG
Board of Regents Policy Manual.
Now, back to why I am upset.
This new policy was enacted on

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Highways and the history of

segregative infrastructure
Celebs on Campus

For cities that were already

informally segregated along
racial divides, many freeways
cemented those divides,
carving them into the map.

Taco Bell Closed

This past week saw the appearance of two notable figures

with celebrity status appear in
different places on campus.
Hip-hop producer and Snapchat superstar DJ Khaled was
spotted at the Tech Square
Waffle House on Monday, and
it was recorded on his Snapchat story. In addition, Gucci
Mane was allegedly involved
in the recording of a music
video around the SAE fraternity house.

At the time of publication, the Taco Bell location in

the Student Center has been
closed due to alleged electrical issues for the entirety of
the week thus far. The closing comes as the latest in a
string of shortcomings for the
concept, which have included
strict hour limitations during
the summer, long wait times
and lack of ice as well as drink
options in the coca-cola freestyle machine.

Employee Happiness

Cheering for Clemson

The Resilience Employee

Resource Group (ERG) has
made the decision to invite
Tech employees to become
involved with the 30 Days
of Gratitude Happiness Campaign. The campaign was created with the intention of providing avenues through which
to facilitate the enhancement
of the employee experience as
well as to ensure employees
feel like they belong, which are
goals of Tech.

Last Thursdays football

loss to Clemson was a source
of plenty of shame on its own.
But an additional cause for
embarrassment was the accidental cheering on the part of
Tech fans for the safety scored
by Clemson. It might have initially appeared that the play
would result in a touchback,
so the misunderstanding was
somewhat
understandable.
Still, it would behoove more
fans to wait before cheering.

ZAHRA KHAN

STAFF WRITER

At the New York Worlds Fair

of 1939, General Motors Futurama an exhibit depicting
what was then hoped to be the future of America garnered a lot
of attention. The future promised
a lifestyle secure in placid suburbia, private car ownership and a
sprawling network of highways.
They were sign of progress. Their
purpose was to solve Americas
traffic problems and better connect the nation as a whole while
also providing individualistic
liberties, such as car ownership.
Norman Bel Geddes, the man
who designed the exhibit, wanted
the roads to adhere to four basic
principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy.
In short, efficiency for the individual rather than service for the
community. His words signify the
biggest problem in the way that
planners, developers and government officials thought of the freeway system of the future. Their vision did not include everyone.
After the Highway Act of 1956
was passed, federal funds were
used to build freeways through
cities to improve transportation
across the nation. Although the
funding was provided by the federal government and final plan-

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ning decisions were made by the

Federal Highway Authority, local
elected officials were consulted
about the exact routes the roads
would take through cities. It is
not surprising that these groups
consisted almost exclusively of
middle-class, white men. The construction took place around the
same time as urban renewal laws
gave cities the authority to demolish slums and blighted housing.
Urban America was to be
transformed. Over the next 10
years, about 37,000 urban housing units were demolished every
year to make way for the cities of
the future. Considering the zeitgeist of the time, it is no surprise
that the majority of the dislocated
were low-income, black families
who had moved into inner cities
in the wake of the war. For cities
that were already informally segregated along racial divides, many
freeways cemented those divides,
carving them into the map.
Averse to pedestrians and public transit, they formed barriers
between middle and upper-class
white neighborhoods and minorities as affluent white people fled in
search of suburban utopia.
Although the interstate freeways certainly were not the cause

of informal segregation, they

certainly exacerbated an existing
problem, leading to the birthplace
of the modern ghetto.
Perhaps the greatest examples
of this are the designs of city planner Robert Moses, the man behind the Cross Bronx Expressway
in New York City. Moses planned
for the Expressway to cut straight
through the Bronx, even though
several alternate routes would
have been less divisive and equally
viable. The expressway hindered
mobility between the two sides
and led to the eventual decay of
the South Bronx. The highways
became barriers, closing off one
part of the city from the other.
In order to fully understand
and resolve the social issues that
are faced by modern cities, it is
important to understand discriminatory infrastructure.
In Boston, the Central Artery
highway cutting through the city
was demolished and was rebuilt
underground directly below. Another highway in Seattle, Alaskan Way, was damaged in the
Nisqually earthquake in 2001.
When plans for renewal were
drawn, engineers decided to take
the roads underground instead,
allowing the space left by the demolished roads to be utilized for
public development.
Several other cases for renewal
across the country deal with shifting highways underground or
replacing them with boulevards
while simultaneously increasing funding for public transport.
These developments are meant to
achieve the same goal: to increase
mobility, allow for the development of public spaces and better
integrate communities.

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Basic skill training has a place at Tech

A couple of months ago, I was
scrolling through Facebook and
I saw a post that had a couple
lines of dialogue between a student and the school system. The
student would ask, How do I
file my taxes? and the school
system would respond, Worry
not, the mitochondria is the
powerhouse of the cell. More
like: worry not, just know these
details that are irrelevant to
functioning as a normal, successful, independent adult and
you will be fine.
Though a hilarious and ironic
post, I think we can all relate to
the underlying truth that school
does not teach us the essentials
we need to live life and survive
on our own. Sure, maybe we
are supposed to learn these life
skills from our parents, but I
am guessing that the majority of
us have not. It is disappointing
to see our generation become
subject to drilling a plethora of
details and equations instead
of critical life survival skills.
We are able to solve the hardest
equations, yet we do not know
how to file our taxes.
School is ultimately a way
to update your status in com-

ECHO

FROM PAGE 6

bers, and I will use Facebook as

an example.
You may have seen posts
on Facebook from people that
have done friend purges,
which consist of someone going through their friend list and
removing people they are not
actually friends with, which is
innocent enough.
It is alarmingly common,
however, for people to run these
purges on people that do not
agree with their opinions on different topics. I personally know
people who will remove friends
who are of the opposite political party during election years.
Sometimes, they will remove
friends upon finding out that
the person is gay, transgender or
maybe just not a Christian.
You most likely know people
like this. You might even do the
same thing I have been guilty of:
removing old friends from my
hometown who now only post
racist, sexist or xenophobic statuses. However, this is actually a
terrible idea, because of the echo
chamber effect it creates.
As I mentioned earlier, we
are more divided as a country
than ever, and our world is just
as divided, if not more so. This
is at least partly due to our tendency to ignore opinions that
contradict our own. Anybody
that knows me well knows that
admitting I am wrong is one of
the hardest things for me to do,
so sitting down and listening to
somebody actually argue against
something I believe and make a
valid and convincing argument
is tough for me.
This requires two-way communication, and I mean real,
honest communication here,
not lobbing insults off of a moral
high ground. It turns out calling
somebody unintelligent for believing something makes them
less likely to listen to you and
more likely to assert their own
opinions back at you with less
than pleasant words about the
quality of your character.

It is time that our school

systems and programs
require teaching basic life
skills in the classroom.

MARIA FURUKAWA

ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR

es could start to include information about tax forms and how

to fill them out.
Japan exemplifies these goals.
Starting as early as elementary
school, Japanese students are
required to take multiple home
economics courses which teach
a number of various basic skills
in maintaining the household,
such as cooking, sewing and
cleaning. In addition, most
schools require students to clean
the classrooms after school on a
regular basis. By having the students learn these essential skills,
they allow them to be able to
grow into independent adults
who are aware and appreciative
of their environment and are
able to take care of themselves.
As Tech students, we are
already all very bright, hardworking and independent individuals. However, there are
some things that your quantum
mechanics and organic chemistry classes cannot teach. If we
are to become successful, independent, and contributive individuals in our society, we must
correct this flagrant gap in our
education for our sake and that
of the future generation.

parison to everyone else such as

high school graduate, college
student or Ph.D. student.
Getting these updates furthers
you towards reaching career
goals, but it does not directly
correlate to capability of living
as an independent individual.
As a college student at Tech,
are you able to cook a fully nutritious meal without relying on
instant or microwaveable packages? Can you pay for tuition,
car loans or house payments?
Are you able to file taxes and
government-related paperwork
on your own?
Lacking these skills does not
necessarily indicate a failure to
be independent. Many of us
have come to Tech from differ-

ent states or even different countries. For many, living in an

entirely different place shows
that capability of being an independent individual. But after
graduating college, will you have
learned the skills necessary to be
able to find a job, buy a house
and car, maintain finances and
be responsible for your health
and safety?
It is time that our school
systems and programs require
teaching basic life skills in the
classroom. For instance, drivers
education could have a session
on changing tires or performing
simple car maintenance or even
a crash course (no pun intended) on what to do when the car
breaks down. Economics cours-

We have to really get to the

crux of the issue and try to have
a serious conversation that really
challenges the core of beliefs
without staking the claim from
an Im right; youre wrong
standpoint. It is the only way
that we can really try to make
our voices heard and make a
positive impact.
Now, I am not saying this is
easy. It is not easy to challenge
somebody you disagree with,
and it is even harder to do without resorting to name-calling or
ad hominem attacks. It is harder
still if they attacked first. But
anything worth doing is rarely
easy, and this is honestly one of
the most important things we
can do as human beings.
In the end, we at Tech are
college students. One of our
most important roles as students
is to challenge the status quo,
form radical, crazy new ideas
that just might work and try
to put these ideas out there in
the world.
We will be shot down, yelled
at, insulted, attacked and proven wrong, but we will try again,
and again, and again, learning
a bit more about ourselves and
about the world every time.
That is the whole point; we are
supposed to learn to challenge
things that do not seem quite
right and learn to think critically about everything we can.
We need to try to have these
discussions in the digital world
too, as this is where information
spreads the fastest and to the
widest audience.
If we can really stand up for
our ideas in the enormous spotlight online, we can really make
a difference to a huge number of
people. However, it all rides on
being able to talk rationally to
those who disagree with you.
So please, next time you are
tempted to block or remove
someone on Facebook who disagrees with you, really think
about having a real conversation
with them about the issues.
You may just be able to
change their minds.

