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January 9, 2015•Volume 100, Issue 17•nique.net
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PICKREN INDICTED BY JURY FOR UGA PRANK p2
Stephen Hawking biopic joins science with romance
News 2 Opinions 5 Life 8 Entertainment 11 Sports 16
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Life since homecoming p9
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Into the Woods p11
ENTERTAINMENT
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Top L: Photo by John Nakano Student Publications; Top R: Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Motion Pictures; Above: Design by Claire Labanz Student Publications
See THEORY, page 13
JILLIAN BROADDUS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
It would be nearly impossible to create a film centered on Ste-phen Hawking’s life story and not have it be unbelievably intrigu-ing. The theoretical physicist, world-renown cosmologist and best-selling author has stunned the world with his hypotheses and ground-breaking discoveries, all while living decades past his short life sentence when diagnosed with ALS at the age of 21.
So, as can be expected, direc-tor James Marsh’s The Theory of
Everything is undoubtedly fas-cinating, albeit slightly depress-ing as viewers watch the physical deterioration of a man and emo-tional dissolution of his marriage. Still, Hawking’s life story—which has the potential to leave the aver-age audience completely confused given his difficult-to-understand discoveries—is simplified into an easy-to-follow yet thought-pro-voking plotline. The love story be-tween Stephen (Eddie Redmayne, Les Miserables) and Jane (Felicity Jones, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) outshines both the backdrop of his physics career and the ongoing
progression of his debilitating dis-ease. In fact, the playing out of the promise to love “in sickness and in health” is one of the most heart-wrenching and well-established themes in the film, although the storyline of Hawking’s college years and subsequent career are similarly absorbing.
Another shining aspect of the movie comes with the lead actor who plays Hawking, Redmayne. After six months of studying the mannerisms of Hawking, Red-mayne seems to have perfected the portrayal. Marsh notes, “He had The formation and ultimate deterioration of the bond between
Stephen Hawking and his wife Jane forms the basis of the film.
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I‘m going to start a support group for netbook users.If you think campus housing is bad and expensive now, wait until it’s sold to an unaccountable private provider.There are people walking in shorts in forty degree weather i think that’s pretty darn weird i mean how the hell who are you what are you tell me your secrets reveal your warmth how do you do thisArbitrage propgram running.....no feedback???After getting a sliver in the paper, all of my friends added “getting a sliver in the paper” to their Tech bucket list. I feel like there’s an appropriate Mean Girls quote for this moment.There’s always an appropriate Mean Girls quote.alright tinder, let’s see what cha gotWould greatly appreciate if GTPD would up patrols around Cen-tennial. Robberies every weekend.Is it procrastinating from task force if you’re group chatting with your task force team?Stuff overheard on the bus radio: Look out, Blue. You got a run-ner. *Sees kid sprinting across the parking lot*Is it procrastinating from task force if I’m slivering about group chatting about task force? I guess if it takes two prepositional phrases, it’s probably procrastinating.why do tech kids only get indicted by nerdy crimes...breaking into game shops...hacking websites...center street clery act kid is either really brave, or just a complete idiot.probably the idiotsometimes mcnuggets are more important than getting shot atcan some billionaire buy wikipedia already. the donation requests are bigger than the text I’m readingShoutout to Alex Berry for that punny comic titleRyan Gregory Pickren
DAVID RAJIASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
On Wednesday, masked men armed with AK-47s stormed into the offices of French satirical car-toon publication Charlie Hedbo in Paris, killing 12, according to NBC News. The editor of the mag-azine and two police officers were among those killed.
According to NBC, the gun-men arrived at the building at 11:30 p.m. local time dressed in black ski masks, and fatally shot a maintenance worker on their way inside. After proceeding to the magazine’s offices on the third floor, they gunned down a total of eight journalists, including the editor, Stephane “Charb” Char-bonnier. A guest and Charbon-nier’s personal police guard were also slain. The gunmen addition-ally killed one additional police officer during their escape.
The magazine often drew con-troversy, particularly with regard many of its pieces targeting spe-cific religions, especially Islam. Charbonnier was adamant that retaliation did not frighten him, once saying in an interview with France24 “I prefer to die standing than living on my knees.”
This stance was maintained by the editor even after the maga-zine’s offices were firebombed in 2011 following cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad.
Worldwide condemnation has followed these attacks. U.S. Sec-retary of State John Kerry referred to the victims as “martyrs for jus-tice.” French President Francois Hollande stated “Freedom is al-ways bigger than barbarism,” and Thursday was declared a national day of mourning.
DAVID RAJIASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
At approximately 4:19 p.m. on Nov. 27, an unknown indi-vidual gained access to the Uni-versity of Georgia’s computer network and was able to pub-lish an “unauthorized message”, reading “Get a** kicked by GT,” on the master calendar of the university’s website, according to an incident report from the University of Georgia (UGA) Police Department.
Ryan Pickren, 21, a third-
year CMPE student at Tech, was indicted by a Athens-Clarke County Grand Jury on Decem-ber 16 in relation to the incident for a felony count of computer trespass. Six days later, an arrest warrant for Pickren was signed by a superior court judge. Pick-ren’s attorney, John Garland, was contacted by Gagliano via email notifying him of the war-rant. Pickren was taken into custody on December 23 and released on a $5,000 bond later the same day.
Felony computer trespass
carries a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a fine of $50,000.
Administrators from UGA were contacted, but according to Timothy Chester, Vice Presi-dent of Information Technol-ogy, the University cannot com-ment on the incident because it is an open investigation.
Multiple attempts to reach Pickren were unsuccessful. Gar-land was contacted by the Tech-nique, but declined to comment on his clients case.
DAVID RAJIASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
BEHIND BRITTAINAt roughly 5:45 p.m. on De-
cember 8, a female student was accosted while walking behind Brittain dining hall. The suspect fled following a scream from the victim.
Following the incident being reported to the student body via Clery Act, a different student reported a similar occurrence in which she was the victim. The same individual is suspected in both cases.
Three days later, John Per-ry Smith, 43, was arrested by GTPD officers. He appeared in court the following Friday and was charged with two misde-
meanor counts of sexually bat-tery. Interim police chief Rob Connolly thanked the public for numerous tips which led to the arrest.
ROBBERY VS. TERMINATORAt approximately 6:15 p.m.
on December 30, a male student was walking north on Hemphill Avenue when a handgun was brandished at him by a male suspect.
The victim’s phone was requested, but instead of re-linquishing his property, the student verbally refused his at-tacker. The suspect then dis-charged the gun in the direction of the student; he was not hit, and began to advance in the direction of the attacker, who fled to a nearby parked vehicle. Before getting in, he fired an-other shot at the student, who remained unhurt.
Following the incident, the victim proceeded to McDon-ald’s before seeing fit to contact the GTPD. They met him at the restaurant, where he provided officers with details of the inci-dent.
GREAT START TO THE YEAR!On January 5 at about 7:10
p.m., a student in the atrium of the College of Business was ap-proached by an unknown man who asked to use his phone. The student granted his request and the man went inside a bathroom at the nearby West Peachtree en-trance.
When he came out of the bathroom, the man displayed his gun and demanded the stu-dent place his backpack on the ground and then enter the bath-room, with the stipulation that he count to 100 before exiting. The robbery went as planned by the perpetrator, and no shots were fired.
ROBBERY IS PAINFUL?At about 11:00 p.m. on De-
cember 7, a female non-student was walking on Spring Street near the Apache Cafe.
A male suspect was able to sneak up on the woman and snatch her purse. Resistance to the thievery proved a poor choice, as the attacker punched the victim in the face, and was later treated by EMS after the suspect vacated the scene. Ac-cording to the victim, the rob-ber was wearing a dark blue jacket, blue jeans and a dark knitted hat.
Tech student indicted by grand jury for UGA hack
See HACK, page 4
technique • January 9, 2015• 3// NEWS
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Panda Express, which opened in late December, joins Chick-fil-A, Taco Bell and Subway as a din-ing option in the Student Center.
Despite the fact that it opened the week after school ended last semester, the new dining option received a great deal of business.
Panda express replaced Burger Bytes which closed last Spring due to middling sales and lack of stu-dent interest. One reason for the performance, according to Steele, was the location.
“To us it was just tucked away,” Steele said. “It was a little bit in a
nook and tucked way back. Retail is generally is focused a lot on lo-cation, so if it’s not a visible loca-tion, it’s going to struggle.”
As a result, Tech and Panda Express changed the surrounding space to make the location more accessible.
“One of the things we did was opening up the entrance so the opening is twice as large as it was before,” Steele said. “I think we’ve done a lot to make it more acces-sible and more visible.”
One of the challenges with up-dating the space was that it was very small.
“It’s a tight space,” Steele said. “The student center is a very, very
tight facility, and I guess you would know that the place was built in 1970 and we have expand-ed greatly from that time period.”
According to Steele, one of the reasons that Panda Express was chosen was that there was a demand for Asian food. Of the 10 food trucks, three serve Asian food and make up 50% of sales.
“There is significant interest in additional Asian food,” Steele said. “We also did surveys recent-ly, and the number one requested ethnic concept was Asian, so we knew that we could use more Asian on campus.”
Panda Express is open Monday through Friday.
Panda Express begins operations
Photo by Brenda Lin Student Publications
Panda Express employees serve students dishes such as orange chicken and chow mein.
Panda Express opened after the end of term last semester and is open again this semester.
DAVID RAJIASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
The Virginia-based defense company Leidos recently made a $40,000 donation to the Interop-erability & Integration Innovation Lab (I3L), a healthcare and infor-mation technology lab at Tech.
