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tuition hikesEmily Chambers

Editor in Chief

Black Leadership Conference celebrates history, legacy

Photo by Tim Nowack/ Student Publications

Left: Representatives from the Students for Concealed and Carry on Campus organization present their case for allowing

guns on campus. Right: Chief of Police Teresa Crocker presents her case against allowing concealed carry on campus.

he Undergraduate House of Rep-resentatives (UHR) voted on Feb. 23 to pass a resolution opposing current legislation in the Georgia General As-sembly to repeal the ban on concealed weapons at college and university cam-puses. he resolution was passed with a vote of 27-19, following an extensive discussion about the merits and conse-quences of the resolution.

“I have to say I was actually really proud about [the discussion]… [repre-sentatives] did a phenomenal job be-yond whatever I was expecting, and even the other students who came out

for the open forum held themselves re-ally well and expressed their views and helped to get the discussion going,” said Austen Edwards, second-year INTA major and the author of the resolution.

“I was pleased with the thoughtful discussion at Tuesday’s UHR meeting. I am proud that many of our represen-tatives have taken this issue very seri-ously and have gathered as much feed-back as possible on it so that they could make an educated and well-founded decision on how to vote,” said Alina Staskevicius, undergraduate student body president.

he resolution was initially consid-

See Conceal, page 5

Vijai NarayananAssistant News Editor

Zimu YangStaf Writer

he African American Student Union (AASU) held their annual Black Leadership Conference (BLC) from Feb. 19 to Feb. 21. he weekend long event started with a student and alumni mixer in the Alumni House Friday eve-ning, and ended with several key-note speakers, a career fair and workshops the following Saturday at the Management Building and Sunday at the Ferst Center.

he theme of this year’s AASU was I-Change and stood as a call for students to explore and change their community.

“We wanted an event that would help develop community oriented leaders and provide tools with workshops about branding, business and etiquette that would help students later on in their life,” said Jakeisha Smith, third-year IE major and chairwoman of the BLC.

he 45-minute workshops of-fered during the conference cov-ered a wide range of topics such as real estate purchasing strategies, leveraging opportunities from the growing media industry in Ga.

and taking brand ideas from con-ception to market.

“[he workshops were] great, they were very informative. [he speaker] spoke in an understand-able way about how federal agen-

Photo by Tim Nowack/ Student Publications

Guest speakers discuss their experiences growing up in the African American community and other

current issues afecting the community on the second day of the Black Leadership Conference.

cies and tax credits work. I feel prepared to buy my home now,” said Shannon Wilson, fourth-year PTFE major. “[he AASU] took [the BLC] to another level this year through marketing and

reaching out to other students. I also felt that the workshops are more pertinent to the economy. hey did a better job of tailoring them to current events.”

Not only did the event provide

a wide array of workshops, but the BLC featured a number of prominent speakers as well, such as Scot Safon, CNN worldwide executive vice president; Chuck D, co-founder of rap group Public Enemy and Mae C. Jemison, the irst African American woman to go into space. Topics discussed included the history of the role of African Americans in the com-munity through song, descrip-tions of how branding can inlu-ence perceptions and descriptions of how the speakers’ backgrounds afected them.

“I enjoyed workshops but I’m mainly coming because of the speaker. For example, I wanted to hear Dr. Mae Jemison speak since she was the irst black woman as-tronaut,” said Brianna Blake, irst-year IE.

In between the featured events on Saturday and Sunday were a town hall meeting and a banquet held later on Saturday after the day’s lectures and workshops.

he town hall meeting had a panel of minority speakers includ-ing several executives represent-ing companies such as ADP and

See BLC, page 5

“We have got to cut approximately an-other 200 to 300 million dollars out of your budget, please prioritize where those cuts will come, if not we will do it blindly, but we have no choice.” said Ga. State Senator Seth Harp during the budget presentation of Chancellor Erroll Davis on Wednesday, Feb. 24.

he joint House-Senate budget commit-tee announced that the $385 million budget cut needed to be outlined by Feb. 26, or the joint budgetary committee on higher edu-cation would make the cuts for the institu-tions. he cuts, roughly equivalent to the entire allocation made to the University of Georgia, are part of the overall state bud-get reduction of $1 billion. Ideas as radical as consolidating universities, eliminating schools or implementing an across-the-board one percent salary reduction were ofered, but the conversation returned multiple times to increasing the tuition of University Sys-tem of Georgia (USG) students.

he changes in budget allocation avail-able to Davis are limited however, as the majority of the USG budget is discretion-ary, with individual schools allocating their funds as they see it. In fact, tuition is one of the few areas that fall entirely under the purview of the Chancellor.

“It would require an increase of 77 per-cent in tuition to meet the $385 million. Re-search institute tuition today is about 6,000, that would go to about 10,000, our two-year schools would go from about 2,300 to over 4,000 dollars,” Davis said.

his increase in tuition would efect out-

Info graphic by Jarrett Skov/ Student Publications

Student Survey reSultSTo gauge student opinion on the conceal and carry debate, SGA representatives created and distributed a survey on JacketPages. The survey relected the following:

52.3%Against conceal and carry on campus

47.7%Pro conceal and

carry on campus

See Tuition, page 7

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By Vijai NarayaanAssistant News Editor

From the iles of the GTPD...

Campus Crime

Sleepy subject

On Feb. 17, an oicer was lagged down by an individual at North Avenue near the intersec-tion of Northside Drive and in-formed that there was a man lying on the roadway in front of 645 Northside Drive. he individual then left the scene. he oicer ap-proached the area and found the subject asleep on the roadway. He was able to wake the subject, and acquire his identiication. he subject was found to have a warrant for his arrest following a background check through the National Crime Information Cen-

ter (NCIC) and Georgia Crime Information Center (GCIC). As a result, the subject was placed un-der arrest and transported to the Fulton County Jail.

A-Tow mishap

An oicer was dispatched to 120 North Avenue, in reference to a towing accident at the bus turnaround in the North Avenue Apartment complex. he Park-ing and Transportation Depart-ment hired a tow service in or-der to remove an illegally parked Honda Civic. As the tow truck driver began to hook the vehicle

to his truck, he damaged the rear bumper of the vehicle. he bum-per had been pulled and partially separated from the vehicle. he oicer conducted a check of the vehicle through NCIC/GCIC re-cords and was unable to contact the owner of the vehicle. he in-cident was documented.

I didn’t do it!

A resident informed GTPD that there was marijuana smell coming from an outside stairwell at Towers Residence hall on east campus. An oicer made contact with two individuals who were suspected by the resident of com-mitting the ofense, and ques-tioned both of them as to whether or not they had been smoking marijuana. Both suspects denied the ofense. he oicer searched each of the suspects’ rooms and found no signs of marijuana.

Based on 80 responses

3.8%Yes, but last year’s was better.

Technique • February 26, 2010 • 3 NEWS

Council ClippingsThis week in Student Government

Each Tuesday, elected members of the two houses of the Student Government Association, the Undergraduate House of Representatives (UHR) and the Graduate Student Senate (GSS), convene to consider allocation bills and discuss issues facing campus. Here is a summary of those two meetings.

By Vijai Narayanan, Assistant News Editor

his edition of Council Clip-pings covers the UHR and GSS meetings from Feb. 24, 2010.

A lot of things went on outside the bubble of Tech

in the past week. Here are a few important events taking place throughout the nation and the world.

Breaking theubble

GM to end Hummer sale General Motors will wind down operations of its Hummer brand following the failure of its sale to a Chinese company, Tengzhong. According to reports the deal is said to have failed because of the Chinese government’s unwillingness to complete the deal. GM agreed to sell the division last year, shortly before going into bankruptcy protection. Under the original terms of the sale, Tengzhong was going to take an 80 percent stake in Hummer, with the remainder of the company sold

to a Hong Kong entrepreneur.

Senate passes $35 billion jobs bill he US Senate passed a bill

totaling $35 billion designed to improve the job market and decrease the unemployment rate. Over $15 billion of the funds would go towards allowing businesses hiring unemployed workers to exempt a 6.2 percent Social Security tax and give them an additional $1000 credit if workers stay on for a full year. he bill received support from 55 Democrats, 13 Republicans, and 2 Independents. his bill follows months of legislative gridlock on Capitol Hill, with both sides voting along party lines.

It’s a trap! On Tuesday Feb. 23, the student body at the University of Mississippi voted the Star Wars character Admiral Ackbar, the leader of the Rebel Alliance, as their favorite to be the new on-ield mascot for the University. he on-ield mascot position has been vacant since the administration stopped use of the old mascot.

B

Club MathSGA passed a bill requesting

funding by the Club Math orga-nization to host Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin, a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. he event will be held in March and accommodate ap-proximately 250 students, free of charge. UHR passed the bill 46-0-0, while GSS voted 23-2-1

Ice Hockeyhe Ice Hockey Club submit-

ted a bill requesting funding for new uniforms and a skate sharp-ener, totaling $9124.66. he team would have to spend $2500 per season to sharpen their skates through an outside service. here-fore, the organization requested $6833.33 to purchase a high qual-ity machine with which members would be trained. GSS representa-tives expressed concern that the storage location for the sharpener was of campus. At the UHR meeting, organizational represen-tatives conirmed that the sharp-ener could be stored at the CRC. GSS postponed the bill, and UHR passed the bill 44-1-1.

Photo by Tim Nowack / Student Publications

Representatives at the UHR meeting listen to the discussion about conceal and carry legislation.

Undergraduate Bylaws

UHR voted on a bill to amend the bylaws of the undergraduate student government deining the electorate of class representatives. In past elections students were allowed to vote for representa-tives based on their class standing and not by the number of years at Tech. he old system was created in order to be efectively imple-mented by OIT during the elec-tion process. As a result of this bill, electorates are deined based on the amount of time they have spent at Tech. UHR passed the bill with a vote total of 43-0-1.

CorreCtionIn the Feb. 20 issue, Jackets was incorrectly stated as becoming a purely burger venue. That was incorrect. There are currently no plans to eliminate wings or other options, though the menu is under review and will likely include more burger options.

4 • February 26, 2010 • Technique NEWS

Task force to edit registration process

Photo by Caleb Phillips/ Student Publications

Fifth year ME major Jim Chen researches diferent classes to put

in his schedule for fall 2010 registration on the OSCAR website.

he Joint Finance Committee (JFC), the arm of Student Gov-ernment Association (SGA) in charge of funding-request regula-tions for chartered student organi-zations, is proposing to make six line-item changes to its governing policy.

he changes were sparked, in part, by an audit of SGA last year, that discovered that some funds had been dispersed to a student unailiated with any approved organizations within the last ive years.

he student had claimed to be a member of a chartered, on cam-pus organization; however, the money was not going to the orga-nization in any manner.

Along with addressing the se-curity issues of allocating funds to nonexistent entities, the audit brought to light a number of other procedural issues that afect all three levels of the student organi-zation tier system.

he six proposed JFC policy changes include requiring a meet-ing between the JFC and two of-icers of the organization request-ing funds in order to present their funding request rather than just one organizational representative; increasing hourly wages of em-ployees in organizations to mini-mum wage; changing the rates per mile of travel funded so that it will automatically adjust to the IRS Standard Business Mileage Rate (ISBMR); eliminating the maximum number of organiza-tion members allowed to attend a conference using Student Activity Fee (SAF) funds; replacing an-nual reports from tier I and tier II organizations with semi-annual reports and requiring that there

be yearly “introduction meetings” between the new vice president of inance and tier I and tier II orga-nizations.

he JFC’s tier system is used to determine Student Activity Fee (SAF) allocations to diferent or-ganizations at Tech. Tier I orga-nizations, such as the CRC and the Student Center Operations Board, are designated as “highest priority organizations” and have precedence over tier II and tier III organizations for SAF funds.

Tier II organizations, includ-ing SGA, DramaTech and Stu-dent Publications amongst oth-ers, are second in priority for SAF funding. hese groups are deined as organizations or governing boards whose primary focuses are providing information or services that substantially impact the en-tire student body.

he policy changes emphasize amplifying the transparency level between SGA and the tier I and tier II organizations.

“[he changes] increase com-munication really between the student government and the tier I and tier II organizations to estab-lish relationships that are much more beneicial and making sure that the money that we distribute to them is actually being spent in the way that we agreed upon,“ said Matthew Cauble, SGA’s vice pres-ident of inance and JFC chair.

Tier III organizations contain all other student organizations on campus that are not categorized as tier I or tier II. hese include or-ganizations such as the Paintball Club and Dance Marathon. hese organizations receive the lowest priority for SAF funds out of all the tiers.

