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Former Jackets prepare for upcoming NFL season

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Demaryius Thomas catches a pass in his first preseason game against the Seattle Seahawks. Thomas attended Tech in 2009.

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Roseen and Picon trek to

EverestARVIND NARAYAN

LIFE EDITOR

This past summer, Outdoor Recre-ation Georgia Tech (ORGT) organized an expedition for a group of 11 students to trek from Kathamandu, Nepal to the Everest Base Camp. Led by the presi-dent of ORGT, Sid Agarwal, the trek was meant to last eleven days. Among the group of students were Dillon Roseen, current Student Government Association (SGA) president and Nick Picon, the 2013-2014 SGA president.

“For me, the trip was about tak-ing some time before the school year to think about what I hope to achieve in a place that’s absolutely beautiful,” Roseen said. “[Going to Everest] has always been on my bucket list.”

In preparation for the trek, the group of students had to train exten-sively to acclimate themselves to hiking in high-altitude areas. “We wore these masks that made us look like Bane,” Picon joked. “It felt like someone was preventing me from breathing, but that’s really what it’s like.”

The students approached the CRC in order to develop an intense exercise plan and worked together to keep each other on track.

Though the group members each had unique experiences with backpack-ing and hiking, all of them trained ex-tensively for months leading up to the backpacking expedition.

“It started out with a lot of re-sistance training, cardio and stair climbs,” Roseen said. “If I ever have to do a lunge again, I’ll know how to do it, but I won’t be happy.”

The group also held meetings to

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JOE SOBCHUKASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Football season is fast approaching, and many former Jackets will continue their playing careers on Sunday afternoons, living their dreams as professionals in the NFL. There are currently 22 players in the league that used to call the Flats home, ranging from All-Pro superstars to rookie free agents hoping to make the cut.

Calvin Johnson is perhaps the most renowned Tech alum in the pros. He is the number one wide

receiver on the Detroit Lions and is considered by fans and experts to be the best receiver in the league. He caught twelve touchdowns and racked up nearly 1500 yards in fourteen games last year, and should be on track for another very productive season. The NFL will be emphasizing defensive holding and illegal contact rules this year, which will open up the passing game, so expect Johnson to put up even more impressive numbers this year.

Demaryius Thomas is another highly skilled NFL receiver that will be making a lot of highlight

reel catches throughout the year. He caught 92 passes last year, 14 of them for touchdowns, and gained almost as many yards as Johnson. He also has the benefit of catching passes from Peyton Manning, so look for him to have another big year.

Demaryius Thomas is another highly skilled NFL receiver that will be making a lot of highlight reel catches throughout the year. He caught 92 passes last year, 14 of them for touchdowns, and gained almost as many yards as Johnson. He also has the benefit of catching

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The new computing cluster is called the TARDIS? It better be able to transport me through time and space then!I have an agreement with the Highland Bakery people. It’s a se-cret, but it’s awesome. BE JEALOUS!I haven’t slivered in so long you guys!!!! #allyHEREGot played by a Panamanian. But now we franzzz.To the girl who skips around campus: you are awesome!Chill feminazi, it’s a fight song. And a damn good onef you I countit’s like, I forget this box exists for months at a time. then the next week, like half the sliver entries are mewhy cant we talk about the sliver boxDear Sliver box, today I tripped my calc 3 professor by accident. I’m screwed.Quiz? What quiz. We had a quiz?3 football players dismissed? Geez..might as well drop the tech and call us Georgia....not coolWikipedia said excessive caffeine can cause anxiety...I thought it was just from failing everything at this “school”is it wrong if I like to wiggle just a little bitbest case: have a gun and don’t need one worst case: need a gun and not have onestonage...trippy maneFear Alexander Weir...he has come for your financial marketsI have faith in the new SGA rulersThat’s Miss TBS to you. Dating Rule 1: I only date Tech Guys. Dating Rule 2: I don’t date Frat Guys. Ladies, its time for peace-ful disobedience boycott Frat Guys, dry them out, teach them a lesson.wut wut that duggar girl is way prettier than I amOMG ALLY WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOUUUUUU

SAMIRA BANDARUCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Talk of Ebola and the evi-dent devastation of communi-ties around the world make the disease seem like an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions; at least in Liberia.

According to the New York Times, Liberia accounts for 576 of the 1350 deaths reported in West Africa, exceeding the largest Ebola outbreak on record in the world.

In an interview with the New York Times, Lindis Hurum, a coordinator for Doctors Without Borders said, “It’s very difficult and complex in Monrovia. We’ve never had a large outbreak like this in an urban setting.”

On Wednesday, fear of the rapidly spreading and deadliest Ebola epidemic on record turned to violence in Monrovia, Liberia, as quarantined civilians tried to break out of the barricaded slum known as West Point.

Residents hurled rocks at au-thorities while security sprayed tear gas and fired bullets into the angry crowd, injuring four resi-dents.

The violent outbreak followed rising tension as the Liberian gov-ernment attempted to open an Ebola center in a school at West Point, instigating an angry inva-sion of the school by the West Point residents while the suspect-ed Ebola patients fled the facility.

Five days later, West Point was, without warning, under govern-ment quarantine.

Close quarters and poor health care mixed with frustration, fear and violence have only furthered distress in the area.

HOLDEN LEEASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

On August 7, 2014, Tech offi-cially announced the automatic acceptance and four-year tuition scholarships for all Atlanta Pub-lic School (APS) valedictorians and salutatorians. Students un-der the APS Scholars program will start classes during the summer and fall 2015 semesters.

The offers under the APS Scholars program are only avail-able to Atlanta students in pub-lic schools.

“Georgia Tech has a long-term commitment to partner-ing with K-12 schools, and we are especially committed to the Atlanta community,” said Paul Kohn, Vice Provost for Enroll-ment Services. “While Georgia Tech is engaged globally and nationally, we also believe that

a great institution must main-tain a strong commitment to the community in which it re-sides. We want to attract more students from Atlanta.”

If APS Scholars students un-der the program maintain GPAs above 3.0, the scholarship will pay more than $36,000 in tu-ition over four years. The schol-arship intends to aid minorities and underrepresented groups.

“The purpose of this program is to reach out to Atlanta Public Schools,” Kohn said. “Geor-gia Tech does have a long-term commitment to improve access for underrepresented groups.”

President Peterson believes that the program helps enroll-ment of top community stu-dents and stands as an addi-tional financial aid option to students in the state of Geor-gia.

“We are pleased to partner with Atlanta Public Schools to not only offer admission to these deserving young people,” Peterson said in a written state-ment. “A combination of the various financial aid opportuni-ties available, including our own Georgia Tech Promise Program, the Governor’s REACH Geor-gia Program and other state and federal financial aid programs, we will help ensure that these students can make a Georgia Tech degree a reality.”

Kohn says that he hopes current students will embrace Tech’s initiative to promote ac-cessibility to quality education for Atlanta students.

This year, 13 Atlanta gradu-ates will be attending Tech, but in the future, the scholarship will be available to the top 38 Atlanta students.

KATHLEEN ZHANGSTAFF WRITER

DRUNK ALREADY?On Wednesday, August 13,

an officer on patrol around 1:46 a.m. noticed a white man who had run onto the road, fallen and hurt his right knee at the in-tersection of Fourth Street and Fowler Street.

The officer approached the man, and noticed a strong odor of alcohol. The man was unable to stand up straight before fall-ing down again. His knee began to bleed.

The man identified himself as a 20-year-old Tech student.

At 1:53 a.m., an ambulance from Grady Hospital arrived to assist him. He refused to go to the hospital. His friend escorted him back to his dormitory at Towers Residence Hall.

DRUG POSSESSIONOn August 11, 2014, an of-

ficer on patrol at Technology Square at 1:45 a.m. noticed a man sleeping by a building at 760 West Peachtree Street, NW.

The man was 52 years old and was in possession of co-caine. The officer arrested the man and charged him with criminal trespass and possession of narcotics.

WHADDYA HAVE? A MUGGING.On August 17, 2014, police

arrived at the Varsity Restaurant at 5:10 p.m.

Two men said that they wanted to meet someone from Craigslist at the Varsity to con-duct a transaction but the sus-pect confronted them with a handgun and demanded their possessions.

The suspect was described as a man between 20 and 25 years

old with a cross tattoo on the forehead.

The victims were unharmed and affiliated with Tech.

THE CHAIR BURGLARA student living in North Av-

enue Apartment East reported a burglary on August 13, 2014 at 7:23 p.m.

The victim stated that a black office chair valued at $350 was stolen from his place of resi-dence.

BROTHER DEARESTOn Monday, August 14,

2013, GTPD was dispatched to the Centergy Building in Tech Square in response to an aggres-sive solicitor.

When checked with the Georgia Crime Information Center, the name given by the suspect came up wanted by Gwinnett County. The sus-pect was then handcuffed and searched.

The suspect then said he used his brother’s name instead of his own. The suspect was then charged for giving false infor-mation to the officer.

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Tech prepares for USG Tobacco Policy

Photo by Kenneth Marino Student Publications

An administrator replaces the top of a trash can with one without an ashtray. The Institute will be

removing all ash trays from campus in preparation for the tobacco ban which begins in October.

HOLDEN LEEASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

This academic year, the Col-lege of Computing is receiving a large increase in its Computer Science and Computational Me-dia enrollment. Compared to last year, Computer Science enroll-ment has increased approximately 25% with over 300 more students. Also, Computational Media en-rollment has increased by 65% compared to Fall 2011.

Many students understand that a high demand exists for skilled computationalists in today’s job market, and many students are searching for degrees in computa-tional fields. Tech also has about 155 computer science minors for the current academic year.

If numbers continue to grow in major and minor enrollments under the College of Computing, the institute will consider hiring instructors to handle the demand.

“In the past few years we have hired additional instructors to handle the growth, not only in computing majors, but also in computing minors,” said Charles Isbell, Senior Associate Dean of the College of Computing and Professor in the School of Interac-tive Computing. “The Institute’s official numbers on student mi-nors do not tell the whole story, because students are not required to declare a minor until just before they graduate.”

Despite the growing enroll-ment, the College of Computing will not receive any additional funding because the budgeting formula does not involve enroll-ment numbers, but the College plans to continue communication

with the Institute for accommo-dations over time.

Isbell believes that Tech’s Col-lege of Computing stands out be-cause the economy has an increas-ing need for people in computing skills and Tech’s rankings attract students on a national and inter-national level.

The College of Computing is ranked 9th in the U.S. and by acknowledging its surrounding community, it has received in-creased attention in the market-place. Many students see degrees from the College as beneficial ad-ditions to a resume.

“We are benefiting from a tre-mendous need for skilled com-puting talent, as more and more sectors of the economy rely on computing to drive business,” Is-bell said. “It’s very hard to run a business in this day and age with-out an agile IT infrastructure, a web and social media presence or a connection to mobile comput-ing. That being said, we like to think we do things pretty well in the College.”

Additionally, Isbell expressed gratitude to every student and fac-ulty member involved in the Col-lege for the enrollment growth.

“We appreciate their energy and enthusiasm for computing, and we will do everything we can to provide them with the best pos-sible computing education that any university can offer,” Isbell said.

“None of this would be pos-sible without the commitment of our faculty,” Isbell said. “They truly care about the best under-graduate education. Our faculty are the biggest reason we are in the position we are.”

CoC recieves big increase in student enrollmentKATHLEEN ZHANG

STAFF WRITER

On October 1, 2014, the To-bacco and Smoke-Free Campus Policy will go in effect at Tech. The Board of Regents approved the policy in March and is effec-tive for all 31 public institutions in the University System.