There exist a set of people together. They are activities that

who believe that the act of eat- bring people of all backgrounds
ing is a waste of time. To these together. On top of that, they
people, it seems as though the bridge all divides, whether raonce commonly held belief that cial, gender or otherwise: everywe work to put
one has to eat.
food on the table
Because peohas transformed
Eating is an entire ple are selective
into
thinking
in what they
experience, and the choose to eat,
that we must
consume food in
food is just one part many experts
order to be able
argue that food
of it. and meals played
to do work.
This is esa large part in
VIDYA IYER the shaping of
pecially true of
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF cultures. Indian
the hacker and
startup commucuisine is known
nity, where connot to include
secutive all-nighters are worn beef because Hinduism reveres
proudly like badges of honor. the cow. In Europe, despite
This situation is truly ironic, be- plentiful dogs and horses, peocause automation and technol- ple travelled far to bring back
ogy were originally developed worldly delicacies.
to reduce the amount of day-toSaying that eating is a waste
day work. Yet we find ourselves of time disregards the magniworking now more than ever. A tude to which food has shaped
2014 Gallup poll indicated that the world and our everyday
40 percent of full-time workers lives. Yes, meal replacements are
work upwards of 50 hours each an affordable alternative to actuweek. The standard workday has al food, but why is it that techturned into a 10-hour ordeal.
nology cannot be used to bring
This emphasis on not want- down the cost of real food and
ing to waste time on repetitive food production instead?
actions like eating has led to deRhinehart has specified that
velopments in food supplements Soylent is not meant to end the
like Soylent. In fact, this vile ancient ritual of enjoying food.
powdered meal replacement was He still believes that food serves
developed by Tech alumnus, a function and should be conRob Rhinehart.
sumed when necessary rather
The story of his development than eating at three scheduled
of Soylent is one all too famil- times. But even if we should eniar for a college student. The gage in purposeful eating, why
fact that food is expensive and serve a means to an end and fortakes a long time to prepare be- go flavor and texture for liquid
comes an inconvenience when blandness?
days become busy. Meals end
Wars were fought to make
up becoming unhealthy concoc- spices available around the
tions of ingredients. In such a world, and agricultural revolusituation, eatings sole purpose tions took place in an effort to
is sustenance.
be able to help sustain the growThat is not how things should ing population. It does not seem
be. Eating is an entire experi- worth it to throw all of that
ence, and the food is just one away just to squeeze a little more
part of it. Meals are often eaten time out of each day.

How do you respond to

the hate flyers around
North Ave Apartments?

GLORIA BOWEN

FOURTH-YEAR BME

Sounds awful. Should

be regulated.

Eating should be done

for eatings sake

VIVEK SANDHY

FOURTH-YEAR ME

Stop hate and stop flyers.

OLGA FOUCHE

THIRD-YEAR CHBE

Very confused.

DAIMLER OLAIYA

THIRD-YEAR BUSINESS

Its digsusting and

repulsive.
Photos by David Raji Student Publications

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Jonathan Long
ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR:

Samira Bandaru

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Talking CEED with Benton-Johnson

KEELY MRUK

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Felicia Benton-Johnson serves
as Director of Diversity for Techs
College of Engineering, a job she
has held since 2004. As such, she
also heads Techs Center for Engineering Education and Diversity,
or CEED. This program works
with entities, both inside the Tech
community and otherwise, to promote a more diverse landscape in
Techs engineering programs.
The Technique was able to sit
down with Benton-Johnson to
discuss CEED and the impact it
has on students.
Technique: Could you give an
overview of some of the services
that CEED provides students?
Benton-Johnson: Okay, so,
CEED is the Center for Engineering Education and Diversity. We
give students retention support,
some one-on-one tutoring and
mentoring, financial support, academic advising and career opportunities, like connecting students
with corporate entities. The most
important thing for us is were really big on building relationships
with everyone we touch. The students, even parents, and corporate
entities. We try and create a safe
space for students to come and interact with us.
There are five people who are
on staff here and we like to make
sure that if one of us isnt available, someone else is, and they can
go in, give a student a hug, give
them a pat on the back, give them
sort of a push when they need the
motivation to keep going. We call
ourselves the safe space, a home
away from home for students.
Technique: What part of your
job do you enjoy the most?
Benton-Johnson: To be honest, the students. When people
say what do you enjoy the least,
definitely the meetings. But yeah,
the students, especially when you
see things come full circle. For
example, we have a summer engineering institute and the students

are here for three weeks. This happens as early as when theyre rising juniors in high school, and its
so cool that we see them now, in
the end, when they are graduating
from college. Its really crazy.
We see students that weve met
as a freshman and now theyre in
Ph.D. programs. Or when they
come back from industry. We
have a lot of students who come
back from industry and they come
in all the time and they come by
to say Hi that type of thing.
You see what youve done when
students come back. Or they come
back in smiling and they just tell
you, Oh my gosh I did so good
on this test or this project, and
its really cool to see.
Technique: Is there any particular program that CEED runs
that you are the proudest of?
Benton-Johnson: Most proud
of? Well theres more than one
project that we have in this initiative. The partnership with Intel,
we became a partner with Intel
last year. They gifted us $5.5 million over the next five years to
increase the number of underrepresented minorities across engineering and technology.
With that, it has enabled us to
increase the number of students
that weve impacted. For one
weve expanded our peer to peer
program, so now were supporting 120 students in that. Across
the college of engineering and college of sciences and computing.
Thats where we do a peer mentoring approach with upperclassmen
mentoring underclassmen within
the same major. And then we also
have graduate students who mentor the mentors.
Also the partnership with Intel
has enabled us to support more
students financially. So we have
whats called retaining inspirational students in engineering
and technology; we call it RISE.
RISE is for your nontraditional
student who is pursuing engineering or technology, sometimes a
graduate student, and they are
resilient in pursuing their degree.

So these students are nontraditional, someone who did not

come to college straight out of
high school, someone who may
be married or is a first generation student. But they all have a
strong work ethic and a drive to
give back. RISE has enabled us to
more than double the number of
students that we are supporting
financially, and we are really
proud of that.
The other thing is our summer
engineering institute, which is the
three-week residential program I
spoke of. We started that in 2008.
Since then, over 92 percent of the
students who participated in that

spoons for anyone who would like

to join our evening snack, Asaad,
first-year ME, explained. Once
we started providing the necessary
supplies, the club grew exponentially and we began to post on so-

cial media and use flyers to spread

the word.
Cereal Club originally got
their funding through Smiths
Hall Council, but they have partnered with General Mills to pro-

have gone on to pursue STEM degrees. We have a number of programs, I cant really just tag one,
were proud of a good number of
them.
Technique: That is certainly
understandable. You are doing
great things here.
Benton-Johnson: Yeah, and
were excited about that, having
good people makes a big difference. We wouldnt be able to do
this with people who arent committed to the students and to
making sure they obtain their
degrees. Even for [engineering]
students who we meet and who
See FBJ, page 13

STAFF WRITER

It is a well known fact that cereal is a classic late-night snack,

especially for college students. But
it is a lesser known that theres a
Cereal Club on Techs campus.
Boasting over 200 members and
pulling from at least eight different residence halls, Cereal Club
meets at the end of each week to
relax and eat cereal.
The club was co-founded by
Youssef Asaad and Octavian Han.
On the first week of school, they
found themselves enjoying a bowl
of cereal at 11:12 p.m.
We began to do this daily and
started to gain interest from other
students, and after accumulating
about 10 members we decided to
start a club that would first meet
twice a week where we would provide the cereal, milk, bowls and

HANNA WARLICK
STAFF WRITER

Its the end of the sixth week

of school. You cant find a single
item in your wardrobe that still
passes the sniff-test. You cant go
home this weekend because youve
got a test next week. Its that time!
Time to procrastinate by doing
your own laundry.
If you live on campus, you
might be intimidated by the giant
laundry rooms. They dont smell
quite right. What are dryer sheets
even for? Heres the quick and
dirty on doing laundry.
PRE-TREAT BAD STAINS
Its a good idea to have some
sort of stain remover in your
clothes cleaning arsenal. Something you can spray on the clothing item to start working on that
stain. In a pinch, you can even
make your own. Certain stains
respond better to certain types of
treatment. Its good to rinse blood
stains in cold water. You can also
easily look up how to treat a specific stain on cleaninginstitute.
org, which has a detailed list of
how to remove stains ranging
from wine to barbecue sauce.

