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In an ongoing effort to increasethe job placement rates of human-ities majors at Tech, the School ofLiterature, Media and Commu-nication will rebrand itself as the

School of Literature, Society andDigital-communication (LSD).Te curriculum is being re-

vamped to include greater inter-disciplinary offerings. Te rst ofthese will be the incorporation ofmore science classes, such as Or-ganic Chemistry and SynthesisLab. LSD is also offering a new

joint program with the SchellerSchool of Business called AppliedCollaboration with Industrial De-velopers (ACID), which will fea-ture courses such as InternationalBusiness, Organizational Behav-ior and Entrepreneurship.

Kary Muggil, a former NobelPrize winner in Chemistry and1966 CHEM alum from Tech,is a big supporter of LSD and

was instrumental in making this

change at the institute level. In

fact, he believes he could not havediscovered the polymerase chainbromination (PCB), for which he

was awarded the Nobel Prize inChemistry, had it not been for theLSD he himself was engaged in atthe time.

Within a few days after this

announcement, many students arealready receiving job offers.

Ive always wanted to goabroad, and now Ive got multi-ple opportunities to do so, saidfourth-year LSD major OliveBigs. Currently, Im deciding be-tween working in very large anddiscrete facilities in Mexico andColombia.Te change has also resulted in

a 69 percent increase in job offersfor a variety of CHEM, ChBEand BCHM majors.

Last year, I interned at Shellto work primarily on their steamcracking process, said third-yearChBE major Pat Head. Now, Ivegot a job offer lined up in Mexicoto work on a cracking facility. Ivenever heard of it before, but it pays

extremely well.

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#344 Bud Peterson runs GTSecrets.

Early Tuesday morning, Insti-tute President G.P. Bud Peter-son was purportedly revealed asthe mastermind behind GT Se-crets by an anonymous Facebook

user. Secret #344, which was post-ed shortly after midnight, gained345 likes and 66 comments with-in ve minutes before the secret

was removed from the website.However, the damage had al-

ready been done. Freshman JackGelbe tipped of the Techlique,claiming Peterson violated stu-dent privacy rules and took ad-vantage of Internet anonymity, re-sulting in trespass of the mind. Asevidence, he provided a screenshotof the secret.

I feel like I have been lied to,Gelbe said. I really cant believehe would do something like this.

Gelbe was not the only onewho felt angrya group of angrystudents rallied for hours outside

Petersons office, throwing var-ious vegetables at windows anddemanding an explanation, onlystopping after Petersons assistantstepped outside and announcedthat a formal press conference

would be held the next morning.When I saw how much stu-

dent involvement other universi-ties secrets pages had, Peterson

said in the press conference lastsecond Tuesday morning. I sawa wonderful opportunity in creat-ing a GT Secrets page; not just toallow students a forum where theycould get their thoughts off theirchest, but also a way for me tobetter understand and empathize

with Tech students. I thought thiswould be a great way for me tohear about the activities studentsare participating in and some ofthe problems they are having.Te Techlique is currently in-

vestigating the authenticity ofPetersons motives and the claimposted on the page.

We have reason to believethat there is more to this storythan meets the eye, said Gelbe,

now lead investigator of the case.Tis Facebook page may be partof a bigger scheme of to gather in-telligence on the students at thisschool. And if that is true, then

we might have a larger case on ourhands.

Despite these accusations, Pe-terson insisted that he was only

working to understand the stu-

dents.My intentions are 100 percent

benign. I am genuinely interestedin what these young adults aregoing through and the way theythink, and would like to see whatother resources counse ling at Techcan offer based on these secrets,Peterson said.

However, when asked if thestudents who submitted secretsidentities have been recorded,Peterson strongly hinted at theexistence of a secret database ofstudent secrets.

Te identities of students willremain anonymous to the public,but measures have been taken toinsure that this data can be prop-erly analyzed, Peterson said.

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Tis month,Te Tower Under-graduate Research Journalreleasedthe print version of Volume VI,Issue I. According to Moham-mad Ali Naija, Editor in Chiefof the Tower, this is arguably themost signicant volume of TeTower released to date as it is the

inaugural issue of their article ex-change program with the MITUndergraduate Research Journal(MURJ).

