'SJEBZ .BSDI t7PMVNF *TTVFtnique.net Watch out for Watchmen The supreme anti-super- hero superhero movie, Watchmen is a slick, tense TechniqueThe South’s Liveliest College Newspaper take on dark drama. !17 1,000 brave cold to Take Back the Night Few turn out for GT Talks Students at the talk pose more than a dozen questions to SGA, administration. By Corbin Pon News Editor Although the Student Cen- ter !eater sat mostly empty, the questions posed the pan- elists for the second round of GT Talks "lled the enture hour and a half session. Organized by Finding Common Ground, the GT Talks series intended to give students the opportunity to have a dialogue with adminis- trators. !e second round of talks 1IPUPCZ#FO,FZTFSMJOH Student Publications was held on Wednesday at 12 Students dress for the cold as the listen stories of sexual abuseand ways to prevent it at the 15th annual Take Back the Night. p.m. in the Student Center !eater. By Kaitlin Goodrich ally important event to let people !is year’s theme was “It takes Over the course of the hour, On the panel sat Sally Sta! Writer know that this is not just an issue a thousand voices to tell a single "ve survivors’ stories were shared, Hammock, associate director that you see on TV or the news. story.” through stories, a poem and even a of the Student Center, Bob Despite the teeth-chattering One in four women are sexually “Sexual assault is considered letter to one victim’s attacker. !e Fox, associate director for Li- 41 degree weather, about a 1,000 assaulted during their college ca- a crime of silence, since so many goal of survivor stories is both to brary Administration, Andy people gathered around the Cam- reer. It is something that could people are afraid to tell someone raise awareness that these crimes Smith, senior vice provost panile Wednesday night for Tech’s happen to your lab partner, or what has happened,” said Andrea do happen at Tech, to hopefully for Academic A#airs, Nick 15th annual Take Back the Night your friend or anyone, so it is re- Naranjo, second-year INTA, sur- prevent them in the future and to Wellkamp, undergraduate (TBTN). In the glow of the light ally important to raise awareness vivor and one of the speakers at give victims a safe venue to share student body president and from the lavender luminaries set to prevent it or know what to do TBTN. “Take Back the Night is what has happened and heal. Director of Athletics Dan Ra- up around the fountain, students if it happens to you,” said Kelsey about breaking the silence and re- “Above all, for survivors this dakovich. and other supporters gathered to Tucker, second year PSYC and moving the stigma from sexual vi- event provides a safe place for “!e forum you have today raise awareness of the issue of sex- TBTN chair. olence. Sometimes it is only with them to tell their story… while is the result of a... campaign ual violence. TBTN is held every year dur- the support of others that your “Take Back the Night is a re- ing Women’s Awareness Month. voice can be heard.” See Night, page 4 See Talks, page 5 SNOW DAY Historic Ajax building faces demolition 1IPUPCZ1SJZB.BMIPUSB Student Publications The Ajax building once was a segregationist restaurant that resisted the Civil Rights Act of 1964. By Zimu Yang its fried chicken. Former governor protestors, one of which ended Contributing Writer Lester Maddox originally owned with the future governor con- the Pickrick, and it was under his fronting them while brandishing !e Georgia Board of Regents stewardship that the restaurant a handgun. Maddox ultimately (BOR) has approved the deci- became the subject of a major ra- lost the lawsuit, and rather than sion to demolish the historic Ajax cial controversy. integrate his business, he decided building located on 881 Hemphill In de"ance of civil rights leg- to sell the restaurant to his em- Avenue. !e building’s removal is islation, he "led a law suit to con- ployees. intended to increase the amount tinue his segregationist policies at Congressman John Lewis of of campus green space and to the restaurant. People gathered at Georgia’s "fth congressional dis- 1IPUPCZ"OESFX"TI Student Publications remove a structurally unsound the restaurant to protest Maddox’s trict originally disagreed with the Snow falls all over the North Avenue Apartment Complex building. refusal to comply with the legisla- decision to destroy the building. on Sunday, clinging to the rooftops and trees. Four inches of !e Ajax Building was origi- tion. During the Civil Rights Move- heavy, wet snow fell all over downtown Atlanta on Sunday. nally a well known restaurant !ere were several confronta- named the Pickrick, famous for tions between Maddox and the See Ajax, page 7 t.BSDI tTechnique NEWS From the "les of the GTPD... pulled the car over and made contact with the driver. !e car’s Technique information was run through the 5IF4PVUIT-JWFMJFTU$PMMFHF/FXTQBQFS Campus Crime police database and returned not stolen and with a valid registra- By William Brawley Founded in 1911, the Technique is the student newspaper of the tion. However, when the passen- Assistant News Editor Georgia Institute of Technology, and is an o$cial publication of the ger’s information was put through the database, his driver’s license Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications. !e Technique publishes String of Vehicle Break-ins on Fridays weekly during the fall and spring and biweekly during the police arrived that day. came back suspended and a cur- summer. On Saturday, Feb. 28 at 4 !e student also described how rent Fulton County arrest warrant p.m., police responded to Lambda he noticed that three air condi- was out for a probation violation. ADVERTISING: Information and rate cards can be found online at Chi Alpha fraternity in reference tioning units have been tampered When the o$cer obtained the nique.net/ads. !e deadline for reserving ad space is Friday at 5 p.m. to property damage. !e o$cer with and the copper pipes had passenger’s license, he also noticed one week before publication. To place a reservation, for billing infor- met with a fraternity member been wither bent or broken o#. two half-full open containers, as mation, or for any other questions please e-mail us at [email protected]. who stated that very early in the !e cost to repair these units was well as two closed containers of You may reach us by telephone at (404) 894-2830, Monday through morning the previous day, he ob- estimated at around $500. !e Colt 45 beer on the %oor in front Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. served Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity student admitted that no one wit- of the passenger seat. !e passen- COVERAGE REQUESTS: Requests for coverage and tips should be in a verbal altercation with other nessed members of the Pi Kappa ger admitted that the alcohol was submitted to the Editor-in-Chief and/or the relevant section editor. members of his fraternity. Alpha damaging the A/C units. his. !e student also stated that !e passenger was transport- OFFICE: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: he then saw the members of the That’s Not Your Bike! ed without incident to Fulton 353 Ferst Dr., Room 137 Craig Tabita other fraternity begin to trash the County Jail. !e driver was given Atlanta, GA 30332-0290 [email protected] front yard. Tech police was imme- On March 2 at 8 p.m., Tech a warning for the improper left Telephone: (404) 894-2830 Telephone: (404) 894-2831 diately noti"ed of the incident at police noticed a car make an il- turn, and the passenger was given Fax: (404) 894-1650 this time, but the Pi Kappa Alpha legal left turn from Cherry Street a warning for the open alcohol students had left the scene before onto North Avenue. !e police containers. 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Student Publications, the students, sta#, or faculty of the Georgia Institute of 14.9% Technology or the University System of Georgia. :FT UIFOFXPòFSJOHTXJMM First copy free—for additional copies call (404) 894-2830 67 responses CFSFBMMZIFMQGVM NEWS Technique t.BSDI t 3 Council Clippings Breaking This week in Student Government the ach Tuesday, elected members of the two houses of the Student Government Association, the Undergraduate House of Representatives (UHR) and the Graduate Student Senate (GSS), convene to Econsider allocation bills and discuss issues facing campus. Here is a summary of those two meetings. Bubble By Corbin Pon, News Editor, and Zimu Yang, Contributing Writer lot of things went on !is edition of Council Clip- Industrial Design Competition !e Muslim Student Associa- A outside the bubble of Tech 20,000 miles.