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Reexamining and addressing open racism in the South

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The Jefferson Davis Memorial, above, and others in New Orleans are being removed after a December City Council vote.

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NEWS

NICK JOHNSONMANAGING EDITOR

Whenever theres an accident on the I-10/610 Split, the people of New Orleans East take a more scenic route to get to Mid-City.Get onto Hayne Blvd.; turn onto Leon C. Simon Drive; look out to the right at Lake Pontchartrain, as one does. Merge onto Robert E. Lee Blvd.; head down to Canal St. Since theres always an accident at the Split, Ive been down Lee many times on my way to school. One day in school, I learned that he was General of the Confederate

States of America, founded to up-hold slavery. I never stopped feel-ing weird about the scenic route.The City Council of New Or-

leans recently voted to remove sev-eral statues and other monuments around the city that promoted the Confederacy. One of these is the northward-facing statue of Gen-eral Lee that resides in Lee Circle, the once and future Tivoli Circle. The plan is to move these mono-liths to a museum or to commis-sion a new park to place them in. It was a 6-1 vote for, and there had been increasing activism to have them removed, so it seemed

like something NOLA as a whole wanted. Well, let me be the first to tell you that some white people are pissed off about this. Their heroes, their heritage, their pieces of cast metal will no longer headline the tours around the city. Instead, that honor might go to things all New Orleanians and tourists love, like Cafe du Mondes beignets, the un-official state dessert, Sno-balls, the only form of snow we ever get, or Monkey Hill, the highest point in the city (slightly above sea level).The proposition was decried by

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Georgia Techs Journal of the Arts and Literatureart, n. - The expression or application of creative skill and

imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting, drawing, or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their

beauty or emotional power.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substi-tute whatever for the force and beauty of

its process. Max Eastman

MAURA CURRIE AND SHEKINAH HALL

NEWS EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTING WRITER

EARLY ACTION RELEASETech officially admitted the

first students of the class of 2020 through the early action decision release on Jan. 9. Of the 14,861 students who applied in the early action round 4,424 were admit-ted, making for a 30 percent ad-mission rate. Admitted students had an average new SAT score of 1453 out of 1600, which converts to roughly 2166 out of 2400 on the old SAT, and an average ACT score of 33. 96 percent of admitted students had taken Ad-vanced Placement calculus, and the average admitted student had taken 10 or more Advanced Placement courses throughout high school. For the first time in Techs history, 48 percent of the admitted applicants are female. 48 states and 39 countries are represented.

DONE WITH DEAD WEEKThis semester marks the be-

ginning of a new policy that replaces Dead Week with Final Instructional Class Days and Reading Periods. Final Instruc-tional Class Days will be the last two days that a course offi-cially meets. During these days, no tests or quizzes may be given, and all tests and quizzes must be graded and returned to the students by the last instruct- ional day.

Reading Periods will be des-ignated days for students to study for finals. During these pe-riods, no classes will be held and any assignments are prohibited. Professors may schedule review sessions to be during a Reading Period day, but they may not introduce or grade material on new concepts.

GT AND THE GOPIn Dec. 2015, CNN traveled

around the United States in a Campaign Camper to document college students questions for the 2016 presidential candidates. Many Tech students took the op-portunity to ask their questions when the Camper parked in the Campanile on Dec. 3.

During the Republican de-bate on Dec. 15, two Tech students were featured Josh Jacob and Ashley Tofil, both In-ternational Affairs students. Ja-cob asked Donald Trump about his plans to combat the Islamic State within the boundaries of international law, and Tofil asked Carly Fiorina about her plans for interacting with Rus-sian President Vladimir Putin.

ONLINE MASTERS DEGREES

Tech graduated its first class of students earning an online masters in computer science on Jan. 11. The class of 20 students are the first of their kind at Tech, where the online masters in computer science has existed for nearly two years.

2,841 students enrolled in one or more OMCS course dur-ing the Fall 2015 semester, hail-ing from multiple states and sev-eral nations outside the US. The program attracted the

attention of AT&T, which has contributed over $3 million to aid in launching the program, and that of President Obama, who referenced it in 2013 and 2015 as a prime example of in-novative STEM education.

GOOD DEED GONE VIRALStudents from the Scheller

College of Business gave a holi-day gift to security guard Mar-cus Burns, having raised $1,600 for the gift in just over a day.The moment, attended by

over 100 students, was captured on cell phone and promptly went viral on social media. The video was viewed more than 400,000 times on Facebook alone, and racked up over two million total views across all social media platforms.

Burns, known by Scheller stu-dents for his friendliness and up-beat attitude, said that he would use the gift to take his family out for a night of bowling and dinner over the holidays.

MAURA CURRIENEWS EDITOR

The Tech student responsible for a hacking incident on the University of Georgias (UGA) master calendar in Nov. 2014 has officially been acquitted after undergoing a year-long Pre-Trial Diversion program.

Ryan Pickren, a fourth-year EE and CMPE, was indicted with a felony count of computer trespass on Dec. 16, 2014 follow-ing a Hate Week prank in which he exploited a security flaw and published an unauthorized mes-sage reading Get ass kicked by GT on the UGA websites master calendar. A week later, Pickren was taken into custody in Athens and released the same day on a $5,000 bond. The Athens-Clarke County

District Attorney permitted Pickren to enter a Pre-Trial Di-version program, which enabled him as a first-time offender to avoid pleading guilty or no con-test in exchange for community

service, a written apology to UGA and good behavior for one year after entering the program.

During his program, Pick-ren completed his community service with Techbridge, an At-lantan non-profit who provides tech support to other non-profit organizations.

Techbridge is an awesome company, Pickren said. I re-ally enjoyed my time with them. There is a real need for the ser-vices that they provide to the community.

Having successfully com-pleted the program, Pickren has had all charges against him dropped and his record has been expunged.

He intends to continue pur-suing his passion for computer science: I definitely have a pas-sion for cybersecurity. Today my ethical hacking activities are fo-cused on Bug Bounty programs. These are legal programs set up by companies who are willing to pay bounties to researchers who can identify security vulnerabili-ties in their online systems.

Picken acquitted of computer trespassing

Photo courtesy of Ryan Pickren

Ryan Pickren is a fourth-year Tech student. He faced a felony charge after defacing the UGA website, but was acquitted.

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MAURA CURRIE AND HASIT DEWAN

NEWS EDITOR AND ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

NORTH KOREA TESTS WEAPONNorth Korea announced a

successful test of the communist states first hydrogen bomb on Jan. 6, following a 5.1 magni-tude seismic event near the city of Kilju. Though North Korean press releases maintain that its scientists have created technology for smaller hydrogen bombs than those tested in the past, other na-tions remain skeptical; the White House indicated on Jan. 6 that the blast, which released an es-timated six kilotons of energy, is far too small to fit the profile of a hydrogen bomb, which have been known to release 15,000 to 50,000 kilotons of energy.

