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NEWS SPORTS

No opposition to Gillon, Aladesanmi Men’s hoops season

DAVID RAJI
MANAGING EDITOR
comes to an end
This year’s Student Gov-
ernment Association (SGA)
election cycle is bound to
the fact that the undergrad-
uate executive campaign of
Evan Gillon and Ayo Alade-
sanmi is going unopposed
by a single other ticket.
“ ... For president and
VP — because it is such a
visible position — I was re-
ally shocked that there was
only one person trying to
run,” said Reagan John-
son, SGA elections chair.
“And the only thing that I
can really think of is maybe
there’s some sort of chang-
ing culture happening
on campus.
“Maybe a lot of people
don’t see SGA as the avenue
for creating change on cam-
pus,” she continued. “I don’t
completely disagree with
that standpoint. I think
there’s lots of other great av-
enues to really change what
people feel like is missing
from Georgia Tech campus
and I think maybe with this
particular group of students
that that might be the case,
that maybe they just don’t
see SGA as the right place
to start making change.”
There was one other pro-
spective ticket, to be osten-
sibly composed of presiden-
tial candidate Zara Farooq
and vice presidential can-
didate Hannah Shotwell.
It encountered obstacles:
Their application was sub-
mitted after the deadline
for executive tickets, result-
ing in the proposal of a bill
to extend the deadline. The
bill was passed after a sev-
eral-day discussion period
involving multiple branches
of SGA.
According to Johnson,
the decision on whether to
allow the extension took
an extended period of time
to resolve due to the na-
ture of it being untrodden
ground that SGA had not
Photo by Casey Gomez Student Publications
SGA executive candidates Evan Gillon and Ayo
Aladesanmi answer questions at a UHR meeting.
come across before in re-
cent memory. She said that
Dean of Students and Vice
President of Student Life
John Stein stated that it
was not something that had
happened during his time
at Tech.
See ELECTION, page 4
JOHN EDWARDS
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Tech basketball’s long
and tumultuous season
came to an undignified end
Tuesday as the Jackets fell
to Boston College 87-77 in
the first round of the ACC
tournament.
The Jackets did not go
quietly, attempting a second
half comeback after trailing
by as much as 20 points late
in the second half, but the
Eagles kept the Jackets at
bay and held on to make
it out of the first round of
the ACC Tournament for
the first time since 2015.
Without any hope of either
an NIT or NCAA postsea-
son bid, the Jackets’ disas-
trous 2017-2018 season has
reached its conclusion.
After a frantic begin-
ning, Boston College
stepped on the gas and took
a large lead over the Jackets.
While the Jackets were able
to keep pace, the Eagles
dictated the tempo of the
game and kept a lead out of
reach for most of the game.
Ky Bowman and ACC
leading scorer Jerome Rob-
inson combined for 45
points for the Eagles, and
Boston College’s Nik Popo-
vic could not be contained
by fellow big man Ben
Lammers, scoring 20 while
picking up five boards in
what would turn out to be
his last ever game in white
and gold.
See HOOPS, page 19
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three days before. The stadium
manager stated that he could not
find a golf cart at the stadium that
had been damaged from the gate.
The following day, an officer
contacted the stadium manager
with some news. Upon detailed
review of the video footage, the
officer saw that it was two Sodexo
Catering employees that had done
the damage.
The passenger of the golf cart
got out in order to open the roll-
up gate, operated by a button.
The driver began to approach the
POLLY OUELLETTE gate, but something fell near his
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR feet. The driver bent to retrieve
the item, the golf cart accelerated
GATE CRASHERS and the cart and driver crashed
On Feb. 20, an officer was sent into the gate.
to Gate 6 of Bobby Dodd Stadi- The roll-up gate seemed to still
um because dispatch had received be functional, but ceased func-
a report of damage to the gate. tioning the following day.
The officer spoke with the The general manager of Sodexo
stadium manager, who advised was contacted, and he provided
that the damage to the slide up the names of the individuals in-
gate door was estimated to total volved in the accident.
$20,000. Video footage was cap- Several days later, the stadium
tured of a golf cart hitting the gate manager was contacted and in-
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News will include coverage
of different aspects of bills
and resolutions that have passed
through Student Government. This
will include the Undergraduate
House of Representatives, Graduate
Student Senate and the Executive
Branch of both government bodies.
CASEY MILES
NEWS EDITOR
BILL SUMMARY
BILL AMOUNT GSS UHR
Club Volleyball Nat’l Tournament $1,620.16 19-0-0 30-0-2
Cricket Club Tournament $275 19-0-0 30-0-2
Bhangra Nach Ke Dikha $1,714.25 19-0-0 30-0-2
PSA Super Sixes $196 19-0-0 30-0-2
Protocall App for Counseling $9,950 21-0-0 32-0-1
Welltrack App Funding $11,250 21-0-1 32-0-0
Greek Week TUG $4,000 5-11-0 25-6-1
Project Africa Conference $1,632 15-0-0 29-0-0
Taste of China 2018 $3,035 13-1-0 28-0-1
Mental Health JAC Appeals n/a 14-0-0 32-0-0
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let’s go Atlanta United
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MAKE THAT MONEY and then GET A HOUSE
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formed that Sodexo would foot the young man stated no. Based that she needed space and did not
the bill for the damage. The man- on his biological indicators, the want to be in contact with him.
ager indicated that he did not EMTs thought otherwise. They She said that he would get
want to prosecute the driver of the told him that his heart rate was angry and “emotionally abusive”
destructive vehicle. unnaturally high, and he admit- when he saw or heard about her
ted to taking “something” earlier spending time with other people.
HARDCORE PARKOUR in the evening. The young woman had blocked
A few minutes after midnight The individual soon became him on all social media plat-
on Feb. 17, an officer responded to incapable of forming coherent forms, but the individual would
a call to Center Street Apartments sentences. He did not know the not stop trying to contact her via
in reference to an injured person date, the name of the current family members.
call. The caller said that the in- president or the name of his fa- When she told him she no lon-
jured individual jumped down a ther. The student was transported ger wanted him in her life, the
stairwell and fell about 15 feet. to the hospital. young man replied with “If I die
Upon making contact with the tomorrow, you are going to regret
individual, who was a Tech stu- UNFOLLOW ME this” and made similar threats
dent, the officer noticed a strong On Feb. 20, an officer met a about his mental health.
odor reminiscent of alcoholic female Tech student in the GTPD The young woman stated that
beverages emanating from his station who claimed that she was she was afraid for her safety.
person. The student was plastered being stalked by a male Tech stu- The male student was issued a
in blood, scrapes and bruises. He dent. “no contact order” and met with
was extremely disoriented. The The young woman stated that Dean Stephanie Ray, who said
student slurred his words and at- while she originally had an amica- that he denied the allegations of
tempted to mount the medical ble relationship with the individu- stalking. After evaluation by a
gurney backwards. al, the interactions quickly devel- professional at the Counseling
An ambulance from Grady oped into stalking and repeated Center, it was determined that he
Hospital arrived to assess the emotional abuse. The young man was not a threat to himself or any-
patient. When asked if he had would wait outside her classroom one else. He has not violated the
taken any substances or drugs, or dorm room after she told him no contact order since.
TUG-OF-WAR pus or on frat-owned beach volley- entered the floor for the bill to be
This week the Greek Program- ball courts. cut in half.
ming Board (GPB) approached Even after assurance from After discussion on that mo-
SGA with a bill for the hole to be the org rep and other reps in the tion, which failed, a rep stood
dug for TUG, the annual event house, some felt that there had to up and reminded all others in
that takes place during Greek be alternatives that the GPB had the house that they needed a
Week. The hole is to be 100 feet yet to explore that could provide large amount of yes votes to pass
long, six feet deep, three feet wide an equivalent TUG experience. and that some should consider if
and dug in the IC lawn. First, reps asked why the hole $2,000 was better than nothing if
Discussion arose around the needed to be re-dug every year. the bill ultimately failed to pass at
fact that GSS had failed the The response was that the hole is its original value.
bill, meaning that for the bill to huge and would be a large liability Because of this, the earlier
pass UHR needed over 73 percent to the Institute if left all year long. motion was reconsidered. Dur-
yes votes. Next, reps asked about alterna- ing this second life of the motion
Questions were originally
raised by reps on why the event
tives to holes being dug, but the
argument of tradition and rules
more questions were asked about
the funding of GPB, who were
required a hole to be dug in the put in place by Tech stymied approaching with this bill due to
ground, especially of such a large that line. TUG being cut from their FY18
size. The org rep and other reps After questions for the org rep budget by SGA.
in the house repeatedly defended were finished the house moved to Ultimately, the arguments
the hole throughout the debate as a long-winded discussion on their came down to the add-value of
“tradition” and explained the pol- thoughts and any modifications the program. Since the Greek
icy Tech has regarding the event. to the bill that might be made to community on campus is in the
According to the org rep, make it more likely to pass. thousands of students and the bill
Greek orgs competing in the event Several reps, even those not in was not for a prohibitive amount
practice for months beforehand Greek organizations, shared their of money the reps felt the value
and are not allowed to practice on life-changing experiences they de- per student was too good to pass
any grassy surface for fear of de- rived from seeing TUG in person. up. Because of this the bill passed
stroying the ground. Because of Their efforts to sway the other reps 25-6-1, with just enough yes votes
this, most either practice off cam- seemed to be in vain, as a motion to grant the $4,000 to GPB.
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GA Congressional bills affecting Tech cross over
POLLY OUELLETTE
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
An annual legislative event
called “Crossover Day” was held
on Feb. 28 and is the last day for
bills to cross from one chamber of
the Georgia congress to another.
Several bills that crossed over
from the Senate to the House of
Representatives, or vice versa, will
impact Tech students if passed.
One bill that came to the at-
tention of Tech students earlier
this semester was Senate Bill 339,
which establishes policies of free
expression on college campuses
and establishes the penalties if
these policies are violated. This
bill passed 33-19 in a Senate vote
on Feb. 26. It was assigned to the
House Judiciary Committee and
is currently under review.
Another of concern to the Tech
community is Senate Bill 348
(SB348). This legislation would
decrease the jurisdiction of cam-
pus police departments from 500
yards beyond the border of cam-
pus to 500 feet. The bill revises
the powers of police departments
in the Technical College System
of Georgia.
The debate of this bill comes at
a time when the Tech community
has experienced a rash of crimes
in the Home Park neighborhood,
which borders campus to the
north. Police patrol are permitted
to make arrests in the area of this
neighborhood that is within their
jurisdiction. Five hundred feet is
about the length of two blocks.
SB348 was passed in the Sen-
ate with a vote of 48 to 1. It has
been assigned to the House’s Pub-
lic Safety Committee.
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For in-state students who do
not qualify for the HOPE or Zell
Miller merit-based scholarships,
Senate Bill 405 could be ben-
eficial. It intends to establish a
grant program for students with
financial need. The bill estab-
lishes the criteria that the student
must meet in order to receive and
keep the grant, and it outlines
the procedure for distributing the
$1,500 grants.
The bill was passed 44-5 in the
Senate and it has been assigned to
the House Committee of Higher
Education.
Senate Bill 315 is concerned
with defining a new crime; with
its passage, unauthorized comput-
er access would be made illegal. It
provides that anyone convicted of
password disclosure or unauthor-
ized computer access will be “pun-
ished for a misdemeanor of a high
and aggravated nature,” according
to the language of the bill.
The bill passed in the Senate
with a vote of 41-11 and assigned
to the House’s Judiciary Commit-
tee.
More financially-focused bill is
House of Representatives Bill 683
which makes and provides for ap-
propriations in the state fiscal year,
which began on July 1, 2017 and
ends on June 30, 2018. The bill
specifically deals with appropria-
tions from public funds that will
be spent in relation to the Uni-
versity System of Georgia (USG).
The House voted and accepted
an amendment to the bill that was
proposed by the Senate.
For each of the bills, if both
chambers approve the language
it contains, the next step in the
process is review by Governor Na-
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ELECTION FROM PAGE 1

