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AA to review football game safety
Field goal destruction and injuries prompt security review
T-Square
experiences
server failures
Schuster steps down as the provost
School of Biology announces new certicate program
Photo by 1osh Sandler / Student Publications
President Peterson and his wife celebrate
with students on the Presidents lawn.
Photo by 1osh Sandler / Student Publications
Students carry the torn down goal post down Yellow Jacket Alley fol-
lowing the Virginia Tech - Tech game to President Petersons house.
By Vivian Fan
News Editor
Tech administration and Athletic
Association (AA) will be undergoing
a safety review following the Jackets
win against the Virginia Tech Hok-
ies last Saturday. e call comes after
post-game celebrations led to students
rushing onto the football eld and the
tearing down of the north end zone
goalpost.
e safety of our students and
fans is our foremost concern. e
tearing down of the goalposts is un-
usual at Georgia Tech, and while is it
a long standing college tradition, we
cannot either condone or support it,
said Matt Nagel, a media relations
specialists for Communications and
Marketing.
Following the Jackets win of 28
HOMECOMING GAME
By Matt Homan
Advertising Manager
Tech campus was informed
on Wednesday morning via
email from Institute President
G. P. Bud Peterson, that
Gary Schuster, provost and ex-
ecutive vice president for Aca-
demic Aairs, will be stepping
down from his post. He has
served as provost since Aug.
2006.
All I ever wanted to be was
a scientist.... e clock ticks
and I am getting older, and I
have always wanted to spend
the end of my career teaching
research as a faculty member
here, Schuster said.
Petersons e-mail also said
that a search committee will
be appointed in order to nd
a new provost, and that Schus-
ter intends to remain in the
position until a successor has
been appointed. As the chief
academic ocer at Tech, the
colleges report directly to the
Oce of the provost.
e provost also has over-
sight of the budgeting process
for the Institute and supervises
the hiring and retention of fac-
ulty.
e good thing about an
institution like Georgia Tech
See Post, page 5
By Siwan Liu
Layout Editor
T-Square has returned back online fol-
lowing recurrent server failures occurring
earlier this week. e website returned back
online late Wednesday night.
Were getting at a point where [T-Square
is] stable again. We dont know what trig-
gered it, said Clay Fenlason, Director of
Educational Technology.
Beginning the afternoon of Monday,
Oct. 19, Tech students and faculty found
themselves experiencing problems with T-
Square. Certain applications of the website
have been down periodically as a result of
server failures, which have made uploaded
les and attachments inaccessible.
According to Fenlason, T-Square itself
and its databases were ne; however, the
infrastructure team had been having prob-
lems with back le storage, particularly in
services related to the Banner system and
the College of Managements data storage.
Services that were aected by this failure
included Techworks, Peoplesoft nancials,
GTED and gtwebapps. Servers storing up-
loaded les and attachments on T-Square
had been problematic, rendering the website
unusable until Wednesday night.
Before fully recovering, T-Square admin-
istrators explained in an announcement that
while access to uploaded les or the ability
to upload new ones, including assignments,
resources or other areas that involve attach-
ments, has been experiencing issues, the ap-
plication itself would continue to be up and
running. Activities that do not require the
use of les, such as chat, wiki pages and an-
nouncement postings were still accessible
and are in service.
Due to the fact that T-Square has a very
large volume of les and content, the process
to fully restore T-Square did not nish until
ursday afternoon.
Whats basically happening is that the
les are being trickled back into the system
as there is a full back-up, Fenlason said. As
of [ursday], were looking for the last [le]
to be in place. Well go through and check
that we havent missed anything.
Wednesday night, T-Square administra-
tors released also the following apology on
their website: We deeply regret the severe
disruption to coursework we know this has
caused, and will be reviewing the hardware
issues thoroughly to make sure this cant
happen again.
Fenlason and the T-Square team will be
determining the cause of the failure over the
next week.
By Matt Schrichte
Contributing Writer
Techs School of Biology and
the Biology Student Advisory
Board have announced the enact-
ment of six new certicate pro-
grams, open to all non-biology
majors.
Although Tech has been un-
dergoing budget cuts and changes
throughout each department, the
School of Biology has taken a
dierent approach by expanding
their available curriculum. Start-
ing at the beginning of this semes-
ter, the School of Biology opened
up the new undergraduate cer-
ticate programs to all interested
Tech students.
e biology department ap-
proved the six new certicate pro-
grams this past spring after cur-
rent biology majors responded to
a survey asking which certicate
topics they would be most inter-
ested in pursuing.
e recently introduced certi-
cates include biomedical science,
biomedical technology, compu-
tational and quantitative biology,
environmental science, marine
science, and integrative biology.
Part of the reason for creating
the certicates was for bio majors
who wanted more focus in certain
areas, said Amanda Jara, a third-
year BIO and member of the Biol-
ogy Student Advisory Board.
According to Jara, the cer-
ticate programs will allow for
these students to better familiar-
ize themselves with these focus-
es, without having to spend the
amount of time or money it would
take to acquire a minor in the bi-
ology department.
Like certicate programs in
other schools at Tech, each of the
newly founded biology certicates
requires a basic number of 12 ad-
ditional hours of coursework.
e specics as to how those
12 credit hours are completed
See Certicate, page 5
See Schuster page 5
Photo by 1arrett Skov / Student Publications
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By Vivian Fan
News Editor
Events and happenings across campus next week
Campus Calendar
Wednesday, Oct. 28
ONE MILE WITHOUT SHOES
WHAT: Tech students will
be teaming up with the bands
Hanson (most famous for their
song MmmBop!), Hellogood-
bye, and the organization TOMs
shoes for a one mile walk through
the city of Atlanta. e walk will
be along side band members from
both groups and will try to raise
awareness of poverty and AIDS in
Africa. e two bands have been
hosting this walk across the na-
tion as they go on their national
tour. Hanson will also perform a
few songs following the walk.
WHO: TOMS at Georgia Tech,
Hanson and Hellogoodbye
WHEN: 12:15 p.m. to 2 p.m.
WHERE: e Campanile
Wednesday, Oct. 28
GT JAZZ ENSEMBLE AND SYM-
PHONY ORCHESTRA
WHAT: Techs jazz ensemble
and symphony orchestra will
team up to perform a variety
of songs including Paul Dukas
Sorcerers Apprentice, Andrew
Lloyd Webers ink of Me
and Michael Jacksons riller.
e concert will also feature one
of the three winners of Techs
Student Concerto Competition
Ruoting Gong. e concert is
free for Tech students with a
Buzzcard and $10.50 for general
admission.
WHO: Tech Jazz Ensemble and
Symphony Orchestra
WHEN: 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.
WHERE: Ferst Center
Wednesday, Nov. 4
THE HONEYWELL NOBEL INITIA-
TIVE (HNI) LECTURE SERIES
WHAT: Allowing for students to
meet and listen to Nobel laure-
ates, Georgia Tech will be hosting
Professor Sir Larry Kroto, win-
ner of the 1996 Nobel prize for
chemistry. e lecture is part of
Honeywell Sciences Nobel Initia-
tive (HNI) series, which began in
2002 and has been presented at
lecture halls in the U.S., China
and India. e event will also
be webcasted on http://www.
honeywellscience.com.
WHO: Professor Sir Harry Kroto
WHEN: Nov. 4 to Nov. 5, rst
lecture at 10:00 a.m. on Nov. 4,
others time to be announced.
WHERE: Ferst Center
Technique - October 23, 2009 - 3 NEWS
Council Clippings
This week in Student Government
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ach Tuesday, elected members of the two houses of the Student Government Association, the
Undergraduate House of Representatives (UHR) and the Graduate Student Senate (GSS), convene to
consider allocation bills and discuss issues facing campus. Here is a summary of those two meetings.
By Vijai Narayanan, Assistant News Editor
is edition of Council Clip-
pings covers the UHR and GSS
meetings from Oct. 20, 2009.
Underwater Hockey Club
e Underwater Hockey Club
requested funding to attend an
intercollegiate tournament in
Charleston, SC. e team wanted
to purchase 20 additional head-
guards and 10 sticks for the com-
petition. In addition, the team
requested funding for the regis-
tration fee and travel to the event.
e bill totaled approximately
$2300 and passed UHR 43-0-2
and the GSS 24-1-0.
FIMRC
e Foundation for Interna-
tional Medical Relief of Chil-
dren (FIMRC) at Georgia Tech
requested $1400 to fund a trip to
Costa Rica for one week. In the
past, groups have volunteered in
Trujillo, Peru by assisting and
shadowing doctors. e bill was
amended to decrease travel fund-
ing and reduce lodging as per
Joint Finance Committee policy.
e bill passed UHR 41-1-3 and
the GSS with a vote of 24-3-1.
LeaderShape
LeaderShape, a six-day inten-
sive development program hosted
at Tech each year requested fund-
ing to help cover the costs of the
program. LeaderShape was also
the genesis of the Team Buzz ser-
vice day event. e organization
requested funding to pay Leader-
shape, Inc. in part for the cost of
the program, totalling $16,200.
e overall cost of the program
totals $45,000.
UHR commenced a lengthy
discussion about the cost of the
bill and the amount of people it
would aect on campus. Lead-
erShape currently only accepts
50 people for the program. After
taking into consideration the po-
tential of the program to largely
impact campus, the bill passed
UHR 29-13-2 and GSS 20-8-0.
Project Honor
Project Honor requested fund-
ing for a service trip to New Or-
leans over Winter Break. Each
year the organization takes a
trip to New Orleans to help with
Hurricane Katrina Relief Eorts.
Due to the economic crisis, the
organization has had more trou-
ble funding trips. e team will
partner with Habitat for Human-
ity for the duration of the trip.
Volunteers perform tasks varying
from house construction to paint-
ing. e bill requested funding for
equipment and van rental, totaling
approximately $5550 and passed
the UHR with a vote of 38-2-1 and
the GSS with 27-1-0.
Multicultural Greek Council
e Multicultural Greek Coun-
cil (MGC) requested SGA to ap-
prove an amendment to their con-
stitution that drops the number
of people required to become a
chartered organization down from
ten to seven. Chartering allows or-
ganizations to advertise and hold
campus organizations. e MGC
oversees several dierent organi-
zations, and focuses on increasing
cooperation and communication
between them. e MGC has its
own constitution and internal pro-
cesses, but must have constitution-
al changes approved by SGA.
During a lengthy discussion
about the need for this amend-
ment, concerns were raised about
the amount of advertising em-
ployed to recruit new members
and maintain high membership.
Chartering allows organizations to
advertise on campus and hold cam-
pus wide events. e bill passed
UHR with a vote of 30-12-2 and
GSS with 18-10-0.
A
lot of things went on
outside the bubble of Tech
in the past week. Here are a few
important events taking place
throughout the nation and the
world.
Breaking
the
ubble
Karzai agrees to runo
Af ghani st ans Presi dent
Hamid Karzai agreed to a runo
election in his country following
intense diplomatic pressure from
the United States. Last week an
international audit by the UN
found that nearly one-third of
the votes cast in his favor during
the general election were tainted
by fraud, driving his vote count
below the majorit y. Karzai
initially balked at the idea and
refused to entertain any idea of
a runo election.
e Obama administration
sees the restoration of a credible
government in Afghanistan as
a key part of its war strategy,
with administration officials
hinting that the results of the
election may play a role in the
Presidents decision whether or
not to send additional troops to
Afghanistan. As a result, Sen.
John Kerry conducted a round of
negotiations with Karzai in order
to convince him to hold a runo
election. Analysts say that such an
election will be dicult to hold, as
winter approaches and the Taliban
becomes more emboldened.
Balloon boy incident
declared a hoax
On Oct. 15, a six-year old boy
was mistakenly believed to have
oated away from his home in
Colorado in a helium balloon,
raising alarm throughout the
country. He reportedly climbed
into the balloon when it became
untethered. e balloon was 20
feet in diameter and ve feet in
height. It is said to have reached a
height of 7,000 feet and drifted for
60 miles, before landing just north
of the Denver airport. Air trac
was rerouted for the duration of
the ordeal and even the Colorado
National Guard assisted in the
recovery eort. e boy was not
found in the balloon, but instead
found safe within his home several
hours after the incident. On
Monday, Larimer County sheri
Jim Alderden announced that
the incident was a hoax and that
federal charges would be pressed
against the family.
B
4 - October 23, 2009 - Technique NEWS
Ellis, Frazier named Mr. and Ms. GT
NEWS BRIEFS
SGA, MOVE and Red
Cross hold ood relief
In light of the recent ooding
sustained in the metro area, SGA,
MOVE, and the Red Cross part-
nered to provide ood relief for
the thousands of metro-Atlantans
aected last ursday through
Saturday. e ooding claimed
ten lives and caused millions of
dollars in damage to property and
roads across the metro Atlanta
area. Members of each organi-
zation came together to collect
canned goods, clothes and money.
e total amount of donation
received has not yet been calcu-
lated, but the event was consid-
ered a success. e proceeds will
be going to various organizations,
including the RED Cross and a
United Way Aliate.
