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By Sijia Cai

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With the lifting of Georgiasdrought and its watering restric-tions, campus landscaping hasresumed a freer role. e O ceof Development has partnered

with Capital Planning and SpaceManagement to launch a new commemorative tree planting program whose primary objectiveis to beautify Techs landscape.

e program was inspired by the late Bruce Edwards, a Techalumnus and dedicated footballfan who wanted to plant a tree oncampus in his memory. Althoughhe passed away before a suitablelocation and tree could be select-

ed, his wish prompted the creationof a commemorative tree planting program as part of the CampusBeauti cation Program. e ini-tiative also ts in with the Insti-tutes master plan for landscaping,

which aims to more than doublethe campus canopy coverage toover 55%. In 2004, this number

was 15-18%.Every year, old trees are re-

moved due to disease, drought,or storm damage. e CampusBeauti cation Program is one im-portant way that we can replacelost trees and enhance the char-acter of Tech by providing shade

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The commemorative tree planting program aims to increase the canopy coverage to over 55%.

Tree planting program aims to double canopy coverage

By Sijia CaiNews Editor

Students on the Beijing-Singapore summer study abroad program have been detained in government fa-cilities in Singapore after one student contracted u-likesymptoms and subsequently tested positive for H1N1 in-

uenza on June 19. After th is initial case, 3 more students were con rmed to have swine u and all of the students,as well as one graduate assistant, were quarantined. etotal number of detained Tech students is 24.

I was with a group of nine other people in Hong Kong when the news broke out about the rst case, saidKristina Kaylen, a third-year IE major. [ e quarantine]made sense because the Singapore government is trying to prevent the start of swine u in their country while inthe U.S. its already spreading everywhere.

e students are being held in three separate govern-ment chalet resorts. Preliminary speculations on how theTech students contracted swine u have focused on a Sin-gapore nightclub, where three students came in contact

with an infec ted bartender, and a recent trip to Taiwan.e group of study abroad students are supposed to

y to Beijing on June 28, but it is still uncertain whetherthe students will be released from quarantine before thatdate. According to Kaylen, all of the infected students arerecovering well and the rst student to contract swine uhas already been released from the hospital.

I hope we get out soon, even though the accommo-dations arent bad, Kaylen said. eres plenty of space,

were only a few feet away from the beach, but we ca ntleave the bungalows. Government workers act as guardsand bring us food and we have to wear masks whenever

we step out of our rooms.In addition to the cases abroad, a swine u case on

Techs Atlanta campus has been con rmed. e studentis currently recovering at home.

Study abroad studentsdetained with swine

flu in Singapore

and seasonal color, said AnneBoykin-Smith, master plannerin Capital Space and Manage-ment.

Tech has nearly 6,000 treeson campus, and Landscape Ser-vices has been very proactive in

monitoring trees for old age anddisease, Boykin-Smith said.

Currently, individuals who wish to participate in the com-memorative tree planting pro-gram cannot select an existing tree on campus but instead fund

the planting of a new tree and theinstallation of a nearby bench

with a personal plaque. e treecan be planted to commemoratea special event or in honor of liv-ing or deceased alumni, family members, or friends connected

with Tech.ere is a xed number of treetypes from which to select, in-

cluding the ginkgo, tulip poplar,redbud and Japanese maple. All of these species are suited to Atlan-tas climate and are slow-growing trees that will remain for hun-dreds of years.

Donors will be expected toprovide a one-time gif t of $10,000to fund the planting of a com-memorative tree and bench, as

well as their future maintenance.In the future, donors will also beable to select a location from a Proposed Campus Commemora-tive Tree and Bench Plan.

Well work with donors tond the perfect location where

they would like their tree andalso where we need to plant trees,for shade or decoration. Ourlandscape master plan providesguidelines for this, said Kara An-sotegui, Associate Director of De-velopment Stewardship.

In addition to the long-livedtree types available in the com-memorative planting program, or-namental trees will also be plant-ed that grow faster and provide a more immediate canopy.

e plan is an opportunity torecognize individuals while ben-e ting shade and landscaping oncampus, Ansotegui said.

Students invent new bus tracker By Vijai Narayanan

Senior Sta Writer

Students frustrated with un-predicable campus bus routes canlook forward to a new bus tracking system that provides more advancedprediction capabilities.

A group of ECE students includ-ing Matthew Brooks, ChristopherChidi, Josh Mauldin and DanielNadeau have created a new devicethat has the potential to solve ex-isting problems with the campusbus prediction system. Known as

WaitLess, their device enhances pre-diction accuracy by continuously providing potential riders with infor-mation about bus locations insteadof predicted arrival times.

Currently, the Institute usesa third-party system provided by NextBus, which gives riders esti-mated arrival times to a bus stop.

Although this system is usually reli-able and fairly accurate, there are fre-quent instances in which faulty pre-dictions prove frustrating to riders.