“he travel and the conferences [changes] will afect tier III the most because that’s who requests

it the most,” Cauble said. he changes made to the travel

policies will have no afect on the current travel funding rates. he conference policy changes will al-low more members of an organi-zation to travel with SAF funding.

“he thing with the travel is that we kind of just wanted to make it standard instead of hav-ing to go back and adjust it every couple of years when the federal rate changes,” Cauble said.

he current policy restricts the number of funded members to four. here will still be an $800 limit on conference expenses, however.

“hese changes that we’ve made right now are more book-keeping and keeping up with the way that things have kind of been run. Some of the things on here we’ve actually been doing, but we haven’t been implementing it as a policy. Such as the two organiza-tion reps, anytime I send an email for that, I ask for two organization reps anyways,” Cauble said.

“his year actually over the summer and just before school started, I met with the heads of the CRC and the Student Center and kind of did all that stuf. So we’ve actually used this instead of using some theoretical policy,” Cauble said. “It’s something that we’ve tried and it’s worked so far so we just igured we need to put it into policy. hen, we might do a little more reviewing and see what other policies we can adjust that are little bit more controversial.”

he six suggested policy changes will be reviewed at the next Student Activities Commit-tee (SAC) meeting on Wednesday, March 10.

SAC members will then choose to either approve or deny the mea-sures suggested by JFC.

Matt SchrichteStaf Writer

JFC revises governing policy

Coby LuContributing Writer

he Registrar’s oice has teamed up with SGA and aca-demic advisors across campus to form a registration task force in order to discuss potential and up-coming changes to the course reg-istration process. he task force convened on Wednesday, Feb. 24 to decide on Phase I registration changes and discuss further plans.

“We’re looking at making reg-istration easier for everyone and really reforming the system so that students aren’t stressed out during the process and advisors aren’t overworked,” said Jimmy Williams, third-year BME major and Vice President of Campus Af-fairs.

he task force is looking at

several of the major problems with registration for students and advisors such as credit hour caps and registration time tables. Such changes can include the addition of a waitlist function on OSCAR, which could be implemented by spring 2011.

“he wait list function [is] one of the things that the registrar’s of-ice has really pushed,” said Craig Womack, associate registrar. “It gives students the opportunity to see [where they stand]. If you are waiting on math 1502 for Dr. Morley, you can see that there are 21 people waiting in the queue. You can probably see that you should register for someone else.”

Members of the task force also noted the issue of students hold-

See Registration, page 7

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Technique • February 26, 2010 • 5 NEWS

ered by UHR on Feb. 16, when representatives voted to postpone the discussion for one week. Ac-cording to several representatives, this was done in order to gain a better understanding of student opinion. A campus-wide survey was made available to students through JacketPages on Feb. 18.

he survey received 2859 re-sponses, with approximately 52.33 percent of students vot-ing against allowing conceal and carry on campus. he results of an initial survey sent out using an online tool called SurveyMonkey were disregard upon discovering that it was insecure.

“Since our main priority was to accurately gauge student opin-ion, we re-created the survey, this time through JacketPages (which requires one to log in to vote). We sent the survey out again to stu-dents, asking for those who had voted to re-vote, and pleading those who had not voted yet to do so. We threw out the irst set of results without even looking at them,” Staskevicius said.

Members of various campus organizations were present at the UHR meeting in order to present their viewpoints and engage in the debate. According to Teresa Crocker, the chief of police for the GTPD does not support the repeal of the ban on conceal and carry legislation on campus.

“Last year, we actually had a 16 percent reduction of crime on campus. Crimes against persons on this campus are in the single digits. Our main problem is prop-erty crime,” Crocker said.

Crocker noted that steps had been taken in order to combat crime of-campus, like increasing police presence and trying to re-duce crime in Home Park by host-ing clean-up and safety awareness events. She also described how crimes of campus follow a pattern of ofenses before dropping of for

a period of time. For example, she said that following a spate of inci-dents during the summer, Home Park recently had over 60 days without any robberies. Crocker concluded that people who live of campus had the right to own irearms but allowing them on campus would have an adverse ef-fect on campus safety. During the open forum portion of the UHR meeting, representatives from an organization called Students for Concealed and Carry on Campus presented their case for allowing concealed weapons on campus.

“Criminals by deinition are going to break the law, because they care only about making an easy buck. Laws banning conceal and carry afect only those that follow the law,” said a representa-tive from the organization.

hey argued that allowing con-ceal and carry on campus would not mean that every student on

campus would be carrying a gun, and that a student had to take multiple steps in order obtain a Georgia Firearms License (GFL). For example, only students over the age of 21 would be allowed to carry a gun on campus, would have to stand before a probate judge and undergo separate back-ground checks before being al-lowed to obtain a gun.

he discussion among rep-resentatives in UHR focused mainly on asserting the validity of the survey results and whether it would be appropriate for SGA to take a stand since the survey re-sults did not provide a clear ma-jority. At one point, a representa-tive suggested that the wording of the bill be changed to relect the disagreement on the issue.

Several representatives were dissatisied about the fact that re-sults were unavailable by major, making it diicult for them to

Conceal from page 1 gauge the opinions of their con-stituency.

Most representatives said that UHR should take a stand on the issue, especially since it would af-fect the lives of students and cam-pus members. Proponents of the bill argued that regardless of the margin of diference in opinion in the survey, a majority of students did not support the legislation re-pealing the ban on conceal and carry on campus. Some reasoned that due to the nature of the issue, there was a very vocal minority, and that the percentage of respon-dents supporting conceal and car-ry were in the minority of overall student opinion.

“I actually went to Britain on Feb. 18 and I asked a lot of people what they thought and I spoke to people in my classes what I found was that most people actu-ally against it but those who were against it were really proactive,” said Daniel Nussenbaum, third-year ISYE major and junior class president who voted for the reso-lution.

Representatives against the resolution said that because the results of the survey were so close, it was important to represent the views of those in the minority be represented and not to issue a bill that generalized the opinion of the student body in a broad way. Some saw the existence of a vo-cal minority as a reason to vote against the resolution.

“I had to use personal judg-ment in listening to their argu-ments because realistically in an environment where people are more adamant about what they think, they tend to have more rel-evant arguments and it made a lot more sense to me… they set me to sight and referred me to argu-ments and statistics and showed that this worked at other schools for decades,” said Eran Mordel, irst-year ISYE major and fresh-man class representative who vot-ed against the resolution.

Photo by Tim Nowack/ Student Publications

A pro-HB 615 student wears a sticker reading, “Guns save lives” at

the UHR meeting. HB 615 is a bill in support of conceal and carry.

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Procter and Gamble. he panel was hosted by actor and youth leadership activist Luis Ramos. Ramos led the discussion by in-troducing topics such as minor-ity unemployment rates, the role of minority communities and the inluence that their minority background had on each member of the panel. Audience members had time afterwards to conduct a Q&A session with the panel. here participants discussed their own experiences and perspectives on the aforementioned issues and dispensed advice to the younger members of the audience. he fol-lowing banquet featured a schol-arship ceremony to an outstand-ing member of the AASU, who exempliied academic prowess and also involvement in the commu-nity.

“he scholarship is $1000 and was funded thanks to our corpo-rate sponsors,” said Joshua Wilk-erson, ifth-year, ISYE major and president of AASU. “I would say this year because of the economy it was diicult to get funding. I think its important Tech supports future conferences like this.”

AASU hopes to continue to raise the conference’s proile in the years to come.

“We want more Tech students to attend the BLC. here are lots of leadership and networking de-velopment opportunities. I mean we had a top CNN exec speaking here. We are also trying to inish strong by holding Sunday’s events in the Ferst Center so more stu-dents can come,” Smith said. “For example we had forty students from other schools come: the NAACP branch in Kent State and the Black Afairs Council from UGA.”

he AASU has been organiz-ing the BLC since 2004. Since its inception, it has hosted guests such as President Barack Obama and Cornel West, among others.

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Technique • February 26, 2010 • 7 NEWS

SGA election code updated

Following election campaign violations and voting issues in recent freshman Student Govern-ment Association elections, the new elections code came to pass in the Undergraduate House of Representatives (UHR) meeting held on Feb. 23. he UHR de-cided to pass new elections code. he change comes after a number of reported violations and vot-ing issues concerning recent SGA elections.

“he biggest problem [we’ve run] into was how to deter people from violating the election code,” said Mike Donohue, second-year PUBP major and elections com-mittee chair.

he code revisions quantify penalties as two percent of cam-paign budget or ive percent of votes for minor violations and ten percent of campaign budget or 15 percent of votes for major viola-tions.

“[I’m] not a fan of taking away votes. You’re not only punishing the person [whom] you’re taking votes from, but [you’re] also tak-ing away student voice via votes, which is their right,” said Brenda Morales, third-year BCHM ma-jor and institute-wide committees chair in the Open Forum of the UHR meeting on Feb. 9 during SGA week.

However, taking away votes appears to be one of very few op-

Kamna BohraContributing Writer

tions for committee members. “You’re not taking away indi-

vidual votes. You’re not disenfran-chising a particular voter. You’re taking away votes from the vote total, which, other than a budget [cut], is the only way the elections committee has any [power],” said Parul Kapur, second-year ME ma-jor and sophomore representative.

Another issue brought up was the deinition of “campaign work-er”, identifying cases where stu-dents not associated with a partic-ular campaign cause a candidate’s violation of elections code.

“A big problem last year was the deinition of a campaign worker. Clarifying this will help in allowing elections commit-tee [to] decide what is or what is not a violation of election code,” said Austen Edwards, second-year PUBP major and UHR member-at-large.

However, lists of campaign workers run risks.

“On one hand, it would be great if we could have a list of campaign workers so we’d know,” said Parker Hancock, fourth-year EE major and executive vice presi-dent. According to Hancock, the possibility of candidates not turn-ing in complete campaign worker lists arises.

“It falls on the candidates to just be aware of the campus, espe-cially the executive candidates... hey should be aware of their presence on campus,” Donohue said.

he elections committee also changed the electorate criteria, now deining voters by the num-ber of completed semesters, while still deining transfer students by credit hours. Elections code previ-ously deined all students by cred-it hour completion, which did not always align with the number of semesters spent at Tech.

“[he code] wasn’t very clear as to who could vote for whom. It was very clear who could run, but you had to do some interpretation to igure out who was voting for whom,” Donohue said.

he confusion associated with the code was also more of a tech-nical problem, and the revisions have been handled by OIT.

he academic major represen-tative criterion is still dependent on credit hours and current or prior enrollment in major classes.

“I think [the biggest concern] is making the penalties explicit. Before, a lot was left on the shoul-ders of the elections committee, and while there [have] always been great people on the commit-tee, it’s not their responsibility to make those decisions,” Donohue said.

he elections code also sets the elections schedule for UHR and undergraduate student body presi-dent and vice president.

Application packets will be available March 1, campaigning begins March 28, and the second runof election results will be an-nounced April 26.

of-state students as well. All out-of-state students pay four times the in-state tuition, meaning Tech’s out-of-state students would now pay 40,000 in tuition, plus mandatory fees.

“As yesterday’s subcommit-tee hearings airmed, there is no doubt that the ability of the state to subsidize the cost of higher ed-ucation is diminishing. Currently, tuition covers only 16 percent of the cost. State appropriations make up another 22 percent. he remainder is provided by spon-sored funding, gifts and other sources.” said James Fetig, associ-ate vice president of communica-tions and marketing.

When asked how he felt that a 77 percent tuition hike would be received by students, Undergradu-ate SGA Executive Vice President Parker Hancock said, “Most stu-dents will obviously be very angry, very upset. I know for a lot of peo-ple going to college is a big burden on their families, or on themselves if they are trying to pay for it out

of pocket, and I don’t know how they are going to get by.”

Some legislators seemed more willing than other to approve a tuition hike in the face of a down economy. Senator Don Balfour said, “I personally have no prob-lem with you raising tuition at all, I mean, when we start going to zero [funding] and we aren’t giv-ing you any money, the students are the only people who can pay.”

here was resistance to his view, including Senator Bill Hem-bree who said “I hope that you [Davis] will pledge to us today that if you do use that avenue of pursuing tuition increases that you wont do it in a complete way so that you are simply pushing that of to the people in this state who send their kids to college.”

“I think that, as students, we understand and even anticipate a tuition hike. It’s only logical in a recession that students help sustain the quality of their edu-cation…. However, it is absurd to see such an increase,” said Un-dergraduate SGA President Alina Staskevicius.