Te goal at least behind thiscollaboration is to promote un-dergraduate research endeavorsbetween both institutes and tofurther collaborations betweenMIT and Georgia Tech Werehoping this will further foster col-laborations and research experi-ence for undergraduates, said AliNaija.

With thisrst article exchange,contributors from both Tech and

MIT hope that the partnershipwill continue on in subsequentsemesters.

I think the partnership thatwe have bet ween MIT and Geor-gia Tech is pretty strong as it is.Te reason we reached out tothem is because our journals sharevery similar core values. Open Ac-cess, Blind Peer Review, Emphasison showcasing promoting and in-

spiring undergraduate research,said Ali Naija.Both editorial boards had

been in discussion for the last twoyears, but nothing had been for-malized until this past summer

when all were able to meet faceto face to formalize a publishingagreement where they exchangeone article from each submissionpool to publish in the opposite

journal.Due to this new article ex-

change as well asTe Tower beingaccepted into the Library of Con-

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On March 18, the T off ofthe north s ide of Tech Tower fac-

ing the A. French Building wasstolen for the rst time in morethan a decade.

According to GTPD policereport number 14030625, it wasnoticed by a facilities employee

who reported it at 12:20 p.m. whostated that his boss had contact-ed him at about 11:45 a.m. and

wanted to conrm whether or notthe T was missing after seeing apicture posted on Reddit. Te fa-cilities employee had checked af-ter this and conrmed that there

was no one in facilities conduct-ing maintenance on the T andthat it was in fact missing.

GTPD officers reconvened onthe fourth oor of the building atthat time to look at the remainingletters more closely, nding mis-cellaneous debris on the stairs atthe scene. Te officers secured the

scene at that time and waited forthe Criminal Investigations Divi-sion (CID) to arrive as well.

All teams made contact onthe fourth oor mechanical room

where facilities employees ob-served the alarm system for theletters. At that time, the alarmsystem was deactivated, and theemployee said that the last timehe knew of anyone disabling thealarm and continuing up to thetower was weeks prior for main-tenance purposes. However, thehatch that leads to the tower itself

was locked and secured.GTPD officers checked the in-

terior of the actual tower as wellwith CID, where they did not ob-serve any evidence indicating re-cent disturbance.Te report statesthat cobwebs and dust were stillpresent, the window where theT was missing from did not ap-pear to be disturbed with any typeof forced entry and the padlock tothe window was not damaged and

was properly secured.

CID continued to process thearea around Tech Tower until theyobserved an area in the bushes onthe north side of the building bythe exit door to Highland Bakery

which looked freshly disturbed.CID processed this scene as well,collecting multiple pieces of evi-dence which were not indicatedmore specically in the report.

After climbing the roof of t hebuilding, officers observed twomuddy foot prints on the initiallanding as well as several pieces ofbroken yellow glass. Te brokenglass trail began at the landingand continued all the way up there escape ladder onto the otherroof. Once at the top of the reescape, officers could see clearlythe area where the T was miss-ing. On the roof leading towardsthe remaining letters were piecesof white rope which appeared tomatch a white rope that was stillhanging from the area where theT had previously been.Te facilities employee stated

that with installation, the ap-proximate cost of the T wouldbe $10,000. GTPD Officers andCID continued to canvas the areabefore reconvening at 4:00 p.m..

Officers viewed surveillancefootage from the area in order tolocate an individual and vehicle ofinterest in reference to the theft ofthe T. Te police met with the

identied student, whom he gaveconsent to search his vehicle.Te student stated that he un-

derstood how serious this mat-ter was and wanted to hand overthe T. He led them back to hishouse, where they retrieved theT and loaded it into the Offi-cers truck to be transported back.Te student was subsequently

placed under investigative deten-tion and brought in for question-ing by the CID, after which he

was cited for Teft by Takingand Criminal Damage to Prop-erty and was released on a copyof the charges.Te next day, Officers met

with Dean Stein and decided todelay charging the student pend-ing an investigation by the Office

of Student Integrity.

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Te rst T was stolen fromTech Tower by a group of stu-dents who wanted to present itto retiring President Dr. EdwinHarrison for guiding Tech peace-fully through the turbulence ofthe 1960s and the desegregationof campus.

Since then, the tradition has,to the administrations dismay,expanded and grown to takingTs from all over campus as well asthe 5 ft. Ts offof Tech Tower.Tefeat had not been accomplishedin recent years as it had been of-cially prohibited by InstitutePresident G. Wayne Clough in1999 when a Tech visitor was acci-dentally killed while climbing the

Alexander Memorial Coliseum.