NextBus is inaccurate and im-precise, especially during heavy traf-

c times and when it rains. Some-times, the site doesnt even o er a prediction, said Meenasha Reyes, a third-year DMTH major.

NextBus also poses the additional

problem of only being accessiblethrough a PC or internet-capablephone. Over the past year three busstops saw the installation of text-based LED prediction displays,

which can be quite expensive.NextBus is pretty good, but I

would sti ll like to see more of those

displays at di erent stops, said JasonKraft, a second-year CE major.

e main di erence between WaitLess and NextBus is that theformer provides mounted LEDs ona map of the Institute that showsthe progression of buses through-out their routes, allowing the user tomake a decision based on the loca-tion and relative speed of a bus. is

way, the prediction system elimi-nates the need for assumptions aboutspeed and tra c.

e device is solar powered anduses WiFi to gather data from the

buses. is means that it can be usedas a stand-alone device and doesntrequire wires or communicationlines. According to Brooks, it alsodrastically reduces maintenancecosts over the life of the device.

e group members created Wait-Less for one of their senior design

courses, which included a modestbudget. Keeping the device low costand low power was a priority fromthe start, Mauldin said. e pro-

jected cost is about $400.Mauldin and Brooks described

the most challenging aspect of theproject to be programming the logicfor the device; in other words, get-ting the data from the WiFi to themicroprocessor and parsing the data.

Looking towards the future, thegroup hopes to get the device onto allTech stops and expand further. ey made a presentation to Parking and

Transportation and proposed install-ing WaitLess systems at a few stopsthis summer as a trial. e studentshave been approached from outsidesources to implement their design.

e group hopes to get the rightsto the device from the Institute andimplement it across the country.

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The creators of WaitLess stand in front of their bus tracking invention.

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June 26, 2009

A good traveler has no xed plans, and isnot intent on arriving. Lao Tzu

Opinions Editor: Kaitlin Goodrich

OUR VIEWS C ONSENSUS O PINION

Stop crime around campusFurther actions must be taken to keep students safe With all the crimes that have been hap-pening o and on campus lately, Tech stu-dents are rightfully demanding that thepolice make e orts to make the area safer.Tech students have the right to feel safein their homes and while traveling aroundcampus. Since the GTPD has rights topatrol 500 yards outside Tech property,they should take this to heart and amp upprotection in the areas that they know areheavily populated by students.

While both Atlanta police and GTPDsay that they are going to institute road-blocks and safety checks, this may not beenough. Roadblocks will not stop crime,only divert it into di erent areas, and itis di cult to make a roadblock e ectively distinguish between criminals and othercitizens. Most likely, the roadblock willcatch more drunk students than crimi-nals, and while that is a good thing, thegreater problem at hand is the safety of our students.

While we do not want GTPD to di-

vert necessary resources from preventing on-campus crime, students living o -campus deserve to feel like their safety isimportant too. Along with police e orts,Tech should try less traditional measures.

While it is good to remind students thecommon knowledge not to walk alone atnight, there are other more e ective waysto protect them.

Since a large population of students livein communities of campus, such as HomePark and Centennial Place, Tech shouldhave programs that encourage interactionbetween those students, such as carpools,or even just required programs to makestudents who live o -campus meet andhear ways to protect themselves. Stinger-ette or GTPD shuttle could extend fur-ther outside of Techs borders at night.

If we do not crack down on crime, po-tential students could be scared away. If Tech does not act decisively, these crimes

will be a blemish on Techs reputationthat will hurt us for years to come.

EDITORIAL CARTOON B Y C RAIG TABITA

YOUR VIEWS LETTERS TO THE E DITOR

Home Park students

feel neglect of GTPD Write to us:

letters@nique.net We welcome your letters in

response to Technique content as well as topics relevant to campus. We wil l pri nt letters on a t imely and space-available basis.

Letters should not exceed 400 words and should be submitted by Tuesday at 7 p.m. in order to beprinted in the following Fridaysissue. Include your full name, year(1st, 2nd, etc.) and major. We re-serve the right to edit for style andlength. Only one submission per

person will be printed per term.

e Consensus Opinion re ects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the Technique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors.

Technique Editorial BoardEmily Chambers, Editor-in-Chief

Jennifer Aldoretta,Entertainment Editor Sijia Cai,News Editor Steven Cappetta,Sports Editor Kaitlin Goodrich, Opinions Editor Kelvin Kuo,Photography Editor

Hahnming Lee, Advertising Manager Siwan Liu,Layout Editor Reem Mansoura, Focus Editor Jonathan Saethang, Managing Editor Craig Tabita, Editor Emeritus

I would like to bring to the at-tention of the faculty and studentsthe fact that we students who liveo campus in Home Park do notfeel safe.

As of June 23, six incidentshave occurred within a block of our house in the past month, in-cluding one that hit quite close tohome when one of my roommatesand a friend had a gun pulledon them. Why werent patrolsstepped up after the rst incident?