EL CHAPO CAPTUREDMexican authorities recap-

tured drug lord Joaquin El Cha-po Guzmn on Jan. 8 following a six-month search for the escaped prisoner. Guzmn had escaped from a maximum-security Mexi-can prison in July 2015 through a mile-long tunnel from his shower

area to a nearby neighborhood. The drug lord had previously es-caped from Puente Grande jail in 2001 and evaded capture for 13 years before being recaptured. Though now back in Mexican custody, Guzmn will eventually be extradited to the United States, where he faces multiple indict-ments for drug smuggling.

CLIMATE DEAL REACHEDWorld leaders attending the

2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris reached a deal on Dec. 12 which would attempt to aim to limit global temperature increases to no more than approximately 3.6 de-grees Fahrenheit.The deal, also known as the

Paris Agreement, focuses primar-ily on encouraging developed countries to curtail their carbon dioxide emissions and aid less-de-veloped countries in establishing sustainable practices.

Countries will be assigned in-dividual goals for contribution to the overall cuts, though there are no mechanisms to force coun-tries to meet said goals. The Paris Agreement will not be fully in ef-fect unless the 55 countries who emit the most greenhouse gases ratify it as a treaty.

PARIS ATTACKS REMEMBEREDJan. 7 marked the one-year

anniversary of terrorist attacks in Paris which killed 12 employees in the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, four hostages in a grocery store and one Parisian po-licewoman. A ceremony was held in Paris Place de la Republique

to commemorate those killed in the Jan. 7, 2015 attacks as well as the 130 concertgoers killed in an attack on the Bataclan The-ater on Nov. 13. French President Franois Hollande helmed the event, which was attended by ap-proximately 2,000 Parisians and featured musical performances, readings and the dedication of an oak tree in memory of the victims.

POWERBALL JACKPOTOne in 292.2 million: those

are the odds one has of winning the Powerball. These impossible odds have not stopped thousands of people from queuing up for a chance at history by winning the $1.3 billion jackpot.

Since Nov. 7, there has been no Powerball winner. Though the current series began at the mini-mum $40 million, the lack of a winner caused the prize money to balloon to a historic $1.5 billion. Even after taxes and all the other cuts made, the winner will walk away with a record $560 million.Though the lottery has con-

sistently been a source of revenue for states, only 44 states actually participate. While the six other states have traditionally refused to institute a lottery due to moral op-positions, given how much states have generated from this current Powerball, all six are now consid-ering legalizing the lottery.

A winner from suburban Los Angeles as well as Tennessee and Florida was announced Jan. 14.

Had a winning number not been sold, experts say that the jackpot amount would have spiked to over $2 billion.

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New Pre-Healthadvisor appointed to C2D2

HASIT DEWANASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

The Center for Career Discov-ery and Development (C2D2) recently announced the addition of new pre-health advisor, Fran-cisco Castelan. Castelan is re-placing Andrea Clark who left in September of 2015. After months searching for the best suited can-didate, the C2D2 finally decided on Castelan, a professional with more than ten years of advising experience.

With degrees from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Castelan holds a passion for helping students find their ca-reer aspirations. He took this love to Northwestern University, and later Spelman College, where he worked as an advisor for nine years and one year respectively. Now, he has joined the pre-Graduate and pre-Professional Advising team here at Tech.

In addition to advising stu-dents, Castelan will be heavily involved with various pre-health professional groups. He is also the Chair for the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and as a co-chair for the 2016 national conference. Serving as a represen-tative for the National Association of Advisors in the Health Profes-sion, he holds positions on com-

mittees within the Association of America Medical Colleges group on Student Affairs.

The opportunity at Georgia Tech was a natural match to work closely with students and join a team created to focus on student services and career development, Castelan said in a press release. C2D2 has a clear commitment to keeping Georgia Tech on the forefront of both innovation and service for its students and thats where I hope to strength-en the foundation for students pursuing careers in the health professions.

As a member of the pre-Gradu-ate and pre-Professional Advising team, Castelan will work closely with students who are seeking admission to professional schools as well as those who may be pur-suing prestigious post-graduation scholarships and awards.

We are excited that Francisco has joined the team, said Shan-non Dobranski, director of Pre-Graduate and Pre-Professional Advising. In addition to his ad-vising credentials, he has strong connections with professional schools and the national pre-health community.

He will take point with all pre-health programming and cross-train the other pre-profes-sional advisors so that we can always provide the best possible service to our students.

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MAURA CURRIENEWS EDITOR

Under the recommendation of Techs safety and legal officials, a temporary campus moratorium has been placed on the self-bal-ancing scooters commonly known as hoverboards.

First announced in a Depart-ment of Housing email on Jan. 7, the moratorium was initially on hoverboards in residence halls but has since been expanded to be campus-wide.

The moratorium has now grown to cover all buildings, said Larry Labbe, campus fire marshal. It operates in Housing with their policy procedures and their judiciary process. [Having a hoverboard in ones room] works just like being caught with anoth-er item in your room that youre not supposed to have, so were us-ing natural, pre-existing mecha-nisms there.The moratorium is a result of

increased attention on the safety of certain lithium-ion batteries in hoverboards, and more specifical-ly their reported combustibility.

Id been monitoring it as so-cial media and the news started covering it, Labbe said. There were just too many incidents, so I sent an email to our risk man-ager, and that was how a series of meetings began. We convened Legal and Risk Management, and in that first meeting we were all

like-minded And so we quickly moved to whether we should do a ban, or a moratorium or an ad-visory, and how we would do it. The next two or three meetings brought a lot more people to the table: the dean of students, hous-ing, the police chief and many others.

Were not against the product, and thats important to note. Tech is about pushing forward with new technologies and products, so we want to approach this with the sense that this is a moratorium, its temporary. The Consumer Products Safety

Commission, a federal agency, is currently investigating reports of the lithium-ion batteries in hover-boards catching fire in nine differ-ent states.

Its not really unique to hov-erboards, but the combination of low-quality batteries and an application that gets thrown around a lot has resulted in some of these fires, said Dr. Matthew McDowell, an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineer-ing. Lithium-ion batteries hold a lot of energy, because the mate-rials within the battery naturally want to chemically react. How-ever, they are physically separated from each other by a membrane in a battery. A lot of the safety issues associated with lithium-ion bat-teries arise when the membrane no longer does its job for instance, if it is punctured or material grows

through the membrane.Furthermore, the quality of

your lithium-ion battery matters a lot cheaper batteries made with sub-par standards may have manufacturing defects that make it much easier for agitation or an external shock, perhaps like jumping onto a hoverboard, to damage internal components, which induces safety hazards. The moratorium is intended to

be a stopgap solution while mul-

tiple investigations into the safety of different brands of hoverboard continue.