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gress over the summer this hasbeen one of the most competitiveissues for the Tower, as well. Tisis reected in the acceptance ratefor article submissions of 38 per-cent, the lowest in years becausethe number of submissions hadgone up from previous years.

Tech had two authors featuredin MURJ in this inagural articleexchange. Helen Li, a third-yearECE major, is the rst author on

the publication Crosslinking ofa positive-tone, polynorbornenedielectric.

Zach Pritchard, a fth-yeardouble major in ChBE andBMED, is a co-author on the Lipaper while his current research isfocused on improving microelec-tronics packaging and fabrication.Te authors were chosen this

year based on manuscripts thatshared research and collabora-tion between the two schools. TeMIT article featured inTeTower

was part of emerging behaviorsin Biomedical Engineering, titledSythesis of Polypeptides for Hy-drogel Scaffolds, and written byKiara Cui, Macknzi Martin andPaula T. Hammond, PhD.

According to Ali Naija, this

may change moving forward tosimply be what articles are thebest representation of each schoolrather than those already involved

with partnerships between thetwo schools.

Moving forward, Te Towerhopes the entire staffwill be ableto build on their recent successesand continue to grow as a whole.

I denitely attribute a lot ofthe success to the staff becausetheyve done a great job in get-ting the content, reviewing thecontent and implementing ideas.

Weve highlighted a few authorsfrom last semester but typicallythe authors that are published inthe journal perform astoundinglyeither downstream academic ca-reers, graduate schools, postdoc,industry or government jobs, AliNaija said.

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Te 2022 World Cup is eightyears away and Qatari officialshave already begun to start pre-paring for the games. When thebid was announced for the 2022

World Cup, thefavorite to re-ceive the worldsmost popularsporting event

was the U.S., butQatar won thebid.

As host, Qa-tar will receivea bid to play inthe games. Tey

would be thelowest-ranked team to host the

World Cup. I was so confusedafter hearing the results, but re-membered that FIFA is one ofthe most corrupt sports organi-zations in the world. Its almost100 percent certain that mem-bers of FIFA were given mil-lion-dollar bribes to pick them,but as always, these bribes arealways disputed by FIFA. Itsextremely hot in Qatar during

June and July, and Qatar has nosuitable stadiums, so it was verysurprising that Qatar was given

the World Cup bid.FIFA and Qatar are under

a lot of scrutiny due to thou-sands of migrant workers thathave died due to the workingand living conditions in Qa-tar. A recent report released bythe International Trade UnionConfederation stated that 717Indian migrant workers havedied since Qatar was awardedthe World Cup. 400 Nepelase

workers have also died.Nepalese and Indian workers

make up 38% of the 1.4 millionmigrant workers who are liv-ing in Qatar to build stadiumsand other infastructure for the

World Cup. It can be e stimatedthat there have been thousandsof more deaths on top of t he ones

the Nepalese and Indian offi-cials have conrmed since workstarted in 2011. For comparison,seven workers died in Brazil inpreparation for the 2014 World

Cup.Given that

there are eightmore years un-til the stadi-ums have to beready, thousandsof more deathscould occur andthe building ofthe 2022 WorldCup would beon pace to take

more lives than 9/11. Te ITUCreport called Qatar a country

without a conscience, and look-ing at the facts its hard to dis-agree with that statement.

Workers spoke to the ITUCand shared their stories. Qatariofficials have provided hous-ing where over 10 people wereforced to sleep in one smallroom. Qatar has not done any-thing to improve the living con-ditions or working conditions ofits migrant workers, mainly be-cause of the kaa system that is

in place. Kaa law says migrantworkers are to be treated as ifthey are indentured servants.Many workers are stuck in Qa-tar with no way out as Qatar

will not pay them for their workand tell them to come back an-other day to get their checks andtickets home. Te situation ap-pears to be modern-day slavery.

FIFA has done absolutelynothing to stop Qatar, and theyhonestly do not care about theamount of deaths that take placein preparation for the games.Te FIFA officials have alreadyreceived their bribes, and eventhough people have alreadylabeled the World Cup a di-saster, the games will go on asplanned in Qatar.