Tech named No. 12
engineering school
Tech dropped four spots to
No. 12 in the U.S. News rankings
of the top engineering schools in
the world. MIT retained the No.
1 spot with a subject score of 100.
Tech was passed by University
of Tokyo, University of Toronto,
ETH Zurich and University of
Oxford. Tech dropped nine points
from a score 68.9 to 59.3. e top
three remained unchanged with
MIT taking the top spot and Cal-
ifornia and Stanford at No. 2 and
No. 3, respectively.
Photo by 1osh Sandler / Student Publications
President Peterson congratulates Mr. and Ms. GT winners Robert Ellis and Kaitlyn Fra-
zier during half time of the 2009 Homecoming game against Virginia Tech at Grant Field.
By Vijai Narayanan
Assistant News Editor
During half-time of the annual
homecoming game last weekend,
Robert Ellis, a fth-year CEE
and Kaitlyn Frazier, a fourth-year
BMED were named Mr. and Ms.
Georgia Tech, respectively. Both
were nominated by their respec-
tive Greek organization (Delta
Chi and Alpha Delta Pi) and un-
derwent a rigorous selection pro-
cess, including interviews, presen-
tations and talent shows.
Just being with so many oth-
er people that love the school as
much as I do, just being associ-
ated with those people is a pretty
big honor, Ellis said. I think its
humbling to be part of the [selec-
tion] process.
It was a complete shock and
denitely an honor to be con-
sidered by my fellow students. I
didnt believe that it was my name
when they called me, I had to be
told that it was me before I real-
ized what was going on, Frazier
said.
e contest began about a
month before homecoming week,
when organizations across campus
nominated individuals to be con-
sidered for the honor.
Candidates were required to
present an application, recom-
mendation letter, and an essay
on leadership experience. In to-
tal, 23 men and 26 women were
nominated. Candidates were put
through interviews held by alum-
ni and administrative ocials.
Following this process, the num-
ber of candidates was narrowed
to 10 male and 10 female semi-
nalists, who were then asked to
make a presentation about what
they felt was the most formative
part of Tech for them.
Semi-nalists were also asked
to record talent videos, which re-
sulted in the submission of talents
such as catching gummi bears and
hula-hooping. e students also
recorded a group song and dance
of the ght song which was broad-
cast on screens across campus.
During homecoming week,
semi-nalists were asked to par-
ticipate in events such as Mock
Rock and the talent show. e top
ve nalists were announced on
ursday of homecoming week.
At the homecoming football game
on Saturday, nalists were brought
to the eld during half time and
the winners were announced.
I pride myself on valuing re-
lationships with other people. I
think Tech has taught me how
to deal with other peopleI en-
joy talking to others and making
them feel comfortable, Ellis said.
As part of the recognition, the
recipients are required to represent
the Institute at campus events, in-
cluding Up with the White and
Gold and When the Whistle
Blows, a memorial ceremony for
students and alumni.
Technique - October 23, 2009 - 5 NEWS
-23 at this years homecoming
football game, students leapt onto
the eld from the stands, in spite
of increased security, which was
the largest amount of security on
sta during any game thus far this
year.
A group of students then
climbed onto the goalpost, even-
tually snapping it due to students
jumping repeatedly on it. e post
was then carried out through the
north end entrance onto Tech-
wood Drive.
Students then took the post
to Institute President G.P. Bud
Petersons house, where it was pre-
sented and accepted by Peterson
and his wife Val on their front
lawn.
Following the celebrations at
Petersons house, students sawed
o pieces of the goalpost at the
lawn and later at various locations
throughout campus.
During the whole aair, the
GTPD reported and conrmed
two injuries including a broken
arm and an ankle injury. e stu-
dent who sustained the broken
arm received it while jumping
from the student section onto the
eld and was taken to the hospi-
tal. e student with the ankle
injury refused treatment.
More injuries are said to have
occurred including students being
trampled while the goalpost was
being taken through the gate, but
these injuries were not reported
directly or the GTPD.
Preliminary reports are a pos-
sible broken arm, asthma attack
and a hurt ankle all from coming
over the wall, Nagel added.
Post from page l
Photo by Lrlc Turner / Student Publications
Following the game, students stormed the eld and climbed the North end-zone goal post until
it snapped. Some students continued to ride the goal post as others carried it out of the eld.
In addition we have reports
of damage to cars as the goalpost
was carried on its way. Over the
years, students at other schools
have been paralyzed when hit by
goalposts during similar celebra-
tions, Peterson said.
Although injuries were report-
ed, there were no direct instances
or incidents of crime or damage
reported to the GTPD during the
hours following the game.
Nonetheless as a result of last
Saturdays events, Peterson has
asked the AA and its ocials to
review safety protocol and proce-
dures and develop greater precau-
tions for future games.
Since Id hate for anything
like that to happen to any of our
students, Ive asked the athletic
department to review our safety
procedures to ensure that all ap-
propriate safety precautions are
being taken, Peterson said.
In addition, the AA is looking
into the possibility of purchasing a
collapsible goalpost in the future.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the
North end zone was still missing a
goalpost. Instead, an orange safe-
ty cone was placed where the post
once was. e AA will have until
the next home game on Nov. 7
is that it is not so dependent on
the personalities that are in partic-
ular places. It is much dependent
upon the history, the traditions,
the objectives of the institution,
Schuster said.
As we look ahead to the search
for our next provost, we plan to
conduct a national search. In do-
ing so, we are signaling that we in-
tend to nd the most talented per-
son available in the country. at
doesnt rule out anyone already
on campus, it simply sets the bar
at the appropriate level for a uni-
versity with our future potential,
Peterson said.
It is the hope of the adminis-
tration that the new provost will
be in place by July 1, 2010. Schus-
ter will stay on until his successor
is in place. e timetable for the
Strategic Plan has the new plan
being rolled out around this time.
e [Strategic Planning] pro-
cess will be nearly complete when
the new provost arrives and as a
result the biggest challenge for
this individual will be in the im-
plementation of the plan, Peter-
son said.
We are in the midst of a re-
ally important strategic planning
exercise.... One of the major chal-
lenges for the new provost will be
to understand the objectives of the
strategic plan, and then to begin
to put the mechanisms in place
that are going to be necessary to
execute the strategic plan, Schus-
ter said.
Schuster stepping down is
one of many changes to the top-
level administration at Tech over
the past few years. In addition
to Schuster, former dean of Ivan
Allen College of Liberal Arts
Sue Rosser stepped down in the
summer to take over the provost
position at the University of Cali-
fornia, San Francisco, and Rich-
ard DeMillo resigned from his
position as dean of the College of
Computing in June 2008.
ere is a delicate balance be-
tween in depth knowledge of an
institution and a fresh eyes ap-
proach. Part of the challenge of
leadership is ensuring that one has
the appropriate mix and balance
of both. e time in these types
of academic leadership positions
[Provost] is typically around 5-7
years so these types of changes are
not uncommon or unexpected,
Peterson said.
I expect that who ever is se-
lected...will have some familiarity
with Georgia Tech as an institu-
tion.... [e most important qual-
ities for the new provost are] in-
tegrity and energy, Schuster said.
Schuster was named the Dean
of the College of Sciences in 1994,
after serving 20 years on the fac-
ulty of the University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, in the de-
partment of chemistry. He was
head of the department when he
left Illinois. In 2001, he was also
appointed to be the Vasser Wool-
ley chair of chemistry and bio-
chemistry.
Schuster was named to the pro-
vost position after Jean-Lou Cha-
meau left the post to become the
new president at the California
Institute of Technology. Schus-
ter was selected over former dean
of Ivan Allen College of Liberal
Arts Sue Rosser and Chair of the
Woodru School of Mechanical
Engineering Eugene C. Gwaltney,
Jr. and Bill Wepfer, who at the
time was vice provost for distance
Schuster from page l
learning and adult education, who
were also nalist for the provost
job.
In April 2008, Schuster was
named Interim Institute Presi-
dent, succeeding former Institute
President G. Wayne Clough. Dur-
ing his tenure as interim president,
Schuster led the institute through
budgets cuts, which were caused
by revenue short falls associated
with the nancial crisis. Schuster
played a crucial role during the
transition process last spring, after
Peterson became the new Institute
President.
[Becoming interim president]
was a very enlightening experi-
ence. I got the opportunity to see
aspects of the university that you
dont from the academic side,
Schuster said.
[Schuster] has served the in-
stitute very well over the course
of the past few years. Especially
last year when we went through
challenging economic times.
Dr. Schuster was the leader of the
institute, and he did a great job
transitioning with Dr. Peterson,
said undergraduate student body
President Alina Staskevicius.
Certicate from page l
vary depending on whether the
student is a biology or a non-biol-
ogy major.
At least nine hours of biol-
ogy credit are required for non-
biology majors. In most cases, up
to three of those hours can come
from 1000 or 2000 level courses.
Also, non-biology majors are
required at least nine credits of
biology coursework to complete
their certicates. For both cases,
the required nine hours must be
3000 level or above courses, and
cannot double count or be applied
to other majors.
e remaining three credit
hours can be used to complete a
wide range of other courses that
range from computer science
classes such as Introduction to
Databases to even a class called
Navigation (NS 2323, for marine
science certicates specically),
which is entirely dedicated to de-
veloping a students basic under-
standing of piloting a sea vessel
and becoming a seaman.
ere are always students out
there who wanted to be marine
scientists when they were young-
er, Jara said. Now they can at
least get a certicate in marine
science.
Any students interested in pur-
suing or nding more information
concerning the new certicate
programs can visit the School of
Biologys certicate program web-
site (http://www.biology.gatech.
edu/) under minors and certi-
cates or speak to the one of the
schools academic professionals
Dr. Mirjana Brockett or Dr. Jen-
nifer Leavey.
against Wake Forest to replace the
goalpost, but representatives have
stated that they already have an
extra set in house that they intend
to put up in the next few weeks.
e Yellow Jackets victory
Saturday night was huge and I was
proud to share it from the stands
and at the presidents house, Pe-
terson said. While I sincerely ap-
preciate the intense school spirit
that makes the Tech experience
unique, the safety of our students
and all of our fans has to be my
foremost concern when thousands
of people pour onto Grant Field
and emotion takes over.
Dr. Schuster was called upon
to lead Georgia Tech through one
of the most dicult economic pe-
riods in its history. He did a very
good job setting the right priori-
ties and maintaining the moral
and condence of the entire Tech
community, Peterson said.
While the economic challeng-
es that Schuster faced during his
tenure greatly shaped his duties as
provost, Schuster said he particu-
larly enjoyed working with stu-
dents and student leadership.
Schuster intends to return to
the faculty. Currently, he is listed
as a professor in the School of
Chemistry and Biochemistry.
Dr. Schusters desire to return
to research and teaching as the
culmination of his career is well
known, Peterson said.
I maintained an active re-
search presence for all the years I
was dean and provost...I am abso-
lutely looking forward to getting
back into the classroom...I would
like to teach in the organic chem-
istry program, and one of the
things I would really like to do
is teach in the honors program,
Schuster said.
Opinions
Technique
6
Friday,
October 23, 2009
One of the true tests of leadership is to
recognize a problem before it becomes an
emergency.
Arnold H Glasgow
Opinions Editor: Kaitlin Goodrich

OUR VIEWS CONSENSUS OPINION

New provost to be chosen
Hopefully change is chance for positive progress
We were surprised to hear of Schusters
decision to step down from the post of
provost, but are glad he will be staying on
at Tech, as he did a good job in all the
roles he has served here, especially step-
ping up as interim president.
With Schusters resignation, we look
forward to the future provost with hope
for positive change. is change cannot
happen without targeting specic traits
for the new provost during the search for
his successor.
is search must specically look for
diversity of candidates. is does not just
mean looking for candidates from vary-
ing roles around Tech, but a full national
search that will allow us to pick from
top candidates everywhere. At the same
time, a nationwide search does not mean
we should adopt the mind set that an in-
house hire would be a failure. is may
mean that the best candidate would be a
person with some sort of connection with
the Institute, be it an alum, a former pro-
fessor or other role.
Tech must consider a variety of can-
didates who are focused on progressive
moves for Techs future while staying in
touch with our culture. At the very least,
by the time the new provost starts, they
should be well aware of the unique Tech
culture to ensure that we do not change
the core of what Tech is, but rather revise
the way we do business.
Diversity of candidates must nally en-
sure that the true diversity of the student
population is represented in every aspect
from considering hiring of people with
non-engineering backgrounds to a true
consideration of the female population in
the upper echelons of power at Tech.
A new provost is only one of many
newly replaced positions on campus in
the past year. With so much new blood
on campus, we hope that it will be a cata-
lyst of change that will improve campus,
without losing the character of Tech in
the process.