This policy applies to all who step foot on campus—students, faculty, visitors, vendors, visiting athletes—and includes all prod-ucts that contain tobacco includ-ing cigarettes, cigars, chewing to-bacco and e-cigarettes.

All land owned by Tech is included in this ban, so people cannot smoke in cars if they are parked on campus. In addition, according to Rachael Pocklington of Institution Communications, the institute is also asking for the Greek community—whose prop-erties are not owned by the Insti-tute—to participate in the policy.

The Institute plans to use “En-

forcement Light” to enact the policy.

“That’s just a model that relies on community support, not like direct action necessarily,” said Jus-tin Eisenberg, Vice President of Campus Organizations in SGA. “So infractions will be handled for faculty through their direct man-agers and for students through the Office of Student Integrity (OSI) as needed the same way as any other kind of policy violation.”

The campus community as a whole will be responsible for up-holding the policy through several channels, such as faculty, building managers and Housing, according to Pocklington.

While OSI will adjudicate in-fractions of the tobacco policy by students on most areas of campus, violations on campus housing will be handled through Housing’s separate disciplinary system.

“We’ll just treat it like another judicial case so you’ll keep getting documented [and have to attend]

a conduct meeting,” said Mandy Garcia, housing director of the Harrison, Howell, and Cloudman housing complex.

According to Georgia Tech Police Captain Randy Barrone, GTPD will not be responsible for enforcement of the tobacco policy.

“Like any other campus policy, GTPD will not be involved unless behavior disrupts the peace or vio-lates law,” Barrone said.

Another measure that admin-istrators are taking is to better communicate the policy.

“One thing we’re doing is… to make sure to follow all the in-ternational symbols and so there shouldn’t be [questions about the policy],” said JulieAnne William-son, Assistant Vice President for Administration and Finance.

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KENNETH MARINONEWS EDITOR

A video, created by Tech stu-dents Fredrick Grimm and Pat-rick Caudil, showing corgis frol-icking around Tech campus has gone viral, accumulating over 500,000 views on YouTube. Ac-cording to Grimm, the video was the spontaneous result of the pup-pies’ visit to campus.

“My family had corgi puppies kind of at the beginning of sum-mer, and I made a few trips to see them at home. But all of my friends who are in Atlanta really wanted to see them too,” Grimm said.

Grimm’s parents agreed to make the trip from nearby North Augusta, S.C., with the corgis in tow.

“When they brought the corgis up, not all of my friends were in town, and some of them were upset they weren’t going to see them,” Grimm said. “So my roommates and I just decided to film a little video so we could stitch something together and show it to our friends who weren’t in town so that they could see the puppies.”

The result of the video was a minor viral sensation. The video was reported by Time.com, Huff-ington Post and even KCTV Kan-sas City. The clip will also be fea-tured in an upcoming segment of Good Morning America.

“We had no idea it would take off like it did or it would be that

popular. I figured it would cheer some people up during finals week, so that’s [why] I released it when I did,” Grimm said.

Perhaps the most iconic part of the video was shots of the corgi puppies sleeping in baking pans. According to Grimm, this was also a happy accident.

“We would always feed them their wet food in the baking pans… and they would all fin-ish the food and... compete to see who could sleep inside of the bak-ing pan,” Grimm said. “[When] we brought them up to Atlanta, they did the same thing.... But then we realized that we had many baking pans at our town-home, so we were just like, ‘Well,

let’s not [let] them fight. Let’s just give them all their own baking pans.’ So we pulled out baking pans, and they all ran for them and were perfectly content inside of them.”

When asked whether they got in trouble with Tech, Grimm laughed and commented that GTPD just came over to them and played with the puppies. They then continued their round.

The entire two minute, 40 sec-ond video was taken on a GoPro camera by Grimm, Caudil and a few others. The video was assem-bled from approximately an hour of footage using Premier Pro. The video is entitled “GoPro: Corgi Puppies at Georgia Tech.”

Campus corgis rise to fame

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A corgi puppies waddles near the Tech Campanile in a viral vid-

eo. The video has received over 500,000 views as of this print.

Startup House opens for first semester

KENNETH MARINONEWS EDITOR

Startup House, a new program to encourage student startups cre-ated by VentureLab, was launched for the Fall Semester.

This semester 42 students are living on the top floor of Cre-cine Apartments for the program. The purpose of the program is to help students create startups by teaching them the basics of en-trepreneurship and guiding them through the startup process.

Brandy Nagel, Marketing and Program Manager for Ven-tureLab, says she came up with the idea after seeing the market-ing material for Think Big.

“I was over in the student center looking for ways for Ven-tureLab to reach out to students and I saw the postcards for the Think Big program,” Nagel said. “And I picked one up and I thought, ‘Oh, why isn’t there one around entrepreneurship and startups?’ And so I brought it back here to the office and showed it to my colleagues.”

As in all Think Big programs, the students live together in the same block of rooms on campus housing. Unlike other Think Big programs, Startup House pro-vides resources for students inter-ested in startups including guest speakers, tutorials and advice.

“Students will come up with ideas, develop profitable and scal-

able business models and will launch startups,” Nagel said.

“So I actually roped all my roommates that I lived with the last four years into it to, but I mean, just going to be working on Fixd and it’s going to be cool,” said John Gattuso, a Startup House participant. “We’re doing the ropes course on Friday and then it’s going to be good to get all the other speakers to come in.”

The program comes on the heels of Startup Summer, another entrepreneurship program run by VentureLab over the summer.

“I think for everyone else that had not been through that same experience, [entrepreneurship has] a learning curve, because it’s completely new. It’s not the pro-cess that you’re normally taught in engineering, and having to learn that and apply it in however many weeks we had was difficult,” said Rachel Ford, co-founder of Suc-cette and participant in Startup Summer.

The program takes students at all stages of entrepreneurship, from recently interested to stu-dents who had already developed their product and business plan.

“Several students moved in with a startup already started,” Nagel said. “We’ll work together to help them grow their business with coaching, office space if they need it and introductions to po-tential customers, business part-ners and investors.”

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Common app draws in excellent studentsKATHY ZHANG

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After switching to the Com-mon Application in 2013, Tech has seen the number of applicants rise greatly. Statistics gathered about the new class suggest that this year’s incoming class of fresh-men is more diverse and stronger academically than in years past.

The total number of applica-tions was 25,880, up from 17,649 from the year 2013.

“[There] was an institute re-cord number of applicants and with that came a lot of great qual-ity academically,” said Rick Clark, Director of Admissions.

Because of the spike in appli-cations, the admission rate de-creased from 41 percent last year to 33 percent. Based on standard-ized test scores, the increasing selectivity resulted in more aca-demically qualified students. The middle 50-percent SAT score for the new class is 2050-2240, com-pared to 2000-2210 last year.

“[The desire to improve the human condition] is something that really bonds our students, our alumni, our faculty, our staff, just this idea of progress and ser-vice,” Clark said, referring to the Institute’s motto. “When we read applications we’re always blown away by the ideas these kids have, and these kids ultimately come here and pursue these things through the… Invention Studio and the Inventure Prize.”

Women make up nearly 39 per-

cent of the new class compared to 37.36 percent from last year. The class comes from 47 U.S. states and 63 countries. Only Alaska, Montana and South Dakota saw no new freshman at Tech.

“It was such a struggle to have people apply from all 50 states throughout the course of the whole year, but we had fifty states fill up in the first round last year,” Clark said. “And in the past that has not been true. Even if we would have gotten an app from all fifty states, we couldn’t be anywhere near the quality [of this year’s class].”

While international students make up roughly 10 percent of the class, the diversity of countries represented has increased. While

in previous years nearly 70 per-cent of the international students were from Asia, this year Asian students make up only 52 percent. In recent years, more students from Central and South America are enrolling. Other countries with growing Tech populations are Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.

“We bring the world to you and you know you’re going to meet people from places you couldn’t even point to on a map,” Clark said.

Clark and other members on the admissions team will be trav-eling more due to Tech’s increased profile with trips planned for Bra-zil and Panama with Emory Uni-

versity and NYU and Turkey with University of Illinois and Univer-sity of California-Berkeley.

“A couple years ago Georgia Tech from an enrollment stand-point…was not being invited to those kinds of opportunities,” said Clark. “The company we’re keep-ing …is in line with the really elite schools.”

For the coming admissions season, Tech has new initiatives to help usher in another strong freshman class and to raise its na-tional and international profile. A social media campaign called “#gtbetterworld” invites members of Tech to take a picture of them-selves with a caption of how they would like to change the world.

also begun to display posters.The Institute is also covering

the many ashtrays on campus to avoid sending mixed messages about the tobacco policy.

Stamps Health Services will offer services to support smokers who want to quit and those who do not.

Beginning in September, a cer-tified American Lung Association professional will teach a smoking cessation class and students will be able to meet with health ser-vices to quite smoking.

“We understand that tobacco use is an addiction and we rec-ognize that not everyone is ready or willing to quit,” said Vladimir Oge, Director of Health Promo-tion.

Tech students have mixed opinions regarding this new pol-icy. According to a survey con-ducted in February, there was a 47.43 percent to 48.27 percent split between respondents who support and oppose the ban, re-spectively.

Most respondents felt strongly about the policy with 32.45 per-cent of students strongly support-ing the ban and 32.51 percent strongly opposing it.

“I think it’s kind of harsh to put a ban on everyone… it might be better to have maybe some des-ignated smoking spots,” said Ho-Kyung Kim, a third year CHBE. “A lot of people…. use smoking as a way to relax and socialize. Yes, smoking is bad for you but I think since it’s their choice, why not give some spots [or] areas where they can smoke in peace without harming others?”

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OUR VIEWS | Consensus Opinion

Housing and the future of move-insMaking move-ins earlier to aid students

Another successful move-in weekend was completed before the semester was quickly underway; however, looking to-wards the future, there are changes hous-ing could make to help ensure both the continued quality of services and aid of-fered by Tech while increasing the time avaiable for students to get situated with their dorm rooms.

In a general sense, moving in is a chaotic time, merely from all of our belongings be-ing boxed and carted from our homes to our dorms. The ubiqutous scene of packed cars and long lines should become a thing of the past.

Rather than only letting second years and above move in the Saturday before class starts, let students move-in begin-ning earlier in the week. This would be especially helpful for out-of-state students.

Whereas those instate don’t have to travel and pack quite as heavily, those from out-of-state could move in earlier, which

would give them more time to unpack and settle into their dorms at their own pace. By doing this, it would also dampen the congestion at locations that are normally clogged due to the move-in weekend.

Charging students seventy-five dollars per each day earlier than the given move-in period dissaudes students from moving-in early, which ultimately leads to the conges-tion experienced on move-in weekend.

This means housing would need to set deadlines earlier into move-in week so projects within student dorms, such as painting the walls, are complete by move-in.

The nice part about the current system is it keeps congestion to a minimum due to no work-day traffic; however, if hous-ing ultimately prepares and sets a deadline for rennovations to just a few days earlier, then students could have a better overall move-in experience and a better, less cha-otic start to their Fall semester.

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 EDITOR

Kenny Marino NEWS EDITORMark Russell SPORTS EDITORArvind Narayan LIFE EDITOR

Brenda Lin PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Connor Napolitano DESIGN EDITORWyatt Bazrod OPINIONS EDITOR

Elliott Brockelbank ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

TOP SLIVERS

Life is hard when no one can share a Coke with you.

Any salad can be a Caesar sald if you stab it enough.

I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

I like to sleep so much that I wake up exhausted from sleeping so hard.

Shakira is 37 and her hips still don’t lie how is that fair.

If only people thought the bags under my eyes were badly placed eye shadow

Honey, I slam-dunked the kids.

I wonder how many times a day Kanye West thinks about Kanye West.

Just broke up with my boyfriend over Jeopardy! What is its not you its me?

