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Jackets Open 1946 Season Against Tennessee Vols Today Number" I X-111—Vol. XXX ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1946 Menage from the President: Jackets Open 1946 Season TO GEORGIA TECH STUDENTS OF 1946: Welcome to Georgia Tech! May your stay here be a happy and profitable one! i Georgia Tech is beginning this Against Tennessee Vols Today (year with an unprecedented en­ rollment. Over 4,500 students are expected, representing an in­ Loss of Broyles crease of nearly fifty per cent above normal. Organizing the Hampers Squad academic and residential life of Georgia Tech's G.I. studded football this large number during the eleven will take the field this after­ relatively short time available at noon in Knoxville, Tenn. against one the beginning of the term will of the top teams in the Southeastern be a complex task. Difficulties Conference when Coach Bobby Dodd will be encountered, particularly sends his second edition of the Golden by newly entering or returning Tornado against the University of students. We are confident, Tennessee Volunteers. however, that with the coopera­ Coach Dodd will start an eleven of tion c£ everyone it can be car­ nine ex-G.I.'s and two non-veterans ried out successfully, and I am when he meets his old mentor, G<?n> writing to acquaint each of you Bob Neyland, for the first time. Dodd with the general situation so you was All-American halfback on Ney­ will have an understanding of land's 1930 eleven and today's game the problems which we must will mark the first clash of the two meet and solve together. as head coaches. Anticipating a greatly increased student body for the aca­ The Yellow Jackets entrained for demic year 1946-47, Georgia Tech has expanded its facilities to Knoxville yesterday minus the full the fullest extent possible. To meet the unexpected problems services of quarterback Broyles who brought about by the rapid rate of demobilization, and in an at­ dislocated his shoulder in practice tempt to accommodate every possible student, Georgia Tech has three weeks ago. Broyles, who was stretched her facilities to the utmost. Even this has meant disap­ chosen the most valuable man in the pointment in many cases, particularly for those men who have conference when he quarterbacked recently returned from foreign duty or have recently been dis­ the '44 Tech Sugar Bowl Squad, may charged from military service. Those who have been able to enroll break into the lineup for signal call­ this fall should understand that while they will encounter some ing purposes, but the passing and difficulties, much greater hardships will be borne by those who defensive duties will fall to probable must wait. starter Jack Bills, returning from the Lectures and classes will be large, and classrooms will be '44 team. Bills, an ex-Marine, will owded. Classes will even start at 7 :00 in the morning and run Capt Bobbv Davis, Att-Southeastern Conference tackle last year and probably get the i nod over Bobby . • - • ••••_>>-•" r- - ----- • • • -• - - -> * potential All-American thi'. season will lead Tech's Yellow Jackes against Blake, nursing a bum knee, and Jim -ction will be utilized. The faculty has been augmented to General Bob Neyland's Tennessee Volunteers this afternoon. Still who still lacks experience. the fullest extent possible. With such a large enrollment, inter­ Tech Underdog views the first week regarding courses, etc., might seem brief, Tech enters the fray a seven point but the student may rest assured that the divisional deans and underdog in battling the powerful the Dean of Students will be available throughout the year for and Mus Volunteers, picked by experts as the consultation. fourth ranking team in the South­ HOUSING: eastern Conference. Tennessee will We are confident that accommodations can be found for every base their hopes for spoiling the Jackets opener on a fleet-footed Jril- student admitted to Georgia Tech for the September term. By With the perennial mustard colored back named Walt Slater. Slater^vas doubling up, the Dormitory Office has been able to assign rooms caps wandering aimlessly about the a triple threat back on the Volunteer to the maximum number allowable by the rules of good health and Rush Season Opens; campus for a week, and with the 42 squad and is the main cog in Ney­ comfort, but there are many for whom sleeping accommodations absurd looks of those eager souls who land's machine. George Balitsaris,, a will have to be found elsewhere. Accommodations have been found returned a few days early to get Rules Are Clarified star for Duke as a Naval Trainees in for approximately 400 married veterans at the Bell Bomber Pro­ their social affairs lined