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DAVID RAJINEWS EDITOR

This summer, the Georgia Tech Po-lice Department (GTPD) continues to develop its operations as a nationally accredited police force on and off the Tech campus.

According to Rob Connolly, Police Chief of GTPD, a number of training programs are currently being conduct-ed by GTPD.

Our K9 unit is actually not just helping train the USG schools but also other municipalities with K9s, and cer-tifying them, said Connolly. [We are also doing] active shooter training, a tactical response to any active shooter. Weve done some workshops with the University System of Georgia (USG) to help all the other schools which are not as resourceful to get training.

GTPD has partnered with Geor-gias Department of Homeland Secu-rity to conduct some of these training programs, and are carrying them out partly in conjunction with Gwinnett County.

Presently, GTPD is finishing the K9 unit certifications of Hall County Sheriffs Office, Rockdale County Sheriffs Office and Floyd County Po-lice Department. Connolly added that last year, GTPD received an award from USG for its training programs.

Its a lot of outreach, and especially with the Board of Regents schools, we like to extend, help, and develop best practices and support other schools too, Connolly said.

GTPD also continues to evolve its work on Techs campus. According to Connolly, GTPD has focused on work-ing with Burns Newsome, Techs Di-rector of Compliance for Title IX.

Weve also identified Captain Ran-dy Barrone to be our Clery Compliance

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ENTERTAINMENT

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NEWS

SAMIRA BANDARULIFE EDITOR

Cloudy skies cleared up on the evening of June 6, when the Roll-ing Stones made their second ap-pearance at Tech, drawing over 40,000 fans from over a 20-mile radius into Bobby Dodd Stadium. The stands and field were packed will people a good portion of whom had attended the Stones concert at Bobby Dodd in 1989.

The concert generated an abun-dance of positive reviews. It was a lot of fun, said Ariana Olalde, second-year CE. The [Rolling

Stones] were super energetic. I have never seen the stadium so packed.

During the concert, lead singer Mick Jagger joked, Weve had a great time here in Atlanta. I was very impressed by Stone Moun-tain so much so that were going to make a Rolling Stone Mountain next door. The final song was topped off with fire-works, a spectacular end to the night.

Ryan Bamford, former Senior Associate Athletic Director at Tech, spent a great deal of time and energy bringing the Roll-

ing Stones to Tech, as well as Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) the presenter company for the Rolling Stones. Bringing the English rock band to Tech was a challenging process involving site visits and various contractual terms that took a couple years to bring to actualization.

It caused a little anxiety on the part of AEG, as Tech was not affiliated with the music industry and the stadium had changed a lot in twenty years so trying to fit a concert into the stadium was a real logistical challenge, Fireworks display during the Rolling Stones final number. The

first time the Rolling Stones performed at Tech was in 1989.See STONES, page 8

Photo Courtesy of Danny Karnik

Rolling Stones rocking return to Bobby Dodd

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On Monday, June 15, Tech President G.P. Bud Peterson, accompanied by his wife, Valerie Val H. Peterson, kicked off his annual tour of the Georgia.

During this seventh iteration of President Petersons traditional state tour, he visited 30 counties as well as 13 individual towns and cities. The total length of the trip was approximately 650 miles, and it spanned four days.

We started the Georgia Tour when I first came to the Institute from Colorado so that I could learn about the state, Peterson said in a news release. My ini-tial thought was that we would do it for a year or two. But weve continued it every year because its such a great opportunity to meet the citizens of Georgia, cur-rent and prospective students and people whose businesses Georgia Tech has helped to improve.

According to Laura Diamond, Media Relations representative, the annual Georgia Tour is in-tended to provide President Pe-terson with an opportunity to interact with parents, alumni, and others connected to the Tech net-work. He discussed Techs state-wide impact and fielded questions regarding the institution from a variety of members of the com-munity, including business peo-ple, lawmakers, alumni, donors and regents. This years tour cen-tered around locations in west and north Georgia.

These tours illustrate that Georgia Tech serves the entire state, Diamond said. This years stops included visits to companies that have improved efficiencies thanks to technical assistance and expertise provided through Techs Enterprise Innovation Institute.

Although President Peterson did not visit any USG institutions during the state tour, he was able to make a stop at Young Harris

College to observe a tribute to for-mer Georgia Governor Zell Miller and First Lady Shirley Miller and tour the college campus.

President Peterson was also able to visit the former governor to thank him for the beneficial im-pact of the HOPE and Zell Miller scholarship programs for under-graduate students. He noted, es-pecially, how many Tech students are helped by the program, and that many Georgia inhabitants are able to attend Tech because of the scholarship.

During the four days of the trip, President Peterson was able to make stops at Fayetteville, Newnan, LaGrange, Carrolton, Cartersvillem Ringgold, Dalton, Big Canoe, Young Harris, Blue Ridge, and Dahlonega. Accord-ing to Diamond, this year will mark the first time that President Peterson will have visited the city of Ringgold.

During the course of the pre-vious six Georgia Tours, the presi-dent traveled more than 4,500 miles, stopped in nearly 40 cities and traveled through almost every one of Georgias 159 counties, said Diamond. If we add this years 650 miles, the state tours have covered more than 5,000 miles.

Tech released videos for each day of President Petersons tour. Each video covers President Peter-sons interactions with members of the community in the towns or counties he visited that day.

A map of the route President Peterson took in this years Geor-gia Tour is available online on the Georgia Tech News Center. Each days travelling is color-coded in order to easily present the areas that President Peterson and his wife visited during that time.

Pres. Peterson takes annual state tourCoordinator for the Board of Re-gents on the committees, Con-nolly said. He governs the col-lection of data [for the annual security report] and the validating of those policies within that data, and making sure they meet com-pliance, and working across the whole campus to monitor all those changes.

By being proactive, GTPD also hopes to reduce the num-ber of Clery Act notifications it is required to issue, according to Connolly. New bike units are one way GTPD hopes to gain a more visibility and easier access for all students and faculty who wish to contact them.

GTPD has also implemented a new camera system, which incor-porates feeds from locations across campus to provide a comprehen-sive method of monitoring for il-licit activity.

A building layout of the entire campus can be accessed, which displays the current locations of all patrol cars currently on duty, as well as places where cameras are transmitting feeds. Any one of these feeds can be enlarged to show activity in that area.

According to Connolly, the new system helps the GTPD re-sponds to incidents more efficient-ly and has assisted in the solving of many cases.

In conjunction with the imple-mentation of the cameras, GTPD works with students to operate them.

He patrols [the cameras], and when calls come in, he can go and check and see and put eyes on [the activity], so we can get direction of travel and a lot of other perti-nent information, Connolly said.

An overarching initiative passed by the USG on May 19 was aimed at centralizing implementa-tion and oversight of safety proce-

dures among other things at the public universities throughout Georgia.

[The Board of Regents] want-ed to make sure everyone was working off of the same require-ments and on the same page, said Bruce Holmes, Chief of Police for USG. That came from the com-munity, which were folks from the institutions. [For] the Clery Acts, they wanted to come up with some templates, not that every-body had to use, but just to make sure that everybody had the same information.

However, since the policy of GTPD is nationally accredited, the initiative will likely not change much, according to Connolly.

The standard that were at, based on the national accredita-tion, I dont think it will change much, said Connolly. It might change the other 30 Board of Re-gents schools, but it really wont change much of our [policy].

Connolly added that the initia-tive will likely bring out some best practices among all of Georgias public universities.

In the public safety area, they were looking at some assessment guidelines, [and] they named five areas for each department to provide services in, said Holmes. I think they were just trying to make sure each department was providing the same level of ser-vice.

Another new addition by the GTPD is a touchscreen interface located in the lobby of police sta-tion. After hours, when the officer working in that area has left, stu-dents may use the interface to get in contact with officers on duty.

According to Connolly, the interface replaces a radio system, and will be able to be used to call into disptach. Passively, the screen of the interface displays GTPD safety videos. GTPD are still test-ing the new system.

Photo by John Nakano Student Publications

President G.P. Bud Peterson and his wife Valerie Val H. Pe-terson visited various cities and counties in Georgia last week.