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I was an excellent student in high school. It was not just that I went to school every day, which I did, it was that I genuinely paid attention in class. I did not realize, though, how hard I was unknow-ingly working until I got to col-lege.

Suddenly, I became a dif-ferent student. Without the parental over-sight or knowl-edge that my small town teachers knew who I was, I stopped atten-tively listening or taking meticu-lous notes.

I wrongly assumed that it was my intellect alone that had carried me so far. Sure, I was attending class, but I wasn’t really paying at-tention.

I probably would have carried on this way, taking Snapchats in-stead of notes, tweeting instead of thinking, or worrying about what I was going to eat after class in-stead of what was going to be on the next quiz, if not for a lucky disaster.

One fateful night, I was too lazy to put my laptop away. In-stead, I kept it in my lofted bed, thinking I was careful enough not destroy it in my sleep. That was not the case. I awoke to the jag-ged plastic-y pieces of my Lenovo scattered across the carpeted floor of my dorm.

Now, I had to go back to the seemingly archaic pencil and pa-per. I had to take notes by hand, without the distraction of Face-

book or Buzzfeed. I was instantly worried about how I would get my homework done, of course, now that I was laptop-less, but I was also very concerned that class would seem to stretch on for for-ever without my technological

crutches. I have to say that

I was pleasantly sur-prised. I had forgotten how interesting learn-ing could be when I knew what was going on.

I had not realized how much time I was wasting outside of class trying to catch

up with what I had missed. I had not realized before what I bad stu-dent I had become.

Now that I had seen the light, I was changed for good. It has been a year and a half, and while I did buy a new laptop, I never bring it to class.

While I cannot say that I have gone from a failing student to a straight A super star, I can say that I consistently feel more prepared for my exams. I feel more com-fortable discussing what I have learned in school.

But most of all, by truly pay-ing attention in class, and not just attending class, I have become a happier, less stressed Tech student.

Maybe I am an anomaly, may-be others find pencil and paper te-dious and unproductive. But I am so thankful for the wild sleeping habits that resulted in that broken laptop. Without that fateful inter-vention, I know I would not be half the productive and successful Tech student I am now.

JUSTIN NICOARAFIRST-YEAR CS

“I don’t mind having Ebola patients in At-

lanta since Emory is a good hospital. On top of that, the CDC is located nearby to help in case.”

ALEX BOISVERTFOURTH-YEAR AE

“I have been out of the country all summer so I haven’t really given it

much thought.”

How do you feel about the ebola patients being

brought to Atlanta?

As I begin my second year at this school, I would like to dedi-cate this space to the original Mount Everest, Freshman Hill.

It does not get enough love; prospective students don’t see it on campus tours and RATs find every excuse to avoid climbing the whole way up. The walk from the foot of the hill isn’t what gets us, it’s the approx imate ly 90-degree climb up to Cherry Street starting from the intersection of Fowler and Bobby Dodd. But slowly and surely, this landmark will win their hearts. Because much like the dreaded 3 C’s (calculus, chemistry, and CS 1371) the Hill teaches hundreds of students each year something equally as valu-able—character.

Misery loves company; friend-ships were born and developed from complaining about our calves. That girl from your lec-ture or that guy from first floor becomes a walking buddy, a friend--either because conversa-tion makes the time fly or you just want to hide how out of shape you really are.

As the swarm of freshmen de-scended back to the dining halls after class, we were able to collect a group of friends, classmates, and random acquaintances to eat with; I smile back on the times my booth at North Ave resembled the UN.

I’m definitely not the Hill’s number one fan; not after I had to walk up in the humid, 90 de-gree Georgia weather in jeans on lab day or shiver my way back to the dorm wearing shorts in single-

degree weather. It was an annoying obstacle the times that I had to dash to and from the dorm the days I did laun-dry between classes.

Like a booth at the Clough, that moment when you finish walking end-to-end represents a small victory during

days where those seem nonexis-tent. After taking my last final of my first semester, I basically glided down the asphalt, the in-humane amount of stress evapo-rated into thin air.

I’ve also felt like an inmate on death row on my way to take a high-stakes test. That morning, I not only feared failing the test but that I had absolutely no control over my life’s direction. Pretty deep stuff for 8:00 AM—so deep that I had suddenly walked up to see that iridescent chair (way back in the day) without a second thought.

When the change in elevation became no big deal to me, nei-ther did writing on that test. I don’t remember my actual score, because that sense of accomplish-ment meant so much more

I can’t do the stairs by Skiles though; I’ll be riding the eleva-tor from the second to the fourth floor till the day I graduate.

Appreciating lessons from Freshman Hill

“The Hill teaches ...something equally as

valuable—character.”

KATHY ZHANGSTAFF WRITER

NIDHI KOSHYTHIRD-YEAR IE

“I think it’s a great op-portunity for the nurses and doctors that have been training for this

kind of of opportunity!”

I want to extend a warm “Yel-low Jacket welcome” to all of the new incoming students and a “welcome back” to those of you who have been away for the sum-mer. The past few years have been marked by continuing excellence in numerous areas, and your re-turn to campus comes at a time of tremendous momentum and continuing excellence for our In-stitute.

For the sixth straight fall se-mester, we are welcoming the best-qualified, most diverse fresh-man class in Georgia Tech’s his-tory. Over the past five years, un-derrepresented minorities are up by 23 percent, and women by 20 percent. Applications rose from 11,400 in fall 2009 to 25,900 in fall 2014. Word is getting out about Georgia Tech and the tre-mendous educational and career opportunities available here.

For many, summer provides a break from the traditional rou-tine. Likewise it gives those of us who remain an opportunity to ac-complish some things that would be difficult during the regular aca-demic year. As a result, you will see some significant changes on campus.

In particular, the Price Gilbert Grove, located on the north side of the Price Gilbert Library, and the area near the Cherry Street/Ferst Drive intersection have been refurbished. Along Techwood Drive, the streetscape has been completely redone, as has the area

in front of Brittain Dining Hall. The Towers Residence Hall has been renovated and now houses freshmen, and renovation on the Glenn Residence Hall continues, with plans to reopen to students in fall 2015. Finally, additional streetscape and sidewalk improve-ments have been completed along Ferst Street near the Marcus Nan-otechnology Building and else-where on campus.

The most ambitious project currently underway is the En-gineered Biosystems Building (EBB) on 10th Street. When com-pleted in spring 2015, it will add 218,000 square feet of academic and research space for faculty and students in the colleges of Science and Engineering.

It has been designed as an in-terdisciplinary hub to foster col-laboration that many times results in incredible breakthroughs. It has been said that if the cure for cancer is to be found at Georgia Tech, it will happen in the EBB.

We ask for your patience with the inconveniences resulting from the construction that is winding down. Several years ago during the construction of the Clough Commons, many endured signifi-cant disruptions to their normal routine so that today we could enjoy a facility that’s become a campus hub with a gate count over 2.5 million visits per year. EBB will be to researchers what Clough Commons is to our stu-dents, a wonderful facility where collaboration and innovation can flourish.

While facilities are important, so too are programmatic consid-erations, and we remain com-mitted to providing outstanding resources for learning, and a safe and healthy environment for our community. This past spring, we appointed a Presidential Task Force to explore, and find solu-tions to, an issue that is being ad-dressed both nationally and here at Georgia Tech: sexual violence.

The Task Force has submitted a final report, and we are moving forward with many of its recom-mendations.

In addition, the Mental Health Task Force has fulfilled its charge, and we are well down the path of implementing its recommenda-tions. Our students function in what can be a high-stress, high-productivity environment, and we want to do everything we can to assist them so that they can be as successful as possible.

You will hear more details about the progress made on the recommendations from these two task forces as the year progresses. I encourage you to become famil-iar with the many on-campus re-sources.

  While here at Georgia Tech, I hope you will take full advantage of being in one of our nation’s most vibrant cities. We offer nu-merous opportunities to get in-volved in the Atlanta community.

In addition, more than 400 campus organizations are avail-able, encompassing virtually any interest you might have and pro-viding leadership opportunities.

Our goal is to ensure that your time at Georgia Tech will be an unforgettable period of academic and personal growth, in a safe and healthy campus environment. To-gether, we can make this a reality for the entire Georgia Tech com-munity. Please take care of your-self, look out for each other, and have a great year.

President Peterson welcomes Tech students

The pen is mighter than the laptop

“...I have become a happier, less stressed

Tech student.”

LINDSAY PURCELLMANAGING EDITOR

“Our students function in what can be a high-stress, high-

productivity environemnt, and we want to do everything we can to

assist them so that they can be as successful as possible.”

G.P. “BUD” PETERSONINSTITUTE PRESIDENT

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What happened to Paul George in USA Basketball’s scrimmage earlier this month is every athlete’s worst nightmare while competing for their country in international competition.

For those who don’t know, George suffered an open tibia-fibula fracture after collid-ing with the bottom of the goal while at-tempting to block a shot in the fourth quarter of the scrim-mage. George, who signed a five-year extension worth up to 90 million with the Indiana Pacers in 2013, will miss the entire 2014-15 NBA season.

There really is no reason that George or any other NBA star should be competing in the FIBA World Cup. There is just too much risk involved for such little gain.

It did not take Kevin Durant long to come to this realization. Just a week after George suffered the gruesome injury, Durant with-drew from the team, citing “physi-cal and mental fatigue.”

That very well could be true, but it is naïve to believe that George’s injury had absolutely zero affect on Durant’s decision to withdraw. It did not take long after the announcement for some fans to express their displeasure with Durant’s decision. Fans took to the twitter to express how Kev-in Durant clearly hates America or something else along the lines of how he only cares about himself and money .

The criticism even led Durant to tweet, “You Can’t please every-body. Forreal.” Though many fans were unhappy, it is not hard to see why Durant made the decision that he did.

The biggest consequence that a player of Durant’s caliber could face after an injury is future finan-cial loss. Not just a couple million dollars, but possibly hundreds of millions. Durant was recently offered a sponsorship deal from

Under Armour worth 325 million over the next ten years.

If he suffered an injury similar to George’s, it is possible Under Armour could rescind the offer.

If the injured player is never able to return to their previous form on the court, they could also lose millions in their next NBA contract. Looking at this purely financially it should be easy to see why some players may not want to compete in international competi-tion.

Not only do they have a ton to lose, but there really is not much to be gained either.

Honestly, does anyone remem-ber Jordan for what he did in in-ternational competition? No. Peo-ple remember him for winning six NBA Championships. It could be worth for young payers on the rise to prove that they compete against top-notch competition and also play alongside other big names, but elite players are past this point in their career. Besides claiming that you won an Olympic gold medal, there is not anything real appealing about international

Not unpatriotic; just fiscally responsiblecompetition.

For many players, the chance to represent their country by playing the game they love is an opportu-nity that is too good to pass up. Even though they still have the risk of suffering an injury, the chance

at winning a gold medal outweighs that risk.

There is noth-ing wrong with that. For many others, the op-portunity to rep-resent America and win a gold medal does not outweigh the po-tential financial loss or the missed opportunity to

compete for an NBA Champion-ship.

There is nothing wrong with that either. It is time that we stop labeling players “greedy” or “unpa-triotic”, as Durant was after with-drawing, just because they choose not to play for their country.

Some people may say that risk-ing money and your career is the point in playing for or represent-ing your country. I would agree with that if the players were com-peting for something valuable. I’m not sure anyone is going to have thier life completely changed by the USA winning the 2014 FIBA World Basketball Championships.

For example, soldiers risk way more than ay athelte when they choose to fight for our country. They are literally putting their life on the line. The differnce is they are risking everything in order to protect something that truly mat-ters, our freedom.

Players have to make the deci-sion that is best for them. For Du-rant, he believed the best thing to do was withdraw, and we should respect that decision.