Why werent cameras installedafter the second? How could thisschool allow its students to bein such danger within a stonesthrow of campus? GT needs torecognize that this area is almostentirely student houses and they have a responsibility to keep ussafe. Its happened six times andthey are still refusing to step uppatrols.

According to CBS news,Georgia Tech is emailing an alertto students and putting up noticesaround campus, but they donthave any plans to step up patrolsaround campus. In other wordstheyre leaving us for dead. My professors give me plenty to worry about as it is. I wish I didnt haveto worry about being shot while

walking home from the library atnight. Apparently the GT po-

lice have plenty of manpower to write tickets to people coasting down Hemphill and break up par-ties, while keeping us safe is obvi-ously a tertiar y priority. To protectand serve my ass.

GT either needs to allow us totake matters in to our own handsand arm ourselves, provide morea ordable and available on cam-pus housing, or simply work withthe Atlanta police to keep us safe.Currently neither are doing their

job. With both GT and the Atlanta

police supposedly covering ourarea, we should be one of the saf-est places downtown. Apparently both think it should be the othersresponsibility. e perpetratorsare clearly unafraid and aware of the situation in our area. Anotherstudent was robbed at gunpoint

just last night. How many inci-dents will it take before our schooldoes more than send an email?

Robert Rhinehartird-year EE

Home Park will defend itself if police wont I have been a student at Geor-

gia Tech for over 5 years. I havelived in Home Park for over 3 of those years as a student. Im sureyou are aware of the situation thathas been occurring lately in my neighborhood area. If not, I will

explain it. ere have been nu-merous armed robberies on top of petty theft incidents.

I myself have experienced over15 incidents. Every time I call theGeorgia Tech police because they are so close but they immediately

rout me to Atlanta 911 Emergency and it has taken over 5 hours forthem to respond. Yes, ve hours,I have waited over ve hours fora police o cer to get to my houseright after it was attempted to bebroken into. is has been the casefor many of my fellow studentsthat also live in the area. Finally after a while, Tech police startedto patrol the area. But honestly,their little e ort has not helped.

A month or so ago, I had twofriends forcefully pushed intotheir homes and held at gunpoint.

e assailants took everything from them and made away clean-

ly. Only 2 weeks ago, I woke up at4 am to a woman beating on my door. I didnt open the door un-til I knew she was o of my frontporch. I was fully armed with my

AR-15 and for once held them atgunpoint.

ey immediately ed my property and I called the police.Georgia Tech once again trans-ferred me to Atlanta 911 and they didnt show up for a solid 20 min-utes. My friends and I are sick andtired of this kind of stu happen-ing. ere are constant robberies,armed, unarmed, etc.

People are starting to purchaserearms for personal protection.

Many of us have handguns andkeep with us them while we watchTV. Many of us cant sleep with-out doing a full sweep of our yardto make sure no one is waiting onus. Even more of us have installedalarm systems in our homes.

To be quite honest, many of us have itchy trigger ngers andare ready for the next incidentto happen to us. We will defendourselves and call them once itis resolved. is may sound very overcon dent and inexperienced,but since nothing we have seenis being done about this issue, wehave no other choice.

is is can be a life or deathsituation, and I am not waiting an hour or so for some police of-

cer to casually roll up and write

down a quick police report. I hopemy message was clear and concise.If any of you are thinking aboutstealing from residents of HomePark, this is my advice. We areready and waiting. We all need to

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Here is a cool little thing tothink about. Even though I donot necessarily believe in thistheory, just the concept itself is quite interesting. What if free will does not exist?

What if the human mind,the brain itself is merely a mechanism for coping with

surroundings and not allowing actual choices to be made?e mind just analyzes the

interactions it is faced with ineveryday activity and comes toconclusions based on the bio-logical makeup it has.

In other words, what I amtrying to get across is that ourfree will doesnt make deci-sions for us.

e activities and situations we face everyday pre-deter-mine how we will act throughour individual mind itself.

ink of the brain as a computer program. Whateveris fed into it (what we view andexperience) will give a particu-lar outcome. Our own mind is

just a very complex computerprogram, a mechanism thatdetermines things based on

what is fed into it.inking in th is way proves

that decision-making or theindividual act to decide itself isnot possible.

e answer to the problems we face everyday are already pre-decided by the way ourunique brain works and whatthe environment has in storefor us. In this way, free will isnot possible.

One argument against sucha theory may say that an indi-vidual actually feels and con-templates the decisions thatthey make everyday.

e thinking and feelingsof going back and forth on a decision is not merely the indi-vidual itself, but the act of thebrain actually processing thatproblem.

at feeling of self-choos-ing or the idea to make any decision they choose is just a feeling. People may feel thatthey can choose their ownpaths, but actually live by theinstincts their mind processes.

e best analogy to thisdescription would be that of animals. In some cultures itis believed that animals do notexhibit free will.