On July 3, the Walmart loca-tion in Tech Square will close.

The store, sometimes referred to as Smallmart, opened at 86 5th Street NW on August 14, 2013 as the smallest branch in the country at the time. However, ac-cording to employees, this caused some problems in the operation of the store.

We had no backroom stor-age, and there was no cooler space in the back, so we received our inventory every day from the Su-percenter, and whatever we got that day was all we had to put out, said Staff Pharmacist Carla Gillespie-Berry. It wasnt that we werent successful, and we loved being here it was just we need-ed more space.

The store closing comes shortly before the opening of University House and Square on Fifth, apart-ment high-rises marketed towards Tech students.

According to Gillespie-Berry, the increased number of students would exceed the capacity of the Tech Square Walmart to replen-ish inventory sufficiently. This was one of the reasons that the deci-sion was made to close the store.

Tech students expressed gen-eral concern over the closing of the store.

I think Smallmart closing will make it a lot more difficult for Tech students to get basic neces-sities conveniently, said Emma Smith, a second-year INTA. Its so expensive to park on campus that most Tech kids dont have cars. That means we cant drive to Walmart and even Publix is a far walk.

According to Gillespie-Berry, the location in Tech Square was a prototypical new business model for Walmart, and the two years of the stores operation had demon-strated that the logistics made the store inefficient.

Our inventory came out of the Supercenter everyday, Gil-lespie-Berry said. We had to have vendors come every day, and the Walmart truck had to come ev-ery day. The way we received our merchandise was totally different from the way [Walmart] stores normally receive merchandise. [Walmart] told us it just wasnt a good business model from an in-ventory standpoint.

Gillespie-Berry also em-phasized that all of the current employees at the Tech Square Walmart location will be reas-signed to other Walmart stores, and that no one will be laid off.

In 2013, Jason Long of Shift Marketing Group noted that the Tech Square Walmarts perfor-mance would likely be closely

monitored by executives of the company in order to determine whether the smaller store business model would be viable. He add-ed that, on the surface, campus Walmart locations make sense.

However, Walmart continues to open up stores on campuses throughout the country, the most recent example being its location at Virgina Commonwealth Uni-versity (VCU), which began oper-ation on April 29. The VCU store

is 5,000 square feet in total, which is double the size of the location in Tech Square, according to the National Real Estate Investor.

The Walmart location in Tech Sqaure was only the second time that a store had been opened on campus, following the branch at the University of Arkansas in Fay-etteville, which began operation in January 2013.

Initially, Tech Square was cho-sen as a location for Walmart due

to the areas success with other businesses and its close proxim-ity to the high density of college students. One of the major selling points of the store was that the prices of items in the inventory would be equivalent to their price at a normal Walmart location.

The Walmart at Howell Mill Road will take over all prescrip-tions served by the Tech Square branch, unless the client transfers them prior to July 3.

Lack of storage space causes Smallmart to close

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Students leave the Walmart on Campus in Tech Square. After July 3, Tech stu-dents will no longer have access to the closing smallest Walmart in the nation.

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Worrying is stupid. Its like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain. -Wiz Khalifa

OPINIONS EDITOR: Vidya Iyer

BREAK FORRACISM

AmericAn History by brenda Lin

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When submitting letters we ask that you include your full name, year (1st, 2nd, etc.) and major. We ask that letters be thought provoking, well written and in good taste. We reserve the right to both reject or edit letters for length and style.

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OUR VIEWS | Consensus Opinion

What should replace Smallmart?We need a safe and affordable convenience store

The space that is currently occupied by Smallmart is seeing its end in the coming weeks. While having a new restaurant in its location could provide more food op-tions for students, there is a large popula-tion of upperclassmen that do not have a meal plan on east campus, that would largely benefit from a convenience store.

East campus, unlike West campus, does not have a market located nearby open af-ter hours. The equivalent of Westside Mar-ket for students on East campus was Small-mart. However, once the store closes, the nearest place for students to purchase food would be Publix.

While this normally would not be an issue, as of June 1, the Tech Trolley has stopped making regular stops at Publix. This will prove to be an inconvenience for students carrying heavy groceries.

The gas station located near North Av-enue Apartments could be seen as an al-ternative to Publix. While it is nearby, the

area is not safe for students, especially later in the evening. That is not to say, Publix is a safer option. Its not. The areas surround-ing Publix and the gas station are not on campus with higher rates of crime com-paratively.

Although not in a central location to all, students could technically buy groceries from Westside Market. However, in com-parison to Smallmart and Publix, West-side Market is incredibly overpriced for the budget of a typical college student.

While a convenience store does not have the same appeal as a trendy, new restaurant or a hipster coffee shop, it would definitely be the most appreciated.

As fiscally responsible adults, we need to have a place to buy affordable groceries and everyday items without breaking the bank or having to worry about our safety. Therefore, it would be in the best interest of the students to replace Smallmart with another convenience store.

The Consensus Opinion reflects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the Technique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors.

technique editorial boardBrenda Lin EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

David Raji NEWS EDITORNewt Clark SPORTS EDITOR

Vidya Iyer OPINIONS EDITORMonica Jamison PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

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technique June 26, 2015 5// OPINIONS

If there is one problem that just about any college student in America can relate to, it is the problem of rising tuition. There has been nearly a fifty percent increase in tu-ition from ten years ago. Tech will be contrib-uting to this trend with a nine percent increase for in-state tu-ition and a six percent increase for out-of-state tuition.

With higher costs comes more debt. In 2014, the average college graduate with student loans exited col-lege with a staggering $33,000 of debt, the most indebted class ever. In 1994, the average stu-dent loan debt for a college grad-uate was just above $10,000. Still a decent amount, but much more manageable than what re-cent graduates are facing today.

It is going to take a combi-nation of things to make college more affordable such as provid-ing more online classes and of-fering tuition deferment plans. One solution I think should be examined is decreasing the amount of electives students need to meet their degree re-quirements. While this is not a long-term solution, I believe it is something that could help.

As a student pursing a Busi-ness Administration degree at Tech, I need 16 hours of elec-tives. Including the six hours of Humanities that are required, it pushes the number up to 22. Even for the ambitious Tech students, 22 hours is about a se-mester and half worth of course work. Thats nearly $7,500 in-state students are paying solely for electives and a stag-gering $22,500 for non-Georgia

residents.I find that to be a little ex-

pensive for courses that have little to do with my major and will probably not help me in my

future career. The message

here is not that elective courses are useless or that nothing can be learned from them. That sim-ply is not true. I have taken sev-eral electives that I not only found interesting, but

that I also feel like a learned quite a bit.

Had I chosen my electives based on which courses would have been most beneficial in-stead of which ones fit into my schedule the best, I may have learned even more. The point is that although these classes may be useful, they are not necessary.

I understand that Tech wants its students to be well rounded and that elective courses help achieve this objective. But with the rate at which tuition is in-creasing and the amount of debt students exit schools with, col-leges should be examining every option that could make school more affordable.

Is it really necessary for stu-dents studying accounting to take 22 hours of electives in order to be a good accountant? Probably not. If it is not neces-sary, then why make it a require-ment? Maybe students do need to take a lot of electives in or-der to become well rounded. I just believe with rising tuition colleges should take a close look to see if this many electives are truly necessary or if they are just another factor leading to the increased cost of a college education.

CAMERON SMITHSECOND-YEAR CS

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ISHRAQ HASANTHIRD-YEAR IE

Registering right when my time ticket opened, so I got

the schedule I wanted.

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Eating lunch and play-ing games with my FASET

group.

WILL MITCHELLSECOND-YEAR CS

Playing basketball the first night.

What was most memo-rable about your FASET

experience?

Fewer electives could mean less tuition

The message here is not that elective

courses are useless...

NEWT CLARKNEWS EDITOR

Photos by Monica Jamison Student Publications

While Parking and Trans-portation Services is not a popu-lar branch of Techs operations, they had not bothered me until the recent announcement of the reduced Publix trolley stop ser-vice. As a carless student, I prefer biking but use the Trolley for groceries. As of June 1, the trol-ley only stops at Publix on week-ends and week-days after 5 p.m. Students who have evening classes or prefer avoiding the crowded shopping hours will be inconvenienced by this change. While it is not a long walk to the Midtown MARTA stop, carrying a heavy load of groceries in the summer heat is definitely an inconve-nience.