“I3L’s primary objective is to help health industry and research community on health system in-teroperability and integration us-ing Health IT so that overall pa-tient health outcome is enhanced while the cost is reduced,” said Myung Choi, a technical manager at I3L. “We believe that health data that we are obtaining from [the] Employers Like Me (ELM) program and interoperability and integration capability that we are building from [the] Leidos gift help facilitate the meaningful health care research in Georgia Tech community.”
A data analytics platform, which will serve the purpose of as-sisting self-insured employers, has also had its development helped by the donation, and a basic draft is expected by February.
In regards to the future data platform, I3L is currently working on a pilot demonstration in order to illustrate the value of data anal-ysis of health information.
The presentation will be made to potential donors and will in-volve utilizing data analytics techniques, which are one of the subjects of the lab’s research, to identify trends and patterns. Data used in the presentation will be
provided by the potential donors, the majority of which are health-care firms.
“We will be using [a] NoSQL database, MongoDB, for the data aggregation with R analytic tool and Java Spring framework inte-grated to provide backend engine and dashboard,” Choi said.
The goal of the lab in this in-stance will be to provide mean-ingful artifacts to data providers through analytic capabilities. The importance of such a data-base would have for startups and smaller businesses, of which there are quite a few around Atlanta, should not be understated. For employers to have access to health data in this fashion would likely optimize the insuring process for their employees.
This project is a continuation of I3L’s practice of implementing technological solutions to modern health issues. In the past, their ef-forts have included the provision of tablets with relevant informa-tion about treatment processes to breast cancer patients. Healthcare selection is another area which could benefit from such additions of technology.
“We will continuously obtain health data and work with data re-search groups in Georgia Tech to provide findings from the data,” Choi said.
According to Choi, more do-nations will allow researchers to take additional steps to create higher quality and more readily available public information re-garding health.
I3L lab gets $40K donation
4 • January 9, 2015• technique // NEWS
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Tech has implemented the first of the planned changes to the aca-demic calendar.
Final exam week now includes an additional Monday evening exam period, replacing the Friday afternoon 2:50 p.m. to 5:40 p.m. exam period.
Another major change is that the deadline for dropping a class with a “W” has been pushed back. Beginning in the catalog year 2015-2016, all students will have two more weeks to decide whether or not to withdraw from the class..
The driving force behind the transformation of academic cal-endar structure dates back to De-cember 2013 when SGA members composed and proposed a white paper to administrators and Co-lin Potts, Vice Provost for Under-graduate Education.
Among many potential ideas ,the original paper suggests down-sizing the total number of instruc-tional days.
Key figures such as Laura Mar-garet Burbach the Vice President of Academic Affairs of SGA and administrators such as Steven Gi-rardot, the Associate Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education, and Potts have since convened to re-draft the white paper.
“While it’s generally the com-mittee chairs who work on specific projects, I’ve continued to lead this one myself since I’m familiar with its background and because it’s something I’m really passion-ate about,” Burbach said.
Burbach was last year’s Chair for Curriculum and Institute Poli-cies Committee, which is current-ly active in improving student-faculty feedback systems such as the Course Instructor Opinion Survey and dead week violation reporting.
A finding from the National College Health Assessment states that, “approximately 90% of Tech students self reported being ‘very stressed,’ greatly exceeding the na-tional average of 53%.”
The paper also refers to the study done by University of To-ronto, which suggests that min-utes spent in class per credit hour is higher at Tech relative to those of other universities in North America.
Decreasing the number of instructional days may also in-fluence professors’ methods for managing the course learning materials. The idea of shorter timeline to spread out the course-work naturally brought questions of maintaining the institutionally upheld rigorousness of a course.
“Because freshmen are transi-
tioning from high school where the type of rigor is considerably different from that in college-leveled class, college courses often bore and tire them,” said Jiayao Ni, a Ph.D student in econom-ics at Tech. “Considering this, a shorter timeframe to complete the course might not be recommend-ed for undergraduates. However, I think the idea of reducing number of school days is practical. When I taught a summer semester course, the class was everyday, unlike in spring or fall semester, so I did not have to invest time reviewing and previewing materials.”
Because financial aid and housing contracts last about a year, any change made to the cal-endar would generally take its ef-fect after three semesters.
Some of the proposal ideas may
require approval from Board of Regents and Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, thus requiring more time.
While multiple academic cal-endar revisions are beginning to emerge, Academic Affairs has largely focused on the Academic Grievance Website and Dead Week Policy this year. The Aca-demic Affairs Board also launched a social media campaign called “Unofficial Drop Date.” This campaign is designed to dissuade students from holding unneeded classes until the last day of Phase II, preventing other students from getting the spots they need.
High stress levels at Tech have drawn the attention of many campus organizations, and are also being addressed through the upcoming Wellness Initiative.
Tech plans academic calendar changes
Photo by Brenda Lin Student Publications
Tech is implementing several changes to this semester’s official calendar. These
changes include replacing one of the Friday exam periods with a Monday one
Student opinion on the case has been fairly supportive of Pick-ren.
“It was a bit of an overreac-tion on UGA’s part,” said third-year ME Zac Zachow. “He didn’t cause any irreversible damage.”.
“While it was heroic, it was technically wrong, but he doesn’t deserve such a harsh punishment,” said Sarah Lamothe, a first-year BME.
Others were more emphatic for their support of Pickren.
“He’s a legend,” said Preston Smith, a first-year business major.
The incident was first reported to the UGA Police Department by Chris Workman and Claude (Bri-an) Rivers, both employees for the UGA Information Technology Department. Senior Police Officer Chris Storey was dispatched to the Enterprise Information Technol-ogy Services (EITS) building on Cedar Street in Athens to inves-tigate the report, which included interviewing of the reporting par-ties. Over the course of the next two weeks, a case was built up through “investigation into unau-thorized access and alterations to UGA computer network” accord-ing to the UGA PD daily log.
Sage Pickren, who claims to be Pickren’s brother, created a Go-FundMe.com campaign on De-cember 30 in order to support Ry-an’s legal fees. The page contains a number of quotes from various news outlets questioning the va-lidity of the severe charge.
One of the primary arguments used by defenders of Pickren is the “no victim” claim. It has been argued that, since no employee of UGA was actually harmed and no long-term damage was done, a prosecution is not warranted. Another argument has been that the offense was clearly intended as a prank preceding the highly an-ticipated Thanksgiving weekend game between Tech and UGA.
No date has been set for the trial.
HACK FROM PAGE 2
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Friday, January 9, 2015
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. - Anonymous
OPINIONS EDITOR: Wyatt Bazrod
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OUR VIEWS | Consensus Opinion
Addressing the increase in CrimeFurther precautions for student’s safety needed
The past few Clery Acts have high-lighted the greater prevelance of crime on Tech’s campus within this past academic year. While the GTPD townhall did be-gin to address these issues, there is still a variety of on-campus crimes which many students are not aware of.
Since 2012, crime rates at Tech have in-creased in most non-violent fields, with the 2014 Campus safety report showing an increase in both motor vehicle thefts and burglaries.
Often, these types of crimes do not get immediately dispersed to faculty and stu-dents because they do not fall into the re-quired Clery Act reporting categories. In all fairness, if GTPD were to report every last crime to the students like a Clery Act, it would likely create an over-heightened sense of panic among the student body in an already anxious campus.
However, for instance, if there were a string of car break-ins, it would benefit
students to be aware of the issue. To some extent, both Clery Act and non-Clery Act crimes would be more preventable if stu-dents were more informed on known dan-gers in the area. Behaviors, such as where students park their cars, can easily be al-tered to ensure the safety of students, fac-ulty, as well as keeping their belongings as safeguarded as possible.
Rather than let rumors run amuck and have these instances go over-dramatized, being direct and open about the current trends of crime happening throughtout campus will keep students and faculty alert and, hopefully, more at ease.
While GTPD has certainly made an ef-fort through things such as a townhall on the issue, information is provided sporati-cally, and in few places, sometimes just on reddit. It is in everyone’s best intrest to cre-ate and informed student body, in an effor-ty to both reduce risk and increase campus safety as a whole.
The Consensus Opinion reflects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the Technique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors.
technique editorial boardBrittany Miles EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Lindsay Purcell MANAGING EDITORConnor Napolitano DESIGN EDITOR
Kenneth Marino NEWS EDITORAlexa Grzech LIFE EDITOR
Brenda Lin PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Wyatt Bazrod OPINIONS EDITORJoe Murphy ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Mark Russell SPORTS EDITOR
TOP SLIVERS
Why do they not want people studying all night in CULC? Because they smell bad.
Every year I wish for colder weather and every year, Mother Nature reminds me of wind gusts.
Made it almost an entire week before crying so I would say 2015 has big plans for me.
Is it procrastinating from task force if you’re group chatting with your task force team?
Can some billionaire buy wikipedia already. the donation requests are bigger than the text I’m reading
Gas has gone from looking like my current GPA to looking like my GPA after first semester.
The highlight of 2015 thus far has been the new latte from Starbucks so things needs to change.
Maybe I could schedule more mental breakdowns in place of gym time if it means burning calories.
Alright one week down and already in need of a massive snow storm.
We need to leave BAE in 2014 and keep Fall Out Boy in 2006.
Stuff overheard on the bus radio: Look out, Blue. You got a runner. *Sees kid sprinting across the parking
lot*
6 • January 9, 2015• technique // OPINIONS
As a college student, I cannot help but feel simultaneously ex-cited and terrified of adulthood. I am aware that people would say that as a college student liv-ing on my own I am technically an adult, but I still don’t feel like one.
I think of this situation as the classic dog chas-ing a car anal-ogy.
I am excited to get to this wonderful state of adulthood since the change is really interesting because of how new and different it is.