Tuition from page 1

Registration from page 4

ing classes for other students as a major problem.

In response, the task force proposed limiting the number of hours that students can register for to 17, which led to mixed feel-ings from certain members of the task force who felt that the origi-nal 21-hour cap was necessary for some students.

Due to heavy discussion at the task force meeting, leaders voted

to increase the credit hour cap to be 18 hours instead.

“By doing this, it will allow a longer amount of time for un-dergrads for registration and it will really allow us to extend time tickets. We can have a full day for seniors, and then juniors. So there won’t be a complete rush in registration,” Womack said. “he reason behind that is to prevent people from holding classes. And in Phase II registration, the hours will be lipped.”

I would like to respond to last week’s letter criticizing the quality of some entries in this year’s Cam-pus MovieFest [“Campus Mov-ieFest losing amateurs” printed Feb. 19]. I was interested in en-tering the event this year, but in the end could not aford the time needed to form a team and make a quality ilm. But I do take is-sue with a couple criticisms of the event.

he letter seemed to insinu-ate that the use of higher quality video production equipment was creating an unfair advantage. As someone with over four years of video production experience, I would irst like to point out that the best equipment does not nec-essarily make the best ilm. he technical quality of a ilm may be higher, but that does not mean that the script, or story, or cin-ematography, or editing is also of a higher quality.

Additionally, access to more professional equipment does not mean that students know how to operate them. I know plenty of people at Tech who can use a camcorder, but not as many that would know how to, say, open up a Panasonic HVX200 by two f-stops. Plus, the actual composi-tion of a shot depends nothing on the camera used to capture it. In the end, a ilm is made by ilm-makers, not by equipment.

Also, judges in student ilm competitions know what they are looking for in a ilm, and can eas-ily see past the visual and audio quality to judge ilms based on cinematography, directing, acting and plot. I would expect the judg-ing body of Campus MovieFest to be no exception.

Finally, it is unfair to penalize students just because they have dealt with ilmmaking before. After all, their primary purpose at Tech is getting a degree, not making movies. here are a pleth-ora of serious independent ilm competitions out there for aspir-ing ilmmakers, but I would not quite rank CMF as one of them. hose competitions involve pro-fessionals who make a living in ilm and video production, use professional equipment, and often include budgets reaching into the thousands of dollars. CMF is a ca-sual competition for full time col-lege students looking to have fun and make a quick ilm in a week. I don’t see how it could be more amateur than that.

Chris RodesneySecond-year PHYS

Currents strategies will

not solve energy problems

I support transitioning to clean energy and eliminating our de-pendence on fossil fuels. Not only will clean energy improve our economy through job creation and reduced energy costs for more ei-cient buildings, but it will also re-

duce pollution that causes illness, death, climate change and ecosys-tem devastation. Unfortunately, D.C.’s deinition of clean energy includes ofshore drilling, “clean” coal and nuclear power. hese non-renewable energy sources put our environment, economy and well-being at risk.

Ofshore oil wells spill thou-sands of barrels of oil, fuel and chemicals into federal waters. How will an increase in these “routine” releases, no less the threat of massive oil spills, im-pact coastal ecosystems? here is no reason to risk our water for oil that, by Department of Energy estimates, would only meet U.S. demand for about two years!

Politicians on both sides of the aisle are calling for billions to develop “clean” coal technolo-gies. Coal will never be clean or renewable. So-called “clean” coal technologies are expensive, inei-cient and unproven. Considering the harm to Appalachian commu-nities caused by mountaintop re-moval coal mining and resulting pollution, a coal-powered future looks awfully dirty: toxic materi-als, including mercury and radio-active waste, will continue to be pumped into our environment.

Nuclear power is a foolish in-vestment. Rocky Mountain Insti-tute estimates that investments in eiciency could save seven-times as much energy as equal invest-ments in nuclear plants produce, while creating 10 times as many permanent jobs. President Obama recently announced the release of $8.3 billion in loan guarantees to inance the irst new nuclear re-actors begun in this country for nearly 30 years. Georgia’s Plant Vogtle will be the irst to receive funds. his site was intended for four reactors estimated at $600 million total, but only two reac-tors cost $9 billion. Since nuclear plants are risky investments, the only way utilities can pay con-struction costs is to pass them on to taxpayers and ratepayers.

Our future depends on imple-menting truly clean and renew-able sources, like wind, solar and geothermal energy. Otherwise we are just paying to poison our-selves, and our children.

Carly QueenAlumna- ‘09 ME

OpinionsTechnique

8Friday,

February 26, 2010

If it were not for injustice, man would not know justice.

—Heraclitus

Opinions Editor: Matt Hofman

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OUR VIEWS CONSENSUS OPINION

Cents and sensibilityLarge tuition increase will damage students, schools

he news from the House-Senate budget committee for the Georgia General Assembly that a signiicant tuition increase is on the table puts students, the Institute and the entire University System in jeopardy. he current reasonable cost of tuition allows Tech to be competitive in retaining top young minds in the state of Georgia and brings in the best from across the nation, allowing the Institute to continue to soar even in times of economic hardship.

he most disturbing aspects coming out of the meeting are the calls by some state legislators, in particular Sen. Don Balfour, who claims that tuition hikes should not just be on the table, but should deinantly be used, as current rates are embarrassing or that failure to do so would be a socialist prerogative.

Providing afordable, quality higher education to the people of Georgia should be a source of pride for the state, and the Senator’s comments are unitting

of a person elected to serve the people of this state. Such a deplorable lack of understanding of current and future constituents is the true embarrassment for the state and the people the assembly represents.

People should earn admission to the state’s public schools based on their academic merits, not the inancial fortunes of their parents. Properly educating future engineers, teachers and civic leaders ensures the strength of the state and the nation as a whole. Higher education is no longer a luxury for the elite; it is a necessity for next generation to succeed.

he need of the legislature to balance the budget is not forgotten and a reasonable tuition increase may be needed, but it must be done sensibly and with regard to future generations. Unfortunately, because of the change in times, the majority of current legislators cannot fathom the burden they could potentially be dumping on students.

EDITORIAL CARTOON BY MAGGIE SMITH

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Technique • February 26, 2010 • 9 OPINIONS

Getting from Point A to Point B on Tech’s campus is a dangerous activity that re-quires a good amount of cau-tion. To remedy our poor traic situation, I will ad-dress various groups and their methods of getting around on Tech campus in the hopes that maybe someone out there will learns something useful and stop being dumb.

Pedestrians: I sympathize with this group the most, but I also ind them to be some of the stupidest people on cam-pus. When crossing a road, a pedestrian has the right of way, and I am sure everyone knows it. But why not look left and right when one is about to go into a crosswalk? I have seen a distracted student or someone on his cell phone casually walk across from the Love building towards the residential areas on West campus without look-ing around irst. here is a three way stop sign with cars literally going in ive directions and people just start walking.

I am not saying to stop for cars and indicating for all ve-hicles in front of one to go, but it is also in a person’s best inter-est to want to you know, live. here is no victory from get-ting run over and screaming “Got you! See you in court!” while your bloodied body is on the ground. Look left and right before crossing the street and make a fair judgment.

Also, to those who choose

to make the illegal life choice to jaywalk, please do not do it in such a way that will ob-viously endanger everyone on the road (at least more than the usual jaywalking). On Spring St., it is common to see people underestimate the speeds of cars and attempt to cross when it is still a green light for on-coming cars. hey think these cars are going 10 MPH when they are in fact going 40 MPH or more. he solution? Be bet-ter at estimating speeds of cars and be better at valuing life.

Bikers: bikers get an unfair reputation because of a few bad ones on the road, but since this column is complaining about the poor examples of groups, I will single out those bad ones. I have seen multiple people bike from Tech Square to the Physics building while on the sidewalk and on the opposite side of the road. hese people are some of the biggest morons on campus. Is the bike path not good enough? Do people feel superior because now they have the power to run people over as opposed to being the

potential victim? I wish these unfortunate bikers no punish-ment, because whatever hap-pened to these peoples’ brains to make them think this is a good idea is something that will be present for a lifetime.

So to bikers, just use some common sense. When there is a wide road or slow mov-ing vehicles or extremely nar-row sidewalk, please stay on the road. When there is a bike path, please use it.

Drivers: he most danger-ous people on the road because they are in vehicles that can run over a squirrel and not feel or hear it. My main complaint is about the ones who do not know the meaning of a four-way stop sign. It is like a line that people have to wait in to go. hese drivers think that the stop behind the next car is enough of a stop to merit going whenever. Tip: it’s not. Stop signs are meant for stopping, not POTS spelled backwards on a red octagon.

Scooters and Segways: I think your life choices are worse than your choices on the

road.People who only take the

trolley and buses: My favor-ites are the small graduate students, often the ones who consider opening a door to the Cyntergy building to be the most strenuous physical exer-cise of the day, suddenly turn-ing into Usain Bolt the min-ute they see a trolley. I once saw someone come out of the corner of Techwood and Ferst and sprint to the bus stop in front of the baseball stadi-um...only to get of in front of the Nanotech building.

My only request is that people stop complaining about the ineiciency of the bus system. I have heard tons of IE’s proclaim that they will ix our bus system. Guess what? Still not ixed or changed for the better. I do not know if that speaks more about our students or about Tech’s program. I will go with the former.

hese are just a small list of complaints I have about the traic situation on campus. Am I a petty man? Of course. Do I complain about things that have no possible resolu-tions? Without a doubt. Am I a small man? In both stat-ure and character, yes. Still, if any of these things were to be ixed, we might be able to make Tech a safer place. Except for that whole crime situation, but let us just ignore that.

Common-sense rules for getting around“There is no victory from

getting run over and

screaming ‘Got you! See you

in court.’”

Hahnming LeeBusiness Manager

Michelle BjornasSecond-year CM

“It will be nice to have an assortment of new restau-

rants”

Nathan RubrightSecond-year CHBE

“I’m looking forward to the new restaurants, but I am not excited about the con-

struction”

Will WolterFirst-year IE

“I am looking forward to the full-menu Chick-il-A.”

Katie BrasukSecond-year BME

“I’m going to miss Pandinis.”

What would you think about the food court

renovations?

BUZZAround Campus

I’m not a huge fan of win-ter in general. Having lived in the South for most of my life, I don’t have much of an appre-ciation for cold weather.

However, there are a couple of things that are cool about this winter so far. his winter gave us a snow day, which is a rarity at Tech. he other thing that’s going on this winter is the huge event that everyone has been talking about: the Winter Olympics hosted by Canada, our neighbor to the north.

Maple leaves, ham-bacon and “eh?” are the things that usually come to mind when I think about Canada. But over the past two weeks, the entire world has had its eyes on Van-couver for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. And justii-ably so, as the Olympic games are usually pretty awesome, in my opinion.

he Olympics gives us a chance to watch bizarre sports that we only get to see once every four years. Take curling for example—who knew that it could be so enthralling to watch ginormous stones get hurled across ice that is being feverishly swept by two loudly yelling individuals? Or the bi-athlon, which combines skiing and shooting riles. I still don’t quite see the connection be-tween guns and skiing, but it’s entertaining to watch none-theless.

Rather than doing home-work or laundry or whatever

is next on the list, I often ind myself tuning in to watch another Olympic event. For many of us, the Olympics are a fun diversion from our every-day routine and nothing more. But for many Olympic athletes and participating countries, a lot more is riding on the line.

For one thing, there is no other tradition of this magni-tude that the entire world gets to participate in. Just thinking about the coordination behind the event as a whole is stag-gering. With over 2000 ath-letes and over 80 participating countries this year, the Olym-pics literally brings the world together for a couple of weeks.

hat is the beauty of the Olympic games—it is com-prised of countries around the world participating in sport for the sake of sport. No border conlicts, no trade disagree-ments, no cultural misgivings; these days, it is generally a dra-ma-free zone. It has not always been like that, which makes me appreciate the Olympic games even more. I ind it in-credible, and reassuring, to see

so many countries gathered to-gether in one location without any of the tensions that perme-ate international politics.

As a whole, the Olympics are a celebration of humanity. he amazingly talented ath-letes from around the globe exemplify that sentiment, as they give it all they have. hese individuals are positive role models and provide inspira-tion. Olympic athletes are not born as medal winners; they work hard throughout their lives to achieve greatness. hey are living proof that dedica-tion, hard work and persever-ance do pay of.