Animals grow, nd food,and chase cars by instinct, thesame instinct that I am argu-ing about. Maybe their brainsarent quite as complex as hu-man brains, but they do pro-cess situations they are faced

with to come to conclusions.e same sort of mecha-

nism idea Im writing about.e major question to take

from this is Do animals feellike they are making deci-sions? I, myself, believe thatthey do hold these feeling eventhough their instincts dictate

what they are actually going to do.

is same idea holds truefor humans. We may feel like

we are making decisions onour own, but in essence, wehave no control over what weactually do.

Based on this idea that hasbeen set forth, the world andactions around us actually make us who we really are.

is topic may seem famil-iar, as it is touched on in bothpsychology and sociology. Itcomes down to learned traitsvs. inherited traits. Both areof great deal of importance inthis theory.

Even though the brain is a mechanism that processes thisinformation to make our deci-sions for us, it does not alwaysstay constant.

e mind grows with what

it experiences. is mind as a computer program that we dis-cussed earlier actually changesovertime.

e mind changes not be-cause of the individual him-self or herself, though, butfrom what it has experiencedor learned from events them-

selves. e brain mechanismitself determines how it willlearn from these experiences.

If this holds correct, thenpeople arent born to do spe-ci c things. e environmentor surroundings themselves ac-tually dictate who a person is.People are melded into what-ever they are or will becomebased on their experiences.

As a result of this state-ment, it should logically follow that it is possible to sort of con-trol another persons actions toan extent.

e only problem withthat, though, is no one actu-ally knows how the individualbrain functions and reacts tomeld someone how they might

want.Nobody knows the exter-

nal factors they must face andcope with to make them into a certain individual. e brains

workings are so complex that it would be nearly impossible tocontrol all the workings of it.

People are not born to go onto do speci c or special things.

Actions around them and how they interact with their brain

will dictate who they ac tually are.

Free will may only exist in your mindWe may feel like we are

making decisions on our own,but, in essence, we have no

control...

Steven CappettaSports Editor

Jason WangME Grad

Make their presence known.

Caity Jimenez ird-year ARC

Not ticket cars so you can park close to where you want to be.

Jason Slezak Fifth-year CE

More active patrols, higher visual presence on campus.

Brittany ChurchillSecond-year AE

More patrol cars out.

What should GTPD do tocut down on crime?

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While I very much enjoy my job as the EntertainmentEditor, being an editor at e Technique is an extremely thankless job.

I love walking into a restau-rant for lunch in Tech Squareon a Friday afternoon and see-ing a person or two reading thepaper. ey are not reading itbecause they are in class and

would rather read slivers thanpay attention; they are usually reading it because they wantto. ats really all the thanksI need for doing my jobthatand a little bit of respect.

As a journalisteven a student journalistI expect

just as much from the work Ido here as the student body.

You, the reader, expect us ate Technique to provide true,

unbiased information. It is our job as a publication.

It is understandable whena student becomes upset whenthe information we provide inan article (or photo caption) isincorrect. But when a studentsubmits a letter to the editorthat insults the intelligence of our editors and calls our abili-ties as writers inept and ig-norant, it is rather upsetting and quite frankly, insulting.

When I rst read this letter

to the editor a few weeks ago when a student was upset aboutus reporting a photo incor-rectly, I was extremely angry.However, after thinking aboutthis for two weeks before it wastime for me to write my edito-rial, I realized that this letter

seemed to re ect poorly on thesubmitter of the letter more sothan it did on e Technique .

As an editor and writer,I can say that e Technique

would never attack an athleteor a member of any other orga-nization in th is way. We wouldnever allow a comment abouta person being incompetent tobe published in our paper.

Georgia Tech is home tomany amazing athletes, teamsand organizations. If a teamloses a game, we will not writethat the team should obviously not be playing their sport. We

will not degrade a team for onefailure. Everyone makes mis-takes. We do not expect abso-lute perfection from our sportsteams.

All I ask is that you do thesame for the Technique. We,like you, are just students who

spend hours upon hours every week to create something thatstudents will hopefully enjoy.

We spend a great deal of timelooking over articles. A numberof di erent people read overthe paper and look throughthe pictures and tweak the

headlines. You might even say that we have many practicesbefore playing a game (whenan issue publishes). But like ev-eryone else, we make mistakes.

Baseball players do not al- ways hit home runs. Swimmersdo not always win their race

when they are swimming theirbest stroke. Football players donot score touchdowns on every drive. I do not expect them todo so. Likewise, e Technique does not always get every pieceof information correctly. Weare not perfect.

Quite honestly, after star-ing at a computer screen forten hours to get the Entertain-ment section put together, my mind becomes pretty tired. Imsure after swimming three rac-es or running all of the basesor running from end zone toend zone, your body also gets

pretty tired. Your performancemight even weaken slightly.is is to be expected. We do not get our pictures

in the paper every week and wedo not get stories written aboutour organization and events. Sonot only is our job very thank-

less, but we are often insultedfor our opinions and errors. Itis especially upsetting because

we would never do that to an-other student or organization.