The change in service itself does not bother me as much as the claimed reasoning behind it: to provide space availability to passengers at Tech Square as increased ridership is anticipat-ed in the fall, according to the PTS website. Where is the logic in that purported purpose? Re-moving the Publix stop during typical business hours will not cause people to stop using the Trolleys; it will not address the problem of increased ridership since the grocery shoppers will simply walk to the MARTA sta-tion stop.

If the purpose of this change was for the routes to run faster and thus slightly increase fre-quency of trolleys, then they should cut down on the time spent stalling at the Transporta-tion Hub instead of cutting the brief stop at Publix, where there is a stop sign anyway. I may not be an engineer, but the most

logical and responsible solution to increased ridership would be running more Trolleys, not re-ducing service to a key stop.

I believe that PTS is reduc-ing service to this stop because it is near Uni-versity House and Square on 5th. As the com-petitively priced, h i g h e r - t h a n -campus-quality student apart-ments are lo-cated near Tech Square, I think

Tech is subtly trying to make these new housing options in-convenient and drive people back on campus for future housing. By protecting their commercial self-interest, Tech is avoiding the positive, but of course more costly, way of ad-dressing this problem: improv-ing on-campus housing.

This preventative move of reducing service near the new independent student housing will affect every student who uses the Trolley for grocery shopping. The fall 2015 trans-portation fee of $81 that every-one pays has not changed from spring 2015 or fall 2014. There-fore, even if Tech cannot find a way to increase Trolley service, the service should at least be kept constant.

Tech, please do not try to counteract a minority of stu-dents choosing a new off-cam-pus option at the expense of the majority of students, who will experience decreased service at the same cost. And if you must reduce service because better off-campus options threaten you, then at least be straight-forward about it and avoid pro-viding illogical reasons for your financially motivated action.

Removing Publix stop is an inconvenience

The change in service itself does not bother

me as much as the claimed reasoning

behind it...

MONICA JAMISONPHOTO EDITOR

The end of every Game of Thrones season brings a deluge of pain and emotion along with wild fan theories, and this sea-son ending was no exception. The internet was flooded with millions of fans sharing their feelings with the world and for the first time, readers and watchers are on the same page.

I started reading the series after I watched the first season of the show, and I was hooked. Not only does George R.R. Martin vividly describe a world, he also writes incredibly real-istic characters that arent one dimensional with their desires and motives. Its often difficult to know who to root for.

Now, G.R.R.M., unlike most authors, managed to capture the fact that women are in fact, just as different in terms of person-ality as men are. While terrible things do happen to characters of both genders in this series, he hasnt written off a woman char-acter solely for a man characters plot progression, and sadly, even this is considered groundbreak-ing.

Two wonderful examples of this are the Stark sisters. The

younger, Arya Stark is currently off in the Free Cities learning how to kill people and exact-ing her revenge on the people who wronged her family. The elder, Sansa Stark, is gentler and sweeter, but is no less strong for it. While Arya learns how to fight with swords and knives in a very literal sense, Sansa learns how to fight with words and by understanding her enemies. Her sister can survive by fighting, but Sansa relies on her words and saying the right things to the right people to keep going. These two are very different characters, yet at the end of the day, theyre both doing what theyre best at to stay alive.

Daenerys Targaryen is an-

other wonderfully written character. Shes introduced as a young girl whos frightened of the world and her future, and has ended up being the ruler of several major city-states with three dragons to her name. However, shes not free of flaw; she often makes misjudgments while ruling these cities, and isnt always the most receptive to criticism. After all, shes only a young teenage girl in charge of multiple cities, who was only re-cently made aware of her poten-tial and given this power.

These are just four charac-ters that are cohesive and have fully fleshed out storylines, and they take the fact that they are women, and completely take

charge of it. Arya and Daenerys take people by surprise at what young girls can do. Sansa Stark has managed to live amongst her enemies throughout the story because they dont realize how clever she truly is. Cersei Lannister, despite resenting her femininity, uses it as a weapon and a tool to get what she wants, and to get the best for herself and those she loves.

While the show doesnt al-ways capture the intricacies of female characters, it does show the variety of women in this se-ries that make their own fates. They arent all necessarily strong in the traditional sense, but theyre very human and realistic for it. In a time when the me-dia and world are obsessed with the idea of the strong woman, who can demolish a mans self esteem in one sentence and look flawless doing it, its refreshing to see characters that subvert that trope, who are not used as mere fuel for the progression of a mans storyline. Its nice to see real women with a variety of motives and desires in main-stream media, and hopefully, its a trend that continues.

Strong females in Game of Thrones...they take the fact that

they are women, and completely take charge of

it.

KRIPA CHANDRAONLINE EDITOR

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ALEXIS BRAZIERCOPY EDITOR

There has been a lot of con-troversy surrounding the former Spokane NAACP President Ra-chel Dolezal lately. She claims to be transracial, recently identifying as a black woman despite being born white. Though she received fairly intense and harsh backlash for her claim, personal identity is self-generated and her attempt to externally replicate her inner identity should be accepted if not celebrated.

Society has recently made great strides in the acceptance of personal identity, particularly in the realm of sexuality and gender. There is criticism of the compari-son of transracialism with trans-genderism, the main complain being that many scientific studies have found hormonal and genetic linkages associated with some gender identities.

Transracialism appears to have no similar genetic component. However not all gender identities are necessarily based in genetics. Does this mean that their identi-ties are invalid? No, and society increasingly welcomes their at-tempts to dress and look like they want to be perceived. Dolezals struggle with her racial identity in some ways parallels some people struggles with non-typical gender identity.

From a very young age Dolezal claims to have drawn herself with the brown crayon, with curly black hair; even in her art lead-ing up to college she claims to have drawn self-portraits depict-ing herself as looking black. She apparently sees herself as a black woman, and wants the world to also treat her as she apparently wishes to be treated.

Another objection to her iden-tity is that race and culture are distinctly intertwined, and since

she was born white, she inher-ently has not experienced black culture. But by this same logic, a half white/half black biracial per-son who appeared outwardly to be white could not identify as black, regardless of other cultural influ-ences, since the world sees that person as black.

Dolezal grew up with four ad-opted black siblings who may have had a huge influence on her life. Dolezal also grew up in Chicago, and black culture may have made an enormous and lasting impact on her personally. It is difficult to judge and determine exactly why she identifies as a black person, but does her biological race nec-essarily preclude her from experi-encing what might be calculated to be sufficient aspects of black culture so that she is not allowed to identify with it?

Is there a quota on how much black culture a black person must experience for them to identify as black? If said quota existed, and Dolezal was able to meet this quota, would she then be able to identify as black?

Perhaps, for reasons including that she was raised by white par-ents, Dolezal did not experience enough black culture to make her experiences as an individual simi-lar to those of a black person, and therefore should not adopt a black outer persona. However, this sin-gle example does not disqualify all others from claiming to be tran-sracial.

In the end, who are we as a society to define and decide how exactly Rachel choses to identify herself? If it is indeed that impor-tant to her that she is perceived as a black woman, then why should we disdain her efforts to appear as black? She lied about her past and heritage, and that is inexcus-able. But it does not invalidate her claims to transracialism, which seem to be legitimate.

YESVIDYA IYER

OPINIONS EDITOR

In the past few weeks, Rachel Dolezal has managed to stir up a wide range of emotions from sym-pathy to outrage by claiming to be a black women despite the fact that she was born to white par-ents. In an era where the bound-aries of social identity are con-stantly being pushed and tested, has Rachel Dolezal revolutionized self-identification or has she gone too far?

The most common argument in support of her claim is that be-ing transracial is similar to being transgendered. This would make sense if like gender, race was also a social construct. As a society there are things we have deemed to be more masculine or feminine although there may be no logi-cal basis in these assertions. For example, the color pink is not inherently feminine not is the color blue inherently masculine. Similarly crying and displaying emotion has frequently been asso-ciated with females although the act of expressing ones emotion is gender neutral.