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On April 29, English bandBastille will play in Atlanta as apart of their rst ever Americantour. With their sudden popu-larity in the U.S., inexpensiveticket price anda relatively smallvenue choice,many fans wereexpecting theconcert to sellout within a few

weeks. What noone was expect-ing was for thetickets to sellout in a matterof hours. Tis

would be ne if the tickets hadgone to fans, but fans were notthe cause for the quick sellout.

Instead, scalpers had boughtover half the tickets, sellingthem on sites like stubhub.comfor over twice the price. Tis isnot a problem because fans didnot get ticketsthat happensfor almost any showbut ratherit is a problem because Bastillemay be playing a sold-out con-cert to a not-so-sold-out venue.

Looking online today, over125 tickets are still available,

priced as high as almost 28times the original asking price.

Whom does that benet? Truefans arent getting to see theshow, and the band is left look-ing at empty seats in a suppos-edly packed house. With thesuccess of sites like StubHub, itdoes not look like resale sites willbe going away any time soon, sosomething needs to change onthe sellers end to stop the grossover-ination of ticket prices.

Recently, Ticketmaster hasimplemented a system calledCredit Card Entry. Essentially,it ties any tickets to the creditcard they were purchased on.

All the concert goer has to dois bring the card to concert andhe or she will be able to get in.

While the system sounds re-strictive, it ultimately preventsthe mass buying and reselling oftickets. Te ability to resell andtransfer tickets is direct ly related

to the popular-ity of tickets, thechoice of venueand the time ofsale. For morepopular shows,earlier on in theselling period,the tickets arebound to thecard. Tis en-sures that people

who are actuallygoing to show up at the concertare the ones buying the tickets.

For the most part, the Tick-etmaster system is one that Ithink should the paradigm forthe industry, but ultimately,the system fails in the event ofa personal emergency. Withother tickets, if you nd outyou cannot attend the show, youcan easily post and resell them.

With Ticketmaster, however,some shows will never allowticket resale or transfer. Whileyou can insure your tickets for a

fee (it tends to be around $7.00),the lack of transferability re-sults in the same problem thatthe Bastille show may haveasold-out show with empty seats.By implementing a system thatties the ticket more directly toits owner, companies can ensurethat they are getting the bulkof the ticket prots. Perhaps byallowing late stage resale for allshows, they could almost com-pletely resolve these issues.

All I know is that I wouldmuch rather have a few emp-ty seats from the people whocouldnt quite make it to theshow than a mostly-empty the-ater because of high ticket resaleprices, leading to a disappointedband and a lack luster concert.

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Gelbe, the clear choice for SGA PresidentGood evening, America, and

hello, my fellow Jackets.It is my absolute delight to

introduce the Gelbe-Stolen Tticket in this years SGA Presi-dential Elections.

Following my meteoric riseto Freshman Class President,I believe that the next logicalstep is to lead the entire student

body. I am condent that myleadership this year has inspiredseveral students to become lead-ers in their own rightand I re-alize that, encouraged by my ex-ample, Tech students will go onto make the world a better place.

I am also condent in theabilities of my running mate,the Stolen T from Tech Tower.Tough it is not currently atTech, I can assure you that itsservice record with StudentGovernment is impeccable, andit will be fully aware of campusissues when it returns.

Both of us rmly standbehind our platform, whichencourages the liberal use ofbuzzwords including studentinvolvement, facilitation and

Buzz.Like my fellow candidates,the Stolen T and I have decided

to propose several different ideasof varying levels of feasibilityand effectiveness, and then juststick with what feels right whenIm in office next year.

First of all, Im a patriot, andI believe that the best part of

America is Old Glory.Te mostimportant part of the Americabrand is the Stars and Stripes.

Similarly, the most importantpart of the SGA brand is our sig-nature polo. In order to generatesome buzz and facilitate student

involvement with the campuscommunity, I promise to imple-ment an entire SGA clothing

line. By providing our memberswith enough SGA-themed ap-parel, we will eliminate the needfor any other campus organiza-tions to even consider havingtheir own clothing.

I would also like to changethe school schedule next year tobetter suit student needs. In or-der to make Tech a better spaceto learn, I will free studentsfrom the binding monotonyof four-month-long semesters.I promise to extend the length

of spring break to a month, en-abling students to better man-age their hectic schedules.