“It was something that was really
new that we didn’t know how to
handle,” Johnson said. “There’s
not anything about it in the elec-
tions code. There’s nothing about
it in the SGA rules and even UJC
really hasn’t dealt with a situation
like this before. So, in the future
we’re hoping that we’ll be able
to put some provisions in place
to at least give some guidelines
about what steps to take on this
problem. This problem may occur
in the future. But we really kind
of had to make it up as we went
along this time.”
If the bill had not been passed,
Gillon and Aladesanmi would
have been the de facto winners
due to the lack of contest. And
now, irrespective of the bill,
they are. Soon after the
extension bill was passed,
Zara dropped her campaign,
citing “personal issues.”
In any case, while it was nomi-
nally intended to allow for an
election application extension
due to concerns that the window
had been shortened, the bill did
become a sort of proxy for debate
around whether an unopposed ex-
ecutive ticket should be allowed to
stand, according to Johnson.
“ ... I don’t think it was neces-
sarily a referendum against Evan,
but a referendum against, ‘Are
we really going to let one team
run unopposed and unchecked?’”
she said in regards to the discus-
sion on the bill. “And my original
intention — and Richard who
wrote the original bill to extend
the deadline for UHR applica-
tions — our intention for extend-
ing it wasn’t because we thought
that it was going to be unopposed
or something like that, but be-
cause we changed up the elections
this year.
“It was a three week window
for applications instead of four,”
Johnson explained. “And after see-
ing that a lot of people still didn’t
know that applications were open,
we felt that was a little unfair. And
that’s why we extended UHR.
“So when Daniel approached
us about extending it for presi-
dent and VP as well ... we hadn’t
thought of that, but that makes a
lot of sense, we support this deci-
sion,” Johnson continued. “But
once it started being discussed in
UHR it turned from, ‘oh we’re
changing this because it lengthens
the elections application window
that had been shortened for what-
ever reason this year’ to ‘should we
be letting a team run unopposed,
yes or no?’”
In discussing further how a po-
tentially changing culture might
be affecting students’ enthusiasm
for participating in SGA, John-
son articulated that perhaps steps
need to be taken in order to intro-
duce students more gradually to
the organization. She described
how one possible avenue to get-
ting a greater degree of involve-
ment was an increased focus on
SGA’s committees.
“After elections are over, the
new president and VP pick their
cabinet, and then the cabinet peo-
ple help pick the committee chairs
under them ... those committee
chairs are recruiting and trying to
get people to join their commit-
tees — I think that’s something
that really needs a really big push
next year,” Johnson said. “Just
making sure that people are get-
ting involved in SGA in a pretty
noncommittal way, because serv-
ing on a committee you’re maybe
going to a meeting two or three
times a month. And I think that’s
a really good way to start seeing
what SGA is about.
“Learning some of the rules,
maybe even sitting in on some of
the UHR meetings if something
concerning your committee comes
up in UHR. And I think that will
really get people who were a little
bit more hesitant about participat-
ing in SGA used to what the orga-
nization is about.”
Gillon and Aladesanmi take
questions from undergraduates
CASEY MILES
NEWS EDITOR
On Tuesday, March 7, the sole
team running for SGA president
and vice president sat down for the
Technique’s annual presidential
debate. The candidates, third-year
PUBP Evan Gillon and third-year
ECON Ayo Aladesanmi were the
only team to apply for SGA presi-
dent and vice president, respec-
tively, turning what is usually a
debate into a question and answer
session with the undergraduate
population.
The event was led off with a
small opening statement from
Gillon before a few pre-prepared
questions were asked.
“Our slogan is ‘Commit-
ted to Action,’ what we mean by
that is that we’re trying to de-
viate from previous years and
focusing on changes that fit
within SGA’s scope as an organi-
zation, that are sustainable and
implementable,” Gillon said.
The seven pre-prepared ques-
tions broached topics including
the recent rideshare bill that failed
in GSS, the inclusivity of SGA
and the diversity, or lack thereof,
within the candidates’ campaign.
After answering these, most
of which were met with talk of
campus culture shifts and the fact
that they would be filling their
cabinet with a diverse set of stu-
dents, the floor was opened to the
audience to ask the candidates
their questions.
Students raised questions sur-
rounding the success of current
initiatives Gillon and Aladesanmi
have participated in this year, spe-
cifically increasing the student use
of open forum at the beginning of
UHR. As speaker pro tempore,
Aladesanmi has a significant role
in spreading awareness about
open forum, a role the student
who asked the question said was
not handled successfully.
“So, I will say that going into
this role and having the new re-
sponsibility of being the manager
of open forum has taken a lot of
creative thinking and problem-
solving ways that we can improve
attendance,” Aladesanmi said. “I
will say that the biggest problem
with open forum attendance is the
culture that SGA is not really an
approachable organization, solely
because students might not know
what they do.”
Aladesanmi’s response was in-
dicative of many of the answers
the duo provided: that the cul-
ture surrounding SGA needed
to be changed.
More concerns were raised to-
wards the candidates’ plans of re-
structuring SGA, specifically the
speed and feasibility of what the
project entails.
“I do think that depending
on the type of policy that’s in
Evan Gillon and Ayo Aladesanmi answered questions from
the undergraduate student population about their platform.
restructuring we can move more
quickly,” Gillon said. “So, if it’s
a change that’s just affecting the
undergraduate students then we
can move much more quickly.
This is an important conversation
to have to discover how we can
be more efficient and certainly it
will take some more time to ad-
just to that new structure, but
we do think that with time it
will end up being a much more
efficient process.”
The Q&A session finished
with a question about waste usage
by the university and what Gillon
and Aladesanmi would do to in-
crease sustainability on campus.
The pair answered with language
very similar to that found in the
“Committed to Sustainability”
section of their platform.
Gillon and Aladesanmi’s
platform can be found at evana-
yo2018.com. Voting for the ex-
ecutive ticket and undergraduate
representatives is open from Fri-
day March 9 to Thursday, March
15 and can be accessed at elec-
tions.gatech.edu.
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OUR VIEWS | Consensus Opinion