Photo courtesy of GT Communications

CEED director Patricia Benton-Johnson has been the director of Diversity for Techs College of Engineering since 2004.

Cereal club brings freshmen together

HANNA WARLICK

How to do
Laundry

vide cereal for at least one meeting

in the near future.
Bryce Watson, a third-year
CS major and Smith PL, didnt
See CEREAL, page 11

Photo courtesy of Youssef Asaad

The Cereal Club meets on Thursdays in Smith Residence hall. Beginning as a small group
of students who simply liked to eat cereal, the club has expanded to a group of over 200.

FOLD
Even the best laundry practitioners will look sloppy if their
clothes are wrinkled. Avoid
throwing your newly-cleaned in
a ball on the floor and instead
stow them, folded, into a basket,
closet or drawer. Not only does
the mass of clothes become easier
to navigate, but it also stands less
a chance of needing to be ironed.
PICK THE RIGHT SETTING
Are you washing sheets or
towels? Choose hot wash and hot
rinse. Are you washing your favorite red u(sic)ga shirt? You can go
ahead and throw that away. But
for the other red shirt you still miraculously own, wash on cold and
rinse on cold. A general rule of
thumb is that the hotter the temperature of the water, the cleaner
the item will get. However, things
that bleed like red or those new
jeans should go on cold to keep
the color in. Cold water also saves
energy, so thats a plus. But in
general, you can wash everything
on warm. It usually wont shrink
or fade clothes, and it wont set a
stain or fail to get it out.
USE THE RIGHT TOOLS
Laundry detergent, fabric softener, dryer sheets, scent booster,
See TIPS, page 13

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// LIFE

LMC

FROM PAGE 1

if you dont want to learn about

Shakespeare you dont have to.
Barsky is taking classes as well
as interning at Allied Integrated
Marketing, a company that focuses on publicity and promotions for
major film studios. She works directly with the Walt Disney Company and reaches out to organizations in Atlanta and other cities to
promote movies that are soon-tobe released. Barskys unique combination of degrees and experiences has further expanded her future
opportunities.
I think especially being in
two schools, I have experienced

a lot of really high level research

that I wouldnt have found at
other top tier universities, Barsky says. Within LMC, I think
that the places that our alumni go
are interesting because they dont
always go into traditional liberal
arts careers, so you have a broader
network and more exposure to
different career paths.
Barsky herself is looking into
different possibilities for graduate
school, considering programs that
allow her to do more research on
topics that fascinate her, particularly the effects of entertainment
and pop culture on America.
As a fourth-year, Barsky has
had plenty of time to rehearse

the answers to the million dollar

question why choose Tech for
liberal arts?
I think the question is easily answered by the rankings of
the school, she replies. A lot of
people are unaware of how highly
ranked our liberal arts school is.
I think its important to immerse
yourself within the school you
choose, and that takes away some
of the pressure [liberal arts student
feel to justify their place here].
Although the idea of studying
a non-technical subject at a technical institute may seem odd to
some, LMC students at Georgia
Tech are potentially at the best
place in the country to earn their

Photo by Will Folsom Student Publications

Techs Literature, Media and Communications program is housed in Skiles. The building has been
revamped to include media labs and other assets conducive to a quality liberal arts program.

degree. Academic and industry

leaders consistently state that the
School of Literature, Media, and
Communication is nationally
prominent as an innovator in humanities approaches to media and
technology and that the program
is arguably the best place in the
nation for this focus.
The facts back this statement
up. Tech humanities grads are
the highest earning of any public
university in the United States,
and only fifth overall (public and
private), according to NerdWallet,
with a median starting salary of
$51,000 in 2015.
Moye believes the success of
Tech LMC students upon graduation stems from the schools
unique ability to bridge the traditional separation between the
technological disciplines and the
liberal arts.
Its because we are required
to be so multifaceted. We have a
wide range of skills and abilities,
she reasons.
According to the programs
website, LMC students excel in
critical thinking, analysis and
synthesis, and are particularly
distinctive in their abilities to
solve complex problems because
their studies link computing,
engineering and science with culturally informed viewpoints and
ethically grounded inquiries.
Moye understands why people are confused when she introduces herself as an LMC major,
but in the short time shes been a
Jacket, she says she has already
begun reaping the benefits. She
hopes engineers and non-engineers alike come to realize the
value of a liberal arts education,
especially here at Tech.
Even I wasnt sure about coming here as a liberal arts student,
she said, but I am really, really
glad I did.
And, considering the evidence,
she is certainly not the only one
happy to be receiving an LMC degree from Tech.

CEREAL

FROM PAGE 10

foresee the massive support that

the club has garnered. He created
the original meme that got passed
around and made it all the way to
West Campus.
I have to admit, when I saw
five guys eating cereal at midnight
I didnt think it would become
this. I think I underestimated
them. Watson added. All of the
starting crew were residents on my
hall that Jorge Perdomo (one of
my co-PLs) and I decided to back
just to see how far they could go.
As it turns out, much further than
I think anyone expected.
This club may focus on cereal,
but the founders had additional
motives. Particularly, they wanted
to create a safe space for freshmen.
Myself being an incoming
freshman, I found very few opportunities outside of FASET to meet
freshman from other dorms during the week. Cereal Club offers
an opportunity to do just that.
Gurjote Singh Sethi, a firstyear IE, joined, as one would expect, because he loves cereal.
I stayed because of the great
atmosphere. It is a great way to
de-stress on Thursday nights, and
I have met a lot of good friends
there while enjoying a nice bowl
of cereal, Sethi said.
Currently, meetings are held
in the second floor Smith lounge.
Initially, the club was made up of
about 15 people but that number
shot up to 85 in about a week.
Moving forward, Asaad and
Han have plans to make the
organization officially a Georgia
Tech club.
To get involved, Assad says
to simply come to an event on
Thursday night and get added
to a GroupMe, in which we update all members with the progress of the club as well as future
meeting times.
They plan to expand to the GT
Connector in the future if membership continues to increase.

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// LIFE

FBJ

FROM PAGE 10

later decide to change their major,

they are still a part of the CEED
family.
Technique: Are there any new
programs that CEED is looking
to start?
Benton-Johnson: So, one
thing that we realized is that
graduate students need support
as well. This year, were looking
to start a graduate program similar to our peer-to-peer mentoring,
where we are going to have support for graduate students. It will
have different workshops, focused
on professional development or
how to get through masters or
Ph.D. programs.
These workshops would answer questions like, Should I go
into academia versus industry?
We will try to get faculty involved
in the mentoring aspect as well.
Technique: What have you enjoyed about working on a college
campus?
Benton-Johnson: It keeps me
young. I also love the innovation
and the intellect always keeping abreast of what is new and
current in the academic arena.
Technique: Would you say
Tech has a different campus culture than other campuses that you
have been at?
Benton-Johnson: Oh yes, definitely yes, for sure. The campus
culture is one of innovation, its
one of camaraderie.
I see students all of the time
coming in. Just this Friday, I had
a conversation with two students
and they said, we just started
our own business. Here, you get
a lot of that where students
are starting start-ups, you know,
thats nothing out of the norm. I
really love that about Tech.
Then too, its so diverse, in
every sense of the word. In socioeconomics, culture, language,
you know. People may not say
its diverse in the sense of majors because engineering is the

800-pound-gorilla, but even the

engineers are very multidisciplinary. They reach over into the
other colleges and look to work
with other students to build businesses or work on projects.
Technique: What brought you
to Tech?
Benton-Johnson: So, I actually was a chemistry teacher, and
I wanted to go into higher education. I wanted to get out of the
classroom and do something different. I started out as a diversity
coordinator for an engineering research center, called GTech, back
in 2004.
I got here and I just loved it.
It just blended everything that my
background is. The science, the
education piece, the administrative and leadership piece, as well
as diversity. It was just a really nice
blend.
Every day is something new.
Thats the one thing I really love
about working in academia.
Every day is just completely
different. Every day is nowhere
near the same.
Thats the other thing I really,
really like. Im blessed to do something that Im passionate about.
This is something I get up for in
the morning, I love coming to
work. Its something I can do every day, all day because its always
different.
Technique: When you were
little, what did you want to do
when you grew up?
Benton-Johnson: Oh my gosh
this is really interesting my
mom was a teacher, and I was like,
I do not want to be a teacher. I do
not. I do not. I do not want to be
a teacher.
So I was actually going to
school to be an optometrist. I
did a dual degree in biology and
chemistry for my undergraduate
degree, and then I went onto optometry school. All my life since
I was little, even in middle school
because I wore glasses, I was like,
I am going to be an eye doctor.

