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

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The ideas expressed herein are those of the Tell us at individual authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Board of nique.net Student Publications, the students, staff, or faculty of the Georgia Institute of 61% Technology or the University System of Georgia. I’m not surprised. First copy free—for additional copies call (404) 894-2830 Based on 149 responses NEWS Technique • April 15, 2011 • 3 Council Clippings This week in Student Government “The results are interesting. Bill Summary I was not surprised that the stu- By Mike Donohue, SGA Editor dents might want to go with vol- untary versus mandatory. I’m glad Bill Amount GSS UHR ach week, this section includes coverage of different aspects of Student Government, including the Undergraduate House of Representatives, that undergraduates put it up to a Graduate Student Senate and the Executive Branch of both governments. vote to their entire body. It helps Student Center $30,030 22-1-0 34-7-2 E shape the field in general,” Bal- Gospel Choir $5543.52 23-6-5 35-5-2 dridge said. Ferst Center $25,000 32-2-0 42-1-0 Sustainability referendum ervations with an additional fee. Ferst Center Resolution --- 30-1-2 41-0-1 A plurality of undergraduates I’d like to work with [new Gradu- Veto power Paintball Club $118.16 30-0-0 48-1-0 voted in a non-binding referen- ate Student Body President James Despite receiving approval Cricket Club $2500 30-2-1 44-2-3 dum for a voluntary sustainability Black] and see if we can work from the Undergraduate House of Wrek Racing $1163.33 26-1-1 45-2-0 fee of $3-$5. The breakdown had something out. Obviously with Representatives and the Graduate 664 students voting for the volun- a voluntary fee there would be Student Senate with votes of 34- Prior Year: $11,141.16 Capital Outlay: $325,503.01 tary fee, 457 for a similar manda- an option to opt out, and I think 7-2 and 22-1-1, a bill allocating tory fee and 388 for no fee at all. they would be amenable to that,” $30,030 to the Student Center “In general, I’m very pleased Leon said. for new media equipment will be with the responses from the stu- The language presented to vot- vetoed by Undergraduate Student You can follow Mike at the Nique’s blog, The Pulse. Check in at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday for updates from UHR sessions at nique.net/pulse. dents. It shows their commitment ers was different, however, from Body President Corey Boone. to expanding sustainability on the language approved by the “Traditionally, [SGA] exists to campus. The top choice being a House two weeks ago. The origi- fund student organizations and the House and Senate next week remain open until Tuesday. The voluntary fee is obviously nothing nal bill presented the option of a their endeavors to enhance the in order to override Boone’s veto. House will vote by secret ballot. that has been done at Tech before, $2-$5 fee. Member-at-large Alex student experience. The way I see The bill was considered by the According to MATH Rep. David so it gives us a chance to move in Stewart, a third-year ME major, this bill, there are no restrictions House last week during its nor- Lowry, the vote is likely to happen that direction and try something said that there was a miscommu- placed on departments for using mal Tuesday meeting but was in closed session with only mem- new. At the same time, there was nication between UHR and the this. Theoretically, [SGA] could postponed by representatives due bers of the House attending. also a strong response with the Elections Committee which cre- be purchasing equipment that to several questions about the us- “I’m certain that I am well suit- mandatory fee, so it definitely ated the ballot. Still, he did not only is used by departments and age and price of the requested ed for the role and look forward gives a place to move forward feel it affected the results much. that makes me feel a little bit un- equipment. Debate in the Senate to addressing any questions that with finding further funding for “I think it could have slightly comfortable,” Boone said. was brief, lasting five minutes. Representatives will have for me sustainability projects,” said To- affected voter psychology. But Boone differentiated this bill The graduates struck funding over the next week,” McDaniel mas Leon, co-chair of the SGA most people going into it knew from other funds given to the Stu- for staff and two of the units, said in a statement. Sustainability Committee and a what was going on. I don’t think dent Center such as the budget. but had few other objections. When asked about the lack of third-year EnvE major. it had much of an effect. We got “It’s different because that is alternative candidates, McDaniel The referendum itself does not the results we were looking for,” funding the operations for the Speaker said she would have liked to see result in any action and acts only Stewart said. Student Center which exists for The Undergraduate House of more interest from students but in an advisory role. The Sustain- Graduate Student Body Presi- students. With this particular Representatives has nominated expressed gratitude towards other ability Committee hopes to have dent Anthony Baldridge, who had equipment, there are no guide- Junior Rep. Brooke McDaniel as reps. for her nomination. some action ready for next year’s challenged an initial version of the lines around it,” Boone said. its sole candidate for the newly “I’m thankful for the confi- elections. referendum which contained lan- This is the first time Boone created Speaker-of-the-House po- dence that has been placed in me Leon responded to Graduate guage pertaining to the allocation has vetoed a bill during his time sition. MGT Rep. Dan Manning with the nomination and hope to SGA’s opposition to new fees. Student Activity Fee, was present as president. The bill will need to was also nominated, but he de- have support of [UHR] during “I understood Anthony’s res- at announcement of the results. be approved by two-thirds of both clined. Nominations for Speaker voting next week,” McDaniel said. 4 • April 15, 2011 • Technique NEWS UHR, GSS send budget to conference committee By Mike Donohue mittee. SGA Editor “I was very surprised at the disparity between what UHR al- The Undergraduate House of located and what GSS allocated. Representatives voted 40-1-0 to That indicates the priorities of the approve a $4.38 million budget two bodies and how they view un- funding student organizations dergraduate research,” Chen said. for the 2011-2012 academic year. Both UHR and GSS began Undergraduate Representatives their considerations of the budget will meet with their counterparts by passing $400,000 in reduc- from the Graduate Student Senate tions to bring the budget in line this weekend to resolve differenc- with Joint Finance Committee es between the version passed by Policy along with an additional UHR and the $4.35 million ver- $350,000 in cuts according to sev- sion passed by GSS last week. The eral recommendations from Joint Senate passed their version of the Finance Committee Chair Brad budget 26-1-3. Bauerkemper, a fourth-year MGT Much of the difference can major. be found in different amounts of The cuts included limiting or- funds the bodies allocated to the ganizations to one Technique ad- Student Center Program Council vertisement for publicity, limiting Homecoming concert and The the number of competitions for Tower Undergraduate Research each group to five and keeping Journal’s print costs. competition and conference fees ME Sen. Matthew Coghill to $1000. introduced an amendment to “While these cuts were pretty strike the $60,000 request for the consistent, we did work with orga- Homecoming concert to be held Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications nizations to meet their needs the this fall. UHR representatives met on Tuesday night to discuss several bills, including the financial budget for best we could within our power,” “Being in Atlanta, I don’t see the 2012 fiscal year. They approved $4.38 million of funding for next year’s student organizations. Bauerkemper said. why we need to fund a concert The conference committee will on campus,” Coghill said during money. But some students are re- Creagh, concerts chair for SCPC the publication’s work so far. include three undergraduate rep- debate. He also expressed concern ally looking forward to it...Maybe and second-year MGT major, in CHEM Sen. Janna Blum resentatives and three graduate over the amount that SGA would the grad. culture is different from an email. moved to reduce funding to $4550 senators and will be chaired by be subsidizing non-student at- the undergrad culture. But, if this The Tower Undergraduate Re- to bring it in line with the funding Bauerkemper. tendees, pointing out that a great- is something the student body search Journal, a member of the allocated to Erato, Tech’s literary “There are [going to] be a num- er number of students would need really wants...why not give it to Board of Student Publications, journal, and the North Ave. Re- ber of discrepancies between the to attend than have in the past for them?” initially requested $18,000 for its view, a free-speech publication. houses. I think the House scru- the investment to be a good one. SCPC hopes that the concert’s print budget, an increase of $7000 “I would like to see the Tower tinized the budget a little more... Coghill later said, “It’s a very large funding is restored. from last year, although JFC rec- be a successful publication as I Grad exec. put in a lot of legwork cost for a benefit I’m not sure we “It is a shame that the grad. stu- ommended against the increase. know that many hours of hard and cut it down to a good number. really see.” dents want to cut the funding for “We’ve seen a huge increase work has gone into this publi- I’d like to hit the grad number of During a meeting of UHR, concerts. The homecoming con- in demand for a journal. We’re cation, but I’m not sure that it $4.35 million [in conference com- Sophomore Rep. Hunter Ham- cert is one of the most universally trying to give undergraduates a should be printed at one-third the mittee],” Bauerkemper said. mond brought up concerns from attended non-sporting events, and greater chance to showcase their cost of the Technique, which is a Both GSS and UHR will vote his constituents about the cut. we even have grad. students on research. Publishing twice a year weekly publication. My goal is to on the final version of the budget “A lot of people are real angry the concerts committee to ensure will do that,” said Michael Chen, best serve our student body in a during their meetings on Tuesday, about the cut,” Hammond said their views are represented. If we editor-in-chief of the Tower and fiscally responsible way,” Blum April 19, the final legislative meet- during the meeting. He later said don’t get the funding from SGA, third-year CHEM major. said in an email. ings of the semester. Neither body in an email, “I can understand we will consider several sources MATH Rep. David Lowry Chen has said he plans on ask- will be allowed to amend the ver- why [the graduates] cut it. I can for additional money, including successfully moved to increase the ing the undergraduates to defend sion that conference committee understand they are trying to save sponsors if necessary,” said Patrick print budget to $18,000, praising the increase in conference com- passes.

Know of something (or somebody) interesting on campus? Tell us at [email protected] NEWS Technique • April 15, 2011 • 5 Global leadership conference focuses on diversity By Emily Cardin Boston also spoke about the program at Tech. The panel was Assistant News Editor changing labor market, with a sig- comprised of Vicki Birchfield, di- nificantly higher minority portion rector of European Union Center The Klaus Atrium was the set- of the population coupled with an for Excellence; Bernard Anquez, ting place for Tech’s first Global increase in minority- and female- VP of the Air France-Delta-KLM Leadership Conference, hosted by owned businesses. partnership in Atlanta and Karel Sigma Beta Rho this past Satur- “America is developing a seg- Wendl, from the Global Packing day, April 9. Over 60 individuals, ment of workers that are perma- R&D for The Coca Cola Co. including students and staff, ac- nent part-time workers. The labor Each panel member was given cumulated to explore, discuss and market is changing,” Boston said. the opportunity to provide advice learn about the changing global Industry leaders also led some for conference participants on the landscape. of the breakout sessions, one of subject of addressing stereotypes As the mission statement reads, which was titled “Emerging Ener- when involved in instances of in- the Global Leadership Confer- gies” and was led by Giri Iyer, the ternational diplomacy, business or ence was held to “foster innova- Smart Grid Ecosystem Leader of even travel. tion and global leadership.” Fea- GE Energy-Digital Energy. The “Be very aware of your own turing talks by faculty members objective of his workshop was to culture and the stereotypes that such as John McIntyre, director examine the extent to which clean are associated with it,” Birchfield of the Georgia Tech Center for In- energy technologies can meet the said. “Know how others perceive ternational Business and Research demands of the future and the you and think critically about (CIBER) and a professor of Inter- differing implications in market- your own world vision.” national Business Management ing and other fields that these new Conference Chairs Yash Gho- and International Relations, who technologies are affecting as they gre, a fourth-year ISyE major, and led a breakout session about the Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications grow. Sanchit Ladha, a third-year EE importance, both economic and Thomas Boston, professor of Economics at Tech, was the keynote The other breakout sessions major, both spoke to conference otherwise, of emerging markets speaker for Saturday’s Global Leadership Conference at Klaus. offered were: “Global Change participants about the importance around the world. Brought by Digital Media”, taught of absorbing the information The morning began with a pre- ness. sity. by Johnson Cook, co-founder of shared at the conference and ap- sentation from Thomas “Danny” “Commit yourself to learning “Because [city leaders] tapped Peach New Media, and “Social plying it to life during and after Boston, professor of Economics about the changing role of global into the power of diversity,” Bos- Welfare in the Global World,” college. at Tech and CEO of EuQuant, leadership,” Boston said. ton said, “Atlanta was chosen as led by Josh Kravitz, the COO of “I would find this event suc- an economic consulting and re- Boston also answered ques- the host city for the 1996 Olym- MedShare. cessful in the manifestations that search firm. He spoke about the tions from conference participants pic Games, which in turn created The afternoon ended with a will hopefully be seen around economic necessity of adapting to about the evolution of Atlanta in significant economic expansion panel discussion facilitated by Wes campus in the coming weeks,” and embracing diversity in busi- light of the city’s history of diver- for Atlanta.” Wynans, director of the LEAD Ladha said.

TEDxGT from page 1 TBD from page 1 come here and listen to the talks Tech TEDx event last week will dent Alumni Association donated challenging to be able to do a talk in person, especially by speakers also be uploaded online to You- project ideas and supply needs for money and also had a number of in 18 minutes, especially if you from the Tech community, and Tube. the event. The Greek Initiative volunteers involved in projects. are talking about counter intuitive get a chance to hear about things According to Gopal, the event was well received by all campus Other organizations such as the ideas; but the benefit is, of course, like the different areas of research was sponsored by Auxiliary Ser- leaders and is expected to grow. Institute of Industrial Engineers I’m anxious to hear from the other going on that I normally wouldn’t vices. He hopes to organize an- “We got funding from Hous- (IIE) and the SCPC were also rep- speakers today and the interesting get a chance to hear about as a first other TEDx event this fall that ing, from RHA, SGA, Inter-Fra- resented in the various different ideas they bring,” Arkin said. year student,” said Connor Zendt, will be greater in scale and. With ternity Council as well as the class projects. The event drew a diverse a first-year ME major. more sponsors, the event would of 1981 and Facilities provided us “I think it’s a good thing to crowd consisting of mostly Tech The conference also showed be able to offer free admission to with all the supplies to hold the clean up the environment. Rep- students, but also students from video clips from previous TED Tech students. event,” Eick said. resenting Engineers for a Sus- neighboring universities like Em- conferences, an additional re- TED talks can be viewed on- A number of additional cam- tainable World (ESW), this is ory and Agnes Scott. quirement in order for this event line at www.ted.com, including pus organizations were involved, definitely something that I’m in- “I’ve listened to TED talks to be considered a TEDx event. talks from select TEDx events either to help fund the events or terested in,” said Demerrick Mo- online before, and I wanted to The talks that were given at the from across the world. to participate in projects. The Stu- ton, a third-year CompE major.

sliver www.nique.net oh my god how did I get here I am not good with internet I like how there are quite a few slivers about slivers: META SLIV- ER! teach me how to dougie No coke, pepsi. GTL: Gym, Tech, Laundry Brittain is abysmal... we know you like drugs but dont make me sit through your pre- sentation on it Just saw BAMBI on campus. Not even kidding Dear Campus Smokers, Don’t smoke near people!!! It’s disgusting and I don’t want cancer! thanks! What happened to two bits man? is there a diabetes club or something?... diabetics ftw the world wants me to be alone. *sulk* i put a ribbon in my hair today. . . all for nothing. VERY disappointed in the latest ‘nique... the nuclear lobby has found its megaphone Doubts Britain deserved that B on the re-grade; saw someone find a maggot on the floor. I have a girlfriend No you don’t. Girls tell me I have about as much game as a broken NES GT Leaks FTW! is it murder if it’s your senior design team? give me freedom or give me death Welcome to college, where jeans are no longer “dirty”, they are “gently used” brittain got a 65 on their health inspection? that guy that sells burritos out of his trunk got a 68. and he uses a tire iron to stir his queso. GT should invest in some more comfy toilet paper mgt professors are awful this semester. coming fall 2011: need study space? over 1200 seats in Clough Commons OOOMGGGGG TSQUARE: LOAADDDDD!!!!!!! 6 • April 15, 2011 • Technique NEWS NEWS Technique • April 15, 2011 • 7