The necessity of knowing what actions are committed to

An uncontested SGA ticket requires significantly more scrutiny
The presidential elections for
SGA this year cannot really be con-
sidered one. Evan Gillon and Ayo
Aladesanmi are running uncon-
tested for the position of president
and vice president respectively, and
so find themselves in an unusual
situation. Elections are meant to
provide students with an avenue to
give power to who they believe best
represents their interests, but the
lack of candidates this year mean
that students are left without even
an illusion of choice. Evan and Ayo
are going to have to step up to ac-
tively represent the interests of the
student body, instead of smaller in-
terest groups.
At face value, that itself presents
a challenge: both are male, Greek,
Ivan Allen College students and
part of the same fraternity. Both
even attended the same high school.
They are representative of a small
fraction of the student body, an issue
that SGA’s Undergraduate House of
Representatives (UHR) also suffers
from. In some ways, much of the
student body would have a right to
feel alienated or unaware of what
SGA does and the power they have,
which could be partly to blame for
the lack of candidates for presiden-
tial and representative elections.
They may reach out to students
during campaign season, but once
it is over, most departments and
schools do not hear from their reps.
Many students are unaware of who
their representatives are, or what
they do in UHR. Open forum at
UHR, during which students are al-
lowed to come in and talk, generally
sees low attendance. It is important
that — especially as uncontested
candidates — Gillon and Aladesan-
mi address these issues. Although a
part of their platform discusses this
and considers ways to “empower
students,” they have held consider-
able power in SGA in the past, and
little has changed in terms of get-
ting students involved. The House
is disproportionately Greek, and so
it also falls on the new executive to
ensure they fill their cabinet with
students from other backgrounds.
Their platform itself, although
seemingly realistic, is also brief and
vague. That makes sense if there are
multiple candidates and students
wish to compare big-picture ideas
side-by-side to choose the candi-
date that represents their interests
best. However, running unopposed
means their platform needs to be
expounded. Since their ascension is
inevitable, the campus community
should know more about what is
currently being planned for.
Gillon and Aladesanmi’s contin-
ued efforts to reach out to students
during this campaign season and
their goals of bridging communica-
tion between students organizations
and the SGA is admirable. Despite
the fact that the presidential elec-
tions are uncontested, the broader
goals of their platform are generally
decent ideas and ones certainly that
we can get behind.
However, we also believe that as
the sole candidates, they do need to
ensure that they are still able to bet-
ter include the campus community
during the election process, and
continue doing so with regards to
the SGA after they are elected. Cre-
ating a student body that is aware of
SGA’s presence and actions on cam-
pus is the first step towards fostering
a truly more inclusive community.

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

Brighton Kamen EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
David Raji MANAGING EDITOR
Casey Miles NEWS EDITOR Zahra Khan OPINIONS EDITOR
Samira Bandaru LIFE EDITOR Monica Jamison ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
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it should be required that you can have access to a syllabus
without having to register for a class, am i right?

