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The one where we got mugged at gunpoint
BRIGHTON KAMEN
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Home Park, a pocket of quiet,
dark streets lined by single-fami-
ly homes and chain-link fences,
can be frightening to outsiders at
night, but students make up the
majority of its tenants and most
people go their full time at Tech
without a problem.
We read Clery Acts emails
and may know someone who got
mugged, but like most crime vic-
tims, we question the probability
of it happening to us.
ENTERTAINMENT
. .
Things get Stranger
Opinions 6
Two friends and I left a party
at 10:50 p.m. on Labor Day and
walked down Ethel Street. I fol-
lowed Sam and Katie (names have
been changed) back to their house
across Fourteenth, staying in well-
lit areas and conscious of our sur-
roundings.
We turned from Ethel onto
Mecaslin and were half a block
down when the car approached
the corner behind us, pulling
past the stop sign and pausing in
the intersection. The hairs on the
back of my neck stood up, but I
played it off as humor. I turned to
Sam and Katie and said, Weve
p16 Learning from Clemson loss p22
Life 10
OPINIONS
got company, like a line from a
bad movie.
The car doors flew open and
two men in dark hoodies came
running at us. I saw the silhouette
of a semi-automatic in their hands
and did the most stereotypical
horror movie damsel-in-distress
thing possible.
I tried to run, tripped and fell
on my face.
The taller man stood over me
while I wrestled myself free of my
purse strap, half of me struck with
how helpless I was on the ground
with a weapon pointed at me and
See MUGGING, page 8
SPORTS
Entertainment 14 Sports 24
NEWS
discusses
future
JONATHAN JEFFREY
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR
As demonstrated through its recent
sponsorship of HackGT 2017 in Oc-
tober, NCR is increasingly a company
dominated by software.
In 2016, weve sold 1.84 billion
dollars of software at NCR, and it gen-
erated close to two-thirds of the profits
in the company, said Eli Rosner, chief
technical officer and Head of Software
Product Management at NCR. How
big is software for NCR? Its huge.
With NCRs shift to software comes
big changes in both mentality and
location.
After joining NCR in 2005, Chair-
man and CEO Bill Nuti began a 15-
year reinvention of the company in
order to raise it back to profitability,
pouring money into software R&D
and improving manufacturing capa-
bilities.
The most recent development is
NCRs move from its current head-
quarters in Duluth, Georgia to a new
headquarters on Spring Street in Tech-
nology Square, where it will have over
500,000 square feet of office space.
Economic analysts at Invest Atlan-
ta, the citys official economic develop-
ment agency, believe the new Midtown
headquarters could have a $1.2 billion
economic impact on the city of the At-
lanta itself.
Nuti, aware of the growing startup
and technology culture that is present
in Atlanta, has dubbed the city the
Silicon Valley of the East, and wants
NCR to be a part of the core of At-
lantas growth to achieve that vision,
according to Rosner.
See NCR, page 4
Photo by Monica Jamison Student Publications
Street signs stand at the corner of Ethel and Mecaslin. Half a
block away, three students were robbed late last Labor Day.
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NEWS EDITOR:
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ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR:
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and attempted to follow the fe-
male student to her apartment.
According to the female stu-
dent, he spent five minutes bang-
ing on her door and trying to
shake the door handle, before ap-
parently leaving, but before long
he returned to bang on the door
for another five minutes. At this
point, the female felt uncomfort-
able enough to call the police.
However, by the time Atlanta
Police arrived, the male student
had left, so they did not complete
an incident report.
JONATHAN JEFFREY The victims story was corrobo-
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR rated by a review of the videos
taken from elevator cameras that
SQUARE STALKER GTPD officers did while follow-
On Oct. 18, 2017, three stu- ing up on the event.
dents were ascending in the Through the video, GTPD of-
Square on Fifth Apartments el- ficers were able to identify the ha-
evator. rassing student, recognizing him
When one of the students, a from a past incident when he was
female, left the elevator to enter found passed out.
her apartment, the two males, The student was called to the
who appeared intoxicated, began GTPD office, where he spoke to
to talk amongst themselves, and officers and claimed that he was
then one of the males abruptly extremely drunk but could re-
stopped the closing elevator doors member knocking on some fe-
E
ach week, this section of
News will include coverage
of different aspects of bills
and resolutions that have passed
through Student Government. This
will include the Undergraduate
House of Representatives, Graduate
Student Senate and the Executive
Branch of both government bodies.
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SGA CORRESPONDENT
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GT Day at the Zoo Revenue Cover $5,000 n/a 32-0-0
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Womens Club Soccer $643.42 25-0-0 33-0-0
RoboJackets Allocations 2017 $30,169 24-0-1 33-0-0
ASA Cultural Dance Fest $4,208 25-0-0 33-0-0
Trailblazers - Zion National Park $1,800 21-0-0 33-0-0
Swim Club Tournament Registration $1,230 22-0-0 32-0-0
Practice Balls for GTTTA $240 22-0-0 33-0-0
India Club Penn Masala $13,000 19-0-0 31-0-1
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SGA President and Vice President hosted a
town hall this past week to discuss their roles Friday,
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on and around campus. 45 November 3, 2017
males door the previous night, a bathroom in Nelson-Shell Un-
possibly looking for a phone left dergraduate Living Center, with
in an unknown apartment. the shower running.
After he reviewed the video, he The officers were unable to en-
agreed that his behavior was in- ter the bathroom, and had to call
excusable. The student was given Fire and EMS. The Fire depart-
a student code of conduct viola- ment was able to open the door
tion for loitering/prowling. with a breaching tool, upon which
EMS turned off the bathtub and
NARCOTIC NUISANCE brought the intoxicated student to
On Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, a nearby hospital.
at 11:53 p.m., a GTPD officer The student was issued a Stu-
received a hit on a license plate dent Code of Conduct violation
reader that indicated a silver Ford for underage consumption of al-
Focus sedan, traveling north on cohol and for the damage to the
Northside Drive, had a license bathroom door. MERRITT KENDZIOR
plate with suspended registration. CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Upon stopping the vehicle, the CAUGHT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
police officer found the offender On Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017, at FRANCE-ATLANTA
had a small plastic container of ec- approximately 3:24 a.m., a GTPD The president of Toulouse,
stasy worth $72. He was charged officer was dispatched to the Fa- France-based Institut Suprieur
with possession of MDMA with cilities building in response to a de lAronautique et de lEspace
an intent to distribute and also for silent alarm. (ISAE-SUPAERO), Olivier Les-
driving while unlicensed. Two male students were found bre, and his executive team joined
on the roof of the building and faculty and students from Techs
SLEEPING IN THE SHOWER followed instructions to leave the School of Aerospace Engineering
On Friday Oct. 20, 2017, at roof. Both students were charged last Friday morning, Oct. 27, to
2:16 a.m., three GTPD officers for criminal trespassing and given share their experience and views
responded to reports of a drunk student code of conduct violations on innovations in aerospace, re-
person who had locked himself in for trespassing. search and the future of higher
education.
MENTAL HEALTH BILL committee and have voting rights. A major topic of discussion be-
UHR finalized their Mental Some thought that they should tween the panel members was the
Health Bill, which also forms serve on the JAC but without hav- future of computer science and
the Joint Allocation Committee ing voting rights, while others aerospace engineering.
(JAC). The bill allocates $500,000 thought that they shouldnt serve Education was reading, writ-
from the Capital Outlay account at all. ing and arithmetic ... that is gone,
to go towards improvements of SGA President Sujay Perama- said Mitchell Walker, a professor
campus mental health resources. nu allayed these concerns by say- in the David Guggenheim School
This allocation comes with the ing that he had talked with a lot of Aerospace Engineering, speak-
expectation that there will be a of the dissenters that he knew and ing on the future of engineering
matching commitment from the had convinced them that it was degrees. Now its reading, writ-
Institute. Furthermore, any mon- the right choice for both presi- ing, arithmetic and computer sci-
etary allocations will be decided dents to serve and be allowed vot- ence, Walker said.
by the JAC. ing rights. Professor Walker also noted
The JAC will be made up of After questions ended, Repre- that the future engineers and
10 student members. Six will be sentative Daigle made it clear that computer scientists alike will no
elected from the pool of UHR he wanted the bill passed as is as longer be able to rely on solely
and GSS members, and four will soon as possible, that way they their own degree in order to ob-
be non-elected student members can get the committee started. He tain an opportunity for them to
appointed by the student body elaborated on this, stating that if have a great future, but instead,
presidents. Additionally, both stu- the reps wanted to make changes, must combine both disciplines,
dent body presidents will serve on that they should write resolutions especially when it comes to the
the committee. for later. aerospace industry.
One representative raised the Another representative then Bringing together the thor-
issue of the presidents serving on stood up to voice her agreement oughness of many aerospace engi-
the committee while also having with the bill, but displeasure with neers to [applications with] com-
voting rights. In the survey sent the results of the survey not be- puter science, Lesbre said, and
out to UHR and GSS reps a ma- ing taken into account as much as the knowledge and strength of
jority of responses did not want hoped. After discussion, the bill a computer science major to the
the presidents to both serve on the passed 33-0-0. See FRANCE, page 4
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Deans share their day-to-day experiences
CASEY MILES
NEWS EDITOR
On Tuesday, Oct. 31, Dean
Maryam Alavi of the Scheller
College of Business and Dean
Paul M. Goldbart of the College
of Sciences spoke at the event
What Does a Dean Do at Geor-
gia Tech?
The event is the second of three
in the Fall 2017 speaker series,
Demystifying how Georgia Tech
Works. The series is meant to
bring the more unknown aspects
of Tech to light. Organized by the
ADVANCE Program, the series
this semester covers topics from
money, to deans day-to-day life
and free speech and political cor-
rectness.
Before arriving at the Scheller
College of Business, Alvi served
as interim dean and vice dean
of Emory Universitys Goizueta
Business School. Prior to that she
advised industry members from
Sodexo to the World Bank on is-
sues relating to digital innovations
and strategic IT applications.
The event began with Alavi
telling the audience she wanted
the event to be more of a discus-
sion, rather than a presentation.
Just to set the stage and frame
the issue, Alvi said, when it
comes to a deans job, the way I
look at it, a college is governed by
faculty is led by a dean.
Alvi followed up by showing
some of her weekly schedules from
this past Summer and Fall.
I thought the best way to give
you a flavor of what a dean does,
at least in my position would be to
give you a sense of a week in my
calendar, Alvi said.
As she flipped through the
slides a week from this Summer
popped up. The days were mainly
full of meetings with very little
Deans of the Scheller College of Business and the College of Sciences, Maryam
Alvi and Paul M. Goldbart, respectively, discuss their day-to-day work at Tech.
time in between. The meetings
were with all manner of people as
well: students, alumni, and indus-
try members crowded her days.
As she continued onto an ex-
ample of a week during the Fall
semester the days only grew more
crowded with meetings and late
night events.
Wednesday, Sept. 27 and
Thursday, Sept. 28 are travel,
Alvi said, and when I travel it is
primarily for the purpose of con-
necting with [alumni] of Scheller
College. Giving them updates on
what the school is up to, what is
going and primarily for develop-
ment purposes.
She emphasized the impor-
tance of connecting with alumni,
saying that its a very important
... aspect of a deans job, at least
for a business school.
Photo by Samta Brahmbhatt Student Publications
Moving on in her schedule, Additionally, the deans will of-
she discussed the networking she ten get asked to chair committees.
does at all home football games. Last Spring, I was engaged in
The Scheller College of Business a search for a senior staff position
has its own suite in the stadium. at Georgia Tech, Alvi said. So I
For home football games, Alvi chaired that search committee.
is usually in the suite, talking Finally, Alvi says that she
with donors and potential donors spends as much of her free time
about updates on the school in an as possible trying to keep up with
informal setting. the industry she used to advise by
One thing to take note of was reading a few papers on week on
the sparse amount of days off Alvi topics within technological inno-
has. vation in business.
[When I have been] work- Following Alvi, Goldbart be-
ing on Saturday I insist that gan discussing the differences
they dont schedule anything for between being dean of the Col-
me Monday morning, she said. lege of Sciences and dean of the
Sometimes I have the luxury of Scheller College of Business.
being able to arrange that. Goldbart had a 25 year career
Beyond internal Scheller meet- at the University of Illinois at Ur-
ings, both Alvi and Goldbart at- bana-Champaign before arriving
tend meetings with the adminis- at Tech. While here, he served as
tration and the other deans. the chair of the School of Physics
technique November 3, 2017 3
for three years before being named
as dean of the College of Sciences.
