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Steps to Success (p. 4-5)

Make sure you have all of the tools to catchthe recruiters attention when you get to the

fair. Read over these suggestions for attire,

preparation and follow-up.

IC FGCareer Central (p. 6-7)

Aft er the Ca reer Fair, chec k out the up-coming opportunities being oered on

campus to help you land an interview at

the company of your choice.

Pitch Perfect (p. 7)

First impressions are key when meetingwith recr uiters. Use t hese tips to cra ft an

elevator pitch that will impress in sixt y

seconds or less.

CAREERFAIR 2012

impress look sharp get hired

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CAREER CENTRAL

MOREOPPORTUNITIESBEYONDTHEGEORGIATECHCAREERFAIRMany students do not know

what to expect when meeting re-cruiters. Preparing beforehandcan be helpful, but the experi-ence can still be quite daunting.

What they may not know is thatrecruiters have fair expectationsfor potential student employees

and a sincere desire to help themsucceed.JeHolley is the lead recruiter

for Tech with Proctor & Gamble.A Tech alumnus himself, he grad-uated in 1990 and enjoys helpinga new generation of students nd

work experience with his compa-ny or success on whatever careerpath they choose.

With Tech hosting its annual,long-running Career Fair next

week, recruiters have been as eagerto register for it as most studentsare to attend.

We can teach the technologyutilized within our businesses, but

we need new employees capable ofsolving problems in order to con-tinuously grow every aspect of our

business, Holley said.ough the Career Fair is an

important opportunity for stu-dents looking to establish con-nections for future employment,employers are just as enthusiasticto participate. e prospect ofstrong new talent attracts com-panies from far and wide becausethey benet from hiring studentinterns and employees as well.

We have actively participatedand recruited new candidates at[Techs Career Fair] for over 20years, and nding student internsis extremely important [] it pro-

vides the student with an oppor-tunity to experience meaningfulproject work and to see if there is amutual t with the students inter-ests and our business needs.

Underclassmen need not worrythat its too soon to start lookinginto employment opportunities.Recruiters realize that resumestake many years to build, and themore a student can add to it thebetter their chances of gettinghired in the future will be.

It is never too early to pursuean internship and begin gaining

work experience [] were par-ticularly interested in hiring fresh-men and sophomores so they canhave many opportunities to notonly grow their skills and capabili-ties, but also experience dierenttypes of projects.

Because recruiters meet count-less students every year, makinga good rst impression is some-thing students should take seri-ously. A particularly impressiveresume can improve a studentshopes of receiving a response froma recruiter after the fair. However,there is more to standing out from

the rest than good credentials.We meet hundreds of students

every year, so the rst impressionis especially critical since [] itcan help them stand out tremen-dously as the candidate we mightbe looking for. Every aspect of arst impression is important: be-ing well dressed and groomed,having arm handshake, engag-ing with direct eye contact and us-ing a very condent tone.ough technical understand-

ing, problem solving and col-laboration are three of the most

important qualities recruiters lookfor in a candidate, where profes-sional attributes are concerned,strong candidates do not neces-sarily have the highest GPAs andan ocer position in every orga-nization they are involved with.Unique personal experiences canmake a student equally competi-tive.

While GPA is an importantmeasure of technical understand-ing, we also look at a candidatesresearch and work experience.Problem solving and collaborationcan be demonstrated through or-

ganization leadership roles as well,but leadership positions dont haveto be elected positions[its] mostimportant to make a dierence bystarting or improving a programor an organization that has an im-pact on the community.

Finding employment in an

industry that suits their variedinterests is vital for students, par-ticularly considering the highlycompetitive job market manypost-graduates deal with today.

It is extremely important forstudents to gain work experiencebefore they graduate. [Work ex-perience] provides students withcritical learning skills, includ-ing not only a much better un-derstanding of what they may ormay not want in a c areer, but alsospecic project experiences [] todemonstrate their capabilities asthey pursue a full time career.

With recruitment teams rep-resenting a wide variety of eldsocking to attend, the Career Fairoers students a chance to make

valuable connections.Ultimately, recruiters come

to Tech because they know thatthere are more talented and inno-vative students on campus everyyear.

Georgia Tech is an outstand-ing venue for P&G and othercompanies to recruit new em-ployees not only because of thestrength of Techs programs butalso via the rigor of these pro-grams students learn how to solveproblems, which is a key elementthat drives growth in business,Holley said.

Recruiters nd new talent every year at TechTech is an outstanding venuefor P&G and other companies

to recruit[...] students learn howto solve problems, which is a key

element that drives growth inbusiness.

JeHolleyHead Recruiter, Proctor & Gamble

RECRUITER PERSPECTIVE: GETTING WORK EXPERIENCE

Monday - Wednesday,Sept. 10-12, 2012

WHAT:College ofComputing Career FairWHO: CS and CM majorsWHERE: Klaus Advanced

Computing Building AtriumTIME: 9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. e CoCs Career Fair isreturning and will featuremany top companies from thecomputing industry. All CSand CM students and alumniare welcome to attend.

Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012

WHAT:IndustrialEngineering Career FairWHO: : ISyE majorsWHERE: Student CenterBallroomTIME: 9:00 a.m. 4:00 p.m. e Institute of IndustrialEngineers (IIE) is holding acareer fair to put students incontact with hiring companiesin the eld.

Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012

WHAT:ASME CareerFair (American Society ofMechanical Engineers)WHO: : ME majorsWHERE: Student CenterBallroomTIME: 6:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. is event will introduce

industrial and corporatecontacts targeted towards MEmajors.

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CAREER CENTRAL

MOREOPPORTUNITIESBEYONDTHEGEORGIATECHCAREERFAIR

Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012

WHAT:Georgia TechBiotechnology Career FairWHO: All majorsWHERE: MS&E BuildingTIME: 1:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

is year marks the eighthannual event, featuring over25 recruitment teams forstudents to interact with.