Race, on the other hand, is not a social construct. Race has a bio-logical and cultural basis which make it more of a concrete concept as opposed to gender- an abstract concept. Critics of this statement argue that the genetic differences between races is minute in com-parison to the genetic differences between species. Thus, we should eliminate differentiating ourselves by race and accept that we are all part of the same race- the human race. While the ultimate message of such view is that all people should be treated with the same respect regardless of gender, race, or creed it blatantly disregards the fact that these minute genetic dif-ferences were cause to many trag-edies that have shaped our history

and continue to do so. To people who hold this ide-

alistic view of race, I ask, Have generations of your family suf-fered enslavement and dehuman-ization? Or has your family been torn apart and thrown into intern-ment camps? Or has your family every had their home and land forcefully seized and then made to walk more than 2,000 miles just to relocate? If one cannot answer yes to such questions, then what exactly is it that makes someone feel like they are a part of the race when they do not share the history? In the case of Rachel Dolezeal, how can she identify as black when she was born white to a set of white parents? It seems incredibly unlikely that she would be instilled with the knowledge of the pain and suffering her people went through with the upbringing of two white parents.

While the term transracial is a real thing. It does not apply in Dolezeals case. The term tran-sracial is mot appropriately used when taling abot adoption where the child of one race is adopted by parents of a different race. These kids truly cross racial boundar-ies because they experiece similar treatment as others of their race, however they are also exposed to the culture of their adoptive par-ents. Dolezeal obviously does not fit into this category, alsthough her adoptive black siblings do.

I think it is wonderful that Dolezeal stepped up and has tire-lessly worked in order to better the lives of black people in America. I, however, believe that her she has mistaken her deep appreciation of black culture as a transracial identity. We are born ino our race, and ultimately cannot change it no matter how much we admire another race. This, however, does not mean we cannot dress and act a certain way or even advocate for that race.

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Looking to challenge your palate this summer? Try one of Atlantas many culinary events this July and August47

Diversity Award Nominations OpenSAMIRA BANDARU

LIFE EDITOR

This Fall, Techs Office of In-stitute Diversity will be holding the Seventh Annual Diversity Symposium. This event seeks to recognize students, faculty, staff, and units such as an office, de-partment, school, or lab, who have actively influenced and posi-tively promoted diversity and in-clusion within the Tech commu-nity. A member from each of the four separate categories will be se-lected and recognized at the 2015 Diversity Symposium Awards Luncheon.

The award was created three years ago, by Archie W. Ervin, Vice President for Institute Di-versity at Tech. Ervin works to implement policies and programs that will enhance gender, racial, and social diversity among the Tech community.

All full-time faculty members, staff members, students, and units at Georgia Tech are eligible for the Diversity Champion Awards, said Annette Filliat, Communica-tions Manager at the Office of In-stitute Diversity. Nominations, including previous nominees and

self-nominations, may be made by all full-time Georgia Tech faculty, staff, or students for any award category. Keona Lewis, Program Review and Research Manager of Institute Diversity, is the chair of this years Diversity Champion Awards Committee.

Award recipients must dem-onstrate leadership in and com-mitment to building a culture of excellence, diversity, equality and inclusion in the Tech community. They should have organized, con-ducted and/or supported events and activities that promote cross-cultural understanding, respect and inclusion of diverse individu-als and groups.

Sponsored by the Office of the President and Institute Di-versity, the Seventh Annual Di-versity Symposium will occur on Wednesday, September 9, 2015 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Geor-gia Tech Global Learning Center and the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center. National Ur-ban League President, Marc Mo-rial, will be the keynote speaker during the luncheon, during which the Diversity Champion Award recipients will be an-nounced.

The Georgia Tech community benefits from an increasingly di-verse environment. The Institute strives to recruit, develop, retain, and engage a heterogeneous cadre of students, faculty, and staff with a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, interests, and tal-ents, said Ervin. Ultimately this campus community exemplifies the best in all of us in our in-tellectual pursuits, our diversity

of thought, our personal integrity and our inclusive excellence.

The Symposium will also fea-ture a variety of panels, lectures, workshops and forums for the dis-cussion of diversity at Tech in the modern age. At a University well known for its world class research capabilities, this Symposium seeks to make Tech an institute world renowned for its excellence in diversity as well.

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SAMIRA BANDARULIFE EDITOR

ATLANTA STREET FOOD FESTIVALNot to be confused with the

Atlanta Food Festival, the Atlanta Street Food Festival showcases the best food trucks in Atlanta. Whether you crave Ibiza Bites crispy chicken and waffle fries, its Georgia Peach Caprese Salad, A Moveable Feasts French cuisine, or maybe just a good old hot dog from Dogs on Wheels, the Atlanta Street Food Festival caters to ev-ery palate with its wide variety of cuisines.

The event takes place in Pied-mont Park on July 11, from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. Check out www.atlantastreetfoodfestival.com for more information.

ATLANTA BAR-B-Q FESTIVAL During the weekend of Au-

gust 14, Atlantic Station will be hosting the 7th Annual Atlanta Bar-B-Q Festival Cook Off. Over fifty BBQ teams will compete to win cash prizes, trophies and, of course, bragging rights. There will be live music, good food and a touch of friendly competition. Tickets are $6 in advance, and $10 the day of the event.

ATLANTA ICE CREAM FESTIVALIce Cream lovers this event

is for you. On Saturday, July 25, Atlanta will host its 5th annual Ice Cream Festival in Piedmont Park. The event features various vendors and will hold an ice cream eating competition!

RESTAURANT FESTIVALIn this nine day culinary event,

more than 35 of Atlantas signa-ture dining destinations will be offering low-price deals for their dishes.

The event features culinary creations from Atlantas most tal-ented chefs from restaurants such as Alma Cocina, featuring au-thentic Mexican cuisine, Asante, featuring an exceptional genre of culinary art commonly referred to as coastal soul cuisine, Glenns Kitchen, offering American com-fort food with a southern flair, and for those who prefer a less formal setting, Game-X, which offers a unique combination of gourmet sandwiches and wraps along with two fully stocked bars and an of-fering over 60 of todays favorite games.

The highly anticipated event begins on July 18 and ends on July 26. Unleash your inner epicure and explore Atlantas finest foods.

ESW Team Finalist in Ford ContestSAMIRA BANDARU

LIFE EDITOR

While many schools across the nation have several greenhouses used for growing produce and learning, Tech has only one small greenhouse, powered by a hydro-ponic drip-irrigation system on top of the Cherry Emerson Build-ing that few students have access to. Georgia Techs organization, Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), specifically the Hydro-ponics Team, has been working to change this.

Their mission is to create a sustainable greenhouse on the Georgia Tech campus for not

only research, but for service and education as well. The team uses a method called hydroponics to grow produce.

Hydroponics is a soil free method of farming, allowing for a more direct flow of nutrients to the plants. It requires 90 percent less water than traditional soil-farming and increases crop pro-duction while shortening the crop cycle.

The project started in the summer of 2014 with the Presi-dent of ESW and the Hydro-ponics Teams co-leader, Nicole Kennard, third-year MSE. She reached out to a nonprofit organi-zation called SEEDS Global that

works to educate students about sustainability and healthy eating. Her first project in conjunction with SEEDS Global was the in-stallation of hydroponic systems at Perkerson Elementary School in Atlanta. Shortly after, Kennard decided to bring hydroponics to Tech. Kennard and recent Tech graduate, Jerry Landau, 15, ME, worked together on a proposal to build a hydroponic greenhouse on campus.

We had this proposal ap-proved by Dr. Terry Snell, Chair of the School of Biology, as well as Dr. Gary May, Dean of COE, said Kennard. After presenting this project to Capital Space and

Planning, we received must sup-port by Steven Swant, the Execu-tive VP for Administration and Finance. However, even though we had identified several places where this high-tech, completely sustainable greenhouse could be built on campus, we lacked major funding. Then, after recruiting a project group that Fall, we started working on getting our proposal plans more specific as well as starting our research.