One of the lovely things about
this job is that the deans have a
very cordial relationship, Gold-
bart said. And the truth is we
dont have any other friends.
After lightening the mood a
little, Goldbart continued.
I think the organization is one
that which, at each level, every-
body carries their own New York-
er view of whats important and
what isnt, and I think we run into
challenges when those New York-
ers views are slightly misaligned
or more than slightly misaligned,
Goldbart said.
Goldbarts presentation fo-
cused more on the struggle of dif-
fering views on what people think
a dean has the power to do. Echo-
ing Alvis remarks about deans
leading rather than governing,
Goldbart thought it was impor-
tant for a dean to be able to man-
age relationships in all directions
to handle those New Yorker at-
titudes.
The issues that come to us as
deans are not the black and white
ones, Goldbart said. In a healthy
deans office there are excellent
people around you who take care
of the black and white issues.
The things that come to you are
thorny issues, the things that have
multiple facets to them, the things
that will have a big impact on how
the college moves forward.
After finishing their presen-
tations the deans opened up the
floor for questions. These ques-
tions centered around the goals
both deans had for their respective
colleges and how they planned to
achieve them.
The final event in the series,
Free Speech, Political Correct-
ness Any Boundaries? will
take place on Nov. 14 at 11 a.m. in
room 321 in the Student Center.
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FRANCE FROM PAGE 2
aerospace engineering applica-
tion is creating new desirable in-
dividuals for the aerospace work-
force.
College of Computing Dean
Zvi Galil explained that as the
number of engineering applicants
is expected to double in coming
years, the number of job opportu-
nities for computer science majors
is also expected to double.
Discussion also landed on
Techs Online Masters of Science
in Computer Science (OMS CS),
an online program which has gar-
nered wide attention.
Both Tech and ISAE-SUPAE-
RO representatives lauded OMS
CS for teaching students software
skills that can be used in a wide
range of industries and are espe-
cially needed in the aerospace in-
dustry.
Students in attendance who at-
tended the study abroad opportu-
nities in France with SUPAERO
along with representatives from
the Office of International Educa-
tion promoted the program and
its unique setting which brings to-
gether industry professionals who
work hand-in-hand with students
and provides industry-relevant re-
search.
The event had over sixty people
in attendance, including members
from industry and the commu-
nity.
France-Atlanta is a month long
event with this years taking place
from Oct. 9 to Nov. 3. The event
was created in 2010 by the French
Consulate and Tech. According to
the events website, france-atlan-
ta.org, France-Atlanta is a series
of events centered on innovation
and designed to foster coopera-
tion between France and the U.S.
Southeast in the scientific, busi-
ness, culture, and humanitarian
domains.
Tech also hosted another event
in the series: Georgia Tech and
Airbus: A Long-Standing His-
tory.
// NEWS
NCR FROM PAGE 1 Probably 800 million trans- Other hackathon groups used [that start] with design think-
actions every day flow through NCRs platform to enable food ing sessions design-thinking
Our move to our new head- our NCR edge points all over the ordering and delivery by drone, is a best practice weve adapted
quarters in midtown Atlanta ... is world, Rosner said. Theres mas- to manage warehouse inventory whereby you put a team, a
huge for us in terms of talent, and sive amounts of data. And us serv- with the help of augmented real- co-functional team with differ-
we collocated ourselves next to ing multiple services hospital- ity via HoloLens, or to generate ent capabilities around the table,
Georgia Tech, that has very strong ity, retail and financial it gives infographics on consumer activity and they diverge and then [do] in-
faculty and schools, like the Col- us a huge opportunity to look at by running natural language pro- novation without being restricted
lege of Computing, the College of the consumer. cessing on NCR data. by anything thats available to the
Engineering, [and programs in] Where they eat, shop, bank, In total, twenty teams used company to sell.
computer science, machine learn- and travel, and construct a data- NCRs ODSP during the hack- After about a day and a half
ing, and data, Rosner said. base of consumer preferences that athon, both giving NCR a sense with a lot of diagrams and white-
While NCR has sponsored can truly help our customers in- of the breadth of what was pos- boarding, Rosner says that the
multiple hackathons around crease their engagement with con- sible with their API as well as teams then take the next 90 days
the world in the past, this years sumers, Rosner continued. valuable direct feedback, such as to prototype with Scrum method
HackGT was the first time that So, NCR generated mock cata- the desire for code examples in in order to validate their ideas.
NCR has used a hackathon as a log and transactional data and multiple programming languages, If its infeasible, its scrapped or
method to premier a new software gave them to students who chose Rosner said. delayed until the future. However,
platform. to use the ODSP to develop their Both the official NCR Twit- fifty percent of the time, the ideas
For the three days of the hack- hackathon projects. ter profile and CEO Nuti tweeted work out and go into production
athon, students became the first Sendis, the winner of Best on Oct. 19 that several students within the next six to eighteen
third-party users of NCRs Om- NCR Platform Idea at the hack- leveraged their platform, showing months, Rosner says.
ni-Channel Decision Support athon, combined computer vision how news of the hackathon is re- In a sense, the 90-day chal-
Platform (ODSP), which will for- on a mobile platform with NCRs lated to the conversation on even lenges are like mini-hackathons
mally debut next year through a API in order to allow users to take the highest rungs of NCR. played on a corporate scale: trying
Developers Portal. a photo of an object around them We have ... a lot of 90-day in- out innovative ideas, and running
One of the major features/ca- and purchase it online. novation challenges, Rosner said, with the ones that show promise.
pabilities of this platform is that it
is an open platform, Rosner said.
Think about it like iOS for apps,
where we expose the capabilities
of the platform, so that others can
co-innovate with us and open it to
the community.
When released, the ODSP will
allow NCRs customers to interact
with consumers through devices
ranging from mobile phones to
NCR touch points.
The ODSP is composed of five
different APIs that each serve a
distinct purpose: Catalog, which
organizes all of the items that a
vendor sells; Messaging, which
tracks recent consumer engage-
ment; Ordering, which allows
customers to use any device to
order products through the cloud;
Program Execution, which man-
ages both NCR and third-party
loyalty programs; and Transac-
tion Document Management,
which records transactions.
The thread connecting each of
these APIs is data data on what Photo Courtesy of NCR
the sellers have, and data on what Students pose with members of the NCR team that was at HackGT. NCR is look-
the consumers want. ing to invest more in Tech and hackathons after moving their headquarters to Atlanta.
// NEWS
SGA goes for transparency with town hall
POLLY OUELLETTE
STAFF WRITER
When fewer people than ex-
pected showed up at a town hall
held by SGA, student body Presi-
dent Sujay Peramanu and Vice
President Richard Wang seam-
lessly switched gears. They told
attendees that the session would
be more of a discussion than a
presentation, and asked each and
every person to introduce them-
selves by name and major.
Peramanu began the follow-
ing conversation by explaining
the way that roles in the executive
council of SGA function: Pera-
manu has his hands on academics,
student life and campus services,
while Wang focuses on the gears
that make SGA turn, like inter-
nal affairs, IT and finances.
The SGA president then
launched into a description of
what he has been working on.
As part of recent dialogue on
campus, SGA is working to des-
tigmatize the conversation about
mental health. They have worked
to push through a mental health
bill that will use funds amounting
to $500,000 from their long-term
capital outlay fund and a matched
contribution from Tech adminis-
tration.
When recommendations are
made regarding where improve-
ments need to be seen in the arena
of mental health, SGA will begin
to look at where they can start
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to take action. SGA has already
passed legislation mirroring this
sentiment.
Additionally, SGA is currently
entrenched in the process of try-
ing to procure a partnership with
a ridesharing proposal. They are
allowing services, such as Uber
and Lyft, to place bids on the
exclusive partnership, which will
provide students discounted rates
within a certain radius of campus.
Peramanu hopes that the pro-
cess of setting this up would be
concluded by the end of the se-
mester and piloted in the spring.
Within academics, SGA is
working to add a mental health
resources section to each syllabus.
Minimesters, 5-week, for-credit
classes intended for students to
learn a specific skills such as cook-
ing or Excel, are in the works also.
Following Peramanu, was
Wangs spiel, which focused
mainly on his work that has been
done to revamp SGAs internal or- Photo by Kirsten Reynolds Student Publications
ganization. SGA President Sujay Peramanu and Vice President Richard Wang discuss their roles
One of my big projects this on campus at a town hall on Friday Oct. 27 in the Bill Moore Student Success Center.
semester is restructuring SGA
and tailoring it to focus more on ent campus stakeholders about will be piloted in one or two fresh- A question and answer session
the students, instead of ourselves, how SGA can better serve them. man dorms in the fall of 2018. The followed the pairs discussion of
and what we can do to serve the The one or two-year process will partnership offers opportunities the projects that they have been
student body, Wang said. Ulti- focus on altering representation for Amazon and Tech students. working on. Some additional top-
mately thats the purpose of our processes and covering topics that The reason why Amazon ics covered were the upcoming
organization, but in the past weve students care about. wants to do that is so that we can mental health summit on Oct.
been more stagnant and we have The other project that Wang have internal, Georgia Tech devel- 4, the ongoing and planned con-
just been going through the mo- has been working on is getting opers working on the Dots capa- struction projects of the library,
tions. [Restructuring] is a big, Amazons Dots and Echos into bilities, said Peramanu. Imag- student center as well as a num-
long effort. every on-campus housing room. ine that you can say, Hey Alexa, ber of other buildings and some
Wang says that he has been The devices would be provided when is the blue route coming to clarification on SGAs plans for
having conversations with differ- free of charge from Amazon and this route? restructuring.
Opinions
OPINIONS EDITOR: Zahra Khan technique

I became insane, with long
intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe Friday,
November 3, 2017
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petitive, or insignificantly higher, and the
conditions and facilities offered surpass
those offered by Tech. Students often have
to apply for a lease for the following fall se-
mester a year in advance to get a place at
University House.
It is reasonable then to expect Tech to
invest in housing for its students or push to
raise the quality of living conditions.
Although Techs housing does offer an
unmatched level of convenience in terms
of location and safety, housing should not
push aside other factors that determine
students housing options.
Students living in on-campus hous-
ing often pay as much or more than those
who live off-campus for fewer amenities
and worse facilities. GT Housing needs to
UNC is a disgrace and the NCAA has embarrassed itself once
respond to the requests of their residents again. In one of the longest running and most obvious instances
(both maintenance and otherwise), and of academic fraud ever, essentially nothing is being done. Im
offer comparable conditions. With issues flabbergasted.
like overflowing toilets, dripping ceilings
and maintenance requests often taking
weeks to fulfil, there is much that can be Bob Clyburn
done to provide better living conditions
for the price residents pay. If the Institute Parking permits
chooses not to compete, Tech will contin-
ue to lose its share of students to off-cam-
pus options. You cant park in Peters but you can still park elsewhere on
Moreover, there is little offered to make campus, even for home football games, so you arent REALLY
the living areas aesthetically pleasing and forfeiting the $3.61. You just have to park elsewhere. But I feel
less stressful. Better, warmer lighting, up- ya, it sucks. I just dont know where else in Midtown I can park
dated furniture and paint can go a long way for $3.61 a day. Once I figure that out, and its not a danger to
in contributing to residents wellbeing. my life, or more than a mile walk... Ill be golden.
Housing needs to stay in tune with
their residents and ensure that they are not
charging their residents solely for location Leslie Ross
without providing any of the amenities
that come with off-campus options. Oth-
erwise, the coming years may see more #bancars and build grocery stores on every corner
students wishing to move away.

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Technique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors.