That was one of my questions of Legal can we ban certain brands? Were still waiting for a grouping [of safe versus unsafe brands], and weve decided to let the federal investigation by the Consumer Products Safety Com-mission give us an answer, Labbe said. We plan to reconvene at a later date, give them a chance to

come out with some feedback, and then from that the campus is go-ing to look at the moratorium to see if we change it, drop it, maybe list safe ones versus unsafe ones.

My gut says the Consumer Products Safety Commission is going to find the problematic bat-teries and manufacturers, issue a recall and the moratorium will be lifted at least partially I dont think hoverboards are gone. I think theyll probably be back.

Safety moratorium issued on hoverboards

Photo courtesy of Ben Larcy

A self-balancing scooter, popularly referred to as a hoverboard. Ongoing concerns regarding the toys lithium ion batteries have led to preventive bans on college campuses across the nation.

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HASIT DEWANASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

The Tech Urban Honey Bee Project is one of the most innova-tive and unique programs of its kind in the U.S. Headed by Jen-nifer Leavey, the initiative aims to not only further our own under-standing of honeybee habits and the effect of urban expansion on them, but also to foster a sense of responsibility and promote sus-tainable development of cities.

Housed in the Clough Under-graduate Learning Commons, the numerous hives here serve as the focal point of the program. Stu-dents and faculty work together in maintaining the hives and ensur-ing the health and growth of the bees. In doing so, they are able to closely study various behav-iors and cause/effect relationships within bee systems.

We are interested in how hab-itat fragmentation affects genetic diversity in urban honeybee colo-nies, Leavey said. How pollu-tion affects honeybees and where bees find forage in the city.

In fact, Tech was recently certi-fied as only the second Bee Cam-pus USA affiliate in the country: a program designed to utilize the strengths of research institutions to better the state of bees across the country.

We are very proud to be the second certified Bee Campus USA in the nation, Leavey said. This

designation greatly complements the efforts of the students, faculty, and staff currently working on en-vironmental and sustainability is-sues we believe the certification will provide the institution with an import platform to facilitate wider dialogue regarding pollina-tor awareness.

With this certification, Tech will serve as an invaluable resource for initiatives and programs across the country that are hoping to contribute to the honeybees re-habilitation. Additionally, Tech plans on developing a Campus Pollinator Habitat Plan that will include plans on including native pollinator-friendly plants. This will be implemented in conjunc-tion with a least toxic integrated pest management plan: a tool that will be made publicly available in-structing how to properly ensure healthy landscapes.

As the world worries over de-creasing bee populations, the answers to such questions will undoubtedly prove important in years to come. The results from the new venture seem to be prom-ising. Improvements in regards to pest pressure and metal contami-nation are promising and exem-plify just how game changing this project can be in the future.

Through this integration of the diverse set of minds repre-sented on the Bee Campus USA committee, Georgia Tech will de-velop innovative and sustainable practices that can be applied right

here on campus and in similar environments around the world, Leavey said.

Bee Campus USA is a subsid-iary of Bee City USA, an organi-zation dedicated to addressing the recent drops in bee populations across the United States. Created in 2015 with the partnership of Southern Oregon University, Bee Campus USA is designed to mar-shal the strengths of college and other educational campuses for

the benefit of pollinators.To become a Bee Campus,

institutions must maintain a Bee Campus USA Committee, spon-sor various bee-friendly events, as well as educate the general popu-lation on pollinator-related issues through courses, workshops and signage near hives and pollinator-friendly landscaping.

Techs Urban Honeybee Proj-ect was created in an effort to in-crease the scientific communitys

understanding of how urbaniza-tion affects honeybeees and other pollinators vital to human food systems. Its mission for educa-tion, interdisciplinary research and collaborative innovation in-corporates the spirit and goals of Georgia Techs strategic plan, according to the programs web-page, which also hosts a 24-hour BeeCam and other educational resources for Tech students and non-students alike.

Tech becomes certified buzz-friendly campus

Photo courtesy of GT Honeybees

Bees living in the Urban Honeybee Projects hive on top of the Clough Undergraduate Learning Center. Tech was recently named a certified Bee Campus by Bee Campus USA.

OPINIONS EDITOR: Vidya Iyer technique6

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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time T.S. Elliot

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OUR VIEWS | Consensus Opinion

Making changes to add/drop weekStreamlining registration to benefit more students

Presently, students who are waiting to sign up for a full course are at the mercy of students who plan on dropping said course. If students wait until the last min-ute to drop a class, it does not give other students looking to pick up the class enough time to sign up.

In order to alleviate stress for students seeking classes to graduate, the add and drop date should be separated into two days. While the Student Government As-sociation campaigned for students to drop classes earlier last January, this had little effect as it was not formalized.

We propose that drop day should be several days before students finish adding courses, ensuring that students who still need a class are able to sign up for it. This would also mean that no significant assign-ments should be due during this period.

Even under the current system, it is stressful for students switching in and out of classes to keep up with assignments

because there is not an adequate amount of time for students to complete the work before the due date. Students do not have access to class T-Square pages until they are formally registered for the class, which may be after the assignment is due, de-pending on when others drop the class.

Another way to facilitate the registra-tion process would be to issue all stu-dents permits for classes earlier than the Wednesday of classes. This prevents other students from holding classes and filling them up while there are other students looking to sign up for the course.

Additionally, while students are waiting for permits and moving up in the waitlist, they often sit in the class even though they are not registered for it. Not only is this a violation of school policy, but it also leads to overcrowding in classrooms.

By making these changes to registration week, students play a larger role in getting the classes they need.

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

technique editorial boardBrenda Lin EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Nick Johnson MANAGING EDITORMax Kaltman BUSINESS MANAGER

Maura Currie NEWS EDITORHarsha Sridhar SPORTS EDITOR

Trishna Chandarana LIFE EDITORTyler Meuter PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Vidya Iyer OPINIONS EDITORKara Pendley ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

Brighton Kamen DESIGN EDITORRoss Lindsay WEB DEVELOPER

Living life through the lens of a camera

illuminaughty

Are you insinuating that one cannot both document an experience and at the same time enjoy that

experience fully? If so, I completely, but respectfully disagree with you.

International students and Thanksgiving

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Congrats to all involved in this program, because being an international student isnt easy, given our

complex culture and language.

Why I dont want to here your vegan jokes

I, being vegan, am claiming to do the RIGHT thing !! If u think RIGHT is superior to wrong then YOU TOO can

do the right thing !!

Maha Raman

Dont try being a vegan and catch a cold. Youll get lots of funny hahas, like Know what you need? A

juicy hamburger.

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I love the nutritional expert part, soo true, thanks.

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Cant pick on the other partys aversion to the truth?

Doug Kintz

So theres no misunderstanding...Carson has provided proof positive of his claims...

Tim Peebles

Ben Carsons tall tales

And Bobby Dodd stadium was built, not as some say for football but as a location for Noah to build his ark.

Marshall Nason

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COREY CASKEYFIRST-YEAR CHEME

Someone who can fulfill their promises.