It is not my intention to in-sult or anger anyone. I am nottrying to start anything. Allthat I am trying to do is makepeople realize that we are alsopeople.

We are also students. Wealso have weeks when wehave three tests within a spanof three days. Many of us arealso involved in other campusorganizations. Some of us, likemyself, even have a second job.

All I ask is for a little un-derstanding, and maybe even a little respect.

While we do receive many kind and concerned letters tothe editor, those few that areoutright rude and debasing re-ally get to me. We are all Techstudents. We all have that incommon. I hope that morepeople realize that we all havea great deal of things going onin our lives. It just seems a littleunfair to respect such a highlevel of perfection from a col-lege newspaper.

e Technique sta is madeup of INTA majors, Chem-istry majors, Computer Sci-

ence majors and Engineering majors (like myself). Most of us will not go on to work forother publications. Withoutthe people that make up theTechnique, your organizationor event would not make it intothe paper at all.

We are not perfect, even at e Technique We do not expect perfectionfrom our sports teams. All I

ask is that you do the same forThe Technique .

Jennifer AldorettaEntertainment Editor

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groups such as the GT Black Alumni Organization (GTBAO)to get to know those who are in-strumentally involved with otherareas of the Tech community thatare not necessarily on campus.

Petersons recently acquiredsphere of communication extends

well past the perimeter of campusright into the heart of Atlanta.

On the morning of the inter-

view, Peterson was just leaving the o ce of the mayor of Atlanta,Shirley Franklin, where he dis-cussed Techs impact on the city both on the small and the largescale.

Over the past few weeks,Franklin has not been the only government o cial to meet withPeterson.

I have been meeting with a lot of regents as well as legislature

within their home district, Peter-son said.

We have been discussing theimpact of Tech on their area,as well as making a note of how many students at Tech come fromtheir respective districts, Peter-son said.

Kathy Ashe and Nan Orrock,the respective representative andsenator of Techs current district,have also met with Peterson overthe summer.

Peterson has been working oninter-campus unity with the othercolleges and universities withinthe Atlanta area.

Peterson has conversed withboth Mark Becker, president of Georgia State, and Jim Wagner,president of Emory University, tocollaborate on various activitiesbetween the other campuses.

We have been going on a statetour over the past month, speak-ing with a number of people, Pe-terson said.

A few of the stops these pastfew weeks have included Cart-ersville, to visit the CartersvilleBooth Museum as well as Dal-

ton, in order to speak at the Tech Alumni Club.

Petersons numerous engage-ments this summer are carefully planned.

During the interview he re-trieved a copy of his schedule fromthe past few weeks, which showedthat the Presidents days are usu-ally full from sunrise to sunset.

A day that I ge t home by 8:00p.m. is considered a good day, Pe-terson said.

He mentioned that his wifeVal frequently accompanies himto the occasions that he attends inthe evening.

I have not engaged in hobbiesyet, Peterson said, when askedabout how he likes to spend histime.

ere is so much to learn here,and there are so many people toget to know, right now [Val and I]are focusing on Tech rst...and weare trying to meet as many peopleas we can, Peterson said.

Peterson shared about his andVals Memorial Day one-day get-away in Savannah in honor of their wedding anniversary, sincethey had to attend three events onthe actual day.

So what would be good advicefor Tech students to adhere to thissummer?

I strongly encourage the Techstudents to explore new opportu-nities, not just during the summerbut throughout the year, Peter-son said.

Peterson also commented onthe myriad of opportunities thatare available to students. Accord-ing to Peterson, involvement op-portunities on campus are numer-ous and a great place to exploreoutside of class.

College students have the op-portunity to meet so many people

with di erent backgrounds andexperiences, and Tech has over

300 clubs that one can join. Col-lege is the time to take advantageof these opportunities, Petersonsaid.

Peterson from page 7Far East Fusion (Asian cuisine),Ms. Ruthies Deli, Burger King,Chick- l-A, Rositas Cantina (Mexican cuisine), Essential Eats,a salad bar and e Cart (a variety of food items). e Student Centeralso houses four other restaurantson the rst oor; Einstein Bros.Bagels, Pandinis, Jackets, andPizza Hut. Currently Einsteins isthe only restaurant in the Student

Center that focuses on breakfastfoods and serves breakfast all day.Chick- l-A and Essential Eats arethe only two breakfast options inthe food court.

e Students Centers co eeand smoothie bar, Chilly Beans,

will be replaced by the incoming Dunkin Donuts. e location isseparate from the other restau-rants in the Student Center foodcourt; this allows for the possibil-

Doughnuts from page 7 ity of Dunkin Donuts staying open later than other restaurants.Dunkin Donuts menu will bemostly the same as any DunkinDonuts found o campus and

will still o er its wide variety of doughnuts and breakfast sand-

wiches. e operation is slated toopen sometime in the early falland Student Center employeesare already participating in therequired three week training inanticipation of its arrival.