ARCHE from page 1 for up to two courses a semester, SGA Election Results while still taking at least three 286 graduate student participants hours of courses at their home The following table presents the winners of the executive SGA positions and legislative positions for undergraduate and 42 undergraduate student institution. Emory students will SGA. A number of the races this year were uncontested, including those for executive positions. The graduate SGA participants from Tech. In Spring have first choice of the classes of- will hold elections for legislative positions in the fall semester. 2010, there were a total of 19 par- fered at Emory and registration ticipants from Tech traveling to for Tech students will be based Undergraduate President Mallory Lefland Daniel Forrest Emory for classes. Many of these upon space availability. Elle Creel Marius Paul Balla Ian Balmaseda students are BME majors who Through the agreement made Undergraduate Vice President Architecture Robert Hannon participate in the BS/MS degree between the two institutions, Austen Edwards Ciera Crowell Management program. However, Tech hopes to cross registration will only be Graduate President Biomedical Engineering (2) Zach Hansen make it known that all majors can facilitated during the Fall and James Black Alex Smailes David Southern participate. Spring semesters. Graduate Vice President Building Construction Paul Dykes “[This program allows] us to In efforts to make students Mihir Pathak Grace Stephens Mechanical Engineering (4) expand opportunities for students more aware of this program, ads Senior Representatives (4) Chemistry Priya Patel without spending money,” said will be run in other student news- Alex Walker Ian Henrich Ryan Kennedy Registrar Reta Pikowsky. papers at other institutions and Marlin Holmes ChBE Victoria Prince Students who participate in the through the Weekly Digest. Stuart Allen Athina Smick MSE program will pay the tuition of The close location of the two Kishan Bhula Civil Engineering (2) Curtis Lemieux their home institution. As a result, schools makes this opportunity Junior Representatives (4) Tyler Satterfield Modern Language no additional cost is applied. more accessible. Currently, there William Hunter Hammond Evan Boyce TJ Kaplan “If you’re a Tech student and is an Emory Shuttle bus that Michael Mosgrove College of Computing Physics you’re gong to Emory, then you runs every two hours. If there is a Eran Mordel Daniel R. Farmer Daniel Mendel would only pay Tech. That’s part strong response to recent push to Vanessa Vakili Economics Polymer & Fiber Engineering of the beauty of ARCHE. You increase participation, improve- Sophomore Representatives (4) Julianne Camacho Anna Colleen Crouch only pay the home institution at ments will be made to the trans- Megna Saha Electrical Engineering (3) Psychology the home institution rates,” said portation system. Pat Nadeau Hilary Taylor Mia Wrightson Jeremy Gray, assistant Registrar. Pikosky describes the partner- Nicholas Picon International Affairs Public Policy ARCHE is a network of 20 ship between Emory and Tech as Kris Surapaneni (Vacant) Merry Hunter Hipp public and private colleges and natural because the institutions Aerospace Engineering (2) ISyE (3) universities that establish and fa- are closely related in quality and cilitate the collaborative efforts relationship, and are closely lo- between educational institutions cated to each other. in Georgia. “I think it’s an excellent idea, In order to be eligible to partic- allowing Tech student to take CoEBy Vijai N arayananDeanthat finalists would provide the oppor - announcedhis presentation on April 14. In ipate in the cross-registration pro- college level course at a school News Editor tunity to have interdisciplinary addition to serving as chair, Bar- gram, students must be in their like Emory that they can’t get at capstone design courses and also teau is the senior vice provost for third or fourth year or be a gradu- Tech is a great opportunity for Over the past two weeks, fi- house the student competition research and strategic initiatives at ate student. Students are also re- students,” said Anderson Smith, nalists for the position of Dean of teams. Both also spoke about de- Delaware. In this role, he super- quired to be in academic good Senior Vice Provost. the College of Engineering (CoE) clining state funding over the past vised six interdisciplinary centers standing. Students must submit Senior leadership teams from visited campus to present their decade and how that has resulted and institutes and helped plan an application to the Registrar, each institution will meet every vision for the program to mem- in Tech having to secure funding for Delaware’s new engineering following which Gray facilitates four to five weeks to continue bers of the Tech community. A from alumni and seek more mean- building the applications with the cross- the planning of this program and search committee created by the ingful partnerships with industry Finally, Assanis will make his registration coordinator at Emory. to continue to foster the Emory- Provost Rafael Bras in Aug. 2010 and other academic institutions presentation on April 26 at 11 Both the signature of the student Tech relationship. narrowed the list of candidates to for grants. a.m. at the Global Learning Cen- and advisor are required to com- “In the long run, one of the four individuals, two of whom are The two external candidates ter. 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www.nique.net Opinions Editor: Matt Hoffman Technique Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people 8 mean to us. Friday, Opinions ”“ —John Scalzi April 15, 2011 YOUR VIEWS Letters to the Editor OUR VIEWS Consensus Opinion Engineering a new dean Denominations differ Faculty, students should be top priorities for new dean on homosexuality The College of Engineering is searching Technology minor should be promoted While I appreciate Jarrett for a new dean, and as the search to give students a firm background in the Skov’s sentiments regarding the Write to us: Westboro Baptist Church [printed [email protected] nears its end, faculty, students and the business side of engineering. April 8], I would like to clear up a administration must communicate what In a broader sense, the new dean must misconception he stated. Mr. Skov We welcome your letters in qualities they believe most important remember that the dean is the faculty’s stated that “Christianity considers response to Technique content as homosexuality to be a sin.” This well as topics relevant to campus. in a candidate and what the new dean’s voice to the administration, not the statement is not true. We will print letters on a timely priorities should be upon taking office. administration’s voice to the faculty. Mr. Skov identified himself in and space-available basis. Within the College, the dean should Whenever the needs of the engineering his article as a conservative, evan- Letters should not exceed 400 gelical Christian. Now, it is true words and should be submitted by look for ways of innovating curricula faculty conflict with the needs of the that homosexuality is considered Tuesday at 7 p.m. in order to be while maintaining academic standards. Institute at large, the dean should be sinful in his particular tradi- printed in the following Friday’s tion. However, Christianity is issue. Include your full name, year He should also look at finding new explaining to the administration the (1st, 2nd, etc.) and major. We re- comprised of a variety of diverse serve the right to edit for style and ways to give students as much hands-on importance of the CoE faculty’s work, traditions, with diverse theologi- length. Only one submission per experience as possible. The college needs rather than explaining to the faculty cal understandings of the nature person will be printed per term. of homosexuality. Indeed, there to embrace a new system where traditional why they need to suffer further cuts. are some traditions, such as the teaching methods mesh with hands-on, The administration needs to keep this Episcopal Church and the United where are the Christians claim- problem-based learning. in mind when evaluating, picking and, Church of Christ, which allow for ing that beard trimming is a sin? its gay and lesbian members to rise Or claiming that shellfish are an The new dean should create and expand later, working with the dean candidates. to the highest levels of leadership abomination? partnerships outside of the college, and The best candidate will be one they can within their denominations. The context for all of these A letter to the editor is not a verses is the same. You can’t pick embrace and expand interdisciplinary see themselves working with, but also one proper forum for a theological dis- and choose which abominations initiatives. Research centers should involve that is not afraid to take a stand for the cussion, and that is not my intent you prefer. You can’t pick and faculty from every college and school, College. Especially in times of financial here. I simply want to challenge choose which sins “count” as ac- the misconception that all Chris- tual sins. cross-disciplinary senior capstones should strife, the faculty need to know they have tian communities understand Recognize that both homo- be encouraged at every opportunity and someone in their corner who will fight for homosexuality in the same way. sexuality and shellfish are abomi- programs like the Management and their needs. There are many Christian com- nations, or recognize that many, munities that seek to provide safe many parts of the Bible are out- The Consensus Opinion reflects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the and welcoming spaces where peo- dated and obsolete. Recognize ple may explore their faith in light that being a good person requires Technique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors. of their sexual orientation, and more than disagreeing with the their sexual orientation in light of Westboro Baptist Church, more Technique Editorial Board their faith. I am proud to say that than mere lip service to “genuine Hahnming Lee, Editor-in-Chief the Wesley Foundation at Georgia love and compassion.” It requires Vivian Fan, Managing Editor Tech is one such community. the elimination of all bigotry and Kate Comstock, Business Manager Rev. Steve Fazenbaker intolerance—including the belief Jennifer Aldoretta, Layout Editor Alex Mitchell, Sports Editor Director, Wesley Foundation that homosexuality is a sin. Kamna Bohra, Focus Editor Vijai Narayanan, News Editor at Georgia Tech Isaac Park Steven Cappetta, Advertising Manager Nishant Prasadh, Online Sports Editor Second-year Econ Mike Donohue, SGA Editor Chris Russell, Online Editor Editorial puts friendly Matt Hoffman, Opinions Editor Jarrett Skov, Photo Editor face on homophobia Christians pick some Reem Mansoura, Outreach Editor Patricia Uceda, Entertainment Editor beliefs, ignore others Last week’s opinion column by EDITORIAL CARTOON By Casey Tisdel Jarrett Skov [printed April 8] was Letters to the editor are ob- self-important and insulting. In a viously not the place to have a reactionary, 800-word trip back to theological discussion, but Jarrett the 1950s, he criticized the actions Skov’s recent editorial concern- of the Westboro Baptist Church ing the Westboro Baptist Church and, in the process, purported to [printed April 8] suffers from the apologize for believers like himself same flaw that causes the nation who “fail in caring more for oth- to be disgusted with the WBC. It ers.” is a flaw that permeates society in He apologized for the wrong areas other than religion, on issues thing. Like most Christians, Skov most divisive and in the political believes that homosexuality is a arena. That flaw is cherry-picking, sin. In his eyes, this doesn’t make and it doesn’t generate any fruits him a bigot—not like the awful for your labor. Westboro Baptist Church—be- Cherry-picking involves taking cause “God does not hate the sin- only facts, arguments or any other ners, just the sin.” God doesn’t points that support your argu- hate homosexuals; he just hates ment and discarding the rest. To homosexuality. How charitable of my understanding, you can’t quite God. do that with holy texts. It’s all or This is ridiculous. Homosexu- nothing; it’s inspired by the word ality is not a choice; homosexual- of a deity or it’s not. The WBC ity is not a sin. Even Skov himself may ignore Jesus’ forgiveness of claims he can’t “justify elevating the New Testament (cherry-pick- one sin above everything else.” ing the bad), but Skov ignores the And sure, the Bible says homo- tyrannical hothead of a god in the sexuality is an “abomination” (Le- Old (cherry-picking the good). viticus 18:22). But God also for- He ignores the fact that his god bids wearing clothing “woven of created humans with the sin we two kinds of material” (Leviticus should feel guilty for. Even beyond 19:19). He prohibits clipping off ridiculous edicts about wearing the edges of one’s beard (Leviti- wools and linens (Deuteronomy cus 19:27). He considers it a sin to See Letters, page 12 eat shellfish (Leviticus 11:10). So OPINIONS Technique • April 15, 2011 • 9

TechI fantasized about makes coming students find own andhappiness never looked back. to Tech ever since I was 12. I “By the end of my second I also found other extra B Z remember riding around At- year, my relationship with curricular activities, like the U Z lanta in the backseat of my Technique, to add something Around Campus dad’s car and looking at the Tech was drastically different other than homework to my tree-lined streets like it was the than when I had begun.” life. most magical place on Earth. And yes, I promise Man- What issues do you think To me, there was no place like Kate Comstock agement majors have home- it. Something about the way work, too. that Tech Tower looked so ma- Business Manager Basically, I made seri- are most pertinent to SGA ? jestic gazing over North Ave., ous changes that allowed me the weathered architecture on to actually enjoy my time at East Campus and the certain to be built anywhere in Fla. course of two years I no lon- Tech and meet some new peo- manner that Tech students Finally, in my senior year of ger viewed Tech as the “magi- ple. There are still times when had when walking around high school I filled out my ap- cal” place I had when I was this is not my favorite place campus made me fall in love plication, wrote the obligatory younger; in fact, I had begun to be, but this is the school I with the place. And because essay to the admissions board to view the school as a place chose, and I wanted to make I was the kind of dorky little explaining just how great I that crushed dreams. After the best of it. kid that imagined herself at was, sent my application to the working for countless hours So what is the point of me Tech, I also imagined all the admissions office and waited. of studio, having to live with taking this little trip down other aspects of my college All that work in high school two random roommates in a memory lane about my col- life: hanging out with my su- paid off; I came home one af- triple dorm, discovering that lege experience? Basically this: per cool friends, making As in ternoon to find a very large I actually hated the major I this school can really suck if all of the difficult classes and envelope with my acceptance signed up for and that I prob- you let it. I know this, you becoming a world renowned packet enclosed. I was over ably should have paid more know this, your classmates Daniel Kohlsdorf architect. the moon and so excited that I attention in high school calcu- are all well aware of this and Fourth-year ISyE So in hopes of making all would finally get to be a Tech lus, Tech had lost almost all of any upperclassman or alum of those dreams become a re- student. Never mind the fact its enchantment. I was sorely can easily rattle off a list of all “Better food at the dining ality, I worked all throughout that I did not particularly en- disappointed that my career at the things that they find un- halls.” high school to keep a great joy any of the sciences and no, Tech was not living up to all favorable at this school. But GPA, got involved in extracur- I was not particularly gifted of the things I had imagined the really difficult, perhaps ricular activities and achieved when it came to calculus. it would when I was a twelve- the most difficult part of it all, an SAT score that was con- Despite all this, I was con- year-old little girl. is making sure that you don’t sidered an acceptable range vinced that I would definitely At this point I referred to let Tech’s suckiness ruin your for admissions. You know, the be able to keep up with the my previous major as “archtor- college experience. same stuff that everyone else rigorous academics that Tech ture” more so than I called it So for those of you that did to get into this place. I also was known for. I had done re- by its correct name, I could not still haven’t found something dragged my parents to every ally well in high school, so why wait to get off of campus, and I that brings you enjoyment at Tech-related information ses- couldn’t I do well at Tech, too? was not dominating every class Tech, stop crying about how sion I could sign up for, and Oh, how idealistic and na- like I thought I would. Some- much your life sucks, get out by the time I had been on my ïve I was then. By the end of thing needed to change. there and go try to make your fourth Tech tour, I was cor- my second year, my relation- And so, like many before college experience less miser- recting the tour guides. And ship with Tech was drastically me that were unhappy with able. You only have one shot no, there is still no way that different than when I had be- their majors, I dropped my to make this the best five years Skiles was actually supposed gun my college career. In the major, hopped on the M-train of your life. Julie Dykas Grad. CEE “Coming up with some way Medication hampers creativity, individuality to deal with the budget For many of us, our morn- “We are teaching [children] to can be brilliant. Even those crisis.” ing routine includes eating who do not fit within our so- breakfast, brushing our teeth, conform to our social norms cial norms can do great things. taking a shower...and medicat- and be ashamed of their What sort of message would ing. Whether the “medication” we be sending if, as a society, in which we partake is pain unique qualities.” we pulled the paintbrush out killers, dietary supplements or of the hands of a savant claim- Ritalin for ADHD, medica- Jennifer Aldoretta ing “you are not smart enough tion has become an integral Layout Editor to paint?” We are sending the part of our society’s day-to-day same message by medicating routine. children for ADHD: “you are But for those who medi- not calm enough to be good at cate every day, have you ever such as ADHD is among the the capacity to focus and learn. learning like everyone else.” stopped to think about why? most troubling examples of so- I am personally an ex- We are teaching children to It seems obvious that we medi- cial drug dependency. There is tremely visual learner, and I conform to our social norms cate to improve our health, ongoing controversy regarding struggle to retain information and to be ashamed of their but what does it mean to be whether ADHD diagnosis in that is presented primarily in unique qualities. We are teach- Parikshit Massand “healthy” and who decides the children can be attributed to a verbal manner. Each child ing them that it is socially un- Grad. ECE definition? When one does not factors such as parental meth- learns a little bit differently acceptable to stand out beyond fit in to the category that our odology, diet or even genetics. and possesses different talents, a certain degree. Rather than “Improve classroom interac- society has labeled as “nor- I cannot help but wonder what and to suppress those talents trying to push children to con- mal,” it has become standard has caused the sudden “epi- by altering the brain chemistry form, why not develop their tions between faculty and to alter the individual. demic” of ADHD among chil- is altering the child’s potential. natural talents and interests? students.” Self medication is turn- dren and what effects medicat- Although some may argue that Medicating an individual ing into a Western epidemic, ing these children will have on the potential is altered for the simply because society tells and the growing availability the future of our society. better, what if it is not? you to do so should not be of drugs is partially at fault. Based on the behavioral Great historical figures— the norm. Next time you go Health professionals also play changes of children after be- such as Einstein, Newton, to pop a pill, ask yourself why an important role in the grow- ing placed on a medication DaVinci and Ben Franklin— you are doing so. Ask yourself ing occurrence of self medi- regimen, it is my belief that were all perceived as “odd” if you really believe it to be cation. When one visits the these behavior-altering drugs within their society. Einstein beneficial. Perhaps you will doctor’s office for the com- hinder and suppress creativity received failing grades in find yourself wondering what mon cold, what is the expected in individuals. Perhaps chil- school and turned out to be you have the potential to ac- outcome? Medication. If it dren unable to pay attention in one of the greatest minds in complish without your self- was not, the patient probably school are simply not capable history. What effects would medicating lifestyle. would not be there. If the doc- of learning in that type of en- medications like Adderall or And before you decide to tor does not provide the pa- vironment. Or perhaps the in- SSRIs have had on their con- alter your child’s behavior, ask tient with a prescription, it is ability for children to focus is tributions to today’s society? yourself what he or she has the Min Kim possible that the patient will a reflection of our education Similarly, what future contri- potential to accomplish with- Third-year IAML go elsewhere for a more satis- system more so than of the butions are we hindering by out medication. We should not factory outcome. Is our society capabilities of our children. If over-medicating our children? simply turn to medication be- “Create more places for stu- becoming too dependent on a child is interested in a topic The occurrence of savan- cause it is the simplest option. modern medicine? and is approached with the tism proves that even individ- The simplest option oftentimes dents to hang out and chill.” Medicating for a disorder right tools, he or she will find uals with perceived disabilities hinders the greatest outcome. Photos by Thien Huynh 10 • April 15, 2011 • Technique OPINIONS OUR VIEWS Hot or Not Clough will provide students – or – Atnew the academic crossroadsoutlook, of new“Clough resources Commons is not just a HOT NOT campus adjacent to the Library, the G. Wayne Clough Under- building...it is designed to be an graduate Learning Commons is active place in which students get Tech’s visible commitment to its undergraduate students. Opening help with all things academic.” at the beginning of this coming fall semester, Clough Commons Catherine Murray-Rust offers 220,000 square feet of class- Dean and Director of Libraries rooms, labs and learning spaces Dogwood days Later, ladies that will be open 24 hours a day, Students looking to escape Tech has traditionally almost every day of the year. With construction project, Tech in- integrate the Clough Commons the mathematical monotony bucked the national trend of 2000 new seats in common areas stalled a cistern to improve water and the Library. Many of the of Tech can indulge their in- forbidding Greek women from and group study rooms that can conservation for central campus. spaces and services planned for ner artist this weekend at Pied- attending fraternity rush par- be reserved in the evening and on Tech Green and the walkways Clough Commons grew out of mont Park. Over 250 artists’ ties. That is all set to change, weekends, the search for quiet and from the Library’s front door to student involvement in renovat- booths will be set up around however, as the Collegiate not-so quiet places to study will be the Student Center will be trans- ing library spaces and requests for the park, accompanied by four Panhellenic Council recently a lot easier. formed into a lovely park. New new services as the curriculum stages where musicians will voted to ban members of so- Clough Commons—the result sidewalks, lighting, seating and changed and the campus grew. be getting their groove on all rorities from attending frater- of more than 10 years of planning lawns will offer everyone on cam- Integrating Clough Commons weekend long. As if that were nity rush. This does raise an and $85 million of private and pus open spaces in which to con- and the Library is an once-in-a- not enough, the admission important question: what will state funding—will be the cen- gregate or even take a nap in the lifetime opportunity to create a price is right in the college stu- all the girls do for food that ter of learning for most first-and shade. vibrant, academic and cultural dent comfort range: free. first week? second-year students at Tech. The But Clough Commons is not complex at the center of campus. building contains 41 classrooms, just a big building with class- Tech students believe that the Li- most with state-of-the-art technol- rooms, lots of chairs and beauti- brary belongs to them, and they ogy, studios for students to prac- ful surrounding landscaping; it have the right and the responsibil- tice presentations and all first-year is designed to be an active place ity to make it a focal point of their labs in biology, physics, chemistry in which students get help with time at Tech. The Library’s goal is and environmental/atmospheric all things academic. Tutoring to extend that sense of ownership science. The variety of learning services for the colleges will be to the Clough Commons. environments includes traditional located there, along with under- A growing list of events and and not-so-traditional classrooms, graduate writing assistance and activities is planned for the 2011- open seating areas surrounded by academic advising. The Office of 2012 academic year. To celebrate Go, Gomez, Go! Speaking solo windows, art exhibit space, Star- Information Technology will pro- the opening, the Library will host bucks and a roof garden complete vide computing and technology tours and events to show off the Men’s tennis player Guill- Mirroring the small selec- with trees and benches. The inte- support for extended hours. The useful and the inspiring spaces in ermo Gomez made Tech his- tion of the general election, rior colors are soothing in places Library, which is physically con- Clough and highlight the services tory this week when he won UHR’s election for Speaker and lively in others. There are nected to Clough Commons on that will be available to the cam- against a fellow top-40 player of the House will take place more whiteboards, some mobile, two floors, will provide research pus, especially to undergraduate for his 113th victory. This win on Tuesday with just one can- than even Tech students can man- and advising assistance at a help students. places him at the top of the list didate in the running. While age to fill with equations, and desk in Clough as well as the main We look forward to giving the for most wins in Tech history, SGA’s voting campaign has rooms that can be reconfigured to information desk in Price Gilbert campus its first look at a new era a position formerly held by emphasized students’ right to suit a particular project or teach- Library, which will be combined of commitment to undergraduate Head Coach Kenny Thorne. choose their leadership, this ing style. with the circulation desk and ren- students at Tech on August 20th, As a bonus, Gomez was named election season seems deter- Clough Commons is a LEED ovated this summer. when the Library hosts its popular the ACC Player of the Week mined to provide voters with Gold building with a green roof, Last ov., the Library faculty party and game night for new stu- for the second time this year. as little choice as possible. solar panels and other sustainabil- and staff enthusiastically wel- dents, including tours of Clough ity features. As part of the Clough comed Provost Bras’ decision to Commons.