Wing Zone Open under the Curran

Parking deck over on West Campus is Wing Zone. A vari-ety of wings mixed with good, college-friendly prices makes it the perfect place to go and chow down. Best part being, it’s open ‘til 2am daily except Sundays (midnight), and of-fers delivery, also making it a prime option for your mid-night munchies.

Burger King Security If you’re in the mood for

a burger, take head of Burger King. As several Cleary Acts have gone out in the past week, let’s remember a few very im-portant points: if you want to help a person out with direc-tions, handing the person your phone while they’re in a car may not end well. Also try not to answer Craiglist Ads in a downtown parking lot.

Brittain ChangesConstruction and renova-

tions provide a whole host of pains around Tech, but if they end up like how Brittain did, Tech might become even more the beauty. Even though trees were taken down, the expand-ed sidewalk and openness of the Brittain quad actually pro-vides a nice backdrop to the Atlanta Skyline.

North Ave North As we are all well aware,

Tech being situated in Atlanta offers a variety of opportuni-ties that rural colleges just can’t compete with; however, the downfall for our urban luxuries is with high parking prices. More unfortunate than the over $700 parking pass is the parking passes being over-sold in the N. Ave North deck.

OUR VIEWS | HOT OR NOT

HOT– or –NOT“...it should be easy to see why

some players may not want to compete in international

competition.”

NEWT CLARKDEVELOPMENT EDITOR

S P O N S O R E D B Y

JOIN US AT SAA FALL KICK OFFSEPTEMBER 4TH, 2014

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When Delta flight 9 landed in Atlanta, it was a short taxi before we were parked at the internation-al terminal and my study abroad for the summer in Oxford official-ly ended. The homesickness set in about two weeks before actually leaving.

As each day got closer to our immanate departure, I became more and more relieved to be go-ing home. Finally when the day came, I was just ready to go. Our flight was delayed by maybe an hour, but other than that, it was just nine hours till I was back in the land of queso and air condi-tioning.

After the usual headache of At-lanta customs, I picked up my bag and ran to see my parents for the first time in months. My first meal back in America was the Quesari-to from Taco Bell—a moment of pure bliss I will never forget.

My phone was back to unlim-ited data; I could check in with social media whenever I pleased.When we got home, my dogs ran outside of the house and were so excited to see me that they actu-ally cried. There was legitimate food in the refrigerator (which I didn’t have to pay for with my own money!).

I lasted till 9pm before my body succumbed to the effects of jet lag, at which point I drowsily, yet happily, sauntered up to meet my familiar bed. My head hit the pillow and the next fourteen hours were a blur, but when I woke up, I felt different.

My parents had left for work,

my dogs were napping at the front of my bed, the sun was shinning, and everything seemed, as it had been right before I embarked on

my adventures. Except nothing was.

I went to get my cup of cof-fee and hurriedly checked Face-book. My new friends (shout out to Group 1 ,Group Fun) miracu-lously made it to midnight. I was tagged in a stream of pictures from the last few days of the trip. And all of a sudden, I was going through withdrawal.

I wasn’t with 150 other Tech students in Europe. I wasn’t seeing and hearing about everyone’s days and the plans for going to the pub for the night. I had stopped stress-ing over how outrageously expen-sive British products were. Worst of all, I actually missed my group.

From the first class to now, I would never have predicted both the changes in myself and the changes within our group that made us go from an awk-ward cluster of people to being a tight-knit group of people. If this

is what happens when you study abroad, everyone should.

Studying abroad has taught me a lot of things. Some rude-

mentary: trying to speak another person’s language goes a long way, our generation has an extreme ad-diction to our phones (understate-ment), being disconnected for a little doesn’t actually kill you (the horror!), there are other options aside from Starbucks, a good fil-ter can make any ordinary scene look amazing, waiting last minute to buy your tickets for events re-ally isn’t the greatest option, and southern hosptiality shouldn’t be taken for granted.

Then the crazier ones, such as Italians can somehow wear leather suites in the midst of July heat, eating pasta for the rest of your life gets old in two weeks, getting outside of your comfort zone only can only expand your comfort zone (or at the very least , rein-force it), you should really check your directions twice so you don’t walk outside of a city…the list re-ally is endless.

Greatest of all though is that people can surprise you, and that includes yourself. Before this trip, I would say I was very introverted. I could easily converse with other people, but I needed to have my own time. After this, I’ve real-ized that sometimes, it can be re-ally fun to have a group of people around.

We all make judgments: for better, for worse, at home or on this campus. There are stereotypes about the people in different or-ganizations and about individu-als in general. But the best feeling comes in seeing a person com-pletely obliterate that stereotype.

Studying abroad gains you new friends and experiences of a life-time. It grounds you in this world and makes you appreciate all of the luxuries of America and re-ally breaths life into the ultimate cliche that there is no place like home. You get a nice break away from Tech, and ultimately, I hope you will come to appreciate Tech all the more, after studying in a college/colleges from another country.

You should study abroad be-cause this is an optimal time in your life. You’re young and in good health.

You should study abroad, not only as a nice break away from Tech, and not only to get the experience of a life time, but for nothing more than the most fun-damental reasoning that it will challenge the very fabric of how you perceive other people and cul-tures.

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EMILY CURTINFOURTH-YEAR CS

“We need to fully sup-port the CDC. I hope the

treatments developed here can help in the fight

against the disease in Africa.”

OWEN OUTHIRD-YEAR CS

“I feel that’s scary.”

Studying abroad really changes people

“Greatest of all though is that people can surprise

you.”

WYATT BAZRODOPINIONS EDITOR

life@nique.net

technique14Friday,

August 22, 2014Life LIFE EDITOR:

Arvind NarayanASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR: Alexa Grzech

99 Things to DoA bucket list of Tech-related activities and goals that will

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Food options near Tech’s campus

What you really miss on the first dayARVIND NARAYAN

LIFE EDITOR

Syllabus day, which often ex-tends into syllabus week, is seen by many as the most pointless use of time over the entire school year. Professors waste hours going over the syllabus, poring over each detail. Of course, each of these lectures begins with the same, ri-diculously infuriating comment.

“This won’t take long.”Right. Of course it won’t take

long. You believed this lie, of course, for the first few days...of middle school. You stared into your teacher’s eyes as he patroniz-ingly said, “I hope I don’t have to read this for you,” before he pro-ceeded to read it anyway.

Over six years later, you are still stuck in the exact same place. Such is life.

Only now, you have the dis-tinct privilege of paying hundreds of dollars to attend this class.

Five minutes pass. He’s still reading the class objectives. You updated your Facebook status three minutes ago.

Five more minutes pass. The professor has spent thirty seconds of silence adding up the grading breakdown percentages, only to realize that the maximum pos-sible grade in the class is a 70, but students need a 90 or above to get an A.

Whatever; this is Georgia Tech, you can do that.

This fiasco inevitably leads to the climax of syllabus day: going over the Honor Code. The pro-fessor scrolls down, inadvertently

creating mood lighting by display-ing a torrent of text on the projec-tor. He then proceeds to give an anti-cheating lecture so melodra-matic that you feel guilty for even being a student.

After everything, what’s the point of even attending this first

day? Are you really at a disadvan-tage when you miss the first day of class? Is it really so bad if, instead of hearing the Honor Code read to you for the eighteenth time, you decide to finally complete the campaign challenges on Batman: Arkham City? If time is money,

would not you be able to use the time you gained from skipping syllabus day to help pay off stu-dent loans? That’s how finance works, right?

The answer is yes.In reality, skipping the first

Photo by Brenda Lin Student Publications

Sleeping through “syllabus day” might not actually be the worst decision a student could make.Instead, students could use their now free time for better things, such as getting a job or Netflix.

ALEXA GRZECHLIFE EDITOR

Tech has a large variety of food options for students, with several different restaurants in walking distance of campus. Here are just a few places where you can get a quick, delicious meal.

WingNuts: With a vast ar-ray of boneless wings, burgers and gourmet wraps, WingNuts is the prime place to be on Wednesday nights, where one can receive a half pound of extra wings after ordering one pound. As Abhi Malhorta, a second-year IE major, says, “All of the wings are deli-cious. I personally recommend the

cajun teriyaki wings and the chi-potle ranch. They are all so good it’s hard to choose.”

The eatery, located on Marietta Street near the Engineer’s Book-store, also delivers while staying open until 11:30 every night.

Satto Thai and Sushi: On West Campus near the Engineer’s

Bookstore, Satto Thai and Sushi offers Thai and Japanese food at an affordable price. The perfect place for a date night or a night out with friends, the restaurant’s décor helps create the pleasant atmosphere. Known for the Pad See Ew and the Thai Iced Tea, the establishment has lunch specials until 3 p.m.

Raku: Raku Tonkotsu Ra-men, a fairly new restaurant grac-ing Marietta Street, serves ramen noodles in a steamy, tasteful broth while completely upgrading the stereotypical college ramen expe-rience.

Although the parking gener-ally tends to remain crowded, the restaurant is in within walking distance of Tech so students can easily access the fresh Japanese food. Since ramen restaurants tend to be a rarity in Atlanta, Raku undoubtedly fills this void.

Thumbs Up Diner: Also lo-cated on Marietta Street, Thumbs Up Diner is “where breakfast is always served.” With regular cus-tomers frequenting the establish-ment weekly, Thumbs Up Diner’s build your own breakfast plate or omelet specials seem to be a consistent favorite. New custom-

Photo by Josh Sandler Student Publications

WingNuts, a popular restaurant on Marietta Street, offers several different, fairly priced options to students, including wings, burgers and wraps. The restaurant also delivers until 11:30 p.m.

Surviving your first month

VIDYA IYERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

You can’t push it back any-more. The days are getting shorter and shorter; you feel a strange sad-ness in the wind and your sum-mer plans have dwindled down to “crying deeply.” School has started again, bringing with it all of the horrendous lectures, home-work assignments and exams that it had always promised.

It doesn’t have to be all bad, however, as long as you are able to keep a level head and do what’s necessary to stay alive. Fortunate-ly, there are a few things that will help you through this depressing transition.

PROCRASTINATE PROCRASTINATING

This may seem like a weird cheatcode intended to Jedi-mind-trick you into doing your work. It’s devious, but it works. When-ever you open up Netflix to watch just one more episode of Orange Is the New Black, just close it out and promise yourself that you will eventually come back to it. As a quick and easy distraction, try starting on that fun, engaging CS 2110 homework. Seriously, it will only take a second, and you can go right back to wasting your time. It’s a perfect solution.

(NEVER) SKIP CLASSOkay, this may seem like ter-

rible advice, but sticking with it will make you the perfect student. Spend the first week of school conditioning yourself to hate skip-ping class. For the first two days of class, just sit in your room with the lights off, and talk to nobody. By Wednesday morning, you will hunger so much for any human contact that you will gladly at-tend class every single day of the semester. Prepare to have perfect attendance for the next four years.

LEAVE YOUR ROOMForget all of the advice the last

tip. Every minute spent in your room is a minute wasted. Georgia Tech is an experience that is best spent outside, especially for the first month.

Clubs will be recruiting with the greatest enthusiasm that they will ever possess over the course of the entire year, and bright-eyed freshmen will wander the campus looking for friends. Remember, none of this will be found inside Tech housing.

See FOOD, page 19

See SURVIVE, page 16

See SKIP, page 19

@georgiatech #InstituteAddress

Live streaming at:www.president.gatech.edu

President Bud Peterson shares his 2014 Institute Address

with students, faculty, and staff.

Thursday, August 2811 a.m. – noon

Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Room 152

Submit a question to President Peterson at townhall@gatech.edu

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take care of logistics like food, water and risk management plans, and spent time learning about dif-ferent cultural customs.