Of course, there are othersignicant ways to impact thestudent experience at Tech. Onething that comes to mind im-mediately is the renovation ofthe Student Center. I promiseto actively seek students ideasabout the expansion and modi-cations to the building, and Ipromise to delegate this task to

someone more capable of han-dling it.

After all, it i s important thatSGA collects student opinions

while the higher administrationmakes decisions that affect ourcampus.

It is important to realize thatour ultimate goal here is an evenlarger Student Center. Just asDisneyland eventually expand-ed to Disney World, the StudentCenter needs to keep its eyes fo-cused forwards.

Ultimately, that is the mainmotivation behind the Gelbe-Stolen T ticket and SGA as a

whole: looking forward. Testudent body can always be bet-ter served by the administ ration,and by proposing enough poli-

cies, we are sure that we will beable to satisfy every member ofthe Tech community.

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For many amputees, thechange is lifestyle can be drasticand severely limit a persons abil-ity to continue the same activitiesthey once performed. For percus-sionists, though, one Tech profes-sor is working to create a device

that allows them to continuedrumming.

Tech professor and foundingdirector of the Tech Center forMusic Technology, Gil Wein-berg, has created a special pros-thetic arm which can be used tohelp certain amputees continue todrum.

Te creation of Weinbergs

prosthetic arm began two yearsago when Jason Barnes, an Atlan-ta Institute of Music and Mediastudent, was electrocuted and losthis right arm below the elbow.

A drummer by profession, hedecided not to give up and started

working on designing a customprosthetic device shortly after theincident.

What came to life wa s a rudi-mentary device, absolutely inex-ible and without speed or motioncontrol.

At this stage, Weinberg de-cided to take the matter into hisown hands and devised a single-drumstick device equipped withsensors, which pick up the minut-est of muscular responses to create

music.As a result, Barnes has now

regained his ability to drum withmultiple sticks.

His new robotic arm principal-ly features two motors that controltwo different drum sticks.

Te rst stick is controlledphysically by the his arms and itelectronically senses signals from

his muscles using electromyogra-phy (EMG) muscle sensors.

Ten, an embedded chip de-cides the speed of the drumsticksand it can move those sticks at aseemingly superhuman pace. Tearm listens to the music beats per-formed by the rst stick and thenfollows, improvising and playing

within the beats of the rst stick.Te prosthetic arm has also

provided Barnes with a few drumtricks that he could not have per-formed prior to using the device.

Jason can pull the roboticstick away from the drum whenhe wants to be fully in control,

Weinberg said, to editor.com.Or he can allow it to play on itsown and be surprised and inspiredby his own arm responding to his

drumming.Now I can ex and send sig-nals to a computer that tightensor loosens the stick and controlsthe rebound. Ill bet a lot of metaldrummers might be jealous of

what I can do now, Barnes toldMashable. Speed is good. Fasteris always better.

Weinberg is sure the world canlook forward to a whole range ofcybernetics that will redesign, art,fashion and the lives of many.

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Te month of March is comingto a close, but featured numerousactivities hosted by the WomensResource Center in celebrationof Womens Awareness Month(WAM). Events were kicked off

with Womens Day of Service

(WDS), when roughly 80 of Techstudents went throughout metro

Atlanta and volunteered withcharities that focus on helping

women and children.Tis years event featured key-

note speaker Amy Phuong, ChiefService Officer for Atlanta, Techalumna and former SGA vicepresident, and a catered breakfastby the Flying Biscuit for partici-pants.Te event went smoothly, but a

lot happens in preparation for theday of service.

We start in the fall, workingwith the general WAM commit-tee to come up with a theme andgoals for WAM in general andgetting a speaker for WDS, saidGwen Hughes, chair of WDS.

Spring is our crunch timewestart pulling the projects together,setting up registration, getting allof the logistics like catering andlocation conrmed.

For Hughes, her Co-Chair Ka-tie McCoy and many others, the

week before the day of s ervice iswhen the workload really increas -es.

Tats when 90 percent of ourvolunteers sign up, so were busy

trying to make sure all of the proj-ects are evenly full and we haveenough drivers, Hughes said.Tats also when we start gettinga decent idea of what the weatheris going to be like and if we needrain contingency plans. Teres alot of caffeine that week.

Womens Day of Service wasthe kickoff to the month, spon-

sored by the Womens ResourceCenter.