DAVIS HUBBARDSECOND-YEAR CMPE

Willingness to make deci-sions that need to be made

regardless of party affiliation.

ISRAEL NUNEZSECOND-YEAR MS ME

Someone who sets good ex-amples to other countries.

OLIVIA STEHRSECOND-YEAR CE

Concern for all people regardless of their

differences.

What are important qualities in a potential

presidential candidate?

Photos by Maria Furukawa Student Publications

The capitol building of Sacra-mento, California was the loca-tion of an important protest over the winter holidays. The city has a no camping ordinance, which hurts the citys homeless popula-tion a great deal. Understanding the problem the ordinance cre-ates, many non-homeless people protested by deliberately camp-ing outside the capitol building.

My initial reaction to the protest which I did not hear about until approximately two weeks in to it was dont these people have jobs of their own that they need to be at or family to be with during the holidays? Despite this initial reaction, I do commend these activists and think their protest highlights a significant problem in our country.

As politicians debate whether or not to allow refugees into the country, a large portion of our population remains homeless in unwelcoming cities with no-where else to go.

In regards to Sacramento, as well as any large city with any sort of homeless population, I believe the answer is clear: they should follow in the footsteps

of cities like Salt Lake City or rather the state of Utah as a whole and provide proper housing for the chronically homeless.

In addition to housing, the city of Sacramento can also, following Utahs example, pro-vide on-site counseling for those dealing with substance abuse issues. The capital can also give the homeless small jobs to pay a small rent, so the city is not just funneling money, but rather making an investment.

Utah is real life proof that this strategy is both cost effec-tive and successful, so it does not makes sense why other cities and states feel the need to spend more taxpayer dollars to get a

less than desirable result with the current regulations?

Let me be clear, when I say provide decent housing I mean modern units that are free of rats, roaches and termites and are not located in the seedy part of town. Though modest, these accommodations need to be at-tractive to the homeless and not right next door to their old crack dealer otherwise nothing will change.

Realistically, I understand that it is not a problem that can be solved with the snap of my fingers, but I do believe that if cities like Sacramento put forth an effort to treat the homeless problem in a similar fashion to what Utah has done, they may

find it to be a rewarding endeav-or. It may take a decade, but short-term solutions is not the way to long-term success.

Many of our homeless are children, family, victims of cir-cumstance or even veterans; liv-ing on the street should not be permanent, nor should it mean that they are beyond help or criminalized. It is depressing to see so many homeless on the streets in any city, but especially in a first world heavyweight country like ours. We should be treating our homeless not as criminals or as festering prob-lems that need to be hidden, but as real life people who need a helping hand.This season, every hot shot

politician in the country is weighing in on the big issues, and everyone is looking to the national stage for a leader to fix all of our problems. It might be a good time for individual cities and states to take a hard look at how they treat their home-less problem and re-evaluate how effective their approach is, whether it means modeling themselves to Utahs approach or redesigning their own.

Providing homes for the homelessI do commend these

people and think their protest highlights a

significant problem in our country.

TRISHNA CHANDARANALIFE EDITOR

racist against white people. I mean ... A) no its not and B) ugh, shut up. Racism is about structural oppression and in-equality, like how statues re-inforce the idea that a specific group of people are less than hu-man. Let the records show that white people are not oppressed. Having ones hot air balloon of an ego brought down from the stratosphere is not racist when everyone else is below sea level.

It seems that H o m e t o w n Facebook these days falls into four categories: photos with family or friends, someone got engaged, someone got married and BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME (Ive never seen it lowercased, and Ive seen it a lot). Apparently, BLACK-ON-BLACK CRIME should be Louisianas sole focus rather than the awful public education, awful local infrastructure or aw-ful Saints season. Racists love BLACK-ON-BLACK crime because to them, it justifies ra-cial discrimination, removing all forms of gun control and citing Breitbart as a journalistic source. If a fair population of the black community is poor and is forced to live in certain areas of the city, its not like any crimi-nals are going to drive across the Causeway to rob a white family on the Northshore.

What it really seems to be is an attempt to maintain the status quo, distracting people with a misinformed, nebulous concept and the caps lock key. Status quo happens to be the shortened and meaningless ver-sion of status quo res erant ante bellum, translated the state in which things were before the war. They were talking about a different war back in the 1300s, but the antebellum status quo in

the 1800s was the oppression of minorities. I personally dont see why people would take the Con-federate States to be their heri-tage: the losing team from 200 years ago founded upon a crime against humanity.

Despite how depressing the state of affairs can be in New Orleans, I learned this past sum-mer that all the crap Ive dealt

with was only fairly racist. If all the Con-federate flags in Gatlinburg, Tenn., were laid out side by side, you could see them from space with the naked eye: the plan-etary version of a Donald Trump

bumper sticker. There were more dinner shows than black people in the entire city.

It all comes back to white privilege. I speak for everyone when I say that white male privilege is the worst. Twitters new Head of Diversity is a white guy from Silicon Valley, which is listed in the thesaurus as an antonym for diversity. White people blissfully unaware of di-versity sit at the heads and hiring hands of companies, convinced that the best candidates are the ones with firm handshakes, non-threatening melanin counts and easy-to-pronounce names. People campaigned against see-ing Star Wars since Rey, Finn and Poe appeal to a wider group of people (you already know they lied and watched it any-way). In Oregon, armed, mili-tant YeeHawdists from Yall Qa-eda took over a federal building, threatened to kill federal officers and were called protesters in-stead of terrorists. Dont get me started on Donald Trump.

For the reasonable white peo-ple out there, no one wants to hear your objectively incorrect opinions and assertions about diversity. Shut up and listen to what diverse people have to say.

Racism is about structural oppression

and inequality ... white people are not

oppressed.

NICK JOHNSONMANAGING EDITOR

STATUES FROM PAGE 1

I sat down to write this edito-rial, and I thought about all the controversial subjects I could write about. Our country is changing rapidly, the world is changing, and everyone is wor-ried about step-ping on each others toes, but I do not want to talk about any of that. I want to talk about a subject that af-fects each and every student here: striving for perfection is ruining us.

I walked onto campus two and a half years ago. I had goals, like I am sure most do. I wanted to make perfect grades, go to the gym all the time and gradu-ate with a perfect job lined up. I am still holding out for the per-fect job, but not because I think there is such a thing as a per-fect job anymore. I know that whatever I do, there will be bad days and good ones. The differ-ence is how I define perfect.

Perfection is no longer de-fined as being free from all flaws, but it is taking every flaw that you encounter and making it positive. I will have a perfect day every time I can go to sleep knowing that I have grown stronger, smarter or wiser.

I did not have this mental-ity when I came into school. I had never made anything but an A, and anything less felt like a failure. So needless to say, I felt like I was failing all the time. It took me until I started my co-op to realize that an A on a test or in a class does not define my self-worth or my worth to my employer.