“The people over there are amazing,” Roseen said. “There are a lot of cultural differences that we had to keep track of. For example, traditionally, whenever you accept something like money or food, you have to use your right hand.”

The group also had to plan to use porters and guides to help them along the trek, since they would need help from more expe-rienced hikers.

After preparation was com-plete, the group left to Nepal. They flew from Kathamandu to Lukla Airport, which is com-monly ranked as one of the most dangerous airports in the world.

The runway at Lukla Airport is extremely steep and short, and the airport usually reports at least one crash per year. Landing on the strip assumes that the slope will be enough to stop an airplane, and taking off assumes that the slope will be enough to give the airplane the thrust and lift that it needs.

“Honestly, that was the most nervous I felt over the entire trip,” Picon said.

The original plan was to spend eight days getting to Everest Base Camp and three more days com-ing back.

However, after five days, the group had to deal with unexpect-ed sickness.

“About halfway into the trip, a few of us started getting sick,” Picon explained. “People started displaying flu-like symptoms, and they were eventually diagnosed

with altitude sickness.”Over three days, the group per-

severed despite having sick mem-bers, and they called two helicop-ters to airlift the most ill members back to Kathamandu.

Finally, after there were only five members left, Agarwal de-cided to call off the trek and bring the rest of the group back to Kathamandu. In total, eight out of the 11 members of the group succumbed to altitude sickness.

“When I was getting airlifted

back to Kathamandu, the sky was absolutely clear,” Roseen said. “It was all worth it in the end.”

Roseen and Picon credited Agarwal with the quick actions that led to the group’s safety.

“Sid was awesome,” Roseen said. “He sprang into action and was able to pull the necessary in-formation we needed from our emergency plans. He worked with the trekking agency to ensure that we got the help we needed to come back down safely.”

Overall, Roseen and Picon said that they had a wonderful experi-ence in Nepal.

“I got to see a lot of beautiful things,” Picon said. “Even when it was cloudy, it was amazing be-cause I was able to see some of the tallest mountains in the world.”

Though the expedition was ul-timately unsuccessful, ORGT was still able to use their resources and planning to ensure that all mem-bers of the group returned home safely.

Photo courtesy of Dillon Roseen

The eleven students participating in Outdoor Recreation Georgia Tech’s expedition to the Everest base camp trained for several months and worked together to surmount challenges they faced.

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FIGURE OUT THE BUSESThis is the most difficult thing

you will ever do at Tech. Try your best to learn the different bus routes from the theoretical maps. Start to factor in the extra varibles, such as weather, surprise construc-tion and bus driver boredom, and like the rest of the student body, come to the sorry conclusion that you will never be able to accurate-ly forecast the coming and going of the treacherous buses.

GET OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE

Speaking of leaving your room, be sure you try new things. Col-lege is the time to start fresh, and our campus is the perfect place to do this. Go and decorate the ice cream cone in front of the Ferst Center or join the crew team. Whether you like these experi-ences, or not, they’re guaranteed to make better stories to tell your children rather than how you met their mother. And if you do end up loving these new experiences, you’re welcome.

ASK FOR HELPFor many people, college is the

first time that they’re away from home, and at first this can be great. However, it can get over-whelming after a while.

If this happens, remember you are around a community that wants to help you and watch you succeed. Talk to your profes-sors if you feel that you are fall-ing behind, and if you’re feeling homesick, call home. There is no shame in asking for a little help sometimes.

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ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR

Dillon Roseen, fourth-year Public Policy and International Affairs major, serves as the stu-dent body president and leads the Student Government Association (SGA).

Having served previously as the SGA Vice President of Inter-nal Affairs, Roseen plans on mak-ing changes to the internal struc-ture of SGA in the hopes of better serving the student body.

Roseen has several ideas for the 2014-2015 school year and has worked with his team over the summer to make progress on sev-eral of these goals.

Technique: What do you think are the most important ini-tiatives that you and Brandi will tackle this year?

Dillion Roseen: We plan to improve the student experience. One of the big goals we have this year is to use SGA as a vehicle to improve the student leaders with-in the organization as opposed to directly hiring leaders.

We have also restructured the executive branch to add a Leader-ship Endowment Chair.

We also focused on incorporat-ing more of a service component for GT 1000 classes by creating philanthropy projects to promote more class unity and Tech tradi-tions.

I also met with Drew Jacoby, the UGA Student Body President, and we discussed the relationship between Tech and UGA. We hope to promote more unity between the two schools, especially since we are the major research institu-tions in Georgia.

The goal is to focus on an “up with the white and gold” mental-

ity instead of a “down with the red and black” mentality. Hope-fully, we can maintain our rivalry on the football field and still be friendly.

Technique: What about your new job working with external affairs and students most excites you?

Roseen: I’m most excited to serve as the representation of what

SGA is doing to improve the stu-dent experience.

At the end of the day, if we are doing something that is posi-tive for the student body I think that is the most important thing. Whether or not SGA is recog-nized for that is secondary.

We also created a new com-munications team so people know that if they have concerns or com-

ments they can come to us.Currently, I’m excited to work

with media groups and speak to the freshmen class, as I love shar-ing what SGA is doing for Tech and the student body.

Technique: One of the most interesting parts I thought about your campaign last year was that you promised to have a direct con-tact with the student body.

What kind of things do you plan on doing to follow through on this promise?

Roseen: We are developing a new website called “We the Stu-dents,” which is modeled after “We the People”, a White House petition forum where people can write about an issue. If that issue receives a certain amount of sup-port from others, then it will be addressed by the White House.

The “We the Students” portal would be a way for students to showcase issues that are affecting them on different areas of cam-pus; SGA would then respond to these issues on the portal. We plan on releasing the website at the end of this year for use next semester.

We are still trying to determine what level of student involvement will merit a response by SGA.

We also have a social media chair who plans on reaching out to students about the new website, while we can partner with other organizations to publicize the website as well.

Technique: Another initiative that stood out about your cam-paign was your plans for address-ing sexual violence on campus.

What have you done this sum-mer with regards to the sexual vio-lence task force and what do you plan to do in the future?

Roseen: We worked a lot this summer on the sexual violence task force, and we created a list of recommendations to address this issue on campus. An ad hoc com-mittee was also formed to make sure these recommendations are making progress throughout the year.

We have also planned for a video campaign to help use male voices as a way to combat sexual

See ROSEEN, page 19

Photo by Brenda Lin Student Publications

Dillon Roseen’, a 4th year PubP and INTA major, was elected SGA President last spring. His goals center on restructuring SGA internally to more efficiently serve the Tech student body.

1. Get lunch with a professor 34. Work at an Internship 67. Set up your XBox Live connection by yourself

2. Go to the CRC 3 days a week for at least a week 35. Run the Pi Mile 68. Make an amazing Goodwill

purchase36. Pull an all-nighter at Brittain during Finals Week 69. Meet someone on Tinder

37. Get a 100 on an exam 70. Befriend someone on the football team

38. Visit Lucky Buddha 71. Perform at Under the Couch

39. Recover from E Coli 72. Find out where the weird smell at Skiles comes from

40. Ask that pretty girl out 73. Meet Hank at Barnes & Noble

41. Win a dance-off against Buzz 74. Build your own computer

42. Go to Holi Show 75. Go on the CRC waterslide

43. Climb the Westin hotel 76. Bike up freshman hill

44. Swim in the Olympic Pool 77. Get free medicine at Stamps45. Play “the floor is lava” in your dorm room

78. Slide off a seat on the Tech Trolley

46. Eat nothing but Ramen for a week

79. Take a final without studying for it

47. Help out a lost parent 80. Befriend a GTPD Officer48. Get “one of everything” at Taco Bell

81. Go to the Homecoming Concert

49. Rush to get free food 82. Loudly wonder who the Homecoming Concert Artist is

50. Write a 10 page paper the day before it’s due 83. Eat at The Varsity51. Think about working at the CRC 84. Join a random segway tour

52. Watch Tech beat u(sic)ga 85. Get lost in Van Leer53. Storm the field after a big football win 86. Be a teaching assistant

54. Sit in on a random class 87. Climb on the roof of the Student Center

55. Beg a professor to turn that F to an A 88. Tell no one56. Call ResNet when it take a web page ten seconds to load

89. Throw someone in the Campanile

57. Sing the fight song from memory 90. Tell everyone58. Argue about which actor was the best Doctor Who

91. Watch The Internship so you can recognize the CULC

59. Fly a paper airplane off the roof of the CULC

92. Take pictures of the teacher’s lecture with an iPad

60. See a play at the Shake-speare 93. Never go to class again61. Go to a professor’s office hours

94. Complain about how hard Health is

62. Write a Sliver. Yes, it is on here twice, please write some 95. Go to DragonCon

63. Go on a Waffle House date 96. Win Trivia Night at Rocky Mountain Pizza

64. Drink Pepsi 97. Go to Music Midtown

65. Feel ashamed about yourself 98. Start a game of Four Square

66. Do research with a professor 99. SLEEP

3. Join a club

4. Join the Technique5. Lose your voice cheering at a Georgia Tech Football game6. Play Humans vs. Zombies7. Get annoyed at people playing Humans vs. Zombies8. Get perfect attendance in at least one class9. Write a sliver10. Discover the true identity of Buzz11. Spot the Ramblin’ Wreck

12. Drive the Ramblin’ Wreck

13. Escape from GTPD14. Visit Antico’s and eat a whole pizza15. Carry someone up freshman hill16. Read a copy of Technique from the 1950’s17. Ride the curve from an F to an A18. Learn how to use the Invention Studio19. 3-D print something

20. Don’t steal the “T”

21. Adopt a stray cat22. Cut through a construction zone23. Win a dance-off on Skiles walkway24. Feed an albino squirrel25. Register for all of your class-es in Phase II26. Drink two five-hour energies in one day27. Skip class to watch Breaking Bad

28. Drop a class29. Climb to the top of the BME Building30. Meet Mario at Waffle House31. Visit the world’s smallest Wal-Mart32. Procrastinate on a paper

33. Study abroad

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Students who are absent on “syllabus day” do not necessarily miss much significant mate-rial. In many cases, the benefits of skipping “syllabus day” could potentially outway the costs.

ers must be aware that the diner is cash only, but there is an ATM located on the restaurant’s prem-ises. Open at 7 a.m. on the week-days and 8 a.m. on the weekends, Thumbs Up Diner definitely em-bodies a friendly ambience.

Silver Skillet: Established in 1956, the Silver Skillet serves up traditional Southern breakfast in an old-timey fashion. They serve diverse breakfast platters, sand-wiches, and sides. The restaurant is located on 14th Street, but the slightly long walk from Tech is well worth the journey.

Since the eatery epitomizes Southern charm, individuals should not be surprised if there is a line out the door. With delicious corned beef hash and skillet coun-try ham, the Silver Skillet also has been featured in multiple movies and the famous “Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives” on the Food Channel.

Mary Mac’s: Another restau-rant characterized by Southern charm, Mary Mac’s is officially declared Atlanta’s Dining Room. With traditional Southern dishes, such as fried okra and Georgia peach cobbler, the restaurant of-fers a complimentary Pot Likker cup to first-time visitors.

Throughout the restaurant, in-dividuals will see various pictures of celebrities and public figures lining the walls further affirming the restaurant’s popularity. It is the perfect place to take parents, specifically out-of-towners, for a taste of Southern cuisine.

ally showed up to lecture and later emailed the class, explaining that he had “car trouble.”

Another professor, deciding that the syllabus was important enough to merit spending two days on it, began reading the course objectives word-for-word.

None of the professors covered difficult or significant material on the first day of class.