If PTS cannot get itself together with the busses then we should
fire them

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WILL FINCH
STAFF WRITER
There is nothing quite
like a quiet, peaceful stroll
on campus during a sunny
day that creates a creep-
ing sense of foreboding.
Whether it is a club or class,
there is always something
to do. Relaxation might as
well be procrastination. But
Tech’s culture does not val-
ue free time above stress in
the first place.
On the contrary, stu-
dents brag about all-night-
ers as much as freshmen
continuously and unneces-
sarily force their AP, ACT
or SAT scores into conver-
sations. If anything, col-
lege has become a sort of
Olympic heavy-lifting com-
petition, except students re-
place all of the weights with
textbooks, credit hours and
homework.
While lacking in real
substance, the fatigue com-
petition that students and
employees alike engage in
at least provides some sort
meaning to a sense of mo-
notony.
For education, espe-
cially, colleges, as we know
it, are becoming an archaic
institution. Information is
more accessible than ever,
so what makes information
at Tech different from any
university, or information
at any university different
from what you can read out
of the textbooks?
According to some econ-
omists, the labor market
does not pay students for
the information they gain
or the subjects they master.
Instead, it pays students for
pre-existing traits they sig-
nal with their new knowl-
edge.
This concept of signal-
ling exists not only because
studies show that students
rarely recall their textbook
knowledge for their careers,
but also due to the fact
that most businesses train
on the job no matter the
background. After all, we
all know that person who
does the least amount of
work to make good grades
and gets a job just as fast as
the person that worked for
their GPA.
This is not to say that
nothing matters, only that
most of what we are encour-
aged to value is superficially
fulfilling.
So, rather than take
that extra three credit hour
course for extra material to
complain about, sign up
for an extracurricular or
improve a skill or make a
new friend or do literally
anything other than what
you are told to in a typical
education.
“Is being overworked and
stressed valued in education?”
Although being in a stressful atmosphere tests our
stamina, it is often at the expense of wellbeing
SAIF KABARITI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
How do you create world
class leaders, thinkers and
innovators? How do you
inspire generations to tackle
problems that are difficult,
problems that may seem im-
possible to solve at the first
glance?
The solution lies not
through giving copious
amounts of work, neither
through the administration
of multiple examinations;
forcing students to learn
against their will, rather the
solution lies in teaching stu-
dents how beautiful learn-
ing could be, how learning
can satiate your thirst for
knowledge.
Sigmund Freud once
stated “what decides the
purpose of a life is simply
the program of the pleasure
principle” referring to how
the pursuit of pleasure is
what truly guides our lives.
Thus, education should not
be a source of fear, anxi-
ety, and melancholy but a
source of happiness, excite-
ment, and pleasure.
Schools like Tech should
not celebrate and emphasize
how difficult the school is or
how you should be proud to
have graduated from such a
school (#IGOTOUT). Giv-
ing this false image of how
education is elusive and
only for a select few — I
do not want to celebrate
the end of my education. In
fact, I want to wish it never
ended.
Thus, how do you make
education more pleasurable?
How do you oust this idea
of hard means better?
Well pleasure usually
comes from things that are
novel, or things that are
mundane shown in a new
light.
This is achieved by cre-
ating venues that inspire
creative freedom. Freedom
for a student to explore and
experiment, like a child ex-
ploring the world through
play, where everything is
new and not yet common.
For such venues to exist,
the environment needs to be
stress free, to let the mind
run wild in and through
these new frontiers. Grades
should not reflect how
conscientiously you abided
by certain techniques and
methods, but also how cre-
ative you were in reaching
to the final solution.
For this aura of diffi-
cultly is only causing more
and more students to doubt
themselves, and their in-
telligence, giving a rise to
counseling center visits, and
causing irreversible conse-
quences which are chronic
and sometimes fatal.
VIVIAN WANG
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Students across the
nation can attest that al-
though much has changed
in the last 100 years, our
schools have not.
Somewhere along the
way, we began to associate
that systematic, structured
mentality and increased
stress with academic suc-
cess. But whether the stan-
dardized tests and stress-
inducing nature of higher
education is effective is the
pertinent question.
While stress is often
seen as negative, the reality
is that most people need a
healthy dose of it to reach
max productivity and effi-
cacy. But it is highly prob-
lematic how academic rigor
is often equated with stress
levels in today’s society and
schooling and university
culture.
A student can often hear
others boasting about the
lack of sleep they received
and how many hours they
have studied — stress lev-
els have almost become the
gold standard metric for de-
termining how successful of
a student a person is.
I am undoubtedly guilty
of falling into this trap. It is
tempting not only to con-
vince others of your hard
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work but also to convince
yourself despite that the
actual returns gained from
those hours might be lim-
ited. At Tech especially, it
seems as if we have over-
valued the quantity of work
we put into our academics
rather than the quality of
the work done.
It is easy to say that we
should be encouraging
practical-skills develop-
ment and creativity. But the
actual means of going about
decreasing stress levels and
investing into more original
learning is a complex prob-
lem.
For public school sys-
tems and STEM-inclined
schools like Tech, many
classes inherently require
time and repetition. In or-
der to learn some subjects, a
burst of creative intuition is
not enough to excel. How-
ever, stress and anxiety cou-
pled with long hours should
not be glorified.
Even though it is hard to
imagine reinventing com-
petitive school cultures,
which are more indicative
of capitalistic society than
anything else, I would en-
courage students to focus
more on work that is both
meaningful and produc-
tive, choosing curiosity and
creativity over complacency
in a system mired in repeti-
tion and homogeneity.
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Mental health bills
This past week saw the al-
location of funds to pay for
new mental wellbeing services
for Tech students. The first, a
service called ProtoCall, offers
around-the-clock phone-based
access to counselors and thera-
pists. Currently the service is
already in use by many college
campuses. The second service
is an app titled WellTrack, the
express purpose of which is to
help users manage stress and
regulate emotions.
Tech Alum’s Oscar
Alex Powell, MS CS ‘05,
received an Academy Award
for Scientific and Technical
Achievement for his work in
design and engineering on the
“Premo” character animation
system that was adopted by
Dreamworks several years ago.
Powell is Tech’s fourth Acad-
emy Award winner in the past
four years; James Whited won
in 2017 and James O’Brien
won in 2015. All were from the
College of Computing.
Understanding the nuances of abortion and birth control
On February 27, Vice President
Mike Pence said that, “[we can],
in our time, restore the sanctity
of life to the center of American
law,” essentially implying abor-
tion will no longer be legal.
Abortion has been legal in all
of the United States since 1973
with the decision of Roe v. Wade
which allowed women more con-
trol over their bodies and lives.
Based on the 2001 Donohue and
Levitt study, legalized abortion
was found to lower crime rates
18-24 percent after becoming
available because children from
unwanted pregnancies were more
likely to grow up to be criminals.
The illegal termination of preg-
nancies also drastically increases
the chance of complications and
death for the mother as they are
less likely to seek out medical at-
tention. In recent years, the Texas
legislature passed House Bill 2
which requires admitting privi-
leges at local hospitals for doc-
tors and upgraded facilities, citing
women’s health and safety as the
reasons for these stricter guide-
lines.
The mortality rate for legally
induced abortion is about 15
times lower than giving birth and
the rate of complications is also
significantly lowered. However,
the same regulations were not im-
Smoke & Grill
The short-lived tenure of
Bhojanic in the Student Cen-
ter has now come to a close.
Its replacement? A barbecue
concept with such a steep ra-
tio of price to amount of food
that it would not be absurd
to ponder whether the menu
was designed with spite on the
mind. And although it is nice
to include dietary-considerate
options, this new restaurant
is replacing one that offered a
wider variety of those meals.
Boil Advisory
The water main break in
Dekalb County earlier this
week resulted in a boil water
advisory. The public safety
alert has continued up until
press time. As a result of the
main break, water poured onto
Buford Highway on Wednes-
day and caused a large number
of schools to close. And despite
schools being reopened, the
boil water advisory was con-
tinued for metro Atlanta resi-
dents.
posed on birthing centers outside
of hospitals. This disparity clearly
shows the goal of the legisla-
tion was not to improve women’s
health but prevent such clinics
from operating and putting wom-
en at risk.
Abortion is currently illegal in
the Dominican Republic includ-
ing in cases of rape, incest and
when a mother’s life is in danger.
This law lead to the death of a
pregnant sixteen year old who was
denied cancer treatment because
it would terminate her pregnancy.
She died in her thirteenth week of
pregnancy after a miscarriage. A
law meant to protect life resulted
in the death of two children be-
cause it lacks nuance. Even if ev-
eryone wanted abortion to be il-
legal, there need to be exceptions
that would prevent the tragic loss
of even more lives.
Assuming we truly want to
abortion to end “in our time,”
how would we go about accom-
plishing that? The termination of
a viable pregnancy was illegal in
the United States prior to 1973
but that did not stop desperate
women from seeking them out
from doctors and even perform-
ing abortions on themselves. It is
estimated that approximately one
fourth of pregnancies in the mid
19th century were aborted.
The unlikely supportive
atmosphere at a hackathon
“Everyone generally wanted
everyone else to succeed with
This past weekend, three of my
friends and I took a road trip to
Tallahassee, Florida to participate
in our first hackathon ever. It was
not what I had expected at all, but
only in the best ways possible.
For those who are unfamiliar
with the concept, a hackathon (a
play on the words hack and mara-
thon) is an event in which you and
a team spend somewhere between
12 to 36 hours on building some-
thing together using software or
hardware.
I am a third year computa-
tional media student, and have
waited until now to participate
in my first hackathon. This may
sound odd to some, but ever since
my first year here, I have been in-
timidated by the idea behind the
event. The image of masses of pro-
grammers trying to create a solu-
tion to a problem, whether it be
a small or big one, within a short
period of time is something that
has given me anxiety about at-
tending a hackathon, especially as
a beginner. My initial perception
of what it must have felt like to ex-
perience one was that it would be
as if I were to start a project for a
CS class the night it was due, ex-
cept in a competition with other
people for the best grade.
As a society we know that laws
will not stop abortion because
they do nothing to alleviate the
reasons women have for terminat-
ing a pregnancy.
Jim Buchy of Ohio, a strong
proponent of anti-abortion legisla-
tion, was unable to answer a ques-
tion about why women have abor-
tions and admitted to not having
thought about it. Terminating a
pregnancy is not an easy process
and is frequently both physically
and emotionally difficult. It is
important to ask why someone
would want to go through such a
potentially painful process before
regulating it.
Data from the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) between
2014 and 2017 shows that 85.5
percent of women who sought
abortion were unmarried and 91.5
percent were obtained before 13
weeks with only 1.3 percent oc-
curring after 21 weeks. The CDC
does not list reasons; however, the
primary reasons given from seven
states that do were that the women
were not financially stable enough
for a child or that they were un-
ready for the responsibility.
These two reasons alone make
up 42 percent with other common
reasons being that they were too
young for a child, they had prob-
lems in their relationship or were
their projects ... ”
DAVID LE
ASSISTANT DESIGN EDITOR
However, it was only a few
weeks ago when one of my friends
asked me if I would go to HackF-
SU with her and her friend. I in-
stinctively said no, but she was
able to persuade me to apply to
the hackathon by mentioning that
it was also her and her friend’s first
time doing a hackathon and that
there would probably less people
from Georgia Tech there. So if we
failed, we’d fail together and with
not as many people to witness it.
Convinced, I decided to apply, got
another friend to apply, and had a
team of three computational me-
dia majors and one computer sci-
ence major ready to go to Florida
State University.
The Friday of the hackathon
weekend had come, and the four
of us road-tripped down to FSU.
The hackathon officially began
at 9 PM, and we had 36 hours to
create anything. We hadn’t set up
any code or prepared any ideas
on what we’d want to make; we
went into this with the mindset
that we would either have a decent
time and not go to another one, or
have some kind of revelation that
would inspire us to go to more of
these. The 36 hours passed, we
submitted our project, and we all
had an aha moment where we all
someone would want to go
through such a potentially
concerned with how a baby would
change their life.
Having a child has been shown
to be the leading cause of income
discrepancy between men and
women which is part of the rea-
son finances are such a strong in-
fluencer. Health risks and quality
of life also play strongly in many
women’s decisions to have an
abortion. Late term abortions are
rare when both the mother and
child are healthy. Abortion will
never end because we should al-
ways make exceptions for medical
necessity, rape and incest but un-
wanted pregnancy can be curbed
heavily.
The National Center for Bio-
technology Information pub-
lished a study showing that “em-
phasis on abstinence education is
positively correlated with teenage
pregnancy and birth rates.” Other
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had the same thought: “Hey, that
wasn’t that bad, and I actually had
fun!”
The anxiety I previously had
about coding for a whole weekend
in a competitive setting had gone
away thanks to the surprisingly
supportive environment of the
hackathon itself. Everyone gener-
ally wanted everyone else to suc-
ceed with their projects, and any-
time I would feel stressed while
working, I was reminded that un-
like a project for a CS class, there’s
no penalty for not finishing the
project other than not having a
chance to win a prize.
There are mentors who are
there to help you understand con-
cepts you might not comprehend
whether or not you’re an expe-
rienced programmer, there are
workshops for you to learn about
technologies you could use for the
hackathon or any future projects
and there is a ridiculous amount
of food, shirts and stickers.
So, if you’re a beginner pro-
grammer or even a completely dif-
ferent major from computer sci-
ence, you should consider going
to a hackathon — someone on the
team who placed first at HackF-
SU was actually a wildlife ecology
and conservation major.
First of all, the entire event is
free. Second of all, not only are
there prizes for newcomers, but
there are also the aforementioned
resources at the hackathon itself.
Lastly, the people who organized
the event and the people who hack
alongside you all want you to suc-
ceed with your project and have
fun while doing so! Who knows,
maybe you’ll be inspired to keep
learning how to code after your
first hackathon, too.
“It’s important to ask why
painful process before
regulating it.”
CASEY GOMEZ
PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
studies have shown that compre-
hensive sex education results in a
drastic decrease in teen pregnan-
cy rates because people are more
aware of what causes pregnancy
and no longer rely on rumors and
false information.
Colorado’s investment in “fire-
and-forget” birth control like
IUDs and implants led to a 50
percent drop in teenager abortion
rates. Access to birth control al-
lows women to control their bod-
ies more easily and freely and pre-
vent the need for abortion at all,
other than in exceptional circum-
stances. Mainstream birth control
is effective more than 90 percent
of the time. We currently have the
means to prevent most abortions
but until lawmakers truly ac-
knowledge the real reasons they’re
passing this legislation, we cannot
make progress.
Life
LIFE EDITOR:
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ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR:
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Check out TopTime Coffee Company, located on the second
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SAMIRA BANDARU
LIFE EDITOR
Art may often be perceived as an superfluous discipline, a field
that has little application in the “real world” and that has no place
at a tech school.
Art Matters, a student-run initiative that explores expression
through creative and artistic experiences, seeks to change this
mindset on Tech’s campus and rebrand “art” as a powerful tool used
to view experiences, processes and ideas from different perspectives.
The goals of Art Matters are to create enriching art experiences
within Tech’s community, to provide a voice for the student artist
community and to enhance the campus perception and actionable
value of art.
Annie Son, fourth-year BA and president and founder of Art
Matters, explained the organization’s origins and history.
“We actually started out as a think tank in the fall of 2015,”
Son said. “It included both graduate and undergraduate students
and Jennifer Kimball, the Office of the Arts student engagement
coordinator at the time. We were all people that applied to be a part
of this think tank because we represented different areas of campus
and cared about the arts and how they could grow at Georgia Tech.”
The emergence of the organization was sparked by a mutual frus-
tration with the lack of creativity and art on campus.
“We look for members that see this issue and wish to partake in
how to fix it,” Son said. “To increase awareness, it can’t be just one
way. We work hard to collaborate with other groups on campus,
reach out to incoming students and really just connect with other
groups and individuals that have an opinion. We don’t want to get
lost in one way of thinking or ever think that what we’re doing is the
end all, be all solution.”
The think tank sessions led by Walter Ley, ‘17 EE, consisted
of discussions on the topic of current arts ethos on campus, what
already exists, the gaps, issues and disconnects and what the best
methods and potential solutions would be moving forward.
“It was a really great year of seeking understanding and gather-
ing information so that we could get the fullest picture of the situ-
ation,” Son said.
The semester of spring 2016 saw the end of the sessions, with
the members of Art Matters feeling that they had gathered enough
information in order to piece together an initiative that was mean-
ingful and relevant.
“As it was wrapping up that semester, I worked with Jennifer
Kimball to start up a more action-oriented student group to im-
plement the solutions the Think Tank developed,” Son said. “We
worked very closely together and so this group naturally became a
part of the Office of the Arts called Arts@Tech Ambassadors.” In
spring 2017, the organization became more formal, and the official
name was changed to Art Matters.
While some of the students that make up Art Matters are artists
themselves, the organization is not necessarily a group of artists.
However, they do unite for a common cause — to provide support
and a voice for the student artist community and to encourage par-
ticipation in enriching experiences in the arts for the greater Tech
community in an effort to not let Tech’s academic rigor deter stu-
dents from exploring more artistic forms of expression.
“We are a group of students that strives to see Georgia Tech with
a stronger arts presence and focus than it currently does today,” Son
said. “We believe that incorporating more creativity and arts into
different facets of Georgia Tech will strengthen the Institute’s abil-
ity to develop a more holistic graduate that can think about any
situation through multiple lenses.
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“Also, countless students come to Georgia Tech that already pur-
sue creative endeavors, but often times either drop it while in col-
lege or do it individually on their own. We want to provide these
students with the resources necessary to continue pursuing their
interests and feel like those pursuits are part of the Georgia Tech
experience, not just something they struggle to do on the side in ad-
dition to their academic workload. We also want to open new doors
and perspectives for students that have never considered themselves
artistic or creative by providing more opportunities to learn new
skills and collaborate with others.”
Art Matters is separated into five different teams that focus on
different solutions and core areas that were identified in the initial
Think Tank, including Public Art, Arts Community and Arts +
Academics.
“These teams hone in on their respective areas so that we can
simultaneously strengthen the arts presence on campus,” said Son.
Another is the Marketing + De-
sign team, which allows Art Mat-
“Science can be thought ters to develop its programming and
of as providing answers grow the Art Matters brand. The fifth
to questions. It’s art, or team, Why Arts, was created last se-
mester in order to ground the organi-
thinking creatively, that zation and articulate the value of arts
to a technical campus.
asks such questions in “Even at the most technical insti-
the first place.” tute in the world, arts are going to be
there,” Son said, speaking on the top-
ic of the importance of art to Tech’s
campus community. “It’s important for those individuals creating
art — either on the side or through their academics — to feel sup-
ported and feel a part of Georgia Tech ... STEM and the arts are not
separate things but rather parts of one whole. I like this one quote
I stumbled across last year: ‘Science can be thought of as providing
answers to questions. It’s art, or thinking creatively, that asks such
questions in the first place.’”
Within Art Matters’ short time on campus so far, the organiza-
tion has jump-started four major projects.
“One of our very first projects was the Piano Project,” Son said.
“We brought an ID class’s piano proposal to life by taking a piano
from Habitat for Humanity ReStore, painting it with chalkboard
paint and stenciling on a design. We had it outside for a week during
the week before finals for students to de-stress and have a good time,
and if they didn’t know how to play piano they could still engage
with the piece and de-stress by coloring in the design. We ended
that project with a concert on the Clough rooftop with a really great
variety of performances that led to some beautiful impromptu col-
laborations — from classical pieces to impromptu piano beatboxing
duos, to songs from musicals with vocals.”
Other initiatives include ArtHacks, a free twelve-hour artistic
marathon that allows cross-medium collaboration with other stu-
dent artists who can also attend workshops by professional artists
and creators. Art Matters also hosts a bi-weekly Coffee + Art at
Under the Couch, which is open to everyone who wants to enjoy
coffee and discussions about art.
“I want Art Matters to scale in a sustainable manner so that we
can truly and wholeheartedly work on all the projects we can,” Son
said, speaking on the future of the organization. “We serve the en-
tire campus, so I want us to be able to secure reliable funding each
year so that we can continue to serve. I am happy that in the past
few years, there have been more and more conversations on the stu-
dent, faculty and administrative level about the importance of arts
and incorporating them into the Institute, but I want to look for-
ward and see how we can make it so that people think of Georgia
Tech as a leader in STEM because it is an environment that nour-
ishes different experiences and skills beyond STEM.”
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TopTime Coffee Co. graces Tech’s bean scene