Christian DiCenso

technique editorial board Tech dining

Brighton Kamen EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
David Raji MANAGING EDITOR I would have like to have seen some comments from Georgia
Harsha Sridhar SPORTS EDITOR
Tech dining officials that helped make the decision to create
Casey Miles NEWS EDITOR
Samira Bandaru LIFE EDITOR Monica Jamison ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR the new West Campus village in this article. Has the technique
Tristen Allen WEB DEVELOPER Megan Eberle DESIGN EDITOR run any non-opinion based articles on the change from
Elizabeth Sit HEAD COPY EDITOR Zoie Konneker ONLINE EDITOR Woodruff to West Campus Commons? That would be interesting
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to read. As someone who has eaten both the unlimited dining
plan and the new 366-based plan, I actually prefer the concept
A FESTIVE HVZ SEASON BY TONY WU restaurants.

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Should private companies
ROUNDTABLE spearhead space exploration?
WILL FINCH
STAFF WRITER
Space the only thing
standing between the hu-
man race and galactic dom-
ination.
Its been almost 60 years
since NASA was created,
and in that time, they have
led a scientific revolution
through their expansion
into humanitys final fron-
tier of exploration. But since
the Space Race, the admin-
istration and government
funded space exploration
have been deprioritized. To
fill the void left by discon-
tinued space programs like
the Space Shuttle, private
companies, like SpaceX, are
performing the important
functions that NASA can-
not.
Private enterprise has not
traditionally led large, ex-
pensive, dangerous projects
with unknown risks gov-
ernments have traditionally
and should continue to lead
expansions to new scien-
tific frontiers. In support
of this idea, Neil deGrasse
Tyson often cites how it was
not trade companies who
North
funded the European dis-
covery of the New World,
THE
Avenue
Review
it was governments like
Spain. Once governments
have quantified previously
untapped goals, enterprise
can use that knowledge and
optimize it for popular use.
For example, NASA has
successfully been achiev-
ing low-Earth orbit since
the 60s, so even though
the Space Shuttle program
Without a balance
between the two
sectors, the U.S. could
be stumbling while
other nations make
giant leaps...
ended, private companies
specialized in this applica-
tion can efficiently refine
the process.
But to say that govern-
ment completely stands in
the way space exploration is
incorrect. Because the prin-
ciple benefits of discovery
are intangible, the outcome
of any investment is typi-
cally too unpredictable for
any type of firm. Knowl-
edge has value for its own
sake, and while government
agencies may have to deal
With private firms innovating for space coloniza-
tion and tourism, where does that leave NASA?
with more bureaucracy,
they deal with less conflict-
ing interests, like those of
private investors. Profitabil-
ity isnt a factor in federally
funded research, which is
why companies like SpaceX
can take on the long-term
investment in the indus-
try: contracting through
NASA. In order to make a
small fortune, you need to
start with a large one.
There isnt, and
shouldnt be, a local space
race between NASA and
the private sector. There are
areas that are best fulfilled
by both, and to expand the
industry as a whole, the re-
lationship between the two
should continue to be sym-
biotic as opposed to com-
petitive.
Bank of America re-
cently released a report that
quotes the space industrys
worth at nearly $3 trillion
in 30 years, and with gov-
ernment leading research
and development and enter-
prise applying that research,
the U.S. can capitalize on
a new space age. Without
a balance between the two
sectors, the U.S. could be
stumbling while other na-
tions make giant leaps for
mankind.
RANJANI SUNDARESAN
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Small wonder the pri-
vate sector appears so sleek
yet corpulent. Come clos-
ing bell, market conditions
spare only the fittest.
Yet sleek and corpulent
hardly describes the en-
trepreneurs of the Califor-
nian Mojave. The deserts
expanses shelter the likes
of SpaceX and Virgin Ga-
lactic, along with scores of
smaller space startups that
often go bust.
Space entrepreneurs
might first be profit-driven,
but they toil for our species
ultimate grail extending
our longevity.
The rhetoric on space ex-
ploration back in the 1960s,
pushed most prominently
by Kennedy, was inspired
by a triumphal spirit of ex-
pansionism and national-
ism. The American public
was dazzled at the outset,
but has proven slow to rec-
ognize that the 1960s were
a local maximum in space
innovation.
The British East India
Tea Company was char-
tered in 1600. Originally
private, it expanded in its
technique November 3, 2017 7
restless search for profitable
markets, finally becoming
the Empires chief agent in
India. It is similarly inevita-
ble that SpaceXs courtship
with NASA will character-
ize a public-private part-
nership model in the space
sector. Innovation and ex-
pansion, after all, are rem-
edies for a declining empire.
NASAs budget can
better recapture
national glory if
liberated from routine
ventures.
But empires are not
nimble. NASA needed 5
percent of the American
GDP to put men on the
moon. Today the space
budget constitutes a mere
0.5 percent of the budget.
In making NASA budget
cuts, Obama bet on the old
capitalist adage: Competi-
tion drives innovation.
Government innovation
must favor civic goals. The
private sector must slake
shareholders, thus devot-
ing itself to developing
northavereview.com
technologies over pursu-
ing research not yielding
short-term profits. Such an
unprofitable endeavor falls
to the government. NASAs
budget can better recapture
national glory if liberated
from routine ventures.
The Mojave has acreage
for every homesteader, from
space hoteliers to space
miners, the fur trappers of
the 21st century.
RedWorks has repur-
posed technology in order
to build efficient terrestrial
homes, while BlueOrigins,
a space tourism company,
exploits its launches three
minutes of microgravity to
run payload experiments.
Just like SpaceX, they have
been making promises to
plutocrats.
NASA has taken to
fostering potential in this
sector. Take Commercial
Resupply Services and its
deal with SpaceX to supply
cargo to the International
Space Station and its Flight
Opportunities Program
funds space-communica-
tions companies.
From paternalistic over-
seer to patron of the private
sector, NASA, once dmo-
d, is undergoing a decided
metamorphosis.
READ.
THINK.
SPEAK.
8 November 3, 2017 technique
MUGGING FROM PAGE 1
the other half eerily calm, rea-
soning that he didnt want to
shoot me he just wanted my
stuff. The shorter man nabbed
Sams wallet and they bolted for
their car and sped off. I pulled
myself to my feet. It was all over
in seconds.
Katie sprinted down Me-
Whats one thing youre caslin screaming. Internet tips
tell women to draw attention
proud to have accom- if theyre being attacked, and it
plished this semester? worked: A girl stuck her head
out the window of a nearby
house and asked what happened.
A minute later, the three of us
stood in the girls living room,
me on the phone with GTPD
and Sam and Katie wide-eyed
on the couch.
Flashing blue lights appeared
five minutes after. A GTPD of-
ficer listened as we recounted
the incident, stumbling over the
suspects descriptions for the
Clery Act alert. For those who
ANDREW WITTENMYER dont know, a Clery Act alert is
FIRST-YEAR EE a mass email sent out when a se-
rious crime happens on or near
I started unicycling at the campus. Suspect descriptions
are famously vague, but I now
beginning of the semester. know from experience that it is
Now Im good enough to difficult to memorize a face or
unique features when conscious
unicycle to classes. thought is shoved aside in favor
of fight-or-flight.
After speaking to the GTPD
officer and then the APD of-
ficer and detective that arrived
later, the eerie calm won over
the helplessness. I settled into a
bemused acceptance of, That
happened, what next? followed
Everyones doing research.
RAHUL RAINA
FOURTH-YEAR CS
This app. Its a tracker to
But what are we really getting out of it?
Around 60 percent of chemi-
find people using augment- cal engineering students at Tech
ed reality. participate in undergraduate re-
search before graduation. Lured
in by this statistic and the op-
portunity to take an almost-
guaranteed A as a technical elec-
tive, I decided to start reaching
out to professors so I could join
their lab groups.
In the fall of last year, I be-
gan my undergraduate research
experience.
Im in a unique position in
where I dont have a graduate
student mentor; I work directly
NICOLE SHUSTER with my faculty research mentor
SECOND-YEAR BA on my own project. Four semes-
ters later, Im still doing it.
I really got involved. I like My first semester was plagued
with technical problems. The
to make my mark, even if shared lab equipment never
its in a small way. seemed to be working (at least
not for me) and the repair com-
pany kept leading us in circles.
Instead of doing my re-
search, I was charged with mis-
cellaneous tasks, like checking
that all of the SDSs were in the
right place and assisting a grad
student with his work. I was,
after all, taking this as a three
hour lab class (free of quizzes
and exams) and needed to do
some work.
That semesters work culmi-
ARSENE LAKPA nated in a brief slideshow pre-
sentation and paper explaining
THIRD-YEAR CS what I had done that semester
(and more importantly, what I
Im the movies chair at was going to do next semester).
SCPC, and we sold out both That first semester wasnt
particularly engaging or fun, but
of our movie screenings. I decided to do research another
Photos by Himanshu Dedge Student Publications semester.
small blip of a tragedy ...
but it changed my concept
by This will make a great story
at parties.
I saw Sam on the couch,
frightened, and started cracking
jokes with the police while giv-
ing my statement. I complained
about losing a Kate Spade purse,
because focusing on something
insignificant dulled the panic
further, especially when I real-
ized while talking what tipped
me off about the car pulling up
behind us in the first place: They
didnt stop at the Stop sign. They
rolled into the intersection and
stopped midway through. They
were checking us out as targets.
In between giving statements
to the authorities, I called my
mom and she called my room-
mate who waited for me at our
apartment. I got a ride from a
police officer and finally shuffled
home around 2 a.m. I washed
and bandaged the gashes on
my elbows and knees where I
had fallen on the street. The
adrenaline did not wear off until
sunrise and I pulled my first all-
nighter at Tech that had nothing
to do with class.
I figured hey, I need an-
other technical elective course
and now that everythings fixed
in the lab, it should be relatively
smooth sailing.
Anyone with experience in
research knows that it would
not, in fact, be smooth sailing.
I spent the next semester feel-
ing frustrated with my research
work that seemed to take away
time from my real classes and
social time.
I often dreaded going into
lab and working on things that I
felt were useless and such a small
piece of the larger picture that
they didnt really matter.
It wasnt until my faculty re-
search mentor suggested (yet an-
other) paper for me to read that
I realized what I was struggling
with.
The paper, The importance
of stupidity in scientific re-
search (Schwartz, 2008), gives
a better picture of why research
is so difficult.
With research, theres this
general broad goal of accom-
plishing something. Of making
a meaningful contribution to so-
Getting mugged was a
of safety.
BRIGHTON KAMEN
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
The next morning, Find My
iPhone tracked my phone to a
McDonalds on Moreland Street
in East Atlanta. I sent the screen-
shots to the police and my mom
and stepdad drove me there and
watched while I peeked into
nearby trashcans. I cannot tell
you what I hoped to accomplish
at a McDonalds in East Atlanta
at 10 a.m., but it grounded what
was otherwise a surreal experi-
ence. I made it home that day
realizing I had not lost anything
I would be unable to replace.
Moving on was as simple as say-
ing I would do just that.
I do not expect any updates
in the case, though two other
friends of mine were mugged a
few weeks later by who I want
to believe were the same people.
The Clery Act alert reported
no injuries but Ive got an ugly
scar on my knee and I flinch
whenever Im walking outside
and see a stranger coming or
going my way. Getting mugged
was a small blip of a tragedy
compared to worse in Atlanta,
but it changed my concept of
Anyone with experience
in research knows that
it would not, in fact, be
smooth sailing.
HANNA WARLICK
ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR
ciety. Thats an incredibly daunt- great way to investigate possible
ing task.
When you have a question
and the answers are limitless, it
is hard to narrow things down,
and it is hard to feel like you
are sufficiently attacking the
right problem.
In the words of Schwartz,
The crucial lesson was that the
scope of things I didnt know
wasnt merely vast; it was, for all
practical purposes, infinite.
That realization, instead of
being discouraging, was liberat-
ing. If our ignorance is infinite,
the only possible course of ac-
tion is to muddle through as
best we can.
Reading this paper and be-
ginning to understand the im-
portance of stupidity gave me
deeper appreciation for the re-
search I was doing.
I didnt need to put so much
pressure on myself to be right
and to be as efficient as possible.
Rather, I needed to continue to
try and to ask questions.
Productive stupidity means
being ignorant by choice. Focus-
ing on important questions puts
// OPINIONS
safety and left odd impulses in
its wake.
Sometimes, when walking
home late from studio, I sprint
across Tech Square to my apart-
ment even though the street
is deserted and Tech Square is
much safer than Home Park.