up, Ga. Tech the Southern Conference, is a p|le- ject in Marietta; in addition, the school has taken over the old Most of the twenty-two fraternities got under way this fall with a burp. driving fullback that m^-^grTB WAC area at the Lawson General Hospital and now has under located on the Tech campus opened The poor freshmen were drilled Tech line plenty of trouble. And construction approximately 208 apartments for the use of married the college rush week last Thursday, thoroughly for a week to see if they Bobby Joe Rowan, the Volunteers havt veterans. To further augment the housing, we have also secured September 26. The rushing season for could think analytically and quanti­ a big shifty back that will be on* accommodations for 736 single men at the Naval Air Station, this term began on that date and will tatively, and all that could be found of the best in the South this year. Atlanta, Georgia. Arrangements have also been made to carry on extend to Monday night, September out was that they were dumb enough Dinky Back classes and furnish meals for the men living on that campus. In 30. Tuesday will be a quiet period, to be fraternity men. The Jackets, hampered by the loss addition to the above, the school has established a Housing Office during which no fraternity man shall There are some new developments of Broyles, will still have plenty tj which is located on the first floor of Knowles Building to aid in any way communicate with a fresh­ around the campus that would bear shoot at the General's Boys, Dii the students in securing accommodations in the city. Georgia man. revealing ,and a few matters on which (Continued on page 4) Tech is also spending approximately four million dollars in new No man can be pledged before six could dissertate at length. One housing which should be ready for occupancy not later than p. m. on Tuesday, but at six each man one September, 1947. who has received a bid will go to the of the latter is a nasty rumor cir­ EXTRA STUDY FACILITIES. house of his choice, alone or in the culating about that there will be seven Briefs The Library has made available extra space for study on the company of another new man. It is o'clock classes! The M. L. Brittain Debating third floor of Knowles Building. illegal rushing to send a man from Smiles were being thrown around ciety will have a meeting Monday] PART TIME EMPLOYMENT. any fraternity to pick up a prospec­ on a wholesale basis as rush week night, October 7, at 7:30, on the! Many of the veterans have found it necessary to supplement tive pledge on Tuesday. started for the fraternities. The second floor of the Administration their income while at Georgia Tech, and information regarding The office of Dean George Griffin jgrumbBng newly-made sophomores Building. ^ part-time employment can be secured by reporting to Room 103, issued a "New Students" roll several were abstaining famously from a weeks ago. On this roll the home ad­ strong urge to place a flat object Knowles Building. Any student interested in working dresses of all the new entering fresh­ against the many freshmen, and were RELIGIOUS CONTACTS, FRATERNITIES. on The TECHNIQUE during the men were given, and, because of this, allowing the frosh to beat them at Information regarding fraternities and other student organi­ coming year is invited to attend the there has been a large amount of pre- golf, poker, and that fascinating game, zations can be secured from the Office of the Dean of Students. first regular meeting of the staff rush week rushing in the forms of wimmen. Beautiful date cards were Concerning religious affairs, consult the Coordinator of Religious Monday night at 6:45 in the base­ letters, home town contacts, etc. at the slicked-down contact men's sides ment of the "Y," Affairs in the YMCA. Also issued by Dean Griffin was a as they made the rounds of dorms. Positions are open on the edi­ COMPLAINTS. general list of rules that had to be Gorgeous women adorned the chairs torial, news, feature, and sports Georgia Tech is a man's institution. It is not intended for followed by all fraternities. Besides and other objects of the house down staffs, and experience is not neces­ crybabies or weaklings. Here we expect you to play a man's part, those already mentioned above, no the row as a special feature. Strange sary to qualify. Also wanted are to look after yourselves in so far as that can be done without night dates shall be longer than 12 muffled sounds seeped through base­ ment doors as fraternity officers men interested in either editorial trespassing on the rights of others. / midnight; only three dates can be or feature cartooning. Senseless grumbling, kicking, and complaining do no good.
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