The professors that did even-tually make it to a lecture simply reviewed material from the course prerequisites or simply asked stu-

dents if and why they were inter-ested in the course material.

It comes as no surprise that skipping syllabus day had no neg-ative repercussions. In fact, it was a relief not listening to the same message reiterated several times over the course of two days. Re-turning to class once actual mate-rial was being covered proved to be refreshing and, above all, more productive.

So go ahead; skip the first day or two of class. After all, what’s the worst that can happen?

two days of class yields a sobering amount of insight into the frankly ridiculous tradition of syllabus day.

Walking into a class on the sec-ond day without any idea of what happened on day one had abso-lutely no effect on the difficulty of adjusting to the professor, the workload, or the class.

In one case, skipping the first day turned out to be a good de-cision; the professor never actu-

violence. As a campus with over 60 percent men, we have a unique opportunity to be a leading in-stitution where the men can be a part of the solution.

Technique: Earlier, you had mentioned SGA’s online initia-tives. What efforts have you done to improve SGA’s social presence?

Roseen: We’ve used Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter more to communicate with students while receiving feedback.

I’m not a big Reddit user my-self, but it was really interesting to look at that thread, just because most of the comments there were so candid.

Technique: With regards to the academic calendar, what changes have you guys made, and when do you think they will be implemented?

Roseen: The progress for the academic white paper and the administration and staff are on board to going through the steps to implement these changes.

However, we do not have a spe-cific date just yet. SGA continues to provide the student perspective that can be lost in administrative meetings. We work as partners with the administration who very receptive to concerns. The earliest changes will be made in the next couple of semesters.

The drop deadline and tweak-ing the dead week and finals week layout were very well received. Having a wrap around finals would give students a few days and another weekend to study for finals or just to relieve stress be-fore taking exams.

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August 22, 2014

Guardians continues Marvel Studios success

characters, not unlike the now-familiar Avengers but decidedly closer to the wrong side of the law. Comedy and adventure naturally ensues.

The film follows Peter “Star-lord” Quill (Chris Pratt, Parks and Recreation), a human taken from Earth as a child and raised

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Only a few short years ago, the idea of a human thief teaming up with a green-skinned assassin, a bad-tempered alien warrior with a murderous agenda, a walking tree with a small vocabulary and a talking raccoon who also hap-pens to be a strategic genius to take down a villainous blue ter-rorist—in space—would not only be considered as preposterous as this sentence’s structure, but also laughably unfit for the big Hol-lywood screen. But today’s world is one of epic cinematic possibil-ity, allowing films like Guardians of the Galaxy to light up screens around the world with dazzling visual effects and make millions along the way. Released on Aug. 1, the latest entry into Marvel Studio’s cinematic superhero world introduces audiences to an entirely new cast of otherworldly

ing engineer, or run a live show. Oh, and did I mention there’s

practice space for student bands? Technique: So this is the first

ever Couchella Music & Arts Fest. How long have you been prepar-ing for this, and where did the idea originate?

McGrath: Yep! Saturday is the first ever Couchella, and the forecast calls for sunny skies with

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The first week of school is al-ways an interesting time for new comers and longtime Tech veter-ans alike.

The student body is full of peo-ple settling in and getting a grip on campus life, so as to be pre-pared for the pummeling of work that will inevitably come after syl-labus week.

So, to end syllabus week with a bang, and kick of the school year the right way, Musicians Network has created a special little local day festival: Couchella (not to be confused with Coachella, of course.)

Couchella will be an all day event this Saturday, August 23rd, so we decided to get in touch with the team behind it to understand a little more about what we can expect. The Technique had the chance to speak with Jared Mc-Grath, the ‘Minister of Propagan-da’ for the Musicians Network, and he happily filled us in.

Technique: Could you quickly explain what Under The Couch is, especially for all the new students on campus?

McGrath: Under the Couch is the student-run, on-campus music venue, lounge, and record-ing studio. Its located on the 2nd floor of the Student Center, next to the info desk. It’s a place where you can learn to play guitar, start a band, see a free concert, record an album (!), learn to be a record-

Couchella is set to take place outside the CULC, on the Tech Green, from noon to 7pm, and will feature an assortment of bands from the Atlanta metro area.

Photo Courtesy of Maker Faire Atlanta

Couchella brings a festival atmosphere to campus

a chance of awesome. The idea originated in early Spring within Musician’s Network (MN), the student club that runs Under the Couch. We see a lot of students at-tending festivals and concerts all year long. We’re also a place where student musicians form bands, practice, record and play shows. We saw an opportunity to marry the two together. We wanted to

as a bandit amongst intergalac-tic alien mercenaries. After he inadvertently steals a potentially world-ending artifact, Quill finds himself in the middle of a conflict between Ronan (Lee Pace, the Hobbit trilogy), a powerful mani-ac intent on global genocide, and the peaceful citizens of the galaxy.

After a series of events lands him in prison, Quill teams up with the mysterious Gamora (Zoe Saldana, Star Trek), a skilled fighter with connections to the enemy, and Drax (Dave Batista, Riddick), a violent and muscled alien with a personal vendetta against Ronan. Also joining them are Groot, a gi-

ant, walking, tree-like alien with a peaceful demeanor, and his bounty hunter partner Rocket, a raccoon who has been genetically manipulated to talk like a human and think like a battle tactician (voiced by Vin Diesel, the Fast and the Furious series, and Bradley

The misfit crew of Guardians of the Galaxy in prison gear: (From left to right) Chris Pratt as Peter Quill, Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot, Bradley Cooper as the voice of Rocket, Dave Batista as Drax, and Zoe Saldana as Gamora.

Photo courtesy of Marvel Studios

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share that excitement and en-ergy with all of campus. And so, Couchella was born!

Technique: How many people were involved in organizing the event?

McGrath: There are about a dozen of us that are highly in-volved, and then another handful of helpers and volunteers.

Technique: Since this is a free

event, did Under the Couch fund it fully, or were there any other parties that donated?

McGrath: That’s right. 100% free, even for your grandma and your dog. The event is completed funded by Under the Couch.

We approached some folks about helping, but ultimately, we carried on alone. Next year, we’d love some more help from any and all corners of campus.

We hope to grow Couchella into an annual back-to-school festival that the whole campus celebrates.

Technique: Given that ‘Coachella’ is a mixed genre fes-tival, would you consider bring on electronic or DJ acts for next year’s show?

McGrath: Absolutely! The EDM Collective will actually be on hand this year, and we’ve got a hip-hop beat box troupe called BuzzBeats that’s performing, too.

We’re open to any and all forms of music, so you’ll hear sounds from punk to folk to country to pop. There’s even a tribute to Wee-zer’s Blue Album, which, like Un-der the Couch, turns 20 this year.

There are a handful of student bands playing, including the Mer-ry Go Rounds, a 10 person twee pop and that will be fresh off its first summer tour up to New York.

We’ve also got Atlanta locals Noel Stephens and the Darling, who do really fun 60s pop music.

One of our headliners is Little Ugly, an indie folk band on tour

See COUCHELLA, page 27

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Taiwanese cuisine brings new flavor to Midtown

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NARAYAN, KENNETH MARINO

The Midtown Atlanta area has always has a shortage of tradi-tional Asian cuisine. For smaller countries like Taiwan, restau-rants solely featuring their fare have been non-existent inside the Perimeter, so when Ah-Ma’s Tai-wanese Kitchen popped up this summer, our staff decided to give it a go.

JOE: I got the Lu Rou Fan. As a newcomer to Taiwanese cuisine and a picky eater in general, I was pleasantly surprised by the relative simplicity of the dish. The dish consists mainly of a small bowl of braised pork on top of white rice, covered with a thin layer of cilantro and pickled radish and with a hard-boiled egg cooked in soy sauce on the side. On its own, the radish was a bit too sweet for my liking, but I found that it did infuse the rice and meat with an almost sugary quality. The cilan-tro provided an added zing when

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it mixed with the surrounding flavors, and the egg created a solid base when added to the meal, or provided a nice palate cleanser when consumed afterwards. Overall, the meal was worth the money. I kind of wish there was Wi-Fi in the restaurant though.

ARVIND: Being a vegetarian, I did not have many options when I saw the menu, but I settled on the veggie bao. I am, by no stretch of the phrase, a connoisseur of Taiwanese food. I did not rec-ognize or attempt to pronounce a significant number of items on the menu. Therefore, I did not re-ally have high expectations when I ordered the veggie bao—this was lucky. The dish was not too impressive or memorable. It was certainly heavier on the bao than on the veggie, but it proved to be a convenient snack.

I would describe my first bite as vibrantly flavorful, but to be hon-est, I do not remember the taste at all. I simply drowned my hunger in this confusingly-sized morsel of food and was mildly satisfied. Eating the veggie bao at Ah-Ma’s Taiwanese Kitchen is comparable to watching an episode of Hell’s Kitchen; it’s massively entertain-ing when you have nothing else to focus on, you cannot really re-member it ten minutes after you have finished with it. Also, there are not really enough vegetables in it for the thing to be practical.

KENNY: I had the shrimp and pork belly baos. The shrimp bao was excellent—well seasoned with

The beef noodle soup depicted above is one of many authentic Taiwanese dishes one can enjoy while dining at Ah-Ma’s.

Photo courtesy of Si L. Yelp

a great sauce. The pork belly bao was not quite as good, but it was a heavier lift as I am not partial to pork belly. Together they made a good meal, although perhaps not if you are hungry.

I had originally wanted to try the beef noodle soup, which sounded delicious. However, I was told that they had run out of it by the time we got around to or-dering. That being said, both my baos came out from the kitchen very quickly.

BRENDA: As the lone person of Taiwanese heritage in the group and the only one with previous ex-perience with Taiwanese cuisine, I thought the food was very true to the name of the restaurant, Ah-Ma’s Kitchen.

Ah-Ma, meaning grandma in Taiwanese, in combination with the word kitchen, invokes memo-ries of yummy comfort food that my grandmas make for me when-ever I return to Taiwan for a visit.

The food the restaurant serves consists of simple, traditional dishes, just as Grandmas would make, such as Braised Oxtail and Sticky Rice. Although I had quite a hard time deciding what I want-ed to order, as I wanted to try it all, I did find myself wishing there was more variety on the menu to include other favorites like Stinky Tofu or Ba Wan. I ultimately set-tled on Lu Rou Fan with a starter of Salt & Pepper Chicken.

My order of Salt & Pepper Chicken was served surprisingly fast and had a very well balanced

seasoning of basil and five-spice powder. The Lu Rou Fan was sim-ilarly flavorful and was probably one of the better ones I have had in the U.S. in quite some time, even better than my mother’s! Both serving portions were pretty reasonable for the price, but the latter dish could probably be just tiny more generous.

My biggest qualm with Ah-Ma’s was that time between when the starters and the main dishes were served. I had the Salt & Pep-per Chicken to snack on before my Lu Rou Fan, but I felt the hungry eyes of some of the others as they waited quite a long time before they received their food.

THE VERDICT: Ah-Ma’s Tai-wanese Kitchen is a wonderful new gem available here in Mid-town for those either missing the foods of their youth or taste bud adventurers looking for a new, authentic taste beyond the usual Chinese or Japanese fare.

Although the server was very friendly and quick to refill our water glasses, the kitchen can do with moving just a bit faster to get out food as well as perhaps better gauge the quantity of food they need to satisfy all their customers for the day.

Once these issues are fixed, we are sure Ah-ma’s will be a hot spot here in Atlanta.