In reality, no one at work cared whether I made an A in physics or a C. The things that

made me effective at my job had nothing to do with a test that I had passed, at least not one on paper. I excelled thrived because I led a team, adapted well, mo-

tivated myself and others and took on added re sponsibi l it y. While I learned many of these attributes during my time at Tech, I was never test-ed on them.

In order to grow in a career, the most impor-

tant quality is to be able to lead and work with others. As young intelligent people, we will often be put into situations where we are leading people who will be older and more experienced. Ar-rogance and posturing can be a natural reaction to prove that you are worthy of the job, but that will lead down a tricky path. By asking questions and engaging all of the people, you can build relationships that will push you towards success.

I learned that I flourished in the workplace. I could set real-istic goals and achieve them. I realized that you have to fail many times before the best so-lution comes about. But more than that, I learned that I was not failing. I was constantly im-proving. The first iteration of anything will never be the last, and it should not be the last.

As I go forward at Tech and in my career, I can now look at my life as the first iteration. A bad boss will make me stronger, a mistake will teach me the right way, and if I handle a situation poorly, I will be able to do it bet-ter the next time. Everything I do makes me stronger, smarter or wiser, and, for me, that will make my life perfect.

Perfection is in the eye of the beholder

Perfection is ... taking every flaw that you

encounter and making it positive.

KARA PENDLEYENTERTAINMENT EDITOR

8 January 15, 2016 technique // OPINIONS

January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month and marks the beginning of a year where we will continue to confront the growing refugee problem that dominated last years news cycle. However, missing in the news coverage is a mention of the trafficking and ex-ploitation risk that refugees face.

As the European Union (EU) struggled with the largest num-ber of refugees seen since World War II, their policy of open bor-ders has been challenged and EU states have fought over their agreed upon quotas for accepting refugees. Some world leaders have called for acceptance and wel-comed refugees, while others have succumbed to an unjustified fear. As we argue about accepting asy-lum-seekers, thousands of people are left without adequate services or the protection of a government. The connection between traf-

ficking and refugee populations is clear. A large group of people are fleeing their countries with-out resources or proper citizen-ship status, making them vulner-able to violence, exploitation and traffickers. Even more troubling, displaced children make up about half of this vulnerable population, according to the United Nations

High Commissioner for Refugees. This lack of legal status may

be one of the most problematic issues refugees face. Refugees are often not properly identi-fied by immigration and border protection; and, even if they are given a legal status, they often do not have the ability to work legally, making them susceptible to illegal employment situations where they are willing to accept exploitative employment for fear of being sent back to their home country. About 10 million people worldwide are defined as state-less, meaning they do not have a nationality at all. Traffickers can often use a victims lack of legal status to keep them from speak-ing out or seeking help from the authorities. Many refugees are left without a proper legal status (legal statuses could include repatria-tion, integration in their present country, or resettlement in a third country) for years, left in unsafe living conditions as they wait.

In October, Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, the UN Special Rapporteur on trafficking in per-sons, urged the EU to ensure that all related policies and especially migration policies must be consis-tent with the priority of prevent-

ing and eradicating trafficking and exploitation. Her statement makes clear that nations should provide a legal, protective status for refugees.

With such a large-scale, global issue, it can be difficult to find a way to get involved and affect change. To get started, here are some ideas:

Provide resources. The sea-son of giving may be over, but there are various small donations you can make that can provide a big impact to a refugee family in need. The more we meet the needs of these individuals, the less vulnerable to exploitative circum-stances they become.

Encourage acceptance. The recent rhetoric around refugees has been troubling, to say the least. Lets get educated on the refugee experience and be com-passionate towards this vulnerable population.

Purchase conscientiously. Stay up-to-date on companies and products that have taken pledges to ensure human trafficking and labor exploitation are not part of their supply chains.

Get informed. There are mul-tiple organizations in the Atlanta-area that work with both human trafficking and refugee services. For information on trafficking, consider youthSpark, the South-ern Poverty Law Center, Georgia-Cares, and Tapestri.

For information of refugee ser-vices in Georgia, New American Pathways or Lutheran Services of Georgia are great resources.

Also, visit The International Human Trafficking Institutes website for information, events, and ways to get involved at www.theihti.org

Raising awareness for refugees and human trafficking

The connection between trafficking and refugee

populations is clear.

ABBEY MCDANIELMS INTA AND IHTI TECHNOLOGY

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Insomnia CookiesThis heavenly delight is

coming near Tech really soon. Located in University House, Insomnia Cookies delivers de-licious cookies up until three in the morning and opens again in just hours later. This is perfect for students pull-ing all-nighters because there is finally another place that tis open past 2 A.M. besides Waffle House and WingZone. Besides that the sugar is sure to keep students going.

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Celebs Cancer DeathsLast Sunday saw the end

of a Rock and Roll legend. David Bowie, aged 69, passed away due to liver cancer. At the same age, Alan Rickman also passed away due to cancer. He was well known for his roles in Love Actually, Die Hard, and of course, Harry Potter as the beloved Professor Snape. Both of these men will be greatly missed, but their mark in the entertainment is sure to always be remembered.

Singular TheyThe American Dialect Soci-

ety named the singular form of they as the word of the year for 2015. Not only is this great news for people who have been called out for using singular they in the past, but the ac-ceptance of this pronoun indi-cates the acceptance of people all across the gender spectrum. This is definitely only a small victory in a larger battle of ac-ceptance. As for the grammar nerds, just deal with it.

CRC and ResolutionsWith the start of the new

year comes people starting a new and making significant life changes because the new year obviously means its time to reinvent yourself. The most common of these changes is becoming healthy and fit. While these new goals are well-intended it means that the CRC is jam packed. Its funny to see the crowds dwin-dling down, but for now its just a little annoying.

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LIFE EDITOR: Trishna ChandaranaASSTISTANT LIFE EDITOR: Layla Ghazilife@nique.net

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With the crowded lunch rush and only post office on campus, the Student Center is undoubtedly one of the busiest build-ings on campus. Originally opened in 1970, the building was designed to service 16,000 people nearly half as many as Techs current 30,000. To give students a hands-on look at its issues, the Student Center is offering behind-the-scenes tours at 11 a.m. on Tuesdays. The 45-minute tours meet at the information desk and highlight the following issues. The Student Centers most pertinent

and reoccurring problem is that of space: storage space for businesses, kitchen space for catering events, table space for dining, lounge space and meeting space for stu-dents and employees and, most notably, space for meditation and religious pur-

poses. It is safe to say that the space in the Student Center is bursting at the seams.

We need at least one or two more ballrooms, at least one or two more rooms like the Peachtree room ... but really we need about 10 more meeting rooms for students, said Kate Curnow, commu-nications and marketing manager of the Student Center. [The service hallway] is another one of those storage spaces that isnt supposed to be storage space. If you are loading anything that is larger than a regular box, then it needs to ... be brought in individually. For example, when the bookstore is bringing in the caps and gowns, they need to bring them all in in-dividually ... about 400 boxes.