“We are the only coffee roast- cause of the reactions of the local “Being business owners in your ing any specifics, are blown away
BOBBY GUILD ing company that has built their coffee community to the product early twenties is a little weird — by the smooth body and actual
STAFF WRITER own coffee roaster, that I know TopTime has to offer. not a lot of people take you seri- flavor of our craft coffee,” Hall
of,” Hall said. “These machines “Seeing the positive response ously at first. Luckily, the Atlanta shared. “This is probably the most
Coffee and student are insepa- are sold for $40,000 and up at the from our Startup Launch cohort, coffee community is very welcom- rewarding part of working at Top-
rable terms. Coffee is needed to commercial level, so we decided to the Midtown neighborhood and ing and we have made friends with Time — seeing someone’s idea of
start the day, to make it through try our hand at building one. To- the Atlanta coffee community (almost) all of the coffee compa- what coffee can taste like com-
the afternoon lag and to power day, all of our coffee is roasted on kept us motivated to open store- nies around town,” Hall said. pletely change.”
through late night studying. As machines that we have built.” fronts and push our coffee into Having made it past hindranc- Now that the coffee has been
such, students, particularly those The team has since begun the market,” Hall said. es and after successfully bringing nailed down, Hall and his team
at Tech, have become connois- producing coffee to bring to the The road for TopTime has not a unique product to market, Hall have their noses to the grindstone
seurs of the finest coffee campus market and has recently opened always been smooth, however. As can report satisfaction with a job in an effort to expand and further
has to offer. TopTime Coffee Co. a storefront on campus in the Hall shared, starting a company well done. increase the scope of the business.
is new to the Tech coffee scene, MRDC. These efforts to push at such a young age presents many “A lot of our customers who “We want to open a couple
but provides a flavor that is sure to forward with TopTime Coffee challenges, but none too difficult are used to over-roasted coffee more Midtown and Georgia
impress even the greatest sticklers. Co. were made, in large part, be- to overcome. from large franchises, not nam- See COFFEE, page 10
Seeking to break from the ri-
gidity of flavor that mainstream
coffee provides, Nolan Hall, a
founder of TopTime Coffee Co.,
set out to roast his own beans and
create a better brew.
While a third-year Tech stu-
dent, Hall began roasting his own
coffee beans in a cast iron pan on
his stove. After experiencing the
smoother flavor this technique
could offer, he was hooked and
began to find ways to improve the
process and eventually applied for
a startup grant through Create-X
Startup Launch to make his ideas
a reality.
“I started thinking about ways
to build my own coffee roaster
to improve the taste of my cof-
fee,” Hall said. “I applied for Idea
to Prototype and was fortunate
enough to be able to build a proto-
type roaster to customize my roast
profiles. Once I started down this
path, there was no turning back.”
From there, it was just a matter
of refining the process and creat-
ing a roaster capable of delivering
a customizable, flavorful batch of
roasted beans. In lieu of purchas-
ing a commercial roaster which
did not satisfy their needs, the
team, which consists of Hall, Tra- Photo by Casey Gomez Student Publications
vis Sadler, Mika Munch and Alan TopTime Coffee Company, located on the second floor of the MRDC, was started by Tech student Nolan Hall. Hall initially re-
Grusy, decided to build their own. ceived a startup grant through Create-X and his team created their own coffee roaster to preserve the coffee’s unique flavors.

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COFFEE FROM PAGE 9
Tech locations, move into a
larger warehouse, spread our cof-
fee to more places around the
Southeast and hire more Geor-
gia Tech students and alumni,”
Hall explained.
In light of this success, Hall
sees his Tech education as having
a key impact on the trajectory the
company has taken to get where
it is.
“My education from Tech not
only helped me design and build
the first roaster, but allowed me
to meet my cofounders and make
key connections in the Atlanta re-
tail market through the Create-X
program,” Hall said.
Coffee tends to be the universal drink college students rely on to
get them through the day. TopTime offers freshly roasted coffee.
Furthermore, he sees the sup-
port Tech has offered as an inte-
gral part of the company’s forma-
tion and future.
“Tech has been very supportive
of us ever since we graduated and
formed the company,” Hall said.
“A month ago, we were even able
to open our first coffee shop on
campus in the MRDC. We are
talking now about opening more
retail locations across campus.”
Thus, what started as a small
idea to create better tasting coffee
has now flourished into a com-
pany with a unique product that
aims to satisfy the coffee connois-
seurs of Tech and bring a new fla-
vor of coffee to those who wish to
break from the standard.
Photo by Casey Gomez Student Publications
When is the
right time to
be single?
JON LONG
STAFF WRITER
Wedding season is right
around the corner. Fourth and
fifth-years are preparing to have
their mailboxes inundated with
photos of classmates, co-workers
and friends smiling happily next
to their soon-to-be spouses.
Almost weekly, Instagram
proudly displays cliched Piedmont
Park engagement photos. Given
all of this, it is easy to understand
why so many single college stu-
dents stress about their lack of
significant other. A common sen-
timent among Tech’s single popu-
lation goes something like this:
“If I haven’t met my future wife/
husband by the end of college, I
don’t think I ever will.”
Being single is certainly seen
as the least desirable relationship
status, and the single lifestyle also
often comes along with feelings of
loneliness or inadequacy. In many
cases, however, that lifestyle is an
important step in one’s personal
development.
FOCUS ON YOURSELF
While it is true that a roman-
tic partner can provide support
and a listening ear in tough situ-
ations, single people often forget
that a relationship requires work
on their own part as well. Their
partner’s issues become their own
by extension, and if they are not
prepared to take on that burden
then the relationship will be short-
lived. It is a common misconcep-
tion that unhappy single people
will become happier if they share
their life with someone else; peo-
ple who are not happy single have
no business in a relationship.
If you are not happy on your
own, you will not be happy with
someone else. The time that would
be spent with a significant other
// LIFE
should instead be used developing
skills, developing a hobby or doing
anything else that promotes per-
sonal betterment. Not only does
this lead to personal fulfillment,
but it also makes one a more in-
teresting and well-rounded person
should they seek companionship
in the future.
Design by Lauren Douglas Student Publications
TRY NEW THINGS
A wise man once said, “With
a relationship, you have one girl-
friend. With Tinder, you have
infinite girlfriends.” While the
desire to have indiscriminate ca-
sual sex is a very bad reason to
be single, the overall freedom
and independence that one can
enjoy without a partner is some-
thing that everyone should ex-
perience at least briefly. Spring
breaks, studying abroad and out-
of-state internships should all
be enjoyed to the fullest without
constant nagging worries about a
partner’s feelings.
// LIFE technique • March 9, 2018• 11