That was what I wanted to do,

and once I got there I realized,
Oh, this is not what I wanted to
do for the rest of my life.
I ended up being, where am
I, Im in higher ed. Im in education. Ive taught in K-12 and Ive
taught higher ed on the education
side, teaching students who were
pursuing their doctorates. So I did
education and higher education,
but this is a different side that I
like being on. I feel like I am right
where Im supposed to be.
Technique: What do you get
from this job that you didnt get
from working as a teacher or in
higher education.
Benton-Johnson: I get to have
more input in the administration
piece, and in directing the vision
the way I want things to go. In
the class room, Im more passing
the knowledge onto students. But
now, its kind of like directing the
programs that support the knowledge and inventing programs that
support the knowledge base.
Technique: What do you like
to do in your free time?
Benton-Johnson: I love to
watch a good movie or show.
Thats my free time. When I
have it, I mean I have kids so Im
always running around doing
sports or traveling for work. But
just kind of like students, when I
get the time I enjoy it. I also love
to listen to music.
Technique: What do you like
to listen to?
Benton-Johnson: Jazz and
blues, though blues is probably
my favorite.
Technique: Do you have anything you like to do in or around
Atlanta?
Benton-Johnson: I really cant
stand the traffic, and my favorite
season is the fall. So then, I love to
go to the park, watch the leaves,
look at the colors. Driving down
the highway, when there isnt any
traffic of course, and looking at all
of the different colors on the trees.
I just love fall.

Georgia Tech Counseling Center &

Office of Student Diversity Programs

Diversity Film Fest

Fall 2016

Thursday
October 6
6:00 PM
Student Center
Theater

Co-sponsors:
Office of Disability
Services

&
Office of International
Student and Scholar
Services

Intouchables
Intouchables tells the true story of Philippe, a wealthy, physically disabled risk taker,
the picture of established French nobility, who lost his wife in an accident and whose
world is turned upside down when he hires Driss, a young, good-humored, black,
Muslim, Senegalese immigrant and ex-con as his caretaker. Their bond proved the
power and omniscience that love and friendship can hold over all social and economic
differences.

Technique: What are some

things that a lot of students dont
know that you wish they did?
Benton-Johnson: So the
things that I give to them all of the
time: This too shall pass. Youve
got this. You can get it done.
We wouldnt admit you to
Georgia Tech if you cant get it
done. Right now it doesnt seem
like you can see the light at the
end of the tunnel, but its there.
With age comes wisdom. The
things you stress out about now,
you wont later. For students, especially Georgia Tech students,
they have to take a small time to
do something that they enjoy to
get refueled and reenergize to hit
the books back again.
They always seem like they are
saying they cant take the time,
but they dont realize that [not
taking the time] impacts them being able to focus. Its just stressing
them out. So if they take time,
step away from it, and do something that they enjoy, they will get
reenergized, refueled to tackle it
again with a different perspective,
and through a different lens.
Im also really big on persistence, trying to stay persistent.
Learn from your failures and stay
persistent. Once again remember
that this too shall pass. As one
of my good friends says, It gets
greater later.
Technique: Its very inspiring
to listen to someone speak so passionately about their job.
Benton-Johnson: Its very
rewarding. I dont think I could
see myself doing anything else.
Touching lives. Seeing them. Its
so funny when they get older and
they come back and they have
babies. I think Oh my gosh, I
feel so old.
But its a good thing. Im waiting on that day, when one of my
students brings their child to me,
and theyre in the summer engineering institute, or coming to
Tech as a freshman. Thatll be the
real ahhh moment.

TIPS

FROM PAGE 10

pods. Theres a lot out there, and

it can be a lot to take in. At the
bare minimum, youre going to
need laundry detergent (or, alternatively, the washer pods). Pods
can be good because you know
exactly how many your roommate
borrows, but you can also usually save money by using liquid
laundry detergent.
DRYING
The heat from the dryer can set
a stain and make it permanent. So
always check your clothes before
you put them in the dryer to make
sure nothing has bled onto anything else. Low or no heat should
be reserved for your comforter or
delicates. Dryer sheets arent necessary, but they are recommended.
They help keep your clothes from
building up static electricity and
can make them feel softer. Used
dryer sheets can also be repurposed for many things including
keeping something smelling fresh.
Dont forget to clean the lint trap
in the dryer when youre done (or
before you begin). The lint is very
flammable good to know if you
need a fire starter.
READ THE TAG
If its something new (or something you dont think your mom
would just throw in the washer),
make sure to read the tag. Certain
fabrics dont do well in the washing machine or dryer, and you
might have to take it to a professional dry cleaner if you want it
done without ruining it.
There are also some items
which will need to be air-dried.
The tag will tell you if it should
be hung up or laid flat to dry, and
you should listen. It could cost
you an expensive outfit or, even
worse, a favorite shirt.
Follow these rules, and youre
sure to have all your clothes smelling fresh and clean.

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ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:

Kara Pendley

ASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:

Monica Jamison

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Friday,
September 30, 2016

Photo courtesy of The Illusionists

The Escapologist, Andrew Basso, performs Harry Houdinis great escape. His hands were handcuffed and his feet padlocked in above him as he was immersed upside down and tasked with escape. He spent over three minutes underwater while the tense audience attempted to hold their breath with him.

The Illusionists conjure laughter and mystery

SHOWS

The Illusionists
PERFORMERS: Jeff Hobson,
Dan Sperry, Colin Cloud,
Kevin James, Ben Blaque,
Andrew Basso and Yu Ho-Jin
LOCATION: Fox Theatre
DATE: Sept. 28Oct. 2

OUR TAKE:

KYLE PENINGER

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The captivating Illusionists:
Live From Broadway show has
come to the Fabulous Fox Theater, and audiences are sure to be
amazed. The Illusionists are seven
magicians gathered from all corners of the earth, each with their
own unique style and act. The
Illusionists blend technology,

music and magic to create a oneof-a-kind show that brings both

awe and laughter. The Illusionists
will be performing from Sep. 27
through Oct. 2 at the Fox Theater
in Atlanta.
The Trickster, Jeff Hobson,
a 15-year-veteran of Las Vegas
shows, leads the team of worldclass magicians. His hilarious comedic magic warms up the crowd
from the start and often enlists
members of the audience to play

along in his show of wit and skill.

Next up is the strange Anti- Conjuror, Dan Sperry. Originally
gaining fame through YouTube,
Sperrys shock illusion adds very
eccentric, bizarre and stomachturning acts to the show.
The Manipulator, Yu Ho-Jin,
enthralls the audience with the
elegant slight of hand that won
him Magician of the Year in 2014.
The Deductionist, Colin Cloud,
is a modern day Sherlock Holmes

and mind reader. The Inventor,

Kevin James, treats the audience to acts with science fiction
themes. The Escapologist, Andrew Basso, performs a modern
day Houdini style escape act that
has audiences holding their breath
in anticipation. Finally, The
Weapon Master, Ben Blaque,
shows off his skills with a crossbow in a dangerous exhibition of
marksmanship.
See ILLUSION, page 17

Magnificent 7 reboot misfires despite strengths

FILM

The Magnificent Seven

GENRE: Action
STARRING: Denzel
Washington, Chris Pratt
DIRECTOR: Antoine Fuqua
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE DATE: Sept. 23

OUR TAKE:
FANG SHI

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In a year where cinema and
television alike have been dominated by remakes of everything
from Ben-Hur to Ghost-

busters, Director Antoine Fuquas

The Magnificent Seven serves as
an excellent example of both the
strengths and weaknesses of the
recent trend in blockbuster filmmaking. A remake of Director
Akira Kurosawas landmark 1954
drama Seven Samurai, The
Magnificent Seven goes by way
of Director John Sturges slightly
less substantial 1960 Western reinterpretation.
Fuqua is joined once again
by his Training Day and The
Equalizer leading man, Denzel
Washington, who heads up an
eccentric cast that includes his
Training Day co-star Ethan
Hawke, Chris Pratt (Guardians
of the Galaxy), Peter Sarsgaard
(Jarhead), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
(Cake), Byung-hun Lee (G.I.