However, I figure that once I become an adult, I will simply not know what to do. I mean, right now I am still fortunate enough to depend on my par-ents while I am in school, which means that I don’t have to pay for a lot of things that “real” adults do like: phone, water, electricity, rent, loans, etc.
I can easily see myself being overwhelmed by these all these new payments and newfound responsibilities despite all the preparation leading up to that part of my life.
It does not help that at col-lege, even at a school like Tech, you are not really prepared for having to pay bills, balance your check book, and many other typical adult tasks.
Then there is the chapter of life where raising a family be-comes the norm and that just sounds scary at this point in time. I am very aware that it will take a lot of time for me to get to a state where I am com-fortable having a family of my own.
I hope that the thought of forming a family too early is a
scary thought for a lot of people here, because apparently every-one’s high school friends don’t have that same mindset.
Legally everyone is granted adult-hood at the ripe age of 18.
It is weird to think that if I had been less for-tunate I would not be here at Tech where I am able to set myself up for a better future.
I would prob-ably still be in Tennessee go-ing to a less than amazing state school , to make a recognizable attempt at preparing myself for a job.
Which is not to say that is a bad thing, as I am fully aware that any education is much bet-ter than none; but, for an as-piring electrical engineer, very few Tennessee state schools can compare to the investment of Tech.
I guess what I am trying to say is that at the age of 18 I was nowhere near ready for the responsibility that could have potentially been thrown on me.
Especially considering how many people agree that this magical transition to adulthood occurs when you have a job af-ter sopme degree of schooling and finally get stable enough to settle down.
There are also those people who insist that everyone is truly a child at heart, which I certain-ly can relate with.
I like to think of this switch from adolescent to an adult as a very slow and likely painful process where the wallet cries, the body aches, and the mind decides that sleep is the best va-cation.
EUGENIA KIMSECOND-YEAR CHBE
“To go to all of my classes.”
ALEX POUXFIRST-YEAR ME
“I don’t have any because I will break it on the first
day.”
AAHRON DANIELTHIRD-YEAR CE
“To make it through my first semester.”
CHHAYA ARORAFIRST-YEAR ISYE
“To not be stressed out.”
What is your New Year’s Resolution?
Growing up can be a slow process
“I am technically an adult, but I still don’t
feel like one. ”
CONNOR NAPOLITANODESIGN EDITOR
Photos by Kartik Kini Student Publications
I didn’t read anything over break. Well, I take that back; I did read some things over break – several movie synopses, the back of a box of Reeses Puffs and an online quiz that told me which Clue-less outfit is most like my person-ality- but noth-ing important.
Now nor-mally when I manage to ac-complish noth-ing but laziness and slovenliness, I am at least somewhat proud. This time, though, I only felt disappointed.
After much thought and a fear-mongering WebMD search, I have decided that I was tired. Too tired to even look at the back cover of a book, much less actually learn something. And therein lies my disappointment; I used to have a love and curi-ous need for learning but lately it feels like something I just have to do.
Let me clarify something, though, as I am sure you can all see where this editorial is head-ing. I love Tech. I do well under its constant pressure and I ap-preciate the student and adult it is turning me in to.
I do believe that, especially in this economy, there is a need for skills based, “you need to know this or your employer will hate you,” almost hazing-like, learn-ing.
I am not saying that I had wish I had gone to a much too expensive and too lackadaisical liberal arts college. All I am say-ing is that I, personally, need to find a balance.
Over break I did manage to go to the dentist (It took a surprising amount of effort to
pry myself from my bed). As I was sitting there, trying to keep up a stinted conversation with said dentist as he had his hand in my mouth, I saw something
on the television in the corner of the room. Some children’s docu-mentary was on about the rain-forests of Can-ada…and I was fascinated. I did not know there were rainforests in Canada—or more likely,
I had once known there were rainforests in Canada but that 7th grade life science informa-tion had been put aside to make room for calculus and chemical equations.
I have told just about ev-eryone I know about these rainforests in Canada. Heck, I am writing an entire editorial about them (sort of). And that is the feeling I want back. The feeling that learning is excit-ing and point of view changing and something more than just drudgery or “hey that was al-most interesting” or even more likely “I am going to forget this as soon as I take the exam.”
Maybe there is a simple so-lution to my problem. Maybe what I am looking for is a differ-ent elective or a nap or the will-power to watch something other than Project Runway when I can’t sleep at night.
I am not usually one for New Year’s resolutions but I do think that this editorial comes pretty close to one. And I hope that at the end of this semester, I will have some other fact to share with guys than that bears eat over two million calories in the months before they hibernate. But for now, that’s all I got.
Learning to love learning again
“And that is the feeling I want back. The
feeling that learning is exciting...”
LINDSAY PURCELLMANAGING EDITOR
It’s safe to say that 2014 has been a major flop for the movie industry, especially the mov-ies that were released over the summer. Usually the summer is when the best and top gross-ing movies are released, but this year it was a major let down.
I think it is because the movie industry has become too reliant on superhero movies to be big blockbuster hits and con-sumers are getting tired of so many of them. But it wasn’t just superhero movies that struggled this year.
Because of success in interna-tional markets, Hollywood will keep churning out more Marvel and Spiderman sequels which grossed 500 of its 700 million dollars overseas. For compari-son, the first Spiderman grossed 400 million domestically so within 12 years there has been a 50% drop-off and that’s not even counting inflation.
I saw several movies so far this year and the only movies that exceeded my expectations were Guardians of the Galaxy and Lego Movie, which were the top grossing movies in America this year. I felt that Guardians
of the Galaxy was fantastic and was the best Marvel movie I’ve seen, but that was because it was something completely new to the average American and had a great cast of characters. Now, I love the Avengers just as much as the next guy, but Iron Man, Thor, and Captain America se-quels have begun to get duller and superhero movies are start-ing to lose their flair.
What made super hero mov-ies special in the early 2000s, was that they were new and rare and technology had just gotten good enough to make the mov-ies seem realistic. Even though Spiderman and X-Men were groundbreakers for the superhe-ro genre in the early 2000s, The
Dark Knight was the movie that I think blew the whole thing open.
The Dark Knight came out in the summer of 2008 and it took the country by storm. It was one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, but not because it was a super hero movie. I felt that way because it had amazing act-ing and a fantastic director that wanted it to be more than a ste-reotypical superhero movie.
At the time the Dark Knight became the second highest grossing movie of all time in America and with that, every other movie studio began to take note. Marvel was already planning The Avengers and the success of the Dark Knight only
added fuel to their fire of cash-ing in while you can, which they did. The Avengers grossed 1.5 billion worldwide.
However, the Dark Knight and the Avengers were two dif-ferent types of movies despite both being considered in the same genre. One was their only for the purpose to entertain and the other had the purpose to inspire you, give you hope and wasn’t about money, but about sending a message.
Looking at the past ten years of movies, only twice was a su-perhero movie the number one hit and it’s a lock to guaran-tee that Mockingjay will pass Guardians of the Galaxy this November.
Recently there was a time-line of future superhero movies coming out by Marvel, Fox, and Warner Brothers. In the next six years there are 40 superhero movies planned. For compari-son from 2000-2014 there were close to 50.
While I’m excited about the new Avengers, It’s hard for me to get excited about, Wolverine 3 and Thor 3. Hollywood should focus on quality and quantity.
Please stop making superhero movies“I the movie industry has
become too reliant on superhero movies to be big
blockbuster hits....”
MARK RUSSELLSPORTS EDITOR
technique • January 9, 2015• 7// OPINIONS
I am a Master’s student at Geor-gia Tech. In a highly unfortunate incident last Saturday ([Novem-ber 30th]), a student was assaulted and robbed of his belongings right below our apartment. The time of incident (9:50 pm) is not an odd hour and street intersection is right across the street from where the campus Stingerette drops us off (Kirk Landon Learning Center - 0.3 miles from main campus). I have been told time an again that this is sheer luck and nothing can be done.
However, I feel there are some loop-holes that can be addressed to prevent such incidents from happening:
a) The Stingerette: This is meant for our safety but is a high-ly unpredictable and unreliable service as of now. It is either a race against time for us to run down the building in between calls and miss the Stingerette or wait for eternity stranded on deserted roads.
The app keeps beaming re-quests and the call service only re-states to us what the app says. If it is a lucky night and we stra-tegically get on to the stingerette, it takes us around the campus for incredibly long amounts of time
(almost 45 minutes to an hour) before dropping us off at our des-tination. This is really expensive on our time and most of the times we are tired enough to decide to simply walk home and go to sleep. They also reject rides to students who are on the stop but have not used the app to request a ride. I understand it is not the fault of the drivers and they are doing what they are supposed to. However, to make this service more efficient, there needs to be some revision in the dispatch, pick-up and drop-off policy and the number of Stinger-ettes in service at a time.
b) GTPD services: I under-stand it is not possible for them to patrol every nook and corner of the campus at every possible time. They are also really efficient in re-sponding after the crime. Howev-er, doesn’t seem so in preventing. In one of the incidents I recall, we were waiting for the Stinger-ette around midnight for a really long time and the police car in front of us rejected us a ride back home. We saw no point in asking them for favors since then. We do not feel confident in approaching them unless something bad has al-ready happened.
There are a lot of students at
Tech and there is clearly a mis-match in the demand supply ratio. More attention needs to be paid to possible work-arounds. Some steps on the top of my head are -
1. Employ more teams for es-cort services.
2. Optimize the number of Stingerettes in service, pick up and drop-off locations, wait time between calls, time of journey and their route.
3. Examples from other univer-sities: USC has guards standing at every street intersection in hous-ing areas around campus from 6 pm to 6 am. UPenn has service men that walk the students home as well as van services.
4. Tie up with Lyft or Uber to offer rides to students at discount-ed rates which would also help students in emergency situations.