With over 400 student organizations on campus, one small designated room

with only six cubicles and limited storage space underwhelms. This creates a sus-tainability issue with event supplies and forces organizations to throw out old sup-plies which could potentially have been used by other organizations.

A major problem is the lack of space for religious purposes. Because of how outdated the Student Center is, there is no space for students of any religion to meet, which is particularly troublesome for Muslim students who must pray five times a day forcing them to pray in hallways.

Additionally, the building does not meet many modern standards. The old-school electrical room and duct-taped pipes are particularly concerning.

The electrical room is from 1970; it is old-school and powering the Student

Center, Curnow said. There are 17,000 people in the building every day, and it makes me very nervous. It is just a mat-ter of time before things start failing, and we are rapidly approaching the point of crumbling. We dont have gender-neutral bathrooms; we dont have family bath-rooms; we dont have a lot of those things that in 2016 are considered standard. It really comes down to outdated systems and lack of space.The Student Center needs to be updat-

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Spending the lottery winnings

CHRISTIAN SHAHEENSTAFF WRITER

The Powerball lottery is up to a record-breaking $1.4 billon. It has been dubbed the largest jackpot in the history of the world by the executive head of the Texas lot-tery, Gary Grief. The chances of winning the grand prize are 1 in $292.2 million. But slim chances havent stopped anyone from day-dreaming, What if? So here is some advice in case you end up actually winning the Powerball.

HAVE A DANCE PARTYWhat else are you going to do

after discovering you are now a billionaire? Put on throwbacks like Make it Rain and reenact the music video with real money (instead of monopoly money) be-cause you can do that now.

What better place to celebrate your newfound billionaire status than the happiest place on earth? You can finally afford to visit all of the Walt Disney World Theme Parks in the world. Buckle up be-cause you will be spending quite a bit of time at Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Animal Kingdom and Hollywood Studios.

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CPC declares plan of sorority additionLAYLA GHAZI

ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR

According to the Office of Admission, of the approximately 8,726 persons in the class of 2019, the freshman class boasts a female population of 40 percent, com-pared to the previous classes of 2017 and 2018 with 37.36 and 39 percent female students, respec-tively. In addition to the diversifi-cation of the student body, the sig-nificant increase in women has led to increased female involvement throughout campus, most notably in membership within the Colle-giate Panhellenic Council (CPC). The collective CPC communi-

ty consists of seven sororities (Al-pha Chi Omega, Alpha Delta Pi, Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Phi, Alpha Xi Delta, Phi Mu and Zeta Tau Alpha), as well as two associ-ate member chapters (Alpha Delta Chi and Alpha Omega Epsilon). Compared to the Spring 2015 se-mester, where the total number of active and new members in sorori-ties was 1,343, the Office of Greek Affairs reports that the Fall 2015 semester had a collective total of 1,540 active and new members.

In 2014, the Council created an exploratory committee, but the community did not feel like we were prepared to take on an-other Chapter. During Fall 2015 recruitment, our community felt strained when we had a record number of women go through Formal Recruitment, said Mar-guerite Bradley, third-year IE, who serves as the Executive Vice President of the CPC and was a representative for Alpha Xi Delta on the exploratory committee.The recruitment data provided

by the CPC Exploratory Com-mittee states that the number of women starting rush increased from 436 to 489 between the

2014 and 2015 recruitments.Party sizes were getting larger

than the houses could accom-modate, and we added additional parties to several of the days, Bradley said. The exploratory committee allowed us to take a closer look at the data and predict what would happen to our Chap-ter sizes if we added another soror-ity. It also gave us the opportunity to determine if our campus had the resources a new sorority would need such as housing options.

At the open CPC meeting on Nov. 16, the official vote to open the campus for extension passed. However, prior to the public vote, there was some cause for concern from some women in the Greek community who feared that the unique character of the current nine sororities could potentially

be jeopardized.I do not feel that my sorority

is challenged by the addition of a new chapter, said Elizabeth Os-man, first-year IAML. There are different types of communities within each chapter, and this new chapter can find its place on cam-pus. I am personally very excited about the new chapter because I knew a good amount of girls dur-ing Fall 2015 rush that were not able to find a chapter that they re-ally fit into and stopped the pro-cess. I think the fact that some girls cannot find a home on our campus is very upsetting.

Once approved, several so-rorities approached the expansion committee over the course of win-ter break with proposals.

I think the reasons the CPC gave during the open meeting as

to why they were looking to add another chapter on campus were truly convincing, said Meagan Fountain, first-year ME.

During the analysis of the ex-ploratory committees findings for expansion, the CPC provided data that demonstrated that by 2020, sorority pledge classes could be between 70 to 80 women without the addition of another chapter.

I hope that, with the addition of a new sorority, every girl that wants to be involved in the strong sisterhood can develop her sisters, can have the opportunity to find what she wants, Osman said. The expansion committee nar-

rowed down the search to three sororities: Kappa Delta, Chi Omega and Kappa Alpha Theta. The three sororities will have pre-sentations Feb. 2226.

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The executive board of the CPC meets to discuss the results of the data collected by the explor-atory committee. The increased female population has jumpstarted the need for a new chapter.

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DIVERSITY AMBASSADOR PROGRAMA Diversity Ambassador is a student committed to learning about the multiple facets of diversity,

equity, and inclusion through participating in a two-semester program to work towards becoming more multicultural competent.

Diversity Ambassadors will be recognized for their achievement and remain in this program as leaders, trainers, and champions for student diversity.

APPLICATIONS DUE JAN 29, 2016for more info:www.diversityprograms.gatech.edu

LiquidText expands ability to absorb knowledge TRISHNA CHANDARANA

LIFE EDITOR

The saying when one door closes, another one opens aptly applies to Tech graduate and founder of LiquidText Craig Tashman, CS 12. Upon running into a dead end with his Ph.D. re-search, Tashman, encouraged by his advisor in the Graphics, Vi-sualization and Usability (GVU) center, quickly switched to a topic that he had found more interest-ing since Andy Wilson from Mi-crosoft introduced him to a multi-touch surface.

Tashman had been toying with the idea of reimagining how people interacted with informa-tion ever since that meeting, so he decided to pick it up as his Ph.D. thesis. Though many faculty members were a bit apprehensive of this new thesis topic, his advi-sor was intrigued.

He said, You know, I dont know exactly how this is a Ph.D. thesis yet, but its awesome, and well figure out how to make it a Ph.D. thesis, Tashmand said. When I first proposed this, it wasnt part of an existing grant or project. It was just something I wanted to do. A lot of advisors would have said Really nice, kid, go play on that on your own time. Ive got a grant I want you work-ing on. Not my advisor. He said, I dont know how were going to pay for it, but were going to find a way. He worked really hard to

get me the freedom and the lati-tude to work on this. He took a big risk.