At a school where co ee is al-most a necessity, the addition of

Dunkin Donuts co ee will seek to round out the co ee marketpresent at Tech. GT Dining al-ready o ers co ee from severaldi erent locations including Se-attles Best, Starbucks, Jazzmansand Einsteins. e addition of Dunkin Donuts allows the cof-fee consumer to be able to select a brew based on price or by prefer-

Photo by Dean Liao / Student Publications

The Student Centers co ee and smoothie bar, Chilly Beans, will soon be the home of Dunkin Do-nuts. This doughnut stand will o er students more options for breakfast foods throughout the day.

ence.I like Dunkin Donuts be-

cause its cheaper than Starbucksso I probably will go there forco ee and mu ns, said Ashley Henry third-year BIO.

GT Dining also hopes that theincoming restaurant will makethe atmosphere in the food courtseating area brighter and more vi-brant.

e addition might also addlife to the food court in the morn-

ing. Currently, the morning at-mosphere in the food court isquiet and many of the studentscongregate in the Student Centercommons.

Im looking forward to moreoptions and variety. Its quicker,and provides a new atmosphere,said Arpan Patel, fourth-year

ARCH when questioned aboutthe arrival of the Dunkin Donutsrestaurant to the Student Center.

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June 26, 2009

By Philip PooleSta Writer

One of the least explana-tory ways to describe anything isYoull either love it or youll hateit. e online judgments afterConans rst Tonight Show per-formance were de nitely polar-ized, even understanding that theadjective polarizing is typically redundant in reference to internetarguing.

eres no doubt in my mindthat this has to do with the attach-ment people feel to the person-alities that have been a religiouspart of their evenings for years ata time. Amateur students of in-terpersonal dynamics know thatlaughter helps breed familiarity.Combine that with a long-termrelationship, and powerful bonds

will be formed. So it makes sensethat many of us hate to see Lenogo. After all, hes been captaining us across late night seas for seven-teen years now.

Not much can be done tosmooth the transition for Lenos

biggest fans, but NBC has doneits best to prime Conans coreaudience for the changeover withthe three month hiatus.

When it was announced in2004 that Conan OBrien wasmoving to take over e TonightShow, ve years seemed like a

long wait for those of us wanting to see our favorite late-night hostget his dues paid. Conans irrev-erent, self-deprecating humor has

always taken more chances thansimilar broadcasts, edging towardnon-sequitur, so-called randomhumor and improvisation long before those became current co-medic trends.

While the writer-turned-hostsurrounds himself with compe-tent writers, the comics methodof delivery makes all the di er-ence in the world. e characterof Conan OBrien is central to theshow, whether hes performing a bit or not.

Many think Conan wont beable to pick up Lenos older audi-ences with his idiosyncratic per-sonalities, but overall it doesntseem like a large problem (itsConans 18-34 audience that hasother late-night viewing options,not older folks).

All Conan really needs to dois keep Leno-inclined folks fromturning o the TV after the news,a low hurdle thats twice as doableconsidering e Tonight Showis traditionally background noisefor many households in the rstplace; so Conans ahead of thegame even before you factor in histalent.

ese things in mind, he seemsto be holding steady through his

rst few shows. Conans rst veshows were booked with home-run personalities like Will Ferrelland Tom Hanks in addition tosome surprisingly generous musi-

cal performers.But Late Night with ConanOBrien proved, the mans bestmoments have little to do withplanned acts. Heres looking for-

ward to plenty of those momentsin a hopefully successful futurefor Mr. OBrien at 11:30 p.m.

TELEVISION

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Vocals dance onVeckatimest

Morrows sci- Apprenticeenthralls

By Alexandria StephensonContributing Writer

e Philosophers Apprentice , James Morrows most recent book,is what can only be described asthinking mans pulp ction. As an

ABD (all but d issertation) Ph.D.candidate at a ctitious Bostonuniversity, Mason Ambrose hasdreams of a dissertation that willknock the socks o of the com-mittee who decides his educa-tional fate. After his defense of his

work goes awry, he is approachedby an emissary of the brilliant ge-

neticist Edwina Sabacthani. Ambrose is intrigued by thestory of Sabacthanis daughter,a girl who has hit her head andlost all ability to distinguish rightfrom wrong, and so takes the jobo er that was so generously ex-tended to him.

Arriving on the island thathouses the Sabacthani women,

Ambrose is both delighted anduneasy to nd that Sabacthanisdaughter, Londa, has a mindthat is quite literally a tabula rasa (blank slate), and so goes aboutmolding some sort of moral berfor the girl.

It is only when hiking that hends two other Sabacthani chil-

dren with Londas same problem who are completely unaware of their sisters existence. Who arethese girls? Why do none of themhave any memory of their life?

And why do none of them haveany idea of each others existence?