Other events included the Va-gina Monologues, a production de-signed to celebrate both womensstrength and sexual ity and to edu-cate people on different attitudestowards violence against women,as well as Take Back the Night, acandle light vigil in honor of sexu-al assault survivors.

Finally, there was the Clothes-line Project, which gave those

with stories the opportunity toshare them condentially.

When the Womens Day ofService nally came, volunteersset out to places which includedthe Atlanta Community FoodBank, the Luke Project, the HopeStore, Hosea Feed the Hungry,

the Atlanta Community Tool-Bank and MedShare.It seemed like once everything

started moving, the effort thatwent into ma king such an eventhappen ended up paying off.

Being involved with WDSand WAM have been some of myfavorite moments at Tech. For

WDS, its amazing to see maleand female students come out tosupport Atlanta charities that help

women and children, a nd just tosee how awesome and passionateTech students are about givingback, Hughes said.

Volunteers for this years dayof service were also given compli-mentary t-shirts, which featured

this years WDS logo.Te logo forthe event was the diversity tree,

which seemed to work perfectlywith the message of the club.

Its kind of this idea thatone person doing one small actcan contribute to a larger picture

and make a signicant change,Hughes said.

Tats kind of the theme ofWDS in a nutshell- that together,all of us can make a huge contri-bution in the local community by

working together.

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Much to the average studentschagrin, the continuity of At-lantas weather is worse than anepisode of Glee, which makesplanning for the weather morecumbersome; however, whetherhot or cold, foggy or torrentialdownpour, one thing about yourfashion should be consistent:footwear.

Shoes may or may not be themake or break to an outt, butthey are denitely a good indica-tor of what you think of yourself.

Sometimes, we look at peoplefrom the top down and every-thing looks so wonderful until,uh, whats that? Tere are socks

and sandals on their feet. And allhope for humanity is lost.Investing in one really nice

pair of shoes i snt at all bad.Teyhelp add class and pizzazz to youroutt and can make you look allthe more professional. If you haveno clue on what you should get,here are a few good tips.Te most important aspect of

all of this is agreeing that yourrights should be stripped whenyou walk out of the house in

Crocs. Teyre so ugly that it ac-tually hinders my ability to func-tion when I see them, so please,do us all a favor and toss them inthe dumpster.

Go for comfort over every-thing, unless the shoes look likeclogs. People wont even havesearch to nd and judge what youare wearing because they will hearyou when youre within a radiusof ten steps.

Dont be fooled by the cheapprices.Te reason those shoes you

are looking at are so inexpensive

is either theyre a irrelevant brand,like Skechers, or they will comeapart after three days.

Want something sporty? Nike.Period. Just do it.

Want something more formal?Oxfords.

Want something pricey?Dont. No one cares. And youllbe disappointed when someonespills a drink on them. Wait untilyou graduate to get really fancy.

Want to not buy any shoes un-til your old ones have been grind-

ed to dust? Youre impressing no

one.Want your mom to buy your

shoes for you? Dont. Its obvious.Stand up to your mother.

And nally, this probablyshould go without saying, but besmart about what shoes you wea r.In other words, i f youre going ona walking tour of the cobblestonestreets of Savannah, four-inchheels should be your last idea. At-lantas weather may still be oscil-lating from Valhalla to Valdosta,but try putting spring to your

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come into play, Walsh said.According to Walsh, students

who are planning to study abroadin a non-English-speaking coun-try have been especially receptiveto the idea of Talk Lingo.

Talk Lingo is a start-up thatquite literally started from noth-ing. In fact, Walshs rst task wasto come up with a name for theapp.

Working for a start-up allows

for a lot of freedom, and its beenreally cool to see how far it devel-oped, Walsh said.

Involvement in a start-upcomes with a number of challeng-es, though.

Currently, Walshs biggestproject is crowd funding. She andother interns have created a pagefor Talk Lingo in the hopes of rai s-ing $10,000. However, accordingto Walsh, even if they only raiseone dollar, just having people seethe product and be aware that itexists is worth everything.

Talk Lingos next goal is tomake it to the Apple and Androidstores. Meanwhile, for Walsh, thehardest part is quite simply com-munication.

Being a college student makes

it a little easier but we sti ll have totalk to hundreds and hundreds ofpeople, Walsh said.