I was watching speed skat-ing a few days ago, and it was intense. Just when it seems like athletes are out of breath or about to collapse from ex-haustion, they push forward with incredible determination, which is an awe-inspiring sight to behold. hese athletes gath-er together every four years not for the sole purpose of com-peting for personal glory, but rather to represent the people of an entire nation on a global

stage.hese Olympians become a

focal point of national pride for many nations, large or small. he Olympics gives people around the world a glimmer of hope and a chance to be proud of their homelands, which is more valuable than we realize in an age of political and eco-nomic turmoil. he games give everyone a chance to shine.

I do acknowledge that this article has been chock-full of rainbows, butterlies and other happy thoughts relating the Olympics to some perfect fantasy world where everyone gets along. It would be na-ïve to think that just because two countries get along at the Olympic games that they can learn to get along otherwise. But, it’s a start; it shows that people are indeed capable of collaboration and mutual sup-port. And the mere presence of that, no matter how seem-ingly insigniicant, is enough to inspire hope in the hearts of many people. Call me an ide-alist, but hope goes a long way. Many nations have experi-enced great change motivated by nothing else but a message of hope.

his is why the games are still important and relevant in this day in age. It’s about so much more than merely ind-ing out who can dance the best on ice or who the best bobsled-der is. It’s about unity. It’s about hope. It’s about celebrat-ing the world as we know it.

Olympics ofer unique moral perspective“I still don’t quite see the

connection between guns and

skiing, but it’s entertaining to

watch nonetheless.”

Jonathan SaethangManaging Editor

Photos by Joey Cerone

10 • February 26, 2010 • Technique OPINIONS

Long, strenuous budget process needed to ensure transparency Six-igure discussions, percent-

age cut suggestions, thousands of line items, excel worksheet navi-gation challenges and the scram-ble to ensure all the paperwork is done on time (and correctly of course) can only mean one thing: it’s budget season.

Hopefully you’ve been keeping up on the state of the institutions inances, but if you haven’t, all you need to know is the economy sucks—although it’s getting bet-ter. Our student fees have been raised to combat shortfalls and support our beloved institution as it continues to grow and prosper. Fortunately, as students, we have rights to a portion of the fees im-posed on us (a $118 per semester Student Activity Fee or SAF), and thus, the privilege to distribute the revenue from the SAF, about $4.3 million, in SGA legislative bills and through annual budgets.

SGA is very often known for its lengthy Tuesday meetings. he lesser known portion of SGA inances—although it is the por-tion through which a large major-ity of the funding is allocated—is the budget process. Every year, budget requests are due to SGA in October; budgets are then re-viewed through the Joint Finance Committee in conjunction with student organizations and rec-ommended to both the Graduate Student Senate and Undergradu-ate House of Representatives in March. After much discussion, these bodies will pass the inal budget for the following iscal year (in this case FY11) in April.

his year I have been fortunate enough to serve as the Joint Fi-nance Committee Chairman for SGA and have worked with my committee, and the talented SGA accountant, to guarantee a posi-

tive SGA budget season. he bud-get process is always surrounded by a good deal of controversy; my primary goals going into this year were to make rational, business decisions in allocating funding. Transparency throughout the en-tire process is key.

For those unfamiliar with the Tier system, it is a method of grouping various campus orga-nizations. Tier I is the CRC and Student center. hey have irst pri-ority to the Student Activity Fee. Tier II are organizations like Stu-dent Publications, WREK, IFC, SGA—basically organizations that impact large numbers of stu-dents. Tier III organizations con-sist mostly of the culture clubs.

Over winter break, a sched-ule was sent out to all the orga-nizations through the Student Involvement Oice concerning when budget hearings with the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) would take place. Unfortunately, due to organizations experienc-ing oicer turnover at the end of the fall, some organizations never knew that the meetings were tak-ing place. Keeping this in mind, we are being forgiving this year, but there is potential that next year organizations will receive penalties for not appearing at budget meetings. So as an oicer of your organization now, make it a priority to make that oicer

transition as smooth as possible at the end of the fall.

hat being said, the meet-ings we have held with organiza-tions were very positive. Everyone seems to understand the problems we face with requests totaling $5.3 million while having $4.3 million in available funding. hus, we have worked with organizations to ensure the budgets not only conform to policy, but work as a business to make agreeable cuts.

Looking forward, I will be sit-ting in front of a computer, prob-ably in the library where groups have priority, inputting the rec-ommendations of my committee. he Graduate Student Senate will work diligently in a one night spe-cial session to review this 5000 line item budget, while the Un-dergraduate House of Representa-tives will work over a few weeks to do the same thing. It is important that we all, in SGA, continue to use best business practices when given responsibility over these funds. Finally, remember to make sure you let the new oicers and key members of your organiza-tions know about your FY 2011-12 budgets this coming fall—the more you know about the process, the simpler it becomes. I am al-ways willing to work with you and answer questions you may have. Here’s to passing an equitable, transparent budget!

OUR VIEWS HOT OR NOT

Minority leadershiphe Black Leadership Con-

ference allowed minority and non-minority students alike to participate in a session that brought several noteworthy speakers to campus. Holding such events on campus reen-forces the importance of cam-pus diversity. Hopefully this conference will, as the name insists, highten minority lead-ership on campus as it is cur-rently lacking.

HOT– or –NOT“I...have worked with my

committee, and the talented

SGA accountant to guarantee a

positive SGA budget season.”

Matthew CaubleSGA Vice President of Finance

Field irehe evacuation of Fields

Dormitory last hursday forced the displacement of nearly all freshmen honors students. While it is com-mendable that many of the upperclassmen honor students ofered to house the displaced freshmen, it would have been more advantageous if such an incident did not occur in the irst place, leaving the fresh-men to study in peace.

Netting winshe early season success of

men’s lacrosse is a wonderful reminder that non-scholarship athletes at Tech also represent the Institute with pride. he dominating wins over Rein-hart College and the Univer-sity of Alabama this weekend moved the Jackets to a 4-0 start on the season. his also gives students an opportunity to support their fellow students as the men’s lacrosse plays their home matches at SAC ields.

Funds iascohe news coming out of the

audit JFC that a Tech student attempted to get funds for a club that the student was not even a part of in order to pock-et the money raises many eye-brows as to the oversight of the money SGA dispenses. While this appears to be an isolated incident, this potentially ive-igure iasco should not be taken lightheartedly and any potential legal remedies should be sought.

Focusfocus@nique.net

Focus Editor:Kate Comstock

Organization Spotlight: Badminton Club

Badminton Club ofers opportunies for every

student interested in badminton to uncover

individual potential in badminton.

Contact: cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/badminton

Technique

11Friday,

February 26, 2010

By Julia TurnerContributing Writer

After what has seemed like weeks of nothing but rain, snow, then rain again, the sun-shining exuberance of Saturday, Feb. 20 stands out like a patch of daf-fodils in a mud pit. However, for the people assembled on the fourth loor of the CRC at 5 p.m. the weather was not the only reason the day stood out among others; it was also the day of Tech’s sev-enth annual Dance Marathon.

Dance Marathon (DM) is a national non-proit organization that raises mon-ey for Children’s Healthcare Network (CHN). he goal of the night is to dance for the kids who can’t dance for them-selves.

Here at Tech, the night consists of watching the stories of the CHN’s Mira-cle Children, learning the year’s “morale dance” and playing games and compet-ing in sports tournaments, among other activities.

he view from above the CRC’s bas-ketball court showed swatches of purple, green, yellow, blue and pink bounc-ing and bobbing around the basketball courts while music from radio station wbTS 95.5 he beat blasted from speakers by a stage set up in front of the ping pong rooms. he colors represented

Marathon for more than dancing

RHA raises watt waste awareness See Dance, page 13

Students recognized for changing

communities, world By Athrisa Divya Varahabhatla

Contributing Writer

Jabril Leigh, second-year CE, and Jennifer Chirico, graduate student Environmental Poli-cy, student were accepted to the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) in recognition for their steps to creating change in the world and their communities.

he Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) recognizes the work that students like Leigh and Chirico complete and allows world leaders, Nobel Prize winners, college students and administrators to come together, discuss and implement innovative projects to help al-leviate pressing social and environmental prob-lems.

According to the website, www.clintonglo-balinitiative.org, the CGI is singularly difer-ent from other organizations in that it “requires each member to make a speciic commitment to Action.” Commitment to actions can afect either a campus or any community or particular population.

“he Objectives of CGI are to get people, younger generations from all over the world together, work together and communicate to-gether. It’s also to share others diiculties and successes and see feedback and connect student, faculty, and administration,” Leigh said.

Leigh wanted to come up with a way to im-prove education in his home village in Gambia, Africa by giving students in his village adequate transportation to and from school.

“I wanted to make a diference at home,” said Leigh, “[I created] bike sharing program [to] allow them to travel to school on time and return back before dark. It also motivates them to go to school.”

He believes that if one improves the educa-tion of children, their livelihood will improve as well. Leigh, a former construction worker, came to Tech in order to learn how to better beneit his community. His acceptance to GCIU is an unintended consequence of his goals to beneit his village.

he objective of CGIU is to get youth in-volved in helping a community to increase awareness for a social issue.

“I want to increase awareness of waste man-agement issues in the Paciic Ocean by develop-ing a short documentary,” said Chirico.

Photo by Jarrett Skov/ Student Publications

Students participate in the seventh annual Dance Marathon in the CRC on Feb. 20. The marathon featured more than

dancing this year with video games, sports competitions and a competition to see who could stand up the longest.

Andrew NelsonStaf Writer

Following Tech’s trend of sustainability innovations in practice and building design, the Residence Hall Associa-tion’s (RHA) improvement committee has announced this year’s round of wasted watts —a competition among residence halls to lower their power consumption.

“One of the biggest issues that we’re looking at is how to get people to use sustain-able practices in their daily lives and apply that on a larger scale so that small drops in the

bucket are a valuable contribu-tion,” said Parul Kapur, sec-ond-year ME and RHA vice president.

he goal of wasted watts is to educate and build student interest and support in sus-tainability, as well as improv-ing transparency with energy usage on campus.

his is the second wasted watts competition, and the key improvement this year is electronic measurement; last year, power consumption was recorded manually by reading the meter on each building.

See CGI, page 14

Photo courtesy of Jenifer Chirico

Jennifer Chirico plans to increase awareness

about poor waste management in the U.S.See Watts, page 13

Photo by Basheer Tome/ Student Publications

Starting in April, students living on campus will be able

to track energy consumption in an RHA competition.

the diferent DM teams, ive in all, and from balloons that several people were playing with in the down time.

“we’re going to pop them when we start, and one of them has our miracle child’s name in it,” said Amy Rankin, a second year bio who was the one of the morale leaders for Team Yellow. Rankin decided to be a morale leader after com-ing to Dance Marathon last year and loved watching the morale leaders get everyone pumped up and teach the mo-rale dance.

his dance, though not similar in choreography, is a common theme at Dance Marathons around the country.

“Every school’s [event] looks a little diferent, but the Morale Dance is uni-versal. At the National Conference everyone performs theirs so the other schools can see it,” said Zack Johnson, the National Director of DM.

Lexie Vaughn, third-year bIO, and bradston Henry, fourth-year ME, were in charge of this year’s dance and served as morale team co-captains.

“we oversee the morale team leaders, there’s about two to three of them per team, and we’re kind of like the face of the event,” said Vaughn.

Despite the title of the marathon, dancing isn’t all that goes on during the night.

here was also a band, dodgeball games, tug and a cornhole tournament. DM also ofered participants a chance to participate in Dance, Dance Revolution and compete against other participants in Guitar Hero.

Apparently DM has a way of inspiring people, no matter their original reasons for coming to the event.

Daniel Gallagher, a second-year ChemE and bME, also decided to get more involved with the planning process after coming last year. He helped to or-ganize the fundraising that the steering committee does throughout the year like tailgates during the football season.

his year, they even got together with the DM planners from UGA for a tailgate: “Teaming Up for the Kids.” In addition, the committee organized an Open Mic Night and a Steak and Shake Night to help raise more money.

he committee’s hard work through-out the year as well as the eforts of every-one who came to the big night deinitely paid of.

“we ended up raising $15,669.77, which is almost $4,000 more than last year,” said Ashleigh Griin, a fourth year CE and Executive Director of the steer-ing committee.

Technique • February 26, 2010 • 13 FOCUS

A few more factors were changed for this year’s program, including the duration (increased by three hours) and a new dance-of competition.

Registered participates could choose to take a number and try to stay on their feet for the entire ten hours of the night. hose who remained standing competed at having best mastered the morale dance. he winner, will Hack-ett, a fourth-year EnvE, won two AirTran tickets for his stamina.