EDITORIAL CARTOON BY SIWAN LIU
e debate over university
gun control laws has risen
again in the national media
and here in the Technique,
bringing with it the usual ar-
guments.
Many people feel threat-
ened with potentially fatal
weapons in the classroom,
while others feel safer with
the opportunity for self-de-
fense.
But what if there were an
option to answer both sides
concerns?
Defensive tools like stun
guns and pepper spray of-
fer a reasonable alternative
for personal safety, without
creating a signicant risk of
serious injury.
Unfortunately under
Georgia state law, no student
can have a taser on campus,
even if locked away in the
glove compartment of their
car.
When every year seems to
bring another school shoot-
ing by a mentally unstable
student, and when every
third school email explains
a mugging incident on the
back steps of campus, it be-
comes clear that we need to
nd a practical solution to
make everyone safer.
How dierently could
that day at Virginia Tech
have been if one of those pro-
fessors or students had been
prepared for the unlikely?
And how would our cam-
pus crime statistics change,
if criminals knew there was
a good possibility of a pain-
ful jolt?
Georgia Tech does its best
to keep students safe with
the Stingerette and a very
visible police patrol.
But what about those 10
minutes alone on the street
in the middle of the night
before the Stingerette ar-
rives, or those dark walks
back into Homepark?
Granted, there is a chance
for misuse or abuse, but what
if there was a police directed,
safety training course?
Questions like these
should be included in an ex-
panded campus discussion,
because we as a community
need to nd a practical solu-
tion to the right to feel safe
on our university campus.
Lizzie Elbel
Fourth-year ME
Internet grammar
In Peterson responds to
the undergraduate white pa-
per, I noticed that the Tech-
nique doesnt capitalize the
word Internet.
I am aware that this is a
growing practice in some
publications and was won-
dering if this was the Tech-
niques ocial stance on the
matter, or just a slip-up.
I am genuinely interested
in this, so Ill avoid an all out
rant about how much I hate
the dropping of capitals and
punctuation in an eort to
be trendy and cute.
I certainly wouldnt com-
plain if it were capitalized,
though.
ank you for your time.
Nic Reveles
Fourth-year MGT
Response from the
Editor
While yes, grammatical
convention accepts internet as
a proper noun, in the context
of an engineering and techni-
cal school it seems a bit silly to
consider it as an individual,
novel format.
erefore we generally treat
the word internet much like
radio or television, a techno-
logical medium and commod-
ity that does not merit capital-
ization.
You will however, see in-
stances of capitalization of the
word at the discretion of our
editors for emphasis or clari-
cation, as our style guide does
not dictate a hard and fast
rule at this time, like say our
rule to call our school only
Tech or the Institute.
If you have any further
questions on our style, feel
free to refer to our style guide,
which can be found at nique.
net.
- Emily Chambers
Editor-in-Chief
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e Consensus Opinion reects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the
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e Athletic Association shows solidarity with Tsquares diculties
Technique - October 23, 2009 - 7 OPINIONS
Even in the midst of all the
mid-semester homework and
tests on top of working and
attempting to keep a some-
what balanced social life, there
are still somehow things that
make me extremely happy.
e month of October re-
duces my stress level signi-
cantly, and it still surprises me
that a simple little change in a
month can have such an eect
on my mood and overall out-
look of life.
As a Tech student, I need
all the stress relief I can pos-
sibly get my hands on.
October is the month when
the weather nally begins
to cool down to a bearable
(and sometimes even enjoy-
able) temperature. e leaves
change colors, the breeze picks
up and the outdoors becomes
so incredibly pleasant.
It is my favorite month for
these reasons and one other
that is by far the very essence
of the month: Halloween.
Everything about October
just screams ghosts and gob-
lins and witches.
ere is a pumpkin on
practically every doorstep,
and those who are particularly
huge fanatics of the holiday
even go as far as decorating
with spooky ghouls and ro-
botic monsters meant to scare
anyone who comes near.
It brings back many fond
memories of trick-or-treating
in homemade costumes and
stung myself with sugar un-
til I felt completely satised
and slightly sick to my stom-
ach.
Halloween is one of the
few holidays that hasnt lost
its magic as Ive gotten older.
Growing up and learning that
Santa Claus and the Easter
Bunny arent real changed the
holidays for me and made sure
that they were never quite the
same.
Halloween, however, is
still just as great and magical
as ever. I can now watch scary
movies that I wasnt allowed
to watch as a kid (even though
Im still just as scared of them
as I used to be). I can still eat
candy until I feel sick and I
can still dress up in a costume
and I dont feel like I am too
old for it.
Adult beverages denitely
enhance the experience as an
adult celebrating the holiday,
but the childhood spirit is still
fully there.
Its not one of those holidays
that people dread because they
have to drag themselves home
to spend tons of not-so-antic-
ipated time with their family.
Its not one of those holidays,
like Christmas, that loses its
spark until you have children
of your own to rekindle it. It is
certainly not one of those holi-
days that you cannot celebrate
unless you have a sweetheart.
Halloween makes me feel
like a child again.
I get to dress up as what-
ever my heart desires (though
for most women now involves
a little less fabric than it used
to), and I still have to explain
to everyone what I am sup-
posed to be as I eat myself into
a sugar-induced coma.
Going to the pumpkin
patch and picking out a pump-
kin with the smell of hay in the
air still brings as much enjoy-
ment as ever.
As if Halloween night it-
self wasnt great enough, the
weeks leading up to it make
October that much better. For
me, it is lled with late-nights
spent watching scary and often
horrible movies that perhaps
should have never made it to
the big screen in the rst place.
A few of the recently
watched greats are Trick-or-
Treat, My Bloody Valentine
3D and e ing. No mat-
ter how terrible or scary the
movie, I am much more likely
to watch it during October
than I am throughout the rest
of the year.
e spirit of the holi-
day helps me overcome the
scared-y cat in me and I am
able to watch movies I usually
wouldnt. (Sometimes I watch
only through my ngers, but I
watch them all the same).
As adults, not only can we
watch movies that we werent
allowed to as kids, but we can
do other things as well. Hal-
loween is almost improved by
getting older, which doesnt
happen with other holidays.
We are now able to sat-
isfy our need for adrenaline
thrills by going to the scariest
haunted houses in the state
and paying to practically pee
in our pants as we scream our
insides out.
We can also pay to go get
completely lost in a giant eld
of corn that has been cut into
a maze.
e weather, the movies,
the traditions, the spooky ob-
jects, the costumes and the
candy all make the month of
October my favorite of the en-
tire year.
To put it quite simply, the
month when the undead is
celebrated makes me happiest
to be alive.
Halloween just improves over time
To put it quite simply, the
month when the undead is
celebrated makes me the
happiest to be alive.
Jennifer Aldoretta
Entertainment Editor
Abhi Gukal
Second-year BMED
I dont really go there any-
more.
Jackie Hicks
Fifth-year MGT
Oh no! at was a staple in
my freshman year diet.
Andy Bardagjy
Fifth-year ECE
It deeply saddens me.
Tamara johnson
Fourth-year BIO
Its shutting down a bit of
nostalgia from freshman
year.
What do you think about
Wingnuts moving?
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For those of you unaware of
what it is, Net Neutrality is the
current debate raging between
Internet Service Providers and
online businesses and organi-
zations. Recently the Federal
Communications Commision
(FCC) and the Obama admin-
stration have weighed in on the
side of online businesses and
organizations. More recently,
Fox News and Glen Beck have
weighed in on someones side,
I am just not sure whose.
Normally it would be
against my moral code to pro-
vide one more article to Mr.
Becks Google searches, but
in this case, due to the ob-
scure nature of the debate he
is warping, I will accept the
karmic reduction and forge
ahead. Neutral internet is the
system that we have now. End-
users, meaning us, the citi-
zenry, pay a rate per month for
a certain speed of connection.
If you pay 30 dollars, you can
get videos and text faster than
the people who pay 15 dollars
a month. e news from the
AJC will get to you at about
the same download speed as
the news from us, and Skype
will load at the same speed as
MSN messenger.
Internet service providers
have gured something out
though. With the many in-
novations in internet speed
and bandwidth, they can now
control the download speed
from dierent ISP addresses.
is means that the services
providers can walk up to rms
or organizations with online
content and demand payment
in exchange for priority in the
race for bandwidth.
Yes, the free market would
say that if the service providers
are going to charge companies
and organizations in order for
their content to download,
then they will only be able to
do so if online rms are will-
ing to pay. However, this is
not the issue of ISPs oering a
new service and waiting to see
how much rms are willing to
pay for it. In this debate, ISPs
are eectively threatening a
reduction in services rendered
should rms not comply, and
they are not even threatening
their clients, but instead their
business partners, the very
rms whose content drives
people to pay phone and cable
companies for internet each
month.
Legislation proposed to
regulate this new business plan
would place the FCC in charge
of regulating internet service,
much like it does radio or tele-
vision. is legislation would
state that while ISPs are more
than welcome to oer various
internet speeds, they cannot
peg content to certain speeds.
If an end-user has paid for
high-speed internet, all con-
tent available to that user on
the internet must be broadcast
at the same speed. Seems logi-
cal, right?
Unfortunately, not to some
people. According to the ISPs
and their current blond and
screaming mouthpiece, by
protecting the access to the in-
ternet that end users get, after
paying for that access, the Net
Neutrality bill will infringe
on rst amendment rights.
According to the coalition
against neutral access, the goal
of regulating access speed has
something to do with subsi-
dizing broadband access. is
could not be farther from the
truth.
By giving citizens the abil-
ity to download fringe orga-
nizations like e Christian
Coalition (which has come
out for Net Neutrality) at the
same rate they can download
information and content from
major corporations, the Net
Neutrality bill will protect
the free speech rights of those
smaller organizations. e step
from paying for preferential
bandwidth access to paying
to eliminate bandwidth access
for a content source is minis-
cule. Bandwidth is an end-sum
game, and by moving one con-
tent provider up in the line,
you will always move someone
else down, and ultimately, o
the list. As the internet has
been ruled a free-speech zone
of sorts, using preferential
business interests to reduce or
eliminate the access of not-for-
prots or small groups is and
would be censorship.
e stimulus bill money
that has gone out to support
broadband access has nothing
to do with net neutrality. at
is a separate issue dealing with
funds that were accepted by
the service providers to expand
end-user access to the internet
that they now wish to double
dip into.
As a closing note, please
understand that net neutral-
ity is a minor political issue
to most people, but as Tech
students, students who will
manage internet start-ups or
work for online publications or
blogs, it is one that will aect
all of our futures as end users
and business people. In order
to encourage a lively online
business culture with low bar-
riers to entry as well as protect
free speech, the neutral plat-
form of the internet must be
maintained.
Internet neutrality must be maintained
If an enduser has paid
for highspeed internet, all
content should be available
...at that same speed.
Emily Chambers
Editor-in-Chief
Photos by Joey Cerone
8 - October 23, 2009 - Technique OPINIONS
Alumni enrich the experiences of
students who reach out to them
When I was a senior in high
school faced with choosing a col-
lege, Tech did not become my top
choice until I attended the UGA
vs. Tech game in Bobby Dodd
Stadium. My mind was easily
made up as I left. is was not
because Tech won, but rather be-
cause of my interaction with the
people at the game.
As I observed the Tech alumni
in their white and gold, cheering
for their team with heart and en-
ergy, treating others with respect
and exuding a sense of pride in
their school, I knew I had identi-
ed a group I wanted to join. ey
were the peers I hoped to have in
the future. It is this sense of pride
I wanted to have for myself as I
graduated.
Ambassadors is a student orga-
nization run through the Alumni
Association. Part of our responsi-
bility is to represent the student
body to alumni, faculty, sta and
visitors. We want to promote Tech
for what it is today, better under-
stand where is has been and part-
ner with current initiatives to cre-
ate a better and brighter future for
the institution.
rough Ambassadors, I have
had a variety of interaction with
alumni and have been given a
multitude of lessons from the
alumni and their perspective on
Tech. I think that the opportunity
for partnership between Alumni
and students starts while we are
students.
ey are able to communicate
Techs past while we as students
are able to describe the present
and how we can work toward
shaping the future together.
at perspective of the past is
often the crucial link we miss as
current students. ere is a mind-
set that alumni-relations are only
for when you graduate.
e reality is that building
partnerships today enhances our
time here. Seeing Tech through
their eyes opens our eyes to op-
portunities for impact.
e alumni discuss the devel-
opment of programs, ideas, values
and organizations that have made
a lasting impression on the school.
Hearing these is motivating for
us to seek out chances to do the
same. e example alumni set for
us as students to life out while we
are here as well as after gradua-
tion.
Alumni relations dont have
to be as formal as they do in-
tentional. Alumni of Tech have
pride, class and prestige and are
looking to connect with students
today to nd those same traits.
rough the various interactions
with Alumni there is a chance to
nd the similarities across gender,
generation, discipline, aliation
and interest.