Tuesday and Wednesday,Sept. 25-26, 2012

WHAT:Georgia Tech VirtualCareer FairWHO: All majorsWHERE: http://gatech.careereco.net/employers/virtual-career-fair-details/TIME: TBA e two-day eventinvites students and alumnito connect with potentialemployers via online video and

chat sessions.Monday, Sept. 24, 2012

WHAT:Career Servicesprogram - Creating aProfessional ResumeWHO: All majorsWHERE: Success CenterClaryeaterTIME: 5:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

Career Services will providestudents with helpful tips forbuilding an impressive resume.

PITCH

PERFECT

Meeting recruiters can be a nerve-racking experience, but ramblingon will get you nowhere. To avoidthis, make a list of your skills, at-tributes, and experiences. Narrow itdown to the ve or six

that showcase yourbest qualities. Beconcise. Rememberthat you only haveabout thirty to six-ty seconds.

Attract the recruitersattention early on witha statement that piquestheir interest. Considerthe target position andhow you could contrib-ute to the company. Steerclear of stock attributesand highlight a skill thatcould be of use.

Rene your pitch by re-hearsing it. ough itis crucial to rememberthe important pointsof your speech, dontmemorize. It will makeit sound forced and ifyou forget something,you might panic. ebest elevator pitchescome across as eort-less.

Ask friends to critique yourpresentation. New listenerscan often point out the par-ticulars that you may havemissed after practicing yourspeech multiple times. ey

can also tell you what therecruiter might needto hear more of, or ifthere is too much in-formation.

To easily transition fromyour speech to conversa-tion, conclude your elevatorpitch with a question. Askthe recruiter what they arelooking for in a candidateand what the position willentail. By this point they will

have an idea of what you bringto the table and how you couldprove valuable to the company.

Recruiters expectenergy and enthusi-

asm from students whowant the job. Use handgestures and body lan-guage to appear as ap-proachable as possible.Vary your tone of voiceas you go along.

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September 7, 2012

Wow. That Lean Cuisine reallylled me up.

Said no one ever

Opinions Editor: Gaines Halstead

OUR VIEWS |CONSENSUS OPINION

Occupy: Career FairLarge crowds and long lines add diculty

Monday marks the start of the fallsemesters hyped Career Fair. For some,this is the chance to get their name outin the job market and to also speakrsthand to potential employers face-to-face.For seniors graduating in the fall withouta job lined up, the Career Fair serves asa last ditch eort to secure a job. Yet formany this semiannual event generatesmore stress than income. Beyond thechallenge of trying to impress companyrepresentatives, it is a task to simply battle

through the large crowd of students toreach a company representative.e heart of the problem lies in the

fact the career fair includes more thanjust full-time careers. Some companieshave booths looking for only full-timeemployees, but many are seeking co-opsor interns to ll their ranks. Becauseof this, students of every year ood theCRC looking to nd their chance athighly-valued work experience, making itdicult for a majority of seniors to speak

with representatives.e majority of this congestion could

be alleviated by separating the career fairinto three distinct categories; careers,internships and co-ops. Each individualcategory could then cater to a specicstudent group. To streamline the systemeven further, each of the dierent careerfairs could then admit students basedon credit hours, thus allowing the olderstudents who are in need to go rst.

Other options, such as creating major-

speci

c fairs, hosting the event in a largervenue and creating dierent incentivesthat could attract a larger number ofcompanies, could provide more space andmore employers that could cater to everytype of job-seeking student.

It must be said that the Career Servicesdepartment is a vital asset to students atTech and does a great job providing for thestudent body in many ways, but ultimatelyit is each students responsibility to securehis or her own future.

THE WEEKEND AFTER BY CASEY TISDEL

e vision statement of Techchallenges us to dene the tech-nological university of the 21stcentury. It is in that spirit thatTech has embarked in a seriesof new experiments with onlineeducation, most recently joiningfteen other top universities of

the U.S. and the world to developcourses on the Coursera (www.coursera.org) platform. enew Center for the 21st CenturyUniversity, the Council for Edu-cational Technology and Geor-gia Tech Professional Education(GTPE) have spearheaded thisnew foray into online education.

It is important to note thatonline education is not new toTech. Many of our professorshave delivered online courses toour students and others all overthe world. Tech Professional Ed-ucation (www.pe.gatech.edu)oers a spectrum of online pro-grams in both asynchronous andsynchronous formats. Last year

GTPE served 3,100 companiesand 13,000 individuals, coveringdiverse subjects from basic calcu-lus and foreign languages to ad-vanced systems engineering.

So what is dierent? e an-swer is MOOCs, or massivelyopen online courses. Entities suchas Coursera, Udacity and EdX areinvolved in developing platformscapable of providing access tohundreds of thousands around the

world so far for f ree. ese aretruly massive experiments, yield-ing a wealth of data on how peoplelearn. ey are also are proving tobe very popular; the approach is,after all, predicated on satisfyinga world hunger for knowledge andeducation. Despite the fact thatthousands around the world haveperformed satisfactorily in thesecourses, so far nobody has re-ceived university credit, except forstudents at campuses like Stan-ford that took the MOOC versionof their courses.

Many questions have beenraised about MOOCs: conden-tiality and security, credentialing,loss of the benets of personalcontact, assessment and grading,adaptability to laboratory andhands on oriented courses, accep-tance by employers and ultimatelysustainability (sooner or latersomebody must pay). Not all theanswers are available althoughthey are quickly evolving. For

example social media conceptscan create communities of learn-ers that communicate, help eachother and even provide assessmentmethodologies. Condentialityand security is approachable thesame way that college entranceexams and AP exams are handled

as well as using advanced cybersecurity technologies. Employ-ers are commonly interested onoutcomes and frequently test forknowledge on their own. Hybridapproaches could allow personalcontact, tutoring or even hands-on experiences.