In accordance with Dance Marathon’s procedures all $15, 669.77 will be going to Hugh Spaulding Hospital.

Tech isn’t alone in increases in fundraising, many schools across the country also contribute. As Johnson pointed when the night kicked-of, most non-proit orga-nizations are down by about 6-7 percent in their fundraising while DM is up by 18 percent, all of which can go straight to the 170 hospitals around the U.S. and the world that treat 17 million chil-dren each year.

A few of those children are able to make it to Tech’s Dance Mara-thon every year; some of them are the “Miracle Children” that Chil-dren’s chooses every year while others are ones that volunteer to come tell (or have their parents tell) their stories.

“we’re much smaller than oth-er schools, but we deinitely im-press with what we can do being on an urban campus,” said Griin when asked about how Tech com-pares with other schools.

Johnson agreed and said, “I al-ways use Tech as an example for other schools with non-traditional campuses to show how the event can work.”

Next year’s steering commit-tee applications are already up, if interested in Dance Marathon refernce www.marathon.gatech.edu.

“he Paciic Ocean is also home to the world’s largest ‘Gar-bage Patch,’ a solid waste collec-tion in the ocean, which scientists estimate to be twice the size of Texas.” She believes that it is a situation where it is, “out of sight out of mind,” that few people tru-ly understand or are aware of the issue of poor waste management in the Paciic.

In 2005, Clinton established Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in order to bring together resources and people to come up with solu-tions to frustrating global and so-cial issues.

“he annual conferences,” the website said, “gathers world lead-ers from a variety of backgrounds, the CGI creates a unique oppor-tunity to channel the capacities of individuals and organizations to realize change.”

“…Students run into is iden-

tifying resources to make their commitments a reality. One way that we try to assist in this area is by teaming up with the wal-Mart Foundation and Pat Tillman Foundation to award students with grants for their commit-ment,” said Keisha Senter, direc-tor of GCIU.

he CGIU focuses on ive spe-ciic areas of change: education, environment and climate change, peace and human rights, pov-erty alleviation and public health.CGIU students are invited to the CGI conference held at Miami University on April 16-18. while at the conference students partici-pate in many workshops and net-working events to strengthen their positions on community actions.

“[I am excited] to have an op-portunity to meet with other peo-ple from around the world who have related interests and learn what they are doing to solve simi-lar problems,” said Chirico.

Dance from page 11 CGI from page 11

Photo by Jarrett Skov/ Student Publications

Jabril Leigh got into CGIU based on his innovative idea to provide

his village’s children with feasible transportation to school.

his year’s competition is still in the planning and development stage. hey are still primarily in the process of optimizing the back end (facilities and administration cooperation), but RHA has set April 1-22 to be the time frame for the competition.

Each building’s hall council will compete with each other in lowering their per capita power consumption.

he students coordinating it will determine the energy usage per resident per building by read-ing data from Department of Fa-cilities’ computers.

“we look at the percentage re-duction over the three weeks, and since we have access to data from all the buildings and we know the number of residents per building, [we ind] an average per student,” Kapur said.

“Our loor already turns of the hall lights during peak hour, but I’ll probably be making door hangers to remind everyone about the event with tips about ways to reduce power usage,” said James Slack, second-year ID and Glenn Hall Peer Leader, “I leave my own light of unless I absolutely need to turn it on, and I make sure to use the cold water cycle when I wash my clothes.”

An important component to the competition on the students’ side is the feedback pages on RHA’s website. Since on-campus students are otherwise unable to gauge their energy usage, the feed-back page will allow them to see the impact of their efort.

with a feedback system, resi-dents will be able to see the impact of their efort and hopefully have more motivation to save energy.

“It would be better if we pro-mote this kind of program more often and from a higher, campus-wide level. he ways are not too hard to follow or ind. It is just matter of making it as habits,”

said Jinhyun Kim, irst-year CS, “I would participate [in wasted watts] and turn of lights and ap-pliances when not in use, and I would always consider choosing eco-friendly, energy saving elec-tronics,” said Kim.

Consumption statistics—in-terpreted as totals, percentages and graphs—and rankings will be posted every other day on RHA’s website.

Power consumption includes wall outlet usage and lighting in the halls, kitchen, lounges and in-dividual rooms.

he winners will be will be no-tiied by email, and it will be an-nounced at Tech’s Earth Day cer-emony on April 22. he reward is anticipated to be four hours of free use of Tech Rec for the residents of the winning building.

RHA hopes to eventually have live, automatic tracking of power consumption, but the facilities’ system’s API is too complicated to have time to enable that this year.

Kapur also believes that once their fundamentals are in place methods to possibly determin ac-tual per student power consump-tion—as opposed to the average of each building, as is currently measured—would be very benei-cial.

“[he reward] isn’t a big incen-tive for me, but I’ve always been eco-conscious as a kid and have always remembered to switch of unnecessary power, and that con-tinues at Tech,” said Kali Kishore, second-year ME, “If you’re try-ing to bribe students, it might as well be something better like free food.”

Some suggestions that coor-dinators have made for saving energy are not packing the refrig-erator after it’s 60% full, cleaning the lint ilter and using dryer balls when drying clothes, connecting appliances to a power strip and turning it of when not in use and closing the blinds during winter nights so heat does not escape.

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By Chris RussellOnline Editor

his semester, the Georgia Tech Police Department (GTPD) is giving back to the community in more ways than usual. he Geor-gia Special Olympics are coming up in May, and the GTPD is play-ing a big part in fund raising for the charity.

“We want to embrace the Georgia Tech community in our eforts for this heroic event and welcome and encourage every-one to participate, whether it’s a monetary donation or a volunteer efort to help us raise money for Special Olympics. we are here to give back, as well as to protect and serve the members of the Georgia Tech community and we welcome everyone’s participation,” said Regina Rogers, Captain of the GTPD’s Administrative Services Division and the oicer organiz-ing fund raising and volunteer ac-tivities for the department.

On Feb. 20, Rogers took part in SOGA’s “Freezin’ for a Reason” Polar Plunge at Lake Lanier when the recorded low for the day was 24 degrees.

Over 150 “plungers” from ten police departments and ive civil-ian organizations took part in the event.

before the day was over, they managed to raise over $40,000 for SOGA.

According to a statement on SOGA’s website www.specialo-

lympicsga.org, “All proceeds col-lected by ‘plungers’ will beneit the athletes of Special Olympics Georgia.”

Prizes were awarded for the oldest plunger, youngest plunger, best group plunge, and best cos-tume, among others. Rogers her-self won an award for the individ-ual to raise the most at the event.

Other events currently in the works include Cops on Donut Shops, an event where police from across the state climb onto par-ticipating donut shops and remain for an entire weekend.

“Cops on Donut Shops [has] volunteers, police oicers or [ci-vilian] participants, sit on top of a Krispy Kreme Donut shop un-til money has been raised to get them down. we’re working on participating with the City of At-lanta Police Department to coor-dinate our eforts. [he] event will be taking place April 30-May 2, 2010,” said Rogers.

GTPD will also be hosting the “Jail ‘n’ bail.” Volunteers—be they students, faculty or campus dignitaries—will be “arrested” by the GTPD and held until their friends and coworkers have raised enough in donations to pay their “bail.” According to Rogers, the event is currently slated for some-time in May, though a inal date has yet to be set.

Aside from fundraising, the GTPD will also be helping with the festivities during the Special Olympics.

he GTPD’s SwAT team will be taking part in the torch relay before the games start, and of-icers from the department—as well as other departments across the state—will be volunteering during the events.

his year, the games are set to take place on Emory University’s campus from May 21-23.

Students are welcome to get in-volved in any way they can.

“Prevention Oicer Candy walcott has been meeting with some of the Greek organizations to get them involved, [but] we’re still working on that. we’d like to get them involved in the Car wash efort as well as the Jail ‘n’ bail event, whereby they can help us serve ‘warrants’ on campus dig-nitaries and help them raise their ‘bail’ money to get released,” said Rogers.

SOGA’s website also encour-ages people interested in helping to sign up as a volunteer.

A statement on their website said, “Special Olympics Geor-gia…would not be able to carry out its mission of providing sports competitions to those with intel-lectual disabilities without its vol-unteers. with only a small staf of full-time employees and over 500 sports competitions throughout the year, it takes a large and dedi-cated volunteer force in order to make our program a reality.”

Founded in 1970, the Special Olympics Georgia (SOGA) web-site describes the Special Olym-

pics organization as “the irst—and still the only—organization to ofer training and competition for people with intellectual dis-abilities.”

SOGA’s irst games were held in 1970 and involved 500 athletes in a set of track and ield events. Today, over 22,000 athletes take part in many diferent events

throughout the year and are of-fered year-round training.

SOGA is largely a volunteer-driven organization, with most of its funds coming from law en-forcement organizations across the state or private donors.

A list of other fund raising events and volunteer opportuni-ties can be found online.

GTPD plunges into giving back to community

Photo courtesy of Captain Regina Rogers

Capt. Regina Rogers holds the award she received for taking the

Polar Plunge at Lake Lanier to raise money for Special Olympics

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17Friday,

February 26, 2010

TEGAN&

SARA

CMF inale wows

By Roshan KalghatgiContributing Writer

For the fourth year in a row, Campus MovieFest has given college students the opportunity to create and showcase their own talents. Students are given one week, a computer, a cam-corder and any technical support they need to create their very own ive-minute (or less) movie.

he best part is that it’s absolutely free for everyone involved. he ilmmakers spend nothing and earn as much recognition as they deserve while the viewing audience gets a free and entertain-ing night of independent ilmmaking.

he top 16 ilms from Tech were shown Friday night, Feb.19, and featured ilms from a wide variety of genres and talents. here were short comedies, romantic stories, zombie tales and even movies that attempted to mess with your head. In general, the ilms were incredible and showed us that a huge talent for ilmmaking and storytelling exists at Tech.

One of my favorites was Emotional High School. Although it didn’t win any awards, Emotional High School was a hilarious documentary-style parody of the dramas of high school. here were eating disorders, dramatic breakups, weird teachers and strange drug scandals. It had a lot of great acting and random funny moments mostly due to the teacher in the movie (played by a Tech student).

Another personal favorite was Brain Dead (which won Best Comedy), a story about two video gamers who decide to get rid of their annoying friend because they think he is on the verge of turning into a crazed zombie. It was an obvious play on tra-

Rain gains thundering approval

By Yameen HuqStaf Writer

he Variety Playhouse featured a triple threat on Feb. 23 with a concert that featured an ar-ray of talents. he show starred Canadian indie-duo Tegan and Sara with opening performances by Steel Train and Holly Miranda.

Variety Playhouse itself is located in a color-ful district. An eclectic mix of inner-city decay and Bohemian lavors, the area itself is illed with interesting stores and an artistic brand of graiti. he Playhouse and the shows it features deinitely it the atmosphere well.

he concert kicked of with performances by

Variety Playhouse welcomes

Canadian duo

CONCERT

Variety PlayhouseTegan and Sara

LABEL: Sire

GENRE: Indie-pop

TRACK PICKS: “Back in Your Head,” “The Con” and “Walking with the Ghost”

PERFORMANCE DATE: Feb. 23, 2010

OUR TAKE: «««««

Photos by Kelvin Kuo/Student Publications

Tegan (left) and Sara (right) performed at Variety Playhouse on Tuesday, Feb. 23. The twin musicians played songs from the six studio albums that they have released.

By Robert SolomonContributing Writer

For many years, there have been few moments in video games that approached the poetry of the best moments in cinema, art or lit-erature, where emotions are more

VIDEO GAMES

Heavy Rain

CONSOLES: PS3

GENRE: Adventure

DEVELOPER: Quantic Dream

RATING: Mature (M)

RELEASED: Feb. 23, 2010

OUR TAKE: «««««

Steel Train, a band from New Jersey. he songs they featured were a mix of traditional rock with heavy elements of “emo” and garage punk. he “emo-esque” aspect of their music became more apparent as the songs continue on with lyrics about youth angst and the singing and playing became overly emotional. he band’s sense of humor, while mildly amusing, bordered on surreal with references to non-sequiturs such as Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week.”

heir songs near the end had some deinite highlights, including a choral folk piece that brought their manic energy to a low and transi-tioned well into the next band. A recurring mo-tif of their songs was singing in unison, particu-

larly in more emotional passages, reminiscent of the Canadian band Arcade Fire. Fans of the pop-punk and the youth-oriented lyrics associ-ated with Arcade Fire will deinitely ind some-thing to enjoy here. For everyone else, this band might be a bit over the top to enjoy casually.