As he neared the completion of his project, the feedback he was receiving was overwhelm-ingly positive. With the aid of his professor and doctoral committee, he was ready to start working on a commercial version of his proto-type upon graduation.

LiquidText, though market-ed as a PDF reader, is meant to change the way users interact with information. Users can squeeze pages together to view different sections at the same time and link them together; they can write comments and link them to mul-tiple chunks of information across various documents as well as pull important information right off the page and link it to other com-ments in the workspace.

Tech helped me in a lot of really profound ways, Tashman said. I think the most profound was the GVU center [...] and par-ticularly my professor, [they] re-ally went above and beyond the call of duty to enable me to do this. We had money to pay people. We had an environment where students were encouraged to do projects. The other thing that was really cool about Tech was some of the outside relationships it had. Tech had a really good relationship with Steelcase, a big manufacturing firm out of Michi-gan. The Steelcase folks came by and saw what we were doing and said, Wow this is terrific. We

would love to be a part of this in some way.This relationship allowed

Tashman to do user testing on non-college students, expanding the versatility of his project.

While many of LiquidTexts current users are students and lawyers, Tashmans long-term goal is to expand LiquidText to make it accessible and useful to as many people as possible.

This process of retrieving, organizing, synthesizing and in-seminating knowledge isnt some-thing that just happens amongst

students or lawyers; its something everyone is doing, Tashman said. The knowledge, the apps and the tools used will vary, but the process itself is fundamental. Googles vision is to be the place that organizes the worlds infor-mation, Our vision is to be the tool people use to understand the worlds information. Though LiquidText is only

currently available on the iPad, Tashman and his team are work-ing vigorously to bring the app to Windows computers both with and without touchscreens

and other devices by the end of the year.

We want to bring it to your PC, and we want to bring it to your Mac and maybe eventu-ally your smartphone, Tashman said. We want to have this app as a browser plugin, so you can be navigating around web-pages, see something important, pull it out and connect it over to some piece of a PDF that you were working with a couple days earlier.

Students and professionals alike will soon be able to utilize the full scope of LiquidText.

Photo courtesy of Craig Tashman

LiquidText allows uses to interact with information in a novel way. Craig Tashman, LiquidText creator and Tech graduate, followed a non-traditional path for his Ph.D. to create the application.

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TIPS FROM PAGE 11BUY AN ISLAND

Small islands sell for as low as $20,000. Though it might be a better investment in the long term to spend more money on a larger island, can you imagine the amount of fun and privacy you can have on your very own island? Unless any engineers would like to design an underwater island, in which case: go for it.

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOUSEBuild yourself a house with

everything you have ever seen on BuzzFeed or pinned on Pintrest. Buy your mom new house too. Heck, go Oprah and buy every-one a new house because you can afford to be that generous now.

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Seven Tech students make 30 Under 30JON LONG

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Earlier this month, Forbes re-leased its annual 30 Under 30 list, a collection of 30 successful movers and shakers under 30 years old in a variety of different fields. Tech had a strong show-ing this year, with seven students or former students making the list across six different categories, more than doubling last years to-tal of three.

Lujendra Ojha is a current Ph.D. candidate in planetary sci-ence at Tech. Ojha, included in the science category, was the man behind the recent announcement by NASA that evidence of water was found on Mars. His observa-tion of the Martian landscape led to an official research project that ended in what was arguably NA-SAs biggest announcement across all fields in 2015.

Theres going to be years of re-search put into this to even prove that this is definitely a proof of wa-ter, Ojha said, courtesy of CNN. And from that, we can move on: OK, if this is water, what are the chances that life could be in these kinds of surroundings?

Allen Chang, BME 08, made the list in the Manufacturing & Industry category. His company, Vertera Spine Inc., was the first company to develop and manu-facture an FDA-approved syn-thetic replacement for human bone, PEEK Scoria.

With PEEK Scoria, we are solving the PEEK-bone integra-tion problem while exploring oth-er innovative approaches to im-prove clinical outcomes for spine patients, Chang said, courtesy of newson6.com. We have come a long way since founding the com-pany over two years ago, and I am looking forward to seeing what we can achieve as we develop ad-ditional product lines for spine and beyond.

Chang, who developed multi-ple medical devices while at Tech, is hoping to expand and diver-sify his business beyond synthetic spines and into other sectors of the healthcare market.

In the category of Retail and eCommerce, Candace Mitchell, CS 11, co-founded Techturized Inc. with four fellow Tech gradu-ates in 2012. Techturized is a player in the $3 billion African-American hair-care industry. The companys biggest venture as of 2015 was an app, Myavana, that provides custom recommenda-tions to women based on their own unique needs and allows users to share advice, tips and techniques.

Emily Woods, ME 10, the first of two Tech grads in the Energy category, is leading efforts to im-prove sanitation in third-world countries. Her company, which is currently in its early stages, is presently testing a method in Ke-nya for turning human waste into a sustainable source of fuel.

While the method for the sani-

tation process is still being tested, it is showing promise as a viable and sanitary source of fuel for de-veloping countries.The second graduate in this

category is Alec Manfre, ME 11, the CEO and co-founder of Bract-let. He uses advanced technology to get detailed data on electrical usage in order to help businesses save both energy and money. Ac-cording to Forbes, his technology has saved businesses 35 percent on electrical costs.

Paris Rouzati, MGT 13, made the list in the Marketing and Ad-vertising category. Rouzati is cur-rently the manager of marketing for about.me, a company that lets users create their own personal web pages. She creates strategies catered to the fast-changing world

of Social Media and specializes in the behavior of Millenials and Generation Z.

To round out the list, Josh Al-len, CHEM 08, gave Tech a pres-ence in the Healthcare category. He is vice president of research and development for Oncoceu-tics, who discovered a way to po-tentially kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells. His discov-ery is one of the most promising in the oncology field and has cata-pulted him into the forefront of cancer research.

If these seven Jackets are any indication, Tech stands on the forefront of innovation in solving todays problems. From cancer re-search to renewable energy to hair care, Tech grads are active in all aspects of society.

Photo courtesy of GT Communications

Josh Allen (left) and Candace Mitchell (right) were both featured in the list. All of the graduates strive to help people in various ways.

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ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR: Kara PendleyASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR: Jamie RuleEntertainment

NICK JOHNSONMANAGING EDITOR

Quite a few TV shows aired the final episodes of their respec-tive seasons over Techs Winter Break. Even more online-only shows rang off the New Year with special episodes or entire seasons. For those poor souls who missed any, here are some recaps. Beware, spoilers ahead!

NCISFor longtime viewers of

NCIS on CBS, there are a few novel treats in Season 13 that go beyond the predictable. Gibbs (Mark Harmon, Freaky Fri-day) gets a haircut and shows an emotion, Ellie Bishop (Em-ily Wickersham, I am Number Four) and Jake (Jamie Bamber, Battlestar Galactica) break up, Jeanne Benoit (Scottie Thomp-son, Star Trek) reappears on Tony DiNozzos (Michael Weath-erly, Dark Angel) radar, and the team fromNCIS: New Orleans makes an appearance in a special joint episode.