Since then, the Hydroponics Team has taken on various chal-lenges to develop and advance their project.

Last March, we participated in the Greenovation challenge to redesign a more sustainable student center and won with our plans for a combination hydro-ponics/study room, said Jamie Curtis, second-year MSE, and co-leader of the Hydroponics Project. Our plan is to create a large on-campus greenhouse from which produce will be donated to the community and which we will use to optimize hydroponics systems so they are more cost-ef-fective and can be used by a larger percentage of the population.

In their current greenhouse on the Cherry Emerson build-ing, the Hydroponics Team was able to donate a large portion of lettuce produce last year to the Atlanta Food Bank. However, the team wanted to go bigger.

Unfortunately, the Hydropon-ics Team lacks the funding nec-essary to realize their dream of creating a completely sustainable greenhouse on campus which is where the Ford College Com-munity Challenge comes into play.

This competition, sponsored Photo Courtesy of Jamie Curtis

ESW-GTs current drip irrigation hydroponics setup in the Cherry Emerson greenhouse. Last year, the team donated their hydroponically grown lettuce to the Atlanta Food Bank.

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2014 Diversity Champion Awards Unit Winner CEISMC with Institute Diversity Associate Vice President, Julie Ancis.

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Techs Director of Athletics. But our people did a terrific job. It was awesome. Absolutely awesome. It turned out to be a beautiful night, we had a little rain early before the show really started, and then it cleared into a gorgeous night. But our staff, our facility and events operations staff, Georgia Tech police, Georgia Tech parking, our Fire Marshall, the Atlanta Police, Martaeveryone had a piece in making this come together, which is really a nice collaboration to see. So many people supported the event, and they were very pleased when it came off really well. Its a nice thing when a lot of

people come together and some-thing good happens.

Not only did the concert bring the Georgia Tech community closer together, but also intro-duced the people of Atlanta to Tech. We invited the community to come to campus and enjoy an event that was fun, safe, and en-tertaining, and they had a great time, so I think that must have some positive effect, said Bobin-ski. President Peterson was really pleased with how it came off and I love this event because it intro-duces us to different people, and gets them thinking about Georgia Tech in a different way, so that part is really a good corollary ben-efit.

Based on the success and posi-

tive responses from the attendees during this event, Tech hopes to host more concerts and entertain-ment events like this in the future. I think well have the opportu-nity to be considered for future shows, said Bobinski. But hav-ing one show doesnt necessarily mean that youll get another - it has to be the right show, it has to fit all of our parameters, we can only do it during certain parts of the year but would we be in-terested in exploring the possibil-ity given the success of this one? Absolutely.

A portion of revenue gener-ated from the concert will be added to Techs Department of Athletics budget to cover student-athletes attendance at Tech. We

have rough 380 student-athletes in total, said Bobinski. Those athletes are supported by a schol-arship budget that has about 210 scholarships in it, so we are always looking for new and creative ways to raise additional revenue. The Athletics Department has done smaller rentals of McCamish Pa-vilion and even filmed Walt Dis-ney Pictures The Million Dollar Arm in the baseball stadium.

We would love to plan future events like this again, said Bo-binski. If we could find a way to work it out, where it would make sense all the way around, we would do it again, because it was a really positive first time out in twenty years. Lets hope we dont wait twenty more to do it again.

ESW-GT FROM PAGE 7by the Ford Motor Company, may be the key to allowing the team to implement their commu-nity-building project.

The theme for this years com-petition is Building Sustainable Communities. Ten of the twenty finalist organizations will receive a $25,000 grant to see their proj-ects come to reality. Our main mission as outlined in the grant, should we receive it, would be to construct this high tech, solar powered green house and then have our Hydroponics Team, comprised of about ten students, research, create, and then opti-mize hydroponic growing meth-ods for use in urban food deserts, Kennard, said.

Previous winners include Ket-tering Universitys community aquaponics system that combines hydroponics and aquaculture, which involves farming aquatic organisms, Brown Universitys Rainwater Harvesting System for developing countries and Purdue Universitys urban water project in their local community.

If the Hydroponics Team re-ceives the grant from the Ford Competition, the team will have enough funds necessary to design and construct a larger greenhouse on campus. Our vision is that this greenhouse will become a laboratory for sustainable urban agriculture, including hydropon-ics, aquaponic, aeroponic meth-ods. This will be a place for stu-dents interested in creating and optimizing these systems to learn and optimize them, as well as to construct completely new sys-tems and test them. We are also speaking with many professors in hopes to have certain classes and lectures held there for hands-on learning in a green space. We will also have the area open to GT tours and students from elemen-tary and high schools to tour our greenhouse and learn about sus-tainability, Kennard said.

The Hydroponics Team ex-pects to hear back from the Ford College Community Challenge this September.

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Mick Jagger, the lead singer of the Rolling Stones, sings a number with the rest of the Rolling Stones at Bobby Dodd Sta-dium on June 9. The event was positively received by the crowd and was determined an overall success by the organizers.

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Three Days Grace revamps with new lead singerKYLE PENINGER

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Three Days Grace, the chart topping alternative rock band out of Ontario, Canada released their fifth full-length album on May 27. Human is their first al-bum with new lead vocalist, Matt Walst, formerly of My Darkest Days. Walst replaced the quartets original lead vocalist, Adam Gon-tier, after Gontier left the band in 2013 for alcohol related health is-sues. Walst brings with him a new sound and renewed energy for the band that is very apparent in the album.

Much of the album is a return to the old sound of Three Days Grace, with powerful and emo-tional lyrics, grinding guitar riffs and a pounding tempo. The band seeks to make a connection with its fans through honest and emo-tional lyrics.

We want help people through tough times with our music. Its therapy for us, and hopefully its the same for everybody listen-ing, Matt Walst said. Each song in the album represents an honest attempt to emotionally connect with fans, with song covering struggle in the human experience.

The first single off the album, Painkiller, is a classic Three Days Grace anthem of pain and struggle. A base guitar riff carries

the melody of the song, but inten-sity is built throughout the verse and bridge adding to the emotion of the chorus. Painkiller tells the story of overcoming a love or drug that continually calls one back to it. The painkiller is a crutch that one uses to numb oneself to the struggles surrounding them, but in ones dependence to it, they lose themselves and their life.

Fallen Angel is one of the most relatable songs on the al-bum. In an unusual style for Three Days Grace, the perspec-tive is given from a hero and a friend, and the message is one of hope and perseverance. The song commiserates with the universal struggle of falling and having to carry on. It speaks of being there

for a friend as they go through hell and saving them from the pain. It preaches that it is okay to fall or to struggle, and there is hope in a friend who will loyally carry you through the hard times.

Tell Me Why creates a slower, more somber mood. Reminiscent of one of their former hits, Never Too Late from the album One-X, the guitar melody begins as a steely flow of harmonious notes and then bursts into a forceful chorus. The haunting guitar melo-dy makes this song very unique in an album that is mostly built on heavy, distorted guitars. The lyrics are full of questions about loss and being hurt, and they speak to the loneliness of someone left broken. This song is for those who are hurt

and lonely, and those that are full of questions.

The second single off the al-bum, I Am Machine, is the best song from this release. It has ev-erything that makes Three Days Grace so connected to its fans and the rock genre. The band really digs into its roots for their over-driven sound of distorted guitar riffs with interwoven harmony and drums that are the heartbeat of the melody. The lyrics are angry and painful, in true Three Days Grace style. Walsts rough voice stands out as he brings the song to life in his lyrics and his great use of vocal range. This will com-miserate with all those who feel they are without emotion, just machines carrying out their life

without feeling. It is for those who feel hollow, but it also encourages those to see that it should not be this way. There is hope to find that feeling and emotion that gives life meaning.

This is a great album for old and new fans of the band, and for anyone who is looking to ex-pand their musical tastes into the alt rock genre. Walsts rougher, heavier sound, when compared to Gontiers usually smoother voice, gives the album a new energy and mixes powerfully with the bands hard sound. The album convers so many emotions it is sure to con-nect with people in all stages of life, and their songs of encourage-ment can give hope to those suf-fering from pain and loss.