Entertainment
‘Terminus’ photographer explores ATL airport
MONICA JAMISON
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
As part of the “Picturing the
South” initiative at the High
Museum of Art, more than 60
new photographs by Mark Stein-
metz debuted on March 3. Fo-
cused on the Hartsfield-Jackson
International Airport and flight,
the “Mark Steinmetz: Termi-
nus” exhibit is on view through
June 3 in the lower level of the
Wieland Pavilion.
Started in 1996, the High’s
“Picturing the South” initiative
asks distinguished photographers
to capture the American South.
Over the years, these photogra-
phers have explored themes from
Atlanta’s nightlife to Mississippi
River landscapes and their work
has built the photography collec-
tion of the High, which has over
7,000 prints. Steinmetz chose to
focus on Atlanta’s airport, the
busiest in the world, as it has been
a longstanding interest of his.
“It’s an exciting place with lots
going on, and I always love the
way planes look in flight,” Stein-
metz said. The exhibit includes
many different points of view
from portraits of passengers to
landscapes of the airport, the sur-
rounding areas and views of and
from planes.
Steinmetz, who lives in Ath-
ens, Ga., is no stranger to pho-
tographing the South. In 1994,
he was awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship to photograph the re-
gion. His first book on the South,
90th Oscars adapts to post-#MeToo Hollywood
Miguel, Natalia Lafourcade and Gael Garcia Bernal performed
the Best Original Song winner, ‘Remember Me,’ from ‘Coco.’
released in 2007, is titled “South
Central” after South Central Bell
in Tennessee. Many of that book’s
photos dealt with pay phones, and
later work covered cell towers.
Besides the change in phones,
he has documented how “the scale
of things has changed” with the
expansion of Atlanta and the mod-
ernization of the South. His third
book about the region, “Greater
Atlanta,” focuses more on fossil
fuels and “consumption-based so-
ciety.” While identifying how his
experience as a Southerner influ-
ences his work is difficult — “like
a fish swimming in water” — he
likes the openness and friendli-
ness of people here.
This project differs from previ-
ous work because of the variety of
photographic styles Steinmetz em-
ploys. The photos of condensation
trails in daytime and light trails
of planes at night are abstract
and more vague, while portraits
explore more intimate moments
in the airport like an embracing
older couple or a young boy star-
ing out the window at a gate.
In nearly all of his work, Stein-
metz makes grayscale prints.
“I like the structure of black
and white; I like how color isn’t
the main feature,” he explained.
Since he produces many books,
the black and white lends con-
tinuity as readers flip through
the book, while color would be “a
little jarring.”
In the digital age, when ev-
eryone with a smartphone calls
themselves a photographer, Stein-
metz said that the means of dis-
Photo courtesy of The Academy
tribution have not changed his
personal trajectory; he still works
in the darkroom.
Speaking on these self-declared
cell phone photographers, “they’re
just taking photos, but I don’t
think they really understand the
language of photography or what
photographs can be about, what
they can mean. I think photog-
Mark Steinmetz (American, born 1961), Untitled, 2016, gelatin silver print.
Courtesy of the artist and Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia. © Mark Steinmetz.
JON LONG
STAFF WRITER
“If I fall over, pick me up,
‘cause I’ve got some things to say.”
As Frances McDormand took
the stage to accept her Oscar for
Best Actress, she involuntarily
captured the spirit of the tumul-
tuous year that Hollywood just
endured. Last Sunday was the first
Oscars ceremony in the #MeToo
era, a movement that shook the
filmmaking industry to its core.
While many were wondering
how Hollywood’s biggest night
would address the elephant in
the room, the “Three Billboards
Outside Ebbing, Missouri” star’s
speech laid a veritable corner-
stone for a new, post-#MeToo
Hollywood in which women are
allowed to thrive as equals and
will no longer suffer rampant sys-
temic abuse.
“If I may be so honored to
have all the female nominees in
every category stand with me in
this room tonight,” McDormand
boomed from the stage in the
Dolby Theater.
“The actors, the filmmakers,
the producers, the directors, the
writers, the cinematographers, the
composers, the songwriters, the
designers. Look around ladies and
gentlemen, because we all have
stories to tell and projects we need
financed. Don’t talk to us about
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Monica Jamison
ASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Josh Trebuchon
entertainment@nique.net
raphy can be a kind of literature.
Most cell phone stuff is more like
candy,” Steinmetz said.
He also acknowledges that
some people can make art with
the new technology, not cat-
egorically ruling it out. “The
iPhone camera or film camera or
digital camera are just tools, and
really the main thing is the imagi-
it at the parties tonight. Invite us
into your office, or come to ours,
whatever suits you best, and we
will tell you all about them.”
Keeping with the night’s theme
of inclusivity, presenters put a
heavy emphasis on the contribu-
tions of Hispanic artists. Pixar’s
“Coco” won awards for Best Ani-
mated Feature and Best Original
Song for “Remember Me,” and a
rousing performance of the latter
was introduced by a speech extol-
ling the contributions of immi-
grants to the world of art.
The night’s top prize also
went to a product of Mexico:
the Guillermo del Toro-directed
“The Shape of Water” received
the award for Best Picture. The
fantasy auteur also took home the
Academy Award for Best Director,
making him just the third Mexi-
can to win in the category.
Other highlights included Jor-
dan Peele winning Best Original
Screenplay for his unique horror
film “Get Out,” an honor never
before won by an African-Amer-
ican. Greta Gerwig also became
the fifth ever female nominee for
Best Director and the first female
director to be nominated for any
category in eight years. While
her film “Lady Bird” ended the
night Oscar-less, its presence as a
contender marked the beginning
of what many hope to be a trend
of female recognition in the film-
making world.
technique
12
Friday,
March 9, 2018
nation, the mind behind it all,”
Steinmetz added.
Broadly speaking, he is inter-
ested in “learning about life and
looking around at my time and
documenting it.” As for his future
work, Steinmetz is currently jug-
gling multiple projects, includ-
ing photographing his baby, his
neighborhood and his travels.
Gary Oldman beat out a tal-
ented pool of nominees to take
home Best Actor for his portrayal
of Winston Churchill in “The
Darkest Hour.” Sam Rockwell
and Allison Janney won in the
Supporting categories for their
roles in “Three Billboards” and
“I, Tonya,” respectively. “Icarus,”
the Netflix profile of the Russian
doping scandal, won the award for
Best Documentary Feature.
The science fiction neo-noir
film “Blade Runner 2049” un-
surprisingly came away with the
award for Best Visual Effects, and
veteran cinematographer Roger
Deakins was recognized with the
Best Cinematography. Christo-
pher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” swept the
post-production categories. Best
Makeup went to “The Darkest
Hour” while “Phantom Thread”
won Best Costume Design.
Despite a few awkward mo-
ments and hamfisted political
statements by host Jimmy Kim-
mel, this year’s Oscars made a
bold yet much-needed statement
about the current landscape
in Hollywood.
While this year’s ceremony in-
dicates a bright future, the film-
making trends of the next few
years will show whether women
and minorities have finally been
recognized for their merits or if
these shifts are simply temporary
reactionary fallout from Trump
and the #MeToo movement.
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The Breeders reunion produces viable offspring