Everything else has been seen before: the DiNozzo rise and fall of romance, murder mysteries of the week and a new mysterious-bad-guy cliffhanger. Still, for a show pushing 300 episodes, any innovation is pretty good. However, being able to pick out the bad guys at the beginning of each episode leaves more to be desired from the show for those longtime viewers.

LEGENDSSeason two of Legends was

completely reimagined from the procedural terror-plot-of-the-week of season one to a gritty action/drama due to its low viewership. The new season features the bad-boy undercover legend of Mar-tins, Dmitry Petrovich (Sean Bean, Lord of the Rings), whose actions Martin does not remem-ber from a decade ago. Martin is brought back into Dmitrys world as Kate (Aisling Franciosi, The Fall), the daughter of Dmitrys former flame Ilyana (Klra Issov, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian), is inadvertently caught up in another terrorist plot.

Only a single character from season one, other than Martin himself, shows up at any point in the season, and the final events of season one are hardly mentioned, despite the former season leav-ing plenty of loose ends to tie up. Aside from the lack of continuity, the season on its own falters. Pos-sibly a dozen times per episode, the scene completely changes, go-ing from present day London to 2001 Czech Republic to a 1972 boarding school somewhere in the UK back to the present day, but this time in Paris. The shifts in scene are jarring and confus-ing; there could have been one or two episodes dedicated to exposi-tion to allow the others to breathe. Low viewership was last seasons issue, and this season had even fewer viewers. Legends has not been renewed for a third season by TNT.

ONEPUNCH MANSome of the greatest minds and

artists of anime joined forces to produce One-Punch Man. Sea-son one follows Saitama (Makoto Furukawa, Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?), a plain-looking bald guy who is bored from beating all of his ene-mies with a single punch. He joins the ranks of official heroes to gain fame, but this backfires. The story holds up rather well,

as it is more about Saitamas quest to find an enemy worth fighting rather than any individual en-emy he defeats. However, most of the other characters fall flat, with only Genos (Kaito Ishikawa, Owari no serafu) receiving any character development. Most of the characters are throwaways, with over a dozen top-tier heroes being introduced over the span of two minutes near the end of the season. Punching through the faults of the show, however, is the incredible animation quality in the fight scenes. Energy repulsors, sword slashes, flying kicks and even Saitamas single punch per fight are all beautifully animated.

Saitama throwing his single punch is as fun for him as it is for the viewers. However, the final fight scene of the show features Lord Boros, Dominator of the Universe, someone who requires Saitamas consecutive normal punches to defeat. Boros knee smash is strong enough to send Saitama literally to the moon, but the final blow from Saitama is so powerful that its shockwave splits

the atmosphere in half for thou-sands of miles.

MOZART IN THE JUNGLEMozart in the Jungle is listed

as a comedy, but season two hits all the right notes when it is not trying to be funny. Rodrigos (Gael Garca Bernal, The Motor-cycle Diaries) and Haileys (Lola Kirke, Gone Girl) adventure through Mexico city has a sweet tone and natural humor to con-trast the chaos behind the scenes of the New York Symphony Or-chestra. However, the virtual re-ality fight between conductors leaves much to be desired.

Bouncing between sweet, seri-ous and funny, the theme feels confused at some times while managing to be on point at other times, just as the orchestras per-formances are portrayed. An im-pending labor strike stitches the episodes together serving as the serious tone as well as provid-ing several minor characters with chances to perform away from the dominating presence of the main actors. There are at least three dif-ferent shows mixed into Mozart in the Jungle, and they occasion-ally play in unison. But when they do or when the sweet romantic comedy has a solo performance such as in the episode How to Make God Laugh the show as a whole becomes a masterpiece.

SHERLOCKAlthough season four of Sher-

lock will not air until 2017, the super sleuth (Benedict Cumber-

batch, The Imitation Game) made an appearance in London during the 1890s attempting to solve the case of the Abominable Bride. The show played out in typical Sherlock form, although with a ghastly feeling more fitting for a Halloween special.

A bride killed herself on her anniversary, escaped the morgue, killed her husband, was confirmed dead and then killed another man. An interesting case on its own was made more so when Moriarty (Andrew Scott, Saving Private Ryan) showed up. This shocker brought viewers back to mod-ern Sherlock, who was dreaming about the case of the bride in or-der to better understand the end-ing of season three. After the final reveal, the shows usual, excep-tional editing takes over, seam-lessly flowing present day and over a century ago. Cryptic clues from Mycroft (Mark Gatiss, Shaun of the Dead), Watson (Martin Free-man, Captain America: Civil War) noticing things Sherlock does not, Mary (Amanda Abbing-ton, Mr. Selfridge) investigating on her own, conflict with Mori-arty: this becomes just a normal episode of Sherlock.

INTO THE BADLANDSInto the Badlands on AMC

brought style in its short first season. From the Baron Quinns (Marton Csokas, The Lord of the Rings) heavy southern drawl to the poppy flowers striking red against the de-saturated greens of

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Civil Rights to Human Rights: The Courage to Lead

January 13MLK LectureUNCLAIMED LEGACY: Who Will Lead the Next Social Movement?

; Featuring Jeff Johnson; 3 p.m.; Student Center Ballroom

Social activist and television commentator Jeff Johnson challenges students, faculty, staff, and community members to celebrate the real legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while considering their own.

RSVP:www.diversity.gatech.edu/2016-mlk-lecture.

January 14CAMPUS-WIDE STUDENT CELEBRATION: Coming Together to Fulfill the Dream

; 7 p.m.; Student Center Ballroom

Student speeches, cultural performance, and a candle-lighting ceremony. Reception to follow.

Contact:kjohnson306@gatech.edu.

Jan. 15-16Arts@Tech presentsRoger Guenveur Smith: Rodney King

; 8 p.m. (both nights); Ferst Center for the Arts

In this improvisational performance,Roger GuenveurSmith captures the story of a good-hearted but flawed everyman and, by extension, reveals Americas complicated relationship with its racial past and present.

Contact: Office of the Arts, Mathew Igyarto, 404-894-9600, www.arts.gatech.edu/ferstcenter.

Discounts available for Georgia Tech students, staff, and faculty.

January 18NATIONAL MLK HOLIDAY OBSERVANCEA Day of Service: Make a Difference with A Day On, Not a Day Off

; 8 a.m. - 2 p.m. ; Student Center BallroomIn this campuswide initiative honoring the life and legacy of Dr. King, participants will team up to engage in service projects with metro Atlanta community partners.

RSVP:www.engage.gatech.edu.

Contact:giavanna.rimi@vpss.gatech.edu.

January 18Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Annual Commemorative Service

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