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HumanThree Days Grace

LABEL: RCA

GENRE: Alternative metal

TRACK PICKS: Painkiller, Fallen Angel and I Am Machine

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New third-person shooter switches up the fieldPATRICK BLACK

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Splatoon is Nintendos brand new third-person shooter game that seeks to break free of the typical genre restrictions that are normally placed on a game in this category. It is colorful, unique and well-made.

In Splatoon, the player con-trols a humanoid squid creature known as an Inkling. Instead of fighting with rifles and bullets,

they decide to arm themselves with paint rollers and squirt guns that shoot out colored ink. The ink-based weaponry is the basis of the entire game. From the game-play mechanics to the multiplayer mode, ink is what makes Spla-toon so unique.

While standing in this paint-like substance, the player can hide inside and move about three times faster than walking. The ink also allows the player to scale walls and to sneak up on enemy Inklings to take them out of the game. The main multiplayer mode, Turf War, puts two teams of four against each other in a battle to see who can cover the most turf with their respective teams colored ink. Each teams color changes with each match so a player will never have a battle where they are the same color twice in a row. This multiplayer mode forces players to focus on covering the ground with ink instead of trying to take out Photo courtesy of Nintendo

Splatoon creates a whole new world with paint as seen above. As players fight to conquer the opposing team, the playing fieldi is coated with colorful paints giving players a new type of third-person shooter.

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As Three Days Grace preps for their new tour to promote album, Human, fans are getting ready to rock with the bands new lead singer, Matt Walst. Walst brings new energy to the old Three Days Grace sounds that rock enthusiasts have fallen in love with over the years.

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The uninitiated listener could learn a lot about William Control from the art on his Punishment Tour poster. On it, Mr. Control wields a paddle that appears to be in mid-swing on a collision course with a nude girls unclad posterior

Yet, not even the titillating tour poster could have prepared me for the interview with the Dark Lord himself and the subsequent fall into a rabbit hole of a concert. His sound I can only describe as being evil-underground-London-vam-pire-sex-techno-rock; other Wil-liam Control listeners know that each of those words was carefully chosen. The interview, however, showed a different side to William Control- that of a traveled intel-lectual who has carefully crafted an exciting alter ego.

Technique: Whats the story behind the character of William Control?

Control: I suppose that every artist has a voice that he uses to convey what hes trying to con-vey. For many years I did a punk rock band called Aiden, and used that voice. With William Control I feel like theres a lot of dif-ferent voices in my head; a lot of artistic visions and avenues I can go down. William control is just one of those extensions. A lot of my favorite things that Ive ever done have been created out of a lot of pain or heartbreak or hurt or violence.

William control came out of a really turbulent time in my life- Aiden had been on tour for three years straight without any breaks, and I was in a s****y relation-ship with a ridiculous woman. I decided I was going to quit my band and move to England in the middle of a record cycle. I left and I wrote the first William Control

album and returned to put it out.Technique: Your music has a

dark, sexy feel to it. Whats your muse?

Control: Vagina. A**? A** more than vagina. Whatever in-spires me at the time of writing, be it a particular song, or sonnet or book. I dont really just have one thing, like this pack of cigarettes *gestures at pack of Marlboros*. Theres a lot of things in my life that inspire me. I think the world is just a beautiful place, and it in-spires me.

Technique: With a look and a style as bold as William Controls, have you met up with any contro-versy along the way?

Control: Not really. Im not reinventing the wheel. Im not too provocative I mean, I sing about sex and BDSM, and a lot of the imagery I have is scantily clad beautiful women and other things that Im into. Its not a contro-versy- Im not Marilyn Manson in the 1990s, looking like the anti-christ. I like music and dancing, and connecting with people.

Technique: Youve been out-spoken on the topic of religion be-fore- Alternative Press published your essay God is Dead in 2010. How do your thoughts on religion influence your music?

Control: Ive been studying monotheistic religions for a while. I grew up a protestant Christian, as most Americans have. It makes sense- thats how America was founded. Now we have all these variations of Christianity Bap-tists, Methodists, Lutheran all of these different sects. Ive been studying religion because as a kid I believed what I was told simply because I was a kid. A kid is go-ing to believe what authority tells him.

When I started traveling the world after I got sober in 1999, I was more of an agnostic. As I

started seeing other cultures and religions, a lot of it seemed ri-diculous to me. I started to notice that every religion claims absolute truth. A lot of those studies and that style of thinking has influ-enced my decision to become an atheist. The Bible still gives me a lot of inspiration- theres a lot of malevolence and darkness in bibli-cal stories. That comes out in my music.

Technique: Your other band, Aiden, has a more punk rock feel. William Controls sound is a little

bit different. Why the original switch from Aiden, and whats it like writing and performing in two different acts?

Control: I hate when a singer decides to do a solo project and its just B-Sides of a band. Just put out another band album! I started putting out songs that were on the other side of the spectrum from Aiden. You go to an Aiden show and you dance and mosh and whatever, and thats the deal. An-ger stuff. I wanted to make some-thing sexy and grown-up. Some-

thing you can get f****d too. Technique: What does the fu-

ture hold for William Control?Control: I dont have any plans

to hang it up. I feel at this point like Im just starting. Ive finally built an audience. Im going to finish the third revelator book. The new William Control album will probably be a 2016 release.

William Controls most recent release, Neuromancer, is available on iTunes and Amazon. His book series Revelator is also on sell at retail booksellers.

The Dark Lord reveals his inner workings

Photo courtesty of Victory Records

William Control dares to be different and is not afraid to speak from the heart. His music may come off as a little twisted, but his fans are dedicated and excited to experience his world.

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opposing players. Taking out the opposing team only slows them down and does not contribute to how victory is decided, which is a nice change of pace for the third-person shooter genre.

Inkopolis itself is a fun hub-world that the player can explore between matches. There are shops owned by a colorful cast of charac-ters to upgrade gear. People from Nintendos Miiverse will appear in the players city. They can interact with them, look for advice or see anything that they drew on Mi-iverse. These online players help make the city feel alive and give a sense of community to the game. It is the best inclusion of Miiverse in any of Nintendos games so far.

There is also a single player campaign which focuses on the player fighting against the octo-pus-like force of creatures, the Octarians, who have stolen the citys main power supply. While the multiplayer focuses on the shooting and ink-covering aspect of Splatoon, the single player focuses more on platforming and the ink-movement aspect. The sto-ry is simple, but hidden scrolls in each level provide backstory of the world within Splatoon. Though entertaining, it felt like an after-thought.

In spite of the games over-whelmingly good qualities, the game lacks a lot of content. There are only two online modes at the moment, which are still loads of fun. The local multiplayer is lim-ited to only two people instead of the usual eight people that is found online.

These nitpicks are small, and Splatoon is a great game. The core gameplay is fun, and the mul-tiplayer modes are enjoyable and intense. The game is colorful and stylistic to see. The single player mode, while flawed, is fun. Over-all, Splatoon is a great game that brings new life to an otherwise stagnating genre of gaming.

Poehlers autobiography brutally honestKYLE PENINGER

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Comedic genius, Amy Poehler, best known for her performances on S.N.L. and Parks and Rec-reation can add voice artist, di-rector and producer to her many talents but falls short as an auto-biographer in her recently released memoir-esque book, Yes Please.

Unlike most memoirs and autobiographies, Yes Please is organized in a bit of a messy, al-most chaotic manner. Poehler often points out how difficult it is to write a book a point em-phasized by the chapter she has former S.N.L. actor, Seth Mey-ers, write along with the passages submitted by her parents. In ad-dition to these bits written by other people, Poehler stuffs her book with pictures, hand written notes from younger days, scraps of screenplays and even a hand-written acrostic poem she wrote to her partner in crime, Tina Fey. The actress admits that writing a book is so difficult that it is like hacking away at a freezer with a screwdriver.

Despite the trouble Poehler seemed to have writing this book, it was finished and published with all of its imperfections. The beauty and tragedy of this book is that it is written much like how a person would talk. While easy to read, it is often difficult to fol-low the authors train of thought

and to remember what she has or has not shared about her life. The narrative skips around to different parts of her life much like how the average person would as they con-verse with their friends about the interesting things they have ac-complished, and she does so even within the same chapter. Usually these blurbs about her life follow under the umbrella of her chapter title, but they are still often hard to follow.