I am not sure if these issues have not been brought to the no-tice of the right authority or if I have not researched on the system well enough to understand the possibility of prevention. But I do believe there are people who have the right knowledge and resources to design better solutions.
As I see it, we have great minds and resources in different fields of Engineering, researching on vari-ous issues concerning the planet; I hope we are able to divert some of those towards policies concerning safety in our own neighborhood.
Let me know if you may know the right person I can forward this to. I am a Computer Science ma-jor, but I would definitely want to help in any way I can in my re-maining semester here at Tech.
-Arpita Bhattacharya Graduate Student CS
Letter to the Editor:Upping Campus Safety Patrol
“As I see it, we have great minds and resources in different fields of Engineering, researching on various
issues concerning the planet; I hope we are able to divert some of those towards policies concerning
safety in our own neighborhood.”
ARPITA BHATTACHARYAGRADUATION STUDENT, CS
OUR VIEWS | HOT OR NOT
Food Court HoursNew for Tech in 2015 is
the luxury for students to eat at the food court for not only lunch, but now dinner too. The food court, a central loca-tion with a variety of options for students will now be open Monday through Thursday between 4pm and 7pm for stu-dents. This gives students more convenient options for places to eat in the time block where many students are coming/go-ing to recitations and labs.
HOT– or –NOT
Clery ActsIt was only a short time
before the first Clery Act of 2015 was sent out, and with it, a disturbing precedent when a thief actually entered the Scheller College of Business at a relatively early hour and held a student up at gun point. So-cial media erupted, with many concerned students and par-ents alike questioning Tech’s current operations in keeping students and faculty safe at all hours around campus.
Coach Paul JohnsonOne of the last great mo-
ments of 2014 for any Tech fan was seeing our Yellow Jackets conquer Mississippi State in the Orange Bowl. The domi-nance was great, but maybe best was the after game inter-view with Coach Paul John-son, who made one of his best commentaries, saying “At least for a week or two, we don’t have to hear about the SEC.” And truer words were never spoken, CPJ.
Northside SinkholeMonday night not only saw
an alarming Clery Act, but also a sudden sinkhole opening on Northside Drive. Twenty-five feet long and at points three-feet thick, the sinkhole caused the far-right lane to be closed and traffic has quickly backed up ever since. The Georgia Department of Transporta-tion has poured concrete in the hole and will probably re-pave the area when the weather warms up.
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Life LIFE EDITOR: Alexa GrzechASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR: Nick Johnson
Breakfast for Dinner Students can put a twist on classic breakfast favorites with
amazingly easy-to-follow recipes. 410
Sticking to New Year’s Resolutions
VIDYA IYERCONTRIBUTING WRITER
A new year, a new you, right? According to Forbes, less than 8 percent of people who make reso-lutions are able to follow through on them. You can be part of this exclusive group of people if you just follow these tips.
REALISTIC RESOLUTIONAs you are in the crowd cel-
ebrating the beginning of a new year, anything seems possible. There’s a tendency to make re-ally extravagant goals because you know this year is going to be the year. While it is great to want to make that change in your life, try to keep it simple. The sky may be the limit, but you can’t reach it in one day.
GOALSA resolution tends to be a year-
long goal. With things going on in our lives, making lifestyle changes gets pushed down on the prior-ity list. A way to avoid this from happening is by setting several SMART—Smart, Measurable, Attainable, Result-oriented, and Time bound—midterm goals. Making these SMART goals will allow your goals to seem tangible.
INCENTIVIZE Maintaining your resolution
and staying on track are hard work and just quitting may seem very tempting. To avoid making this decision, reward yourself as you reach each of your midterm goals. Not only will the reward seem in-credibly satisfying because you’ve earned it, but it will also give you the motivation to continue keep-ing up with your resolution
SHAREThe easiest person to lie to is
yourself. Does this sound famil-iar? “I’ll eat this cookie today and I’ll work out tomorrow.” Before you know it half the year has gone by and your promise to work out is a distant memory. To prevent this from happening, tell people about your resolution and share your progress. The encouragement you’ll get from your family and friends can be encouraging.
PATIENCEHalf the battle in maintain-
ing your New Year’s Resolution is patience. You may not be aware of your results at first but if you can push through and keep with it, you will soon be able to see the change.
Professor Ng presents new aerosol studyKENNETH MARINO
NEWS EDITOR
Man-made sulfates, nitrous oxide and nitrous dioxide are re-sponsible for 43-70% of all organ-ic aerosols according to a recent study by Professor Sally Ng, a professor in the School of Chemi-cal and Biomolecular Engineering and the School of Earth and At-mospheric Sciences her students Lu Xu and Christopher Boyd and researchers from institutions throughout the Southeast.
“Aerosols can actually be formed from both humans and natural emissions, and I think a lot of people are surprised that aerosols can be formed from natu-ral emissions,” Ng said.
The study, published in Pro-ceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, explains the mecha-nisms by which human-created emissions can interact with the natural emissions from trees.
“The essence of this paper is that… trees emit compounds that go through oxidation to form aerosols, but it turns out that these human activities can emit sulfates, and they can actually change the mechanism or interfere with the mechanism along this pathway how the [organic aerosols] are formed from trees and end up making more.”
The study provides the solu-tion to a recent paradox involv-ing aerosols. Previous studies have shown that there is a strong correlation between aerosols and carbon monoxide, a man-made emission, and that the majority of
aerosols come fro, organic sources rather than direct emissions from cars and power plants.
“So there is this paradox,” Ng said. “If both are true, there must be a way for the anthropogenic component [to interact with natu-ral emissions].”
In their paper, Ng and others explain the chemical mechanisms by which man-made pollutants cause greater production of or-ganic aerosols, effectively solving the paradox.
According to Ng, the study of the formation of aerosols is impor-tant both for the study of human health and for understanding cli-mate.
“First of all, there’s climate change. Everybody talks about climate change and aerosols, they can absorb radiation or reflect it,” Ng said. “So aerosol warms and cools depending on what they are. And overall, aerosol actually cools more.”
On the other hand, aerosols can be harmful to your health. The World Health Organization classifies aerosols as carcinogenic.
“The problem is that [increas-ing the amount of aerosol] would help you reduce warming, but you’re going to get sick.”
The study might also have an effect on public policy. Nitrous ox-ide, nitrous dioxide and sulfate are
all man-made pollutants created by automobiles and coal-burning power plants. These emissions are already harmful to health, but the results of the study would indicate reducing the emissions would re-duce the amount of aerosol.
“A lot of the industries are do-ing a good job of reducing the NOx and SO2 emission, so what this implies is when we reduce these emissions, we’re actually reaping multiple benefits,” Ng said.
The research was conducted both in Professor Ng’s scientific lab and at the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS) in Ala-bama.
ALEXA GRZECHLIFE EDITOR
Deciding to forgo the typi-cal Spanish or French route and enroll in Russian, Sarah Stone, a 3rd year INTA major, quickly became interested in the language and the complex country. Her in-terest in Russia coupled with her international affairs background ultimately landed her an intern-ship working at the United States
Embassy in Russia last fall. “I learned a lot as a State De-
partment intern. I learned a lot about the life and job of a foreign service officer and working at an Embassy,” Stone shared. “I sharp-ened my skills by researching and writing analytic cables and arti-cles, and I learned so much about important issues between the US and Russia.”
By working as an US intern in Russia amidst the Crimea crisis,
Stone certainly saw the strained relationship between the US and Russia from a firsthand perspec-tive.
“It was very interesting to be there as more developments oc-curred in the Crimea crisis. There is definitely a tension between the US and Russia. Most activities such as projects or collaboration efforts have been frozen since the Crimea crisis,” said Stone.
Moreover, during her time, she
also learned “that diplomacy is a very interesting, complex, and sometimes tricky world.” Her in-ternship even presented her with the opportunity to sit in on a meeting with the current US am-bassador to Russia. She refers to the experience as “incredible.”
Although she believes the Rus-sian media pushes anti-American propaganda, Stone didn’t see “any anti-American propaganda day-to-day.” Instead, she saw more ads featuring the beloved leader, Vladimir Putin.
When asked if the Russian population truly adores Putin, Stone responds with a solid affir-mation.
“Yes, people really do love Pu-tin. They view him as a powerful figure that makes Russia more powerful in the world, hence the pictures of Putin shirtless riding a bear,” claimed Stone.
Even with the Putin adoration, she saw the overall Russian popu-lation as “very nice and friendly.” She was even invited to tea by a Russian babushka, otherwise known as grandmother, after talk-ing to the babushka for forty-five minutes while waiting for a bus.
Stone is currently open to re-turning to Russia one day and is now strongly considering joining the Foreign Service after her US Embassy intern experience.
Stone shares experience in Russia
Photo courtesy of Professor Sally Ng
A student in Professor Ng’s lab works on the testing chamber for the study. Their work con-
cludes the amount of aerosols can be reduced by combating harmful anthropogenic emissions.
Photo courtesy of Sarah Stone
Stone and fellow interns pose in front of the famous Russian Kremlin. Through her US Embassy
internship experience, Stone gained first-hand knowledge of the inner-workings of diplomacy.
technique • January 9, 2015• 9// LIFE
Georgia Tech Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
———— ———Julian BondFormer Chairman of the Board, NAACP Keynote Speaker MLK Jr. Lecture Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015Student Center Ballroom3 p.m.
Civil Rights to Human Rights:
The Courage to Act
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Mr. and Ms. GT discuss their homecoming win NICK JOHNSON
ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR
The Technique sat down with Grant Veve and Claire Batten, winners of the Mr. and Ms. Geor-gia Tech homecoming competi-tion, to discuss their personal experiences during Homecoming Week 2014.