Morrows book is representedin three distinct parts, in whichthree distinct moral dilemmas areposed to the reader via both Am-brose and Londa at three di erentimportant stages of Londas life.

But dont just assume that Mor-rows book is merely a thoughtexperiment in a vacuum. Mor-row gives the reader context forthe di cult decisions in the formof Ambroses inner monologue,

which is heavily interspersed withreferences to ethicists from Platoto Aristotle, from Kant to Christ.

ese references can bog down anamateur in the eld of ethics, butthats not the only quicksand of-fered.

His use of prose is alternately

choppy, over lled with verbiagethat has this reviewer scrambling for her dictionary. It is carefully constructed with a sort of atten-tion to detail that is severely lack-ing from modern day ction bestsellers.

To be honest, his word choicesin general were a bit tedious. Onaverage I found it necessary tolook up a word every two or threepages in this book, which can bea turn o .

On top of issues with syntax,the story arc in general is a bit pre-posterous. is books clear sci-ence ction style is obvious oncethe reader has nished the rsthundred or so pages, however, if the genre of the book were clearbeforehand, the strange direc-tion in which Morrow took partstwo and three wouldnt be such a shock.

In all fairness, the books non-redeeming qualities are most obvi-ous when one is reading it with a critical eye, but if youre looking for a quasi-believable sci- novelthat you can take to the beach

and read relatively quickly, try e Philosophers Apprentice . echaracters are well-rounded, theintrigue is nifty, and personally Ithink that any novel with a talk-ing feathered iguana, a sentienttree and the second coming of theTitanic cant go wrong.

BOOKS

The Philosophers Apprentice

GENRE: Science Fiction

AUTHOR: James Morrow

PUBLISHER: William Morrow

PAGES: 432

PUBLISH DATE: March 2008

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By Robby Cassidy Contributing Writer

Veckatimest is being hailed asthe best album of the year. eresa good chance if youve already seen a review of the album thatline has been carelessly thrownaround. Critics, bloggers and evenTrent Reznor have been heaping praise on Veckatimest . e hypemachine has been roaring along in 2009, the apparent year of theGrizzly Bear. e problem is thatif anything will ruin a good thing,its hype.

e most common critique Iveheard of the album is that its bor-ing. While I disagree with thatassessment, I understand. is isnot an album that you can jumpstraight into. And with all thehype surrounding it, I can under-stand the disappointment. Grizzly Bear is not a band that specializesin instant grati cation. ese fourare going to make you work for it.

Veckatimest as a whole is nota huge departure from their pre-vious e ort, Yellow House . e

whole a air is still largely in-

MUSIC

Grizzly BearVeckatimest

LABEL:Warp Records

GENRE:Psych-folk

TRACK PICKS:Two Weeks,Cheerleader & All We Ask

RELEASED:May 26, 2009

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strong for e Tonight ShowCatch OBrienin his newest role on week-nights at 11:30p.m.

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house, with multi-instrumentalistChris Taylor handling multiple

instruments and production du-ties. e lyrics are as vague as ever,and every member of the groupstill contributes vocals. ere area few new tricks, though. e in-strumentation is richer, thanks inpart to contributions from mod-ern composer Nico Muhly, the

ACME String Quartet and theBrooklyn Youth Choir. SouthernPoint kicks o Veckatimest with a couple of acoustic guitars, slowly building into an explosion of beautiful textures. Daniel Rossenhandles the vocal duties on thisand gives it his all. e explosionskeep coming, each time with ad-ditional instrumentation until thelast arrives with cymbals beauti-fully shimmering above it all untildying back down to the guitars.

Now the problem with Veck-atimest : these guys can write a pop song. After listening to thenext track, Two Weeks, its easy to call it a day. is is the song re-sponsible for the hype. is song sets the bar impossibly high, leav-ing the rest of the album in itsdust. Led by a simple keyboard ri and held together by Bears drum-ming, the vocals are the stars. EdDroste contributes fantastic leadvocals with the rest of the bandand Victoria Legrand giving a new de nition to backing vocals.

ere are not enough words in theEnglish language to adequately convey how gorgeous they truly

are. Its understandable to park here and loop the song endlessly,but I beseech you to press on.

All We Ask slows down the

pace a bit with a superb sing-along at the tail end. More vocal acro-batics are featured on Fine forNow, and the electric guitar rearsit head as a precursor of whats tocome. Cheerleader is anothertrack in the vein of Two Weeks,

with Grizzly Bear acting morelike a rock band than a chambergroup. While not as catchy asTwo Weeks, it features great vo-cal interplay between Droste andRossen and introduces the Brook-lyn Youth Choir.

After CheerleaderVeckatim-est becomes softer, sadder andslower, providing the perfect op-portunity for the bored to jumpship. Dory and Ready, Ablepass pleasantly enough, but itsnot until About Face that theaction picks up for a second.