I also internalized a weird
compassion for the two men
who came at us, because that
neighborhood in East Atlanta
was in terrible shape. I checked
off every way to rationalize
what happened, some of which
made more sense than others,
and developed a mantra for
handling future mishaps: Bad
things happen, which means
theres a statistical inevitability
that bad things will happen to
me and those I care about. This
also means, of course, that there
is a statistical inevitability that
good things will happen too
no one got hurt seriously, and
people Id never met before and
wont see again came to our aid.
Now, Ive told this story at
parties, bars and once at a new
member icebreaker game for a
leadership organization. Laugh-
ing at it turns it into a whacky
college experience rather than
a moment of real danger, and I
even told my roommate Id like
to print out the alert and hang
it in our living room, though I
probably never will.
The Tech bubble makes us
feel safer than we are, and some-
times we forget that just outside
is a massive, bustling city where
it takes only seconds for some-
thing to happen.
us in the awkward position of
being ignorant. One of the beau-
tiful things about science is that
it allows us to bumble along,
getting it wrong time after time,
and feel perfectly fine as long as
we learn something each time,
wrote Schwartz.
The Georgia Tech Under-
graduate Research FAQ page
addresses why students would
want to partake in research:
Undergraduate research is a
career paths and to see whether
you want to consider doing
graduate work later on.
It is also a good way to get
to know a professor who is an
expert in your major outside the
classroom. Its the perfect on-
campus job!
While this statement some-
what exaggerates the positives
(or rather ignores some of the
negatives), it does ring true. Re-
search taught me a lot.
I learned that I dont want
to go to grad school because
while I have come to enjoy do-
ing research, I dont want to do
it full-time for the next four-or-
so years.
I learned how to directly
work with someone who knows
a lot more than me and I learned
that they can be stumped by the
same questions.
And above all, I learned
how to be comfortable with
being stupid, because my igno-
rance isnt a shortfall but rather
an opportunity to make my
own discoveries and create my
own answers.
// OPINIONS
Dont spend your entire
lifetime living a single life
College, of all places, seems
to be a place that dreams go
to die, but at the same time,
new ones are born.
CASEY MILES
NEWS EDITOR
What do you want to be when think they are already ghosts. But
you grow up? you have many lives.
A question that most, if not all While Weinersmith splits
of us, were asked beginning at a those lives up based on a skill or
young age. For most, the answer thing you spend doing during that
to that question changes over the time, I think it can be better ex-
years, for some it might not, and plored by your answer to the age-
for even fewer that dream be- old question: What do you want
comes reality. to be when you grow up?
However, most of us, whether For me, the first large shift
it be due to our own mistakes or came the summer before I came
just unfavorable circumstances, to Tech. I was one of the people
do not realize these goals. whose dream did not change or
For me, the question that has waver throughout all of middle
been asked of me most of my life and high school.
still has no concrete answer. In the In my mind, I was going to play
past, I thought I had the answer baseball in college and beyond,
many times, but each time the an- but it wasnt meant to be. Due to
swer has slipped from my grasp. my own actions, the dream I had
For the longest time, Ive for most of my life was no longer
thought that Ill grow up and do going to happen.
one thing, have one job, one life. For a few months, I was unsure
That was until I saw a comic of my future, unsure of what I
from Zach Weinersmith, the cre- would become.
ator of Saturday Morning Break- Fortunately, that part of my
fast Cereal. lifetime is just one of many lives
The comic, released on Sept. 2, I can live; the experiences I had
2012, explores the idea that you are real, but I dont need to dwell
only live once. You dont only live on that singular life when Ive got
once your lifetime is split up so many more to live through.
across multiple lives. Instead of sulking, I redirected
Most people never let them- my passion into other things:
selves die, the comic reads. the newspaper, video games and
Some are afraid of death. Some weight lifting.
I move forward now, knowing
that these things will stay with me
for the rest of my life, but its pos-
sible that I will always move onto
something new.
College, of all places, seems to
be a place that dreams go to die,
but at the same time, new ones are
born.
Too often, people come to
Tech, or college in general, and
realize that their dreams dont
match reality. The good thing Ive
seen about most people at Tech, is
that theyre resilient and can fig-
ure out what they want quickly.
But people should also realize that
college isnt the be-all-end-all for
the rest of their life.
Their life beyond college may
be defined by what they do here,
but they may end up in a place
way different from what they
studied here.
In 2015, according to the Unit-
ed States Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics, the average person has held
10 different jobs before the age of
40. That number is expected to
grow. Gone are the days of your
life dedicated to one company.
Additionally, some people may
realize on their first job that their
career isnt what they thought it
was. The most important thing to
remember is that this is just one
life of the many you will live in
your lifetime.
It takes seven years to master
something, Weinersmith says, If
you live to be 88, after age 11, you
have 11 opportunities to be great
at something.
So, do not fret when this life
does not turn out the way you
thought, realize that this is one
of many lives you will live in your
lifetime.
Post-Halloween candy
Its the most wonderful
time of the year: the day after
kids had to walk from home to
home and actually earn their
candy; us intellectuals can buy
surpluses of the candies and
treats of our own choosing at
a fraction of the cost. The true
spirit of the season is waiting
for when Kit-Kats and Reeses
Cups are cheaper than water
and eating pounds of the stuff
in a costume you cant return.
Bison bicycle
Have you ever imagined
seeing an aluminum bison
roaming around Tech Walk-
way? Well, imagine no more
because Techs Office of the
Arts brought the pedal-pow-
ered sculpture to life on cam-
pus in a collaboration with
artist and author Dave Eggers
and metal artist Juan Marti-
nez. Weather permitting, you
can find the creation near the
Campanile or inside the Ferst
Center until Nov. 10.
technique November 3, 2017 9
Hollywoods skeletons
The latest of numerous per-
petrators of sexual harassment,
Kevin Spacey, was recently ac-
cused by a number of individu-
als. In light of the accusations,
Spaceys public statement left
many disgusted as his apology
blamed intoxication and in-
cluded his coming out as gay.
Preying on others has abso-
lutely no connection to being
gay and the fact that he paired
the two together is abhorrent.
Okogie injured
Star Tech sophomore
shooting guard Josh Okogie
suffered an open dislocation
of his left index finger during
a preseason exhibition versus
Georgia State. Okogie, who
was a freshman revelation in
helping the Jackets to an un-
expectedly competitive confer-
ence performance during the
2016-17 season, is expected to
miss at least a few weeks. The
team hopes to have him back
for ACC play.
Life
LIFE EDITOR: technique
Samira Bandaru Bad First Dates
ASSISTANT LIFE EDITOR:
Hanna Warlick
You may think youve gone on some pretty bad dates, but
Friday,
10
nothing makes a first impression like some of these stu-
life@nique.net dent stories. 412 November 3, 2017

KAMIL RAHHALI
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The average Tech student has a
lot of things to be thinking about:
exams, reports, internships, research
and food the last, arguably, being
the greatest priority on this list.
Thinking about food raises several
questions: What food? Where food?
Being a college student in the heart
of Atlanta makes these questions
especially daunting, but the pres-
ence and accessibility of our campus
dining halls helps alleviate some of
the struggle.
Thankfully, the question of when
is not an issue thanks to the wide
range of service hours North Av-
enue Dining and West Village offer,
staying open from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m.
on weekdays.
While campus dining answers
a few questions, they raise a good
many more. Questions about what
ingredients are in the food, what
kind of oil is used for preparing it
or what kind of options are typi-
cally available at each dining hall
each day are common. These ques-
tions are especially important for
the many with specific dietary needs
and restrictions.
Staci Flores, resident district
manager of Georgia Tech Dining
Services, gave input on the accessi-
bility of food for everyone at campus
dining halls.
Dining halls do indeed provide
for specific diets and Dining Services
is aware of the many different types
of diets present within the student
body at Tech. Tech Dinings web-
page has a list of the four different
types of vegetarians, detailing strict
vegetarian or vegan, lactovegetarian,
lacto-ovo-vegetarian and flexitar-
ian as the major trends of vegetar-
ian. Dining Services also provides
Eat like a (insert diet type) weeks,
where managers provide variety
and education through new, diet-
specific offerings.
The Tech Dining webpage also
includes allergen lists for on-campus
retail dining location such as Taco
Bell and Starbucks, and information
on gluten-free meals. Dining Ser-
vices strives to be aware of various
diets and encourages students to be
aware as well.
Simple Servings is campus din-
ings way of providing food that is
safe to eat for the majority of people
as a meal section separately and spe-
cifically designated to address most
of the ingredients that account for
ninety percent of all food-allergy
reactions: milk, eggs, wheat, soy,
shellfish, peanuts and tree nuts, ac-
cording to Flores.
Simple Servings makes choosing
the right meal easier for everyone
and is available at North Avenue,
the Woodruff Community and in
the student center.
With Simple Servings, students
can comply with food allergy or
other dietary concerns without feel-
ing singled out, Flores said, describ-
ing Tech Dinings way of meeting
dietary needs. They wont have to
go off campus for their meals or
miss out on dining with their friends
while waiting for the chef to specially
prepare their meals. Straightforward
preparation techniques assure trans-
parency of ingredients and help our
students prepare to be responsible
for their own shopping and cooking
in the future.
When asked about potential fu-
ture expansions to the Simple Serv-
ings and diet-need menus, Flores
said, [In addition to Simple Serv-
ings] we also have our Mindful
program that has created healthier
dining meals ... 50 percent of our
offerings in our community restau-
rants [are projected to] be Mindful
by summer 2018.
While Simple Servings does pro-
vide reliable alternatives to general
meal options, we all want to try dif-
ferent things at times. Following
through with this idea comes the
hassle of encountering dairy brown-
ies mislabeled as vegan and mystery
meats which may or not have been
prepared with butter or peanut oil.
These may be occasional short-
comings, but one everyone knows
about personally or second hand-
edly. Rest assured though, because
Tech Dining recognizes these off-
chance blunders.
We recognize that we need to
expand [allergen] training to all of
our staff so that they will under-
stand our customers dining prefer-
ences across campus and that is a
daily focus of our team members
Flores said.
Food safety remains an utmost
priority, one which is already moni-
tored by managers and supervisors
who, undergo Allergen training
and ServSafe training on handling
foods and preventing cross con-
tamination. Furthermore, Tech
Dining locations are audited by the
third parties Eco-sure and the Ful-
ton County Health Department for
safety procedure and extensively ap-
ply identifiers on diet specific or al-
lergen inclusive foods.
All-in-all, Tech Dining Services
strives to keep its meals accessible
for everyone. It is also a constantly
evolving system; new enhancements
to the dining facilities are evaluated
annually through a survey of a stu-
dent advisory group. This student re-
view and the efforts of Tech Dining
Services is what led to renovations
in North Avenue, like the Smoothie
and Espresso bar, and the introduc-
tion of West Village.
The dining halls are also com-
mitted to maintenance of their dish
washing machines and tableware
inventory, constantly sourcing ser-
vice ware, and seeking opportuni-
ties to re-stock inventories to address
student concerns while maintain-
ing proper levels of sanitation
and service.
If concerns are ever brought
to our attention, we act swiftly to
rectify and eliminate the threat,
Flores said.
West Village is, in fact, a major
landmark of the importance of stu-
dent input. The brand new student
hub is home to five micro restaurants
and two national brands (Starbucks
and Panera) and houses the Village
Bakery, which prepares an astound-
ing five thousand desserts per day.
Students can enjoy a mouth-water-
ing view of the baking process from
the window-walled kitchen, located
on the first floor of West Village.
New features are also coming soon.
On Nov. 6, West Village plans on
implementing Tapingo online order-
ing as well as increasing the value of
meal swipes to ten dollars, a sure-
to-be-felt increase from the previous
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// LIFE
VIP gives students research experience
AMY PATEL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The Vertically Integrated Proj-
ects (VIP) Program here at Tech
serves as an ideal representation of
the Institutes motto of Progress
and Service.
If you are an undergraduate
student looking to gain research
experience while working with
experienced, influential mentors,
then VIP is for you. Through the
program, faculty and undergradu-
ate students work together to cre-
ate impactful change.
The program allows for an in-
tegration of both research and
academics by creating a group
experience. For at least a semester,
curious undergraduates are direct-
ed by a faculty mentor to study a
particular subject of interest.