Time will tell if all the answersto the foreseen (and unforeseen)problems with MOOCs willemerge. What is clear, though, isthat many of our residential stu-dents welcome online access to ac-ademic instruction. ere is alsoclear evidence that many learnvery well online and even betterif the classroom is inverted, leav-ing contact hours reserved for in-depth discussion and exercises asopposed to the traditional lectureformat. e fact is that studentsrelationship with technology isadvancing faster than traditionalinstitutions can anticipate. Techmust be dierent and make everyeort to anticipate their needs.

Tech and its students havenothing to fear in MOOCs. Apremier research university likeours provides far more than sim-ple content to our students. Ourmantra is engaging the studentin challenging the status quo, ingenerating new knowledge, in en-gaging in the creative process wedo far more than lecturing. And

whatever lecturing we do may beimproved with online delivery, orhybrid approaches.

In experimenting with thesenew online education approaches,

we hope to gain insight into howpeople learn, to improve on ourdelivery of content to our studentsand make learning more interest-ing and engaging to the modernyoung person. We are also eager tomake the Tech content a globallyvaluable and recognizable prod-uct. Whatever we do must haveour characteristically high quality.

We must develop new educationaldelivery methods and pedagogythat will bring reputation, valueand resources to Tech. If that oc-curs, all of us will gain, for ouremployment and degrees will befar more valuable.is is an exciting time in

higher education and with ex-citement there comes risk. But I

will posit that the risk of action isfar less than the risk of inaction.ere is no doubt that a revolutionin online education is in the mak-

ing and many very capable andsignicant institutions are drivingthat revolution. We can be part ofthe revolution and share the riskthat may entail or we can be fol-lowers, betray our vision and runthe risk, alone, of becoming sec-ond class.

Tech must lead inonline evolution

e Consensus Opinion reects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of theTechnique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors.

TechniqueEditorial BoardKamna Bohra, Editor-in-Chief

Ian Bailie,Managing Editor

Sam Somani, News EditorTiara Winata, Photography EditorMadison Lee, Focus Editor

Gaines Halstead, Opinions EditorAnna Arnau, Sports EditorJonathan Peak, Entertainment EditorBrittany Miles, Design Editor

Rafael L. BrasProvost & V.P. for Academic Aairs

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Classes are nally gettinginto full swing, and I ndmyself glancing over at thelarge and expensive stack oftextbooks I purchased at thebeginning of the semester, re-alizing that Ive only skimmedthrough them a few times todate.

Textbooks seem to be the

only thing I have been readinglately. Between classes, friendsand extracurricular activities,its getting increasingly di-cult to nd time to sit downand read something as simpleand enjoyable as e HungerGames.

When I was younger Icouldnt wait to get homefrom school and curl up on thecouch with a snack and the lat-est Harry Potternovel. I usedto read for hours, and thosechildhood memories are someof the fondest of my life.

In a rather depressing turnof events, nowadays I spendmost of my time curled up

with textbooks that I would

not be reading at all if I hadmy way.

Its not that textbooks donthave something to oer the

world. ey are bursting withimportant facts and guresthat well need to know if weever want to pass our classesand ultimately walk across thestage with a diploma in handat some point. But given achoice between a physics text-book and Twilight, I wouldprobably be forced to readabout the adventures of glitter-ing vampires.

On second thought, Idprobably take the physicsbook.

Fortunately, and a littleironically, we have the movieindustry to thank for much ofthe reading that were doingthese days. Epic lms basedon some bestselling book oranother are coming out everyother weekend, giving eachof us an incentive to pick upthe novel that started it all andsee what the author wanted usto get out of their work in therst place.e highly-anticipated lm

adaptation of J.R.R Tolkiensclassice Hobbit is being re-leased before the years end,and Ive wanted to re-read thebook for the last few weeksnow. e movie is destined tobe a smash and, in the inter-est of actually being able to re-member more of what happensin the plot than a furry-footedmunchkin nding a ring ofpower, it occurred to me that itmight be a good idea to revisitthe novel.

Sadly, that massive stack oftextbooks is calling my name,

and it doe snt look like Im go-ing to be picking up e Hob-bitanytime soon.

Its worth pointing out thatwe make time for other activi-ties when we have a rare mo-ment to ourselves. YouTubeis practically a black hole ofprocrastination; the hours that

we put into it are never seenagain. In fact, the Internet hasgiven us a veritable host of dis-tractions at our ngertips, andits hard for a book to compete

with the endless fascinations ofReddit.

I think Groucho Marx once

said it best: Outside of a dog,a book is mans best friend.Inside of a dog its too dark toread.

Groucho was always astrange character, but he hasa point. We were learning toread with Dr. Seuss before anyof us knew what Facebook

was. ough books have hadto adapt to 21st Century tech-nology and attention spans

with Kindle and Nook, theyare still our constant compan-ions.

Perhaps Oscar Wildes

quote is more to the point: Itis what you read when youdont have to that determines

what you will be when youcant help it.

Few (if any) professors aregoing to put e Girl withthe Dragon Tattoo on a re-quired reading list for a classon campus, and the ones who

do surely deserve a few ex-tra points on the Rate MyProfessors website, but thatdoesnt mean we shouldntread it anyway.

As with most things in life,in the end I suppose it justcomes down to nding bal-ance. Getting passing gradesis important and somethingevery student should aspire to.But if were obligated to readfor class, and were denitelygoing to make time for intra-murals and Assassins Creed,then it probably wouldnt hurtto pick up a novel every nowand then.

Novels are entertaining,informative and powerful

enough to change our soci-ety. I honestly cant imaginea world without them, and Idont really want to.

So Im going to read thosetextbooks and Im going tocommit what they have toteach me to memory. But atthe same time, Im also go-ing to cut out some of thosemenial tasks that take up somuch of the day and maketime to read e Hobbit assoon as I have the chance,because I cant remember ifLegolas was actually in there.

Novels inspire, provide new foundations

Madison Lee

Focus Editor

Walter Kimird-year ME

First game was disappoint-ing.ere is still a lot of hope

for the rest of the season.