Following up this group was an even more recent band, Holly Miranda. Featuring a much more ethereal sound, this band was the midway point in style between the preceding and fol-lowing acts. he songs incorporated synthesiz-ers to create a darker (but not gloomy) atmo-sphere which allowed for a more a resonant

See Tegan, page 20

2010 CMF winnersBest Picture: Noctis Irae

Best Drama: When it’s Over

Best Comedy: Brain Dead

See CMF, page 19

complex than a simple ight-or-light response. Even games like Mass Ef-fect have wrapped the moral choices of their characters with shooter me-chanics.

Finally, with Heavy Rain, we have a game that jettisons much of the tropes that games have relied on over the years, instead taking their cue from the reality of everyday life. It is an ambitious goal, though one that many people may feel is unnec-essary for games. his review will at-tempt to address this belief.

In Heavy Rain, you control four main characters: a father, a journal-ist, a private detective and an FBI agent as they progress through a mystery surrounding a serial killer. here is no sandbox, and you are not free to roam. Indeed, this is a very

linear story. Before you consider this to be

a negative, think about how much time you may have wasted in an open world game merely trying to ind the next objective. Heavy Rain is a relatively short experience at around eight hours, but not a sec-ond of it is wasted time. Consider a game like Portal, which could be played to completion in two hours. Should that game have been longer? Most people would say no.

Having the narrative involve a serial killer implies a lot of police procedural work, and as the de-tective and FBI agent you do this, albeit in an inventive way. More unexpectedly are the simple actions

See Rain, page 18

Image courtesy of Quantic Dream

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Rain from page 17

CITY SCENE

Fans of comedians will have an amazing time this March when both Lewis Black and Ga-briel Iglesias perform in Atlanta. On March 6, Black, occasional Daily Show commentator and best comedian to play on personal anger since Don Rickles, will storm the stage of the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center. His howling insights will certainly carry the evening to raucous laughter. hat same night, Iglesias, the “lufy” comic and self-proclaimed lover of chocolate cake, takes the Tabernacle with his unique voices, large presence and charm. Which venue with to lock on March 6 is a diicult choice, but rest assured there are no negative outcomes except to exempt from both. Gabriel Iglesias’ show begins at 7 p.m. with admission of $34 while Lewis Black’s begins at 8 p.m. for $47.50. Tickets are available at www.tabernacleatl.com and www.cobbenergycentre.com respectively and both comics are absolutely hilarious.

By Kenny PhillipsSenior Staf Writer

Atlanta Submits to the Sound of Laughter

Photo by Chris Gooley/ Student Publications

he dances of sugarplums are hard pressed to match the shear decadence of Four Seasons Hotel’s Chocolate Bufet. Returning this year, the Chocolate Bufet will treat chocoholics every Friday and Saturday from Feb. 26 until March 26. Furthermore, if an endless bufet of ifteen shifting chocolate confections is not enough motivation, each Friday of the Chocolate Bufet will host a local celebrity. hese Celebrity Chocolate Nights will have the celebrities share both their life experiences and a tasty recipe! Each bufet is only $20 per person and begins at 9 p.m. inside Park 75, the Four Seasons’ premier restaurant. More information can be found at www.fourseasons.com.

he Sweet Feasts at Four Seasons Hotel Continues

he Alliance heater Performs Disney’s MulanFor fans of Disney’s Mulan, the story of the Alliance heater’s newest musical production

will be extremely familiar. he tale of a young woman overcoming adversity and saving a Chinese empire from conquering Huns is the plotline of Disney’s Mulan and this perfor-mance does nothing to rock the boat. With every note and lyric booming from the stage, any musical fan may easily enjoy this hour-long rehashing of a recent Disney classic. Mulan is a weekend only performance from Feb. 27 to March 14. Performances will begin at 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. with the exception of opening day. Tickets are $35 and available online at www.alliancetheatre.org.

that you perform to deine your character, such as a father decid-ing which of his children to play with irst. hese actions described in print may seem pointless, but inhabiting these simple actions builds empathy between the play-er and the characters that no other medium can touch. his game is truly interactive.

Heavy Rain is also heav-ily steeped in morality. he game evokes the ilm Seven, where the murders put the story in motion, but in the end the ilm was about the moral choices made by the characters. While games like Bio-shock have atmosphere to spare, it remains surrounded with a fairly standard irst person shooter me-chanic. Heavy Rain has no stan-dard mechanics, beyond using the left analog stick to move and the R1 button to walk. Every other action is completely context de-pendent.

hese controls mostly consist of timed button presses, not only using reaction time but also de-liberation. To apply disinfectant to a wound, you have to move the right analog stick slowly. To throw of an assailant who is choking you, you must press one of the face buttons repeatedly.

he irst action requires you to exercise as much care as the onscreen character, while the lat-ter action builds a tension in your arm that is the closest physical sensation to the onscreen action possible with the controller. here is even limited motion control us-ing the PlayStation 3 controller, with striking a match requiring a quick downward movement of the controller, just as one would strike a match.

While this might seem sim-plistic, French developers Quantic Dream manage to ind endless inventive ways of obfuscating and changing up the controls to match the on-screen action. An impass-

able barrier in an environment presents you with a series of but-tons that are physically impossible to press. As one character hangs upside down, the resulting but-ton prompts are also upside down. When your character is scared, the prompts shake violently, but only enough to convey the intended ef-fect. hese are no simple Quick Time Response (QTR) events, as in Dragon’s Lair or Shenmue.

he interface can easily be sampled by playing the free demo available for download, but what the demo only conveys in a lim-ited way is how the cumulative efects of the moral choices afect the plot in both overt and subtle ways. his is essential, because there is no “Game Over” screen in Heavy Rain.

Characters can and will die, and it is possible to complete the game as a tragedy with every char-acter lying dead. As such, every choice carries enormous gravity, far beyond games with multiple save points. he story is always progressing. Never do you have to repeat a level over and over to con-tinue. Every action in the game carries signiicance.

Much of this may seem ab-stract. To reveal the best moments of the game would rob a player of much of tension and surprise. As such, it may seem diicult to see what the point of this game is. In the end, the point is not in what you do, but how you do it. It is atmospheric and contempla-tive, while also being visceral and tense. It runs the gamut of emo-tions in a way that most games only barely touch. But, in the end, if you enjoy gaming as a challenge of obstacles overcome, you may not enjoy this game.

Heavy Rain ultimately requires the same careful attention that cinema and literature demand. For those who devote their full at-tention to it, this game delivers a rich experience like no other. It is an unqualiied masterpiece.

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ditional zombie ilms, but it was hilarious because it highlighted how constant video gaming and zero social interaction just might eventually dull your brain to the point of idiocy.

Other ilms such as Granted were more dramatic. his was a ilm about a blind woman who takes the only caring person in her life, her boyfriend, for granted and learns the consequences of her own selishness by the end of the ilm. It was a great story with good acting and a surprising twist in the end.

Aside from the funny but awk-ward hosts, the Campus MovieF-est itself was well organized. It is entertaining and a must-see the next time it comes to Tech. If you attended this time, then not only did you get to see great movies for free, but you also had the op-portunity to win great door prizes such as iPods and ilmmaking software.

If you didn’t go and still want to see the movies you can go to www.campusmoviefest.com and watch all of the ilms from around the country. If you would like to just watch the ilms from Tech please visit www.campusmov-iefest.com/events/georgiatech.php.

he movies that won awards on Friday will automatically move on in the Southern Regional Campus MovieFest competition. However, if you vote for any of the other ilms, they can still move on in the competition.

All you have to do to vote for a ilm is visit the site above, watch the Tech ilms and send the ap-propriate text listed on the site for the movie you liked. It would be great to see one of Tech’s ilm-makers win a competition of this magnitude, so please visit the site to show your support or to simply enjoy the great variety of movies created by young ilmmakers.

CMF from page 17FX’s Archer shows cult-classic potential

By Chris HarlessContributing Writer

At irst glance, Archer, the in-novative new show on FX, seems like it belongs on Adult Swim. his makes sense because Adam Reed, the maker of this show, has been the creator behind two very successful shows on Adult Swim. While Archer is just as creative and edgy as Reed’s other shows, it faces the serious challenge on inding a large fan base among FX viewers.

he star of the show is Sterling Archer, a narcissistic spy for the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) whose codename is Duchess. Archer is essentially an unreined version of James Bond. He constantly insults everyone around him, and he takes chau-vinism to a whole new level.

he show is similar to other comedies that are set in the work-place and it has some similari-ties to he Oice in that sense. It is predominantly set in the ISIS building where Sterling Archer works and it deals with typical workplace topics. However, Ar-cher’s workplace is deinitely not typical and it makes all of the bad etiquette in he Oice look like nothing.

For people who have never been fans of Adult Swim, it is admittedly diicult to even give Archer a chance and the pilot epi-sode doesn’t exactly help things.

However, the show does seem to get a little better in each successive episode.

he pilot episode of Archer was not quite as funny as the most re-cent episodes that have aired. It originally aired last year in Sept. as a sneak preview, but the show only recently started producing episodes again. Overall, it’s a good decision to at least watch two or three episodes before forming an opinion of this show because while the pilot is a good repre-sentation of the show, it’s not the best.

In each episode, our main character deals with his overbear-ing mother who also happens to be his boss. He also deals with his various other co-workers in each episode. he show has a rela-tively large number of characters, and Reed clearly tried to make them all unique. Some impor-

tant characters include Archer’s ex-girlfriend, Agent Lana Kane, and Agent Kane’s new boyfriend, Cyril Figgis.

Agent Lana Kane and Archer frequently ight with each other, and Cyril Figgis is the typical nerdy guy who somehow gets the attractive girls. Figgis is also the guy who probably takes the most verbal abuse from Archer.

he producers of the show ap-parently take roughly a month to create each episode. hey irst create initial drawings of the char-acters by using the voice actors as a guide. he overall look of the show is supposed to resemble a comic book from the 1960s.

he show itself seems to mix elements of ‘60s culture with el-ements of current culture. For example, everyone seems to be wearing clothes from the ‘60s, the computers look really old, but

characters carry cell phones.Overall, if you’re a fan of Adult

Swim, and you’re looking for an edgy new show that is directed towards a more mature audience, then this show is deinitely for you. he show does seem to cater to a fairly narrow-minded audi-ence, but it still has its funny mo-ments for people who don’t like the style of the show.

Currently, Archer is expected to produce ten total episodes for this season, and it is likely that FX will drop the show unless it gains more viewers.

It seems that Archer could pos-sibly turn into a cult classic rather than a long-running show, but there is still a good chance that it could be very successful.

If the show does end up last-ing longer than one season, then expect it to have a relatively small, but loyal, fan base.

TELEVISION

Archer

NETWORK: FX

WHEN: Thursdays, 10:30 p.m.

STARRING: Jon Benjamin, Jessica Walter, Aisha Tyler

OUR TAKE: ««« «««

Image courtesy of FX

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Goodie Mob returns for reunion

CONCERT

The TabernacleGoodie Mob

LABEL: Koch Records

GENRE: Hip-hop

PERFORMANCE DATE: Feb. 23, 2010

OUR TAKE: «««««

By Bola AdedireContributing Writer

Goodie Mob performed to a packed Tabernacle crowd on Feb. 21. he Atlanta natives played music to a home crowd that was excited to see this family reunion and nostalgic for classic hip hop hits. he show started slowly with hype man playing popular hip hop classics for an opening act,

but reached an appropriate level of raucous when B.O.B and inally the headliner, Goodie Mob, took the stage.

he Goodie family is an At-lanta based act that maybe unfa-miliar to many, but they are the founding members of the Atlanta rap scene. With Cee-Lo Goodie of the Gnarls Barkley and Dan-ger Mouse duo and membership in the Dungeon Family collec-tive that also has Outkast and Oraganized Noise as its members, they are talented musicians in good company.

he Goodie Mob consisted of Cee-Lo, Khujo, T-mo and Big Gipp Goodie. hey sauntered onto stage in iconic black garb as the rocky theme, “Gonna Fly Now,” played and received a thun-dering applause.

hey started hard with their single “Get Rich to his” from their album World Party, and spit the lyrics with ferocity match-ing the songs release a decade ago. “Dirty South,” the song that catalyzed the Atlanta scene. he Tabernacle erupted to this single on their debut album Soul Food. he crowd chanted in harmony as Cee-Lo sang the chorus, “What you know about the Dirty South” with his characteristically gravelly and soulful voice.