Joe) and Martin Sensmeier

(Lilins Brood) in the timeless
story of Sam Chisolm (Washington) and his six gunmen who are
hired to liberate Emma Cullens
hometown of Rose Creek from a
wealthy villainous industrialist.
Kurosawas original historical
epic is a thrilling film that captures the audiences attention for
three hours and sustains its forward momentum even through
an intermission. A demonstration
of technical and narrative virtuosity, Seven Samurai proved to be
a creative watershed for Japanese
film as well as a lasting influence
on cinema at large. In the face of
such a vaunted source material,
Fuquas film is cushioned by a degree of separation: Sturges film,

See SEVEN, page 16

Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures

Oscar winner Denzel Washington (Flight) and stuntman

Gianni Biasetti Jr. (22 Jump Street) defend Rose Creek.

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Isbell & Ritter create immersive Americana experience

CONCERT

Something More Than Free

PERFORMERS: Jason Isbell &
Josh Ritter
LOCATION: Fox Theatre
DATE: Sept. 24

OUR TAKE:
JOSH TREBUCHON

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Jason Isbell and Josh Ritter
kept a packed house at the Fox
Theatre engaged for over three
hours on Sep. 24, treating the audience to classic American narratives, intense swings of emotion
and a uniquely powerful concert
experience.
Isbell, the recent recipient
of the American Music Awards
for album and song of the year,
played an 18-song set accompanied by his band, the 400 Unit,
and by his wife, Amanda Shires,
who normally tours separately.
The group played before three
fake stained glass windows on
a stage enveloped in smoke. For
Decoration Day, a hard-driving tribute to a (fictional) classic
American family blood feud, the
stage-lights turned a fiery red, obscuring the group in a smoky hellish haze, perfectly complementing
Isbells anguished howls, Sadler
Vadens stabbing guitar licks and
the sinister sound of Amanda
Shires fiddle.
Isbell, born in the Shoals of
north Alabama, identifies strongly
with his roots: the influence of the
legendary studios in the area including Muscle Shoals Sound Studios and FAME Studios, where he
worked in his early twenties. Isbell
made himself known on Goddamn Lonely Love, Palmetto

Photo courtesy of Laura Wilson

After opening for Jason Isbell at the Fox Theatre, Josh Ritter will be touring the U.S. through Dec. 3 promoting his new album
Sermon on the Rocks. His songs and instrumental music will be featured in the new John Krasinski movie, The Hollars.

Rose and Super 8. These are

songs that embody the muscle
shoals sound and harken back
to the classic Shoals recordings of
the Rolling Stones and Bob Seger.
During these songs, the audience
could be forgiven for mistaking Isbell and the 400 Unit for Ronnie
Van Zant and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
The most touching moments
of the concert came during love
songs such as Cover Me Up and
Flagship. The former grew from
an acoustic ballad between just
Isbell and his wife into a pounding anthem to love as the rest of
the 400 Unit joined in. Flagship
is a slow serenade featuring only
Isbell, Shires and the keyboardist

Derry DeBorja on the accordion.

On these songs, audience members feel like privileged guests
looking in on the most intimate
moments between Isbell and his
wife. Isbell masterfully dispersed
these slower songs throughout his
set, granting the audience moving
reprieves from the exhilaration of
his other, more intense songs.
Perhaps the only disappointment of the night was that Josh
Ritter, Isbells supporting act,
could not play a longer set. Ritter,
sporting a constant smile and exhibiting palpable humility in telling the audience, Were having a
total ball, played a forty five-minute set, delivering lyrical elegance

packaged with rock-band energy.

He brought the audience to its
feet for the jovial Getting Ready
to Get Down and dark, tragic
masterpiece Henrietta, Indiana.
On dark songs, Ritters passionate vocals were complemented
by the deep thumping of an upright bass to bring the audience to
terror and anguish, while on lighter pieces, his smile and detached
lyrics evoked humor. Playing in
front of a large, abstract mural of
two jagged mounds, one on either
side, Ritter looked as though he
was being physically born of the
earth, emphasizing the connection between his Americana music and the land which inspires it.

the techn

Ritters performance perfectly

complemented Isbells; Ritters
humble smile and Jack Kerouaclike lyrics evoke middle Americana, while Isbells hard-driving
southern rock and Levon Helmlike vocals align with southern
Americana, treating the audience
to two different forms of the genre
in one show. Even the venue was
perfect; one cannot help being
overwhelmed by nostalgia when
entering the Fabulous Fox, an
ideal atmosphere for inherently
nostalgic Americana music.
Altogether, the night was not
merely a great concert, it was an
immersive exploration into the essence of Americana.

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Sutherland for POTUS

TELEVISION

Designated Survivor
NETWORK: ABC
WHEN: Sept. 21
STARRING: Kiefer Sutherland

OUR TAKE:
LAKSHMI RAJU
STAFF WRITER

Bursts of red and blue pierce

the darkness overshadowing the
nations capital on a terrifying and
somber occasion. As D.C. is attacked, Kiefer Sutherland (24)
steps in, not to save the day as Jack
Bauer in 24, but to lead the free
world as Thomas Adam Kirkman,
former Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development and current
president of the United States.
Designated Survivor premiered Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 10
p.m. on ABC. The episode began
with a slow panorama of D.C.
shrouded in the dark, accompanied by foreboding instrumental
music as a text overlay succinctly
defines a designated survivor.
As callous as it sounds, a chosen
Cabinet member is chosen to be
sheltered in a safe location during
the State of the Union and is next
in line for the Presidency.
In the first 30 minutes, the
scenes move swiftly after an explosive terror attack on the Capitol rocks the foundation of the
United States government. The
continuity of government is enacted, and Kirkman is whisked
away to be sworn in wearing his
Cornell sweater, sneakers and
Clark Kent glasses.
Soon after President Kirkman
steps in, he finds himself in the
bathroom vomiting a natural
and real reaction to becoming the

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Kiefer Sutherland (24) returns to television as Tom Kirkman in Designated Survivor as he steps in as President.

most powerful man in the world.

This leads to an embarrassing interaction with speechwriter, Seth
Wright (Kal Penn, House), as
Wright does not realize that it is
Kirkman he is talking to over the
stall and reveals his honest and
very low opinion of Kirkman, saying he has no business running
the country.
The temperate hand of President Kirkman riles many of those
working around him, like the deputy chief of staff and U.S. army
general. His seconds old title in
the Department of Housing and
Urban Development makes him
ripe for gibes against his credentials, experience and constitution
to take upon the presidency.
An added bonus to the list of
characters is the introduction of
Maggie Q (Nikita) as FBI Agent
Hannah Wells who is responsible
for the investigation of the terror
attack. As plot twists go, series
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drama to work with.
What may be a weak subplot
is Kirkmans drugged-out teenage son. With all the action of the
main storyline, this added drama
seems a bit distracting and should
have been waiting in the wings as
a potential story if needed.
Overall, the show boasts an
extraordinary cast, an interesting
plot and has a lot of potential. The
episode introduced many interesting arcs such as conspiracy, terrorism and drug dealing. It was very
fast paced and the production was
alluring the fire and lights in
the middle of the night in the
heart of D.C. made for a very surreal feeling. It is always a pleasure
to see Kiefer Sutherland and Maggie Q on TV, and the intrigue will
keep the audience at the edge of
their seats. Designated Survivor
had a great pilot, and hopefully it
can keep the momentum running
for the rest of the season.

SEVEN

FROM PAGE 14

remembered mostly for Elmer

Bernsteins score and the eventual
success of the then-unknown cast,
including Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Robert Vaughn, transplanted Seven Samurai into a
Western setting. While both films
fail to reach the originals groundbreaking heights, each film displays certain strengths relative to
one another; several of the greatest
strengths of the new film are easy
to see when it is compared to Sturges version.
Before The Magnificent Seven was released, it received significant attention for the diversity
of its cast. In comparison to the
outdated depictions of the Mexican villagers who relied on Yul
Brynner and his band of compatriots to rescue them in Sturges
original, Fuquas new film features
a much more diverse Magnificent
Seven, albeit one that is still entirely male. Rising starlet Haley
Bennett, who has two other bigbudget films coming out this fall,
is delegated to a supporting role as
tough-as-nails widow Emma Cullen, who seeks out the heroes to
save her besieged town.
The film also sidesteps Hollywoods casting problem by hiring
minority actors to play minority
parts; for example, the Comanche
warrior Red Harvest is played by
Sensmeier, an Alaska Native. As a
minority director in a field dominated by white men, Fuqua displays sensitivity toward diversity
that deserves commendation.
Fuquas film also recaptures
much of what made its source material such a pleasure, the humorous machismo-driven camaraderie, deeply-realized atmosphere
of the original. Fuqua and cinematographer, Mauro Fiore, fill
the film with Western flourishes.
Amidst a high-contrast, shadowridden, dusty backdrop, Chisolm
and his comrades ride, shoot and
spin their guns with obvious rel-