When we as students come
to appreciate the experiences of
Alumni, we can incorporate them
into our lives as students today.
Building on past experiences
gives us the chance to maintain
momentum in learning, tradition
and growth for the school.
ey are able to teach us to ap-
preciate what we have. ey are
the givers of the opportunities,
celebrating student successes and
searching for ways to support the
institution.
Alumni are seeking opportu-
nities to support students. Alumni
express an appreciation for the
school developed through the per-
spective of looking back. ey un-
derstand that the reputation of the
degree they hold lies in the hands
of students today. Alumni help
you see the value of your educa-
tion, even before you graduate.
Whether it is watching some-
ones face light up when you say
go Jackets, hearing about the
legendary drown proong or sing-
ing the ght song with someone
you dont know, the connection
between Tech graduates and stu-
dents is about nding common
ground.
I have begun to understand
that I am not just a yellow jacket
for four years but for my lifetime.
Seeing alumni interact at events,
ceremonies or just around campus
there is a sense of family among
them. ere are few schools with
a bond that has the depth like
the white and gold. ere is an
instant connection you will have
with anyone in the Tech commu-
nity.
is loyalty unies people
around the world. Interacting
with alumni gives you the chance
to develop that sense of ownership
and belonging, as well as see Tech
through their eyes.
OUR VIEWS HOT OR NOT
VT victory
Tech had what will inevi-
tably turn out to be a legend-
ary Homecoming victory last
weekend against VT. Not only
did we beat a top ve team at
home for the rst time in ve
years, but we managed to do it
in the presence of all the alum-
ni in town for homecoming,
and we used the opportunity
to fulll the Tech tradition of
taking down the goalposts in
our excitement.
HOT
or
NOT
Alumni relations dont have to be
as formal as they do intentional.
Alumni... are looking to connect
with students.
Emily Jackson
President of GT Ambassadors
T-Square fail
T-square downtime has
yet again plagued the lives of
students this week. While it
is always frustrating when T-
Square decides not to work,
now that it is midterm sea-
son, it causes altogether panic
across the student population.
While the occasional hour or
two of outage is understood,
days of T-Square failure is
completely unacceptable on all
fronts.
Trolly at Publix
For Tech students who de-
pend on the Trolly to get gro-
ceries, it was always a point
of frustration that the closest
stop was at the MARTA, even
though the route passes right
by Publix. Needless to say,
much celebration followed the
announcement that a stop will
added at Publix. Now we will
only have to drag our groceries
to the curb instead of all the
way down the block.
Goalpost injuries
While we are all for tradi-
tion, it is never fun when peo-
ple get injured and trampled in
the process. With thousands
of industrial engineers in the
mob, we should have at least
been able to carry o lowering
goalposts and creating a ow
of activity out of the stadium
without injuring students in
the process. We hope that ev-
eryone who was a casualty sta-
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Friday,
October 23, 2009
OIT Security panel
oers social networking
safety tips
By Chris Russell
Sta Writer
Big Brother is watching, and
your little sister, Aunt Sally,
too. And probably somewhere
around 300 of your clos-
est friends, come to
think of it.
No wa d a y s ,
the idea of
having your
name pop up
in a Google
search isnt
going to send
too many people
into a panic.
If anything, it
will most likely just
spark a contest to
see who can get
the most re-
sults with their
name. For most
students, the big-
gest concern they
have is making sure
Mom doesnt see
that picture from last
Friday night.
OIT, together with
the Georgia Tech In-
formation Security
Center and Oce of
Student Aairs, is host-
ing a panel-discussion
on the potential risks
students unknowingly
face when using social
media sites.
e panel will take
place in the Klaus Atrium
between 8:30 a.m. and 11
a.m. on Oct. 29.
According to Richard
Biever, Policy and Compli-
ance Manager for the Informa-
tion Security division of OIT,
sites like Facebook, Twitter and
MySpace pose no threat to stu-
dents when used correctly, but do
have the potential to cause harm if
left unprotected.
Biever said, We recognize
that a lot of folks are into social
networkingFacebook, Twitter,
Flickr[but] there are a couple
of issues here. One is your privacy
online, and folks understanding
that once they put information
out online, it might not be theirs
to control anymore.
Another is the whole relation-
ship with employment and the
fact that employers are checking
all [these sites] now. e third gets
into more the criminal aspect; you
have to be very careful what you
do, because [the same action] in
dierent states could have dier-
ent repercussions, Biever said.
According to Biever, these risks
can carry heavy implications. He
cites the recent case of a Tennes-
see woman convicted of violating
a restraining order for sending a
Poke via Facebook.
With laws always changing,
its incredibly important that stu-
dents exercise a bit of common
sense online.
ats not to say that the other
two arent important, though.
Dale Meyers, Systems Support
Specialist at OIT and one of the
panelists for the event, says that
the privacy implications of social
networking deserve more atten-
tion than most are giving them.
Meyers said, ere really is
no way of avoiding privacy issues
these days, but [you can protect
yourself ] by taking steps to look
at all the settings available, and
making sure that your computer
is completely up to date, has active
and up-to-date antivirus software,
and has secure passwords.
According to Meyers the same
attitude should be taken towards
any and all information posted
online. No homeowners would
post a sign in their front yard,
declaring that a family vacation
will result in the home being left
unwatched for a week, yet Meyers
says this is exactly what many are
doing on social networks.
Meyers said, Posting status
updates that reveal your loca-
tion are, I think, questionable
if you have the proper settings, I
dont think someone is going to go
burgle your house. But, if youve
got a wide-open prole, then, yes,
youve denitely got a problem.
Something that could be
equally as costly is the possibil-
ity of employers discovering un-
attering photos or information
about potential hires. Meyers says
that this, too, can be avoided eas-
ily enough, if users just took the
time to adjust a few preferences.
Meyers said, With employ-
ers also, weve seen a lot of talk
about potential employers looking
at Facebook, but, again, with the
proper settings, you can keep eyes
from seeing those thingsIts just
not a glorious process, and most
just dont want to go in there to
modify those settings. eres
nothing to prevent employers
from viewing the information,
collecting the information, and
keeping the information on re-
cordonce youve given that per-
son that knowledge, it aects the
entire interview process. While
they cant necessarily grade you
on that on paper, in their mind,
theyre already assessing you be-
fore theyve even gone through
the process of checking your true
candidacy.
Biever said that Tech frequent-
inkBig communities connect students with faculty
By Craig Tabita
Online Editor
A new housing option called
inkBig has allowed students
with a common interest to live to-
gether and participate in themed
faculty-led group activities. While
the program aims to enhance the
college experience for its partici-
pants, organizers hope as it grows
it may eventually be the cure for
faculty-student disconnect all
over campus.
e inkBig program was in-
troduced for this school year with
six living-learning communities
on topics ranging from Technol-
ogy and Outdoor Urban Adven-
tures to Humor and Innova-
tion. e communities meet once
a week, typically in a book club
or coee house type setting, and
there are monthly outings that de-
pending on the group can include
hikes, seminars, movies or com-
edy shows. e program lasts for
the fall and spring and students
pay $150 per semester to partici-
pate. ere are no grades and all
participation is voluntary.
About 200 students participate
in the program currently, accord-
ing to program organizer Dana
Hartley, director of Undergradu-
ate Academic Advising. She says
she hopes that number will double
next year and increase from there.
Itll depend on students
deciding they want to partici-
pate, but [the eventual goal is]
1000--enough students partici-
pating on campus to impact the
culture and improve faculty stu-
dent interaction, Hartley said.
e programs benets are ap-
parent to Christa Caesar, fourth-
year BME and a housing resident
advisor participating in a group
titled Human Alteration: How
Far is Too Far?. She was also a
resident advisor last year and sees
a dierence in her residents.
[e students in the program]
are so much more engaged and
they know each other. ey really
feel part of something bigger out-
side of classes, Caesar said.
Human Alteration is led
by Steve DeWeerth, a BME and
ECE professor, and the group dis-
cusses the societal, intellectual
and ethical aspects of integration
of human and machine, accord-
ing to its description. Its weekly
meeting is a Tuesday night book
club based on non-ction works
centered around human augmen-
tation; theyre currently reading
one called Citizen Cyborg: Why
Democratic Societies Must Respond
to the Redesigned Human of the
Future. ey also went to see the
lm Surrogates, which is based on
a future of isolated humans who
interact through robot surrogates,
and followed it with dinner and
discussion.
A second community, Humor
and Innovation, is exposing its
participants to various forms of
comedy and making connections
between humor and technical
pursuits. e programs leader is
Pete Ludovice, a CHBE profes-
sor who uses humor not only to
make lectures more interesting; he
is a stand-up comedian who per-
forms regularly at comedy venues
around Atlanta.
Participant Jessica Arnold,
second-year PSYC, enjoys being
able to spend time with people
who make her laugh and being
able to make them laugh, but also
hopes that developing her sense of
humor will have professional ap-
plications. I think [humor] helps
me because in psychology you
want people to be relaxed. If you
can talk to them in a relaxed way
and get them to laugh, that can be
really good therapy, she said.
eir Tuesday meeting was
an improv workshop taught by
Troy Halverson of the Relapse
eater. Guiding the students
through a warmup, the exercises
were intended to develop eec-
tive and believable interaction
between improv performers. But
!nl"ne
se!ur"ty
they might as
well have been a crash course in
being an eective communicator
in any environment: maintain eye
contact while speaking to some-
one; react to your partners state-
ments rather than repeatedly talk-
ing about yourself or changing
the subject; being too guarded out
of fear of saying the wrong thing
inhibits engaging and uid con-
versation; excessive hand gestures
can distract from your message.
Another community is called
Technology and Urban Outdoor
Adventure. Led by ECE profes-
sor Robert Butera, is described
its theme as outdoor recreation
activities that can take place in an
urban environment (i.e. within 10
miles of campus) with a subtheme
of an awareness of how nature
and man, via our urban develop-
ment, interact. His groups ac-
tivities have included a hike from
the Tech campus to the Tanyard
Creek park following the basin of
the Tanyard Creek and the under-
ground storm drain for Midtown
and Downtown Atlanta which
passes under Tech.
e LEGO Robotics and
Outreach community, led by
ECE professor Je Davis, is work-
ing towards hosting a robotics
Photos courtesy of Robert Butera and Je Davis
ThinkBig participants aim
to cure the faculty- student
disconnect on campus with
living-learning communities
and studies on specic topics
See Security, page 12
See Housing, page 11
Illustration by
Jarrett Skov
l0 - October 23, 2009 - Technique FOCUS
By Coby Lu
Contributing Writer
Techs College of Computing
received an additional $1.4 mil-
lion from the National Science
Foundation (NSF) for its Geor-
gia Computes! (GC) program to
extend the program for another
2 years. GC, which was origi-
nally funded through a three-year
long grant, is a statewide program
working under the Broaden-
ing Participation in Computing
(BPC) program to improve com-
puting education throughout all
levels of education (from primary
school to the undergraduate and
post grad levels).
Our main goal is to broaden
computer science education, said
Dr. Mark Guzdial Professor at the
College of Computing and princi-
pal investigator of GC.
GC also has a focus on re-
cruiting students typically un-
derrepresented in the computing
community. GC works to recruit
minorities, women and persons
with disabilities and develop an
interest in computer science (CS)
in them so that they will continue
an education in CS.
is is important because
computing technology surrounds
us all the time and the way it is
designed aects our day-to-day
lives. A more diverse workforce
can create computing applications
that better meet the needs of the
public, said Dr. Amy Bruckman,
associate professor at the College
of Computing and coprincipal in-
vestigator of GC.
GCs strategy is to improve the
overall quality of CS education.
ey run workshops and summer
programs at the middle and high
school levels to make experiences
with CS more interesting so stu-
dents want to explore CS further
at higher levels of education.
GC also works in high schools
to increase the number and qual-
ity of CS classes by training CS
teachers and improve the quality
of the curriculum taught in high
schools.
ere is evidence that the
people most hurt by a bad educa-
tion are those in a minority group,
because they are already question
Do I belong here? Do I belong
in this eld? and when things
are bad, they are most likely to
say oh I really dont belong here.
Were trying to make computer
education better and by doing so
broadening those who study it,
Guzdial said.
GC intends to use the $1.4
million to implement new pro-
grams. ey intend to set up more
online training for teachers as well
as improve the process of getting
online certication to teach Com-
puter Science.
We currently teach high
school teachers in summer pro-
grams and through workshops
during the year but if we can get
it online through webinars and
such it will be easier for them to
get training, said Guzdial.
ere will also be a big push to
track the progress of students.
One of the things NSF wants
to know is all of this working? Are
we actually making things better?
A teacher goes through the pro-
gram and you would hope that
they will be a better teacher and
more students will be interested
in CS but currently we dont have
any way of seeing if this is true,
said Guzdial.