since then, and Deal’s freedom to With a runtime of only 33 result is a tongue-in-cheek ultra- she begins to realize that she can
MUSIC focus on the album without the minutes, the album manages to gothic tune that is both fun to lis- do nothing to avoid death, the lis-
All Nerve distraction of working for The be driving and impactful for the ten to and humorous. tener’s calmness rapidly turns into
The Breeders Pixies and the reunion of the “Last listener without going on too Most of the album is fresh a horrified sense of resignation to
Splash” lineup shows through in long. The opening track, “Ner- and pleasant, even if the con- the narrator’s fate. The track is
LABEL: 4AD the quality of the music. vous Mary,” features the extensive stituent sounds do not qualify as deeply dark and affecting.
GENRE: Alternative Rock Like all of The Breeders’ music, analog vocal and guitar distortion ear-pleasing. Still, the album gets In this sense, “Walking with
“All Nerve” washes over the lis- that marked The Breeders’ early somewhat repetitive towards the a Killer” embodies perfectly the
TRACK PICKS: “Walking with tener in an undulating cascade of music. This fun, building song is end, and the last tracks could ben- traits that define the album as a
a Killer,” “All Nerve” sonic immersion. Deal famously both catchy and unapologetically efit from greater sound variation. whole. It is musically beautiful in
espouses a stripped-down ana- dark, a relic of the early days of The strongest track on the al- the uniquely dark, rough way in
OUR TAKE: ««««« log production style she calls “all punk-inspired alternative music. bum is “Walking with a Killer,” a which post-punk alternative mu-
wave” which favors raw instru- The album’s titular song mixes slow and cool song with a relaxing sic exhibits beauty.
JOSH TREBUCHON mentation and analog effects over a fast, pop-punk style bass line, rhythm that provides a pleasant Much like all of The Breeders’
ASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR computerized autotuning and periodic explosions of raw electric break at the middle of the album music, “All Nerve” is paradoxi-
instrumental effects. While Deal guitar and slow, sedate lyrics. The from the intensity of the music cally harsh and yet alluring. The
On March 2, the alternative does not stay completely faithful result is a unique juxtaposition of surrounding it. The song has the album is not likely to produce
rock band The Breeders released to the “all wave” incorporating slow and quiet with fast and loud power to lull its listener almost to any top 40 hits, and many of its
“All Nerve,” their fifth studio al- greater levels of production in that is musically complex and var- sleep, yet if he breaks the spell to songs might benefit from further
bum. The group, which is best the new recordings than she did ied in a discontinuous way. truly pay attention to the lyrics, polishing. Still, as a whole it is re-
known for its 1993 hit song on her older work, the album has “MetaGoth” features appropri- the song turns out to be a dark tale freshingly complex, powerful and
“Cannonball,” has been around a feeling of old-school grittiness ately dark errant distorted guitar of doom and helplessness. artistically uncompromising, ev-
since 1989 in various forms with which is tough to find in music chords over a driving guitar riff The song is about its narrator erything one would want from a
its only consistent member be- these days. and excessively sinister vocals. The literally walking with a killer. As Breeders album.
ing the band’s founder and lead
vocalist Kim Deal.
The group has existed largely
on the periphery of the popular
alternative rock scene, achieving
little commercial success but con-
sistently receiving positive criti-
cal reviews. Each of the group’s
many different members over the
years has treated The Breeders as
a sort of an artistic side project, a
supplement to their work in their
primary bands.
Throughout much of the
group’s 29-year history, Deal has
additionally been the bassist in
the more commercially success-
ful band The Pixies. In 2013 Deal
left The Pixies, allowing her to fo-
cus on The Breeders and her solo
work. Around the same time, the
members who were in the group
in 1993 for the release of band’s
most successful album “Last
Splash” got back together to form
The Breeders’ most capable lineup
in two decades. Photo courtesy of 4AD
“All Nerve” is the first new The members of the current lineup of The Breeders pose for a photo in promotion of their 2013 re-release of their 1993 hit album
music The Breeders have released “Last Splash.” The group, which has recorded on and off since 1989, recently released its newest studio album, “All Nerve.”
// ENTERTAINMENT technique • March 9, 2018• 15

Clough Art Crawl

highlights talent
From paintings to code-based art to poetry, many
media of student art are featured in the fifth annu-
al Clough Commons Art Crawl. The first day, Thurs-
day, March 1, included live performances. Still art will
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SUDOKU PUZZLE
// COMICS technique • March 9, 2018• 17

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18 • March 9, 2018• technique
Conference tourney over, women await bid
LILLIE TATE ANDREWS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
After defeating Clemson in
the first round of the ACC tour-
nament last week, tenth-seeded
Tech women’s basketball suffered
a tough 60-58 loss versus the
seventh-seeded Virginia Cava-
liers. The Jackets maintained the
lead throughout the majority of
the game — 35 minutes to be
exact — but ultimately came up
short in the fourth quarter when
they were outscored 20-10 by
the Cavaliers.
Tech head coach MaChelle
Joseph stated that the final mo-
ments of the game were defined
by Virginia’s ability to step up
when it mattered most and Tech’s
struggle to do the same, courtesy
of ramblinwreck.com. Sopho-
more Francesca Pan carried the
Jackets throughout the game,
leading Tech at the free throw line
and finishing the game with a to-
tal of 25 points. The Jackets shot
34.4 percent, while Virginia shot
a slightly higher 43.8 percent. The
ACC tournament concluded on
March 4, with Louisville defeat-
ing Notre Dame 74-72 in yet an-
other nail-biter of a game.
Following Tech’s disappoint-
ing second-round loss in the ACC
tournament, questions are being
raised as to whether or not Tech
will receive a bid to the Women’s
National Invitation Tournament.
The complete list of the 64 teams
// SPORTS
selected for the WNIT will be an-
nounced on the evening of March
12, and the first round of the
tournament itself will kick off on
Wednesday, March 14.
Tech also lost out in the second
round of the ACC tournament last
year, but still managed to get a bid
to the WNIT. Not only did they
get a bid, they made it to the final
round of the tournament before
losing to Michigan 89-79 in triple
overtime. There is a solid chance
that the Jackets will indeed receive
another at-large berth invitation
to the WNIT and another chance
to win what they were so close to
winning last year.
In order to be considered for an
at-large berth, a team must have
an overall record of .500 or better.
Last year before the WNIT, Tech
had won a total of 17 games. This
season, Tech is sitting on a win-
ning 18-13 record and is just as
qualified to receive a bid as they Photo by Jon Long Student Publications
were last year, if not more. Sophomore guard Francesca Pan attempts a shot during a home game against
Assuming that Tech does get a Miami. Pan’s Jackets lost in the ACC tournament, but a WNIT bid is likely to come.
bid to the tournament, the ques-
tion remains of just how far the Pan, redshirt junior forward Elo Fletcher had an impressive game lack the punch, but it will be a
team will go. Do they have the Edeferioka, senior forward Zaire against Virginia last week, helping worthy final step. No, they will
talent to repeat the run they had O’Neil, senior point guard Imani to keep Tech in the game within not get serious national attention
last year? As far as talent goes, se- Tilford and freshman guard Ki- the final moments. Fletcher is sure unless they make the champion-
nior forward Katarina Vuckovic erra Fletcher. to be a promising asset to the team ship game for the second year in
played in every game throughout In Tech’s 2017 WNIT semifi- and an exciting player to watch in a row, but for young players like
the 2016-2017 season, averaging nal appearance alone, both Edefer- the future. Kierra Fletcher and Lorela Cubaj,
26.4 minutes per game and 4.8 ioka and O’Neil ended the game The men’s and women’s NCAA it is a valuable chance for experi-
points per game. Though a qual- with 16 rebounds each; O’Neil Tournaments will garner great in- ence against tough competition.
ity player, Vuckovic’s absence ended the game with 20 points, terest, and the men’s NIT will set For seniors like Zaire O’Neil and
will likely be compensated for Pan with 14 points, Tilford with the stage for a number of big-name Imani Tilford, it is a farewell to
by remaining key players such 12 points and Edeferioka with 11. programs having down years to college basketball and their time
as sophomore guard Francesca Though only a freshman, Kierra do battle. The women’s NIT may on The Flats.
// SPORTS technique • March 9, 2018• 19

HOOPS FROM PAGE 1

Tuesday’s game also marked
the end of the collegiate careers
for two Tech icons — seniors Ben
Lammers and Tadric Jackson have
used up all four years of their col-
legiate eligibility.
Lammers, a late bloomer for
Tech, broke out onto the national
scene as one of the nation’s best
centers, averaging 14.2 points
per game, 9.2 rebounds per game
and 3.4 blocks per game and was
named to Second Team All-ACC
in addition to winning ACC De-
fensive Player of the Year. While
Lammers could not keep up his
dramatic scoring pace on the
floor, averaging 36 minutes per
game nursing a knee injury, he
was still an impact player for the
Jackets from the center position.
Tadric Jackson was a vital sixth
man for Tech during his career,
frequently coming off the bench
Sophomore guard Josh Okogie fights to the rim against two Wake Forest defenders.
Okogie has been a bright spot in a Tech basketball season that has been less than stellar.
to score double digits, and oc-
casionally catching fire to shift
the pace of the game. For a Tech
squad short on depth after injuries
to Josh Okogie and Jose Alvarado
during the season, Jackson provid-
ed meaningful minutes and scor-
ing. In his last game in the White
and Gold, he went out on top —
Jackson’s 29 points against Boston
College led all scorers and tied his
career high in points.
Where does Tech go from
here? Hopefully up — with Josh
Pastner’s highly touted recruiting
class, highlighted by prospects
Michael Devoe, Kristian Sjolund,
and Khalid Moore, Tech might be
ready to rebound from the losses
of Jackson and Lammers going
into the 2018-2019 season. Ab-
doulaye Gueye showed glimpses
of brilliance and could possibly
step in to replace Lammers at cen-
ter, and Josh Okogie and Jose Al-
varado will surely return for next
season, bringing their scoring
prowess. Freshmen Moses Wright
and Evan Cole showed that they
could make an impact after being
forced onto the court by injury
despite planning on red-shirting
for their freshmen seasons — so
the Jackets are not completely
crippled by the loss of Lammers
and Jackson.
The Jackets might also take
comfort in the fact that the inju-
ries that crippled them through-
out the season are unlikely to re-
surface with such frequency next
season. Injuries and suspensions
ruined Tech’s tempo going into
the season and they never seemed
to recover, going on several major
losing streaks. If Tech can build
momentum early and keep it go-
ing into the postseason, it is not
hyperbole to think that the Jack-
ets might have a shot at a March
Madness bid. This time next year,
perhaps Tech will go dancing.
Photo by Casey Gomez Student Publications
SCHEMES FROM PAGE 20
to converge on the run or drop
into man pass coverage on any
given play. By taking the position
group responsible for adapting to
the opponent and limiting their
personnel size, Roof created a
difficult situation.
Outside of the Georgia game,
Tech was never really done in on
one big play here or there. The
extremely conservative Jackets
limited the opponent’s big plays
while failing to create many take-
aways of their own thanks to a
hyper-protective scheme that did
not properly give the team’s many
playmakers the opportunity to
make big time plays.
Theoretically speaking, the
perfect 4-2-5 defense would lock
down opposing receivers with an
amoebic man-zone hybrid in the
secondary and create enough pres-
sure with the front four to force
quick pitches and other outside
plays for minimal gain, taking the
pressure off the linebackers.
Unfortunately, the harsh real-
ity of Jackets football is that the
team lacked a solid interior defense
to prevent the run adequately with
only two backers, and since Roof
refused to ever let his corners play
a proper press coverage, the Will
and Sam were pulled in too many
directions at the same time be-
tween slot receivers, pass-catching
running backs and any no-name
who felt like jamming the ball up
the middle for a few yards a play.
Fortunately, with fresh blood
comes fresh ideas, and Nate
Woody has already made it crystal
clear to the media that he will be
bringing his aggressive 3-4 style
to the ACC with him this fall.
By moving both a lineman and
secondary (most likely the nickel
or free safety) to the linebackers
consolidating the meat of the de-
fense five yards back, the defensive
identity for both position groups
in the front seven has been com-
pletely configured to better hide
Tech’s weaknesses and allow for
more versatility.
With only three men acting as
down linemen now against five
on the offense, the ends and nose
tackle will now be focused on
winning the numbers game, try-
ing to occupy as many opposing
linemen possible with their three
bodies. This shifts the focus from
athleticism to sheer power and
size, as there will be less of a need
for the front three to make plays
behind the line of scrimmage.
Instead, the linebackers will be
re-divided into the interior (Will
and Mike) and exterior (Sam and
LEO) designations, the former
typically remaining in coverage or
spy positions with the latter used
as the main pass rushers and dis-
ruptors off the ball.
Generally speaking, the use of
a 3-4 scheme simplifies the roles
for a defense. Linemen control the
trenches and plug up gaps against
the run, forcing the ball into the
clutches of the blitzing backers
or stalling long enough for the
penetration to generate a sack.
Reducing the secondary from five
to four will most likely mean that
there will be less man coverage
and more zone as the safety help
can no longer be relied on as heav-
ily if a corner is torched close, but
Roof rarely ever took advantage of
his ability to lock down the flats
when he schemed for it in the first
place, so the opportunity cost is
certainly minimal.
All in all, the 4-3, 4-2-5 and
3-4 all have their individual mer-
its and cannot be referred to as
“superior” without taking person-
nel into context, but judging from
the results generated over the past
five years, there is really nothing to
be lost by taking a more aggressive
approach and attacking the enemy
instead of letting them come to
us. Expect more sacks and tackles
(good), more passing from the op-
ponent (bad) and exactly the same
amount of QB keeps for a gain of
3 on third and 4 (ugly).