Dersi PatelFourth-year BME

I hope the defense is a littlebetter this year

Cane PunmaSecond-year IE

Mondays game was very sad,but well do better

Kathryn DanielFourth-year MATH

Im hopeful.

How do you feel about thisyears football season?

A recent shift has occurredin the American psyche andin large part seems both un-traceable and undetectable.It is often hard for minor-ity groups and immigrants toshed stereotypes and images,but in the past year, there hasa been a marked dierence inthe way Asian-Americans areportrayed in American com-mercialism. ey have gonefrom being the service provid-ers to the ones being providedforfrom advertisers to thetarget audience.

Previously Asians in com-mercials were generally por-trayed as those in the serviceindustrythe guyxing yourcomputer, or the salesman that

was so speedy and ecient youjust had to go to their store.is played on the positive(or at least sometimes posi-tive) stereotype of the Asiangenius: quick and reliable, butultimately a service to be ex-ploited.

However, in recent com-mercials, you can see an el-ementary school age boy eat-ing Frosted Mini Wheats, ormen poundingstsall withnormal American friends, allshown in a way that no longerfeels like theyre there just for

correctness. One of the mosttelling examples is a Chinesecouple buying a Honda; dis-cussing in Chinese so the sales-man cannot understand theirshock at how great the car is.Instead, surprisingly, the sales-man tells them hell ll out

the paperwork, speaking inChinese. is sends a blatantmessage of more openness anda value of the Asian customer.

A good question at thispoint is why has this occurred?

Asian-Americans only repre-sent ve percent of the totalpopulation, far less than othermajor minority groups. eanswer of course, as with anycorporate decision, is money.ough a small percentage

of the population, over 60 per-cent of new arrivals to Americafrom Asia have at least a Bach-elors Degree. Higher educa-tion means higher paychecks.

Asian-Americans make aboutone-third more per householdon average than other minoritygroups and have an estimatedcombined spending power of$500 billion.

However, the Asian-Amer-

ican population is not easy toattract. e six largest ethnici-tiesChinese, Filipinos, Indi-ans, Vietnamese, Koreans and

Japaneseeach have a distinctculture and language and of-ten do not get along with eachother, preferring the hyphen-

ated Chinese-American orKorean-American to being la-beled Asian. is causes adver-tising to be fragmented, creat-ing a plethora of commercialsin multiple languages, eachaimed at a dierent group.State Farm has commercials inMandarin aimed at Chinese-

Americans and commercials inEnglish aimed only at Indian-

Americans. Each follows thesame formula as their classiccommercials, but in the lattercase, now the upgraded boy-friend is a cricket player.

Despite this diculty, thereis still a huge market. In Atlan-ta there is a signicant Korean-

American population, givingrise to Korea Town in Duluthand the international shoppingarea around Doraville. Evenmore revealing is the recentinclusion of Korean language

channels on basic cable, show-ing news, dramas and adver-tisements all aimed directly atKoreans.

While it is denitely a posi-tive change to be sold to, beingtargeted and hunted comes at aprice. Some commercials miss

the mark and hail back to theracist days of Keno and theGeek Squad. Others charm-ingly combine the two, oneshow a pair of women in an in-tricate ght scene replete withying and kung fu shouts onlyto have them really be racingeach other for the last outlet ina coee shop.

A better question at thispoint is: what will Asian-

Americans do with this newfound spending power? ereare pitifully few prominent

Asians in politics, the media ormajor corporations. e aver-age American is hard-pressedto nd a single famous Asianthey can name who is not adictator or someone infamous.

I think it is time for Asian-Americans to stop pushing forhigh-paying jobs like doctorsand lawyers and instead provetheir bankability to the publicnot just with the money they

wield, but a lso power over theculture they fuel. As a half-Jap-anese person, it is maybe niceto know that at least pumpingthrough half of my veins issomething being sought afterand waiting to be drained.

I am not satised with justbeing a target and am not hap-py saying its good enough at

least advertisers arent as racistas they were before. is is atime to stand up, not as Asian-

Americans or Americans, butas a people whose value isnot determined by their raceor culture, but what they canbring to the table.

Asian-oriented marketing spurs growth

Photos by Kevin Brawley / Student Publications

Jonathan Peak

Entertainment Editor

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8 September 7, 2012 Technique OPINIONS

New Obama slogan tricky to sellBy Scott Stirrett

The Hoya, Georgetown U.

With only two months to gountil the 2012 election, PresidentObama has an average lead inthe polls of only a few percentagepoints, according to realclear-politics.com. In essence, the race

is tied.With the numbers so close, itsreally anyones guess at this point

whether President Obama willwin a second term in oce. It isoften said that two weeks is a longtime in politics and two months isan eternity. A lot can still happenbefore election day.

But some of the biggest deter-minants of the fall elections arelargely out of the control of eithercandidate. For instance, neitherhas much say in whether Greecechooses to exit or gets thrownout of the Euro Zone, whichcould substantially impact the

American economy and thus theelections.at being said, there is still

great potential for both presiden-tial campaigns to shift the 2012election in a whole new direction.

Contrary to the glee that manyof my fellow Democrats felt whenRep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was an-nounced as Romneys vice presi-dential nominee, I actually believeit was quite a shrewd choice.

As scores of Republican com-mentators have argued, the Ryanpick brought economic issues tothe forefront. e national unem-ployment rate is 8.2 percent, and

millions of Americans have simplychosen to leave the workforce. Itmay not always be justied, butvoters tend to blame the incum-bent for economic problems.

Moreover, while the adjectivewonkish is often used to de-scribe Ryan, he is in some waysequally passionate about social

issues. While many GOP votersare both scal and social conser-vatives, a substantial number ofRepublicans subscribe to only oneof the aforementioned realms ofconservatism, and it is importantfor Republicans to work to appealto both major constituencies.