Each group consists of students
from different backgrounds, many
of whom come from disciplines
such as biomedical engineering,
computer science, education, en-
vironmental engineering, biology
and many more.
Teams have the opportunity
to learn fundamental skills while
experimenting with new technol-
ogy in the form of engineered
hand-held devices and large-scale
lab equipment. Moreover, they
are able to interact with study par-
ticipants and sharpen their profes-
sional communication skills.
Meanwhile, faculty are able to
tackle sizable projects with joint
student effort. Clearly a win-win
situation for both.
In addition, students partici-
pating in the program are able to
earn credit for their work, which
can count towards research elec-
tives or free electives, with certain
specific exceptions.
Students meet once a week, on
a pre-determined class schedule
for the entirety of an academic
semester. After applying to the
program, all you need is a course
registration permit and you are
good to go from the registration
side of things.
With respect to team topics,
program participants can switch
in between unique Vertically In-
Pictured above is the The EcoCar Team, a research team within Vertically Integrated Proj-
ects, posing next to the car they submitted for the Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition.
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL
Showcase, Present, and Inspire
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH @ GT
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tegrated Projects after an initial
commitment of one semester to
their primary team of interest.
Many VIP undergraduate stu-
dents participate in the program
for more than one semester, and
they are able to participate for up
to three years. In this way, the un-
dergraduates find adequate time
to become adept in their subject
material, as well as train newer
program participants.
Collectively, working on a
team while finding solutions
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to real world problems allows
the students to gain exposure
to professional teamwork, espe-
cially while joining forces to con-
quer a diverse design project of
great magnitude.
What kinds of projects are
available to students?
Any discipline, from health
systems, industrial design, and
digital media, to biology, aero-
space engineering and marine sci-
ences is available to apply to. For
See VIP, page 13
How to be
vegetarian
on a college
budget
CASEY GOMEZ
PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Recently, more people have
made the choice to become veg-
etarian or vegan despite the chal-
lenges it poses. Whether it is for
the environment or to prevent
animal cruelty, here are some ways
to make the vegetarian lifestyle on
a college budget a little easier.
AVOID TEMPTATION
First and foremost, avoid any-
where meat is common.
Fast food restaurants are the
most difficult to resist with their
delicious fried smells and flesh-
filled menus, so staying away is
probably your best option.
If you are not eating meat
there is no point in going to a
steakhouse or even walking down
that aisle of the grocery store.
However, if you must go to a bar-
See TIPS, page 13
12 November 3, 2017 technique // LIFE

Bad First Dates
SAM CHAPPELL
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Every great love story starts
with an epic first date. Power cou-
ples, ranging from the Obamas to
Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn,
had unbelievable first dates. How-
ever, it is clear that Tech students
have not enjoyed nearly the same
amount of luck.
Despite having the whole city
of Atlanta at their disposal, the
majority of Tech students are very
single and too scared to look.
After hearing from some of
these students stories about their
cringe-worthy first dates, you can
hardly blame the student body for
wanting to remain single and not
ready to mingle.
I thought there was no way
a guy could possibly screw up a
simple walk through Centennial
Olympic Park, said Caroline Rie-
check, second-year BA.
I was set up by my friend and
I reluctantly agreed to go. Every-
thing was fine until we got to the
merry-go-round.
Rather than continuing on
their nice, normal walk, he kept
spinning himself around while
I stood there waiting on him for
nearly thirty minutes. I asked him
several times if we could go, but
he would cry, No! Just hop on
with me, I promise its fun!
Riecheck went on to state that
after a mass of elementary school
kids gathered in a line waiting on
her date to finish his spin on the
merry-go-round, he finally agreed
to get off and continue on what
was supposed to be a decent date.
I just asked if we could walk
home, and he finally agreed, con-
cluded Riecheck.
Blind dates are
risky. You never
know what you are
going to get. As a
result, some students have turned
to dating apps, such as Tinder,
to lower this risk. For a bunch of
smart kids, one would think that
Tech students would be more
likely to have some understand
ing of the very large risk associ-
steakhouse.
ated with
Tinder.
For one student willing
to share his story, it is obvious
that he did not. Ari Robinson,
first-year ME, said, I met what
I thought was this really cute
girl on Tinder. Her name was
Sarah Kalen.
Notice that this girls name is
just a Walmart version of Sar-
ah Palin.
I thought it was
weird, but not weird
enough to stop me from
going on a date with a
good looking girl, said
Robinson. Anyways, we
immediately arranged
to meet up at the Student
Center to go bowling. Af-
ter arriving at the bowling
alley, Robinson was im-
mediately greeted by his
friends with a poster of
Sarah Palin along with a bunch
of delicious kale to for him to
snack on.
My peers have an odd sense of
humor, said Robinson.
In other words, do not use Tin- Edward Jacobs, second-year
der unless you are willing to LMC, was on a date with a girl
be catfished. from his freshman dorm when
Sometimes, a good first date fate ran him over.
is just beyond your control. I knew her from my dorm,
For example, Sophie Lind- said Jacobs. We went to Mar-
say, third-year INTA, di- lowes Tavern and Id like to
vulged that she went on think it was going pretty well.
a dinner date with a We started walking back, and
very attractive grad- just as were walking over fifth
uate student to a street bridge, there was a car
stopped behind the cross-
As soon walk.
as we sat After look-
down, he ing left and
decla red right, Jacobs
that figured hed
Designs by David Le Student Publications
he was walk across
very tired and had not slept for al- the pedestrian crosswalk as pe-
most two days due to tests, which destrians are meant to do. When
I totally relate to. Jacobs was in the middle of the
As the dinner went on, he lit- crosswalk, the car accelerated
erally fell asleep eating his mashed forward.
potatoes, said Lindsay. I didnt The guy pulls out and hits me,
know what to do, partly because and I ride on the hood for a couple
it was super awkward and partly feet, said Jacobs.
because I was laughing so hard. Jacobs was fine, albeit enraged.
I was fuming and the girl I
was going out with was a little
perturbed. But we ended up go-
ing out on one other date and
then she went out with my
roommate. Theyve been go-
ing out ever since.
Tech students might
just be too hard to date. Or
maybe their demanding pro-
fessors have put so much work
When our main on them, they are completely re-
course arrived, he still did not moved from the game.
wake up. So I got up and left be- In the end, it is probably best
cause I could no longer look at if you just enjoy your time here
him without laughing. and not worry about finding the
Just when you think things are one, because usually, it is by not
going well, it is possible that fate looking that you discover the
could still ruin your date. perfect match.

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TIPS FROM PAGE 11
becue or crawfish boil, make sure
to eat beforehand. It is hard to
handle a rumbling stomach when
your meal options are limited.
SNACKS
You are most likely to crave
meat when you are hungry, so
make sure you have plenty of
veggie-friendly snacks on hand.
Unsalted nuts, yogurt and sliced
vegetables or fruits make for the
healthiest options but you can
also grab your favorite chips as
long as they do not have any ani-
mal byproducts which can hide in
some of our favorite foods.
Freezing vegetables and fruits
for smoothies is a healthy and deli-
cious option when you are craving
a sweet snack. Add some protein
powder to make it more substan-
tial, and you are good to go!
READ THE LABEL
Most strict vegetarians avoid
foods with ingredients from de-
ceased animals while vegans will
not eat any animal product.
Whichever you choose to be,
make sure to read the label for
hidden additives that contain by-
products. Everyone knows Jell-O
has gelatin but so do marshmal-
lows and some frozen vegetables.
A key part to being vegan or veg-
etarian is becoming an expert at
decoding food labels.
PINTEREST
Since most people no longer
use cookbooks, Pinterest is a great
source for vegetarian or vegan
friendly recipes. Use someone
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elses board or start your own to
create a reference for meal ideas
that will not be too repetitive or
boring. You can also modify reci-
pes that do contain meat to be
vegetarian fairly easily just by re-
placing the protein.
PLAN AHEAD
Taking half an hour to plan
out what ingredients to buy at the
store based on your meals for the
week will make your life easier,
especially when you are on a lim-
ited budget. This will alleviate the
burden of not only deciding what
to eat every day, but also actually
preparing the food and making
sure your ingredients do not ex-
pire before you use them.
PROTEIN
The biggest hurdle when be-
coming vegetarian is finding non-
meat sources of protein to main-
tain a healthy diet.
Nuts and beans are great but
varying your food is important to
make sure you do not get bored.
Tofu is versatile but do not under-
estimate grains as a viable protein
source. Quinoa, buckwheat and
amaranth can be paired with len-
tils or spinach to help build mus-
cle and keep you healthy.
DONT BEAT YOURSELF UP
Everyone makes mistakes. Do
not give up completely just be-
cause you ate one thing that is not
vegetarian. Just like anything else,
a new diet takes time and practice.
Focus on the good you are do-
ing by cutting out meat and not
the slip ups you have or the crav-
ings you give into.
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VIP FROM PAGE 11 DINING FROM PAGE 10
food from four of the West Village
micro-restaurants in one transac-
a full list, visit www.vip.gatech. nine. Spending additional meal tion. Seeing systematic changes
edu/teams. swipes and dining points for the and the efforts to, according to
Because the research-based extra change will be a thing of the Flores, continue to enhance and
organization is considered an past or maybe not, because an expand Fresh, Local, and Sustain-
extensive program, students are Auntie Annes is a planned addi- able efforts through Georgia Tech
continuously mentored not only tion for later this year. Dining, is exciting and reassur-
by faculty, but also by those who With this new venue is also ing for all Tech consumers.
are graduating, allowing for long a planned West Village menu Tech Dining is conscious and
term development. change for which Flores stated, ever improving dietary options,
Teams are able to take their The goal is to provide a menu and student input is always wel-
expertise from their project to mix that offers more balanced op- come. Pastries can also be pur-
a whole new level by presenting tions, including more vegetables, chased online through an e-com-
at competitions to win awards, with a strong focus on fresh sea- merce website.
such as at the VIP Innovation sonal ingredients; many of the Thanks to a dedicated dining
Competition which is sponsored menu items were also gathered department whose priorities are to
by Cisco. from feedback. serve meals that are both healthy
While participating in faculty It will be interesting to see and delicious, snacks are abound,
research, students also have the how these new menus will affect available for everyone and a
opportunity to participate in pub- how students choose to eat with constantly evolving adventure
lished work and get more expo- Route 4, a system for purchasing at Tech.
sure in regards to technical writ-
ing and publishing.
Students VIP grades are based
on documentation and records,
teamwork and contribution.
For students who are consider-
ing pursuing a Research Option
(RO) under their major, VIP is a
great opportunity because it re-
quires thesis work on a continuous
project. Having access to a faculty
mentor and other experienced
students within the team can be
a great resource throughout the
process as well.
Whether you are interested in
bees, security challenges, automo-
tives, concussions, gravitational
waves or improving something
Tech already has to offer, Verti-
cally Integrated Projects seems
like the type of program in Photo by Thomas Kaplan Student Publications
which nearly everyone can find Pictured above is Brittain Dining Hall, located on East campus.
their niche. Tech Dining strives to provide dietary options for everyone.

Entertainment
Inaugural music film fest celebrates unsung genre
JON LONG
STAFF WRITER
Though the term music film
may seem obscure on the surface,
it is a genre with which everyone,
on some level, is intimately famil-
iar. Streaming services like, Netf-
lix and Hulu, play host to a slew
of documentaries and biopics on
prominent musicians.
Soundtrack-driven films, like
Les Misrables and La La
Land, have shown huge ticket-
selling potential, and the post-
MTV landscape has given viewers
the ability to watch Taylor Swifts
Look What You Made Me Do
whenever they please.
To celebrate films like these,
a few artistic minds came to-
gether to create the ATLarge Film
Festival. The inaugural Atlanta
festival comes from the same vein
of meticulously curated events,
like South by Southwest (SXSW)
and Sundance.
I just felt like the music film
genre was really underappreci-
ated, said event co-founder Rob
Ganger. With Atlanta, its film
industry and music industry
are thriving.
Obviously the music industry
has for a lot longer, but the film
industry is in some ways surpass-
ing it now. So, we decided that the
time was right to start this festival
to kind of do both things, Gang-
er added.
The inaugural festival, held
between Oct. 27 and 29, brought
creators from all over the United
States to Atlanta in order to share
their films and speak to attendees.