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At its heart, Guardians is un-doubtedly Marvel’s most kid-friendly spectacle, complete with talking animals, shining spaceship battles and the best soundtrack on a Hollywood film since Space Jam’s dropped the beat

on the world in 1996. Addition-ally, the visuals are, in a word, impressive; every scene in the film seems to contain the entire spectrum of visible color, with-out threatening to overwhelm the viewer with an explosion of blind-ing highlights. Guardians’ source material stems from the seemingly boundless world of comics, and the film’s creators take full advan-tage of this lack of reality-imposed boundaries; the film’s outer space landscape varies between the vi-sual mastery of Gravity and the almost cheesy otherworld-ness of Thor, and constantly tops itself in

terms of ingenuity and just plain wackiness.

However, despite its high-quality visual effects, the film could not have become the criti-cal and financial success that it is without the chemistry evident among its cast members, both leading and supporting. Although Pratt has been known mostly for his supporting roles in the past, the actor’s introduction into the center of the blockbuster spotlight is a successful one. In a nutshell, Pratt’s Quill is Iron Man without the destructive health problems: a natural born leader and woman-

Beginning with 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron (concept art pictured) and continuing with the upcoming Ant-Man film, Marvel Stu-dios is expanding upon both its cinematic universe and its already diverse cast of established superheroes.

ages) and Benicio del Toro (Traffic) are counted among the film’s sup-porting lineup, resulting an array of performances, both dramatic and comedic, that manages to do the impossible in overshadowing the film’s stunning visuals.

Overall, Guardians has pro-vided the Marvel Cinematic Uni-verse with a brighter, funnier and slightly more innocent facade, made even more prominent in the wake of more brooding films like Captain America: The Winter Solder and Thor: The Dark World. This contrast between the light-hearted and the ominous poses some interesting questions for the future of the superhero fran-chise. Although Guardians did not contain direct connections to any of the other Marvel films aside from a few supporting char-acters and locations, the film itself takes place within the same cin-ematic world as 2012’s The Aveng-ers, meaning that audiences may soon be paying to see Quill and the gang team up with Iron Man, the Hulk and the rest of Earth’s mightiest heroes.

Beginning with Avengers: Age of Ultron in May 2015, Marvel seems to be entering a brave new world of superhero cinema, one in which entire galaxies may come head to head and the characters that audiences have come to love will get to interact in ways only seen in the comics themselves until now. Already, Marvel has granted Guardians a sequel, along with a third installment in the Captain America franchise and a debut film for Ant-Man, a popu-lar comic book star who has yet to be seen in any film installment to date. It remains to be seen if these bold new steps into previ-ously uncharted superhero territo-ry may prove to be too confusing or implausible to Marvel’s loyal fan base, but as it stands, with Guardians of the Galaxy currently dominating the global cinematic scene, the studio has never been stronger.

izer who can crack a joke as easily as he can pilot his ship through an oncoming barrage of galac-tic enemies. In accordance with the more lighthearted tone of the film, Pratt shines the bright-est during his more comedic mo-ments, of which there are many. At his side, Saldana and Batista do the same, albeit in a more reserved sense, while Diesel and Cooper need only their voices to make the pairing of Groot and Rocket one of the more memorable and hilarious in recent history. And that’s just the main cast. Veteran actors such as Glenn Close (Dam-

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Mad Decent’s all-ages format alters EDM party vibe

Mad Decent is a Philadelphia based music label, headed up by Diplo, and focuses on heavy electronic music. The label has thrown block parties since 2008, and it started touring in 2010.

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which didn’t last long as the sold-out block party transformed into a full on mosh pit after 7pm. It felt like they were for the image, and not the music, which brought the fun down a bit.

Since Mad Decent isn’t really known as a ‘rave’ label, kandi kids weren’t out in the same numbers as hipsters, but they did lighten the mood with their colorful beads and childlike attitudes. Despite Mad Decent Block Party landing on the hottest day of the summer, Kandi Kids rolled in with their arms covered in “kandi” or those colorful beaded bracelets, cuffs, masks, legwarmers, bras, etc.

Falling under the principles of: Peace, Love, Unity and Respect (PLUR), Mad Decent Block Party was just a cheap place to recon-vene and trade kandi. With the happy go-lucky attitude, they did liven the mood and help newbies feel comfortable. An unfortunate side note: Mad Decent’s show in Boston resulted in several deaths, and the brand attributed it to several attendees hiding drugs in their cuffs and bracelets, so they’ve since banned this rave gear.

Pseudo-ravers attended though, without the bead costumes. A step down from the Kandi Kids; spot-ted in neon, big “Impact” lettered shirts that read “RAVE CITY” or “LET’S GET WEIRD”, the rav-ers flocked to the Masquerade in the name of Taco Bell king, Dil-lon Francis. Endowed with amaz-ing fist-bumps and resilient livers, these people know how to have fun.

However, the DJ could’ve just pressed play and they wouldn’t have known the difference. EDM purists on the other hand would not have been so happy if the DJ just stood there dancing behind the decks.

EDM purists are those who’ve been following dance music for

a substantially longer time than the rest of the attendees and were either welcoming and wanted to teach, or were a bit snoody. They’ve been following MDBP from the beginning and are more there to see Diplo’s work in action.

Critiquing every set and every transition, EDM purists don’t have to prove themselves through apparel; they know they stand on a higher ground that nobody else cares about.

If you wanted to inquire about who was coming on next, why the sound wasn’t loud enough, or why it was called “Mad Decent”, you asked the only average looking hu-man beings there.

Finally you had the kids. Yes this all ages event brought out the weirdest people around, from ages 14 and up and it created a vibe un-like any other. For those who were older this was a bit startling and arguably a side sight.

Those who had little faith in the generations behind us, lost even more. During the transition from DJ Snake into Riff Raff, a little part of MDBP turned into your parents’ worst nightmare. Closely resembling the inner workings of Miley Cyrus’ right brain, this phase of the block party separated the crowd from people you swear you’ve never seen before from pretty much everyone else. From metallic body suits, combat boots, and chokers to marijuana patterned knee-high socks.

All in all, Mad Decent’s At-lanta block party was a good show (with emphasis on the show.) If you managed to stay close enough to the speakers but far enough from the firehouse security guards blasted everywhere, you might’ve actually enjoyed yourself—sober or not. The artists were solid and the music was great; however, the variety of ages and types of people made for a potluck experience.

SARA DELGADOCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Atlanta has slowly started be-coming a popular destination for electronic music events, at least since Identity and Counterpoint Music Fest hit the city in 2012. This past Summer, Mad Decent, a growing electronic music label, held one of its many block parties here in Atlanta.

EDM business mogul and all-star producer Thomas Pentz, bet-ter known to the world as Diplo, created these ‘Mad Decent Block Parties’ as a tribute to block par-ties in the label’s hometown, Philly. The idea is that people of

different types of people who went to Atlanta’s Mad Decent Block Party.

Perhaps it was the location (The Masquerade) or perhaps it was simply the music, but hip-sters attended en masse. Debuting what they just bought off the sale rack at Urban Outfitters, the girls flaunted their flower crowns while the guys rocked vintage snapbacks and club masters as if Coachella had come to Atlanta.

They more than likely only bought tickets to see Flume, the Aussie sensation making waves on his North American tour. Af-terwards they rested in the shade and waited it out for Zeds Dead,

all ages can come together as a community and party to some of the most current music around, and all at a decent price.

The second of twenty stops was in Atlanta on July 22nd, and featured: Action Bronson, Cur-tis Williams, Dillon Francis, DJ Snake, Flosstradamus, Flume, Riff Raff, What So Not and Zeds Dead. Since this event was all ages though, and most EDM events are restricted to those of the legal drinking age, the vibe of the event was completely different.

Consequently, this review will not review the artists of the per-formances but the types of people who attended. So, here are the five

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and Courtesy of Frank. Technique: Anything else you

want Tech students to know be-fore the event tomorrow?

McGrath: The event is FREE, and open to students and guests. There will be food trucks, student clubs, and more.

Feel free to bring picnic blan-kets, food, Frisbees, friends, foot-balls, dogs. You get the idea.

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Couchella’s lineup consists of over 10 bands, food trucks and giveaways. The event organizers have also taken it upon themselves to set up several after parties.

from Hartford.Technique: What do you want

attendees to get out of the event? McGrath: Other than enjoy-

ing a sunny Saturday outdoors with friends?

I hope everyone sees the vast amount of creativity, joy and stu-dent culture that permeates our

campus. Technique: How many after

parties are there, and where are they?

McGrath: Glad you asked! There’s an official afterparty at Phi Kap called Couchella After Dark. There will be dancing and live music, with sets from cam-pus favorites Champagne Room, Ground Rules, Organ Machines

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Atlanta Falcons v. Tennessee Titans

This Sunday, Aug. 24, the Tennesee Titans (1-1) will be coming to Atlanta (1-1), to play in the Georgia Dome against our very own Atlanta Falcons for another preseason game. This is will be the third preseason game for each team, and may be players’ last chance to leave a strong impression on the league and their team, to avoid being cut before the of-ficial NFL season starts on Sept. 4. This game reunites the teams after a joint training camp practice. Tickets are not available online and can be purchased at the stadium’s box office. Kickoff is at 7:00pm EST, and will be broadcast on Titans Preseason TV Network.

Jay Leno, Live in Concert

American comedian, actor and former host of the Tonight Show on NBC, Jay Leno, will be in Atlanta next Wednesday, Aug. 27 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center. This fundraiser event benefits ArtBridge foundation, and raises funds for education and community engagement. Pre-show reception will begin at 6:30pm EST, and the Jay Leno show will begin at 8:00pm EST. Tickets will range from $50-$197 (plus fees) and VIP packages are $250. Complete information about the VIP package for this event can be found at www.cobbenergycentre.com/foundation.

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The Cardinals lost quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, but former coach Charlie Strong has left plenty of talent for the new coach-ing staff.

4. Boston College: One of the surprises of the ACC last season was Boston College with their im-pressive running game.

Former running back Andre Williams has moved on to the NFL, but the talent in the pro-gram should be great enough for them to make a bowl once again.

5. Syracuse: The Orange had a rough go in some of their ACC games as first time members: Tech beat them 56-0 and Florida State and Clemson also won by very large margins. Still, the Orange made a bowl game last year but will have their work cut out for them to make it again.

6. NC State: The Wolf Pack struggled mightily on offense last year and didn’t win a game in ACC play.

New quarterback Jacoby Bris-sett will be eligible this year af-ter transferring from Florida and should run their offense more ef-fectively than last year’s quarter-backs.

7. Wake Forest: Jim Grobe re-signed as coach last season, and an entire new staff was brought in to rebuild. It should be a rough first season, and it will be surprising if Wake wins an ACC game.

Coastal Division: 1. Duke: The Blue Devils

shocked the nation last year as they won a program-high ten games, and they are the favorites by most to repeat as coastal divi-sion champions. Quarterback An-thony Boone will look to improve on his 427 yard performance from the Chik-fil-A Bowl.

2. Miami: Miami fans have been waiting for what seems like forever to return to their national prominence, but it will not be this year.

3. North Carolina: The Tar

Heels ended the season on a high note and will once again have plenty of talent in the program, but don’t expect that to lead to more wins as UNC frequently has underachieved in the past.

4. Georgia Tech: The Jackets could finish between first and sixth place in the coastal division,

and much of their season depends on the health of offensive line and new quarterback Justin Thomas’ ability to run Paul Johnson’s triple option offense.

5. Virginia Tech: Logan Thomas is no longer quarterback which will thrill Jacket fans as he always found a way to play his best

against Tech. The defense will once again be strong as there is a Fuller in the secondary.

6. Pittsburgh: The Panthers had a good first season last year, but many key players have gradu-ated. Their power-running game with James Conner will be their biggest strength.

7. Virginia: Head coach Frank London is fighting for his job this year.

After going winless last season, the pressure is on for Virginia to have a big season. If results aren’t produced, the Cavaliers will prob-ably be looking for another coach for next season.