Despite these major shortcom-ings, Poehler does regale the read-ers with many insightful blurbs about her life and her journey from a lower middle-class family to one of comedys improv queens.

One of the most interesting tidbits was her time with the Up-right Citizens Brigade, the improv group she helped create. Poehler spends many a pages talking about the talent that came and went through the UCB and about some of the shows they put on, in-cluding their most popular show, Assscat. The best part, she points out, is that the UCB is still per-forming and has since branched out from simple improv shows to teaching improv classes at several of their locations. One of UCBs locations is a couple blocks off of the strip in Los Angeles where they put on amazing shows that are oftentimes free of charge.

A refreshing aspect to her writ-ing is that she is not afraid to con-cede that she is really just advertis-ing for the UCB. She is also not afraid to admit when something is not fun to talk about, or that she may be remembering things through rose (and weed) colored glasses, a regrettable part of her life on which she plans on lying to her kids.

If there was one feature that made this book shine, it would not be the funny quips she threw in throughout the book, her

amusing rambles and analogies, or even the hilarious corrections by Michael Shur, but rather, it would be her honesty. Writing is hard, she states, but so is divorce and the road to becoming famous. Amy Poehler does not sugarcoat her words. She admits when she

has done wrong and when she is pushing her own agenda. So while this book of is not the most polished or easy to read, it is up-front with all her imperfections and dark places unabashedly laid out for all to see which ultimately makes this book a good read.

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Yes PleaseAmy Poehler

GENRE: Autobiography

PUBLISHER: HarperCollins

RELEASE DATE: Oct. 28, 2014

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Comedy legend Amy Poehler shocked many readers with her brutal honesty in her new autobiography, an easy pool side read.

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to the College Football Playoff rankings. A win is not just a win. Strength of schedule matters and a win against a strong Clemson team is much more valuable than a win against a lesser opponent. With Techs moderate success against Clemson, especially under Paul Johnson, it is arguably more advantageous for Tech to just keep them on the schedule.

This column has been based on the idea that Bobinski, and more than likely Paul Johnson, want to get rid the permanent cross divi-sion rival solely for the purpose of giving Tech an easier schedule. This is just an assumption at this point because Bobinski hasnt ex-plicitly stated why he would like to get rid of it, but I get the feeling he wouldnt be pushing it so hard if Techs permanent rival was Wake Forest. In the case that Bobinski wants to get eliminate permanent rivals from ACC scheduling for a

different reason, such as the op-portunity to play the rotating opponents more frequently, then there are better solutions than just ending The Tech-Clemson rivalry.

One solution is the Room-mate Switch approach to sched-uling. The Roommate Switch, which I found while surfing the world wide web, is a scheduling format for a 14-team conference that allows rivals to play every year and still rotate through the rest of the conference in a two-year span. It is a little more complex than that, but it essentially allows teams to keep their rivals and get to play every other school in the conference more frequently. This approach also allows a player to play at every stadium in the con-ference during their four-year ca-reer. It may not be the solution to every scheduling problem, but it is definitely the best that I have seen proposed. It would keep Clemson on Techs schedule, which is good enough for me.

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NEWT CLARKSPORTS EDITOR

Paul Johnson announced ear-lier this month that redshirt ju-nior A-back Dennis Andrews has been dismissed from the football program. Andrews, who finished with 105 yards on 15 carries last season, was a candidate to to start alongside redshirt senior Broder-ick Snoddy in the upcoming sea-son. Of the A-backs on the roster prior to Andrews dismissal, he had the second most career carries and career rushing yards, trailing only Snoddy in both categories.

This was not the first time An-drews faced discipline from the football program. Andrews was suspended for the first two games of last season for an unspecified violation of team rules.

The dismissal of Andrews,

along with losing four senior A-backs from last years team, leaves Tech thin at the A-back position. Techs returning A-backs com-bined for only 19.9 percent of last years rushing yards from the posi-tion and only 15.3 percent of the carries. Snoddy is the most expe-rienced of the returning A-backs with 65 career carries and 483 yards, but he is coming off a sea-son ending leg injury.

According to the most recent depth chart released by Coach Johnson, redshirt junior Isiah Willis is penciled in to start op-posite of Snoddy. Willis, a non-scholarship player out of Lassiter High School, has only four career carries for 40 yards with zero re-ceptions while appearing in eight of Techs 14 games last season. Tech has had success in the past with walk-ons at A-back. Robert

Godhigh, who came in as a walk-on before eventually being put on scholarship, rushed for 744 yards and seven touchdowns during his senior season.

Listed on the depth chart be-hind Snoddy and Willis are red-shirt freshman Qua Searcy and redshirt freshman Clinton Lynch. Lynch came to Tech as an A-back, while Searcy switched to A-back from receiver about mid-way through last season. Tech also has quite a few true freshmen, in-cluding Nathan Cottrell, Marcus Marshall, and Omahri Jarrett, who could compete for playing time this fall.

It is unclear at this point whether Andrews will remain in school at Tech to complete his degree or if he will transfer some-where else to finish up his two years of remaining eligibility.

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Former Tech A-back Dennis Andrews carries the ball during Techs 30-24 overtime victory over the Bulldogs last season. Andrews was dismissed earlier this month for a violation of team rules.


Former Tech receiver Demaryius Thomas stiff arms a Clemson defender on his way to a touchdown during the 2009 matchup.

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top 10 for slowest paced teams in the country.

Wisconsin had the most ef-ficient offense in the country by a landslide, but they had the tal-ent and the skill to score when-ever they felt like finally shooting. Most teams in the NCAA dont have that skill and more teams might adapt Virginias style of play. Virginia plays a grind it out on ball defense which suffocates their opponents offense. With less time to shoot, there is also less time to defend. Virginia has shown it is possible to succeed with shooting as little as possible, but defending for as much time as possible. Their goal was to shorten the number of possessions as they could. The committees goal was to increase that number. If more teams begin to play like Virginia, the rules committee will not see the improvement in the game they were looking for.

College basketball is not the NBA and some people like col-lege basketball for that specific reason. The NCAA rules com-mittee seems obsessed with mak-ing the game as close to NBA as possible, but in reality the talent in college basketball may not be best suited to be playing with NBA type rules. Most teams have players who cannot create their own shot and with such huge tal-ent disparities between leagues, one should not be trying to emu-late the other. These rules might punish the smaller programs and make an even bigger disparity between the best teams and the teams who struggle to win half of their games.

After next season, there will be plenty of data to analyze on how the rule changes actually impact-ed the game, but the one thing these new rules should definitely accomplish is making it easier for teams to cut large leads, and pos-sibly lead to more exciting finishes come March.

CLOCK FROM PAGE 16 Two Tech players taken in MLB Draft

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Former Tech designated hitter A.J. Murray at the plate. Murray was drafted in the 14 round of the 2015 MLB Draft by the Twins. Murray hit .283 with 15 home runs for the Jackets last season.

JONATHAN LONGCONTRIBUTING WRITER

With the coming of the 2015 MLB draft, hundreds of players were given the opportunity to ascend to baseballs highest level. Among those beginning their professional careers next year are two Yellow Jackets, infielder A.J. Murray and outfielder Daniel Sp-ingola.

Murray, a senior from West-field, New Jersey, started every game this season and led the team with 14 multi-RBI games. A ver-

satile player, he started at catcher, in the outfield, and as designated hitter at different points through-out the season. He was drafted by the Houston Astros in the 48 round of the 2011 draft, the year he left high school. This year, he was drafted in the 14 round by the Minnesota Twins.

It was great to get drafted out of high school but I knew then I was going to go to Georgia Tech and play college ball, Murray said courtesy of Ramblinwreck.com. Id say this [years selection is] more rewarding just because of

the work that went into Georgia Tech and all the great times Ive had at Tech. I wouldnt trade that for anything. The coaches and the guys I played with and playing in the ACC got me to this point. Im very grateful for that opportunity. Thats what made this happen. It made me a better player along the way.