Cee-Lo, who still commanded the attention of the crowd, quick-ly transitioned and sang the open-ing verses to “Git Up, Get Out.” his Outkast classic prominently features the duo, but T-mo and Khujo Goodie delivered Andre’s and Big Boi’s lyrics with their own twist. he group performed two more songs from their debut album Soul Food before a short in-termission.

“hought Process” is provoca-tive social commentary on life in Atlanta, and it was fan service to

those who purchased the album. he inal song before the inter-mission was “Soul Food,” and it served as a mellow outro.

Goodie Mob emerged from their short intermission in color-ful costumes with Gutta Butta background music. he music quickly switched, and the audi-ence was aurally assaulted with Goodie Mob’s highest charting single “Cell herapy.” he group followed with fan favorites “Free,” “In Da wind,” “he One” and “Steppin Out.” he tabernacle crowd was presented with a live mash-up of the Goodie classic “hey Don’t Dance No Mo” and the rock ballad. Goodie Mob left everything on stage for their At-lanta fans.

B.O.B., the stage name for Atlanta native, Bobby Ray, sur-prised the Tabernacle crowd. He performed with authority and extremely high level energy. He act started with ist pump induc-ing “Feed these Streets,” which describes his discovery of music. his single was followed with the catchy vocoder pop ballad “Satel-lite.”

Bobby Ray used the next song “I’ll Be in the Sky” to introduce the band and grab another micro-phone stand. he lights cut to a single spot light on B.O.B. for his performance of the song “Genera-tion Lost,” which serves as auto-biographical commentary on the rap game. He then grabbed a gui-tar from the back of the stage and started hammering out chords. B.O.B. transitioned from hip-hop to alt-rock.

B.O.B. and Goodie Mob dem-onstrated that Atlanta music still has a lot of variety. B.O.B.’s per-formance left a lasting impres-sion and garnered him new fans. Goodie Mob showed that they can still hype a crowd at home.

Tegan from page 17

sound. he singer’s resonant, yet melodic voice complemented the music very well, creating a lush and orchestral sound.

A particularly notable moment was when Steel Train was invited to join the band in singing a more poignant, folksy ballad. Holly Mi-randa entertains as much as the main act and the darker, orches-tral sound was a highlight of the concert.

Tegan and Sara, the main act, deinitely reached an energy level that’s a notch above the other performers. he intensity of this group peaked the performance. he songs epitomized pop with enthusiastic singing and playing followed by powerful, bombastic percussion. he percussion was noticeably in the foreground on the music, enhancing the power of the performance, but also leaving it noticeably open to repetition.

he dialogue between the two sisters was entertaining albeit corny and helped ease the transi-tion from song to song especially during technical diiculties. Overall, the band represented standard pop and, while it didn’t seem particularly noteworthy, was still enjoyable.

he three bands of the night represented very diferent regions of music. Steel Train, while en-ergetic and entertaining, was ultimately appealing to a niche audience. Holly Miranda, with its dark, lush sound has elements that can appeal to anyone with a keen ear.

Tegan and Sara are for the most part, a pop standard, and can be enjoyed by any audience looking for an emotional or ener-getic uplift. his concert’s success and failure relied on the mixing of a diverse group of musicians in one show, which while creat-ing something for everyone, also leaves a little to be desired from everyone as well.

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Bobby Ray (B.O.B.) surprised the Tabernacle crowd on Sunday,

Feb. 21, by performing for the audience after the Goodie Mob.

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Tennis teams drop ACC openers Men’s from page 28

Photo by Basheer Tome / Student Publications

Irina Falconi lines up for a return at the Bill Moore Tennis Center.

Falconi defeated Josipa Bek 6-3, 6-1, but Tech lost the contest 5-2.

By Alex MitchellAssistant Sports Editor

On Feb. 24, the No. 14 Tech women’s tennis team took the court to face No. 12 Clemson in their irst ACC match of the sea-son. Tech was unable to defeat the higher ranked Tigers and fell 5-2.

Clemson took two of the three doubles matches from the Jack-ets, but the two Tech losses were highly contested. he team of sophomores Hillary Davis and

Viet Ha Ngo fell to Clemson’s team of Laurianne Henry and Keri Wong 8-4. Sophomore Lynn Blau and freshman Elizabeth Kilborn came even closer to win-ning but were defeated 9-7. Tech’s team of sophomore Irina Falconi and junior Sasha Krupina did win their match 8-6, but it was not enough and Clemson earned the irst point of the match.

No. 1 ranked Falconi tied the match at one by defeating No. 18 ranked Josipa Bek 6-3, 6-1. Fal-

coni’s victory was her 14th over a ranked opponent this season.

Falconi’s victory did not give the Jackets any momentum how-ever, as their number two player, Krupina, fell to Wong 6-3, 2-6, 6-0. he loss would give Clemson a 2-1 lead, a lead they would not relinquish.

Blau and Kilborn both lost their matches to clinch the victory for Clemson, but Davis won her match from the sixth spot after Clemson’s Estefania Balda retired.

“We had some opportunities but we just did not capitalize on all of them,” said head coach Bry-an Shelton, courtesy of ramblin-wreck.com.

he road will get no easier for the Jackets. Tech travels north to face No. 7 ranked Notre Dame on Feb. 27 and No. 2 Northwestern on Feb. 28.

he men’s tennis team traveled to Florida State on Feb. 21 and also lost their ACC openers.

Tech dropped all three doubles matches to give the Seminoles an early 1-0 lead.

No. 3 ranked junior Guiller-mo Gomez gave Tech the equal-izer by defeating No. 35 Jean-Yves Aubone 6-1, 6-7 (7-9), 7-5.

Junior Dean O’Brien and freshmen Magin Ortega and Juan Spir all fell in three-set matches to give Florida State a 4-1 advantage.

Sophomore Kevin King did defeat his opponent in Tech’s ifth spot, but junior Eliot Potvin end-ed the match with a loss to give the Seminoles a 5-2 win.

took was going to be our lucky break,” said Tech Head Coach Paul Hewitt, courtesy of ram-blinwreck.com.

he timeout gave the Terrapins the ball just behind half-court with 1.5 seconds to play. Despite a well-defended inbounds play, Hayes was able to ind Tucker cut-ting toward the three-point line. Freshman forward Glen Rice Jr. got his hands in Tucker’s face, but the shot went up and fell through, giving Maryland a 76-74 win and handing the Jackets their seventh road loss of the season.

“[Tucker] got open on the wing,” Rice said. “I put my hands up trying to make sure he didn’t get a clean look, and he just got it of.”

Although they were unable to come away with the win on Sat-urday, the Jackets did put on one of their better performances of the year. he team shot 41 percent from the loor against the Ter-rapins, with Favors, Lawal and Shumpert combined for 50 of the 74 points.

“We probably played our best game of the season,” Hewitt said of his team’s performance.

Favors’ performance was also a good indicator of his improve-ment. Eight of his 18 rebounds came on the ofensive glass, and he shot three-for-three from the foul line.

“We started running stuf to him, and he did a great job of catching the ball around the rim and inishing,” Hewitt said of Fa-vors’ efort.

15 loss to Florida State.It’s not about what happens to

us—it’s how we respond to it...You’ve got to play 40 minutes, and 20 minutes isn’t going to beat a top-10 team,” Joseph said.

Foster led the Jackets with 15 points. Ardossi had 14 points and tied with sophomore center Sasha Goodlett for the team lead with eight rebounds.

homas led Duke with 20 points on nine-for-14 shooting.

Tech traveled to Miami on Sunday, Feb. 21 and held on for a victory despite a strong efort from the Hurricanes, who fell to 3-9 in ACC play.

his time it was the Jackets who got of to a 15-5 run to open the game. Miami rallied, though, and forward Shenise Johnson led the way as the Hurricanes closed to within one at halftime, with Tech up 35-34.

Miami pulled ahead and led 53-47 with 14:27 to go, but Fos-ter and Ardossi keyed a 13-0 Tech run to retake the lead.

With 2:48 to go, Tech’s lead had ballooned to nine, but Miami ran of a 9-0 run to tie the game at 73 with 49 seconds left.

Tech held on, though, forc-ing two Miami turnovers in key situations at the end. Ardossi and Foster combined to hit four free throws to seal the 77-73 road vic-tory, their eighth of the season.

he Jackets will host No. 20 North Carolina on Friday, Feb. 26 for Senior Night. Tech will honor its two seniors, Ardossi and center Tifany Blackmon.

Women’s from page 28

Technique • February 26, 2010 • 25 SPORTS

Men’s and Women’s Lacrosse face division rivals

Photo by Kelvin Kuo / Student Publications

Eric Schlipf looks to line up a shot during

Saturday’s home victory against Alabama.

Women’s Swim, both dive teams compete at ACC Championships

Tech’s women’s swimming team, along with both the men’s and women’s diving teams, took part in the ACC Championships last weekend in Chapel Hill, N.C. he swim team ultimately in-ished in ninth place.

During the four-day event, the Jackets set school records in the 800-free relay, the 200-free relay, the 100-butterly and the 200-backstroke.

Golf takes ifth in Puerto Rico

Redshirt junior John-Tyler Griin shot 11-under-par for the tournament and inished tied for fourth individually as Tech took ifth at the Puerto Rico Classic.

As a team, the Jackets started of strong by shooting three-under-par in the irst round, and they followed with a ive-under-par in the second round.

Tech’s total score of 855 put them at nine-under-par over-all and just two strokes short of fourth place.

shortsBy Nishant PrasadhSports Editor

Tech’s men’s and women’s la-crosse teams took to the turf for a series of home games over the weekend. he women’s squad stumbled to a 16-2 defeat against highly-ranked Georgia on Friday, Feb. 19 but rebounded with wins over South Florida and Alabama the following day. he men’s squad rolled past Reinhardt Col-lege 22-4 on hursday, Feb. 18 and took down Alabama 13-6 on Saturday, Feb. 20, remaining un-defeated through four games.

Friday’s rivalry game was the irst for the women’s team since their victory in the Mardi Gras Tournament from Feb. 6-7 in New Orleans. After wins over Wisconsin, the Central Lacrosse Club and LSU, Tech faced Cen-tral again in the championship game. Tech pulled ahead early and held of a comeback attempt, winning 5-3 to take the title.

“We hadn’t done too well [there] in the past, so it was nice to go down there and get some wins,” said senior attacker Gabby Sirow, the women’s team president.

he Jackets did not have an easy task in their irst divisional game against UGA, the No. 11 club team in the nation.

As the game began, UGA took advantage of two free positions to pull ahead 2-0 ive minutes in. he Bulldogs continued to control the ball and scored repeatedly.

Tech got on the board with

7:17 left, when Sirow scored of a free position to cut UGA’s lead to 6-1.

“It was a spot...where we just really needed a goal, so I was going to take my chances,” Sirow said.

Tech’s defense locked down for a long stretch in the second half and held UGA scoreless for a stretch of nearly 15 minutes.

Near the end of that stretch, junior midielder Georgina Schaefer ired a shot past the goalie to give Tech its second goal.

Ultimately, though, the Jackets fell 16-2.

“I think we gave it a good shot tonight,” said women’s Head Coach Kevin Richards. “[UGA] made good passes and hustled after the ground balls, and it showed on the scoreboard.”

Richards correctly pre-dicted that the team would win both Saturday games.

he morning game saw Tech face South Florida. he contest was fairly even in the irst half, with Tech up 7-6 at half-time.

After USF tied it early in the second half, the Jackets scored nine straight goals—including three by freshman attacker Rachel Hare—to pull ahead 16-7, and they won 16-8.

he afternoon game against Alabama saw Tech come out on

top against its region foe. Hare had four goals and two assists, and Sirow and senior midielder Lauren Baugh added three apiece as Tech picked up a 17-12 victory.

he men’s team pulled out narrow 9-8 victories in their irst two games of the season, holding of Vanderbilt in overtime on the road and topping divisional foe Ole Miss on an icy home ield.

he warmer conditions on hursday, Feb. 18 of-fered a welcome change, and Tech rolled to a 22-4 victory over a Reinhardt College program playing its irst-ever game.

Sophomore attacker Eric Schlipf had four goals, while sophomore attacker Neal Toomey added a goal and four assists.

Tech looked to im-prove to 2-0 in divisional play against Alabama on Saturday. Tech’s team speed against the bigger Alabama team proved ef-fective on the turf of the SAC Fields. Tech led 9-3 at halftime and cruised to a 13-6 victory.