Grant Veve: I’m a 5th year ME. I grew up in Colorado, and we moved to Orlando for middle and high school. I knew I wanted to do engineering,... and I saw Tech as the best fit. I’m an Air Force cadet here, and my dad went to the Air Force Academy. I’m also very involved in my fraternity [Pi Kappa Alpha] as president.
Claire Batten: I’m a 4th year Public Policy student. I have grown up in Georgia my entire life and grew up in a very Tech-oriented family—both my dad and my grandpa went here. I used to be a peer leader in Folk and in Field, and now I live in my soror-ity house [Phi Mu]. I am currently serving on the executive boards for Tech tour guides and... for Tech student ambassadors.
Technique: In the secondary interview of the competition, you were asked, “If you came back in 25 years as an alum, what would you like to see changed or stay the same on campus?” What were your presentations?
Veve: Claire has a better one than me. Me being the regi-mented person I am, I was like, “Ok, presentation? Powerpoint.” I wanted to see the gameday tradi-tions stay the same: the Whistle, Yellow Jacket Alley, the Reck. Tradition is something that drew me to this campus; it’s cemented in old-fashioned roots but with technological progress, and I re-ally appreciate that. My sugges-tion was to upgrade [the Reck] in the next 25 years into a flex-fuel
or electric vehicle with the same body.
Batten: I brought in a small fishbowl and put a blue plastic fish inside. Most students who come to Tech are used to feeling like a big fish in a small pond, and I filled up the fishbowl with water. That identity starts to dilute when they come to Tech because ev-eryone else is a big fish in a small pond. As I shared that, I put black food dye in the water to where you couldn’t see the fish anymore. Ultimately, it’s really easy to lose sight of who you are here, and... this leads to mental health is-sues like anxiety and depression.
When I come back in 25 years, I want to see a campus full of men-tal wellness. Every time I gave a way that we could combat these mental health issues, I put bleach in the water... [to make] the food coloring disappear. After my pre-sentation, the water was clear, and you could see the fish again.
Technique: What did you do to promote your campaigns? You weren’t allowed to have physical promotions like fliers.
Veve: I wanted a way to get people to know who I am, and [my campaign video] was my humor-ous take on that. I wanted people to be able to come up and talk to
me and think that I’m a normal student. It had a solid 2000 views, then Total Frat Move got ahold of it and, much to my surprise, thought it was awesome. The next day, it was up to 8000 views. I think now it’s at like 14,000.
Batten: For my campaigning, I felt weird. I posted a picture on my Facebook profile, and a friend made a group inviting people to vote for me. I noticed myself start-ing to get caught up in the process, and I didn’t want to look back on my senior year and homecoming and feel like I didn’t enjoy it. So I logged off Facebook for a week.
Technique: So you un-cam-
paigned?Veve: Well, it worked.Batten: I didn’t want to get
consumed with the process.Technique: In the interview
with homecoming coordinator Deron Mai, he said that Mr./Ms. aren’t that involved on campus. What are your plans for 2015?
Batten: We actually went to breakfast this morning with Ja-cline and Stephen,... and we had a good conversation about what it’s going to take to really take ad-vantage of the position. We want to interact more heavily with the alumni association or the admis-sions office to speak to a more ex-ternal base, like alumni coming back to campus or potential stu-dents looking to attend.
Veve: If there’s ever an organi-zation that wants me to show up to something, I’ll go. If there’s a way for me to motivate students to achieve more and get more out of their Tech experience, then I want to do that.
Technique: Is there anything that you would like to say to the student body as a whole and also to future Mr./Ms. candidates?
Veve: THANK YOU for the wonderful opportunity. It means a lot to have that support. [For future candidates,] enjoy the ex-perience. Even being nominated is an honor in itself, and that’s some-thing you should take with pride. Try to enjoy the happiness that encompasses making it, but also be happy with what you’ve already accomplished.
Batten: For Mr./Ms. candi-dates, I think we throw the word “honor” around loosely. Mr./Ms. is an opportunity, not an honor. This doesn’t enhance or diminish our value. Instead, it’s an opportu-nity to steward the pillars of this school. It’s an opportunity to give back, not a title that is deserved or entitled.
Photo by John Nakano Student Publications
Grant Veve and Claire Batten drive off in the Reck after winning the Mr. and Ms. GT competition dur-
ing Homecoming Week. The winners share their experiences during the intense interview process.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2015
Dorm room food: Breakfast for dinner ALEXA GRZECH
LIFE EDITOR
With breakfast commonly be-ing referred to as the most impor-tant meal of the day, who says that you cannot enjoy a nice delicious spread of eggs, bacon, and toast twice a day?
With the average Tech student constantly stressed over classes and extracurricular activities, most students fail to think about possible dinner options. An easy dorm room classic, breakfast for dinner, should be a staple among college students.
Adding a unique twist to the original pancake, cake batter pan-cakes are an easy way to spice up a traditional breakfast for dinner meal.
This easy-to-follow recipe should not prove challenging. To make the pancakes just stir 1 cup of Bisquick or generic pancake mix, 1 cup of yellow cake mix, candy sprinkles, 1 cup of milk, 1 teaspoon of vanilla, and 2 eggs into a bowl.
Then pour around 1/4 cup of the mix onto a heat griddle and cook until the edges are dry.
Then, turn the pancake and cook until the pancake has a nice golden brown coloring.
In another bowl, you should whisk 2 1/2 cups of powdered sugar, 1 more teaspoon of va-nilla, 3 tablespoons of milk, and more candy sprinkles if you’re feeling crazy. When the creation is smooth then top the pancakes
with this wonderful glaze and then you’re in for a delicious treat.
Egg quesadillas are another creative way to spice up breakfast for dinner. To make this yummy meal just scramble at least two eggs, warm up a tortilla, and put the finished scrambled eggs in the
tortilla. Easy, right? Make sure to add some cheese,
peppers, ham, bacon or tomatoes to the quesadilla if you want some more flavor.
Another classic that some col-lege students might not know how to make is french toast. This
mouth-watering vanilla french toast recipe is also very simple to follow and proves to be a satisfy-ing treat.
In a bowl just whisk 4 eggs, 1 cup of half-and-half, 2 table-spoons of sugar, 2 teaspoons of vanilla, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon,
and 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg. Then, dip both sides of a slice of bread (whatever type you like) in the mixture.
Following that step, melt some butter over medium heat in a skil-let and cook the bread for 4 to 6 minutes only turning the slice(s) once.
To add some more flavor to the vanilla french toast you can also add chocolate spread, syrup, strawberries, or bananas.
An easy breakfast side item is the classic fruit salad dish. Mak-ing four servings, a newly im-proved fruit salad recipe asks for 1 red chopped apple, 1 green chopped apple, 1 sliced nectarine, 2 chopped celery stocks, 1/2 cup of dried cranberries, 1/2 cup of walnuts, and 1 container of lemon yogurt.
Just simply mix these delicious ingredients together for a new take on the fruit salad dish. The dish also tastes best chilled so just stick it in the fridge for 1 hour and you’re good to go.
A tasty dessert for this break-fast for dinner menu is an apple peanut butter sandwich. Just slice the apples into circles and put pea-nut butter, chocolate chips, and granola on the inside to make a tasty dessert-like treat.
Like the old adage says, break-fast is the most important meal of the day. But that by no means im-plies that it is the most difficult or most mundane meal. With these recipes, we are sure you’ll soon be cooking up a storm!
Design by Brighton Kamen Student Publications
Breakfast for dinner is a fun and easy concept. Appetizing meals for any time of the day include
egg quesadillas, vanilla french toast, cake batter pancakes, fruit salad and apple sandwiches.
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR: Joe MurphyASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR: Kara PendleyEntertainment
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Into the Woods falls short of BroadwayFILM
Into the WoodsGENRE: Musical, FantasySTARRING: Meryl Streep, Emily BluntDIRECTOR: Rob MarshallRATING: PGRELEASE DATE: Dec. 25
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KARA PENDLEYASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Many great Broadway musicals like Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and Rent have been suc-cessfully adapted to film. Broad-way will always be a one-of-a-kind experience, but given the op-portunity, it is astounding to see these works of art brought to the movie theaters. However, Into the Woods, directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago), failed to translate to the big screen as smoothly as other Broadway musicals. Even with its large ensemble cast and impressive production numbers, the Disney production misses the very thing that made it a hit: the Broadway stage.
Into the Woods brings many of the classic fairytales into one huge production. James Lapine, writer of the screenplay and mu-sical, tells the story of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick, Pitch Perfect), Jack (Daniel Huttlestone, Les Mi-sérables) from Jack and the Bean Stalk, Little Red Riding Hood
Anna Kendrick, playing Cinderella, sings her solo, “On the Steps of the Palace”. Kend-rick delivered an outstanding performance that changes Cinderella’s story for the better.
Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Motion Pictures
(Lilla Crawford, Annie (Broad-way)) and Rapunzel (Mackenzie Mauzy, Brother’s Keeper). The mu-sical also follows a baker (James Corden, Begin Again) and his wife (Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada) who have been cursed to be barren by a witch (Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady). To lift the curse, the witch bids them to go into the woods to collect four items which happen to be from the other fairy-tales. The tales merge in the titu-lar woods as Lapine puts his own wicked twist on the classic tales.
The film is teeming with well-known actors in big and small rolls. Actors who have never had major singing rolls surprised audi-ences with huge musical numbers and booming voices. Overall, the all-star cast delivers a vocally strong show.
Chris Pine, best known for his role as Captain Kirk in the Star Trek films, shocked many theater-goers when his character, Prince Charming, broke out in a hilari-ous number, “Agony,” a melodra-matic song about the agony of “al-ways being ten steps behind” the beautiful Cinderella. The audi-ence broke out in laughter as Pine ripped open his shirt while strut-ting and posing in the river in the movie’s best musical number.