As in 2010, the Tea Party ismaking it dicult for the Re-publican Party to appeal to moremoderate voters. One need onlylook at current headlines and thescandal surrounding Rep. Todd

Akins (R-Mo.), inammatory re-marks regarding rape. Sen. ClaireMcCaskill (D-Mo.) may be ableto pull o re-election because ofher opponent Akins lack of sen-sibility.

Consequently, the Democratsin this race have increasinglymade this election about culturalmodernity and the GOPs opposi-tion to many facets of it. e factthat the Obama campaign has de-cided to use the slogan forwardindicates how Democrats have

worked to present themselves asthe party of the future.

In some ways, this is a dan-gerous path to follow. Placing somuch emphasis on representingthe future leaves room for Repub-

licans to portray Democrats as notbeing the party of the present.e reality is that the U.S. is

changing economically, sociallyand demographically at a rapidpace. ese changes have causedincreased social alienation, as evi-denced by the Occupy Wall Streetmovement and the Tea Party.

at is the main challenge forDemocrats: How do you presentyourself as the party of the future

when it is the future and the ac-companying changes that scare somany voters?

Americans are uncerta in abouttheir future. eyre witnessingthe rise of countries like India andChina as the United States globaldominance seems to disintegrate.

At home, they see a stagnatingeconomy. And many older Ameri-cans see a country that is beingtransformed in a way that wouldhave been hard to forecast half acentury ago.at is why the GOP has rather

unapologetically run as the partyof the nations past. One has only

to listen to a few minutes of Rom-neys stump speech before hearinglines about restoring America toits former glory.e 2012 elections have come

down to a debate between one vi-sion that looks hopefully to thefuture and another that looksfondly to the past. Who will winat this point is anyones guess, butmuch of the result will hinge oneach partys ability to present theaforementioned narratives eec-tively.

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OUR VIEWS |HOTOR NOT

CaughtCampus can rejoice at the

news that the infamous NorthAve robber Turk has beencaught. As luck would have it,Turk was found in jail wherehe is currently incarcerated.Unfortunately his vicious part-ner, Boo Boo, still roams free.

HOT o r NOT

Football LossA back-and-forth nish in

Mondays season opener endedwith the Jackets dropping athrilling contest at VirginiaTech. Despite the loss, the

Jackets strong play against atough opponent is a promisingsign for the rest of the season.

Food FrenzyFree food and fun. What

more could a lowly collegestudent ask for? T-Night andTour of Asia provided both forthose looking to get their x.Starving for more?e HungerGames will be playing on Tech

Walkway today, Sept. 7.

Blitz BustSwamped with a large num-

ber of applicants, the ResumeBlitz hosted by Career Services

was unable to accommodatestudents who were lookingto get their resumes critiquedbefore next weeks Career Fairstarted.

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Japan: AKB48, girl group turned international sensationBy Joe Murphy

Assistant Entertainment Editor

Girl band. Social phenom-

enon. Guinness World Recordholder. e Japanese pop groupAKB48, made up of over 60 girlsranging between early teens andmid-20s, proudly holds thesetitles and many more. Beginningas a small theater troupe in Tokyo,this group has blossomed into oneof the highest-selling musical actsin the world. With performancesstretching across several countries,there is a seemingly endless supplyof performers. In a nutshell, those

who go to YouTube and searchfor AKB48 should prepare them-selves for a veritable explosion ofenergetic attitude, commandingstage presence and a visual inter-pretation of every denition of the

word pep.

Brought together by Japaneserecord producer Yasushi Aki-moto, the original AKB48 groupconsisted of 21 members, dubbedTeam A, performing in a the-ater in the Akihabara section ofTokyo. eir rst single, Sakurano Hanabiratachi, was releasedin early 2006 on an independentlabel, followed soon by Skirt, Hi-rari later that year. Both singlesspent weeks in the Top 200 in

Japan and led to the groups rst

record deal with DefStar Recordsin August 2006. In the years fol-lowing, AKB48 grew into themassive entertainment spectacle itis today, recruiting enough mem-bers to form an additional TeamK, Team B and Team 4. eseparation into teams allows the

group to give a performance everyday in their original Akihabaratheater, while at the same time ap-pearing in venues around world,ranging from Russia to the Unit-ed States. As of now, AKB48 hasreleased ve albums and almostthirty singles, thirteen of which

have topped the charts in their na-tive Japan.

Despite the enormous successand recognition that AKB48 hasachieved over the past few years,the life of an individual memberis short-lived. Whenever membersbecome too old, usually around

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the 25-year mark, they gradu-ate from the group, allowingnewer and younger performersto audition for their spots. Usingthis method, the group constantlychanges its face, allowing it to

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The RaveonettesObservator

LABEL: Vice Records

GENRE: Indie Rock

TRACK PICKS: Young andCold, The Enemy and

ObservationsRELEASE DATE: Sept. 11

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By Vance BerryContributing Writer

Indie rock duoe Raveonettesis set to release its sixth full-lengthalbum Observator next week.Since e Raveonettes forma-tion in 2001, the band, native toDenmark, has crafted a signaturesound of synthesized keyboard,electric guitar, harmonized vocalsand distortion. Observator largelycontinues in this precedent, butaccording to frontman Sune Rose

Wagner, the band mixed plainpiano into several tracks for therst timeever in an eort tocreate a glorious, gloomy sound.

Wagner pitches Observator as areturn to the verse-chorus-versestyle of songwriting.

Young and Cold kicks oObservator on a dreamy, wistfulnote. Its opening lines and pierc-ing refrain summarize the con-templative message of the song,

while distilling the mood of theentire album. Observator realizesits high points in the soft balladsabout love and loss which com-prise the rst half of the album.

Some of these best moments ofthe album occur in e Enemyand Sinking with the Sun. eformers chorus strikes a familiarnote to anyone whos ever blamedthemselves for a failed relation-

ship, quipping you are alwaysthere to remind me, love fails ifyoure never around it. Catchyguitar ris keep the song interest-ing and fresh, and lead singer Sha-rin Foos lends the lyrics a pleasantpresence. Sinking with the Sunframes references to a relation-ship being torn apart by the endof summer with upbeat vibes andeective verse-chorus transitions.