ish. Pratt and Washington play to

their strengths, the former putting
his considerable charisma into vivacious gambler Josh Faraday and
the latter playing a weighty hero
similar to his characters in his
other collaborations with Fuqua.
Peter Sarsgaard portrays the
villain, Bartholomew Bogue, an
industrialist who lays siege to a
mining town, creating a purely
evil villain that is a pleasure to
despise. Hawke and DOnofrio
stand out as a haunted Civil War
vet and a slightly deranged tracker
amongst an otherwise forgettable
supporting cast.
Despite all of these strengths,
The Magnificent Seven is ultimately no more than an adequate
Western; an enjoyable summer
blockbuster that fails to live up
to its festival pedigree, and its
weaknesses are directly tied to its
strengths. The plot feels overdone
and the characters, while charming, lack depth.
The story feels predictable and
the motivations hazy; of course
the septet will band together to
defend the town. Outside of Chisolms desire for revenge, it doesnt
feel obvious why any of the Magnificent Seven are fighting at all.
The forward motion of the film
wavers not merely because of its
predictability, but also because
Fuquas direction lacks clarity
and fluidity, particularly in action
scenes where the flow of battle
quickly becomes obscured in favor of stylish embellishments and
small details.
On paper, The Magnificent
Seven seems like a success and
audiences are responding positively to the films combination of star
power and nostalgia. Even though
the film had a successful opening
weekend, one must wonder then if
the film would have worked even
better if it had given its all-star
cast a more original concept rather than bogging the film down
with the history that comes from
its source material.

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ILLUSION

FROM PAGE 14

One of the most fun and engaging acts of the show was
Clouds mind reading act. Cloud
has a degree in forensic investigation, and he uses his skills to read
people and to manipulate them.
He starts by picking two members
of the audience to directly participate, and gives them each a card
with a question to answer.
While the two write down
their secret answers, he engages
the audience with a which hand
is the coin in trick. Then he proceeds to correctly deduce the answer to each of the chosen persons
question. He even manipulates
one of the participants into reading his own mind.
Another fantastic act was that
of The Anti-illusionist. After
poking fun at the classic rabbit in

the hat joke with a unique take of

his own, Sperry performs a special
coin trick. He picks an audience
member to aid him in his cringe
worthy trick of making a coin disappear and reappear somewhere
impossible. He has the participant mark each side of a coin, and
then enlists their help in making
it disappear into his eye socket.
All the while, Sperry is cracking jokes and making fun of the
uncomfortable participant. Then,
in his true fashion, he produces
his magic wand, which happens
to be a knife, and brutally appears
to cut his own arm open to reveal
the coin inside. Seeing the look
on the participants face as Sperry
had her confirm the reality of the
coin sent the audience rolling with
laughter.
On a more serious note, HoJin, The Manipulator, displayed

some of the most refined sleight

of hand ever displayed. Set to an
enchanting track, Ho-Jin gently
and deftly produces cards from
thin air, sometimes causing them
change shape or appearance. He
seems to be able to produce any
number of cards from his fingertips, and can appear to heal torn
cards.
The show was full of spectacular stagecraft, and the audience
participation in many acts helped
to truly engage everyone. People
were kept on their toes throughout the performance. Never before has such a talented group of
magicians been brought together
to form one show, and they live up
to their reputations as some of the
worlds best.
This show is perfect for people
of all ages who want to be amazed
and made to laugh.

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Colin Cloud, The Deductionist, reads the thoughts of the audience as well as those of two
volunteers. Cloud has a background in forensic science and displays his skills spectacularly.

BEST OF

FROM PAGE 1

Many of the food samples were

desserts and coffee. Near and dear
to many Tech students hearts;
Sublime Donuts offered mini
doughnuts, while Octane made
drinks to order. Banjo Cold Brew
also provided caffeine in the form
of their regular cold brew and nitro cold brew.
Cult Carts gave out unique
cotton candy flavors, like carrot
cake and passion fruit. With the
award-winning flavor Nekkid
Espresso and Orange Dream that
revives memories of Dreamsicles,
Revolution Gelato won over ice
cream fanatics with their dairyfree versions.
Throughout the event, performances by the Imperial OPA Circus delighted viewers. From a contortionist on stage and an acrobat
twirling from a cloth hung from
the ceiling inside, to fire-twirling
outside, the performers kept the
event exciting.
The events art was curated by
noted muralist and local art community leader Peter Ferrari. An
art gallery, featuring Yoyo Ferro,
Fahamu Pecou, Niki Zarrabi and
more local artists, was displayed
on the walls of the Freight Depot.
A black light corridor full of
timely work by Fabian Williams
of Occasional Superstar was a
highlight of the night, especially
the pieces critiquing Trump and
police brutality. Some parts of the
exhibit were interactive, with mirrors, hanging streamers to walk
through and a small flashlight
that changed how a box-shaped
painting appeared.

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Three acts stood out throughout the night as showcasing the

unique character of Atlanta.
Candybox Revue, which tied to
win Best Dance Performance,
performed their burlesque show.
Spoken word poets Tawny Powell
and Nate Mask shared their mature, relatable and comedic poetry. Winner for best progressive
pop, CLAVVS entertained with a
sound reminiscent of Banks, and
with the outline of the capitol
building behind them, reminded
the audience of local-grown musical talent.
Though the fortune teller
looked intriguing, lines were long
and slow for that booth. The point
of having food trucks at an event
with so many food samples was
unclear. While the schedule was
posted in the Facebook event, it
would have been helpful to provide it on site.
Since the event was on a Thursday night, turn out could be better if it was held on a weekend in
the future. Additionally, the event
was at the same time as the Tech
football game, so bad traffic could
be avoided by better scheduling.
Overall, this years iteration of
the event was a successful slice of
all that Atlanta offers, from entertainment to food to art, and
delighted both new transplants
and life-long citizens. With tickets starting at $20, the event offered Atlanta specialities to a
wide demographic. This sampler
of crowd-approved culture made
it hard to doubt that Atlanta is
a world-class city. The Best of
Atlanta issue can be read on the
Creative Loafing website.

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SMBC BY ZACH WEINERSMITH

XKCD BY RANDALL MUNROE

SARAHS SCRIBBLES BY SARAH ANDERSEN

IN THE BLEACHERS BY STEVE MOORE

CLASSIC
FOXTROT BY BILL AMEND

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DILBERT BY SCOTT ADAMS

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE BY STEPHEN PASTIS

CUL DE SAC BY RICHARD THOMPSON

LIO BY MARK TATULLI

CLASSIC
CALVIN & HOBBES BY BILL WATTERSON

SUDOKU PUZZLE

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ALI MAC JINKS

CHEERLEADER

WAGES CARROLL

CONTRIBUTING WRITER
When the Jackets play host
at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Saturday, eyes are trained on Paul
Johnsons triple option offense
and opportunistic defense. Yet in
the same confines is another spectacle on the sidelines: that of the
cheerleaders, notable athletes in
their own right.
Ali Mac Jinks joined the cheerleading team during her third year
at Tech. Now in her penultimate
fall on campus, she balances cheer
with a rigorous extracurricular,
social and academic schedule.
She also works as a Georgia
Tech tour guide, is on the LEAD
recruitment team, does speaker
procurement for TEDx Georgia

Photo courtesy of Danny Karnik

Ali Mac Jinks (third from left) cheers alongside her fellow Navy Squad cheerleaders.
The highly involved fourth-year has cheered on the Jackets for the past two seasons.

Tech, is a member of Alpha Delta

Pi, and plans to work at Capital
One following her graduation in
the fall of 2017. The Technique sat
down with Ali Mac to learn more.
Technique: What got you into
cheerleading in the first place?
Jinks: I started in cheering in
middle school. I always had one of
those peppy personalities so it was
kind of an expectation for me to
be a cheerleader, and so I started
in middle school, really liked it,
continued to like it in high school,
but then I didnt know if there was

an opportunity for me to cheer in

college. ... It turned out that there
was a team that I could try out for
when I was a third-year.
Technique: How did you find
out about that opportunity?
Jinks: From friends who were
cheerleaders.
Technique: Do you cheer in
competitions or do you focus on
game-day festivities?
Jinks: I am on the Navy squad,
which is our spirit, no- competition squad. We do gamedays and
appearances.

Technique: What is the practice schedule like on average?

Jinks: For the team that Im
on, we practice Tuesdays and
Thursdays for 2.5 hours, so five
hours a week, but the Gold and
White squads, which are the skill
squads, have Sunday practice as
well. They also have morning
workouts two days a week.
Technique: Which cheerleaders travel with sports teams?
Jinks: My team, the Navy
team doesnt, but the Gold team
travels to away games.