As expected, Streep delivered an outstanding performance as well. With her standout number, “Stay with Me,” Streep brought life into an otherwise dull lull in the movie.
However, the cast are not the only ones who should be applaud-ed for this movie. The set and spe-
cial effects are superbly executed. This set is one of the harder ones to imagine being executed well on Broadway, especially back in 1987 when it was originally released. It is impossible to make a bean stalk that reaches the skies or a giant’s foot coming down on the charac-ters with any sense of reality.
In the movie, the special effects are so realistic that even the giants do not look out of place. Though these effects are not the focus of the film, they bring viewers effec-
mission to adjust to the dramatic reversals.
Broadway is often meant to be overdramatic, but when a play re-lies on the overdramatic aspect, it can easily become ridiculous on-screen since the actors cannot dial back without losing effect. This gives the movie an absurd air.
All things considered, the film has some appealing aspects, but anyone who is not a musical or Broadway enthusiast will be wish-ing for an intermission.
tively into a different and surpris-ing world of fairytales. This is the only part of the play that is truly enhanced by the movie adaption.
To reach its peak level of enter-tainment, Into the Woods needs a live performance as well as a live audience. Though the music is astounding, the film limps along with abrupt shifts and abandoned plot lines. The story requires the emotional impact of the stage, where the audience has the op-portunity between acts and inter-
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What do the Telltale Heart, Loki’s Spear, Icelandic Swans and Tesla’s Death Ray all have in com-mon? This is not a particularly pressing question, nor is it one that will keep people up at night pondering. Nevertheless, TNT’s new TV show The Librarians an-swers it. Sadly, it does so without clarifying what exactly an Icelan-dic Swan is or why it is consid-ered a source of magical power.
The new show is a continu-ation of the trilogy of The Li-brarian movies. In the movies, Flynn Carsen (Noah Wyle, Fall-ing Skies) is hired by a public li-brary only to find out that he is now The Librarian, a post which serves to protect modern civiliza-tion from dark magic and to keep the Library, a storehouse of magi-cal artifacts, safe from evildoers.
The TV show takes place ten years after Flynn (still played by Wyle) becomes the world’s only Librarian. The premiere follows Flynn as he searches for new can-didates to become the Librarian. The main antagonists, the Serpent
Brotherhood, are also introduced to the show which leads to Flynn deciding the three remaining can-didates should become Librarians in training, thus freeing himself to find the Library, which is magi-cal. After this decision, Flynn goes
gallivanting off while the show follows the four new recruits as they learn to deal with magic and keep it from destroying the world.
It is easy to argue that the two hour premiere of The Librar-ians was merely a long-winded
way of excusing the absence of the original Librarian as well as to give a reason why they cannot simply use some of the magical artifacts from the Library to solve all of their problems. At least it set up an interesting atmosphere.
Though the show is comical at times, and readily makes fun of it-self, after introductions are made, its plot is lacking and predict-able. For example, when some-one mentions that “wounds from Excalibur never heal,” you know someone is going to get stabbed.
Moreover, sometimes things happen for the sole reason that the plot demands it. For the most part, though The Librarians man-ages to explain this away by say-ing that one of the new Librarians, Ezekiel (John Kim) is inherently lucky and another one, Cassan-dra (Lindy Booth, Dawn of the Dead) has synesthesia, which automatically makes her a math genius, which, in turn, man-ages to deal with any puzzle Eze-kiel’s luck did not take care of.
In one episode, after the team saved a town, its sheriff explains to his confused daughter that they were saved by librarians. He sud-denly realizes the absurdity of this and summarizes the entire series with the baffled line: “Now that I say that out loud, that does not make any sense at all. Not a lick.”
Although the premise of the show may lead to more comprehensive storylines in the fu-ture, as it currently stands, The Librarians may confuse viewers with its mythology.
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Must-see shows and talks at the Fox TheaterBRENDA LIN
PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Attending university in the heart of Midtown, Tech students are afforded the opportunity to be in walking distance to award-win-ning Fox Theater. With more than 250 shows a year ranging from touring Broadway shows to talks by world-renowned scientists, there is a little bit of entertain-ment for everyone. Here are some spectacular shows and events to check out this spring.
JANUARY
Jan 11 Ballet lovers rejoice as the State Ballet Theater of Russia graces the Fox with their produc-tion of Swan Lake. Now under the direction of award-winning danc-er and Moiseyev dance company soloist Nikolay Anokhin, the State Ballet Theatre of Russia presents fifty of Russia’s ballet stars in the classical ballet. The romantic story follows Odette, a princess turned into a swan by a curse, and Prince Siegfried, the prince who frees her. Set to the familiar Tchaikovsky score, the production features the full-length ballet in four acts with choreography by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov.
Jan 20-25 Extra, extra, read all about it! Broadway’s beloved Newsies boys are headed to the Fox. The Disney musical, based on the 1992 film starring Chris-tian Bale, tells the heartfelt story of Jack Kelly and the rest of the “newsies,” or newspaper delivery boys, as they take on publisher Joseph Pulitzer, when he increases the cost of the newspapers to the delivery boys.
Showcase songs, such as pow-erful ballad “Santa Fe” and the inspirational anthem “Seize the Day” will energize audiences to pursue their dreams and fight for justice. Featuring a Tony award-winning score by the Alan Men-ken, the show also has incred-
ibly choreography by 2012 Tony Award Winner Christopher Gat-telli that will impress even the grumpiest old newspaper owners.
Jan 31 Long live the King! The King of Rock and Roll, that is. In the year that would have been El-vis’s 80th birthday, the Elvis Lives show is a multi-media, live extrav-aganza, endorsed by Graceland, showcasing all the best elements of the famed performer.
This unique theatrical concert highlights four different stage of his career—young rocker, movie, “comeback,” and Vegas—and features the champions and fi-nalists from Elvis Presley Enter-prises’ worldwide Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, complete with iconic glitzy outfits and deep soulful voices. Whether learned nostalgia from grandparents over-plays records or genuine apprecia-tion for the King, Elvis Lives is fit for all.
FEBRUARY
Feb 6 Soup for all when Jerry Seinfeld comes to the Fox in Feb-ruary. The everyman funnyman, best known for his eponymous show Seinfeld, will be performing his signature, side-splitting stand-up comedy that is now unique in its cleanliness. Without needing to resort to coarse languages or dirty jokes, Seinfeld has the abil-ity to quip about everything and, sometimes, absolutely nothing through his specialty of obser-vational humor. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Feb 11-15 Alvin Ailey Ameri-can Dance Theater is back at the Fox! Originating from a now-fa-bled performance in March 1958 at the 92nd and Street Y in New York City, the Alvin Ailey Ameri-can Dance Theater celebrates the uniqueness of the African-American cultural experience and revolutionized American modern dance, finding inspiration from Ailey’s “blood memories” of Tex-
as, the blues spirituals and gos-pel. Presently helmed by Robert Battle, the company’s repertory is simply powerful. Student tickets are available in advance for $10 with a valid ID for February 12 at 8 pm. Limit two tickets per ID, one ID per person.
MARCH
Feb 18- Mar 8 Fly back into Oz with Wicked: The Untold Sto-ry of the Witches of Oz, the smash musical with an alternative tell-ing of the classic L. Frank Baum story. Based on the 1995 Gregory Maguire novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the story follows two young witches, Elphaba and Glin-da, better known as The Wicked Witch of the West and The Good Witch, who contrast in every way as they pursue their education at the University of Shiz, long before Dorothy set foot in Oz. Once they set aside their differences, the pair forms an unexpected, everlast-ing bond. Featuring fan favorites
“Defying Gravity,” “The Wizard and I,” and “For Good,” this now classic musical is bound to give each viewer a new heart.
Mar 24 A full year after his sold out talk at Tech, award win-ning-astrophysicist, author and host of FOX’S Cosmos Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is coming to the Fox Theater. For those who missed it last year, An Evening with Neil DeGrasse Tyson will feature an engaging, almost intimate discus-sion about the space exploration, science, and the wonderful world around us, in his humorous, but often direct manner. Many blunt ideas may be said, but one of them is almost guaranteed to be how Pluto is definitely no longer a planet.
APRIL
Apr 7-12 For a wild night out complete with neon paint, home-made instruments and provoking commentary on society, Blue Man Group is the show to see. Created by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman
and Phil Stanton, the organiza-tion was first created part of a va-riety act in 1987 in Manhattan. Beyond the incredible synchro-nization of the performing mem-bers that will make way for Three Stooges inspired physical comedy, the Blue Man Group is a stunning audio and visual extravaganza that will delight all who attend. Many of the bits simply must be seen, not explained.
MAY
May 2 For one night only, Celtic Woman is in town to bring down the house. A six person, all-female Irish musical ensemble conceived and created by Sharon Browne and David Downes, the group’s repertoire ranges from tra-ditional Celtic tunes to modern songs. Current members include four vocalists Mairead Carlin, Lisa Kelly, Susan McFadden, and violinist Mairead Nesbitt. Their ethereal and harmonious music is bound to take the audience to the Old Country.
Elvis Lives! is just one of the new shows that is a part of this upcoming spring season. The the-atrical concert features many tribute artists in four different eras of the famed rock-and-roller.
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to take on enormous amounts of difficult preparation as well as em-bracing the difficult physicality of the role. It’s not just doing a dis-ability. It’s actually charting the course of an illness that erodes the body, and the mind has to project out from that erosion.” Furthermore, Hawking even gave Redmayne his blessing and lent his real electronic voice to add another degree of authenticity to the film.