place your CLASSIFIEDS with the technique classifieds.nique.net OPINIONS Technique • April 15, 2011 • 11 Grad SGA solved, faces Fearlessness only way to many issues on campus face challenges at Tech “As is true with all administrations of the “Each day I met new students whose abilities past, Grad. SGA will continue to provide the were nothing short of inspirational. No graduate voice of the campus and work to other school is home to 13,000 such unique provide opportunities to all grad. students.” students.” Anthony Baldridge Corey Boone Graduate Student Body President Undergraduate Student Body President

Fellow graduate students, is often what is highlighted across campus, This year has been an incredible journey best and brightest students across campus This time of year brings with it the usual a number of other initiatives have shaped for the nearly 100 members of the SGA. We to join my team. While managing such happenings including final projects, final this year. In Feb., GSS passed a resolution were able to successfully implement wide- high achievers seemed daunting, I knew exams and commencement, but the end of expressing concern over the escalating cost scale initiatives that will have a lasting ef- that SGA and the Tech’s students deserved Spring also brings about a change in lead- of fees and the financial burden it places fect on Yellow Jackets for years to come. leadership with an unbridled commitment ership within SGA. As the retiring Grad. on the graduate population. Additionally, While I would love nothing more than to to excellence. One thing I know for certain SGA president, this time also brings the op- within our annual white paper presented to take this opportunity to list our many ac- is that Brenda Morales, Jimmy Williams, portunity to look back at the tenure of my the administration, this was further high- complishments, I find it more prudent to Kaitlyn Whiteside, Brooke McDaniel, Brad administration while expressing thoughts lighted with a formal statement sent to the reflect on a simple lesson that I have learned Bauerkemper, John Semmens, Matlock for the next and future administrations. Board of Regents regarding the Academic that Tech has taught me. The lesson is sim- Rogers, Austen Edwards and Elle Creel Simply put, this year has seen explosive Excellence Fee, which is of greatest concern ple, but true. It is that Tech eliminates your possess just that. They have a true desire to growth of Grad. SGA on multiple fronts. to the graduate body. Student health insur- fear of failure. enrich our Tech community, and for that The Fall Picnic boasted an astounding at- ance has also been addressed with actions When I first stepped into my role as stu- I am truly grateful. The many accomplish- tendance of 2100 people, the GT Research being taken this year for Tech to explore dent body president, I was paralyzed with ments that the SGA achieved this year have and Innovation Conference provided 400 the idea of separating from the Board of fear. I was afraid that the many promises been because of their unparalleled leader- students the opportunity to showcase their Regents and finding a policy that best fits made during the campaign season would ship. research and the Graduate Career Sympo- the graduate body of Tech. In the Fall, never come to fruition. I liken this ap- As I grew into my role I was continu- sium provided 500 students the opportuni- the Board of Governors was established to prehension to a freshman’s first Calculus ally reminded of why I initially ran for ty to build their knowledge on their career. bring graduate groups together and connect exam. She is clearly capable of succeeding this position. Each day I met new students A new collaboration between Tech and the them with each other. Additionally, this or she wouldn’t have made it to Tech, but whose abilities were nothing short of inspi- Woodruff Arts Center was established of- year, we worked to tackle the need to de- she just cannot be 100 percent certain of rational. No other school is home to 13,000 fering students unlimited access to perfor- velop a robust financial and student organi- the stones the test will throw her way. My such unique students. Hearing these stories mances for $20 per year. In addition to the zations system to better serve the entire stu- grandmother used to say, “success is taking eliminated my fear of the challenges that growth in programming, Grad. SGA expe- dent body through a student competition the rocks life throws at you and building I faced. It empowered me to work harder rienced record numbers in representation capitalizing on the skill and programming a firm foundation.” So, just like the fresh- than ever to provide my peers with effec- within GSS, posting the highest levels in talent of the Tech student community. man frightened by the possibility of failure, tive representation. I learned that I had no recent memory with 48 graduate students. I dove feet first into my role. While the programming of Grad. SGA See Graduate, page 12 The first thing I did was reach out to the See Undergraduate, page 12 12 • April 15, 2011 • Technique OPINIONS

Letters from page 8 percent plant-based materials. This sounds Graduate from page 11 Clain. Supplementing this were partner- like a great advance given that 50 billion ships with the administration on all levels 22:11) or eating shrimp (Leviticus 11:12), plastic water bottles were consumed in These highlighted events and initiatives that have allowed for this progress to come he ignores the drowning, killing and slay- 2006 in the U.S. alone, which contributes represent the major happenings of Grad. to fruition. The administration’s willing- ing of millions by his god or his followers. to the consumption of petroleum. Unfortu- SGA. For this entire year, a myriad of un- ness to work tirelessly on student issues and Even Jesus only saves us from sin created nately, the environmental impact of a prod- dertakings were completed in addition to genuinely listen to student concerns has by God in the first place. And while homo- uct depends on a lot more than the source those highlighted here. The requirements of been a valuable asset year round. sexuality and adultery could be interpreted of the materials used to make it. the student legislature and the changing or As we look to the future, a number of key as the same degree of sin, the Bible is clear A life cycle assessment from the Uni- adoption of policy proved to require atten- issues remain ongoing. Next year will be a about the punishment: death. Skov argues versity of Pittsburgh was conducted on the tion throughout the year. Fiscal responsibil- critical year regarding the student health that this is “hating the sin,” but it is still Coke’s plant-based bottle which compared ity and the obligation of SGA to be good insurance. The expansion on current pro- people that are suffering the consequences the environmental effects of a regular pe- stewards of the Student Activity Fee came gramming and the responsibility of host- (i.e. eternal hellfire for finite crimes). troleum-based plastic bottle with the new to realization through the establishment ing these events will continue to provide Why not step away from the millennia- plant-based bottle from the raw materials of the Fiscal Responsibility Committee, challenges as well as rewards in the coming old mythology and embrace instead a secu- to the end of the manufacturing process. which has worked to identify ways to better year. Communication across the graduate lar moral system? This allows you to judge The plant-based bottle did perform slightly manage and handle finances within SGA. body remains a challenge and will require the Bible, Quran, Bhagavad Gita or any better in two areas: greenhouse gas reduc- None of the service to the graduate body ingenuity and efforts to address it. As is true holy book of your choice on its own merits. tion and a lower use of non-renewable en- mentioned here would be possible without with all administrations of the past, Grad. These books are an antiquated reflection of ergy. However, this “green” bottle was more the dedication of the Grad. SGA Executive SGA will continue to provide the graduate the time they were written (and perhaps ed- harmful to the environment in a number Board and the Graduate Senate. All of these voice of the campus and work to provide ited, retranslated, copied, edited again). A of categories, including greater acidifica- individuals should be commended for their opportunities to all graduate students. The neutral look at the Bible shows a lot of bru- tion, increased carcinogens, ozone deple- volunteerism to make the graduate experi- newly elected administration brings experi- tality mixed in with the love and kindness. tion, increased smog, more eutrophication ence at Tech more fulfilling. As the chief ence and ideas that, in full confidence, I feel To be a Christian, you must accept it (which increases nutrients in the water executive, I want to personally commend will rise to the challenge to address these all, however. There are wonderful lessons causing depletion of oxygen and killing Grad. Exec. for their constant and selfless issues and other unforeseen issues. I wish amongst the madness; that’s absolutely aquatic creatures) and respiratory effects. efforts: Kathy Schnure, James Black, Mihir them all the best to a successful year and true. But let’s drop the stuff about slavery, All of these are important factors in deter- Pathak, Arren Washington, Brandon Po- know they will continue in the tradition of sexism, homosexuality and original sin and mining the effect a product will have on the lander, Lauren Polander, Jason Okerman, a strong, active and involved Graduate Stu- keep the Golden Rule, brotherhood, and environment. Sustainability is definitely Sean Dunn, Michael Ellis and Evan Mc- dent Government. forgiveness. Some of those commandments an optimization problem, and I am happy are good building blocks, too. I firmly be- that corporations are beginning to work for Undergraduate from page 11 have to worry about being late for a class. lieve that mankind today is far better than a better tomorrow. However, advocating a On the other hand, I am leaving behind a the Bible collecting dust on their shelves. product without knowing all the facts is a time to waste worrying about things that life changing experience. Ross Llewallyn dangerous thing. I can not change, but that I had to act on Being charged to represent the student Fourth-year CompE I hope Tech will consider all the facts those things that I could. In many ways, body of an internationally ranked univer- before bringing these bottles to our vending I believe that Tech is designed to teach us sity is an awesome responsibility—one that “Green” bottles not as sweet a machines. But to be even more sustainable, that. The copious amounts of assignments, can hardly be put into words. So, students we should look as consumers to the order the projects and tests are designed to teach of Tech, alumni, administrators, faculty deal as they seem of the waste hierarchy: Reduce, Reuse, then us to look beyond the challenges or “rocks” and staff: thank you for making the 2010- Recycle. So when you buy a plastic bottle, that are thrown our way and focus on the 2011 school year one of the best years of my All that glitters ain’t gold. The same is please recycle. But to really reduce your en- opportunities. life. true that all that is renewable may not be vironmental footprint, why not bring your Leaving my role as Undergraduate Stu- Thank you for making it one of the most “green”. When I first heard of Coke and own reusable plastic bottle? That way you dent Body President is a very bittersweet productive years for the Student Govern- Pepsi’s new “plant-based bottles,” I have to save some green while being more green. moment for me. On one hand, I am mov- ment Association. admit I was excited. Coke’s bottles use sug- Liz Minne ing to the next step in my life. I’ll never Good luck to each of you, and most im- arcane molasses to create bottles from 30 Grad CEE have to take any more exams, and I’ll never portantly: To HELL With Georgia! [email protected] Technique Focus Editor: @GTCounseling: Can your child survive Kamna Bohra 13 24 hours w/out his/her mobile devices? Friday, College 101: Cellphones, Laptops, Music April 15, 2011 Focus Players (HealthDay) http://ow.ly/4xOlg “Science guy” shares BILL NYE experiences, visions

By Alex Kessler Bill” and “You’re my hero!” Wizard, whose broadcasts were imagination with photographs communication has permitted Contributing Writer Not even rock stars and pro- part of a larger effort to make of bright stars and galaxies, all Bill’s message reach all ends of fessional athletes receive the the country more scientifically cosmic wonders surrounding a the age spectrum, and he is the He is the Executive Director same adoration from the gener- literate. pale blue dot known as Earth. “Science Guy” even when inter- of The Planetary Society, an en- al public; Nye had a much more However, Nye did not just His message was clear: Tech viewed on CNN. gineer by profession, the owner profound effect on the current educate school children; he in- will protect the planet and So how did normal Bill Nye of three PhDs, an Emmy Award college-aged group than any or- spired a generation of engineers change the world for better. become the all-knowing and winner, a stand-up comedian dinary entertainer did. and scientists. Nye has always believed inspiring Science Guy? and a childhood inspiration for Most know him from his “I met my idol, and he children to be the most open to Nye’s love for science started most: Bill Nye the Science Guy eponymously titled show, Bill turned out to be every bit as new ideas and the future hope when he was barely three years received nothing but attention Nye the Science Guy, which awesome as I thought he would of our world. old and his older brother placed from Tech campus during his aired 100 episodes on PBS be- be,” said James Hines, a first- “I wanted to do a children’s baking soda and vinegar in the official visit to campus on Tues- tween the years 1993 to 1998. year ME major. show because I wanted to affect palm of his hand. day, April 12. His episodes are now used as With his signature comedic the youth of this country and, That moment sparked a re- The instant the lights common teaching material in and wacky teaching style, Nye well, teach people of all ages, re- actionary passion in Nye for cu- dimmed and Nye walked across elementary and middle schools led the audience on adventure ally,” Nye said. rious and odd things in nature the stage, Tech students leapt across the nation. from Mars, to rocks, to sundi- Indeed, a majority of people alike, a childlike wonder that from their seats and gave a two He followed in a tradition of als, to climate change and then in America can say they have would never fade. minute standing ovation, in- American academic entertain- to space travel. watched his show at one point See Nye, page 18 cluding screams of “I love you, ers, such as Carl Sagan and Mr. He captured the crowd’s or another. The age of mass