One of these creators, direc-
tor Jodi Wille, brought her film
Stranger Things raises stakes despite missteps
TELEVISION
Stranger Things
NETWORK: Netflix
WHEN: Oct. 27
STARRING: Winona Ryder,
David Harbour
OUR TAKE: to believe.
DAVID RAJI
MANAGING EDITOR
After what seemed like al-
most too long to wait, Stranger
Things is back and graces Netflix
once again with spooky homage-
filled goodness. All nine episodes
of its second series were released
on Oct. 27.
The majority of the ensemble
cast returns; the only primary
characters from the first series
not making an appearance are
those who were killed off in the
first season.
Winona Ryder (Edward Scis-
sorhands) and David Harbour
(Suicide Squad) reprise their
roles as family matriarch Joyce
Byers and Hawkins Police Chief
Jim Hopper. The show now finds
Joyce in a relationship with former
high school classmate Bob New-
Videographer Gerald Barclay discusses his film, which centers on the rise of the rap group
the Wu-Tang Clan, at the inaugural iteration of the inaugural music film festival ATLarge.
The Source Family to the fes-
tival for its first ever screening in
the Southeast. The film had previ-
ously sold out screenings in sever-
al prominent festivals worldwide,
including SXSW.
I think film festivals are so
enriching for a city because hav-
ing a festival is very different than
just having movies at a theater,
Wille said. Oftentimes with film
festivals, the directors are willing
to bring out filmmakers and the
subjects of their film, so it allows
for cultural conversations.
The festival decided not to ac-
cept submissions in its first year,
instead opting to carefully curate
the films that filled the walls of
by, played by Sean Astin, (Lord
of the Rings).
Finn Wolfhard (It) also re-
turns as Mike Wheeler. The series
begins with him fruitlessly search-
ing the airwaves for any sign of
Eleven. As the audience later finds
out, she is not quite as done for as
the end of the first series had led
have worked if viewers already
Millie Bobby Brown (Intrud-
ers) plays the telekinetic Hawkins
Lab escapee, who has been living
in the middle of the woods with
Hopper, ostensibly to avoid detec-
tion by Hawkins Lab officials.
Their back-and-forth is gener-
ally relatable and enjoyable. The
backstory of how they connected
and entered into their living ar-
rangements told through flash-
back is quite well done.
Two prominent new characters
make their debut in Hawkins fair-
ly early on: Mad Max Mayfield
(Sadie Sink, The Glass Castle)
and her older step-brother Billy
Hargrove (Dacre Montgomery,
Power Rangers).
However, neither characters
purpose is immediately apparent,
leaving the viewer with a sense
that both of them were only dis-
tractions from the action. Maxs
inclusion seems to be solely as a
love interest as well as a point of
Georgia States Creative Media
Industries Institute. While the
turnout was not huge, the inti-
mate feel was par for the course
for an inaugural festival.
As a first year event, its al-
ways tough to get traction, so we
didnt have high expectations for
a big turnout, Ganger explained.
Whats important to us is the
quality of the curation and the
people that we are bringing in,
and that really surpassed our ex-
pectations.
Some of the connections that
were made through the experience
have kind of blown our minds.
For that, it was completely worth
it, and we feel we have a great
conflict for members of the origi-
nal gang from the first season.
The character of Billy has even
less purpose; his primary responsi-
bilities throughout the season are
unnecessarily berating his step-
sister and checking himself out,
Buffalo Bill-style.
His conflict with Max might
were invested in Max from the
previous season. As is, the subplot
falls rather flat, yet perhaps there
was no grand design ever planned
out for the character.
A simple explanation for Billy
lies in the character of Henry
Bowers from Stephen Kings
It. He could have been intended
as an homage to the simple-but-
evil baddie.
The Steve Harrington (Joe
Keery, Mollys Game) arc is an-
other minor annoyance. While
the character is much more likable
this season, his rapid transition
from the douchebaggery exhibited
last season to being a fiercely pro-
tective and loyal guardian baby-
sitter is a bit much to swallow.
However, Steves partnership
with and mentoring of Dustin
Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo)
makes all of this worth it. Steves
final scene, in which he drops off
See THINGS, page 17
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Monica Jamison
ASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Joshua Trebuchon
entertainment@nique.net
Photo courtesy of Catherine Rakowiecki
foundation moving forward,
Granger continued.
By bringing an event with
great potential to grow to Atlanta,
Granger and the other organizers
hope to expedite the citys path
to becoming a cultural power-
house. Music has always been a
big as well as an integral part of
Atlantas DNA, and production
companies have been making
high budget blockbusters right
outside Techs doorstep, including
Marvel movies like Ant Man.
Ganger believes that these de-
velopments will have an impact on
the way that Atlantas students in-
teract with the city and its culture.
Getting students involved is very
Millie Bobby Brown stars as Eleven in the hit Netflix series
Stranger Things, which recently returned for a second season.
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important to us, he said. We re-
ally want to engage the younger
generation because [they] have so
much access to everything.
We live in turbulent times,
Ganger continued. What is an
artists role in that, and what can
they do to make a difference in
their own life and within their
community?
Wille echoed his sentiments,
focusing on the interplay between
media, youth and societal issues.
You bring communities to-
gether with film festivals, she
said. You get people to speak
and share ideas, and during times
like right now, when there is so
much happening in our country,
conversations and community
are more important than ever.
Film festivals bring people to-
gether in a way that can be revi-
talizing for a community; I think
any person, regardless of resources
or age, can start sharing films with
their friends, Wille continued.
Really, all it takes is a desire to
share a film, and the desire to think
about a film on a larger level to
realize that each film has themes
that come with it and messages
of value.
They can be igniters of con-
versations that are beneficial to
have in our culture. For me, as a
film programmer, I think about
films that speak to the times we
are in, she concluded.
The interest of sponsors, cou-
pled with the attention from film-
makers and other industry lead-
ers, have already put ATLarge in
a promising position. ATLarge
could easily turn into Atlantas
premiere film festival in the com-
ing years while also amplifying
the importance of music in film.
Photo courtesy of Netflix
// ENTERTAINMENT
Stressed out after The Killing of a Sacred Deer
FILM
The Killing of a Sacred
Deer
GENRE: Drama
STARRING: Colin Farrell,
Nicole Kidman
DIRECTOR: Yorgos
Lanthimos
RATING: R
RELEASE DATE: Sept. 22
OUR TAKE: clearly Steven quietly relishes his
MOHAR KALRA
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Yorgos Lanthimoss newest
film, The Killing of a Sacred
Deer, is stressful. The film is
uncomfortable, horrifying and
at its best profoundly difficult
to watch.
The film stars Colin Far-
rell (The Lobster) as Steven, a
lauded but stoic cardiac surgeon.
Steven is the image of American
success. He is wealthy, married to
a beautiful wife, played by Nicole
Kidman (Eyes Wide Shut), and
has two clearly bright children.
Lanthimos employs his unique
brand of atmospheric filmmak-
ing to depict Stevens perfect life
as deeply unsettling. None of the
characters seem natural.
Farrell delivers nearly all his
lines in a stilted, robotic mono-
tone, and his family responds in
kind. Outbursts of emotion an-
ger, sadness, anything are rare
and significant in this landscape
of grey emotional repression.
Lanthimos slowly immerses
viewers in Stevens clinical world.
Over the first 30 minutes or so,
viewers see glimpses of Stevens
home life. He proudly executes his
role as family patriarch, managing
his teenage daughter, Kim (Raffey
technique November 3, 2017 15
Cassidy, Tomorrowland), and and gory imagery to exploit audi- image does not equate to peace in Ultimately, Lanthimos at-
his grade-school son, Bob (Sunny ences empathy for Steven. the minds of Lanthimoss charac- tempts to criticize the notions of
Suljic, The Unspoken). Viewers are forced to simulta- ters. There is no reprieve from the importance, power and responsi-
In the bedroom, his wife Anna neously wrestle with Stevens ethi- tenseness of this world. bility in society by forcing Steven
mimics a patient under general cal dilemma and rationalize his The cast also is suitably un- to take perverse responsibility for
anaesthetic per Stevens request often unethical judgments as he settling. Farrells stoicism makes the authority he exercises over
as they make love. Between these grows more and more desperate. his emotional outbreaks near the peoples lives forcing him to
scenes, Steven furtively meets with Lanthimos sets a droning, films end even more poignant. keep his gloves on for once.
seemingly dull, equally stilted electronic soundtrack to his stark Nicole Kidman plays off his ap- While his point is compelling,
teenager Martin (Barry Keoghan, images. The music is ever pres- parent inhumanity with a vigor the extreme stress, tension and
Dunkirk), whose father Steven ent, ever restless, but it crescendos and silent aggression that is truly discomfort that Lanthimos exerts
had accidentally killed on the op- during emotionally climactic mo- intimidating. on his viewers does not seem justi-
erating table some years prior. ments, blaring into viewers ears The real standout is Barry Ke- fied by this theme. By the end of
From these initial scenes, and crawling under their skin. oghan as Martin. Keoghan is psy- the film, the plot pushes Steven
Lanthimos captures the hos- chotic. Initially playing dumb and into truly terrifying territory.
authority and importance in soci- pital where Stevens children lay seemingly slow in the head, Ke- Viewers are forced to ask them-
ety. As the movie opens, viewers with floating, sweeping shots that oghan infuses Martin with a com- selves if they are watching the re-
are treated immediately to an im- emphasize the emptiness of this plete lack of empathy that makes sults of a relevant, meaningful
age of a heart beating in an open clinical environment. Though his character truly terrifying. He moral dilemma or if the film has
chest cavity followed by a shot of many of his shots are long and truly believes in the justice of the simply reduced itself to a sadistic
Steven peeling off his surgeons often quite still, the camera itself punishment he has inflicted on exploration of an inane Would
gloves and disposing of them after is never still. Always zooming in Stevens family. He intends and you rather? Either way, if view-
the surgery. He wipes his hands ever so slightly, the camera is as portrays no malice or emotion ers are seeking horror, horror they
clean of the surgery figuratively. restless as the soundtrack, sug- simply conviction, the most un- will get. Horror does not get bet-
Sometimes purging oneself of gesting that the stillness of the settling quality of all. ter than this, but some movies do.
ones actions is not so easy. Before
long, Kim and Bob fall ill with a
mysterious, undetectable ailment.
Martin privately reveals to Steven
that Bob, Kim and ultimately
Anna will all fall ill and die, un-
less Steven kills one of them.
In a perverted twist of logic,
Martin claims this is justice for
his fathers death, and Steven
must decide. Lanthimos never
establishes how Martin cast his
curse or whether it is even real.
The uncertainty, mystery and
fear that prey upon Steven, Anna
and, consequently, the audience
slowly builds the foundation for
the psychological stress, which
Lanthimos exerts on viewers as
Steven struggles to decide what
to do as his children are ever-so-
slowly dying in front of him.
Technically, this film is mas-
terfully made. Lanthimos lever-
ages his vast skill set as a director
to make this film as personally Photo courtesy of Element Pictures
uncomfortable as possible, relin- Colin Farrell stars as a cardiac surgeon in Yorgos Lanthimoss new drama film The
quishing traditional jump scares Killing of a Sacred Deer, which explores themes of power, responsibility and revenge.
16 November 3, 2017 technique
High tech SIRO-A group dazzles after slow start
EVENTS
SIRO-A
PERFORMERS: Daiki, Abiru,
Toshiya Arai, Toshinori Abe
LOCATION: Ferst Center for
the Arts
DATE: Oct. 27
OUR TAKE: sisted of 13 acts. The photo tak-
JAMIE RULE
STAFF WRITER
After being duly introduced,
SIRO-A took the stage in the form
of four shiny-white-clad perform-
ers and another character who
was wearing an outfit inspired by
traditional Japanese clothing and
had a box for a head.
The five wasted little time with
introductions and immediately
asked for fifty volunteers. The au-
dience was a little confused, but
eventually a suitable number of
people lined up on stage right.
Each was individually pho-
tographed in front of the white
backdrop in various poses by one
of the five while two others direct-
ed the traffic.
Meanwhile, the remaining
group members aimlessly wan-
dered the audience. Occasionally
Toshiya Arai asked, Have you
ever seen our show? or the box
head character, who never was in-
troduced or explained, giggled.