Finally, the film has been ad-mired for its clean cinematogra-phy, high quality imagery, stellar soundtrack and superior direct-ing. The film’s stars, Redmayne and Jones as well as its production team and director, Marsh, have al-ready been predicted for an assort-ment of award nominations in the coming weeks for their work both in front of and behind the cam-era. The movie is now nominated for four Golden Globe awards including Best Motion Picture, Drama; Best Actor, Drama: Eddie Redmayne; Best Actress. Drama: Felicity Jones and Best Original Score: Jóhann Jóhannsson.
However, the movie undoubt-edly has a few glaring shortcom-ings. For one, deeper research reveals that not all of the informa-tion presented is wholly accurate. Although the film was adapted from Jane Wilde Hawking’s mem-oir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, the content is likely optimistically slanted.
Because Stephen had to give final approval during the film’s post-production, it understand-ably presents the legendary scien-
The Theory of Everything, in spite of stellar work from both the cast and crew, skews the truth in favor of Stephen Hawking, leaving out some of the darker aspects of his life.
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THEORY FROM PAGE 1tist in an absolutely pristine light. Left out are the details about his love affair with his nurse and his well-known arrogance that came with young fame. These details would have brought more depth to the film and would have given viewers a deeper understanding of the difficulties of his life.
In The Theory of Everything, Stephen can do absolutely no wrong, to a point that it begs viewers to look up the real truth after viewing the impossible story of a seemingly perfect person.
Additionally, while the entire-ty of the film presents intriguing and relevant information to the featured story of his life, perhaps its biggest weakness comes with the fact that it ultimately lacks any sort of climax moment. The film instead falls flat, although it can nearly get away with it given the gravity of the material pres-ent throughout. Nonetheless, the ending lacks a complete sense of conclusion since the majority of the product lacks a sense of build-ing and action.
Although the slightly errone-ous representations and anticli-mactic storyline can leave some-thing to be desired, nevertheless, the biopic leaves audiences with a sense of awe and captivation due to the aforementioned strengths: the strong acting, quality cinema-tography and, most of all, sheer nature of the content. After all, the observation of the life of a man who was given two years to live at age 21 and is still chang-ing the way we view our world at age 72 is, inarguably, riveting and provides one of the most thought-provoking movies of the new year.
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Seniors leave lasting legacy on program
KARTHIK NATHANCONTRIBUTING WRITER
Talking to any member of Tech’s football program about this season, a certain undertone is always evident: family.
This year’s success has fre-quently been attributed to the team’s strong bond and dedica-tion to each other. Such a selfless mentality is not easily taught by coaches, and requires the leader-ship of older team members.
The Coastal Division champi-ons’ graduating seniors have done an outstanding job of instilling habits that put Georgia Tech foot-ball first instead of focusing on individual statistics and accom-plishments.
Look no further than team chaplain Derrick Moore for proof.
“There’s nothing like family. At the end of the day…that’s all you have. Ultimately, that’s all you need. A bunch of brothers, bleeding and sweating together…for moments like these. Do it for the guy to your left and the guy to your right. Because that’s all that matters. Guy to your left, guy to your right. Thank you guys for your heart and soul,”Moore said to the team before their dominat-ing win over Miami.
His speech was featured in Tech’s “Time to Turn the Yellow Jackets Loose” video that went viral and received over 325,000 views.
In an offense where play calls are sent in by substituted players on virtually every play, there is truly no room for selfishness or “diva” personalities. Instead, the
locker room is filled with commit-ment and perseverance.
“I think this concluded my 36th year of coaching, and these guys were probably as much fun or more fun team to coach than any team I’ve been associated with,” commented head coach Paul Johnson. “They play so hard and they care so much.”
The Yellow Jackets’ stat sheet displays a unique lack of selfish-ness; senior B-backs Zach Las-key and Synjyn Days have shared playing time and had similar car-ries, similar yards, and exactly 9 touchdowns a piece.
Carries, yards, and touch-downs are also well-distributed among the A-backs, including seniors B.J. Bostic, Tony Zenon, Deon Hill, and Charles Perkins.
Senior linebacker Quayshawn
Nealy, despite being the vocal leader of the defense, selflessly shared playing time with some of the younger backup linebackers as well.
Players spoke all year about how tight-knit and close this team was, but Paul Johnson reflected upon it one last time after the Jackets’ Orange Bowl victory over Mississippi State.
“There’s no selfishness on this team. Nobody tries to put them-selves above the team.” Johnson said proudly, “They don’t care who’s getting the ball or what’s happening, they just want to win the games. It’s refreshing to coach guys like that in today’s game.”
There is no better place to ob-serve the tight bond that charac-terizes this team than the dynam-ic between Days and Laskey.
Dubbed “Ebony and Ivory” by their teammates, the two B-backs are known to be extremely close and supportive of each other, de-spite Days being one year older than Laskey.
When Laskey went down with a shoulder injury against North Carolina, it was Days who was there for him, switching from A-back to B-back to take his place.
Not only did he switch posi-tions, but he absolutely thrived in replacing his teammate, rush-ing for three consecutive 100-yard games until Laskey was able to come back against Clemson.
To top it all off, Days wore Laskey’s #37 shirt under his pads in his first start at B-back against Pittsburgh, when Days rushed for a then career high 110 yards on a then career high 22 carries.
Laskey was ecstatic when asked about Day’s spectacular 69-yard touchdown run to start the second half of the Orange Bowl.
“It was beast mode, beast mode 2.0. I couldn’t ask for a better kid to get that, he’s such a great guy,” replied Laskey.
Coming off the field of the last regular season game in their Tech careers, Laskey and Days shared a special moment with a
long embrace as they walked off the field with their arms around each other.
With one of the most suc-cessful seasons in recent Yellow Jacket history coming to a historic and emphatic end in Miami, the graduating seniors reveled in the locker room celebrations, but the fact that they had played their last game in White and Gold was very much in the back of the minds.
“It feels good to end my career on this note,” said All-American offensive guard Shaquille Mason, “I can’t even express how proud I am of these guys.”
Senior wide receiver Darren Waller said that the seniors talked to the entire team before the game about their experiences playing for Tech, but it was especially tough “knowing it was [his] last time taking the field with [the team].”
Ending the season on such a positive note eased the pain of having to graduate though, ad-mitted Waller.
Days was of a similar outlook. “It’s kind of bittersweet, play-
ing in a game like this and win-ning your final game, it’s fantas-tic.” Days said, “You really can’t write it much better. But I’m go-ing to miss Coach Johnson, the staff, all the players that I’ve seen grow up from their official visits to now.”
One thing is certain: the self-less attitude and dedication to the team will not graduate with the seniors, according to Laskey, who believes that the younger players will definitely be able to carry on the tradition.
With expectations through the roof for the upcoming season, it will be interesting to see which younger players step up to fill the large shoes left behind by the graduating seniors.
Road games at Miami, Notre Dame and Clemson will provide a tough challenge, but the right combination of selflessness and hard work could once again result in a very successful campaign for the Jackets.
Photo courtesy of Gort Productions
Senior offensive guard Shaq Mason and senior linebacker Quayshawn Nealy were the senior cap-tains of this year’s football team. In their final year, Mason and Nealy led the Jackets to 11 wins.
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The basketball team began its conference slate on Saturday, Jan-uary 3 with an 83-76 loss in dou-ble overtime to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in South Bend, In-diana.
It was Tech’s first double over-time game in four years, and its fourth loss in such games in a row. Marcus Georges-Hunt led the team with 20 points, his fifth-straight double digit game, while Charles Mitchell and Chris Bold-en each contributed 14 points.
The Jackets took a 10 point lead over the Irish just three minutes into the game thanks to three straight three pointers by Bolden and Georges-Hunt. Notre Dame chipped away at that lead throughout the first half, but go-ing into halftime the Jackets were up 31-27.
The Irish outscored the Jack-ets in the paint, but Tech’s two second-chance field goals and 12 point contribution from the bench gave them the halftime lead.
The Fighting Irish continued to rally in the second half, slowly outscoring the Jackets before tak-ing their first lead in the game with just nine minutes to go in regulation. Notre Dame’s Steve Vasturia came alive in the second half after being held scoreless in the first, contributing 11 points in the half and ending the game with 17.
The Jackets trailed by four points with just three minutes to go but remained opportunistic on both sides of the court. Offensive and defensive rebounds by Mitch-ell and Robert Sampson kept the Jackets in the game and allowed them to tie the score at 59.
Tech had the chance to win it in regulation, but Georges-Hunt had the ball stripped on a layup attempt at the buzzer.
The Irish quickly jumped to a six point lead in the first overtime via two three pointers and a dunk. A series of missed free throws by Notre Dame gave the Jackets a chance to tie the game late, and they capitalized with a tip-in by Demarco Cox.
Strong defense by the Jack-ets in the final 10 seconds of the period sent the game to a second overtime.
The Irish came out fighting to begin the second overtime while the Jackets were unable to sustain any offensive rhythm.
Tech missed its shots while Notre Dame converted its own, and the Irish were up by seven with two minutes to go.
One Tech possession in the final minute saw three missed jumpers followed by three offen-sive rebounds before a blocked la-yup attempt gave the ball back to the Irish, and the Jackets fell 83-76. Irish guard Pat Connaughton scored five of his team’s 14 points and contributed on defense in the second overtime, tallying two re-
bounds, a block and a steal.The Jackets out-rebounded
Notre Dame 46-31 and as a result nearly doubled the Irish’s second chance points, 17-9. The team also stole the ball 11 times compared to Notre Dame’s six, but did not block a shot for the first time all season.
Bolden saw some positives in his team despite the loss.