Defensive tackle Adam Gotsis intercepts a pass thrown by Tajh Boyd last year against Clemson during the first half of the game.

Gotsis has become the most talented player on the defensive line and will be a force to be reckoned with during ACC play.

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NIKHIL RADGECONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Jackets’ volleyball team will start their 2014 campaign on August 29 at the Gamecock Invi-tational in Charleston, South Car-olina, and are looking to rebound from a disappointing 2013 season. Last year’s team was young and inexperienced, with six freshman coming in to replace graduat-ing players, and it showed in the team’s 12-20 season.

Those six players are all re-turning to this year’s roster as ex-perienced sophomores, along with four new freshman recruits and a brand new coaching staff, and the Jackets look to find success once again.

Tech will have veteran options for the starting setter spot, as ju-nior Callie Bivings and sopho-more Rebecca Martin are both returning to the setter position and taking over for the depart-ing starter and co-captain Kaleigh Colson.

Martin is coming off a success-ful freshman season in which she led the team with 410 assists and notched her first double-double against St. John’s. Bivings also had a strong season, which saw her get her first career start, and was third on the team with 307 assists.

Redshirt 4th year Ashtaan Horton and 2nd years Annika Van Gunst and Lauren Pitz return as middle blockers for Tech, with freshman Sydney Wilson as the

new addition.The Jackets have some big

spots to fill due to the transfer of sophomore Chanell Clark-Bibbs and the departure of senior Quinn Evans, who were second and third in kills, respectively. Annika Van Gunst will be expected to make some big strides this season. She comes in with 121 kills in her freshman year, good for second amongst returning players.

Senior Courtney Felinski and 2nd year Teegan Van Gunst will return as hitters for Tech, but the loss of departing senior Jennifer Percy is a big one.

Percy was Tech’s deadliest player last season, leading the team by a significant margin with 373 kills and a 3.19 kills per set rate. The Jackets have also added freshmen Gabriela Stavnetchei and Ashley Akin.

Felinski will have to continue to be effective in her senior sea-son in order for Tech to fill that role. She leads all returning play-ers with 156 kills from last season and had the second highest kills per set rate at 2.03. Teegan Van Gunst played in nearly every set last season and will look to im-prove upon her 83 kills.

Tech’s defense sees the return of 3rd year Wimberly Wilson and 2nd year London Ackermann, while freshman Annika Olsen is the newcomer to fill out the spot left by departing junior Zoey Morton. Ackermann saw a lot of playing time as a freshman and

will look to improve in her sopho-more year. Wilson, who shared time with Morton last season, may be relied on more while Ol-sen adapts to the college game.

Tech’s 2014 roster features the loss of some key players, but also retains a lot of the younger talent from last year.

However, the major change to Tech’s volleyball program comes in the form of its coaching staff. Coach Michelle Collier was hired in March to replace the outgoing Tonya Johnson. Collier comes in as the 2013 Atlantic Sun Confer-ence Coach of the Year.

She led the Jacksonville Uni-versity Dolphins to a 30-4 record and an NCAA Tournament ap-pearance.

Collier hopes to bring the Tech volleyball program back to the success it’s had in the past but cau-tions that the strength of the ACC may prevent that from happening immediately.

“The goal is typically by my fourth year that we are getting to where we need to be. The first year is going to be hard. It’s going to have to be an evaluating year to just figure out what’s important for us and what I think is going to help us get there the fastest,” said Collier.

Assistant coaches Marcela Oliveira and Taylor McColskey will join Collier’s staff as well.

Fans will get their first chance to see the team at home on Sep-tember 19, when the Jackets will play Georgia in a Gold Out at the Georgia Tech Invitational.

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passes from Peyton Manning, so look for him to have another big year.

Stephen Hill and Kevin Cone round out the receiving corps. Running back Jonathan Gardner has a new home in Arizona af-ter spending four years with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He will be

providing depth to the Cardinals’ backfield and may see most of his action in short yardage and third down situations.

On the defensive side of the ball, five-year veteran Morgan Burnett will be the starting strong safety for the Green Bay Packers. He is respected in the organiza-tion, having been named team

captain for the postseason this past January. The team was ninth in the league in passing defense last year, with Burnett contrib-uting on 96 tackles (16th in the league among defensive backs) and recovering three fumbles, re-turning one for a touchdown.

Safety Dawan Landry is enter-ing his second year with the New

York Jets and ninth overall in the league. He can be pretty disrup-tive in the running game and is best suited to play under head coach Rex Ryan’s zone schemes. His experience in the league may also serve to benefit to the team, which has a relatively young de-fensive core.

Defensive end Michael John-son will be on the minds of oppos-ing quarterbacks down in Tampa Bay. He had a career-high 11.5 sacks back in 2012 for Cincinnati, good for sixth in the league, but has never had more than six in any other season. He will be play-ing under head coach Lovie Smith in a Tampa 2 scheme, so he will need to be quick off the line and generate pressure for the defense to be effective.

Five-year veteran defensive end Derrick Morgan of the Tennessee Titans will be undertaking a chal-lenging assignment as he will be seeing a lot of time at outside line-backer in addition to his regular role. He has not played in cover-age since he was with the Jackets, but is embracing the challenge with a positive mindset.

Veteran linebackers Daryl Smith and Philip Wheeler will both contribute many tackles for their respective teams, the Bal-timore Ravens and Miami Dol-phins, as each player had about 120 stops last year.

As for the rookies, six Tech de-fenders from last year made it to the big show, at least for the pre-season. Linebacker Jeremiah Atta-ochu, Tech’s all-time sacks leader, was drafted in the second round by the San Diego Chargers and should make the final roster cut.

He will be fighting for the oppor-tunity to play alongside a strong interior linebacking corps that includes defensive team captain Donald Butler and Manti Te’o, so he will have plenty of learning op-portunities in the preseason and during practice.

Defensive back Jemea Thomas and linebacker Brandon Watts were also drafted by the New England Patriots and Minnesota Vikings, respectively, and are working hard during camp to se-cure a roster spot. Thomas is cur-rently buried within the Patriots’ depth chart and may line up at both cornerback and safety dur-ing the season. Head coach Bill Belichick typically tries out his younger players in a few different positions in order to determine what best suits both the player and team, so Thomas will have several opportunities to showcase his talents.

Defensive linemen Euclid Cummings and Emmanuel Dieke, as well as cornerback Louis Young were signed as free agents after the draft and are also seeing a lot of action this preseason as they try to make the cut. Cum-mings has notched four tackles for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers so far this preseason, while Dieke and Young have each contributed one to their teams. The first round of roster cuts will occur on August 26, when the teams will reduce their rosters to 75 players, fol-lowed by a reduction to 53 players on August 30 for the start of the season. If they do not make the team, they will hope to sign on a practice squad with on of the team in the NFL.

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Tech honors scholarship of injured athlete

MARK RUSSELLSPORTS EDITOR

On July 29, Jaylend Ratliffe was riding ATVs with some of his teammates when he had a serious ATV crash and had to be airlifted

to the hospital. Just 5 days be-fore the crash, Ratliffe was visit-ing Tech, and had made it public knowledge that he planned to enroll early at Tech for the 2015 spring semester. Once at the hos-pital, Ratliffe was diagnosed with

a fractured skull and was in criti-cal condition. At first, Ratliffe was responsive to commands and could move his limbs; unfortu-nately, the swelling around his brain caused him a lot of pain.

On July 31, Ratliffe went

through a procedure to relieve the pressure on his brain which was successful.

However, later in the day he was put into a medically induced coma, and surgery was performed to remove a piece of his skull. Af-ter surgery he was able to respond to family members but was still in critical condition.

Ratliffe played his high school football in North Carolina at Scot-land County High School. He led his team to the 4-A state cham-pionship game where they lost to Jack Britt High School. Scotland County finished their season 15-1, and expectations were high for the team this season.

The team has still been practic-ing in preparation for the season, but practice is not the same with-out their leader.

On August 3, Richard Bailey, Ratliffe’s head coach at Scotland County, announced that Tech will honor Ratliffe’s scholarship at Georgia Tech regardless of wheth-er or not he is able to play football.

He will be given a full schol-arship during his time at Tech which will be listed as a medical hardship scholarship if he is not able to play. The most important thing for Ratliffe is that he is able to get healthy once again, and, if football is no longer an option, that he is able to succeed academi-cally while at Georgia Tech.

Due to Ratliffe’s medical bills, many community members started fundraisers for him. Many

donations came in from George P. Burdell, and over $8,000 was raised online. Another $10,000 was raised from selling t-shirts that had Ratliffe’s #2 and “Strong” printed on them.

As of August 16, Ratliffe has been moved out of the intensive care unit and has started minor rehab in the pediatric wing of the hospital. His coach visited before a scrimmage against Mallard Creek and said that he is doing well, but his recovery would be slow and steady.

At the time, Ratliffe hadn’t passed a swallow test and was still using a feeding tube, but he was off the ventilator and able to speak some words.

On August 21 Cam Newton, quarterback of the Carolina Pan-thers, visited him in the hospital. Newton is one of Ratliffe’s favor-ite NFL players, and he was very happy to see him. Ratliffe is now able to walk and move his arms more; however, he is still unable to swallow and has lost a consid-erable amount of weight.

His coach and family are hop-ing he is out of the hospital by end of September, but he still has to undergo another brain surgery to put pieces of his skull back in place. The doctors have not told him whether or not he will be able to play football again, but hope-fully Ratliffe will one day be able to suit up on the football field and continue to try and make his dreams come true.

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Jaylend Ratliffe runs for a first down for Scotland County High School. Ratliffe, a quarterback

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The Technique’s 2014 ACC football preview MARK RUSSELLSPORTS EDITOR

The 2014 ACC football season is right around the corner, and for the first time in over a decade and a half, the reigning Heisman tro-phy winner and national champi-ons will be from the ACC. Florida State will be looking to repeat, and they are favored to do so ac-cording to most major polls.

Jameis Winston is looking to be the first back-to-back Heisman Trophy winner since Archie Grif-fin in the 1980s. Winston will be under far more pressure this year as some of his favorite targets left for the NFL.

This season also marks the re-turn of Miami’s Duke Johnson. Johnson missed the end of last season after suffering a season-ending injury. Johnson is one of the best football players in Ameri-ca, and Miami will go as far as he carries them.

Duke wide receiver Jamison Crowder looks to break several ACC records this season includ-ing career receptions and passing yards. Crowder played a key role in Duke’s ACC coastal division-winning season. Even though he is only 5 foot 9, he is one of the toughest and fastest players in the country.

Crowder will be the staple of the Duke offense, and if they want to repeat last year, Crowder must have another 1000-yard season.

The Technique predicted its preseason All-ACC team, and leading the way with nine players was Florida State. Duke had four, and Adam Gotsis was the only Tech player to be named.

The Technique preseason play-er of the year is Duke Johnson, and Vic Beasley is the preseason defensive player of the year. Jimbo Fisher has the nod in winning ACC coach of the year.

Florida State is the heavy fa-vorite to win the Atlantic division, but the Coastal division is wide open.

Atlantic Division:1. Florida State: Even though

FSU lost many key players to the NFL, they still have the best of-fensive line in college football and plenty of proven talent on offense to win the ACC. However, FSU will have their hands full in the new College Football Playoff.

2. Clemson: The Tigers lost their 3 best offensive players this past season, but head coach Dabo Swinney has enough talent on the team for them to have another ten-win season. Vic Beasley an-chors their defense and will most likely lead the ACC in sacks.

3. Louisville: This is Louis-ville’s first year in the ACC, and former head coach Bobby Petrino returns to Louisville after failed job attempts with the Atlanta Fal-cons and Arkansas Razorbacks.

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