Technique: What is your favorite thing about cheerleading?

Jinks: Its a really fun way to
exhibit your school spirit and get
that out of your system.
I know that Georgia Tech
sometimes is not the most fun or
competitively successful place in
terms of athletics, but its still so
fun to go out there and get people
amped because we love our school,
no matter what.
Technique: What is your least
favorite aspect of cheerleading?
Jinks: Either when a game
ends or noon games, because we
have to be at the stadium really
early for Yellow Jacket Alley.
Technique: What is your favorite memory from cheering on
the Jackets?
Jinks: Cheering the Florida
State game last year. Although
sometimes I dont understand all
the rules because when Lance was
returning the blocked field goal,
I was wondering, The time ran
out, why is he still running? Thats
not allowed!
And then all of a sudden, we
won and I was thought Holy shit,
this is so awesome!
Technique: If there was one
piece of advice you could give
to someone thinking about becoming a Tech cheerleader, what
would it be?
Jinks: I would say do it. I
think that with our cheerleading
program, theres opportunities for
a lot of different people.
You dont have to have to be
the best tumbler or you dont have
to have certain skills. If you have
passion about our school, then
thats enough to be a cheerleader.

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Key plays define early direction of Tech season

CASEY MILES

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

A third of the season is
through and Techs 3-1 record is
very far from telling the story of
the season so far.
First of all, by no means is
Techs chance of winning the
Coastal Division of the ACC
gone. However, based on their
performance this year, the Jackets
have a tough road ahead.
This season can be summed
up into three key moments. In
the Boston College game, it was
the 4th and 19 pass from senior
quarterback Justin Thomas to
sophomore A-back Qua Searcy to
keep the miraculous fourth quarter drive alive.
On a drive that looked like
it was destined to stall, Thomas
stepped up and made a play to
keep Tech in the game. The momentum it provided was unquestionable. Moreover, it proved that
the 2016 Tech offense was capable
of moving the ball downfield, if
only in spurts.
The most important point
in the Vanderbilt game came
from the defense on a 4th and
1. Vanderbilt received the ball to
start the second half and was driving down the field looking to force
its way back into the game.
Down 10 points and on Techs
28-yard line, the Commodores
decided to go for the first down
with one yard left. However, the
Jackets defense would not allow
Vanderbilts needed momentum.
The defensive line broke
through the backfield and stopped
sophomore running back Khari
Blasingame for no gain. This stop
proved to be a huge turning point
as the Jackets proceeded to run
away with the game from there.

The pivotal play against Clemson was also perhaps the most
memorable for Tech fans. With
two minutes left in the first half
and Clemson leading 14-0, Ted
Roofs defense did what it needed
to do most: force a turnover.
Unfortunately, that success
was extremely short lived as junior defensive back Lance Austin proceeded to run the ball a
couple yards out of the end zone
and fumble it back into the end
zone for a safety. While the result wasnt the most points Tech
couldve given up on the play, it
was extremely deflating and made
what could have been a two-posession contest one that was out of
hand by halftime.
The most common rhetoric being used to describe the Jackets is
that it is slowly building up like
the 2014 team did. That still seems
to be the perfect description.
In 2014, the Jackets suffered
two tough losses in a row to Duke
and UNC. This year, Tech is coming off a crushing loss to Clemson
in which the offense was dismantled. Hopes may be bleak right
now, but Tech has been in this
situation before.
Unfortunately for Tech, the
saving grace that is usually the
triple option has looked shaky this
year. In their first two games last
year, a season many want to forget, the Jackets scored 134 points.
This year, Tech hasnt even broken
into the triple digits through four
games, putting them towards the
bottom of nation in scoring.
The best offensive game this
year, against Vanderbilt, can
be seen as a fluke right now. It
doesnt matter how good a defense
is, the biggest thing that shuts
down Techs offense is a smart defense; Boston College and Clemson both displayed that in their

Photo by Mark Russell Student Publications

Dedrick Mills scores after scoring a touchdown against Vanderbilt. The freshman B-back has gotten off to a fast start, shouldering much of the load in a Tech offense that is yet to reach its ceiling.

games against the Jackets. Showing discipline against the option is

the key to stopping it.
The offensive lines inexperience has displayed itself in ineffective blocking, preventing the
running backs from being able to
get the ball rolling. If Tech wants
to succeed in moving forward,
Coach Paul Johnson and the offense will have to open more holes
against the run.
Too much of the load on offense is being put on Thomas.
Two years ago, when the Jackets
went 11-3 and won the Orange
Bowl against Mississippi State,
Thomas had other tools on the
offense to help him out, the big-

gest one being the great blocking

done by the offensive line, which
allowed for Tech to run the ball
inside to open up the outside for
the triple option.
Although the offensive situation seems dire, the defense
provides hope for better times;
defensive coordinator Ted Roofs
bend-but-do-not-break defense
has bent quite a bit, but rarely
broken.
In most years under Johnson
and Roof, the implicit agreement
has been that the offense will control games and the defense will
play average football. The tables
have turned. Looking back, if this
season is to be like the success seen

in 2014, Tech will have to look at

its turnover margin. So far this
season, Tech has a zero turnover
margin. In 2014, the turnover
margin was +11 according to cfbstats.com. Furthermore, through
the months of August and September, that number was already
at +3.
One thing is very clear: Tech
thrives on forcing turnovers. It allows the defense to rest and puts
the offense on the field to keep
burning clock. If Tech wants to
recover from this brutal home loss
against Clemson, theyll need to
work on blocking at all three levels and forcing turnovers while on
the other side of the ball.

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CASEY MILES

ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

It isnt even the spring season and it already seems like
Tech baseball is heading in the
wrong direction. This past Tuesday it was announced that Head
Coach Danny Halls contract had
been extended by five years to go
through to 2021.
In the article on ramblinwreck.com, its mentioned that
Hall ranks 28th in career wins
in Division I baseball; however, it
seems that Tech is more focused
on what Hall has done in his early
years at Tech than his most recent
campaigns in Atlanta.
The problem with the stats
surrounding Hall is that they are
extremely inflated from when he
first started coaching at Tech, 12
years ago in 1994.
In his first 12 years at Tech,
Hall managed to make it to the
College World Series (CWS) three
times, quite the impressive feat.
However, when you look at the
past 10 years of his work, signing
Hall for half a decade seems more
and more like a mistake.

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Since placing seventh at the

2006 CWS, Hall has failed to
guide the Jackets past the regional
round of the NCAA tournament.
In two of those years, the team
failed to qualify and in another
four (all in a row), the regional
was hosted here at Tech with the
Jackets as the number one seed.
I can understand not making it
far in the tournament every year;
after all, down years are expected.
However strong starts have to
materialize into something more
down the stretch, a phenomenon
that has not happened under Hall.
Another thing to address is
Halls first year at Tech, in which
he guided the team to a second
place finish at the CWS, the best
ever at Tech. While some of the
praise definitely goes to Hall, it
seems that more of it should go to
his predecessor, Jim Morris.
After all, the players who
played under Hall that year were
all recruited by Morris. Nomar
Garciaparra? Jason Varitek? These
players were Morris recruits. Hall
was the beneficiary of a solid
foundation to begin with.
The most important thing to
see in a coach and a team is improvement. Hall has failed to
show that over his 23 seasons at
Tech. In fact, his winning percentage has dropped since he first
started. Some of that can be credited to his fast start, but no one
would confuse last years Jackets
with a College World Series contender. Responsibility must fall
upon the coach.
In his first five years at Tech he
boasted a 0.682 winning percentage, while he has posted a 0.587

Photo by Michael Schneider Student Publications

Danny Hall looks on during a baseball game. While Hall experienced success towards the
beginning of his career, his teams relative mediocrity as of late makes his extension questionable.

in his past five years on the Flats,

a noticeably poorer mark.
The final grievance against
Hall and his program is his recruitment and care for pitchers. College baseball is gradually
shifting towards a focus on good
pitchers in general, yet Hall is still
set in stone on his more hitting focused style.
After the introduction of BBCOR bats it was plain to see that
the power of the pitcher increased,
and even with changes to the size
of the seams on the ball, pitchers are still the lynchpin holding
teams together.
In addition, it seems that every
year, multiple pitchers are hurting their arms, rendering them

temporarily unable to contribute

to the teams success. In a period
where it seems that every pitcher
worth his salt is getting Tommy
John surgery, college coaches are
expected to develop and maintain
a deep rotation. Halls pitchers
ability diminishes in value if they
succumb to injury.
Because of all of this, I can
understand signing Hall on for
another year or two; that would
make sense as a sort of final warning for him to improve or get out.
Instead, he is signed on for another five years after a decade of
wallowing in mediocrity relative
to the ACC and Tech baseball.
Perhaps the most disappointing part of this decision is that

it was made in between former

Athletic Director (AD) Mike Bobinskis departure and new AD
Mike Stansburys hiring. The role
of interim Athletic Director Paul
Griffin should have been handling day-to-day operations and
ensuring that all was in place for
a smooth transition. It should not
have been to saddle Stansbury
and Tech athletics with Hall for
another five years.
Make no mistake: I have high
hopes for Tech baseball this season, and they no doubt have the
talent to make a serious impact in
the conference and NCAA. Until it happens though, this move
should be viewed with a healthy
portion of skepticism.