Background by Nathan Gibbs / Creative Commons, Photo by Will Folsom / Student Publications Students form One Voice against sex trafficking By Lauren Townsend Mays, vice president of One Voice events. Contributing Writer and a second-year BA major. The first event was “Laleo,” “The average age of a sex slave which means “speak” in Greek. When someone says the words is about 14, and 57 percent of the The event included performances “sex trafficking,” most people men who are buying sex are de- from students and a fundraiser for think of the movie Taken, in terred by the fact that they might Wellspring Living. which a teenage girl goes into be buying sex with a child. This Tuesday’s event was a celebra- another country and gets kid- is really encouraging because it tion of the resolution recently napped, traded and sold as a pros- means that we could potentially passed in the Undergraduate titute. No one instantly thinks of stop the trafficking of children by House of Representatives to offi- young women living in Atlanta 57 percent if we could raise aware- cially stand against trafficking of being exploited, but, in fact, this ness to every man buying sex in humans. city is a national hub for sex traf- the state,” Mays said. Another event involved wear- ficking, and the majority of the Mays cited unexpected towns, ing white on Wednesday to sup- young women abused are minors such as Marietta, Alpharetta and port exploited children. with an average age of around 14. Peachtree City in Ga., as main Thursday’s event included a At Tech, a society called “One centers of sex trafficking. bake sale to raise money, a show- Voice” is making an effort to stop Mays went on to say that be- ing of a documentary about sex this abuse. cause of these statistics, raising trafficking and an open forum “Twenty seven thousand men awareness could make a great im- discussion about the issue. are buying sex, and 7200 of those pact on the number of men buy- Mays explained how the mon- Photo by Anton Molla / Student Publications men are buying sex with women ing sex from children. etary donations and contributions Students from across campus performed to raise money and under the age of 18, knowingly In pursuit of raising aware- Voice awareness for sex trafficking in Atlanta as part of the Laleo event. or unknowingly.” said Brittany ness, One Voice hosted a week of See , page 18

FOCUS Technique • April 15, 2011 • 15 Students design comic books Straight, LGBTQ students By Andrew Nelson Contributing Writer join Pride Alliance By Gaines Halstead and persecution by certain peers Springtime Atlanta is heyday Contributing Writer and also from select members of for comics, with MomoCon just society outside of campus when it in March and Free Comic Book For most, dating in college is comes their dating lifestyle. Day in May. At Tech, local artists easy. For the most part, the aver- Members of the Atlanta com- and students met at the first An- age college couple receives little munity have chosen to voice their nual Atlanta Comics Symposium scrutiny. Yet for some, dating in opposition of the LGBTQ com- to host panels on comics from college comes at a much higher munity by holding malicious their nature and creation to the cost. protests and posting hateful slurs industry’s ambivalent future. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans- around Tech’s campus. Programs from Tech and Uni- gender and questioning (LG- In response, student-led groups versity of Florida collaborated BTQ) students and faculty at such as the Pride Alliance and to initiate the symposium series campuses across the nation face the Acceptance for All movement starting this year, attracting about situations in which they person- LGBT 30 by 12:00 p.m. The theme of ally have to deal with judgment See , Page 16 this symposium was multimodal- ity and asking how changes in technology, especially digital me- dia, affect comics’ identities and industries. Kicking off the event in the morning, faculty from partici- pating universities led a series of talks and a roundtable dedicated to these topics. After 12:00 p.m., Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications students from Professor Roger To understand the artistic and literary styles of comics, English Whitson’s English 1101 class pre- sented their work over the semes- students created their own comic books on a variety of genres. ter: the complete creation of an original comic book. PSY majors respectively, presented ter tear out and eat the romantic The students lay out the comic, their book, Adventures of Captain prince’s heart. The story saturates write the story and then produce Victorious Across Time and Space, the Prince Handsome character the comic over the semester, while that covered the stereotypical with the classic Disney feel, while the entire class critiques each oth- superhero-villain idea in a self- bloodthirsty sirens who have no ers work during update presenta- discovery context. positive character development tions. Initially, these presentations Anderson, the marketing re- completely reduce the romanti- could be blazing at the worst, but searcher, polled students and dis- cism and “naivete of Disney’s students say that they gained con- covered what the audience expects perspective of love,” according to fidence along the way as the com- and how to appeal to everyone. If their group blog. ics changed significantly. they were to publish the book and “I did not realize how much At the symposium, three teams market to a large group, the big- time goes into creation of a comic, of writers, marketers and illus- gest question was how to get ev- but it was really rewarding in the trators presented their work and eryone’s interest into the particu- end and I like comics a lot more what a different learning experi- lar type of comic they produced. than I did when I was going into ence that an entirely comics-based The final presentation was by the class and seeing what goes into class can offer instead of a tradi- Heather Yutko, a first-year IAML the process,” Yutko said. tional literature deconstruction major, who worked on the book Entering the class, students Photo by Blake Israel / Student Publications The Little Siren approach. that takes a Dis- largely had little exposure to Every year, Pride Alliance participates in Atlanta’s awareness and Tkeyah Anderson and Erin ney-style Little Mermaid story See Comic, page 17 McPherson, first-year EE and and then has the titular charac- support events, and it brings these ideas back on to the campus. 16 • April 15, 2011 • Technique FOCUS

LGBT from page 15 have emerged in order to provide a support network for members of Tech’s LGBTQ population and to unite with non-members and show their support for one an- other. “[Pride Alliance is] a supportive and educational environment for our members and non-members alike; to function as a resource for those who want and/or need in- formation about [LGBTQ] issues and any other related issues; and to provide a positive gay aware- ness and presence in the Georgia Tech community,” according to the website. Providing students with coun- Photo by Blake Israel / Student Publications seling sessions, volunteer opportu- Both straight and non-straight members alike use Pride Alliance as a venue for offering a support system for LGBTQs at Tech and nities and pride events throughout for creating a collaborative understanding of acceptance for diversity in sexual orientation, both at Tech and in the rest of society. the year, the organization exists as more than just a equal rights group. It provides Tech with the organization’s first straight faculty who have decided to show way, either from a moral or reli- They, along with the names of multiple facets of activities while president, helping to bridge the their support for Alliance’s mis- gious perspective. We simply hope those who signed the Acceptance catering to an under-represented gap between members and non- sion. to inspire others to refrain from for All proclamation, are a vital minority. members. “The petition is a very simple hating and bullying and instead part of promoting an awareness of Pride Alliance is not a localized Aside from the Alliance, statement expressing that the un- be accepting and understanding.” the situation. phenomenon, but part of larger Champion has teamed up with dersigned support the LGBTQ “Like [LeBrun], I am a straight “Creating a safe space on Geor- growing trend among universities. other non-LGBTQ Tech stu- members of our current, future student ally and otherwise unaf- gia Tech’s campus can only hap- Throughout the U.S., other alli- dents Matt Jacobson, a third-year and past campus community. The filiated with the Pride Alliance. pen if all members of our com- ances and groups with the similar ECE major, and Matt LeBrun, a ad says so much more than that, Personally, I am motivated by my munity, whether LGBTQ or not, cause of supporting their respec- fourth-year BA major, to revive though. It shows those members friends and upbringing; I simply show their support and care about tive LGBTQ communities have the Acceptance for All campaign of our campus that aren’t ‘out’ do not think that sexual orienta- this issue passionately enough to been established to help ensure that proclaims, “It’s okay to be gay (open about their sexuality) yet tion should be a point of distinc- stand up for someone who is be- that no student is left alone to at Georgia Tech.” that there is an overwhelming tion among friends,” Jacobson ing hurt,” Champion said. stand against animosity or criti- First initiated in 1996 and amount of support for them,” said. “We want to be encouraging “By signing under this state- cism. then repeated in 2002 and 2005, Champion said. of our ‘out’ friends, supportive for ment, the members of [Tech’s] Joining in to show their sup- the Acceptance for All initiative “Having seen [the injustices] those who are not and influencers community are reminded that port, straight and “non LGBTQ is a movement that collects the first hand, I decided to take a amongst our fellow allies.” taking passive role in this fight members” have become a vital signatures of students and faculty stand and encourage other straight Champion, LeBrun and Ja- will get us no where. It brings the part of the Pride Alliance’s goal. at Tech who support the LGBTQ students to be accepting of Tech’s cobson are just a few members of signers into the human rights is- Julie Champion, the current community with the end result LGBTQ population,” LeBrun the student population that have sues of our generation and encour- president of Pride Alliance at Tech being a two-page printed ad, list- said. “Our mission is not to make taken the task of helping support ages a more active role,” Champi- and a fourth-year BME major, is ing the names of the students and others believe or feel any specific the LGBTQ population. on said. FOCUS Technique • April 15, 2011 • 17

Comic from page 15 working on a single project. Capping off the panels were comics of different styles—like presentations by doctorate stu- classic Superman-type comics, dents relating to comics. Anthony gritty graphic novels and highly Coman from the University of emotional or allegorical books— Florida analyzed the technical though through this experience, and meta aspects of the graphic these students shared their inter- novel WAR FIX by David Axe and est and even excitement in their Steve Olexa. presentations about both comics Brittain Fellows Kellie Meyer as a medium of learning how to and Nirmal Trivedi covered their communicate in different ways research on vikings’ representa- and how it compares to tradition- tion in modern comics and Joe al English classes. Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza, respec- “You’re writing all the time, tively. but then when you present some- Finally illustrator Tony Harris one with the final comic book, —artist of Starman, Ex Machina, the writing is actually embed- War Heroes, and Spiderman: With ded in the way you describe the Great Power—talked about rein- story and illustrations [posted on venting Superman in the comics their blogs] and getting people to- industry. Rather than discarding gether,” Whitson said. “I feel like, the declining superhero-based in- ultimately, the students produced dustry, he argues that the excite- really great comics.” ment and visual hook should be Following these students were reinvented to save it. two Atlanta-area comic creators “We need a major overhaul Van Jensen and Andy Runton, in our industry—superheroes who talked about making a living are just not cutting it anymore. as a comic creator and how the There’s nothing wrong with audience and market work with them, but you can only tell the or against writers and illustrators. same handful of stories so many Runton bridged the student pre- times...before people can tell who sentations with how comic cre- the man behind the curtain is,” ation works. Harris said. “Comics are difficult to teach, Comics now compete mostly because there are so many skills with the video game and film in- involved. A lot of it comes down Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications dustry for the same target audi- to a certain level of storytelling, As part of a class, students not only read and studied professional comic books, they also created ence. Harris cited video games’ if you think about the way hu- graphic realism and hard edge, man history was passed down,” and critiqued each others’ comics to develop a broader and better understanding of the genre. where gamers are expecting the Runton said. “It’s an art form, same out of comics and do not and there’s a certain amount of with no dialogue or textual com- Jensen, the dialogue and script is a full page of script, written in a find it. the ‘uncanny valley,’ where people ponents. are more for the author. Jensen very intricate flowery script. Eddie Harris also said it is a joke look a certain way but not quite “When I was young, one of the recently finished his graphic novel Campbell, the illustrator, took the among comics professionals that real...and so the same thing is true things that I did was stay up late Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer. page and crossed out everything Hollywood producers spend their with stories where you can look at and watch TV without sound, like “One realization that I’ve had except prostitute, night and street weekends in comic shops looking the story and say, ‘I don’t under- movies, and there were some mov- was the script is not written for the [to get the information to illus- for new ideas and can almost use stand.’” ies that were very easy to follow, audience; it’s for the artist. A com- trate the page].” them as a farm. Runton graduated from Tech and if you can take all the words ic script is somewhere between a The two also covered the risky Harris supports a personal, in 2000 with an MS in ID, and away and still follow it, it means screenplay and an instruction future of comics, including com- grassroots approach to reigniting he now works on projects based something,” Runton said. manual that includes the informa- ics’ transition from print to digi- interest in comics, which he hopes on his creation Owly—a cute This form of storytelling is tion that illustrators can take and tal, waxing and waning of audi- to shift focus to an audience that little owl who just wants to make atypical, but it supports principles turn it into art,” Jensen said. The ences and how the majority of continues to move away from their friends. Owly comics, which have of flow and linearity that Runton Book From Hell by Alan Moore is writers and illustrators can find traditional, declining market. He sold both as comics and children’s prizes. insanely descriptive and very de- huge success and failure in the also intends to produce another books, are completely pictorial In fact, according to writer tailed, and there’s one panel that span of only a few years while Starman comic soon.

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Nye from page 13 rover. everyone, young or old, to revive a Voice from page 13 the future. Today, Bill hosts “Stuff Hap- lost interest in the sciences. One Voice has been donat- He attended Cornell Univer- pens” on Planet Green, promot- “The main issue is funding sci- help the cause. ing money to Wellspring Living sity and graduated with a degree ing climate change awareness and ence education in America. Some “We sent the money to Well- since 2007 when Molly Williams, in Mechanical Engineering. Dur- environmental responsibility by districts do not even have a science spring which is a rehabilitation STaC ‘10, and two others started ing his college career he attended competing with his neighbor Ed requirement in school at all,” Nye center for victims of trafficking.” the program at Tech. the first Intercollegiate Ultimate Begley to make the smallest car- said. Mays said. “I hope that many people can Frisbee Tournament at Amherst bon footprint. He wants to see algebra be- Wellspring Living is a non- come out and participate in this in 1975. His upcoming show “Solving come important to schools again. profit “healing” center for those event,” Williams said. “It is a Shortly after college, he was for X” will be more reminiscent P, B and J; the passion, beau- who have been emotionally, men- great way to have fun and meet employed as an engineer in Se- of the benevolent, didactic figure ty and joy” are the most integral tally and physically abused by sex people and support a great cause attle, Wa., but as fate would have most college students remember parts to science, according to Nye. trafficking. at the same time.” it, he won a Steve Martin look- from their youth. Math and physics should be It provides shelter, facilitates One Voice will continue to alike contest and followed a path “I didn’t know Bill Nye had fun, as he taught America so viv- counseling for victims and helps raise awareness for people in need to comedy and entertainment that such a sense of humor in real life idly on television. victims regain control of their throughout the coming semes- he never left. too. He seemed to be a really cool More important to him than lives and build a foundation for ters. His career did not stop at the guy; he likes biking, swing-danc- the mechanics is the meaning be- kid’s show; he published a book, ing and was just a very down-to- hind scientific exploration. More hosted two additional shows, in- earth guy,” said Sam Worsham, a important to the modern college vented a toe shoe for ballerinas, first-year ISyE major. generation than the TV shows is promoted the EarthDial project He says his goal is ultimately the excitement and wonder shared and put a sundial on the Mars to spread the “joy of discovery” to with Nye.

Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications Photo by Anton Molla / Student Publications While devoting his life’s work to engineering and the promotion of scientific education, Nye has The goal of One Voice is to raise sex trafficking awareness in pursued his goals in the seemingly unconventional environments of comedy and entertainment. metro Atlanta, a seemingly unlikely center of illicit human trade.

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technique [email protected] Technique Entertainment Editor: Patricia Uceda 19 Assistant Entertainment Editor: Friday, Entertainment Zheng Zheng April 15, 2011 Two Noble Kinsman enchants at Shakespeare Tavern