Spingola, a senior from Ro-swell, Georgia, highlighted this year with a 12-game hitting streak and a 26-game reached-base streak, both career bests. Each of his 47 starts this season were in

the outfield. Last season, he was drafted by the Cubs in the 24th round but ultimately decided to remain at Tech. This year, he was once again drafted by Chicago, this time in the 31st round.

There was definitely a lot of stuff going on last year that made decisions a lot more stress-ful. I had a choice, Spingola said, courtesy of Ramblinwreck.com. This year there was no hesitation on my part. I always had it in my mind that I was going to hopeful-ly play college ball for my career and go four years like, I guess, a normal student would. Obvi-ously the year didnt end up as I had hoped but I definitely think it was a relief to know that I did all I could at Georgia Tech and that I have an opportunity to continue playing baseball, which is what I want to do.

Although only two of Techs current players were drafted, there were also five signees drafted from Techs eleventh ranked recruit-ing class. Highlighting the group is catcher Tyler Stephenson, who was the 11 overall pick this year by the Cincinnati Reds. Also selected were pitcher Jonathan Hughes by the Baltimore Orioles in the sec-ond round, catcher Joey Bart by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 27 round, shortstop Carter Hall , son of Tech Head Coach Danny Hall, by the Atlanta Braves in the 34 round, and pitcher Tristin Eng-lish by the Cleveland Indians in the 39.

Stephenson and Hughes have both elected to go pro, while Bart, Hall, and English will be honoring their commitment to Tech. This is the second time in three years that Tech had a signee drafted before the second round. In 2013, the Baltimore Orioles drafted outfielder Josh Hart out of Parkview High School with the 37 overall pick.

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TECH TO FACE B.C IN DUBLIN

It was announced early this month that Tech will open the 2016 football season against Bos-ton College in Dublin, Ireland. It will be Techs first ever inter-national game and first season opener against an ACC team since 2012. It is also Techs first game against Boston College since 2012 when Tech defeated the Eagles 37-17. The game will take place in Aviva Stadium, which also hosted a game in 2012 when Notre Dame faced Navy.

Although it is the first time Tech has played overseas, it will not be the first time for Head Coach Paul Johnson. Johnson served as Navys offensive coor-dinator in 1996 when they faced off against Notre Dame at Croke Park. The Midshipmen fell to the Fighting Irish 54-27.

Tech will not lose a home game due to the neutral site game, as the game was originally scheduled to be played in Chestnut Hill, Mass. as a Boston College home game. The game will kickoff at 7:30 a.m. eastern time.

KAELA DAVIS TRANSFERRING

Former Tech sophomore guard Kaela Davis has transferred to the University of South Carolina. Da-vis led the Jackets with 19.6 points per game last season and was also named to the All-ACC team. Da-vis was also third on the team in both rebounds and assists. Davis was ranked the number two over-all recruit in the country by ESPN for the class of 2013 before signing with Tech. The Jackets will have their second leading scorer re-turning net season, senior Aaliyah Whiteside. Along with leading re-bounder Roddreka Rogers.

TECH AGREES TO SERIES WITH UT

Tech announced last week that an agreement has been reached with The University of Tennessee for a four game basketball series between the two schools. The se-ries will begin this coming sea-son in Atlanta before heading to Knoxville next season. The Jack-ets will also host the Volunteers in 2017, while the final game of the series will be back in Knoxville in 2018. Tech is 27-42 against Tennessee all time, but did when the last matchup between the two schools in 2004.

Tennessee will be led by first year Head Coach Rick Barnes, who previously served as the Head Coach at The University of Texas for 17 seasons. It will be Brian Gregorys fifth year leading the Jackets, where he has an overall record of 55-71.

Shot clock moving to 30 seconds


Tech Athletic Director Mike Bobinksi recently told Andrea Adelson of ESPN that he would not be opposed to getting rid of Techs permanent cross division game against Clemson, who has traditionally been one of the stron-ger teams in the Atlantic Division of the ACC. The idea behind this is probably to get Tech an easier conference schedule, and there-fore a better chance at winning the Coastal Division. For those who are not aware, the way the ACC schedule is currently setup is that every team plays all six of the other teams in their division, and then two from the other division. Of the two cross divisional games, one is against the schools perma-nent cross division partner, Techs is Clemson, and the second game rotates among the other six teams in the division.

I completely understand the logic of wanting to get rid of the permanent cross division rivals. Is it really fair that Georgia Tech has to play Clemson every year and Miami has to play Florida State, while Virginia Tech gets to play

Boston College and Duke gets Wake Forest? No, it is not fair, but thats okay. There are a lot of things that make college football great, but rivalries might be the greatest of them all. I truly believe that most Tech fans would rather play Clemson every year and pos-sibly lose a couple more over a ten year span than substitute the Clemson game to play North Car-olina State, Wake Forest or Syra-

cuse. If you do not believe me, just look at attendance of the Clemson game and then compare it to the attendance at Techs other games against ACC opponents. I just do not think it is worth sacrificing one of Techs biggest rivalries in order to have a better chance of winning the Coastal Division.

So the question remains, if the permanent crossover part-ner is eliminated from the ACC

schedule, does that actually ben-efit Tech? As far as winning the Coastal Division, it does. Since 2000, Tech is 8-7 against Clem-son in the regular season and 24-12 against all other Atlantic oppo-nents combined. When it comes to division standings a win is a win. It doesnt matter if you beat Clemson or if you beat Wake, but that is not the case when it comes


Techs defensive line lines up against Clemon during the 2011 game, a 31-17 Tech victory. The win ruined Clemsons undefeated season as they were 8-0 and ranked No. 5 prior to the game.

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MARK RUSSELLCONTRIBUTING WRITER

This offseason the NCAA rules committee made some major changes to the college basketball rulebook that could have a big impact on the future of the sport. The biggest rule change is chang-ing the shot clock from 35 seconds to 30 seconds. However, there is some doubt that this rule change might not be good for the over-all game. On the contrary, many pundits and analysts believe that this rule change and others are a big first step in the improvement of the game and the watch-ability of it.

Other additional rule changes include expanding the restricted area under the baskets and cut-ting the number of timeouts from five to four. The five second closely guarded rule will also be removed from the rulebook and coaches will no longer be allowed to call timeouts except for in dead ball situations. After much talk, the 10-second backcourt clock will no longer reset after a timeout and that rule has been exploited by coaches for many years. This rule change will reward teams for playing strong full court defense and will not allow the other team to call a timeout just to avoid a 10-second violation.

The last time the shot clock rule received a makeover was in 1993, when the clock was changed from 45 second to 35 seconds. By reducing the shot clock to 30 sec-onds, offenses and defenses will have to adjust their plays and strategies to fit this new up-tempo and higher possession game. But, with less time to get a good shot off, teams who struggle to score with a 35 second shot clock could potentially struggle more with less time.

Considering Tech struggled to score when they had 35 seconds to run their offense, the new 30 second shot clock rule could make the offense even less efficient. Last year Tech played a very slow paced offense, ranked as the 220th slow-est paced team in the country. Their offense was rated as the 210th most efficient according to Ken Pomeroys efficiency ratings.

To succeed in college basket-ball with these new rules Tech will need to overhaul their offense. Many of their games were loss due to the team being unable to score at the end of the game when de-fensive pressure was the highest. Countless possessions resulted with forced shots at the buzzer and players unable to create high quality shots on their own.

These rules were made to help improve the quality of games for

the best teams in the country, but the committee did not think about the bulk of the NCAA teams and the ones who already struggle to score with a 35 second shot clock. For many teams, this rule might allow them to score more points a game, but it could also result in a lower field goal percentage due to the less time to

get into a half-court offense.Over the past year Wiscon-

sin and Virginia were notorious for winding the clock all the way down to 10 seconds before even attempting to try and shoot. Both of those teams were ranked in the top 5 for much of the entire year despite fact they were also in the


Senior forward Marcus Georges-Hunt drives the ball to the rim against UGA. Georges-Hunt led Tech with 13.6 PPG last season.

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