Part of the plans for the next
two years is to go through the
University System of Georgias
schools and survey the students
in introductory CS courses to nd
out where if they took one of the
GC workshops from a teacher that
went through GC training.
GC also intends to use the
$1.4 million to continue their
existing programs which include
helping other universities around
the state start outreach programs.
e universities can then oer
summer programs to middle and
high school students in CC, teach
workshops to university faculty on
how to run these kinds of summer
camps, workshops with girl scouts
and YWCA and various programs
for training for high school teach-
ers.
Among the current programs
is a project called Glitch. Glitch
targets African-American teenage
males, who, while usually display-
ing an interest in video games and
sports games, typically do not
pursue a career in computer sci-
ence. Glitch attempts to leverage
the passion of video games to an
interest in CS.
Glitch provides the opportuni-
ty for these young men to work as
video game testers and write bug
reports for companies. e work
with video games is integrated
with introductory CS and over
time participants are prepared for
an education in CS as opposed to
simple video game testing.
GC received its initial three-
year grant in 2006. At the end of
the next two years, GC can apply
for yet another extension to sup-
port the program for another 5
years. If GC gets this money, they
intend to expand the program to
other close by states.
CoC receives $1.4 million from NSF for outreach program
Photo by Ben Keyserling/ Student Publications
The College of Computing received $1.4 million from the National
Science Foundation for the Georgia Computes! outreach program
Technique - October 23, 2009 - 11 FOCUS
www.nique.net
sliver
3057 has a teaching quality that should be acceptable only at
UGA.
Invite me to a DR and I will not have fun so I will drink all of
your expensive beer and eat all of your food and leave a mess and
not clean up even if you tell me to.
haha, new southpark was awesome.
am I the only ree Days Grace fan on the planet?
WE ARE GONNA BEAT VT!!1!one !!! i hope.
Please stop robbing us at gunpoint, gangstas. Please?
a** get a life, your a bossy, servile, windbag
Im going to be RUNNING LIKE HELL on halloween...yay for
5Ks!
my pandora login info is saved on at least 10 computers in LWC.
I only listen to pandora when I pull all nighters. FML
I love everyone on the football team
even the guys who spray the Gatoraid bottles for the players on
the sidelines
GT RUBGY #1 in the state of Gerogia!
slivers are the only writing i have elarned to do here
beav, i want my spandex back
lanes legs are smoother than mine
No one cares about Beav and lane, so stop slivering about. e
only reason they did not get deleted is because we are lacking in
sliver content.
SPAM=DELETED SLIVERS
love
the sliver master
ats right Beaver, you just got voted o the island, remember
me?
wed = 18-24 hour days, boo!
foot powder reminds us of you. is that sad or cute?
i <3 homecoming, NOT!
to hell with georgia and their backwards ways
no one understands sports editors : (
we do have EPIC returns!
and we missed you guys too on our break
By Andrew Nelson
Contributing Writer
From high school to his third
year at Tech, as an AE, Jonathan
Walker has contributed to his
community in the name of sci-
ence, and his deeds have recently
been rewarded by a $10,000
scholarship from the Astronaut
Scholarship Foundation (ASF).
Astronaut Charlie Duke visit-
ed campus on Sept. 22 to present
Walker with the scholarship on
behalf of the Astronaut Scholar-
ship Foundation.
Since 1987, the Astronaut
Scholarship Foundation has
awarded scholarships to science
and engineering students exhibit-
ing leadership, creativity and ex-
cellence in their eld.
Walker has accomplished
just that, researching spacecraft
propulsion systems and tutoring
grade-school children through the
Center for Pan Asian Community
Services.
e center is a nonprot or-
ganization that contributes social
and health services to immigrants,
refugees and racial-ethnic minori-
ties in Georgia facing diculties.
He says that a ma-
jority of his students
and after-school
program partici-
pants are Hispanic,
Vietnamese,and Bur-
mese immigrants.
Walkers research
focuses on improving
eciency and speed
of propulsion systems
by accelerating ion-
ized gases that could
move the projectile
at speeds tens of ki-
lometers per second.
His current project
in this area is devel-
oping carbon nano-
tube cathodes, which
could obviate the use
of extremely hazard-
ous and limited, in the context
of spacecraft applications, chemi-
cals currently used in propulsion
systems and greatly improve e-
ciency.
Out of school, Walker tutors
and teaches a science-enrichment
after-school program for children
in middle and high schools. Meet-
ings are often based around a cool
science demonstration or hands-
on activity.
In one experiment, I put
enough rockets on a sled to ac-
celerate it to about 40mph, and I
gave the kids very simple materi-
als to protect an egg that is trans-
ported by the sled, Walker said,
I like doing things for the kids
that they wouldnt be able to do or
see otherwise because of the dis-
trict theyre in or their economic
Student awarded prestigious Astronaut Scholarship
status.
ough the State
of Georgia and other
private contributors
nance the general
tutoring, Walker
most often pays for
his after-school pro-
grams out of his own
pocket, which he is
happy to do in the
name of science edu-
cation.
Assistant Pro-
fessor of Aerospace
Engineering, Dr.
Mitchell Walker,
who also heads the
High-Power Electric
Propulsion Labora-
tory where Jonathan
Walker works on
research, nominated him for the
scholarship.
For the future, Walker is in-
terested in NASA, and with the
Space Shuttle Program phasing
out by 2010 and the Constellation
program taking over, preference
for military-trained astronauts
has decreased as openings for ci-
vilian engineers and scientists has
increased.
In fact, only four of the eight
crew members of the last manned
mission were current or former
members of the military.
With a larger window open-
ing for him, Walker feels that he
could be on a space program crew
in the future.
You see actors as astronauts on
television, and you think theyre
really cool and wish you could be
like them, but at the end of the
day theyre just actors. But then I
met Charlie Duke (a former astro-
naut who walked on the moon),
whos the real deal and furthered
space exploration, and there was
just no way to describe that kind
of experience, Walker said.
Should NASA not be his call-
ing, he would consider working
for private spacecraft technology
companies like SpaceX.
Walker plans to start on his
masters degree next year at Tech
and eventually work on a doctor-
ate. He hopes to continue work-
ing in the same lab, working on
his propulsion system projects,
but with his masters and doctor-
ate programs, he looks forward to
learning and seeing what its like
working in a lab everyday.
competition for middle school
students in January. In the com-
petition, which will take place on
a playing eld the group has built,
competitors will have to clear a
variety of mines from the course
while leaving decoys untouched.
inkBig also took in the ex-
isting International House and the
Women, Science and Technology
communities. e I-House, led
by INTA professor Kirk Bowman,
gives its participants an opportu-
nity to experience international
lm, books, culture, and food.
Women, Science and Technol-
ogy (WST) is led by LCC profes-
sor Carol Colatrella and describes
its focus as personal and profes-
sional issues for women students
entering scientic and technologi-
cal elds.
[Becoming part of inkBig]
has not been a dramatic change
for the I-House, Bowman said.
e inkBig directors indeed
used the I-House as a model, and
have been nothing but inclusive
and supportive of the I-House.
Living-learning communi-
ties are widespread at universities
around the country. According
to Hartley, Techs implementa-
tion has two major distinctions
from others. One is that while
other universities programs cater
to freshmen, inkBig targets
sophomores and above since Tech
already has the Freshman Expe-
rience program. is may have a
negative eect on signups.
A lot of students [who are
sophomores and up] already have
friends they want to live with,
Hartley said. Even though they
might be interested in a com-
munity, living with their friends
might come rst. So how can we
intertwine people living with their
friends and these communities?
She said one possible answer is
dedicating a tower of North Av-
enue Apartments to inkBig.
Another dierence between
Techs implementation and that
of other universities is that fac-
ulty, whose salary pays them nine
months of the year, receive an
additional months pay for par-
ticipating in the program. Hartley
said this is one reason Tech has a
high level of faculty participation
compared to other schools, where
participation is often voluntary.
[e pay] is a stamp of Yes,
this matters to Georgia Tech...
We engage faculty at a level that
other campuses cant, she said.
As a new program, the program
is working on building awareness
among students. Hartley said that
last year more proposals from fac-
ulty came in than were able to be
accommodated, and fewer stu-
dents applied than she would have
liked. But she cited the I-House
and WST as living-learning com-
munities that started small and
now have to turn away applicants
due to lack of space.
Signing up for inkBig is part
of the spring housing registration
process. It will not be known un-
til spring which programs will be
available, but Hartley has invited
students to contact her with sug-
gestions for faculty members who
might make good community
leaders.
Photo by Michael James / Student Publications
Astronaut Charlie Duke awarded Jonathan Walker
with the $10,000 Astronaut Scholarship on Sept. 22
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dents, asking that they take down
old sites of theirs with embarrass-
ing photos or content.
Mustaque Ahamad, Director
of the Georgia Tech Information
Security Center, agrees that its
important for students to keep
track of who has access to what
information to prevent any access
to unwanted information.
Ahamad said, Once info is
out, its out, and theres no way to
get it back.
Bievers points out that, despite
tending to be more tech savvy,
having grown up with the Inter-
net, younger people are less both-
ered by having large amounts of
personal information available
online.
Ahamad said that students
aside from being okay with in-
formation available, the current
generation actually further the
availability.
Ahamad said, I think young-
er people are more eager to share
more information about them-
selves and their friends than pre-
vious generations.
Despite the risks, both Meyers
and Biever agree that social net-
works are incredibly useful tools,
and dont want to scare people o
from them.
Meyers said, eres a lot of
good in these social networks,
[and] I dont want to discourage
people from using them, because
theyve got a really good founda-
tion, and do add a great aspect of
networking with colleagues that
weve never had before.
Ahamad said, I think we need
to do our part to stay safe in cy-
berspace the same way we exercise
caution in the real world.
We need to keep in mind that
there are very serious threats out
there. Use caution and be smart
about it. In the online world, ev-
erything may not be what it ap-
pears.
Biever oers the same advice.
Biever said, eres a saying
in the security world: Trust but
verify. Its the same situation with
social networks.
Six panelists are lined up for
the event, representing several dif-
ferent ways of approaching the is-
sue. Shelley Hildebrand, senior at-
torney for Tech, will represent the
legal aspects of social media and
the risks and liabilities thereof.
From the professional view-
point, Paul Judge of Purewire and
Chris Rouland of Endgame Sys-
tems will be giving the industry
perspective.
As mentioned before, Meyers
of OIT will be at the discussion,
and Ralph Mobley, Director of
Career Services, and Kapil Singh,
a PhD student in the College of
Computing, will also be repre-
senting Tech.
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Entertainment
entertainment@nique.net
Entertainment Editor:
Jennifer Aldoretta
Assistant Entertainment Editor:
Richard Otis
Technique
13
Friday,
October 23, 2009
By Richard Otis
Assistant Entertainment Editor
Last Friday an old Homecom-
ing concert tradition was brought
back to life with ird Eye Blind
supported by the Nashville-based
Hot Chelle Rae at the Burger
Bowl.
Fresh from the release of their
rst studio album in six years,
Ursa Major, the three-piece alter-
native rock band from San Fran-
cisco has been on tour promoting
the album as a comeback from the
lukewarm reception their last al-
bum received in 2003.
Several hundred turned out
Photos by Kelvin Kuo/ Student Publications
Third Eye Blind paired with Hot Chelle Rae at the Burger Bowl last Friday for a concert that made
memories of our favorite 90s hits to come ooding back. They played new songs and old favorites.
for the event, which, despite the
threat of rain, went o without
any major weather problems. e
night was chilly but manageable
with the appropriate attire. e
ground, while damp, avoided the
outright muddiness that could
have turned the concert into a
mess.
On a subtle note, credit goes to
the concert organizers and stage
crew for keeping the sound levels
from the speakers at a reasonable
level. Far too many venues con-
fuse the volume knob for the
awesome knob, with the victim
being peoples hearing. Rock con-
certs dont have to be loud to be
great, especially with a talented
group like ird Eye Blind.
Opening act Hot Chelle Rae
did an admirable job of warming
up the crowd. ey werent re-
ally anything particularly special,
but they werent bad either. ey
sounded like the kind of band that
rock music fans would not mind
having on in the background.
eir music was well performed,
well played and completely forget-
table. e crowd mostly seemed
interested in getting the headlin-
ers on stage anyway. After an hour
plus some additional setup time,
ird Eye Blind was ready to per-
form.
Lead singer Stephan Jenkins
went so far as to announce early
on, I love it when you sing along.
Were all in the band tonight.
Sorry Stephan, but if were all
in the band, then the average
talent level of a ird Eye Blind
band member just went into the
toilet. e price of admission was
to hear you, not to nd out which
twelve of my fellow classmates can
scream I would understand! the
loudest. For the record, it was a tie
between everybody.
at guy, also apparently in
attendance, was the one that felt
the need to remind Jenkins and
the rest of the band between ev-
ery song to Play Jumper! Play
Jumper! until they mercifully
did. anks, that guy, for re-
minding them. Im sure they were
planning on skipping one of the
perennial songs of the 90s until
you heroically stepped in.