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Documenting an athletics era: Danny Karnik

HARSHA SRIDHAR
SPORTS EDITOR

When Danny Karnik got the

camera as a gift, he didnt think
much of it.
It was fall 2007, his last autumn as a Tech undergraduate,
balancing a demanding Electrical Engineering course load with
a social life and a job search.
However, he loved sports and decided it would not hurt to take a
few pictures. He made his way to
the front of the student section,
armed with a camera, and clicked
away. He was hooked.
Some of the football players
had seen some of my pictures,
and they were like, Oh, man,
you should go talk to [the
Georgia Tech Athletic Association (GTAA), so I went to talk to
the Athletic Association, but they
said they had people to help them.
... They turned me away the first
time, Karnik said.
Undergraduate studies ended,
and graduate classes at Tech started, but Karnik kept shooting pictures. His season tickets put him
in the front row of the end zone,
right next to the student section.
For three years, Karnik documented moment after moment in
Tech football history, building a
portfolio that grew more impressive by the day. He was ready to
make his pitch to the Athletic Association again.
Eventually, I found the right
person to talk to ... and showed
him my work. They were interested in giving me a shot.
After more than half a decade
in the Bobby Dodd stands, the
Fayetteville, Ga., local was ready
to cover the Jackets like a professional photographer: from field
level. The memories of his first
game as a GTAA photographer,

Photo by Sara Schmitt Student Publications

Danny Karnik is typically on the other side of the lens. The GTRI researcher and Georgia Tech
Athletic Associations official photographer has captured events from 90 venues worldwide.

working alongside the players

themselves, remain strong.
To be down next to those
guys, you know, youve obviously
had classes with them, Karnik
said. To see them in their full
pads and stuff is sort of intimidating. You can actually hear Coach
[Paul Johnson] yelling on the sideline. You just kinda get a different
experience down there.
The first picture I took was
the Wreck coming out. To have
that ... kind of driving straight
at you is pretty cool. ... I actually
have that picture hanging on my
wall. It worked out to where it was
a good picture where the banner
wasnt stuck to it. ... It was perfectly clear, a nice, sunny day,

Karnik said, detailing that first

moment photographing the Jackets with credentials.
That picture has its place in
Karniks memories, as do many
others. Ask him about a picture,
and he traces it to a moment.
A picture of Tech defensive
back Lance Austin returning a
blocked field goal for a touchdown
against Florida State brings to his
mind more than just the shocking
Jackets victory.
He remembers switching camera lenses three times during the
play, pinning himself against the
wall as Austin and his brother ran
towards him, hoping all the while
that in the midst of the chaos, he
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tensity of the moment. Moments

later, he did.
I had to run around and get
pictures of what was going on on
the field. I didnt even realize what
had happened, Karnik said with
a smile. I knew we blocked it; I
didnt realize who had blocked it,
though, because I hadnt had time
to look back at the pictures.
... I saw Adam [Gotsis] was
... emotional, so I was like, Oh,
maybe Adam blocked it, so I was
kinda getting some pictures of
him. Then I saw Pat[rick Gamble]
was kinda emotional, so I got pictures of him too. ... It turns out
Pat was the one who blocked it,
Karnik said of his thought process
during the FSU game.

Techs overtime win against

Georgia the previous year was
Karniks best attempt to follow
Michael Jordans legendary flu
game. He took pictures while
suffering from a fever, ignoring
the symptoms as best as he could.
Techs Orange Bowl win
against Mississippi State in January 2015 led to what he considers
his best photo ever, one he can describe without even looking at it.
Synjyn Days looks on victoriously
atop a platform as fireworks erupt
behind him. The perfect ending to
an almost perfect season, immortalized.
Walking across the 5th Street
bridge as a new year began after
a flight home from a bowl game.
The businesslike atmosphere on
the team plane on the way to
games. The jubilance in the Jackets locker room after a key win.
These images stick with Karnik
more than any box score does.
His work spans beyond football. He takes photos for each and
every Tech sport sanctioned by the
NCAA, from basketball where
Techs McCamish Pavilion apparently provides superior lighting
than UGAs Stegeman Coliseum
to volleyball the hardest to
shoot because of its fast-paced action and sometimes difficult camera angles.
He is a familiar face at Jackets
athletic events of every type and
often keeps in touch with Tech
athletes after they leave campus.
Ive shot in about 90 venues
in 34 cities in 24 states in two
countries, and Ive probably submitted more than 280,000 photos to the Athletic Association,
Karnik said.
How long does he plan on taking photos for the Athletic Association?
As long as theyll let me keep
doing it.

Sports

After a brutal defeat to the Clemson Tigers, Tech will look to rebound this weekend against the Hurricanes. Tech is coming off the worst offensive performance in
Coach Paul Johnsons nine-year tenure and
it doesnt appear to get any easier going up
against a talented but inexperienced Miami
defense. Coach Johnson is 2-6 against the
Miami Hurricanes, with both wins coming
at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
In last years matchup, a non-Justin
Thomas led offense had 314 rushing yards
against Miami. However, Tech was doomed
by their four turnovers. For the Jackets to
be successful, theyre going to have to win
the battle on the perimeter and force Miamis young linebacker core and secondary
to outplay them.
Miamis veteran O-line will present a
challenge to the Jacket defense as Tech has
had issues rushing the passer this year. A
matchup to watch will be junior defensive
end Antonio Simmons vs senior offensive
tackle Sunny Odogwu. Simmons has proven himself to be Techs most reliable pass
rusher through four games. That is especially important given junior KeShun Free-

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mans slow, injury-hampered start and the

major role of quarterback pressure.
Miamis offense is their strength and the
Tech defense will have to play at a high level
to win. Even if Tech defense does not rack
up three-and-outs routinely, it will have
to force turnovers and make stands in key
spots more than once.
Coach Johnson has historically given
his offensive assistants leeway to direct positional focuses during practice, but he has
taken a more assertive role after last weeks
poor showing at home, courtesy of AJC.
com. His guidance could be key.
The lone bright spot offensively against
Clemson was freshman running back Dedrick Mills. A steady dose of Mills and big
plays on the outside could be all Tech needs
to get back on track this weekend.
Miami and former UGA Head Coach
Mark Richt has never lost a game in Bobby
Dodd Stadium, but he wont be coaching
the team from Athens this time around.
Tech needs a win badly against a surging
Canes squad if they want to keep their
goal to win the Coastal Division alive. It is
within their grasp.

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New Miami head coach Mark Richt

and his Hurricanes enter this game with
a 3-0 record and ranked as the No. 14
team in the country. The Hurricanes are
coming off a bye week, thus having extra
time to prepare for Techs offense.
Offensively, the Hurricanes currently
have the nations No. 6 scoring offense
and are No. 2 in yards per play. Over
their first three games, Miami averages
51 points per game and 8.29 yards per
play, courtesy of CFBStats.com. However, Miami has yet to play a team from
a Power Five conference; Tech will be its
first test.
Leading the way for the Hurricanes
is junior quarterback Brad Kaaya. Kaaya
will be making his third start against
Tech; he passed for 300 yards in last
years 38-21 win against the Jackets.
Kayaa has 694 passing yards and seven
TDs through the air this season. The
budding passer is surrounded by equally
talented skill position players.
Sophomore running back Mark
Walton has been Miamis most impressive player so far this season. Walton

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leads the team with 401 rushing yards

and seven touchdowns. Walton ran for
two touchdowns in last years matchup
against the Jackets.
This past offseason Miami suffered a
major blow to their defense, with the dismissal of Jermaine Grace and Al-Quadin
Muhammad. Grace and Muhammad
were arguably Miamis two best defensive players and depth on the defense will
be a concern for the Hurricanes. Despite
losing two key players, Miami is currently the No. 1 ranked scoring defense,
allowing just 7.7 points per game. Miami
is also are allowing the fewest yards per
play in the country at 3.10.
Miamis best defensive player is
6-foot-6 junior defensive end Chad
Thomas. Thomas leads the Canes in
sacks and his speed on the perimeter can
be game changing for Miami.
Even with impressive defensive numbers, Miamis depth is a major question
mark. They are starting three true freshman at linebacker and has replaced four
of their top seven defensive backs from
last year. They will be tested Saturday.

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