Walsh was aware of this com-ing in, though, since her fathercreated a start-up of his own.

Walsh and the other internswho work at Talk Lingo, alongwith the apps creator, have highhopes for the app. Tey believe

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Fights take place in a third per-son shooter style, with the camerahovering over Delsins shoulder ashe res blasts, bombs and rocketsat his opponents.

Seattle is painstakingly ren-dered with all the detail fans ex-pect from the series. While un-able to attest for virtual Seattleslikeness to the real thing, I canassure that the former feels likea breathing, living city. Citizenslean against buildings on a smokebreak or whip out their phones totake pictures of Delsins heroics.

Or his villainy.Second Son continues Infa-mous tradition of utilizing amoral system. It also continues tobe baffling in its simplicity. Tereare only two sides to the system:essentially, Hero or Villain. Temore Delsin heals civilians or killsdrug dealers, the more he pro-gresses to becoming a Hero. If hekills said civilians and blows up a

few annoying street performers,then he becomes well on his wayto attaining Villain-hood.

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labelled as being good or bad. Itis a highly simplistic view on thephilosophy of morality to thepoint where it simply feels like a

gameplay excuse for withholdingcertain abilities.Whether the player decides

to make him a Hero or Villain,Delsin is a marked improvementover Cole in the character depart-ment. Delsin is an Akomish Na-tive American who falls squarelyunder the young person tryingto nd who he is stereotype.It is a fairly common archetype

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Over the last few years, therehas been a constant debate on thetopic of paying college athletes.For most people arguing againstit, you repeatedly hear, Well theyalready go to school for free. Onthe other end, those that arguefor pay have a wide range of argu-ments including, Te college ismaking money offof them. Wellshould they be paid? What willthey be paid for?

College athletes, especiallythose in contact sports, risk their

health and careers every game.In the NCAA, there are around400,000 student-athletes and onaverage 12,500 injuries are re-ported every year. Note these are

just those reported. Many injuriesgo unreported by the players andcoaches. Some players continue toplay through soreness and tight-ness in muscles. Playing throughthese small injuries eventuallyleads to big injuries. More oftenthan not, its an injury that the

player comes back from, but insome cases its not.

In his senior year at Tech,Joshua Nesbitt broke h is arm ina game at VT. Due to this in-

jury, he missed the remainder ofthe season. More recently, formerUniversity of Georgia quarterback

Aaron Murray suffered a seasonending injury and possibly, losinga chance to play in the NFL.

I know I speak for all collegestudents when I say, it is no funbeing a college student without

money. Did you know that 86percent of college athletes livebelow the poverty line? Duringthe 2010-2011 school year, theaverage out of pocket expensefor a full scholarship athlete, notcounting the partial scholarships,

was $3,222. Without an income,$3,000 in the hole is poverty.

No one wants to go throughlife or college living in poverty.Everyone tries to nd ways tomake money.

Hundreds of thousands of rep-lica jerseys are sold every year incollege bookstores, sport storesand department stores across thiscountry. Jerseys are usually onlysold because its a star player orthey are a family member, maybeeven best friend. When those in-

dividuals buy those replica jerseys,the store makes approximately 50percent of the sale price.

In 2010, former UGA stand-out and current Cincinnati Ben-gals WR A.J. Green was suspendedfor the sale of his authentic jerseythat he wore in the IndependenceBowl that year. Tat year, with 22different versions of No. 8, the av-erage replica Green jersey sold for$60 in the UGA bookstore. $30

would go to the bookstore itself

while only 10% of the rema inder

($3) went to UGA.Te question now is this. When

will colleges and the NCA A startsupporting their athletes, insteadof exploiting their talents for theirown gain?

Colleges and major conferenc-es are landing billion dollar tele-vision and multimedia contracts,but little or none of that moneyhas been allocated to the athletesfrom whom they are make themoney. With the growth in cover-

age such as the Big Ten Network,

SEC Network and ACC Network,the worth of these players willgrow. Duke basketball players arevalued at $1,025,656. How muchis given to the players? None.

If the NCAA will not pay theathletes their true values, why notpay them for their jersey sales?