Jonzes Wild ings vision strays from innocence
Third Eye Blind reminisces with 90s pop hits
By Patricia Uceda
Contributing Writer
Where the Wild ings Are is a
movie based on the classic chil-
drens picture book of the same
name by Maurice Sendak.
e book is short, running
only 338 words, and tells the story
of a young boy named Max with
an overactive imagination who
loves being wild and adventurous.
One night he goes too far and
his mother sends him to his room
with no dinner. ere he allows
his imagination to roam free, and
imagines he travels by boat to a
far o island where he meets wild
things who make him their king.
He eventually misses his mother
and travels back to his room,
where he nds dinner waiting.
e movie is a bit dierent.
While it does have the boisterous
young boy Max, played by Max
Records and his frazzled mother
played by Catherine Keener, his
problems seem to run deeper than
just a young boy being too ram-
bunctious. His sporadic mood
swings from happiness to sad-
ness to fury make it appear that
he needs some real therapy. ese
erratic mood shifts most likely
spring from feelings of neglect and
resentment toward his mother and
sister, who dont really pay much
attention to him.
His mother is divorced and
single while his sister is indier-
ent to him. Maxs struggles early
in the movie with both of these
characters make it clear that this
is not a light-hearted childrens
movie, like most of the previews
portrayed. Instead it is one full of
childhood angst.
To escape from his problems at
home, Max sails away to an island
of monsters. ese wild things
themselves also have a lot of issues.
Unlike in the book, where they
are simply wild creatures, in Spike
Jonzes adaptation they come o
as whiny, with their own personal
issues and conicts amongst each
other. ey are constantly ght-
ing, and it gets tiresome as the
movie goes on.
Max is able to convince the
monsters to make him king in-
stead of consuming him. ey
look to him as someone who can
bring happiness to them, and are
upset when he cant. Max grows
tired of trying to control them
and misses his mother, so he jour-
neys back home.
While some parts are a bit slow
because of tedious conicts and
continuous outbursts of ghting,
it is interesting to note how this
alternate universe seems to par-
allel Maxs world at home. e
See Wild, page 15
See ird, page14
FILM
Where the Wild Things Are
GENRE: Adventure, Fantasy,
Family
STARRING: Max Records,
Pepita Emmerichs, James
Gandolfini and Paul Dano
DIRECTOR: Spike Jonze
RATING: PG
RELEASED: Oct. 16, 2009
OUR TAKE: !!!"!
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At least no one was clamoring
for Semi-Charmed Life because
no one can remember the actual
name of that song and Im sure it
would have been Doo doo doo!
Doo doo doo! all night long until
they played it. Clearly, ird Eye
Blinds penchant for catchy music
is a double-edged sword.
Crowd pandering is a big part
of being successful, and I recog-
nize that in this post-Bit Torrent
economy, showing people a good
time during live shows so they
buy your schwag is more impor-
tant than ever, but if its gotten to
the point where youre not even
singing whole verses of your most
popular songs because the crowds
already doing it, whats the dier-
ence between a ird Eye Blind
concert and a ash mob of ird
Eye Blind fans? $8, apparently.
Jenkins even showed o his
sense of humor with a musical in-
terlude of Nellys Ride wit Me.
Considering the crowd noticed
and still sung along, students ei-
ther have a highly developed sense
of irony or people will do any-
thing that a person on stage with a
band and microphone tells them.
ats not to say that it was a
bad show by any stretch. ird
Eye Blind is still ird Eye Blind,
and anyone who remembers lis-
tening to their 1997 self-titled
debut or even just tuned in to an
American radio station any time
in the late 90s will recall the
band with the distinctive singer
that produced catchy, classic hits
like Jumper, Narcolepsy and
Semi-Charmed Life.
at was the same caliber that
the campus was treated to last Fri-
day night. All the right notes were
struck both literally and meta-
phorically. Jenkins sounded just
as good as he did on ird Eye
Blinds studio albums ten years
ago. By any tangible measure it
was a great night for music and a
great night for the band.
Third from page 13
By Zheng Zheng
Sta Writer
Despite winning the Emmys in
the Outstanding Comedy Series
category three years in a row along
with a plethora of major presti-
gious awards for the show and its
cast members, NBCs 30 Rock is
one of the most underappreciated
programs on television (if ratings
are any indication).
e fourth season premiere
of 30 Rock, which aired last week
during its regularly scheduled
time (ursdays, 9:30 p.m.), con-
tinued the thankless eort of en-
tertaining while hoping one day
of receiving its deserved attention.
Traditionally, 30 Rock has al-
ways fallen under the shadows of
that other, more popular urs-
day night comedy series, e Of-
ce, which comes on in the time
slot right beforehand on NBC. In
fact, many speculations led to be-
lieve that the shows original fans
were those who left the television
on for too long after watching
Steve Carrells 30 minutes of mis-
chief.
However, the simple truth is
that the show is more than just a
closing act. It is a great comedy se-
ries perfectly capable of standing
on its own and earning the recog-
nition that it rightfully deserves
from viewers.
Created by and starring Tina
Fey, 30 Rock is grounded comi-
cally in the tradition of Saturday
Night Live (SNL) as the show is
produced by SNL executive pro-
ducer and entertainment giant
Lorne Michaels and stars SNL
favorites like Alec Baldwin and
Tracy Morgan.
Furthermore, the stories re-
volve around the cast and crew
of a televised sketch comedy pro-
gram, e Girlie Show, and the
shows head writer, Liz Lemon
(Tina Fey). Because the show so
shamelessly hearkens back to Feys
own days as SNLs head writer,
the show often contains political
remarks as well as reference to
pop-culture in order to enhance
the shows humor value.
e unique humor is notice-
ably dierent from that of other
comedy series, which could ac-
count for both of the shows lack
of a substantial audience and its
critical acclaim.
Rather than over-the-top slap-
stick humor often found within
many contemporary comedy pro-
grams, it takes a relatively subtle
approach in achieving smart and
relevant comedy.
Instead of ridiculing stupid-
ity or absurdity in a way that is
condescending to the shows au-
dience, the tales are instead in-
spired by the ironies in life, love,
and friendships. As a result, the
characters are laughable but not
looked down upon by the audi-
ence as they are very relatable.
However, the shows quick wit
can be easily missed as most of
the humor takes more work than
just that cursory rst glance to
fully understand. is has proven
unpopular with todays audience
who seems to be solely interested
in instant gratication when it
comes to their comedy.
What they fail to realize is
whereas those great one-liners
will quickly fade away from their
Underrated comedy found in 30 Rock
TELEVISION
30 Rock
NETWORK: NBC
WHEN: Thursdays @ 9:30
p.m.
GENRE: Comedy
STARRING: Tina Fey, Alec
Baldwin and Tracy Morgan
OUR TAKE: !!!!!
Image courtesy of NBC Studios
memories, clever insightful re-
marks will last much longer and
be much more impactful.
If the other comedies series out
there are popular fast food chains,
it is a fresh home-cooked meal.
While it may take much longer to
prepare, it is always dierent and
much more substantial in the end.
Overall, the unique style of the
show, not found much elsewhere
in todays televised comedy shows,
is both its greatest strength and
weakness.
It is a fantastic comedy series,
one that is severely undervalued
and denitely recommended to
those who can indulge themselves
in clever jokes rather than hu-
mor inspired from absurdity and
chaos.
Even so, for those others who
think that they prefer more popu-
lar forms of entertainment, 30
Rock might just change their
mind and introduce them to a dif-
ferent style of slow-cooked, avor-
ful comedy.
Technique - October 23, 2009 - 15 ENTERTAINMENT
The economy sucks.
Free pizza rations on Tuesdays.
7 p.m., Flag 137, Technique
By Chris Ernst
Sta Writer
Singer-songwriter Colbie Cail-
lat played at the Variety Playhouse
on Oct. 19, with opening acts
Trevor Hall and Howie Day.
It seemed the crowd was mostly
thirty-something women and the
people who love them. Caillats
music is not specic to the female
experience, but it denitely speaks
to women more than men.
Trevor Halls half-baked
dreadlocks and aected speech are
only appreciable in a small niche.
He never musically did anything
particularly interesting. e
sound of his music is rather bland
and unoriginal. He plays acoustic,
island-inspired music prolic in
tropical areas. His voice is surpris-
ingly good, albeit limited. What
he can do he does well, but there is
not much that he can do.
Howie Day was second on
stage. He too plays pretty bland
acoustic music, but he is very
aware of his medium, which he
exploits very well. He played an
electric acoustic guitar, which he
knows is dierent than an acous-
tic guitar. He played with the
electric part of the guitar by hit-
ting the guitar itself in dierent
places to make a drum-like sound.
Just by making loops with the
guitar, he can make music beyond
what a regular acoustic guitar can.
He recorded short loops of him
playing and banging on his guitar
and layered them.
is was very entertaining and
it was really neat to be able to see
him record a brand new song, live,
and hear the nal product. He
used the electric acoustic guitar
and the speaker system to record
and play a song that would oth-
erwise not exist. It was a cool art
moment.
Caillat did not immediately
come out on stage and instead let
her band play around for a while
rst. is was a very pronounced
characteristic of her show; she did
almost anything to distract the
audience from herself.
She included her band as much
as possible into the act so she
could hide. During instrumental
breaks, which were very long, she
would wander around the stage
and almost physically hide behind
her band.
She said she used to hate per-
forming, but now she loves it and
looks forward to each concert.
She does not seem to genuinely
enjoy herself very much, though.
Whenever she was not specically
talking to the audience or react-
ing to something unpredictable,
her entire presence seemed forced.
Even the heartfelt confessions all
were somehow strained. She never
really seemed to mean much of
what she said.
She also seemed uncomfort-
able with what she was wearing.
She acted like she usually wears
casual, comfortable clothes with-
out makeup. She seemed dolled-
up and not really representing her
personal style. Her uncomfort-
ableness in her clothes, coupled
with her awkwardness made her
whole performance seem surpris-
ingly long. Her movements and
dancing seemed practiced and
routine, and her banter with band
mates seemed tired, all leaving
that something special to be de-
sired.
e audience wants a unique
experience, but instead was
served an iteration of a show well-
planned and heartlessly executed.
Whenever she was in the spot-
light, she never really came out of
her shell. She always seemed to
be just a little too far away. She
failed to connect with the audi-
ence. Some audience members,
however, really wanted that con-
nection and would have been sat-
ised with anything. So unless the
audience met her more than half-
way, there was too great a distance
between Caillat and the audience
to really bring her across the foot-
lights.
She had a lot of trouble sing-
ing. She sang by listening and
blending. She was helped several
times by backup singers back onto
track. She was all over the place
and was most condent when she
was with the band (behind them,
really).
Caillat played guitar on one
song and ukulele on another.
Here, she excelled, and could have
easily hid her weak vocals and
stage presence with her playing
ability, rather than randomly ac-
centing her performance with a
brief respite of comfort. Behind
the wall of an instrument, Cail-
lat seemed to open up a bit more,
and it was disappointing when the
show ended after only two such
performances.
e real performer of this show
was Howie Day. He was solid mu-
sically and interesting personally.
He genuinely talked to the audi-
ence and gave them a unique ex-
perience. Colbie Caillat was shy
and reserved and is not a show-
man by any means.
monsters enjoy doing the same
things he does for fun, on a much
larger scale.
He enjoys building forts and
having snowball ghts, and on
the island they all decide to build
a huge fort together and also have
mud-clod ghts.
Some of their relationships
also mirror his at home, such as
the character of KW, voiced by
Lauren Ambrose, who is distanc-
ing herself from the group of wild
things in favor of new friends she
has made, much like his own sis-
ter back at home.
Additionally, each wild thing
seems to represent a part of Maxs
own personality, with Carol,
voiced by James Gandolni, being
Maxs own basic self without any
cultural restraints.
What makes up for this mov-
ies slow depressing moments are
its wonderful cinematography and
scenery, as well as the few mo-
ments of complete elation. ere
are several moments where he is
having so much fun that you cant
help but smile, such as when he is
throwing snowballs at his sister
and her friends, or when he and
the wild things are running wildly
through the woods.
Unfortunately, they are too
quickly followed by moments of
unhappiness and discord. Anoth-
er wonderful aspect of this movie
is the amazing sound track. All of
the songs were carefully chosen
by Jonze to accurately convey the
whimsical nature of childhood.
Overall, this movie does a de-
cent job of bringing Maurice Sen-
daks classic to life. e acting,
cinematography and sound track
are all commendable. Jonze is able
to accurately portray what child-
hood is, from the quick emotions
to tantrums to imagination.
