Students Participate in Day of Service Partner for ARCHE by Maddie Cook Staff Writer
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Friday, April 15, 2011 • Volume 96, Issue 29 • nique.net Science guy inspires Bill Nye the Science Guy returns to students' lives to share scientific wisdom. 413 TechniqueThe South’s Liveliest College Newspaper Tech, Emory students participate in day of service partner for ARCHE By Maddie Cook Staff Writer Tech and Emory University are collaborat- ing on a cross-registration program that allows students at each school to take courses at the other institution, provided that the course is unique and not offered in some way at their home school. Institute President G.P. ‘Bud’ Peterson and President James Wagner of Emory have been working on developing this program. “What we are trying to do is to enhance the relationship we have with Emory to lever- age our resources,” Peterson said. Students have often requested a stronger diversity of classes from the Institute. This program aims to resolve that issue. While Tech has a wide variety of courses in engineer- ing, science and technology, it lacks in many Photos by Virginia Lin / Student Publications areas. Students participate in landscaping projects across campus on Saturday, April 9 during Tech Beautification Day. “We can’t afford to have experts and faculty This service project dates back to 1998 and involves students from every major working on numerous projects. in every area [of studies]. We can’t afford to do everything ourselves, and neither can Emory. This is a way we can make a more diversified By Aakash Arun respective projects. Approxi- painting, planting flowering manned so we’re here to help array of courses available to students,” Peter- Contributing Writer mately 1100 volunteers were plants around campus and them just like they’re there to son said. signed up to participate in 70 other maintenance activities. help us on a daily basis,” Eick Wagner commented on the pairing of Tech Tech Beautification Day different projects. There was a barbeque celebra- said. and Emory for this program. (TBD) was held this past “TBD is a chance for all the tion after students finished The number of Greek “One institution is public, the other is pri- Saturday, April 9. Students students on campus to come their activities. houses participating in proj- vate, so we are not stepping on each other’s participated in general clean- out and make the place where Volunteers in different ects increased this year in toes in seeking certain kinds of basic funding. up and landscaping activities they go to school better look- projects were administered comparison to previous years. As the State of Georgia supports Tech in ways to aesthetically enhance the ing. There’s a lot of construc- by project coordinators who Initially, there were a large that make it stronger, the partnerships with campus surroundings. The tion on campus, and we want were in charge of managing number of students participat- Emory benefit,” Wagner said. event has been held annually to put our best foot forward and coordinating TBD proj- ing in projects but not many Tech and Emory students have had the on campus since 1998. since new students are coming ects along with the help of of them were representative of capability to cross-register at each institution Volunteers teamed up to to campus,” said James Eick, representatives from Facilities. fraternities or sororities. This since the program was established in 1999 participate in different proj- TBD co-chair and a fourth- These representatives instruct- year nine Greek houses partic- through a non-profit organization called the ects as part of the event, which year MGT major. ed volunteers for each project ipated in various projects for Atlanta Regional Council for Higher Educa- lasted from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Students participated in on landscaping strategies and TBD in comparison to only tion (ARCHE). Registration for the event be- a number of projects that in- techniques. three houses in previous years. Between 1999 and 2010, there have been gan at 9 a.m. on the Instruc- cluded trash pick-up, spread- “Facilities may have trou- Greek Houses also submitted tional Center lawn where ing fresh pine-straw and ble keeping up with some ac- See ARCHE, page 7 students proceeded to their mulch, laying grass seed, tivities because they’re under- See TBD, page 5 When the Whistle BloWs TEDxGT draws tech savvy crowd By henry Duong technology being interconnected videos from TED conferences. Last Contributing Writer with many facets of modern society. summer, I studied abroad in Oxford Featured speakers at this TEDx University, where the TED global Tech hosted its first TEDx event event were from both inside and out- conference was taking place, and I in the Clary Theatre on Saturday, side of the community. Some of the thought Tech, being a research uni- April 9.The event was organized in- internal speakers included Jeannette versity, could benefit from having an dependently by students and sought Yen, professor and director of Center event like this and get people togeth- to bring the experience and format for Biologically-Inspired Design and er to share their ideas,” said Sharad of the larger TED conference to the John Cressler, professor of ECE. Gopal, one of the primary student Tech community. Gil Weinberg, director of Mu- organizers of the event and third-year TED, an acronym for Technol- sic Technology at Tech, was among IE major. ogy, Entertainment and Design, is the speakers from Tech. Weinberg One of the featured speakers a set of global conferences owned by founded Tech’s graduate program in from the Tech community was Re- The Sapling Foundation, a private Music Technology and is currently gents Professor Ronald Arkin, from non-profit organization. Its stated involved in research interests about the School of Interactive Comput- purpose can be summed up by its music networks, musical expression ing. Arkin spoke about Ethics and motto: Ideas worth spreading. and music education. Lethality in Autonomous Combat The conference features a series of One external speaker included Robots. speakers, and each speaker is given a Aubrey Graham, a social documen- Arkin’s talk explored ideas such as maximum of 18 minutes to present tary photography based in Atlanta. whether or not robots are more ideal their topic. Graham has completed photo-essays soldiers than humans are, and the TEDx is a program that enables highlighting child disability, geno- implications of removing the human smaller groups and communities to cide and other human rights themes. element from the decision to kill in enjoy a TED-like experience through They spoke about a broad range war. events that are organized indepen- of topics, from the ethical impact of “I’ve heard of TED before, and dently by members of the commu- technological advances in robotics, I knew it was a wonderful opportu- nity. to robot and computer musicianship nity to be able to express oneself in Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications TED started with a focus on to a photography presentation about front of a diverse audience and get A color guard made up of students from Tech’s ROTC technology and design but has since the conditions in the Republic of feedback in diverse way. I wanted to branched out to an increasingly wide Congo. participate and be a part of this. It’s program retire the colors after honoring members of range of topics as a natural result of “I’ve always been a huge fan of the Tech community who passed away in the last year. See TEDxGT, page 5 2 • April 15, 2011 • Technique neWs From the files of the GTPD... Swindler, no swindling An individual was arrested Technique outside of the library on April 6 The South’s Liveliest College Newspaper Campus Crime for providing false identification to a police officer. GTPD officers By Matt Schrichte approached the subject after re- Founded in 1911, the Technique is the student newspaper of the Contributing Writer Georgia Institute of Technology, and is an official publication of the ceiving reports of a person solic- iting students for money near the Georgia Tech Board of Student Publications. 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