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Sports
HARSHA SRIDHAR
SPORTS EDITOR
I’m a different person when I’m
watching sports. The intensity of
the atmosphere, the heat of com-
petition and the attractiveness of a
mob mentality all lead to unchar-
acteristic behavior. And I know I
am not alone, because I have seen
the same thing happen to friends
and family. On football Sundays
at home, it’s not unusual to hear
my mom, mild-mannered in vir-
tually every aspect, shout, “Kill
him! Beat him to the ground!”
when Packers defenders (once
again) let Russell Wilson slip
out of their grasp and watch him
streak upfield. When you are sur-
rounded by tens of thousands of
fellow fans who are sharing the
experience with you, the emotions
grow even stronger.
I have never seen anything
wrong with yelling at, booing or
otherwise verbally denigrating
professional athletes, so long as
the insults do not devolve into
Why Roof failed (and why Woody might not)
JOSH FORBES
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
If there were two sound bytes
that could perfectly encapsulate
fan sentiments from the 2017
Tech football season, they would
be “The triple option is the worst”
and “Fire Ted Roof.” Ever since
Miami lit up the Jackets for 45
in Roof’s fifth week as defensive
coordinator back in 2013, Tech
has struggled to find a way to
limit opposing offenses. However,
while one does not have to have
an A in MATH 3215 to realize
that allowing a career 25.1 points
per game is far from a sustain-
able pace, identifying the causes
of Tech’s struggles is in fact easier
said than done.
In a previous article, the Tech-
nique reported that under Roof’s
leadership, the Jackets ranked in
the bottom of the ACC for tackles,
sacks and preventing YPA against
the run. This time, the goal is to
break down the past defensive
scheme and highlight the ways in
which incoming DC Nate Woody
hopes to improve upon them.
While defenses at the profes-
sional level have been slowly aban-
doning a “base” format in favor of
the flexibility offered by having
personnel for various looks, col-
legiate defenses are far less likely
to rotate out the front seven as fre-
quently. The reliance on starters
SPORTS EDITOR:
Harsha Sridhar
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR:
John Edwards
sports@nique.net
Tech fans look on during a game versus Duke at McCamish Pavilion. Especially in college
basketball, fans are an integral part of the competitive experience, but they sometimes go too far.
slurs or credible threats. (For those
Philadelphia Eagles fans who
taunted Buccaneers receiver Joe
Jurevicius days after his son died,
yeah, that’s way over the line,
too.) The logic basically goes that
if a guy is getting paid a few mil-
lion dollars to put a ball through
a basket or carry a ball to an end
zone, fans have the prerogative to
voice their displeasure with those
athletes. That is not even to men-
tion the tactical effects of booing.
It is a mind game fans play with
and tendency to keep a consistent
core throughout games makes it
easier to operate out of the same
formation on a weekly basis, using
stunt packages to keep the offense
on their toes. Roof implemented
a 4-2-5 scheme that is a modified
variation of the prototypical 4-3
defensive alignment.
In the 4-3, there are four down
linemen (two ends, a tackle and a
nose tackle) and three linebackers
(a weak-side “Will,” strong-side
“Sam” and middle “Mike”) that
act as the “front seven;” they are
generally used as the key play-
makers against the run and for
pressuring the quarterback. This
formation relies on quicker line-
men to penetrate and maintain
the majority of the pressure in the
backfield. The tackles penetrate
and get downfield while the two
ends set the edge and contain runs
to the outside while bearing in on
the primary ball carrier.
Because there is one extra line-
man in this formation as opposed
to the 3-4, which only has a front
three, there is more room for
creativity in the points of attack
which can catch offensive lines
off guard and allow for one of the
linemen to make a play behind the
line of scrimmage.
Tech’s front four did an ad-
mirable job this year in terms of
making key third down stops in
short yardage situations. In fact,
Roof’s decision to convert one of
Women's basketball has seen its
regular season come to an end. What
athletes. It makes some stadiums
harder to play in than others.
But what if those athletes are
not getting paid millions of dol-
lars? What if they are college kids
playing their sport of choice in
return for a free education? Does
that change the calculus? If so,
what exactly makes them differ-
ent? The fact that they are 18, 19
and 20-year-olds?
For a while, I have struggled
to answer those questions. When
Virginia Tech men’s basketball
the 4-3 linebackers into a more
protective 4-2-5 prevented plenty
of deep plays downfield; with two
cornerbacks, a strong and free
safety and an extra permanent
“nickel” back, there was rarely a
point in the field more than 15
yards out that was vulnerable to a
deep attack thanks to a swarming
Brant Mitchell and Lawrence Austin tackle UGA receiver Riley Ridley. The Jackets’
defense struggled heavily against Georgia, yielding 38 points and 471 yards.
Postseason Bound?
awaits them next?418
Photo by Kirsten Reynolds Student Publications
head coach Buzz Williams got
on the the microphone at a home
game against Duke a few weeks
ago to shout, “Quit cussing!” at
the student section, it brought
that query back to the forefront.
No, the VT fans were not yelling
at players — they were instead
complaining about a generous ref-
eree call for Duke’s Grayson Allen,
maybe the most polarizing athlete
in college sports today — but the
hostility in the air was a stark re-
minder of what collegiate athletics
double coverage that occupied key
read areas.
The problem with adding a
member of the secondary is that
it takes away from the lineback-
ers. In a 4-3 defense, the “Mike”
linebacker acts as the de facto
quarterback of the defense, as his
primary responsibility is to read
technique
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Friday,
March 9, 2018
are: thousands of fans spending
good money to yell about a game
in which the vast majority of par-
ticipants are not old enough to
buy a drink.
I have thought about it and I
do not think collegiate athletes
should be exempt from good-
natured heckling and taunting.
When you walk into a venue like
the Big House or Cameron Indoor
Stadium, that comes with its own
challenge. There is a reason that
some teams (hey, Tech basketball)
fare significantly better at home
than on the road. It is not just
home cooking. It is a real, quan-
tifiable advantage brought by a
raucous atmosphere. It propels the
home team when they fall behind
and it demoralizes the opponent
when they are facing a deficit.
Besides, yelling at players and
coaches and referees is half the
fun of attending college sports
events. (I certainly had fun mock-
ing Tom Crean and his Indiana
team during Tech’s NIT game
against them last year.)
But we should be thought-
ful of what we say during games.
Making fun of a basketball player
because of his terrible haircut he
donned five years ago that you
found while Facebook stalking
him? Good with me. Scream-
ing, “YOU’RE A TRASH HU-
MAN BEING” at the guy who
just nailed a game-winner against
your team? Maybe rethink that.
College is a time when many of us
question ourselves. We question
our life plans, our choice of major
and everything in between. None
of us need people yelling horrible
things at us. And yes, that in-
cludes Grayson Allen.
the opposing formation and make
an instinctive call as to where the
coverage should be concentrated
— generally acting as the man in
charge of corralling runs up the
middle. In addition to this, line-
backers in a four-man front have
to be explosive and agile, able
see SCHEMES, page 19
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