Despite the marketing cam-
paign aimed towards young au-
diences, this movie is undeniably
more of an adult movie than a
childrens movie. Adults will be
able to use it as a means to reect
on their own childhoods, whereas
children will just be bored in its
depressing parts and scared in the
more frightening parts.
What bogs this movie down
are its tedious conicts and long
periods of staring that directors
often add to deepen the eect of
an emotional scene, but in the
case of this movie, it just makes it
more dull.
Wild from page 13
Caillat stays in shell at Variety concert
Photos by Joey Cerone/ Student Publications
Colbie Caillat performed at Variety Playhouse on Oct. 19. Her opening acts Howie Day and Trevor
Hall opened up, while Caillat never seemed to quite come out of her shell and open up to the crowd.
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THEME CROSSWORD: DONT MENTION IT
By Robert Zimmerman
United Features Syndicate
ACROSS
1. Pack
5. Red wine
10. Conspiracy
15. French cleric
19. Church part
20. Opera by Gioacchino Ros-
sini
21. Character created by 9
Down
22. Horses color
23. Start of a quip by anony-
mous: 6 wds.
27. Something mined
28. Sketch
29. Gypsy gentlemen
30. Fries
31. Appears gradually: 2 wds.
33. Soil deposit
34. Exhaust
35. In medias -
36. Attar
37. To form - - perfect union
39. New Deal org.
42. Part 2 of quip: 3 wds.
47. Vetoes
48. Talk
49. Privileged one
50. Well done!
51. Swirled
53. Nimbus
54. Word in a palindrome
55. George - Welles
57. Molding edge
58. Gawked
59. Moniker for a brain
61. Bangkok native
62. Awn
63. Part 3 of quip: 2 wds.
65. Part 4 of quip: 2 wds.
68. Separate out
71. Angers
73. Of a continent
77. Cloudless
78. - macabre
80. Wand
81. - -Magnon
82. Make unstable
83. Gloomy Gus
84. Kind of historian
DOWN
1. - - averages
2. La Scala presentation
3. Inquired
4. Hideout
5. Maudlin
6. Astronaut Buzz Aldrin
7. Doctors order
8. Turn - - dime
9. Charles Dodgson
10. Connes
11. City in Italy
12. Kind of player
13. Edict
14. Like the idle rich
15. Contend
16. Pull up by ones -
17. Bundle
18. Tips
24. Certain Georgian
25. Ocellus
26. Identies
32. White-tailed eagle
33. Kind of ne paper
34. Vulpine creatures
36. A tea
38. DI + DII
40. Manservant
41. Footless creatures
42. What fun!
43. Mata -
44. Regular
45. Fluorescent dye
46. Slangy armative
52. Outlines
53. Something sometimes split
55. Dierent
56. Check
58. Creaking sound
60. Cookout fare
61. Laconic
62. - -American
64. Plant also called teaberry
66. Neighboring
67. - -frutti
68. Young haddock
69. Unauthorized copy
70. Payment
72. Architect - Saarinen
74. Frosted
75. Bailiwick
76. Like busybodies
78. Moolah
79. Horseless carriage
80. Rail in a dance studio
83. Cost: 2 wds.
85. Carpet pile
87. Plant part
89. Lively: hyph.
90. Bottle up
91. - and true
97. Having a notched edge
99. Noblemen
100. Jeanne dArc, e.g.
85. Homophone for seize
86. Plastic - Band
87. Beast
88. Part 5 of quip: 2 wds.
92. Party mem.
93. Exactness
94. Crowbar
95. Stat in baseball
96. Relative of a pearl
98. Beau -
101. Clever remark
105. Savage
107. Grade
108. River in England
109. - Lilly and Co.
110. End of the quip: 7 wds.
115. Lip
116. e Little Mermaid
117. Sheets of stamps
118. Pome
119. Graphic representation of
lineage
120. ugs
121. Unmatched things
122. Gaelic
101. Down source
102. Direct
103. New name
104. Bishops headdress
105. Hand over -
106. River in the Tyrol
108. English queen
111. Spanish gold
112. Story of a kind, for
short
113. Form of John
114. Unclose: archaic
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NON SEQUITUR BY WILEY PILED HIGHER & DEEPER BY JORGE CHAM
CROSSWORD SOLUTION FROM PAGE 21
Technique - October 23, 2009 - 19 COMICS
DILBERT BY SCOTT ADAMS NON SEQUITUR BY WILEY
Technique - October 23, 2009 - 2l SPORTS
www.nique.net
sliver
ethicspoint
holy christ, still no archives.
xoxo Gossip Girl
up with the white and gold
god a** get a life you are such a bosy buisybody
Why are so many venues 21+!! Im gonna try to get in anyway.
Its worth it.
y that little girl on the windows 7 commercials cant be black? y
the smart girl gotta be asian??
i wish people would actually stop by the CRC during swim meets,
maybe then we would have as many spectators as the away teams
say anything is a joke band right? i hate everybody come on
but then again I thought 3dg pain was a parody at rst too,
oops
Dear GTPD. Do your job. Campus is safe, homepark is not
How many Tech grads does it take to get police in homepark?
Answer: 1. e one that nally gets killed
12 Muggings since summer in homepark. You decide.
cloudman is the best dorm ever
Chels, I dont know who you are, but THANKS for the amazing
music via sharing on iTunes.
tech must not hire their own graduates to engineer their drainage
systems around campus because everywhere I walk in the rain is
one giant puddle
Sean K is so mean
he laughs and doesnt share the joy
cold pizza is gross
but he is an honorary memmber of the nique sta
even though this pokemon quiz score is 4
Brittain needs a smoking section, so i can get my smoke one while
i get my coke on.
Im having withdrawal sympotoms!! I miss the Technique!!
Why is the Ramblin Reck Parade so early? e game isnt until
6 PM!!
so now we get both a weekly email and a daily email from tech??
as if they didnt spam us enough already...
Sta Picks
Prasadh
(67-61)
Cappetta
(70-58)
Homan
(67-61)
Lee
(64-64)
Sta
(71-57)
#1 Florida (-24.5) vs. Mississippi State UF UF UF UF MSU
#2 Alabama (-17) vs. Tennessee UA UA Tenn. Tenn. Tenn.
#3 Texas (-16.5) vs. Missouri Mizzou Mizzou Mizzou Mizzou Mizzou
#4 Boise State (-24) vs. Hawaii BSU BSU Hawaii BSU BSU
Louisville vs. #5 Cincinnati (-17) Cinn. Cinn. UL UL Cinn.
#6 Iowa vs. Michigan State (pick em) Iowa Iowa Iowa Iowa Iowa
Oregon State vs. #7 USC (-20) USC Ore. St. Ore. St. Ore. St. USC
#8 TCU vs. #16 BYU (pick em) TCU BYU BYU TCU BYU
Auburn vs. #9 LSU (-10.5) LSU LSU LSU AU LSU
Clemson vs. #10 Miami (-7.5) Miami Clem. Clem. Miami Clem.
#11 Oregon (-5.5) vs. Washington UW Ore. UW UW UW
#13 Penn State (-4) vs. Michigan UM Penn St. UM UM UM
#15 Oklahoma State (-10.5) vs. Baylor OSU OSU OSU OSU OSU
SMU vs. #17 Houston (-17) Hou. Hou. SMU Hou. Hou.
Air Force vs. #18 Utah (-8) Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah
Minnesota vs. #19 Ohio State (-17) Minn. Minn. Minn. Minn. Minn.
South Florida vs. #20 Pittsburgh (-7) USF Pitt. USF Pitt. Pitt.
UCLA vs. #22 Arizona (-8) Ariz. Ariz. UCLA Ariz. Ariz.
Connecticut vs. #23 West Virginia (-7) WVU UConn WVU UConn UConn
Vanderbilt vs. #24 South Carolina (-13) SC Vandy SC SC SC
Oklahoma (-7.5) vs. #25 Kansas OU KU OU KU OU
Oct. 24
* Starting this week, the BCS rankings will be used in place of the AP poll rankings.
Virginia Tech then closed out
the match, stringing together sev-
eral brief runs and winning the
nal ve points to take the set
25-11.
e Jackets struggled oen-
sively. Tech had 21 attack errors
and hit .098 as a team. Hunter
and Mead each had 10 kills, but
only one other playersenior out-
side hitter Chrissy DeMichelis
had more than two.
e next day in Charlottesville,
the Jackets fared better in a four-
set victory. Mead had a kill and
two service aces in the early going,
and the Jackets built an early lead
and took the rst set 25-17.
e second set went back
and forth, but Virginia prevailed
25-20 to tie the match. Tech re-
sponded quickly, as DeMichelis
and Hunter combined for nine
kills in Techs 25-15 victory.
e Jackets prevented the
Cavaliers from taking the lead in
the nal set, and DeMichelis reg-
istered 10 kills in the set as Tech
won 25-21 to clinch the match.
DeMichelis was the star for
Tech, with 20 kills and a .500 hit
percentage. She added three digs
and three solo blocks. Hunters
10-kill performance marked the
16th consecutive game in which
she had posted double-digit kills.
Junior setter Mary Ashley Tippins
had a double-double as she record-
ed 49 assists and 12 digs.
Volleyball from page 24 Option from page 24
Photo by 1arrett Skov / Student Publications
Anthony Allen dodges North Carolina defenders at Bobby Dodd
Stadium. Allen is third on the team with 373 rush yards this year.
Johnsons history would sug-
gest otherwise: after his slow start
at Navy he averaged almost nine
wins a season while guiding the
team to ve straight bowl games.
e Jackets have built on the
success last season, and with the
development of junior quarter-
back Josh Nesbitt and junior wide
receiver Demaryius omas, op-
posing defenses now must also ac-
count for the deep pass. omas
leads the ACC in yards and yards
per catch; he has already matched
his 621-yard output in 2008 with
672 receiving yards this season.
Nesbitt has accumulated an
eciency rating that would rank
with the top 25 quarterbacks in
the nation if not for his limited
number of attempts. He has also
been more eective in the running
game, gaining more than 90 yards
rushing in all but two games this
year. As defenses scheme to shut
down junior B-back Jonathan
Dwyer, Nesbitt has taken advan-
tage and proven to be very eec-
tive as a runner and a distributor.
e rushing game has also
added running backs who have
provided oense weapons along
with Nesbitt and Dwyer. Junior
A-back Anthony Allen, a trans-
fer from Louisville, is on pace for
over 600 yards and is averaging
11.5 yards per carry.
In the recent historic wins
over Virginia Tech and Florida
State, the Jackets have scored a
combined 77 points and racked
up over 700 yards of rushing of-
fense. e oense has been as ef-
fective as ever this season, helping
to overcome a defense that carried
the team at times last year but has
struggled in 2009. Tech is cur-
rently 6-1 with the most dicult
part of its schedule already com-
plete. If the Jackets were to win
four of their last ve games, they
would have just their fth double-
digit win since 1956.
22 - October 23, 2009 - Technique SPORTS
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sliver
vodafone
I need a job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Im in that thang like a Nuva Ring
mf...you whore...get your hands o my sliver
hey squirrels...mf is an evil person
mf you are more miserable than russel brand AND katy perry
COMBINED
clough learning center
bear sh
If you answered yes to any of these questions you may be a wom-
an and/or teen
please stop robbing us, gangstas. love, the tech community
xoxoxo
e Team Buzz organizers care more about making college kids
wake up early than actually helping people in Atlanta -- starting
later than 8am would get a lot more participants.
RHA should get a real DJ next time they put on a party.
Why do I even bother with the 75 meal plan? eres no way Ill
ever use all those meals at this rate.
ACM LAN Party is where its at. 8/24
Tisto.
redheads ftw.
Momma gave me 15 apjacks this morning and i said mom-
ma take ve of those back i wanna stay HONGRY FOR THE
CRIMSON TIDE -Brett Farve
Dear guy in the CoC Commons playing an online game while
chatting to players via microphone, take your loud ass elsewhere,
no one cares.
Instead of checking out a girls chest or butt, now I check out
girls stomachs. If its coming out over your belt, sorry.
lightning! ja
Im sorry Rishi Kale. I cant do this anymore.
Nesbitt>>Ball
I think Josh Nesbitt wanted to win more than the whole FSU
team put together
losing to the Vols is sad.
Virginia Tech nally got on the
board with a 34-yard eld goal in
the second quarter. On the second
play of the Jackets ensuing drive,
Nesbitt hit omas for Techs
lone completion, a 51-yard strike
to reach the Hokies 13-yard line.
It wasnt supposed to go to
him...[but] I saw the 1-on-1, and
[I] knew he would come down
with it, Nesbitt said.
Five plays later, Nesbitt scored
on a quarterback sneak to give the
Jackets a 7-3 lead, and the score
remained that way at the half.
e Jackets only amassed 88
total yards of oense in the rst
half, but made adjustments at
halftime and were much more ef-
fective in the second half.
ey played the second half
the same way they played the rst.