CITY SCENEPhoto by Chris Gooley / Student Publications By Zheng Zheng Assistant Entertainment Editor Atlanta Dogwood Festival Come down to Piedmont Park this weekend and become a part of the 75th annual Atlanta Dogwood Festival. Immerse your creative self in more than 250 booths of the Artist Market. Take the opportunity to visit four stages for music performances. The live shows will play throughout the entire weekend. If these are not to your likings, have a pick at any of the other events such as the food and wine tasting, the Interna- tional Village, a special comedy show and much more. So bring your family and friends to Piedmont Park this weekend and have the time of your life. Admission is free. For schedule and more information, visit www. SHOWS dogwood.org. The Two Noble Kinsmen PERFORMER: Drew Reeves, Queen of Mean at Cobb J. Tony Brown, Paul Hester Lisa Lampanelli will grace the stage of Cobb En- LOCATION: The Shakespeare ergy Performing Arts Centre this Saturday, April 16. Tavern For those who are unfamiliar with Comedy’s Lovable DATE: March 9 - April 17 Queen of Mean, Lampanelli is a seasoned raunchy co- ««««« median who excels in the art of insult comics. This vet- OUR TAKE: eran of the stage is a frequent feature on many Com- edy Central shows who rarely stray from the topics of By TJ Kaplan race and homosexuality. While the show will not bring Staff Writer laughter to the politically correct, others should not miss the performance of a true comic legend. Tickets As part of a recent push to become the first American playhouse to complete the entire 39-play start at roughly $40, a small price to pay for the most cannon of William Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Tavern have sought to complete the final two plays, unsettling chance of lifetime. Visit www.cobbenergy- both rare in nature. One of these plays, Two Noble Kinsmen, is one of the Bard’s most diverse romances, centre.com for more information. containing everything from singing, dancing, combat and even a monkey. The play centers around two cousins, Arcite and Palamon, who end up in prison after fighting a war against Thesus, Duke of Athens. While in jail, the two men remain in good spirits until they see A Night to Remember Thesus’s sister-in-law, Emilia, outside the prison yard and fall in love with her simultaneously. Both brothers claim that they saw her first, and their close friendship quickly deteriorates into a fierce battle The Masquerade packs a tight lineup this Friday, for Emilia’s affections. April 15, with back-to-back performances by A Day to This mishap leads them on a wild adventure; Arcite is released from prison but banished from the Remember, followed by The Raveonettes and finally kingdom while Palamon escapes from jail and is forced to maintain secrecy while roaming the king- John Popper from Blues Traveler. A Day to Remember See Noble, page 24 is a highly accomplished post-hardcore band known for their mix of pop punk and metalcore music. The Raveonettes, on the other hand, are a Danish indie band influenced by The Everly Brothers and Velvet Underground. Lastly, John Popper, better known as the founder and frontman of Blues Traveler, is a distin- Hanna reinvents action genre guished harmonica virtuoso whose performance you FILM This simple story is so well do not want to miss. The different styles of music from Hanna crafted, perfectly expressed through each of them provide endless possibilities to the night. directorial touches and exquisitely www.mas- GENRE: Action, Thriller Hanna Each show is sold separately, please check performed, that quickly be- queradeatlanta.com for more details. STARRING: Saoirse Ronan comes much more than a typical spy movie. This film, which is actually a DIRECTOR: Joe Wright fairy tale, uses exciting action and This “True Confessions” Evening RATING: PG-13 familiar characters to easily become one of the best films of the year. Woodruff Center’s 14th Street Playhouse contin- RELEASE DATE: April 8 On the surface, Hanna looks like ues its production of “Confessions of a Nightingale” a typical spy action or thriller flick, OUR TAKE: ««««« this weekend. Created by Ray Stricklyn and Charlotte but even after the first couple min- Chandler, the show focuses on the life, love and pains utes the mise-en-scene and original- Image courtesy of Focus Features By Chris Ernst ity reveal so much more just below of the great American playwright Tennessee Williams. Senior Staff Writer the surface. touches to those looking for them. Sid Shier, one of Atlanta’s most well-known and sea- Nothing about Hanna feels cur- In fact, as a pure action movie, soned character actors will take on the role of the one Hanna is director Joe Wright’s sory or flippant. Every aspect of the Hanna may disappoint. responsible for the creation of many theatre classics latest film starring Saoirse Ronan, film is accomplished and carefully Hanna is, in the end, a mod- such as “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Cat on a Hot Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana and Tom made to make something bigger ern-day fairy tale. A young, in- Tin Roof.” Ticket price ranges from mid to high twen- Hollander. The movie tells the story than its parts. While it is possible to nocent virgin must set right the ties. Please check www.14thstplayhouse.org for more of a young girl trained as an assas- enjoy the movie on a purely action- sin who goes on a revenge mission. oriented level, the movie offers juicy See Hanna, page 20 information. 20 • April 15, 2011 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT

Hanna from page 19 powers that wronged her and her family. Amos Lee lulls There is an evil witch, a helpful sidekick and quests. The film -im merses the audience in a different world where things are just a little audienceCONCERT toOriginally sleep an elementary different. Europe is the location in Amos Lee school teacher, Lee left teach- this case, looking familiar but still ing to pursue a career in music. distant. LOCATION: Variety He first produced a five-song EP The film does not tie up every Playhouse which generated buzz around the loose end in a tidy happily-ever- DATE: April 9 Philadelphia area. However, he after ending because by the end first truly gained fame in 2004 as of the movie, things have fallen OUR TAKE: ««««« an opener for Norah Jones’ second apart. The story has strayed from tour. From there, Lee increased in the cookie-cutter formula to be- fame to tour with others such as come a much more visceral look at By MK Johnson Merle Haggard and Bob Dylan. broken families and modern life. Contributing Writer Amos Lee, known for his use Mostly known for his period of the gentle guitar, is an artist of dramas, Wright makes an as- Singer/songwriter Amos Lee lullabies. His musical styling fuses tounding transition to the action/ lulled the crowd into a gentle stu- blues, soul and folk together into thriller genre. His thorough un- por this past Saturday, April 9 at an amalgamation of relaxation. If derstanding of the human psyche the Variety Playhouse. Lee, a Phil- you are into James Taylor or Bill is apparent and important in the adelphia native, is a relatively new Withers, Amos Lee is for you. His success of this modern-day fairy guitarist on the music scene. His soft, sweet melodies are a rough tale. first album debuted in 2005. The hybrid between those artists. All At times subtle but frequently self-titled album topped Billboard of his albums promote an envi- overt in extending meaning to the Top Heatseekers chart at No. 2 in ronment of calm and ease, though audience, the fairy tale archetypes March of that year. each album is sprinkled with a are sometimes modernized to be Since then, Amos Lee has be- few upbeat tunes. Drawing influ- easy to understand for today’s au- come somewhat of a commercial ence from his childhood, current dience. Sometimes the archetypes success. His other three albums, experiences and predominately are ancient in their truthfulness. Supply and Demand, Last Days love, Lee’s albums reach a wide Other times they are twisted to be Image courtesy of Focus Features at the Lodge, and Mission Bell all audience. both at once. to get it just right. The real star is Saoirse Ronan have peaked on Billboard charts. Lee created an environment While typical audience mem- None of the scenes have a wild, as the titular character who is best Most notably, Supply and Demand of seduction and leisure at last bers may not notice these suave uncontrolled frenetic energy that known to American audiences for peaked at No. 76 on Billboard Amos touches, they are the frosting on would have pushed the movie into her roles in Atonement and The 200. See , page 25 the cake that takes the experience the next dimension, but the argu- Lovely Bones. Ronan personifies to the next level. ment is that the characters would innocence and also death when The action in Hanna is sur- not let that happen. appropriate. prisingly sparse, but when it does At its core, characters drive Hanna is one of the best char- come around, it punches. The Hanna. The whole existence of the acter-driven action movies in a fight scenes and action sequences movie concerns its namesake. The long time. So many similar mov- are so good that the audience al- audience will come for the prom- ies are simply disappointing. Han- ways wants more of them. The se- ise of a spy action/thriller and will na is not one of them. quences are all grounded and very stay and care for the characters It delivers an engrossing story visceral. and their plights. in a style that augments the char- There are not situations where One of the most compelling acters as people and punctuates it people are leaping around or im- cast members is Cate Blanch- with action that is not superflu- possible swordplay defying rea- ett’s character, whose Southern ous to the story. This re-imagined son. The action scenes are mostly drawl comes and goes a little too fairy tale draws audiences in with just people beating on each other. much, especially to those familiar its visual style and real characters Wright does seem a little wary of with the affliction. Despite this, to establish, hopefully, a new fran- them, carefully making each one Blanchett shines as always. chise. Photo courtesy of EMI Music ENTERTAINMENT Technique • April 15, 2011 • 21 Arthur goes bankrupt with unsympathetic characters FILM fast forward to the aftermath of a Arthur huge party at Arthur’s penthouse where Hobson, Arthur’s butler GENRE: Comedy and nanny, played by Helen Mir- STARRING: Russell Brand ren, wakes the hung-over guests, deletes incriminating photos from DIRECTOR: Jason Winer their phones and generally looks RATING: PG-13 after her idiot man-child charge. Hobson informs Arthur that his RELEASE DATE: April 8 mother has demanded a formal meeting with him to discuss the OUR TAKE: ««««« future of the Bach Corporation. When he arrives, she issues him By Hank Whitson an ultimatum: marry Susan John- Staff Writer son to reassure shareholders that the Bach Corporation has a sound Jason Winer, of Modern Fam- future, or completely forfeit his ily-fame, makes a respectable big nine hundred fifty million dollars screen directorial debut with Ar- inheritance. thur, a remake of the 1981 film by Desperate to maintain the vast the same name. While it is by no riches that define his indulgent means the most original film of lifestyle, Arthur reluctantly agrees the spring, Arthur is an amusing to marry Susan, even though romp that kicks-off the summer the two have an unsuccessful ro- movie season on a light note. mantic history together. To rebel Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures The film begins with Arthur against his mother’s meddling, commercials give away many of that is especially strong when he more creative one. Bach, played by Russell Brand, Arthur squanders corporate mon- the best moments, such as Garner indulges in self-absorbed mono- Clocking in at slightly less loading a monogrammed liquor ey by bidding against himself at being trapped beneath a magnetic logues reminiscent of his stand-up than two hours, Arthur also feels flask into the utility belt of a Bat- a silent auction and wandering bed by the back of her corset and routines, though there are times a little longer than it should. The man suit. He is accompanied by about the town rather than see- Mirren flooring Brand with a sin- when his manic energy, gleeful movie shows its age with surpris- his chauffeur, Bitterman, played ing to his engagement. Fate inter- gle punch as he has a boxing les- self-destruction and irresponsibil- ing faithfulness to the original by Luis Guzman, baring mid- venes, and Arthur runs into the son with Evander Holyfield. ity wear thin. film’s formula which feels simple- drift in a Robin costume. The love of his life, Naomi, played by In fact, it would have been bet- Characters frequently point minded and dated. The film ini- two then proceed to crash the Greta Gerwig, who is working as ter to see a movie that focuses on out that Arthur is smarter than tially and incisively mocks the Joel Schumacher-era Batmobile an illegal tour guide. You can see Hobson’s character, since Mirren he acts, and his quips confirm as typical formula of sobering up, into the Wall Street Bull. A witty the arc, and its inevitable conclu- steals the show as Arthur’s sassy, much. Consequently, what should growing up and finding a real exchange with police officers and sion, coming from a mile away: capable nanny. Their verbal spar- be endearingly willfully ignorance job but eventually falls prey to all a scene at a benefit with Arthur’s Does Arthur marry Susan to save ring matches are the highlights comes across as blatantly obnox- three. Arthur dismisses his first mother Vivienne and her business his millions, or does he forsake of the film, and their tender mo- ious attention-whoring. Even attempt at attending an AA meet- associate Susan Johnson, played the money for the sake of the right ments have more heart than Ar- if Arthur was just an excitable, ing as horribly depressing, only to by Geraldine James and Jennifer girl? thur’s by-the-numbers romance clever layabout, he would come embrace the process in earnest a Garner respectively, lead us to be- As you would expect of a with Naomi. Gerwig gives a bland across as a jerk, and flaunting his few minutes later. lieve that this is an average night PG-13 rating, this is a cleaner, performance that further dilutes a fortune just adds fuel to the fire. All in all, the new Arthur is a on the town for Arthur, and that gentler comedy than Get Him to role that feels broadly drawn and Similarly, the movie trots out fun little film with several solid these stunts are costing the Bach the Greek. But rockstar grade de- watered down to begin with. By props from older, more expensive performances, suitably expensive corporation billions in invest- bauchery and substance abuse are contrast, Garner’s performance as Warner Bros. movies, but beyond set-pieces and some bitingly wit- ments. still staples of Brand’s comedy, a calculating virago is a lot of fun the opening batmobile scene, they ty dialog. Mirren’s sharp tongue Arthur gets out of jail and even though those elements are to watch, and Nick Nolte’s brief serve as simple sight-gags. Both alone makes the film worth pays bail for everyone else in the conspicuously absent from the stint as her macho-man psycho- the character and the production watching, and fans of Brand will prison as well, and attempts to theatrical trailer, which presents pathic father are good for a few values are under-utilizing their not be disappointed by his dialog, halt the recession by handing out him more as an innocent man- laughs, too. Russell Brand gives potential. This is a dumb comedy but you can afford to catch this free money from an ATM. We child. Speaking of trailers, the an exuberant lead performance by nature, but it could have been a one after it leaves theatres.

sliver www.nique.net if you wanna stop t-theft, just engrave the ts instead of emboss- ing it. in my dream i went to go spit, but woke up and spit on my pil- low, gross I wonder if Brittain’s health rating will be curved Job requirements for RA: do nothing Hot Tub Hat Club. 5:00 Creel-Edwards, is anyone even running against you? Since they are already under construction, we should add a water slide to Freshman Hill and make the Campanile at least 5ft deep my professor stole another professors classroom People should stop freaking out about Nuclear stuff. It’s hap- pened before. Sucker Punch was awesome! Those who hate it didn’t understand it! The weather’s hot then it’s cold... Tech should donate money to Japan. To the girl who comes to 3F folk to bake: Let me have some. ;) Just about now is when I start checking out of classes... Today, I had a conversation about dressing someone up as Squir- tle, complete with water gun, bag of sand, and claws; I feel my post-graduation life won’t be nearly as fun. Why was the volume number of the April fool’s issue listed as 2*pi*r? Shouldn’t it have been 4/3*pi*r^3 instead? tech boys, ask girls out more often. i’m lonely. cute boy who comes to the package window frequently: i LOVE delivering your packages. i wish i could think of clever things to sliver. someone needs to appreciate how good i look naked. waiting at the bus stop and experienced the fabled ‘triple red’. mind = blown The inside of my lab manual cover says “property of the half- blood prince” how do i make sliver? Nipple Bonanza! sorry kids interviewing - i already got the job! 22 • April 15, 2011 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT Your Highness combines stoner comedy, fantasy FILM humor in store. Your Highness Your Highness is the tale of two princes. The younger, Prince GENRE: Comedy, Fantasy Thadeous, played by Danny Mc- STARRING: Danny McBride Bride, is spoiled, foul mouthed, perennially stoned and resents his DIRECTOR: David Green status in life as second fiddle to RATING: R his older brother, Prince Fabious, played by James Franco. RELEASE DATE: April 8 Fabious is the embodiment of medieval chivalry who continu- OUR TAKE: ««« «« ously defends the kingdom from magical and mythical threats. By Alex Klusmeyer Doing so won him the adoration Contributing Writer of the people and his father, the king. Meanwhile, Thadeous is the In case the pun in the name bane of his father’s existence, con- wasn’t immediately clear, Your stantly getting into messes includ- Highness is the rare combination ing an amusing encounter with a of stoner comedy and fantasy dwarf kingdom. movie. The movie is directed by Fabious is introduced return- Image courtesy of Universal Pictures David Green of Pineapple Ex- ing home from a recent triumph ty. Needless to say, the king is ex- his lines with absolute seriousness directors’ Pineapple Express roots, press fame, and was written by over the kingdom’s perennial vil- tremely displeased and forces him no matter how awkwardly medi- which is to say it has a lot of ac- and stars Danny McBride, who is lain, the wizard Leezar, played by to go on a quest with Fabious to eval and silly they are and effec- tion and gore, much more than most memorable for his co-star- Justin Theroux. He has rescued recover Belladonna and vanquish tively drags McBride along. you would expect for a comedy. ring roles in Pineapple Express and from the evil wizard’s kingdom a Leezar once and for all. On the journey, they encoun- While the humor comes mostly Eastbound & Down. ‘fair maiden’ named Belladonna, From there, it is a long strange ter another adventurer named Isa- from the cast’s strange encounters Your Highness is, luckily, not an played by Zooey Deschanel, who journey with humor driven bel, played by Natalie Portman, and McBride’s general foulness, attempt to parody recent fantasy he shortly intends to marry. True mainly by the contrast between who quickly gets wrapped up in there is also a significant amount movies ala the Not Another X se- to fairy tale form they resolve to McBride and Franco’s characters. their quest. Natalie plays the last of it from the intentionally over ries. Instead, it’s a foul-mouthed, marry the very next day, not want- McBride’s character insults ev- roll you would expect her to, es- the top action and gore. It bla- anachronistic, violent romp ing to waste another second. erything around him, specifically pecially after seeing the critically tantly pokes fun at movies that through a world mostly inspired However, this joyous ceremony his servant, Courtney, disregards acclaimed Black Swan. take themselves too seriously and by 80s fantasy movies such as Lab- is disrupted when the villainous advice and is generally a jerk. It is She is the last survivor of a try too hard to be “epic.” yrinth and Princess Bride. Whether Leezar magically appears, intent a role very reminiscent of Kenny family wiped out by Leezar, and is This movie, much like many it is ‘good’ or not depends mostly on kidnapping Belladonna and Powers from Eastbound & Down entirely consumed with thoughts placed in the stoner comedy genre, on if the idea of that last sentence returning her to his tower. for McBride. Since it is not any- of murderous rage and revenge. exists for a solid raunchy laugh appeals to you. Thadeous, having skipped out thing new for him, it is definitely The outlandishness of Natalie and fills that roll to a tee. While If the answer is “no,” then on the ceremony to drown his sor- a character he has down pat. Portman acting this ruthless and this might narrow its a appeal, thanks for playing, but if the an- rows in some herbal substances, Franco counters all this by ab- vengeful is hilarious and generates Your Highness seems destined for swer is “yes” then Your Highness misses the whole attack and re- solutely deadpanning his role as plenty of laughs. the same kind of recent cult com- has a bizarre tale with plenty of turns inebriated and ready to par- the good brother. He speaks all The film certainly shows the edy status as Grandma’s Boy. ENTERTAINMENT Technique • April 15, 2011 • 23 The Killing provides psychological look at crime TELEVISION Holder. be more than capable of packing pacing and length of the series biology. In doing this, it may lack The Killing Unlike other popular crime- an emotional punch. Rosie’s fam- will be roughly the same. the technical precision that view- drama shows, there is very little ily’s attempts to cope with her The music in this show is un- ers might enjoy, but it makes up NETWORK: AMC use of scientific forensics equip- death can be moving to the point fortunately a bit too melodra- for it in terms of the portraits it WHEN: Sundays at 10 p.m. ment. Also, since the murderer of being hard to watch. The un- matic. Emotionally well-crafted creates for each character. has yet to be caught, there is very fortunate councilman is presented scenes like the discovery of the This is a show whose rewards STARRING: Mireille Enos, little mention of the court system. as a sympathetic and complex fig- body are a bit soured by blaring, lie buried beneath its somber sur- Joel Kinnaman The detective’s methods primar- ure who is forced to deal with the unnecessary trumpets. The score face. Despite a lack of hard-hitting ily consist of interviewing vari- shallow and unpredictable politi- is the only part of this show that action and glamour, it still enter- OUR TAKE: ««««« ous witnesses and interrogating cal world while solving and con- prefers bluntness to subtlety. tains with its affinity for examin- suspects, giving the show a more fronting his own personal prob- Unlike any other crime show ing the minds affected by a crime By Yameen Huq psychological look at crime and its lems. on T.V, this series is all social and scene as opposed to the bodies. Contributing Writer aftermath than other shows. The acting on all ends of the no science. The vast majority of its Anyone looking for a classic mur- What sets this show apart from story is consistently solid. The content is driven towards psychol- der mystery or a character study There’s no high-tech forensic others in terms of content is the councilman’s political battles are ogy as opposed to chemistry or will not be disappointed. equipment, no glamorization, emphasis on fallout. There’s just always intriguing, and the cam- very little violence and no sex. as much time devoted to what paigners he surrounds himself Against what would normally dis- the suspects, victims and third with provide a good contrast be- qualify to the majority of televi- persons undergo as there is to in- tween his unfortunate idealism sion’s audience, AMC’s new show, vestigating the murder. An entire and their calculating cynicism. The Killing, manages to combine subplot is fixated on the political Particularly tragic is watching engaging characters with a plot backlash that follows a campaign- Rosie’s parents struggle to make that builds on their momentum. ing councilman after his stolen sense of her death to her brothers This show is not for the unfo- car is discovered at the scene of only to realize they cannot under- cused and addled. Slow-moving the crime. There is as much psy- stand it themselves. and relying heavily on suspense chological and social analysis in The two detectives provide a and subtlety, it is premised around this show as there is scientific and classic, mismatched dichotomy. the murder of a teenage girl, Rosie forensic. Detective Linden is well orga- Larsen, and follows the two detec- One particular scene that nized and relies on traditional tives as they travel around Seattle blends slow build-up with excep- methods. The other detective, searching for the killer. Each epi- tional acting is the discovery of Holder, prefers to go undercover sode takes place over the course of the body. Rosie’s father discovers and use trickery to get any needed one day in the detectives’ investi- her body just as he’s talking to her information. This includes offer- gation, giving the entire series a mother about her on the phone. ing teenage girls marijuana to get claustrophobic and tightly paced Failing to realize the phone is still inside information. feel. on, he cries and screams as the The time commitment to The main character, Detective cops take her away. All the mother watching this show is unlikely to Linden, is about to leave for her can do during this is listen to the be big. The original Danish series wedding when the murder hap- screaming and fill in the blanks it was based on revealed the mur- pens. As a result, she is forced herself. der at the end of the first season. back into her job, working along- To make up for the slower pac- While the crime and characters side her replacement, Detective ing, the characters are written to are different in this version, the Image courtesy of AMC 24 • April 15, 2011 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT

and North Ave. Though primar- Noble from page 19 The intimate atmosphere of the ily a pizza place, their Godfather faux Globe Theater stage provides Burger for $6.95 is a fine meal dom. While they are both hiding for a great environment in which and a smart alternative for those from officials, they encounter one the actors can engage the audi- Atlanta realizing their error in dining at another in the forest. Arcite brings ence. Taking a seat in the front the unmentionable “V” across the Palamon fresh food and clothing row puts you in what they call Burger Joints around Atlanta street. The burger is similar to Ju- but is greeted with hostility and the “red-zone” in which an actor nior’s, but it feels a little more sub- anger by his brother, upset that he might take a drink of your wine, By Andrew Nelson Next on the list is Five Guys on stantial, and the fries are a little betrayed him by claiming his love or try to swoon your date. Contributing Writer Northside and 10th Street, a na- better. for Emilia. In addition to the outstanding Eating tional chain genuinely dedicated When you have a little more The remainder of the play acting, the Tavern presents its the- Too often, Tech students limit to making one thing very well and time to venture further from cam- unfolds as the two men sacrifice ater with the added bonus of be- their food options to standard with fantastic ethics. Their burg- pus, there are two more interest- their friendship, and nearly their ginning the evening with a dinner on-campus fare without realizing ers are definitely greasy, but this is ing burger places to visit. lives, to win the affections of the of authentic British tavern food. there are dozens of restaurants on not the kind of place to work into FLIP Burger Boutique hosts girl. From this develops a num- The Shepard’s pie, apple & ched- the Tech perimeter. The lunchtime a diet. All 15 toppings are free, but local celebrity chef Richard Blais’ ber of subplots which are unified dar baguette and “Rainy day” hamburger should be a sufficient be warned: a regular hamburger creations in the realm of sand- throughout the second act, cul- tomato soup are especially good. reason to jump just off campus to for $5.99 with everything on it wiched patties. The 5.5 ounce beef minating in an exciting climax, in The kitchen opens one and a half grab some good grub during those will require you to have no scru- patties hover just under $10, but which Emilia is forced to choose hours before the show starts, and solid eight-hour class days. ples about stuffing your face in the $14 local organic grass-fed between her two suitors. closes 10 minutes beforehand. While making your way to labs public. You could even order this beef burger and $20 black dia- Even if you are not well versed The kitchen also reopens dur- and classes require a brisk walk meat heap without the bun. The mond steak and foie gras burger in Shakespeare, the acting troupe ing the intermission to serve up a everywhere, four fast-service res- sheer joy of eating such a once-in- are definitely overpriced. at the Shakespeare Tavern makes delicious hot apple crisp with ice taurants are just within reach: Ju- a-few-months burger should suf- Toss in options like turkey, it easy to understand as well as cream, perfect for sharing with nior’s, Five Guys, Burger Joe’s and fice in this case, however. lamb, shrimp, chorizo, chicken, fun to watch. They drizzle the that special someone. Goodfella’s. For those who seek The retro diner uses peanut oil tuna and chickpea for your burger performance with asides to the The Shakespeare Tavern also less grease and more of an experi- to fry the best fries in the area, with a very respectable bar selec- audience, some modern day hu- does a great job of contributing to ence, two full-service restaurants, yielding the salivation-inducing tion, and a good weekend meal mor and facial expressions that the community, both on and off Grindhouse Killer Burgers and greasy paper bag patrons leave with friends is made. Make sure will keep you laughing until the the stage. The Tavern works close- FLIP Burger Boutique, are not far. with. In fact, ordering their small- you get there before the crowd, end, all the while keeping with the ly with a number of schools in At- First, the Tech landmark res- est fry option ($2.59) is enough though. It’s about an hour wait tradition of the original intent of lanta and offers performances in taurant Junior’s deserves its top to feed two, and if someone gets by 9 p.m,. and no reservations are the work. the mornings for students to come pick for this roundup, combining fry-happy and decides to scoop a taken. The actors do a fantastic job see. Going to see a play at the Tav- service, quality, price and loca- few more cups-worth of fries in For less of a wallet crunch and of bringing Shakespeare to life ern is additionally a good way to tion. For a mere $5.55, the burger your bag, which can happen, be more of an interesting take, try for the viewer, including a fair support the art scene in Atlanta, basket includes a quarter pound prepared. Grindhouse Killer Burgers in the amount of audience interaction, and with tickets in the balcony burger with all the fixings, fries A final suggestion, though not Sweet Auburn Curb Market near which provides for added humor section, it costs little more than a and a fountain drink. If Tommy’s recommended, for a fast lunch is Georgia State University. Near the and impulsiveness during the play. night at the movie theater. manning the register, you’ll have Burger Joe’s on Marietta Street. back of the historical market full the kindest service found at any For $5.99, a freshly made, al- of butchers and vegetable stalls, similar restaurant, and he is al- though rather unappealing, stan- a projector shows campy 70s and ways on top of any issues you may dard hamburger with the usual 80s samurai and grindhouse films have. toppings will be paired with a on the old brick wall behind the The hamburger tastes home- surprisingly good bag of fries. The counter. made and is just greasy enough fries are notably crunchy, that is, These burgers are less messy to soak the bun a little by the first they are probably rolled in corn- than Five Guys’ burgers, but the bite. To counter this, eating it meal to provide a regular fry with taste is certainly better with the upside down prevents any major about a 70% coverage of pure perfect degree of char. Whether structural failure of the supportive crunch per fry. They are, howev- there are one or two patties of buns. The fries are not the most er, very greasy, and for this price fresh ground beef, turkey or bean/ flavorful around, but the seasoned and this greasiness, you would be quinoa, for the price of $3.99 and salt makes up for it. As for loca- better off down the street at Five $5.99 respectively, on a fresh po- tion, there is nothing better than Guys. tato bun and nice crisp fries for having this meal just behind Tech Deserving an honorable men- $1.99, this dedicated diner is a Tower ready in about five minutes tion is Goodfellas Pizza and lesser-known Atlanta favorite with during peak hours. Wings on the corner of Spring St. great food. Photo courtesy of Jeff Watkins Shakespeare/ Tavern

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Amos from page 20 “Black River” and “Careless,” Lee moved blues and purples through- Saturday’s show. “Careless” and out the stage. In his more upbeat Fighters break no new ground “Dreamin’” were two crowd fa- songs, he danced around pinks MUSIC vorites along with “Stay with Me” and oranges in the background Foo Fighters and “Won’t Let Me Go.” Listen- on the Variety stage, creating a ers softly swayed to “Flower” and visually simulating environment. Wasting Lights “Black River.” Most of his song Nevertheless, the atmosphere was LABEL: RCA choices were off of his newly re- not conducive to the soft acous- Mission Bell GENRE: Alternative Rock leased album, . Lee tic sounds. The amount of people was still sensitive to older fans, took away from the intimacy of TRACK PICKS: “Back & Forth” playing other celebrated songs like the music and created distance in and “Walk” “Keep it Loose, Keep it Tight” and feeling and attitude which took a new upbeat rendition of “Sweet away from the cohesion of his mu- OUR TAKE: ««««« Pea.” Standing center stage amidst sic and lighting. a six-person ensemble, Lee created All in all, Lee delivered what he By Yameen Huq an air of comfort not only with his sells: soft, seductive folksy blues. Contributing Writer music but also with his friendly Bringing both new and crowd dialogue between songs. Surpris- favorites along with creating an When all else fails, you can rely ingly, in the middle of the con- environment of relaxation, Lee on The Foo Fighters. Though not cert, the ensemble retreated back brought what was to be expected. always perfect, since their incep- stage, leaving Lee to soothe the Truth be told, his lullabies were tion, they have consistently de- crowd with simplistic acoustical enjoyable for the first 30 minutes livered solid, musically tight per- bliss. This broke up the monotony but they began to sound too alike formances with songs that always of the concert and gave the crowd halfway through his acoustic solo. demand a second or third listen. a fresh sound. His lullabies also started to Their latest album, Wasting The vocals were set against a rock a few too many people to Light, is another link in a long backdrop of gently colored lights, sleep during the latter half of the chain of energetic, mildly grungy each tuned to the sentiment of the concert. Lee, though a clearly tal- albums delivering much more of song. The use of visuals to comple- ented musician, did not deliver the past. Great news for any grun- ment the song was done quite well. anything thrilling and in close, ge or alternative addict. Unfortu- For his more relaxed songs like gave a fairly average concert. nately, at least half of this album feels like the same song on loop. If you are on for standard alter- native rock with a dash of grunge, then this album will deliver ex- actly what you desire. However, most of the songs found here eas- ily have analogues with the band’s Photo courtesy of RCA previous material, rendering the that starts out somber and builds then, the vocals had the same in- purchase of them moot. in intensity, it lets band frontman tonation and style outside their The album ends lightly and Dave Grohl’s voice shine through lyrics. acoustically with “Walk.” A sharp the almost witty, hard-edged gui- “White Limo” breaks the earli- contrast to everything prior to it, tar harmonies. It’s an amalgama- er mold. The vocals are primarily a this song is actually better than tion of the best parts of their pre- mix of shrill and guttural screams everything that preceded it. A vious work, having an emotional decorated with a frantic guitar happy, uplifting song, it trades edge yet not taking itself too seri- and drum set. The guitar melody pace and grit for joy and emotion- ously. itself gets inside your head quite al energy. It starts out with a whis- The first few songs among the well, and overall, the song is in the per and explodes into a greater, rest are all standard fare: fast- territory The Foo Fighters border powerful ending that highlights paced, rhythm-driven music. but never crosses. everything this band does well in “Bridge Burning,” “Rope” and “Arlandria” takes the tempo terms of passion and intensity. “Dear Rosemary” could have all down a few clicks in a way simi- “Back & Forth” is another been the same song melodically, highlight of this album. A song differing only in their vocals. Even See Fighters, page 26 Photo courtesy of EMI Music 26 • April 15, 2011 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT

Fighters from page 25 lar to the band’s ballads in past Blues tackles gender, racial stereotypes album. The vocals are contrasted SHOWS with a much more sparse harmony Spoon Lake Blues that relies a drumbeat with only hints of guitar. The repetitive, PERFORMER: Alliance memorable nature of the chorus Theatre makes it one that’s sure to get LOCATION: Alliance Theatre locked in your head. “These Days” is another bal- DATE: April 1 lad similar to the previous song. While enjoyable in its own right, OUR TAKE: ««««« there is not much to distinguish it from the previous song except the By TJ Kaplan catchy, light-hearted guitar riff Staff Writer that illuminates the background. “A Matter of Time” is the most Spoon Lake Blues made its optimistic song in terms of tone. world premiere at the Alliance While no different than the pre- Theatre’s Hertz Stage on April 1, vious two songs, it has still got and in doing so, left nothing to an upbeat sound more noticeable be desired. The daring new play, than any of the previous songs. written by a Kendeda Graduate The vocals and music coalesce Playwriting Competition finalist around each other quite nicely. Josh Tobiessen, boldly challenges The next song, “Miss the Mis- traditional gender and race stereo- ery,” is a full return to traditional types and very blatantly offers up Photo courtesy of Greg Mooney / Alliance Theatre grunge music. Making no mistake a non-traditional solution: toler- bed and offers advice on the most work in harmony together for a moral center of the play, very at being conventionally pretty, the ance. current racial stereotypes. “The greater goal. faintly playing a worn out, hard- song aims for an intense, heavier The play centers on the prob- terminology now is ‘person of Even though the play cov- working brother, rarely showing sound. While not screaming, the lems of two brothers, Brady, color,’” she informs Denis. ers a number of typically “po- a soft side. Later in the play, he singing is noticeably more hoarse played by Jimi Kocina, and Denis, In the process of one of their litically incorrect” topics, the shows that it is really killing him in this song and goes well with the played by Luke Robertson. Both burglaries, they steal a picture script broaches the topics with a to see his family and house fall grittier feel. come from poor backgrounds, frame that contains a portrait of high level of tasteful humor and apart and gives us all a lesson in “I Should Have Known” is the and have seemingly poor futures. a young, beautiful, successful Af- thoughtful insight. family values. penultimate and slowest song on Denis is a typical beer-drinking rican-American girl—everything Much of this insight is derived The script carefully intertwines the album. It ebbs and flows in ex-con, who is blatantly racist and they are not. In an effort to defy from the on-stage interactions be- jokes about racial stereotypes terms of its intensity, building at not accepting of any amount of the failings of his socio-economic tween Denis and Caitland, who with the irony of Cailtand’s supe- key points and then collapsing change to his current situation. situation, Brady seeks to win the have an initially abrasive and rior situation. The role reversal is into light, lush sounds. The song Brady, on the other hand, seem- affections of this lofty girl and, sarcastic relationship. Caitland made to be that much funnier by carries almost a Western feel and ingly wants to be black, or at least surprisingly, is able to bring her continually makes humorous Denis’ unapologetic racism and maintains dearth despite being what he perceives to be the current home. criticisms of Denis’ illogical mis- quips about America’s current down tempo. stereotypical black: with stolen When introduced to the liv- takes, and he retorts with sarcas- situation such as, “Colored people Anyone already a fan will love “bling,” baggy pants and a back- ing quarters of the two brothers, tic remarks about her posh back- have stuff worth stealing now!” this album. The casual listener or wards hat. Caitland, played by Lakisha Mi- ground. Despite being a sharp critique uninitiated could easily listen to In an effort to save their fam- chelle May, cannot help but feel Jimi Kocina undoubtedly steals of both “political-correctness” the original albums and not miss ily’s house from the bank, they pity. Still, she seeks to embrace the stage with the wide range of and racial stereotypes, Spoon Lake anything in this one. turn to robbery, and come up with them for who they are and love his character, who is one moment Blues finds a way to tug at your However, the few highlights, a system for stealing from their them for it. The bill collectors are playing a wannabe black guy, and heartstrings and capture an ele- such as “Back & Forth” and wealthy neighbors in the moun- constantly calling, and the broth- the next he is surprisingly talking ment of old-fashioned romance. “Walk” are some of the band’s tains. Denis develops a partner- ers need money immediately. his brother into taking a course of It is full of reflections on the im- best works and ones that could ship with the local sheriff, Abigail, The three develop a relationship, action or forgiving him for his idi- portance of family history and be listened to infinitely. This - al played by Veronika Duerr, who which eventually develops into a ocy. shows exactly how sometimes the bum is mostly standard fare, but helps them find houses to rob. All partnership, showing both rich Ultimately, Luke Robertson’s less important things can bring for this band, that is still a league the while, she forces Denis into and poor that they can live and character, Denis, becomes the people together. above the rest. ENTERTAINMENT Technique • April 15, 2011 • 27