Observations, the albumslead single, features haunting lyr-ics layered on top of rhythmic pi-ano accompaniment and distortedguitar ris. is songs strength isalso its weaknessthough the pi-

mute to work in NYC presumablyhave limited patience for otherpeople dancing in the street).She Owns the Streets, as well asthe following track Downtown,comes o as overly bright mu-

sically, and lacks much lyricalcreativity or substance. However,You Hit Me (Im Down) standsout from surrounding songs withthoughtful lyrics and a head-bob-bing melody.

Overall, Observator is good lis-tening material if those listeningare in the mood for straightfor-

ward, sof t ballads featuring greatvocal harmonies. e album failsto encompass its signature me-dium-paced, mild compositionsand instead explores more intense,rocking melodies. While dier-ent, sometimes change is good forthe band and listeners alike.

ano drives the rhythm and moodof the song, its part is extremelyrepetitive and wears out over thesongs four-and-a-half minutes.Curse the Night, which imme-diately follows Observations,

also makes use of more than itsfair share of rote repetition.

Unfortunately, the second halfofObservator is somewhat boring.She Owns the Streets, is a songabout a New York street dancerthat seems to have been chosenas the albums second single solelybased upon the fact that its lyricssuggest an easy-to-produce musicvideo. Its chorus is not so much apiece of lyrical or poetic composi-tion as a reinforced statement ofan observation. In between cho-ruses, the song takes breaks togrouse about the repressive natureof society (people trying to com-

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constantly showcase new talentand potentially outlast any othermusical act in the world in termsof popularity and fame.

As if being the highest-sellingfemale group in Japanese musichistory was not enough, AKB48has also appeared in several othermedia outlets. Films, televisionshows and even an anime seriesstarring the likenesses of several

group members have been pro-duced, making this Japanese popact one of the most integrated andinuential in the modern enter-tainment industry. In addition toa wide variety of performances,

AKB48 has left its mark on theworld through philanthropic ac-tions, most notably in the caseof the Japanese earthquake andtsunami of 2011. In response tothis disaster, the group donatedaround one billion yen to the Jap-anese relief fund, the equivalent ofover 100 million US dollars.

From an outsiders perspec-tive, perhaps the most astonish-ing aspect of AKB48 is the sheernumber of personnel connectedto the group. Not only is it one of

the largest pop acts ever seen, butthe number of back-up singers,spin-o groups and former mem-bers reaches into the hundreds. Itis hard to imagine such an exten-sive network existing here in theUnited States, where solo acts likeKaty Perry and Lady Gaga havebecome the norm. Only time willtell if the bubbly, cheerleader-ishstyle of AKB48 will nd a placein the western entertainment mar-ket. If it does, America had betterbe ready to get extremely hypedup and slightly uncomfortable,because this group holds nothingback.

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Football from page 20regulation.

Washington and the Jacketsoense took the eld in the pistolformation to start the drive, driv-ing 35 yards to the Virginia Tech37 before facing a fourth-and-sixsituation. Running the pistol for-mation with three wide receiv-ers, Washington faced pressureearly, shaking oa defender in thebackeld before completing a 19-

yard pass to Bostic on the sidelineto keep the drive alive. Four playslater, Washington hit redshirtsophomore A-back Deon Hill ona crossing route to cap o a 13-play, 72 yard drive with just 0:44remaining in regulation.

e Jackets defense then couldnot close out the game, allowingthe Hokies to drive 51 yards in 38seconds to set up the game tying41-yard eld goal.

In what was the rst-ever over-time contest at Virginia TechsLane Stadium, the Hokies wonthe coin toss, electing to play on

defense to start the extra period.e Jackets would make their rstmajor mistake on oense for theday after Washington tried throw-ing the ball away under pressureand was intercepted by VirginiaTechs Kyle Fuller.

e Hokies only needed aeldgoal to win the game, eventuallydriving the ball to the one-yardline and hitting a 17-yard eldgoal to take the 20-17 victory.

Georgia Techs loss puts them

in a 0-1 hole in conference play,and gives Virginia Tech the insidetrack to the Coastal Division title.

eres absolutely nothing wecan do but play football... we haveplenty of games left. Maybe some-thing will happen, maybe VirginiaTech will get caught slipping. Younever know what happens. Weve

just got to continue playing ourbest and see what happens, saidsenior defensive end Izaan Cross.

e Jackets will have theirhome opener at 7 p.m. this Satur-day, Sept. 8, against the Presbyte-rian Blue Hose.

Cross country starts season strong

Photo courtesy of GTAA

Senior Shawn Roberts competes in a cross country race in the

2011 cross country season. Roberts nished 12th on Saturday.

By Adam WestContributing Writer

Techs cross country teamcompeted at the Bulldog CrossCountry Invitational in Athens,Ga., this past weekend to openthe season. e Jackets startedthe year strong, placing secondin both the mens and womens

events.Georgia, ranked 28th in thecountry, came in rst in bothevents and the Jackets beat outMercer, which took third. Run-ners from Campbell and AtlantaTrack Club also competed in theevent.

e Jackets mens team waslead by sophomore Jeremy Green-

wald, who took sixth place withan eight kilometer time of 26minutes and 49.68 seconds. In to-tal, seven Tech men placed in thetop 25 and had an average timeof 27 minutes and 8.61 seconds.

Senior leader Shawn Roberts n-ished 12th.

e Bulldogs tookrst place inthe mens event with a total of 15points, Tech took second with 53points, and Mercer had 85 points.

Sophomore Katie Townsendcompleted the ve kilometercourse in 17 minutes 30.80 sec-onds for sixth place, the fastest

of the Tech women. Senior MaryKate DuBard nished six secondsafter Townsend to clinch seventhplace. e combined team aver-aged 17 minutes and 56.86 sec-onds around the course.

e mens and womens teamswill compete at the Virginia TechInvitational in Blacksburg, Va. onSept. 14.