“Building off of what we’ve
done here, we know we can play with the best of them,” Bolden said, courtesy of ramblinwreck.com. “We kept fighting and played tough. Different people stepped up and made big shots. We’re re-ally close as a team and we’re all happy for each other. We don’t mind passing up the good shot for the great shot and that’s some-thing that’s going to help us going forward.”
The Jackets faced off against Syracuse this past Wednesday and lost 46-45. Tech moved to 9-5 overall and 0-2 in ACC play .
Tech will play at Wake Forest on Saturday, January 10, before a rematch with the Fighting Irish on Wednesday, January 14 at the McCamish Pavilion. Tech won last year 86-80 at Wake Forest and will be looking for a similar result this weekend.
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Junior Marcus Georges-Hunt drives towards the basket in a game earlier this season. Georges-Hunt is Tech’s leading scorer on the year and scored 20 points and had six rebounds as well.
Jackets fall to Notre Dame in 2OT, 83-76
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The largest sports club on cam-pus is the Georgia Tech Crew team. Founded in 1986, the team has roughly 90 students partici-pate.
Its varsity team competes with the best crew teams in the country despite only being recognized as a sports club at Tech and, therefore,
is unable to offer scholarships spe-cifically for crew.
Along with men’s and women’s varsity teams, crew also has men’s and women’s novice teams for be-ginners. Men’s teams are broken up into heavyweight and light-weight divisions.
Rowing crew is a demanding sport, and practices and workouts are held nearly every day of the week. Crew uses the CRC ergom-
eters the fifth floor track to prac-tice the motions of rowing and train themselves to have the en-durance and strength to compete at such a high level.
For their on-water training, crew also has a boathouse located on the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, Georgia.
Novices who row for a season are promoted to varsity the fol-lowing season, and many of the
rowers are beginners to the sport: freshman orientation is one of their biggest recruiting tools.
Crew season lasts all year, and the team competed in a number of events during the fall season. The fall races are endurance races, and the spring events are sprints.
This past fall, the men’s varsity team won the points trophy for both the Head of the Chattanoo-ga and Head of the South and will start their spring season with great momentum.
Third year IE Alec Kaye got in-volved with crew during his first year at Tech and was brand new to the sport at the time. He now rows on the varsity team and helped the lightweight team medal in many events in the fall.
“I went to FASET and was walking around, and I pretty much grabbed flyers from every-one,” Kaye said. “I instantly felt the connection with the other coach we had at the time, a gradu-ate student at Tech, Ben Loeffler. Novices for the most part, we just stayed mostly on the ergs, build-ing up endurance and strength. Just a wonderful way to get in shape and make friends.”
Another position in crew that is often overlooked is the cox-swain. The coxswain is in charge of giving commands and can be described as the spiritual leader of the boat. They are generally small in stature and steer the boat.
“It’s just a special sport. There’s nothing else like it, especially the
role of the coxswain,” said third year CE and coxswain Chiki Ro-baina. “You’re the coach when there is no coach. You’re the mo-tivation when they want to quit, and you’re the person who’s liter-ally steering the boat.”
Robaina has been a coxswain for the men’s varsity team the last three years, and the training to be a coxswain is vastly different than the training rowers receive.
Coxswains can make a major difference in whether the team finishes first or second during a tight race.
“When you do have that one race and when you win by 0.3 of a second… [and] they don’t declare you the winner until they review the footage for 15 minutes and getting off the water and the coach is saying your coxswain called the perfect race. There’s nothing bet-ter than that,” Robaina said.
Rowing can be very demand-ing during the race, but Kaye has never had a race where he felt like giving up and credits the teams’ endurance and coaching for al-ways having the power to fight through to the very end.
The crew team has an action-packed spring schedule ahead and will get to travel all over the coun-try to compete in events including the Dad Vail Regatta in Philadel-phia, PA.
“My personal goal is to bring home Georgia Tech’s first medal in the men’s varsity 8+ division at Dad Vail,” Chiki said.
Photo courtesy of GT Crew
Members of the Tech crew team row during tryouts that took place this past fall. The club fields teams for men’s and women’s varsity divisions and men’s and women’s novice divisions as well.
Crew team has high expectations for spring
Seniors finish in styleLed by captains Shaq Mason and
Quayshawn Nealy the senior class had a year Tech fans will never forget.416
SPORTS EDITOR: Mark RussellASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR: Joe Sobchuk
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January 9, 2015
ORANGE BOWL CHAMPS!Thomas leads Tech to school record 11th win. Tech beats Miss. State 49-34
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Sophomore quarterback Justin Thomas celebrates a touchdown run in the 2014 Capital One Orange Bowl versus Mississippi State. Thomas finished the game with 246 total yards of offense and had four total touchdowns in game. Thomas finished year with 1719 passing yards and a Tech quarterback record 1086 rushing yards.
MARK RUSSELLSPORTS EDITOR
“Five... four... three... two... one,” recited the 2014 Tech football team from the stage in the middle of Sun Life Stadium as the New Year was counted down.
Fireworks began to go off, and many Tech players proudly threw oranges into the crowd as the celebration in honor of win-ning the 2014 Capital One Orange Bowl commenced.
Tech beat the formerly ranked No. 1 Mississippi State Bulldogs 49-34 in front of thousands of ecstatic fans that made the trip to Miami to witness Tech’s biggest postseason bowl win in 24 years. The win was a validation of head coach Paul John-son, his philosophy and the entire Tech football program.
“I couldn’t be prouder of our players, the program, the assistant coaches and every-body involved,” Johnson said. “It was quite a year, but the credit goes to these guys sit-ting up here. They’re the ones who did it.”
Sophomore quarterback Justin Thomas won Orange Bowl MVP with a dazzling performance. Thomas threw for 125 yards and a touchdown on 12 attempts, and he ran for 121 yards and three touchdowns on 14 carries. As a team, Tech’s offense ran for 452 yards and averaged 7.4 yards per rush.
After getting the ball on a very early interception by junior Chris Milton, Tech scored on their first possession in just four plays. The drive was topped off by senior B-back Synjyn Days’ three yard rushing TD,
in which he plowed into the end zone to give Tech a 7-0 lead.
Upon scoring, Days celebrated by per-forming a majestic kick resembling King Leonidas’ kick in the beginning of the movie 300. Days had indeed kicked the door open for the Tech offense, and the cheers of Jacket fans drowned out the wan-ing clangs of cowbells.
Two possessions later, Tech scored on a 41 yard pass from Thomas to senior wide receiver Darren Waller to give Tech a 14-0 lead late in the first quarter. Waller finished the game with 5 receptions for 114 yards and a touchdown, all occurring in the first half.
MSST proceeded to score 13 straight points while Tech’s offense temporarily hit a rough patch, but Tech answered back when Thomas ran in a 13 yard TD, diving for the pylon to make the score 21-13 with 30 seconds left in the half.
Miraculously, MSST scored on the last play of the first half. Prescott’s 42 yard Hail Mary pass was tipped into the hands of wide receiver Fred Ross to make the score 21-20 at halftime.
“After the Hail Mary happened, nobody was down,” junior safety Jamal Golden said. “If they don’t score again, they can’t beat us. So we just took that mentality into the second half, and tried to keep them out of the end zone and let our offense do their thing.”
Tech’s first drive of the second half set the tone for the rest of the game. Days trounced MSST defenders and scored on
a 69 yard touchdown run, breaking four tackles.
The Jackets’ offense then took advan-tage of more stops by the Tech defense, and Thomas scored once again on a beautiful 32 yard dash, where he made the juke move of the century giving Tech a 35-20 lead.
Four plays later, MSST attempted to run the option themselves, but safety Jamal Golden blew up MSST running back Josh Robinson in the backfield to force a fumble. It was one of the hardest hits of the year for Tech and Golden did what he has done best this year: make plays.
Tech’s offense was now running like a well-oiled machine. Led by senior 1st team All-American offensive guard Shaq Mason, Tech’s offensive line was dominating MS-ST’s defensive line.
The rout was on as Thomas scored his third rushing TD to give Tech a 42-20 lead, and on the next Tech drive, Days scored his third TD of the game and the seventh and final TD for Tech that day. Days finished the game with 21 carries for 171 yards and 3 touchdowns.
“I have to give thanks to [the offensive line] and Coach Johnson, trusting me with the ball in my hands. Just blessed. Just real-ly blessed for this opportunity,” Days said.
Senior B-back Zach Laskey had several big runs in the fourth quarter and passed 2000 yards for his career, becoming the 14th player in school history to do so.
“You couldn’t have written a better script,” Laskey said. “To beat all the teams I never beat my senior year, beat Georgia and
come out and beat another Bulldog team from the SEC West is just awesome.”
With the ball and time running out, the players gave Coach Johnson a Gatorade bath to celebrate their 11th win of the year.
Tech president G.P. “Bud” Peterson was celebrating with the team outside the locker room as well and had high praise for Thom-as, Coach Johnson and the entire program.
“It’s a great win for Georgia Tech. An 11 win season. I think the fifth one in school history,” Peterson said. “Justin is a great quarterback. He runs the option extremely well. He’s a sophomore, he’s got two more years. We’re excited. He’s a terrific young man. Glad he’s had such a successful year and looking forward to having him back next year.”
Thomas and his teammates proved that great players win games no matter what the offensive scheme is.
This season was arguably Johnson’s best during his tenure as head coach and pos-sibly the best at Tech since 1990.
The offense led by Thomas is one of the best and most efficient in NCAA history, but will not get the recognition it deserves due to national perception and Tech’s lack of preseason hype.
“On our goal board now it says ‘Win the Orange Bowl,’ and to see all that unfold and come true, it’s amazing,” Mason said.
Mission accomplished. Eleven months after setting that goal, it’s January, 2015, and the Tech football team ended their season just as they hoped and knew they would.