We got the reads right and every-
one went in the right direction,
Johnson said.
ey did some things we
hadnt seen before...[but] Coach
Johnson put us in position to make
some blocks, and it worked, said
redshirt junior center Sean Bed-
ford, who was named ACC Line-
man of the Week.
On the Jackets opening drive
of the second half, big runs from
redshirt junior A-back Anthony
Allen and Nesbitt set up Nesbitts
second touchdown, a 1-yard keep-
er that put the Jackets up 14-3.
e defense stopped the Hok-
ies on a fourth-and-short situ-
ation, but the Jackets were un-
able to capitalize. Virginia Tech
intercepted a pass to sophomore
receiver Tyler Melton, and Hokie
running back Ryan Williams ran
66 yards untouched on the next
play to cut the lead to 14-10.
On the kicko, freshman A-
back Orwin Smith accidentally
knocked over sophomore A-back
Embry Peeples as both lined up to
catch the kicko, forcing Tech to
start from their own 14.
It was one of many special
teams problems for the Jackets.
ey struggled on kick coverage
as well, allowing 30 yards per re-
turn.
Its a mess....It almost cost us
the game, Johnson said.
Still, the Jackets sustained their
longest drive of the day, a 12-play,
86-yard march that took 6:28 o
the clock and ended with sopho-
more A-back Marcus Wrights 13-
yard touchdown run.
We had our backs against the
wall... and [Nesbitt] engineered
an 86-yard drive to take the mo-
mentum back, Johnson said.
After the defense forced a
three-and-out, the Jackets sus-
tained another 12-play drive, but
a Nesbitt pitch went o-target and
ended up in the Hokies posses-
sion. e Hokies capitalized, go-
ing 77 yards on six plays to score.
e failed conversion attempt left
the Jackets remained ahead 21-16.
e Jackets extended the lead
on the next drive. On a third-and-
seven from the Virginia Tech 39,
Nesbitt broke free on a keeper and
ran down the left sideline to score
his third touchdown of the day,
giving the Jackets a 28-16 lead.
Virginia Tech answered quick-
ly, with Taylor following the short
kicko by going four-for-four
passing and throwing a touch-
down to Williams to cut the lead
to 28-23. e Hokies attempted
an onside kick, but Jackets red-
shirt sophomore cornerback Jer-
rard Tarrant made a leaping catch.
e Hokies had used all three
of their time-outs on the Jackets
previous drive, so Nesbitt kneeled
three times to seal the victory.
With the win, the Jackets rose
to No. 11 in the AP poll and were
No. 12 in the initial BCS stand-
ings. e team also moved into a
three-way tie for second place in
the ACC Coastal Division with
Miami and Virginia Tech.
We know we already have a
loss, and I dont think you can
win [the Coastal Division] with
two...What we did tonight was
stay alive and put everyone else
back in it, Johnson said.
Football from page 24
Photo by Tlm Nowack / Student Publications
Second-year PTFE Kayla Murray of the Alpha Phi sorority was one of 50 racers in the Mini 500. e
winners were eta Xi (fraternity), Phi Mu (sorority), CCF (independent), and Towers (residence hall).
TINY TRADITIONS: MINI 500
Technique - October 23, 2009 - 23 SPORTS
After handing the Hokies their rst ACC loss last weekend in front of a capacity crowd at Bobby Dodd Stadium, the No. 12 Jackets look
to keep their ACC championship hopes alive as they travel to Charlottesville to take on the Cavaliers. Saturdays 28-23 win was the
rst time Tech defeated the Hokies at home since 1990, which was also the last year that the Jackets beat Virginia on the road.
e victory over Virginia Tech was big for the Jackets, establishing them as contenders for the ACC championship and perhaps a
BCS bid. e defense played fairly well, surpassing expectations after lackluster showings against Mississippi State and Florida
State the previous two weeks. Utilizing a simplied scheme and an eective pass rush, the Jackets forced four punts, grabbed
two interceptions and contained Hokie quarterback Tyrod Taylor enough to come away with a win.
e oense had a strong performance against Virginia Tech. Junior quarterback Josh Nesbitt went just 1-for-7 through the
air with an interception, but his one completion went for 51 yards. e ground game, Techs bread and butter, was increasingly
eective as the game went on and powered the team to victory. Nesbitt led the rushing category again for the Jackets, racking up
122 yards and three touchdowns. Junior B-back Jonathan Dwyer was next with 82 rushing yards, followed by redshirt junior A-
back Anthony Allen at 59 yards. Sophomore A-back Marcus Wright added a 13-yard touchdown run.
e biggest concern after last weeks game is the special teams unit. On kickos, the Hokies averaged 30 yards per return,
while Techs return team only averaged 15.7 yards. e punting game was also mediocre, as the Jackets averaged just 34.5 yards
per punt, but fortunately the Hokies only averaged 35 yards per punt. Still, Head Coach Paul Johnson highlighted special teams
particularly kick coverageas an area that needs improvement.
As they vie for the top position in the Coastal Division, Saturdays game will be crucial for the Jackets. e Cavaliers are 2-0
in the ACC and currently sit atop the division, while the Jackets (4-1 ACC) are tied for second with Miami and Virginia Tech. In
order to oust Virginia, the Jackets will need to continue to play as they did last week, relying on the ground game and getting big
stops from the defense. If those things happen, and the special teams perform better, the Jackets have a good chance to end their
Charlottesville losing streak and improve to 7-1 overall on the season.
Virginia hosts the No. 12 Jackets on Saturday with a chance to upset a top-15 team and gain control of the ACCs Coastal Division.
e Cavaliers have only played two conference games, but they are the only team undefeated in ACC play to date, so they control
their own destiny in the race for the Coastal Division title.
Last year, Virginia was the only team to beat Tech in Bobby Dodd Stadium. Cavalier quarterback Marc Verica threw for
270 yards and two touchdowns, and the Jackets had trouble stopping running back Cedric Peerman. e then-senior Peerman
nished the game with 118 rushing yards and a touchdown on 25 carries.
Virginia enters Saturdays game with momentum; the Cavaliers have rebounded from an 0-3 start to win three straight
games. e Cavaliers lost their rst three games by a combined score of 93-62, including a season-opening loss to FCS school
William & Mary. Since then, though, the team has rebounded to win its last three by a combined 83-19. e Cavaliers took
down North Carolina 16-3 on the road, rolled past Indiana 47-7 at home and topped Maryland 20-9 in College Park last week-
end to reach .500 on the season.
Virginia is led by left-handed senior quarterback Jameel Sewell, who missed all of last season due to an academic suspension.
Sewell showed signs of rust in his rst two games, but he threw for 300-plus yards against Southern Miss and Indiana. Sewell is
also a threat to run and has four rushing touchdowns this season. He left the game against Maryland with an ankle injury but
should be ready for Saturday.
Senior running back Mikell Simpson has performed well as the new starter. When Simpson has done well, Virginia has done
well; Simpson had a total of 64 yards in the three losses, but over his last two games he has rushed for 183 yards and ve scores.
Even with Virginias oensive success this season, their greatest asset has been their defense. Virginias defense is third in the
ACC with 18.7 points allowed per game and 293.8 total yards allowed per game, and the unit has held each of the teams last three
opponents to fewer than 10 points. e Cavaliers are led on defense by junior cornerback Ras-I Dowling. Dowling was a preseason
All-ACC selection and has improved from week to week. He had nine tackles, a sack and an interception against Indiana, and he is
third on the team in tackles with 31. Dowling also has a forced both a fumble and a fumble recovery this season.
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Assistant Sports Editor:
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Coastal Clash
The football team looks to tle for the
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October 23, 2009
Jackets win homecoming game over No. 4 Hokies
Photo by Kelvln Kuo / Student Publications
Josh Nesbitt breaks into the open eld en route to a fourth-quarter touchdown. For the second straight game, Nesbitt led the team
in rushing, picking up 122 yards on the ground and three touchdowns as the Jackets amassed 309 rushing yards in the 28-23 victory.
VT VANQUISHED
By Nishant Prasadh
Sports Editor
Tech football improved to
4-0 at home and avenged last
years early-season loss to Vir-
ginia Tech by defeating the
No. 4 Hokies 28-23 in Sat-
urdays homecoming game at
Bobby Dodd Stadium. It was
the Jackets rst win at home
over an opponent ranked in
the top ve of the national AP
poll since they defeated then-
No. 1 Alabama in 1962.
e game was expected to
20 games in, Techs triple option attack as eective as ever
be a shootout; instead, neither
team scored in the rst quar-
termarking the rst time
that had happened for both
in 2009and the Jackets
reached halftime ahead 7-3.
Both oenses picked up af-
ter halftime, and junior quar-
terback Josh Nesbitt led the
way for the Jackets. He gained
122 yards and three touch-
downs on 23 carries. Nesbitt
completed just one pass, but it
was a 51-yard strike to junior
receiver Demaryius omas
that set up a touchdown.
e defenses strong rst-
half performance was a sur-
prise. An improved pass rush
was key for the Jackets as they
made three stops in the rst
quarter and held the Hokies in
check early on.
I thought we had a good
plan and simplied it. We
didnt do a lot. e guys played
hard and ew to the ball...Ev-
erybody knew what they were
doing and showed up, said
Head Coach Paul Johnson.
e Hokies rst three
drives resulted in a punt, a
three-and-out and an intercep-
tion, the last of which came
when Jackets redshirt sopho-
more defensive tackle Jason
Peters tipped a pass at the line
and made a diving catch. On
the other hand, the oense
was ineective out of the gate.
e Jackets were victimized
by a missed pitch and a delay-
of-game penalty on their rst
oensive possession, and they
committed three consecutive
penalties on their second drive.
Volleyball splits
ACC games
versus Va. teams
By Steven Cappetta
Assistant Sports Editor
Techs volleyball team traveled to VA this
past weekend where it played in two ACC
matches, facing Virginia Tech on Friday
and Virginia on Saturday. After falling to
the Hokies 3-0 (28-26, 26-24, 25-11), the
Jackets topped the Cavaliers 3-1 (25-17, 20-
25, 25-15, 25-21).
In the match against Virginia Tech, the
Jackets went down in a swept but were com-
petitive in the rst two sets, forcing both
into extra points before falling.
Powered by ve kills from sophomore
outside hitter Bailey Hunter, the Jackets led
for much of the rst set before the Hokies
pulled ahead. e teams traded points be-
fore Virginia Tech took advantage of con-
secutive Jackets errors to take the set 28-26.
e second set saw the Jackets take the
rst six points and build an early lead. Back-
to-back kills by freshman rightside hitter
Monique Mead put the Jackets up 17-8, but
the host Hokies caught re and prevented
the Jackets from winning back-to-back
points again in the set. e Hokies won 18
of the nal 25 points and took the set 26-24.
Photo by 8lake |srael / Student Publications
Josh Nesbitt hands o to Jonathan Dwyer during Saturdays game
against Virginia Tech. The pair had 202 rush yards in the victory.
See Football, page 22
Photo by Kelvln Kuo / Student Publications
Bailey Hunter bumps the ball at OKeefe
Gym. Hunter leads the Jackets in total kills.
See Volleyball, page 21
By Hahnming Lee
Business Manager
e question asked when Paul
Johnson rst accepted the job to
coach Tech was, Will the triple-
option work at the highest level of
college football?
With a record of 15-5 after 20
games, the top oense in the ACC
and No. 12 oense in the country,
the answer so far has been that it
will work. e speed of the devel-
opment of the oense has been at a
faster pace than fans and observers
expected. Even the most optimistic
projections did not predict Tech
turning into a top-15 team just 20
games into Johnsons tenure.
In just under a season and a half,
Tech has beaten a top-ve team at
home for the rst time since 1962,
gained more rush yards in one game
against Virginia Tech than anyone
else in nearly a decade, defeated
Florida State two times in a row (two
more victories than Tech had earned
before since Bobby Bowden became
coach) and broken a streak of seven
straight losses to rival Georgia.
For all of its accomplishments,
Tech struggled early last year and
had many problems with consistency
on a week-to-week basis. e biggest
issue throughout the season was ball
control. Tech had two lost fumbles
in each of its rst three games, and
the team fumbled and lost the ball
twice in seven games over the course
of the season.
When Tech has lost two fumbles
or more under Johnson, they are just
6-4. ey were 4-4 in 2008. With
fewer than two fumbles, Tech is 9-1.
e Jackets had ups and downs
all season. ey had just 162 rush
yards in the early-season win over
Boston College, and two weeks later
they posted 438 yards on the ground
against Mississippi State. Two games
after that, Tech managed just 79
rushing yards against FCS opponent
Gardner-Webb.
e trend continued all season.
Tech had 326 yards on the ground
in a 21-point loss at North Carolina,
then broke the 400-yard mark in
wins over Miami and Georgia before
stumbling in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl
against LSU.
e loss in the nale left ques-
tions lingering as to whether the
oense was sustainable or simply a
one-year wonder.
See Option, page 21