“he guys did well transition-wise. hat’s the big part of our game, is that we play good, solid defense and get the ball in transition with opportuni-ties to score,” said men’s Head Coach Ken Lovic.

Senior attacker Alex Del Pozzo led the way with

four goals and two assists, and seven players contributed points in the game as Tech peppered the Alabama goalie with 45 shots. Ju-nior goalie Sam Karpowicz made 11 saves.

“We were focused on playing a complete game....We just went hard all game and luckily it paid of,” said junior attacker Casey Timmerman, the team president.

Technique • February 26, 2010 • 27 SPORTS

Softball wins four out of ive in Vegas, returns home to top KSU

By Alex MitchellAssistant Sports Editor

After a strong opening week-end, Tech won four games at the Louisville Slugger Desert Clas-sic from Feb. 19-21 in Las Vegas before dropping the inale against No. 11 California. Tech then re-turned home for its irst game at Mewborn Field in 2010 and took down Kennesaw State 8-3.

On Feb. 19, Tech took on No. 21 Northwestern and overcame a 5-0 deicit to beat the Wildcats 9-6. he Jackets were able to get back into the game in the ifth in-ning. Down 6-4, Tech loaded the bases on a walk and two singles, including the irst collegiate hit for freshman designated player Caitlin Jordan. Sophomore short-stop Kelsi Weseman then hit a grand slam to give the Jackets the lead for good.

Later that day, Tech used three home runs in the fourth inning to defeat BYU 10-9 in eight innings. Sophomore right ielder Jessica Sinclair led of the fourth with a home run, and junior catcher Jes-sica Weaver and second baseman Jen Yee went deep. BYU came back however, and led 6-5 until Yee hit another homer to give the Jackets a 7-6 lead.

he teams continued to trade runs until freshman pitcher Hope Rush hit an RBI single in the eighth inning to give the Jackets a 10-9 lead. Rush then struck out two batters in the bottom half of the inning to secure the win.

After two easy wins on Satur-day, Tech took on No. 11 Cali-fornia on Sunday in what turned out to be a low-scoring game. he game was scoreless until Cal’s Val-erie Arioto hit a three-run home-run. Cal added another run in the

seventh to make the lead 4-0. Tech looked like they might

mount a comeback in the bot-tom of the seventh when Jordan walked to lead of the inning and junior center ielder Christy Jones singled to move a runner into scoring position. Jen Yee barely missed a homer with the next at bat for Tech’s irst out. Wese-man then singled to left to score one run, but Jones tried to score as well and was thrown out at the plate. Sinclair popped out later in the inning and Tech lost their irst game of the season, 4-1.

On Wednesday, Feb. 24, the Jackets hosted Kennesaw State in Tech’s irst home game of the season. Sophomore pitcher Jessica Coan struck out two batters in the

irst inning and Rush hit a two-run homer to center ield to give the Jackets an early 2-0 lead.

In the second inning, Jordan hit a double to center ield that plated two more runs. Rush then hit her second homer of the game, and the sixth of her career, to give Tech a 5-0 lead. KSU cut into Tech’s lead by scoring three runs, but Yee responded with a three-run homer in the sixth to increase the lead to 8-3. Rush recorded her irst collegiate save, closing out the Owls for the last two innings.

he Jackets are now 9-1, but they will continue to be tested ear-ly this season. Tech travels to Co-lumbus, Ga. on Feb. 26-28 to face ive diferent opponents including No.18 Louisiana-Lafayette.

Photo by Josh Sandler / Student Publications

Derek Dietrich slides safely into home plate, beating a throw to

score a run in last weekend’s series at Russ Chandler Stadium.

Baseball from page 28

Photo by Basheer Tome / Student Publications

Jessica Coan throws a pitch at Mewborn Field. Coan made starts

against Long Beach St. and Kennesaw St., earning the win in both.

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starter, to face MSU righty Pat Doyle.

Bradley was in command, nev-er allowing an MSU hitter to get past second base. He left after six innings and allowed just four hits and a walk. His 12 strikeouts (out of 22 hitters faced) were a career-high.

On the ofensive side, Burnette and Dantzler led of the second and fourth innings with home runs. A series of Tech hits and MSU mistakes then led to a four-run ifth inning for Tech.

Tech loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the seventh as Leonida stepped to the plate. he catcher launched a drive down the left ield line for a grand slam, and Tech led 10-0.

Freshman Buck Farmer, senior Andrew Robinson and Jacob each pitched an inning in relief to com-plete the shutout, and Tech added three more runs late and won 13-0 to sweep the series.

Bradley threw just 72 pitches in his six innings, getting most of his 12 strikeouts on 0-2 or 1-2 counts. He was named ACC Pitcher of the Week.

“[Bradley] dominated the game. hat’s the way he had thrown in our intra-squad games heading into the season…He [was] great,” Hall said.

With the sweep complete, Tech traveled south to take on Georgia Southern in two midweek games.

Sophomore right-hander Mark Pope got the start in Tuesday’s game and threw six shutout in-nings, giving up four hits and no walks and striking out seven. Bard inished the game with three per-fect innings in relief.

Tech drew eight walks, and seven players had an RBI as the Jackets picked up a 10-0 victory.

he win on Wednesday was harder to secure, but Tech held on for an 8-5 win to inish the 5-0 start.

Farmer got the start for Tech and went ive innings, allowing two runs on three hits in what was a low-scoring game until the end.

he teams were tied 3-3 after seven innings, but key hits by Leonida and sophomore second baseman Jacob Esch, who had three RBI, helped Tech open up a lead in the inal innings. Jacob got the inal four outs for his irst save as the Jackets won 8-5.

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Crosse it up

The men’s and women’s lacrosse teams faced of against divisional

rivals in weekend home battles425

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February 26, 2010

Photo by Kelvin Kuo / Student Publications

Deck McGuire throws a pitch at Russ Chandler Stadium. McGuire, a 2010 First Team Preseason All-American, threw

seven shutout innings in Friday’s season opener against Missouri State, allowing ive hits while striking out 10 batters.

By Kyle ConarroStaf Writer

Despite leading with two seconds left in the game, Tech’s men’s basketball team (18-9, 6-7 ACC) fell to Maryland on Saturday, Feb. 20 in College Park.

Freshman forward Derrick Favors, who gar-nered ACC Rookie of the Week honors for the fourth time this season, inished the game with a career-high 18 rebounds and 21 points, in-cluding Tech’s inal bucket that put them ahead by one in the inal seconds. Maryland guard Clif Tucker hit a three-pointer as time expired to give the Terrapins the win.

he teams fought for the edge early on, re-cording ive lead changes and seven ties in the irst half alone.

With the score tied with 5:21 left, the Ter-rapins went on a 9-3 run over the next four min-utes to go up by six, the largest lead of the game.

Two Favors layups in the last 41 seconds pulled Tech back within two at 34-32 heading into halftime.

he Jackets tied the score at 34 coming out of the break, but Maryland recovered the lead and stayed in front for the next 11 minutes.

Despite their extended advantage, the Ter-rapins were unable to pull away. heir largest lead came at the 16:40 mark, when a Vasquez jumper put the score at 41-35. Just 30 seconds later, the Jackets had cut the diferential to one, scoring four fast-break points and hitting a free throw to put the score at 41-40.

Maryland refused to lose the edge, though, staving of Tech’s persistent attack until the 7:44 mark, when the Jackets inally tied the score at 58 on a layup from Lawal.

he game remained close, and Maryland guard Eric Hayes made a three-pointer to put the Terrapins ahead 71-68 with 1:20 left to play, but a tip-in by Favors and a jumper by Bell swung the score in favor of the Jackets.

With only 13 seconds remaining, Vasquez knocked down a jumper out of a timeout to put Maryland back in front. Sophomore guard Iman Shumpert missed a jumper that would have put Tech ahead, but Favors followed with a layup to give the Jackets a 74-73 edge with two seconds remaining.

he Terrapins quickly passed the ball in to Vasquez, who banked in a desperation half-court shot for the win. Before he let go,, Mary-land signaled for a timeout, nullifying the shot.

“I was hoping that the shot that [Vasquez]

By Nishant PrasadhSports Editor

In the second game of a tough homestand, the No. 19 Jackets were unable to hold up a halftime lead and fell 64-50 against No. 8 Duke on Friday, Feb. 19. Tech rebounded, though, holding on for a close win at Miami, 77-73, on Sunday, Feb. 21.

Tech now stands at 21-7 overall and 7-5 in ACC play.

Friday’s game, Tech’s second straight contest against a top-10 team, served as Tech’s annual “Pink Zone” game. he Jackets wore pink jerseys in honor of breast cancer awareness, and the team sold appar-el during the game to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.

As the game began, Duke See Women’s, page 24

Women’s Basketball falls to No. 8 Duke, tops Miami

Photo by Kelvin Kuo / Student Publications

Sasha Goodlett attempts to steal the ball during last Friday’s

game against Duke. Goodlett inished with eight rebounds.

By Nishant PrasadhSports Editor

A combination of stellar pitching and power hitting guided Tech baseball to three wins in its season-opening series against Missouri State from Feb. 19-21. he No. 3 Jackets then traveled to States-boro, Ga. and improved to 5-0 with a pair of midweek wins on Feb. 23-24 at Georgia Southern.

Against MSU, Tech rode a strong start by junior right-hander Deck Mc-Guire to a 4-0 win in Friday’s opener. he lineup, led by senior irst baseman Tony Plagman and junior right ielder Chase Burnette, then came alive and guided Tech to a 20-3 win on Saturday and a 13-0 victory on Sunday.

“I know we’re all really excited about this year...his is exactly the way we wanted to start of,” Burnette said.

McGuire, one of two First Team Pre-season All-Americans on Tech’s roster, was in command from the start as he

took the mound on Friday. he junior struck out the irst two batters he faced to quickly end to the top of the irst.

Junior center ielder Jef Rowland led of the bottom of the irst by driving an 0-2 pitch over the right ield wall, giving the Jackets a 1-0 lead.

In the bottom of the sixth, the Jackets added to their lead as Plagman, leading of the inning for Tech, launched a solo home run to right-center.

McGuire left after pitching a scoreless seventh. He went seven strong innings, allowing ive hits and no walks while striking out 10.

Senior right-hander Andrew Robin-son pitched a scoreless eighth, and junior closer Kevin Jacob, Tech’s other First Team Preseason All-American, struck out the side in the ninth to give the Jack-ets a 4-0 victory.

Saturday’s game saw junior right-hander Brandon Cumpton take the mound for Tech and pitch well, but it was the ofense that stole the spotlight.

After Tech scored six runs through three innings, MSU starter Mike Kick-ham was pulled for right-hander Tyler Bean to start the fourth. Bean fared no better, leaving after giving up nine runs on eight hits and a walk while getting just two outs.

Tech did not get a home run in the fourth but picked up eight RBI hits, in-cluding a Rowland triple, to increase the lead to 15-2.

Cumpton left the game after ive in-nings. He allowed two runs on seven hits and no walks.

Head Coach Danny Hall put in his reserves, inserting backups across the ield and using four relievers to inish the game. hat group, which included fresh-men Luke Bard and Ben McKinney, combined to allow just one run on two hits as Tech completed the 20-3 victory.

In the Sunday inale Tech sent sopho-more Jed Bradley, their lone southpaw

jumped ahead early. Senior point guard Jasmine homas scored 10 of Duke’s irst 15 points as the Blue Devils pulled ahead 15-5 with 9:31 left in the irst half.

he Jackets simply could not hit anything from the ield during that stretch. Tech hit just two of 18 at-tempts from the ield as Duke built the 10-point lead.

Tech quickly swung the momen-tum in their favor after that, locking down on defense to hold the Blue Devils scoreless for six-plus minutes. Tech, meanwhile, scored 13 straight points to take an 18-15 lead.

he inal few minutes saw little scoring, and the Jackets led 21-20 at halftime of the defensive struggle. It marked the irst time Duke had been trailing at the half in ACC

play.“In the irst half, I thought de-

fensively we did just about as good a job as we could possibly do,” said Head Coach MaChelle Joseph.

After the break, Duke broke an 11-2 run to take a 31-23 lead. Tech battled back to pull ahead 38-37, but a 14-2 run put Duke in control for the remainder of the game.

Tech committed 17 second-half turnovers, and Duke went on to win 64-50.

“I was very disappointed in our efort in the second half...I felt like when they delivered a blow, we didn’t punch back,” Joseph said.

It marked Tech’s second straight loss to a top-10 team after the Feb.

Jackets lose on inal shot at Maryland

BASEBALL WINS FIRST FIVE OF 2010

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