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Somewhat lost in the excit-ing, back-and-forth nal quarterof Mondays season opener was astrange moment that happened atthe very end of the third.

e Jackets faced a second-and-10 after driving 52 yards tothe Virginia Tech 21. On an op-tion play to the right side, quarter-back Tevin Washington made thecorrect read and kept for a two-yard gain. After the whistle blew,he picked up his helmet and ranback to the huddle.

e problem, as everyone soonrealized, was that Tevin was ineli-gible for the next play.

Per a new NCAA safety rule,any player who loses his helmetfor any reason other than a foulby the opposing team must sit outthe following play. It was insti-tuted largely to ensure that play-ers make sure to tighten their hel-mets, something that the NCAAbelieves to be an issue.

e more immediate eect isthat it removes key players fromgames, sometimes at key momentslike this one.

Redshirt sophomore quarter-back Synjyn Days came in andgained four yards on a designed

QB keeper, forcing a

eld goalattempt. Its hard to say if Tevinwould have done any betterPaulJohnson said he would have calledthe same play regardless of who

was under center, and the Hokiesdefended the play wellbut thefact remains that the Jackets were

without their starting quarterbackat a crucial moment in the game.

Other teams had it worse.Clemson, for example, saw quar-terback Tajh Boyd lose his helmetthree times in their opener against

Auburn.Maybe arguing against a head-

protection rule is silly, especiallygiven the recent (and completelylegitimate) focus at the pro and

college levels on player safety, buthow much does this rule reallyaccomplish from a safety perspec-tive? In Techs case, Tevins helmetappeared to fall o only after theplay was over, and in Clemsonscase, Boyd kept losing his helmeteven after he tightened the chinstrap repeatedly.

So what happened? Boyd im-plied on Tuesday that Auburnplayers tried to pull his helmeto. Alabama running back EddieLacy apparently said somethingsimilar in his teams win overMichigan. Its a sign of a rule withgood intentions but bad execution

when the rule is used as a weaponagainst the people that its meant

to protect.rough one week of play, theoutcome of a game hasnt beendecided because of a key playersitting out due to the helmet rule.

Lets be honest, though: its onlya matter of time until it happens.

at helmet rule was simplythe most controversial of a slewof new safety-inspired rules insti-tuted by the NCAA in the osea-son. Of these, the most obvious

was the set of changes made forkickos and kick returns. By rule,kickos will now be made fromthe 35-yard line instead of the 30,and touchbacks will cause teamsto take over from the 25 instead

of the 20.Moving the kicko to the 35was fair; its a change that wouldat once increase the frequency oftouchbacks and reduce the highinjury rate on kicko returns byslowing down the coverage unit.Its the other part of the rulechange, however, thats question-able.

Heres a quote directly fromthe original rule proposal: ecommittee also voted to move thetouchback distance on free kicksto the 25-yard line instead of the20-yard line to encourage moretouchbacks.

is encouragement onlyworks on one side of the ball. Sure,a returner who receives a kicko

three yards deep in the end zone isless likely to take it out now. Buton the ip side, letting the oensereceive ve extra yards reducesthe kickers motivation to force atouchback regardless of where thekicko line is.

Really, those two rules seem toincentivize an entirely new strat-egy, one thats been discussed atlength but not really implementedanywhere yet.

Dont be surprised if higher,somewhat shorter kickos startbecoming a trend, especiallyamong teams with top-notchspecial teams units. If executedproperly, such a kick would let thekickocoverage unit reach the re-

turner quickly and drill him soonafter he catches the ball some-where around the 15-yard line.Just like that, the safety of thereturner would be compromised,

and the oense would take overwell short of the 25.

e number of touchbacks didseem to go up in Week 1. But allitll take is two or three prominentteams trying out this strategy in agame and seeing some success inpushing opponents average start-ing spot backward by even ve to10 yards, and it could catch on ina big way.

Either way, the frequency ofreturns for touchdowns is go-ing to drop, and drop quickly. Inthe NFL, there were nine returns

for touchdowns in 2011 (the

rstyear of the 35-yard kicko line)compared to an average of 19 peryear over the 2009 and 2010 sea-sons. If the NCAA really wants

to make safety paramount onkick returns and encourage moretouchbacks, they really should

just eliminate kickos entirelyand have teams start out at the 20or 25. e eect would be prettymuch the same at this point.

Its one thing for the NCAAto institute more rules to increaseplayer safety in an increasingly vi-olent game. Its another for themto use the pretense of safety tomake odd rule changes that dis-rupt the game while providinglittle or no health benets. e

concussion debate wont fade anytime soon, but the college gamewont see much of a reductionthanks to anything its governingbody did this oseason.

Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

Senior QB Tevin Washington prepares to make a pass in Mondays

matchup against V T in Lane Stadium that resulted in a 20-17 loss.

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Jackets fall in overtime to kick oseason

By Alex SohaniAssociate Editor

In front of millions of viewerson a primetime national stage,

Georgia Tech lost its season open-er for the rst time since 2006 onthe road against the Virginia TechHokies. e Jackets pulled aheadlate in the fourth quarter, but theHokies tied the game in the nalseconds of regulation and won inovertime 20-17.

Under Head Coach Paul John-son, the Jackets have lost fourof their ve matchups againstthe Hokies and earned the ACCCoastal Division title in their onlyvictory in 2009.

e Georgia Tech defensestruggled early, allowing 80 yardsand a touchdown in the Hokies

rst two drives before anchoringa solid performance through thefourth quarter. e Jackets lackof depth on defense then showedlate allowing 182 of Virginia

Techs 326 yards in the

nal peri-od, including a 44 second, 51-yarddrive to close regulation and forceovertime.