Well how much will that be? Letsrevisit A.J. Greens situation. Pay-ing the athletes means that names

will have to go on the back of thejerseys. Tis would mean more

money for Nike and all other un i-

form makers. Tis could possibleincrease the university incomefrom 10 percent to 15 percent.If the athlete received half of theuniversitys prot they wouldmake $2.25 per jersey. Te bestcollege athletes sale on average1,500 jerseys (football) meaningthey would make $3,375 per year.

I believe it is time for theNCAA to allow college athletes toget paid for jersey sales and otherTeam paraphernalia.

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What would you say is youbiggest memory while apart ofthis team?

Hyde: It would probably bemy walk-off [HR] here [at Russ

Chandler Stadium] against NorthCarolina last year.What is your favorite tradi-

tion here at Georgia Tech?Hyde: All of the songs that are

played and how the fans get intothem.

As a young child, what didyou want to be growing up?

Hyde: Oh, when I was little Iwanted to drive big trucks. I dontknow why but I did.

Do you have any individualgoals for the team this season?

Hyde: Well we have a list ofteam goals in the locker room that

we touch ever y day. One of thosegoals is to host Regionals andmake it to Omaha.

At what age did you startplaying baseball?

Hyde: I was young, so around

4 or 5.I read that you were born inSaudi Arabia. When did youmove to the US?

Hyde: When I was 2.You were drafted in 2010 by

the Blue Jays. What made youcome to Georgia Tech insteadof pursue a professional career

right away?Hyde: Te coaches, the educa-

tion, and I was coming in with alot of friends that I wanted to play

with.Do you have any hobbies?Hyde: I like to sh and hunt. I

like outdoors stuff.Who was your basebal l idol

growing up?Hyde: I would have to say De-

ter Jeter.Any nicknames on the eld?

Hyde: None really, everyonecalls me Mott.If you could play any other

sport, what would it be?Hyde: BasketballWould you play for Tech?Hyde: Im pretty good, so Ill

probably make the team. Just kid-ding.

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sion. Cabrales gave up just 5 hitsand threw 52 of her 80 pitches forstrikes but ended up give up veruns to drop her season record to7-5. Kleinschmidt came in for 1.2innings of shutout relief in her sec-ond appearance of the weekend.

Tech jumped out to an earlylead only to struggle to get ad-ditional hits near the end ofthe game. Four rst inning hitshelped the visiting Jackets take a

3-0 lead in the rst frame. Seniorcatcher Alysha Rudnik drove inone run with a double before Ca-brales added a double of her ownto score Rudnik. Junior ChelsieTomas double in the 3rd wouldextend Techs lead to 4-0. How-ever, Tech would have just two ad-ditional hits the rest of the game.

We came out red up in therst inning, but then we did a roll-ercoaster, said Tech coach ShellyHoerner, via ramblinwreck.com .We have to cash runners in. Weleft runners on base in key situa-tions and thats been our Achillesheel for most of the sea son.

Syracuse scored in the 3rd and5th innings to take the secondgame 5-4.

Te Jackets redeemed them-

selves in the last game of the se-ries with a surge of offense. Techscored 15 runs on 13 hits, jump-ing out to a 7-3 lead after threeinnings before scoring eight inthe fourth inning. Seniors Ash-ley Tomas and Rudnik lead the

way with two hits and three RBIsapiece. Sophomore Maddie Lion-

berger matched their efforts witha two hit, three RBI game of herown and junior Karly Fullembrought in another two runs.

I though the seniors did agood job of leading in the thirdgame. Teyre a good group anda good group of leaders, Hoernersaid.

Kleinschmidt made her secondstart and third appearance of the

weekend and kept Syracuses of-fense in check. She did give upeight hits, but held the Orange

to just three runs and struck out10 batters. Syracuse used threepitchers, but each fared poorlyagainst a determined Tech squad.Tey gave up seven, ve and threeruns respectively and managedto strike out just one Jacket. Te

Jackets 15-3 lead at the end of thefth inning ended up standing asthe nal score, as the game wasended due to the run-rule.

Hoerner seemed happy withthe effort in the third game butemphasized the improvementsTech will have to make as the sea-son progresses.

I look for us to continue be-ing better overall. Were startingto score runners more, but not allthe time. We need to continue toexecute better. Teres still a lot of

season left a nd its a process, Ho-erner said.Te Jackets will return home

and continue their ACC-heavyschedule on April 5 with a week-end series against Virginia Techduring Alumni Weekend, begin-ning with a double header on Fri-day at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.

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