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Baseball from page 36 lied in the top of the ninth and er’s choice and Esch followed with threatened to tie the game, but an RBI single; in the fourth, Palka gles. He was pulled in the eighth with the score 10-8 and the ty- hit a two-run homer to right, and inning and finished with 7.2 in- ing run on first base, sophomore Tech led 4-1 after four innings. nings pitched; he allowed four right-hander Luke Bard induced a The teams traded runs later on, runs, all earned, on seven hits and game-ending double play, and the with UGA scoring in the seventh two walks. Jackets took home a victory. and eighth innings and Tech get- “He came out of the gate re- Farmer struggled but made ting a run from a Skole RBI dou- ally strong…overall I thought he it through seven innings, allow- ble in the bottom of the seventh. pitched [well],” Hall said. ing seven runs (only four earned) Entering the top of the ninth, the His opponent, Hultzen, on 10 hits while striking out score was 5-3 in favor of Tech. completed eight innings on the eight. He ended up getting the While UGA was able to put mound; Hultzen allowed two win thanks to the strong hitting two runners on base and bring the runs, one earned, on seven hits throughout the order. All but one go-ahead run to the plate, sopho- and a walk while striking out 12. Tech starter drove in a run dur- more right-hander Luke Bard got “We had a few chances; we just ing the contest, Davies went four- the final two hitters to ground out couldn’t quite get the hit when we for-four with three RBI and the to end the game, and Bard got the needed it,” Hall said. Jackets got homers from freshman save as Tech held on for the vic- Saturday’s contest featured a second baseman Mott Hyde and tory. good matchup between power sophomore right fielder Brandon Grimes got the win after pitchers, with Tech junior left- Thomas. throwing 106 pitches in 6.2 in- hander Jed Bradley squaring Looking to rebound from their nings. He allowed two runs on off against UVA right-hander first series loss of the season, Tech eight hits, but he recorded a ca- Tyler Wilson. This one quickly hosted Georgia on Tuesday in the reer-high 10 strikeouts and did turned into an offensive shootout, second rivalry game of the season. not issue a walk. The last point though; both starters were out of While the first contest was a high- was key, as Grimes had struggled the game in the fifth inning, and scoring affair that saw Tech ride with high walk totals in his past the Cavaliers went on to win 12-9. Photo by Tim Nowack / Student Publications a strong offensive day to a 15-6 two starts and had a relatively low The game was relatively quiet, Jed Bradley hurls a pitch in Tech’s game versus Virginia. Bradley victory, the second game was a K:BB ratio for the season. and the score was 2-2 entering the closer affair—but the Jackets still “Any time [Grimes] goes in the fifth inning when the Cavaliers had a tough outing and gave up seven runs in only 4.2 innings. emerged victorious, 5-3. game and doesn’t walk anybody, broke through against Bradley. Freshman right-hander Mat- we have a pretty good chance to With one out, the left-hander hit UVA began to pull away. Against three other players had two, but thew Grimes got the start for win…Coach Kinkelaar shortened Barr with a pitch and then al- the struggling Tech relief corps, Tech had to use seven pitchers to Tech, and while he was gener- his breaking ball a little, so…he lowed four consecutive hits, in- UVA scored a run in the sixth and get through the game. ally able to keep UGA from put- was able to control it [better]. And cluding back-to-back doubles, as added three more in the seventh Trying to avoid a sweep, the ting together rallies, he ran into he had a good fastball; a lot of his UVA opened up a 5-2 lead. After to open up an 11-5 lead. Jackets managed to pull out a win trouble elsewhere. The only run strikeouts came on fastballs,” Hall inducing an RBI groundout, Hall Entering the bottom of the in the Sunday series finale. Tech he allowed over the first three in- said. “He’s got a lot of talent, and replaced Bradley with senior left- ninth, the score was 12-5, but got production throughout the nings came via a solo home run by in my mind this was his best game hander Taylor Wood, but Wood the Jackets made a respectable lineup en route to a 10-8 victory. UGA third baseman Colby May, of the year.” promptly allowed an RBI ground- attempt at a comeback. After a Sophomore right-hander Buck but the Bulldog hitters frequently The top half of Tech’s lineup rule double before getting out of throwing error allowed Tech to Farmer was shaky in the first few forced him to work deep into the largely struggled, but the six- the inning. push a run across, freshman desig- innings for Tech, but the lineup count, and through three innings through-nine hitters got the job UVA led 7-2, but not for long nated hitter Daniel Palka followed struck early and often to give him Grimes had thrown 50 pitches. done. Palka, Dove, Hyde and as the Jackets responded in the with a three-run homer to right, plenty of run support. From then on, though, Grimes Thomas combined to go seven- bottom of the fifth. With two on cutting the lead to 12-9 with just Tech scored twice in the bot- managed to settle down and get for-14 in the game, and each of and one out, junior third base- one out. That was all Tech could tom of the first on a Davies RBI the UGA hitters out more quickly. them scored a run. man Matt Skole hit an opposite- muster, though, and UVA won by single and a Palka RBI triple, and “I was just trying to make [the At 25-9 overall and 12-3 in field RBI single and forced UVA the same score to clinch the series. Davies added RBI doubles in the UGA hitters] put it in play and let ACC play, the Jackets will look to to pull Wilson from the game. It was the roughest outing of third and fourth as Tech pulled our defense work,” Grimes said. bounce back from their first series Junior first baseman Jake Davies the year for Bradley, as the ju- ahead 6-4 and forced UVA starter The Tech lineup gave Grimes loss of the season as they face a and freshman catcher Zane Evans nior made it through 4.2 innings Cody Winiarski from the game. a comfortable cushion, scoring struggling Wake Forest squad this had RBI singles later in the in- while allowing seven earned runs Two more runs in the fifth twice in the third and twice in weekend. ning, and Tech cut the Cavaliers’ on eight hits and two walks. The gave Tech an 8-4 lead, and the the fourth to open up a three-run Tech has swept the Wake For- lead to 7-5 through five innings. Jackets had some success at the Jackets remained ahead 10-7 lead. In the third, Dove scored est series in each of the past two Shortly afterward, though, plate, as Skole had three hits and through seven innings. 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Devils from page 36 UGA from page 33 into scoring position and the oth- er brought all of the runners home At the No. 6 spot, Luke Mar- ed the No. 4 Georgia Bulldogs in with a three-run homer. chese of Duke quickly earned a a rivalry game at Mewborn field. After an uneventful third in- straight set 6-4, 6-3 victory over UGA won the first contest of the ning, the Bulldogs tied the game O’Brien. The Jackets suddenly season 10-2, but that game was in the fourth with a solo home found themselves in a 3-0 hole in Athens. Tech got off to a great run. and needing to win out in order to start, but eventually fell to the Tech would immediately an- take the team match. Bulldogs 10-8. swer, and in the bottom half of the Gomez went into his match The Jackets could not have inning, four different Tech players against No. 6 Henrique Cunha asked for a better start against a singled scoring a pair of runs to with two goals in mind. Gomez top-five team. Anderson pitched a put the score at 6-4. not only needed the point to keep solid first inning and did not al- The teams traded runs in the his team in the team match, but low a walk to score any runs. fifth inning, but the Bulldogs he was also looking to tie the Weseman opened up the game broke open the game in the sixth. men’s singles record for the most for the Tech offense when she A leadoff double got the UGA home wins in Tech history. Go- belted a pitch over the right cen- offense going and a single two mez rallied after dropping his first terfield fence on the first pitch batters later scored a run. Back-to- set to eventually beat Cunha 4-6, she saw. The swing scored two back walks loaded the bases and a 6-2, 6-2, and place himself in the and was matched by a pair of solo 2-1 fastball from Adkins was lift- record books next to Head Coach home runs from Kuzma and Rud- ed over the fence for a grand slam. Kenny Thorne. nik. The slam put the Jackets down by

The victory by Gomez would Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications Down 4-0, the Bulldogs did three runs with only two innings be the only victory the Jackets not take long to cut into Tech’s left. Ryan Smith hits a backhand in a recent home match. Smith and would earn on the day. Duke lead. After hitting the first batter The Jackets did get a home run earned the team match victory Eliot Potvin lost both doubles matches against UNC and Duke. she faced in the second inning, in the bottom of the seventh in- when Potvin fell 7-6 (7-1), 7-5 to Anderson gave up two very hit- ning, but the solo blast was not Fred Saba. Potvin struggled to liam Parker 8-1. The Jackets took before rallying to defeat Stefan table balls later in the inning. One enough to beat the Bulldogs, and close out both sets, losing the tie the doubles point easily, putting Hardy in a hard fought three set was a double that put two runners the game ended 10-8. break in a decisive fashion before Tech up 1-0. match. King lost the first set on a allowing a late break point in the Unfortunately, Spir had to last second break point by Hardy, second set. retire early in his match against and won a close tiebreak in the King would have to retire a Brenna Boyajian due to a groin in- second set before closing strong three-set match against No. 123 jury. This tied the team match at to earn his 5-7, 7-6 (9-7), 6-2 win. Chris Mengel due to an injury, 1-1 with a 6-3, 2-0 victory for the King’s victory gave the Jackets falling 2-6, 7-6 (7-4), 3-0. To Tar Heels. O’Brien would respond their fourth point of the day, win- close out the singles portion, soph- quickly in his final regular season ning them the team match. omore Martin Ortiga lost 6-3, 7-5 home match, routing Taylor Mey- To finish the singles portion, to put the final team score at 6-1 er 6-0, 6-1. Gomez was looking to earn the for the day. The loss gave the Jack- Ortiga then faced William 113th singles victory of his career ets their second ACC loss of the Parker and struggled to get go- to give himself the new record season, dropping them to 6-2. ing throughout the whole match. for the most singles victories in a The Jackets were looking to Parker then tied the team match career at Tech. Gomez eventually rebound quickly after the loss, score back up with a 6-3, 6-1 rout defeated No. 38 Jose Hernandez facing the Tar Heels just two of Ortiga. 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 7-6 (12-10) despite days later. Tech eventually came The Jackets would pull away dropping his first set and playing out victorious in a close 5-2 team beginning with an impressive fin- two tiebreakers. match victory. ish by Potvin en route to a 6-4, Gomez rallied in the second set To begin, Spir and King quick- 6-0 win at the No. 4 spot. Pot- to tie the match up, before playing ly handled the No. 21 tandem vin put away his opponent Joey in a tough third set in which both of Jose Hernandez and Brenna Burkhardt handily in the second players broke each other’s serve Boyajian in an 8-3 doubles vic- set. Teammates Gomez and King once to bring the game to a 6-6 tory to give the Jackets an early rallied at their courts to win their tie. Both Gomez and Hernandez Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publicatopns advantage. Gomez and O’Brien matches. kept going back and forth in the Hayley Downs steals a base against Virginia Tech. Downs has six quickly responded, handily de- King struggled at the No. 3 tiebreaker before Gomez broke feating Cameron Ahari and Wil- spot, dropping his first set late away late to win 12-10. stolen bases this season and has been caught stealing only twice.

place your CLASSIFIEDS with the technique classifieds.nique.net 32 • April 15, 2011 • Technique SPORTS Women’s tennis drops two conference matches By Alex Sohani doubles portion off by downing Assistant Sports Editor the No. 71 ranked Rachel Ka- han and Ellah Nze 8-4. However, The No. 12 ranked women’s Ngo and Krupina could not finish tennis team was headed into the a close match on court three, and toughest stretch of their season, lost 8-6 to tie the doubles portion. facing two of the top-five teams The Blue Devils took the early in No. 3 UNC and No. 4 Duke 1-0 lead however, with Nadine on the road on April 9 and 10, re- Fahourn and Hanna Mar beating spectively. Blau and Kilborn 9-7 on the sec- The Jackets, at 4-3 in the ACC, ond court. were trying not to drop to a los- Tech lost the team match early, ing conference record. However, dropping their first three singles Tech could not pull off an upset matches to fall into a 4-0 hole on either day, falling in each team in their second consecutive team match by the score of 5-2. match. Singles play had Kilborn Tech began their road trip in falling to No. 64 Mary Clayton Chapel Hill, N.C. to face the Tar 6-4, 6-2. This was immediately Heels, needing a major upset to followed by another straight set earn the team win. The Jackets fell 6-4, 6-3 loss by Krupina on court early, not earning a point until the five. match was already won by UNC. Duke secured the team match UNC took an early lead by with a 7-6 (7-5), 6-1 win by No. winning the doubles portion of 45 Nadine Fahourn over No. 46 the team match. Junior Lynn O’Neill. After dropping the first Blau and sophomore Elizabeth set late in the tiebreak, O’Neill Kilborn lost 8-1 to UNC’s team could not handle the adjustments of Shinann Featherston and Jelena by Fahourn and lost the second Durisic in a match that was never set quickly. close. Blau and Kilborn were over- Blau earned Tech’s first point powered early on and struggled to of the day with a 3-6, 6-4, 1-0 find the adjustments necessary to Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications (10-3) victory over No. 59 Eliza- win the match. Sasha Krupina extends for a forehand in a recent home game. Tech had two team losses this week. beth Plotkin. Junior Jillian O’Neill and ju- Despite dropping the first set, nior Caroline Lilley faced UNC’s Krupina also struggled, losing two. Krupina lost her first match 6-1, 6-4 and then lost 6-4, 6-3 toDuke. Blau rallied to win the match with best tandem, No. 53 ranked Lau- an early break point in the second ren McHale and Zoe De Bruyck- Krupina made some adjustments two of the three remaining singles ning 6-7 (0-7), 6-1, 10-6. set. The Blue Devils then respond- er. O’Neill and Lilley managed to in the second set but couldn’t matches to not be swept by the To wrap up the singles por- ed with a 6-1, 7-6 (7-4) victory put away their opponents quickly, respond to an early break by her Tar Heels. tion, Ngo earned a hard fought from No. 13 Reka Zsilinska over winning 8-3 and tying the dou- opponent, Gina Saurez-Malaguti, On court four, Blau earned 6-4, 3-6, 10-5 victory over No. 81 Ngo to bring Duke to 5-1 in the bles portion at 1-1. and eventually lost in straight sets. Tech’s first point of the day in a Shinann Featherston to give the team match. The Jackets would lose the dou- Another 7-5, 6-3 straight set loss 6-4, 6-4 straight set victory over Jackets their second point of the To end singles play, Lilley de- bles portion in the final match, by Lilley put the Jackets in a 3-0 No. 125 Lauren McHale. Blau day. The late push wasn’t enough, feated No. 77 Ellah Nze 4-6, 6-3, with junior Viet Ha Ngo and se- hole early, with the Jackets relying pushed McHale around the court, with the Jackets still falling in the 6-1 and finalized the team match nior Sasha Krupina losing easily on an upset by O’Neill on court and made all of the shots she team match 5-2. score at 5-2. to Haley Hemm and Tessa Lyons one to stay in the match. needed to hit earn the win. Tech was then looking for a The Jackets will look to re- of UNC. The loss gave UNC the However, O’Neill could not Kilborn played a long match quick, one-day rebound, while bound when they return home to early point in the team match and pull off the upset against No. 15 on court six, attempting to rally facing the No. 4 Duke Blue Dev- Bill Moore Tennis Center on Sat- gave them momentum going into Zoe De Bruycker, also falling in after dropping her first set to Te- ils in Durham, N.C. However, the urday, April 16 to face the Virgin- the singles portion. straight sets 6-4, 6-2. The Jackets resa Lyons in a three-set match. Jackets could not find an answer ia Tech Hokies. Georgia Tech will Singles play began with a 6-1, had already lost the team match, Lyons eventually earned the vic- until late again and lost 5-2. then face the Virginia Cavaliers at 6-4 loss by Krupina on court five. but would respond by winning tory over Kilborn, however, win- O’Neill and Lilley started the home on Sunday, April 17. SPORTS Technique • April 15, 2011 • 33 Softball wins series versus Hokies, falls to UGA By Kyle Gifford out from right field at the plate. Staff Writer In the next at-bat, senior catcher Jessica Weaver was hit by The No. 15 ranked Tech soft- a pitch, an inside pitch that was ball team played a series this past not close, which was the second weekend against ACC rival Vir- HBP of the inning. After Weaver ginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va.. briefly considered charging the The Jackets came into the games mound, she was restrained by on a season long hot streak and her teammates and took her base. have posted a 9-1 record in their The Jackets Head Coach Sharon previous 10 games. The weekend Perkins then came out to argue against the Hokies turned out with the umpires about whether to be nearly as good, with Tech Virginia Tech’s pitcher, senior taking the final two games after Kenzi Roark, should remain in dropping the first of the three the game, being the second Hokie game set. pitcher of the inning to hit a Tech Though the Jackets played well player. Her protests were fruit- overall over the weekend, the first less, as home plate umpire Eddie game of the series seemed to take Walker allowed the game to con- the Jackets by surprise. Tech had tinue with Roark on the mound. not lost an ACC game this sea- The next batter, Junior Shan- son to that point and had won 19 non Bear pinch hitting for tal- straight ACC series. Despite hav- ented freshman outfielder Haley ing senior right-hander Kristen Downs, gave Tech the lead with Adkins on the mound, the Hok- a two-RBI single to right field; a ies came out on top after coming lead they would not relinquish. from behind. Adkins worked through a fast