On the other side of the ball,the Jackets oense could not nda way to break out a big play, n-ishing the game with 192 rushingyards and 288 total yards of of-fense against arguably the tough-est defense they will play in the

ACC.I feel like a game like tonight

was kind of like an Ali-Frazierght. It was one swing to another,a counter to a point, so they gotthe best of us tonight but we gave

them all we had. We just wish wecould have had better results at theend, and could have nished on abetter note, said redshirt seniorquarterback Tevin Washington.

Washington

nished the game

as the Jackets leading rusher with19 carries for 63 yards. Despite ef-

ciently completing 10 of his 15pass attempts for the game, Wash-ingtons nal pass in overtimeproved to be a costly interception,eventually leading to a VirginiaTech win.

e Hokies started the gameowith eld position in their fa-vor, driving to the Georgia Tech44-yard line before pinning the

Jackets at their own 10. After aquick three-and-out by the Jack-ets, Virginia Tech quarterbackLogan omas and his oensecontinued their balanced attackcapping o a 12-play, 56-yardtouchdown drive with ave yardplay-action pass to take a 7-0 lead.

e Jackets defense then be-gan to settle down, forcing a

punt by Virginia Tech on theirnext possession. Hokies punter

A.J. Hughes, a freshman playingin his rst game, could not get ahandle on the snap, falling on thedropped ball for a 22-yard loss.

Despite only mustering onerst down and 22 yards throughtwo drives, the Jackets capitalizedon the Hokies mistake. Startingat Virginia Techs 24, SophomoreB-Back Zach Laskey picked up12 yards on two carries beforeredshirt junior A-back RobertGodhigh nished the drive witha 12-yard touchdown run. God-high dodged a defender and brokethree tackles to tie the game.

rough the remainder of the

rst half, neither team could con-

struct a drive longer than sevenplays and the teams nished the

half tied at 7-7.e third quarter continuedto be a defensive battle, with the

Jackets turning the ball over ondowns at mideld to start the sec-ond half. e Hokies could notcapitalize on the eld position,and both teams exchanged threepunts before Georgia Tech nallystarted to get into an oensiverhythm.

Beginning with 7:15 remainingin the third quarter, the Jacketsorchestrated a 15-play, 56-yarddrive that led to a 34-yard eldgoal by redshirt junior kicker Da-vid Scully. e drive took 7:18 othe clock, and featured only oneincomplete pass attempt on a trickplay by redshirt sophomore A-

back B.J. Bostic.e Hokies would not quit

though, responding immediatelywith a 10-play, 56-yard drive oftheir own. Despite driving all the

way to the Georgia Tech 21-yardline, Virginia Tech kicker Cody

Journell could not complete the38-yard eld goal that would tiethe game at 10.

After forcing a quick punt bythe Jackets, the Hokies regainedcontrol on oense again with 9:16left in the game. omas complet-ed consecutive passes of 35 and 42yards on a quick 1:30 touchdowndrive to take a 14-10 lead with justunder eight minutes remaining in

By Joe Sobchuk

Contributing Writer

e Tech volleyball teamtravelled to the Indiana Hoo-siers campus over the holiday

weekend to take part in theIndiana Invitational. e teamentered the weekend unde-feated at 3-0, but did not es-cape unscathed as they lost tohost Indiana in the nale afterbeating Bowling Green andCleveland State.

e Jackets began the Invi-tational against the then-win-less Bowling Green Falcons on

Friday afternoon, and defeatedthem 3 sets to 1 (25-17, 19-25,25 17 25 17)

held on to its lead to take therst set 25-17.

Bowling Green started ofast and took an early 9-3 leadand went on to win the sec-ond set. e Falcons pulled to

within three during the thirdset, but could not get closer asTech closed out the set on an8-4 run. Senior Bailey Hunterlead the team to victory in thefourth set with 14 kills.

Tech faced the ClevelandState Vikings the next morn-ing and swept them, 3-0 (25-14, 25-20, 25-20). e Jacketshad a combined .416 attacking

average, compared to .244 forCSU, and ve players each hit350 th t h

(27-29, 25-27, 25-22, 23-25).e win for the Hoosiers andthe loss for Tech brought bothteams records to 5-1.

e rst set was a hard-fought battle which includedve lead changes and eleventies. e Jackets were onepoint away from winning theset with the score at 24-21,but three straight kills by theHoosiers gave the rst set toIndiana.

Tech lead the majority ofthe second set, but a Hoosierscomeback and won the set

with a score of 27-25.e third

set saw a momentum swing inTechs favor. Mead and seniorA i C ki h hit t

only Jackets victory on thenight as Indiana took the nextset and the match.

Mead and Czarnecki com-bined for 34 kills on the night,Hunter recorded a double-double and senior Nicki Mey-er put up 11 digs. Hunter andMead were named to the Indi-ana All-Tournament team fortheir eorts.

e Jackets returned hometo host the Slovenian Nationalteam in an exhibition matchon Wednesday. Meyer hada season-high 18 digs, whileHunter had 11 kills and junior

Kayleigh Colson made 22 as-sists. ill f ll th t ith

Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

Orwin Smith breaks a tackle in Mondays game at Virginia Tech. Although Smith was injured in the

rst half, he nished the game with four receptions for 52 yards despite struggling in the run game.

Jackets unveil new uniforms

Volleyball takes two of three non-conference games

In order to keep up with the nation wide trend of cutting-edge uniform design,the Jackets and ocial apparel sponsor Russell Athletic unveiled a new set ofuniforms in front of a national stage. The uniforms feature a hexagonal patternon the shoulders and numbers on the jersey, and was also the look covering thenew white helmets. The pattern is meant to be associated with Georgia Tech,as it is considered to be a strong geometric object and a shape used by yellow

jackets to build their nests. While the Jackets used white helmets against theHokies, they will also continue to have their traditional gold helmets. Overall, theJackets will have white, gold and navy uniform tops, with white and gold pants

along with the two helmet options. As well as the new designs, the 2011 uniformdesigns are also available to use this season.

Photo courtesy of the GTAA

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