At precisely 8:16 p.m., the orig-
inal line of volunteers had all had
their pictures taken, but SIRO-A
asked for five more people to be
photographed. This lengthy pro-
// ENTERTAINMENT
cess was not a good opening for ground attended to the technolo- ticularly well-coordinated as the Towards the end of the perfor-
something labelled as entertain- gy running the show. Technology lighting told a story on them. mance, it was shown that the pho-
ment. SIRO-A could improve was used in innovative ways Perhaps the most enjoyable tos that were painstakingly taken
their ability to connect with the not to simply enhance the show as parts of the night, however, were at the beginning had been config-
audience, or they could take the has been done by many perform- the two sections named LO- ured into a background for one of
necessary photos ahead of time. ers, but rather as the show itself. GOS and Typographer. In the less enticing dances.
All of this mostly uninterrupt- In BOX, one of the first acts, LOGOS, the performers con- This act was still interesting
ed free time allowed for audience the dancers picked up blank white torted themselves along with to behold, and people do tend to
members to read their programs, cards to catch the images of in- several props into the outlines of enjoy knowing that they have, in
which revealed that the show con- struments, which they proceeded brand logos, including a compari- some small way, helped to create a
to pretend to play. Mostly a feat son between the Dove bird and work of art.
ing was, in fact, a titled part of the of synchronicity, the performers the Twitter bird. Typographer The finale was the epitome how
scheduled performance. were not doing any particularly played scenes from famous mov- SIRO-A advertises themselves;
At 8:18 p.m., Avatar ended, challenging physical feats. Yet ies with word art scenery, allowing the audience was not left wanting
and the five performers left the their nigh-robotic toying with the audience to utilize their pop as the lasers, lighting and dancing
stage with an emphatic We will several blank cubes looked par- culture knowledge. combined in a last hurrah.
see you later! A little while after
this exit, a cameraman with a tri-
pod came out and started filming
the audience, displaying his view
on the stages main screen.
This activity became slightly
more entertaining when he se-
lected and zoomed in on a single
person in the crowd, and onscreen
lettering asked him to raise his left
hand. Cue superimposed flying
Superman image. The audience
burst out laughing.
These antics continued for a
few more images until the friendly
yellow letters signed off with En-
joy our show.
By this point, the audience
was so sufficiently starved for en-
tertainment that a sock puppet
sing-a-long would not have been
received too poorly. Fortunately,
SIRO-A began their performance
in earnest with blaring techno
music and a three dimensionally
projected light show.
Throughout the rest of the per-
formance, four artists switched off Photo courtesy of Paul Brown
who was dancing with the light, Members of the group SIRO-A, a Japanese techno-circus group, put on a performance.
while two others in the back- The group entertains with comedy, visual performance and audience involvement.
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Weezer true to character but forgettable THINGS FROM PAGE 14

MUSIC
Pacific Daydream
Weezer
LABEL: Crush Music
GENRE: Rock
TRACK PICKS: Feels
Like Summer, Weekend
Woman and Happy Hour
OUR TAKE:
JOSH TREBUCHON
ASSISTANT ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
On Oct. 27, Weezer released
Pacific Daydream, the bands
first album in a little over a year
and a half. The album has its
strengths and its weaknesses, but
fans need not worry; ultimately,
Pacific Daydream is as Weezer
as Weezer gets.
The style of their music cer-
tainly is not what it was in 1994,
but every artist should evolve over
time. What is important is that
all of the key elements that make
music Weezer music are present:
nerdy weirdness, musical variety
and most important of all a
defiant refusal to do what is con-
sidered cool.
Of course, the album needed
a few radio-friendly singles to
round things out, so frontman
Rivers Cuomo penned Mexican
Fender and Feels Like Sum-
mer, easily digestible pop songs
with catchy choruses and intros.
Still, even these seemingly hol-
low offerings have veins of Weezer
weirdness in them. In Mexican
Fender, Cuomo recounts his
nerdy romantic encounter with
another bands lead singer who
also dabbles in physics and com-
puter programming. While Feels
Like Summer is a simple, fast-
moving pop song, its structure is
just unique enough to make it feel
like a Weezer track.
Moving into the body of the
album, more geekiness and pe-
culiarity can be found. In QB
Blitz, Cuomo compares his isola-
tion to the icy planet Hoth from
the Star Wars franchise.
Then there is La Mancha
Screwjob, a song about Cuomos
betrayal of and subsequent feel-
ings of guilt towards a former
songwriting partner.
While the content of the song
is fairly straightforward, its title
could be a reference to the novel
Don Quixote, a famous profes-
sional wrestling incident or and
perhaps most likely a Radiolab
podcast of the same name that
discusses the relationship between
the two.
In Weekend Woman, Cuo-
mo alludes to The Zombies 1960s
hit Time of the Season. Addi-
tionally, the frontman includes
Beach Boys on the album as a
tribute to one of the bands most
significant musical influences.
None of these thoroughly un-
cool quirks may appeal to mod-
ern conventional pop fans, who
commercially-minded artists
are constantly looking to cap-
ture. A typical commercial pop
band would never release this
album, so even the existence of
Pacific Daydream fits the quint-
essentially Weezer divergence
from the norm.
Throughout the album, Cuo-
mo makes it obvious that he did
not write his music to cater to an
audience. He refused to be cool
or predictable, as has always been
his trademark.
Still, Cuomo works so hard to
write Weezer music for Weezer
fans that he is essentially writing
for an audience, if not a tradition-
al or mainstream one. Granted,
there is nothing wrong with Cuo-
mo writing music that he knows
his fans will want to hear. It just
may be that the Weezer of old can
never truly exist in a world that
wants it.
In this paradoxical way in
which an album can be a Weezer
album, then, Pacific Daydream
certainly is one. Moving beyond
this standard, however, one still
must decide if it is quality music.
The album is anchored by
songs that balance simplicity
with depth and subtlety, such as
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo performs at Music Midtown. The
group recently released a new album titled Pacific Daydream.
Weekend Woman, Feels Like
Summer and Happy Hour,
but ultimately it is weakened by
awkward, clunky tracks such as
Beach Boys, QB Blitz and
Get Right.
Pacific Daydream is worth
a listen, and it has memorable
tracks that can compete with any
of the rock that is out right now,
but these songs are few and far
between. For most listeners, the
album will prove easier to forget
than to remember.
Photo by Casey Gomez Student Publications
Dustin at the Snow Ball, is won-
derful. In fact, the entirety of the
Snow Ball at the end of the last
episode is a cheesy and delicious
payoff; this soft landing of the se-
ries plays marvelously.
The lowest point of the series
is Elevens episode-long detour to
visit her sister, Kali (Linnea Ber-
thelsen, Natskygge). Although
Kalis powers are pretty cool, they
cannot make up for putting the
overarching story on hold. Eleven
is not even able to get any kind of
sense of happiness from connect-
ing with her sister, as they end
things on a bad note.
Yet, with all things considered,
the weight of this season is greatly
felt. The stakes are much higher, as
the dark powers at play this time
around are coordinated and out to
do damage on a large scale. The
set pieces were impressive as well.
The Shadow Monster or Mind
Flayer absolutely dominated
the screen every time it made
an appearance.
Elevens powers this season are
more impressive than before, and
the sometimes-nonchalant, some-
times-passionate way she wields
them deepens the character.
Nancy Wheeler (Nancy Wheeler,
Hannah Montana: The Movie)
getting a good deal of screen time
is certainly welcome as well. As
with last season, Dyer knocks
it out of the park with her con-
flicted and dynamic performance.
The returning characters perfor-
mances are strong as well, with
the stand out being that of Will
Byers, whose performance is han-
dled by Noah Schnapp (Bridge
of Spies). That a 13 year-old can
muster such a range of emotion,
from utterly terrified to demoni-
cally enraged, is astounding.
The overriding concern for fu-
ture seasons will be surpassing the
level of craziness again. Trepida-
tion lies solely with the necessity
of raising the bar even higher.

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LIO BY MARK TATULLI

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Techs Keller talks amateurism
HARSHA SRIDHAR
SPORTS EDITOR
On Tuesday, students and fac-
ulty alike crowded an auditorium
in the College of Business to hear
lecturer Larry Keller discuss col-
legiate athletics as a part of the
Cecil B. Day Speaker Series.
Kellers hour-long talk was en-
titled Ethical Dimensions of Stu-
dent-Athlete Compensation and
touched upon flaws within the
current system, arguments made
by proponents and opponents of
student-athlete compensation and
a proposal that would likely sat-
isfy both parties.
One of the first steps Keller
took was to combat the oft-
claimed notion that colleges can-
not afford to pay student-athletes
salaries in return for their services.
After all, NCAA supporters say, a
very small minority of athletic
programs turn a profit, and they
do so on the backs of their football
and mens basketball programs.
An NCAA study that looked
at athletic department finances
between 2004 and 2013 found
that only 20 programs within the
Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS)
considered to be the highest
level of collegiate athletics fin-
ished in the black.
Yet what these apparently
grim numbers mask, according
to Keller, is lavish, often superflu-
ous spending on sports programs
to maintain standing as nonprofit
institutions. Two particularly
clear examples: the University of
Alabama invested in waterfalls for
its football teams training room,
while Clemson opted for slides.
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To this end, Keller moved on to
the legal and practical roadblocks
to compensation. For example,
only paying athletes who played
moneymaking sports while not
paying others might conflict with
Title IX as unequal treatment of
men and women; after all, at the
vast majority of schools, male-
dominant sports are the primary
revenue generators. Furthermore,
there is the question of how much
to pay various players. Should the
star quarterback of the football
team make as much as a backup
linebacker or a swimmer?
But the lack of salary is not the
only way that the NCAA prevents
student-athletes from earning
financial benefits for their play.
The organization prevents athletes
from profiting off the use of their
name, image and license (NIL)
rights. These players cannot use
their status or identity to profit.
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Techs defense lines up against Wake Forest. Whether they
should be compensated for their play is at issue as of late.
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Here, Keller says, lies the most
mutually agreeable solution to the
compensation dilemma. Allow-
ing athletes to make money from
product endorsements or auto-
graph signings would allow them
to profit from their success with-
out costing athletic departments a
penny. The resolution would still
leave some unhappy those, for
example, who believe that college
sports should be played entirely
for the love of the game but
would quickly resolve the ques-
tion of which athletes should be
paid how much by putting that
factor in the hands of the free
market.
As Keller acknowledges, the
recent Adidas scandal that ousted
Louisville basketball coach Rick
Pitino exposes the flimsiness of
amateurism. Changes will fun-
damentally affect the NCAA, but
they may be necessary.
CLEMSON FROM PAGE 22
year in freshman Pressley Har-
vin III. Harvin leads the nations
true freshmen in punting average
and was added to the Ray Guy
Award Watch List following his
performance at the past weekends
game, along with the other games
in which he has taken part. Re-
markably, his best performances
have come during games played
in less than ideal conditions
both of the games against Miami
and Clemson took place in heavy
downpours.
The award is presented annu-
ally to the nations top punter in
the Football Bowl Subdivision,
so while Harvin is ranked first
amongst his class, he remains
seventh when ranked with those
older than him. The semifinalists
and finalists for the award will be
announced later this month.
Another high note for the Jack-
ets was the performance of Kir-
Vonte Benson, a redshirt sopho-
more who is seeing more playing
time than ever this season. Dur-
ing the Clemson game, Benson
surpassed 100 rushing yards for
the fifth time this season. Earlier
in the year, Benson set a new B-
back rushing record during the
game against the University of
Pittsburgh, putting up a hearty
196 rushing yards.
Outside of Benson, the offense
never gained traction in Clemson.
The weather has been a good indi-
cator of the outcome of a game, as
the Jackets have shown that they
do not fare as well as other teams
when it rains. Whether or not the
rain makes an actual difference, it
changes the mentality of the game
and the teams playing. The Jackets
learned at Clemson that they can-
not afford to make small mistakes,
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such as Bensons fumble within
the first three minutes of the game
that was picked up and turned
into a touchdown for the Tigers.
Ball security had been a problem
in previous games; it shifted the
momentum in this one.
Ultimately, it was unsurprising
that the Jackets lost to Clemson.