The Jackets jumped out to an Photo by Virginia Lin / Student Publications 1-2-3 inning in the fourth, and early lead with a home run by ju- Lindsey Anderson throws a pitch in Wednesday’s game versus UGA. Anderson had been on a hot Tech came back to bat in the top nior right fielder Jessica Sinclair. of the fifth. The team didn’t hold the lead for streak coming into the game but finished the game versus UGA having given up four earned runs. Tech only furthered their lead very long as Virginia Tech came in the inning, starting off with back in the bottom half of the The Jackets were able to turn ning, Tech broke the game open ACC series-winning streak to a an RBI double by Sinclair, scor- second to grab the lead, 2-1. The their fortunes around and claim in the ninth, scoring three runs record 20 straight. ing Weseman. Virginia Tech then Jackets never saw the lead again, victory during this game. Virgin- on four hits. The most exciting of For the final game, Tech turned hit Rudnik, one of many batters with the Hokies adding on two ia Tech led the game for most of those hits came courtesy of Junior to Adkins once again to get the to be pegged by Hokie pitching. runs in the bottom of the third to the day at 5-4 until Tech came up right fielder Jessica Sinclair, who win. Though the Jackets gave up Priebe then doubled and advance put the score at 4-1. to bat in the seventh. What hap- smashed one more home run to an early two run lead through the to third on the throw, scoring Sin- Senior center fielder Christy pened next came straight out of a center to put Tech ahead for good. first three innings, Tech would clair and Rudnik. Weaver added Jones added an RBI in the fifth for Hollywood script. With two outs Junior third baseman Danielle once again battle back to grab the yet another RBI double to cap the the last run of the game, leaving and none on in the final inning, Dike added another RBI on a hit win. inning and extend the Tech lead the score at 4-2. freshman third baseman Alysha down the line before the inning The comeback started in the to 7-3. The final inning saw the With the first ACC loss of the Rudnik stepped into the box only ended. fourth. After junior shortstop Jackets put up another four runs season now ending their stereak, looking to get on base and ex- The Jackets put any Virginia Kelsi Weseman was hit by a pitch, while allowing zero. All four runs the Jackets had to get back on tend the game and give her team Tech hopes of a comeback down and when Sinclair walked, the came courtesy of a towering shot the field for the second half of the a chance to win. Instead she took quickly, finishing them off in the inning took an interesting turn. to left center from Rudnik, The double header on Saturday. The a 1-2 pitch from Virginia Tech bottom of the ninth, allowing just First, senior first baseman Kris- game finished with Virginia Tech game was suspended due to rain Pitcher Jasmin Harrell and depos- one hit. tine Priebe connected for a sin- leaving one on base in the sixth on with the Virginia Tech Hokies ited it just over the right field wall With the win, Tech evened gle but advanced to second on a no hits. leading 1-0. The game was then to tie the game and send it to extra the series heading into the rubber slightly errant throw, with Sinclair On April 12, the Jackets host- determined to be completed at innings. match of the weekend and hoping going to third. Weseman tried to 12:00 p.m. the next day. After an uneventful eighth in- to win the game to extend their score from third but was thrown See UGA, from page 31

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Technique: Have you ever broken any bones or torn any- thing? Ramblin’ With Smith: Never. by Wayne Bishop Technique: What’s the hard- Contributing Writer est thing about football? shorts Orwin Smith Smith: I’d say spring train- ing. Most guys hate coming out Weseman named here. They feel like it doesn’t have Player of the Week a reason. That’s the main thing, though, making it though spring Junior shortstop Kelsi Wese- training. man earned ACC Player of the Technique: What’s the song Week honors this past Tuesday, you’d say you get stuck in your April 12. head most often? Weseman was honored after a Smith: I vary through a lot week in which she hit .600, with of songs, but I’d say “Closer” by nine hits, six runs and seven RBI Drake. through four games. She also had Technique: If you could play a .625 on-base percentage and a with one band or artist who would 1.333 slugging percentage. it be? Weseman’s week was high- Smith: Linkin Park. lighted by a three-for-three hitting Technique: What’s your fa- performance on Sunday, April 10 vorite board game? against Virginia Tech. Smith: Chess. I was a chess player growing up through el- Photo courtesy of GTAA and John Drews / Student Publications Gomez breaks Left: Junior A-back Orwin Smith poses for a picture. Right: Orwin Smith tries to break away from a ementary school. Technique: What do you singles win record defender in last year’s opening game. Smith had 516 yards and four touchdowns on only 53 carries. think about amusement parks then? No. 16-ranked senior Guill- Technique: How is spring go- and kick-off return. We’re look- played last year. Plus we have great Smith: I love them. I love the ermo Gomez won his 112th and ing for you so far? ing pretty good with some new talent that hasn’t played. I feel like feeling of my heart dropping for 113th game on April 8 and April Smith: It’s going great. We’ve schemes. we’re going to win some big ones. some reason. 10, respectively. The two wins got guys with potential, and Technique: Do you have any Technique: If we looked in Technique: Do you have a fa- pushed Gomez past his Head they’re learning. That’s the most goals for the return this upcoming your refrigerator right now what vorite amusement park or ride? Coach Kenny Thorne for the Tech important thing, we’ve got fresh- season? would we find? Smith: King’s Dominion in career record. man out here that are trying. Smith: [My goal is to lead in] Smith: You’d find Capri Suns, Va. I love that park. I’d say Vol- Gomez earned the two wins That’s a big key, trying to get these rushing in all-purpose [yards], plain milk chocolate, Hershey’s cano is my favorite ride. against two top-40 players de- freshman and guys who didn’t and I’d like to lead the ACC in Bars and Hot Pockets. Technique: What’s the best spite dropping the first set of each play last year some experience. all-purpose yards. Technique: If you won the compliment you’ve ever been match. Technique: Have you been Technique: What are you lottery what would be the first given? He remained undefeated in practicing much with the special looking forward to most about thing you did with the money? Smith: Someone compliment- singles ACC play and brought his teams squad? this season? Smith: I’d pay for everyone in ed me on my eyes. win record to 11 straight matches. Smith: We are. We’re prac- Smith: Just winning. I feel my family’s debt, buy everyone a Technique: Do you have a fa- The two singles wins earned Go- ticing on all aspects of it. Right like this team has the potential. new house and I’d do something vorite soft drink? mez his second ACC Player of the now, they have me on punt return We have guys coming back that special for my girlfriend. Smith: Sprite. Week award of the season. SPORTS Technique • April 15, 2011 • 35 Former softball walk-on now starting left fielder By Alex Mitchell Tech. Only Division II schools Perkins had heard about Bear shorts Sports Editor had taken a look at her while at when she was playing in travel Grayson High School, but Bear ball. Although she could not of- The Tech softball team has a declined a scholarship opportu- fer Bear a scholarship out of high handful of star players that have nity in order to come to Tech and school, she obviously liked what helped lead the team to a 34-7 walk on the softball team. she saw. record and a perfect 11-0 record As with any sport, being a walk- “[Bear] was just our type of at home. Most of Tech’s major on in softball as seen as being just kid. You want them to be success- contributors come from blue-chip a role player who is just out there ful academically and produce on prospects like sophomore pitcher to fill up a spot on the roster. Nor- the field. She was one of those kids Hope Rush or freshman third mally, this stigma holds true and that you just have to take a chance baseman Alysha Rudnik. Howev- is hard to break, but not for Bear. on,” Perkins said. er, Tech has other players, such as “[Bear] has always come in and Bear’s skills in travel ball and junior left fielder Shannon Bear, worked hard. She is one of those high school got her noticed by at who have come in unheralded and types of kids where she is not go- least one Division I coach, and it worked their way into the lineup. ing to sit there and make excuses. did not take long for Perkins to Bear was not a top recruit com- She know what she needs to work find a use for Bear’s vast skill set.

ing out of high school and was not on and will fulfill any role,” said Bear was the main pinch runner Photo by John Nakano / Student Publications even offered a scholarship from Head Coach Sharon Perkins. for the Jackets in just her fresh- Shannon Bear, a former walk-on, smiles while running around man season likely because of her speed. She pinch-hit a number of the bases after hitting one of her nine home runs this season. times in her sophomore season, likely because of her potential at Bear is now a starter on the stronger, so that helps too. I also the plate She is also listed on the Tech softball team and has started started swinging a heavier helps so roster as a utility man, meaning 12 more games so far this season that is always better,” Bear said. that she could play a wide array of then she did in her first two years Now that she is in the starting positions. on the team. Before her junior lineup, it would be easy for Bear With those skills at her dis- season, Bear would hit eighth or to just settle into a role and let posal, it was just a matter of time ninth in the games she started, the high number of at-bats influ- before Perkins found Bear a spot but she now has seen time in the ence her stats. But that is not good in the everyday lineup. three spot and has found a home enough for her. She wants to be “[Bear] can play outfield, in- in the sixth spot in the order. successful in anything, even in field or come in and pinch hit… “[Bear’s] bat was one of those obscure areas that one would not [her versatility] has been huge for that kept hitting, so it was a situ- expect from a player who is used her. You know we lose Jen Yee, ation where we had to find her a to hitting in the third spot in the then there is a second base posi- spot, and it didn’t matter where it batting order. tion open. We loose an outfielder was,” Perkins said. “Sacrifice bunts: I want all of and then there is an outfield posi- Perkins truly had to find a spot those to get down. [I want to] tion open,” Perkins said. for Bear somewhere in the order push runs across, and I think that While her skills and versatil- if Tech has any hopes of repeating is what really counts instead of ity may have gotten her a walk-on as ACC Champions. Bear is hit- batting average because that does spot at a Division I program, Bear ting .321 this season and has nine not really do a lot for the team,” will be the first one to tell you that home runs and 31 RBIs compared Bear said. those were not the only things to just four homers and nine RBIs The stigma of a walk-on will al- that got her more at-bats this year. in her first two seasons combined. ways follow Bear when she walks “I never felt like a walk-on, but “This offseason, I worked really to the plate. However, it will not I knew coming in that I would hard on my hitting because that be the negative stereotypes that have a different role on the team. is what I needed to do to get in apply to so many other walk-ons,

Photo courtesy of GTAA I knew that I would have to work the lineup full time, and I just got it will be the hard-working at- Shannon Bear takes her stance in the batter’s box. Bear is hitting 10 times harder than anybody else better with all the problem spots titude with emphasis on the fun- to earn a spot,” Bear said. with my swing…I got my timing damentals that make Bear one of .321 this season after hitting just .229 in her first two seasons. Her hard work paid off. a lot better and I did get a little those special types of players.

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Riding high on a five match win streak, the Jackets were looking to continue their success after a three match road streak. Tech faced two tough home tests in the No. 11 ranked Duke Blue Devils on Friday April 8, before facing the No. 17 North Carolina Tar Heels on Sunday April 10. The Jackets struggled early, losing to the Blue Devils, but they regained their composure to put away the Tar Heels. After returning home from a long road stretch, the Jackets were pressed to find a way to face a hot Duke team that was 15-8 overall with a 6-1 ACC record. The Jackets had diffi- culties in their early matches, falling behind quickly and losing 6-1 in the team match. The doubles portion was the closest part of the day, with all three matches undecided until late. Sophomore Juan Spir and junior Kevin King faced the No. 6 tandem of Hen- rique Bunha and Reid Carleton at the No. 1 spot. The match that was undecided until a late break by the Blue Devils gave Duke the win 8-6. At the No. 3 spot, senior Guillermo Go- mez and senior Dean O’Brien faced Torsten Wletoska and Cale Hammond in a tight match. However, the Jackets came out vic- torious in a tiebreak, winning the match 9-8 Photo by Tim Nowack / Student Publications (7-5). Kyle Wren swings at a pitch in the zone in Tech’s recent game versus Virginia. Wren had three hits in five at-bats with one To finish the doubles portion, senior Eliot RBI in Tech’s only win in the series. Wren’s three hits improved his season batting average to .410 through 34 games. Potvin and senior Ryan Smith were in a tight match of their own, also headed towards a By Nishant Prasadh for the season with just 41 tiebreak. However, after earning a break Online Sports Editor baserunners allowed in 54.2 point, the Jackets could not finish Chris innings, and he had pitched Mengel and David Holland of Duke off to In its biggest week-long complete games in three of his secure the match point down 7-6. The Blue test of the season so far, the seven starts. Devils eventually rallied to win the match Tech baseball team hosted The Friday night contest 9-8 (8-6), earning Duke the doubles point four games against the na- was scheduled to start at 7 and a 1-0 lead. tion’s top-ranked team and its p.m., but the game was de- In the singles portion, the Jackets were in-state rival and won two of layed after one of the light outmatched on every court. Spir faced the them. The Jackets faced then- poles on the third-base side No. 8 ranked Reid Carleton at the No. 2 No. 1 Virginia in a weekend of the field failed to turn on. court, falling in straight sets 7-6 (8-6), 7-5. series from April 8-10 at Russ Eventually, power was restored Spir took the first set to the wire, responding Chandler Stadium, dropping and the game got underway at to everything Carleton threw at him. How- the first two games 6-2 and 9:20 p.m. ever he dropped the tiebreak in the first set, 12-9 before rebounding to win Despite the delay, neither and lost on a late break point in the second the third 10-8. Tech then took starting pitcher seemed to be set to lose the match. down Georgia 5-3 on Tuesday, affected very much, and for April 12, clinching the season six innings the matchup was as See Devils, page 31 series against the Bulldogs. good as advertised. As the Jackets entered the Pope set down a strong Virginia series ranked No. 8 Cavalier lineup with efficiency in the nation, this marked the as he recorded six strikeouts, third straight year that Tech allowed just two baserunners and UVA had met while both and averaged 10 pitches per teams were ranked in the top inning through the first six

10 in the nation. This season, frames. Photo by Tim Nowack / Student Publications both teams had thrived due The Jackets gave him a slim Zane Evans attempts to throw out a runner at first base in to strong pitching—UVA’s lead, scoring in the fifth in- team ERA was 1.93 entering ning. With runners on second Tech’s game versus Virginia. Evans had one hit on Sunday. the weekend, while Tech’s and third and two out, fresh- was 2.21—and Friday’s series man center fielder Kyle Wren the side twice. giving the Cavaliers a 3-1 lead. opener featured a matchup laid down a bunt on the 3-1 “[Hultzen] throws from an It was the first home run Pope between two of the country’s pitch. odd angle, which you don’t had allowed all season. best starting pitchers. The bunt was perfectly see very much. His changeup “[Pope] left a changeup up UVA sent junior left-hander placed, rolling down the third has a lot of depth to it—it re- in the zone, and Coleman, to Danny Hultzen to the mound. base line and catching UVA ally [drops], and when you his credit, didn’t miss it,” Hall Hultzen, the defending ACC off guard; Wren reached first throw that hard and you said. Pitcher of the Year, had been on a single and sophomore left throw strikes, it’s kind of hard The Jackets added one stellar for the Cavaliers, going fielder Sam Dove scored on the to handle,” said Tech Head more run in the bottom of the 6-0 with a 1.36 ERA and re- play, putting Tech ahead 1-0. Coach Danny Hall. eighth, but it was not enough. cording 78 strikeouts in 46.1 Aside from the run allowed, Tech led 1-0 after six in- UVA added some insurance innings for an astounding K/9 though, Hultzen essentially nings, but UVA pulled ahead runs in the final innings, and rate of 15.15. matched Pope pitch for pitch in the top of the seventh. With the Cavaliers went on to win Tech, meanwhile, coun- through six innings. Hult- two on and one out, Pope 6-2. tered with junior right-hander zen’s pitch count at that point served up a hittable pitch to Pope had a solid perfor- Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications Mark Pope, who had been ex- was high—he had thrown 89 UVA right fielder David Cole- mance despite his late strug- Guillermo Gomez slides for a backhand in cellent himself; entering the pitches, but he also had 11 man, and Coleman connected this week’s game versus North Carolina. game Pope had an 0.66 ERA strikeouts and had struck out on a three-run homer to right, See Basbeall, from page 30