Death Valley is as difficult a venue
as any to pull out a win, and the
Tigers have the talent of a nation-
al championship contender. The
Jackets offense can be stopped by
schematic excellence or defensive
players so athletic that plays do
not matter. Clemson has both.
Nevertheless, there are lessons
to be learned. Ball protection will
have to improve throughout the
rest of the conference schedule,
starting this week, and the defense
will need to show the toughness it
brought in the second half.
Headed into the upcoming
game against the University of
Virginia Cavaliers, the Jackets will
aim to hold their ground defen-
sively while limiting their errors
on both sides of the team. Benson
can be expected to lead the way
in terms of rushing yards, but it
will be up to quarterback TaQuon
Marshall to accurately pass the
ball to his A-backs.
ESPN.coms matchup predic-
tor shows an 80 percent predicted
chance of Tech prevailing in the
ACC competition. The Jackets
will have the benefit of experience
against an elite team in their re-
cent past.
Making timely corrections
could assure a critical rebound
victory, particularly against a Vir-
ginia team that is not accustomed
to success in conference play (and
one that is in only its second year
with new head man Bronco Men-
denhall).
22 November 3, 2017 technique
Lessons from Clemson loss
EMILY DYKSTRA
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
On Tuesday, Oct. 31, the
spookiest reveal in the college
football world was announced:
the College Football Playoff Top
25. Familiar teams were listed,
including the University of Geor-
gia at the top spot and Clemson
holding onto fourth place. Unfor-
tunately, the Jackets did not make
an appearance in the rankings,
which does not come as a surprise
after their disappointing perfor-
mance against Clemson this past
weekend. This week, the Jackets
returned to practice with a clearer
idea of what it will take to unseat a
national championship contender.
TaQuon Marshall tosses the ball as he is tackled during Techs 24-10 loss to the Tigers.
The Jackets offense never gained momentum against a stingy Clemson defense.
The Clemson game was hyped
up from the start, considering it
was an ACC matchup that fea-
tured the defending national
champions. Following a close
game against Syracuse which end-
ed in a loss, the Tigers had a bye
week to pull it together before tak-
ing on the Jackets. This additional
time allowed the team to prepare
for the triple option, a play that
is as outdated as it is uncommon.
Few teams run the play within the
ACC, making it a special case for
defensive lines to consider. Unfor-
tunately, a play that usually works
in the Jackets favor was expected
by the Tigers, furthering the away
teams disadvantage.
Although the Jackets struggled
against Clemsons defense, Techs
stop unit played outstandingly
well. In the past, the team has
found difficulty during the second
half of the game, but the defensive
players soldiered on as the clock
wound down. The Jackets man-
aged to only give up three points
during the second half in a game
that saw a 14-point deficit for
the Jackets at the end. Addition-
ally, the strong showing by the
defensive line allowed some of the
younger players an opportunity to
show off their skills on the field,
valuable experience for them.
Techs special teams units
played well, giving the team an
opportunity to pick up a few more
points here and there. The Jackets
have a new starting punter this
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Womens club soccer
competes at regionals
MAX KELLY
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Georgia Tech Womens Club
Soccer has had a season of major
accomplishments, holding their
place in competitions with soc-
cer heavyweights like Clemson
and Florida. After finishing No.
2 in their division and No. 10 in
the region, they took their place
at this years National Intramural
and Recreational Sports Associa-
tion (NIRSA) Region II tourna-
ment in Greenville, N.C.
The team had to go through a
rigorous qualifying process to se-
cure their place in the NIRSA Re-
gion II tournament. Twelve wom-
ens club soccer teams qualified to
compete at the tournament, all
of whom were part of Region II,
which spans Virginia to Florida.
The teams valiant performance
was not enough to qualify them
for the NIRSA National Soccer
Championships but still repre-
sented the progress made by the
team in recent seasons.
Briana Sobel, current club
soccer president, spoke with the
Technique about the recent tour-
nament and the club soccer team
as a whole.
We were the only one [at the
tournament] that [didnt] have
a varsity team, Sobel said. We
were worried going into this tour-
nament since we had never been
here before. However, Tech was
competitive against more estab-
lished soccer programs, winning
one of their three games in the
group stage of the competition.
We found out that we were
about as good as any of the teams
that were there, Sobel said of the
teams performance.
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As with any intercollegiate
sports team here at Tech, Wom-
ens Club Soccer has a fair few
rival teams that make for interest-
ing match-ups.
The University of Georgia is
always really fun to play against,
Sobel said. When asked about the
difference in quality between the
perennial rivals, Sobel said that
Tech and UGA are pretty even-
ly matched, so its always a good
game. Sobel also noted the pro-
gression that she has seen in the
quality of soccer during her four-
year affiliation with the team. Its
very confirming of all of the hard
work that weve put in to know
that we actually are one of the top
teams in the region, she said.
Sobel has seen a definitive in-
crease in commitment to the team
in the past few semesters.
More and more people have
been sticking with it from semes-
ter to semester, Sobel explained.
Being the president of club soc-
cer, Sobel described the responsi-
bilities that she has in organizing
the team.
We get field space. I have been
in contact with all the clubs in the
area and the region to schedule
games. Its a lot of communication
within the team, as well as people
in the institute, and people in oth-
er universities, Sobel added.
Despite the increased long-
term commitment that the team
has seen in recent years, recruit-
ment is still an integral part of
moving forward for Womens
Club Soccer. We usually take
around 21 people for the team
[each semester], Sobel said. This
past fall, we had almost 50 people
try out. Varsity sport or not, it
is clear that Tech has a place for
womens soccer.
// SPORTS
Tech basketball to open season in China
JOHN EDWARDS
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
In one of the biggest tests for
Josh Pastners fledgling basketball
program, the Jackets will take on
the UCLA Bruins Saturday, Nov.
10 in Shanghai, China as the Pac-
12 China Game presented by the
Alibaba Group. Tech, coming off
a hot start to Pastners tenure, will
open the regular season overseas
against an opponent it has not
faced since 2006.
Tech enters the game after
losing star sophomore Josh Oko-
gie during an exhibition match
against Georgia State University
last Saturday, when Okogie suf-
fered an open dislocation of his
index finger. Pastner indicated
that Okogie could expect to be out
for a while, courtesy of MyAJC.
com. But no timeline for Okogies
recovery has been announced or
released. Pastner did indicate on
Thursday that Okogie would miss
Techs season opener.
Freshman Curtis Haywood is
likely to take the floor in place
of Okogie. Haywood played 32
minutes against GSU, putting up
three points, four rebounds and
one assist. He will look to improve
those figures moving forward.
Instead of Okogie, Tech will
have to rely heavily upon Ben
Lammers, the senior center who
won ACC Defensive Player of the
Year last season. Lammers aver-
aged almost a double-double last
season with 14.2 points and 9.2
rebounds per game, and finished
third in the country in blocks per
game (3.4). Lammers will be com-
plimented by Tadric Jackson, who
showed significant improvement
in scoring last season and looks to
continue the trend this year.
Josh Okogie rises for a shot against Pitt. Okogie, a key contributor, is likely out for several
weeks following an injury sustained versus Georgia State and will miss the UCLA game.
Tech will face off against
UCLA, a perennial college bas-
ketball powerhouse. UCLA has
notched eleven NCAA champion-
ships in its history, a record, and
has produced some of the great-
est NBA basketball players of all
time, including Kareem Abdul-
Jabbar, Bill Walton and Reggie
Miller. Former Bruins coach John
Wooden is widely considered to
be the greatest college basketball
coach of all time, leading UCLA
to ten titles.
UCLAs recent history has
continued this trend of greatness,
reaching the Sweet Sixteen in the
NCAA 2017 March Madness
Tournament and sending point
guard Lonzo Ball to the NBA as
the second overall pick in the 2017
NBA draft. Led by Coach Steve
Alford, they rebounded from a
disappointing 2015-2016 season
in which they posted only their
fourth losing season since 1948
to go 31-5 in 2016-2017, finishing
the season ranked No. 8 overall in
the country in the AP Top 25 poll.
UCLA enters the Pac-12 China
Game ranked No. 21 in the coun-
try overall after graduating a con-
siderable amount of talent, but the
Bruins still look poised to com-
pete after bringing in some top-
tier freshmen talent, including
point guard Jaylen Hands, ranked
as the No. 3 PG in his recruiting
class, and Lonzo Balls younger
brother LiAngelo Ball, a forward
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Bruins at Mercedes-Benz Arena
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guard. The Bruins involvement
with the Ball family has drawn
national attention recently, thanks
to LaVar Balls outspoken nature.
Ball received heavy media cover-
age for claims regarding his son
Lonzo, saying that his son was a
better basketball player than two-
time NBA MVP Stephen Curry
(among other remarks). The elder
Ball has been much more tem-
pered with his remarks regarding
current UCLA player LiAngelo,
saying that he believes LiAngelo is
the least likely of his three sons to
make the NBA.
UCLA brought in another
strong class of freshmen their
recruiting class was ranked No. 4
in the country by ESPN, includ-
ing Ball, Hands and five-star-
prospect Kris Wilkes. UCLA is
expecting to rely on their fresh-
men for significant minutes in ad-
dition to returning players Aaron
Holiday and Thomas Welsh, but
the uncertainty in performance
from unproven freshmen means
that expectations for the Bruins
are tempered entering 2017-2018,
though the sheer talent alone
might carry UCLA deep into the
playoffs later this season.
Tech has played the Bruins
only four times in their history.
They most recently played in
2006, when the Bruins defeated
the Jackets 88-73 in the champi-
onship game of the Maui Invita-
tional Tournament. Tech has only
defeated UCLA once before, beat-
ing the Bruins 72-67 in 2000.
The Jackets will take on the
in Shanghai at 11:30 p.m. EST on
Nov. 10. The game will be broad-
cast nationally on ESPN.
The game is an early-season
contest, so while there may be
significant temptation to react
strongly to the outcome, it is
important to keep expectations
rational. The Jackets will play
without arguably their best player.
They must replace two very expe-
rienced players from their 2016-17
lineup with two unknowns. They
face a Bruins squad loaded with
top-notch talent and looking to
establish itself as a contender in
the NCAA Tournament.
No, the Jackets will probably
not leave Shanghai with a win.
But a competitive game will do
wonders for the teams confi-
dence (not to mention recogni-
tion abroad). Should they manage
to come out on top against Steve
Alfords team, it would be an im-
pressive start indeed.
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jackets. cavaliers.
TaQuon Marshall versus Kurt Benkert.
The triple option versus a stout defense.
Can Tech make it two in a row against Virginia?

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TECH
Tech (4-3, 3-2 ACC) Speaking of that de-
has dropped two of fense, they have played
three. The good news? well beyond any reason-
Both were against ranked able expectations. Since
opponents; Miami and allowing 42 points in an
Clemson find themselves overtime loss versus Ten-
in the top ten after the nessee to start the sea-
most recent weeks set son, the Jackets have not
of games. The bad news? allowed more than 24.
The offense was basically Yes, perhaps the Tigers
dormant in both contests. let off the gas once they
The Jackets calling card jumped up to a 21-point
in recent years has been lead, but the numbers are
an explosive offense that impressive nonetheless.
got support from a bend- They get a relative break
but-dont-break defense. this week against a much
When the former does less potent Cavalier of-
not do its job, the Jackets fense. They cannot afford
face an uphill battle. to be complacent.
UVA
Virginia (5-3, 2-2 ACC)
is enjoying its best season
since 2011, when the team
lost in the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
By strength of schedule,
UVA scores a -0.95. They
have one of the weak-
er slates in the country
this season.
But not all of the teams
success can be chalked
up to an easier schedule.
Former Eastern Carolina
passer Kurt Benkert is
putting together a second
solid season in Charlot-
tesville; he has thrown 17
touchdowns against five
interceptions, good for
a passer rating of 127.7.
Yet he has thrown for a
combined 338 yards, two
touchdowns and two
interceptions during a
two-game losing streak.
Benkert will have to play
better against Tech.
Senior linebacker Micah
Kiser leads the charge on
defense. He was top of
the ACC in tackles last
season with 68. While his
production has dipped a
bit this season, he is still
second on the team in
stops. Although he has yet
to force a fumble this year,
a turnover would be key.

prediction: tech 31, uva 17