Is Veckatimest the best albumof 2009? Probably not, and any-one willing to make that claimneeds to take a step back and real-ize there are six months left in an

already solid year for music. Is it a gorgeous album worth at the very least a listen? I would not hesitateto say yes.

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Former Tech golfer DavidDuval nished second at theU.S. Open held at Black Courseof Bethpage State Park in Long Island on June 18-22, 2009. It

was his highest nish in a ma- jor championship since 2001.In that year, he won the OpenChampionship, nished sec-ond at the Masters and tiedfor No. 10 at the PGA Cham-pionship.

Duval started the nal day of play tied for third and vestrokes back but was able toshoot a low 71 to move up tosecond place. While Duvaltriple-bogeyed at the thirdhole on the last day, he hadbirdies at holes 14-16 to n-ish with a nal score of 278.He was two strokes back at2-under-par. e score tiedhim with Phil Mickelson and

Ricky Barnes.Duval quali ed to theU.S. Open through BrooksideGolf and Country Club and

e Lakes Golf and Country Club tournament in Colum-bus, Ohio, shooting a 66 and69 in the 36-hole quali er

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Photo Illustration by Joey Cerone /Student Publications

Eight Tech athletes vie in NCAA tourny

By Steven CappettaSports Editor

e 2009 NCAA OutdoorChampionships took place from

June 10-13 and witnessed eightTech athletes from mens and

womens track and eld compete. Among the Jackets that com-peted, senior Jerome Miller and

juniors Steve Marcelle and Al-phonso Jordan were ranked in thetop-10 nationally in their respec-tive events.

On the rst day of the champi-onship, both Marcelle and Millerearned a spot in the nals for theirrespective events. With only two

jumps, Miller advanced to thenal for the second time in his

career with a high-jump clearanceof 610.75. Marcel le advancedon his third and nal shot putthrow with a distance of 615.75,making it to his rst-ever outdoor

nals.Senior Andy Powlen also

placed 15th in shot put on the

day. He came up just short forthe nals as his mark of 599.25, which was two inches short of the nal quali ers distance. isresult was the second best of hiscareer and his last in a Jacket uni-form.

In the nals Marcelle hit a

By Nishant PrasadhSenior Sta Writer

With the regular season ap-proaching, Tech football addeda high-pro le name to its non-conference schedule for the 2010and 2011 seasons, when the teamstruck an agreement on June 10

with the Big 12 ConferencesKansas Jayhawks for a home-and-home series. Both games areexpected to take place in early tomid-September.

ese games mark the rsttime the teams have met since the1946 Orange Bowl, when Tech

staged a late goal-line stand toearn a 20-14 victory. e Jack-ets will travel to Lawrence, KSin 2010, while the Jayhawks will

make the trip to Atlanta in 2011.Kansas has long been a bas-

ketball powerhouse, but untilrecently its football program hadseen little success on a nationalscale despite playing in the strong Big 12 Conference. However, the2007 season marked a major turn-around for the program as Kansas

went 12-1, earned a share of theBig 12 regular-season title, anddefeated Virginia Tech in the Or-ange Bowl.

e Jayhawks were not quiteas successful in 2008 as they went8-5 with a 4-4 mark in conferenceplay, but they did close out the

season with a victory over Min-nesota in the Insight Bowl andare expected to continue their suc-cess in 2009. Kansas is coached

by Mark Mangino, who has been with the team since 2002; theirtop players include quarterback Todd Reesing, wide receiver Dez-mon Briscoe, and safety DarrellStuckey.

e addition of the Jayhawksout of the Big 12 adds variety to Techs future non-conferenceschedule. e Jackets have fourgames outside of ACC play eachseason, and the majority of theirbig-name opponents in the nearand distant future are SEC teams;in fact, before reaching the cur-rent agreement with Kansas, Techhad a contract with Ole Miss for

a home-and-home series in 2010and 2011 until the Rebels backedout of it. Before last season, the

Jackets agreed to a home-and-

home series against defending SEC West champion Alabama in2013 and 2014; a two-game setagainst historical rival Auburn ison tap for 2017 and 2018, and the

Jackets will take on South Caro-lina in 2021 and 2022.

For the upcoming 2009 sea-son, Tech will take on three SECsquads: Mississippi State (away)on October 3, Vanderbilt (away)on October 31, and Georgia (home) on November 28.

e Jackets defeated Mississip-pi State 38-7 at home last seasonafter then-freshman quarterback

Jaybo Shaw played well in relief

of sophomore Josh Nesbitt, lead-ing the team to 500 total yards;against Georgia, the Jackets ral-lied from a 16-point halftime

Tech Alumni compete at the 109th U.S. Open at Bethpage

distance of 611.50, and placedsixth to became Techs rst-evershot put All-American. He alsocompeted in the discus prelimsearlier in the day and placed13th, just missing the spot forthe nals. On Friday, Millerplaced fourth in high jump andalso earned All-American hon-ors. Miller has earned the high-est place ever by a Tech male inhigh jump.

Jordan, who competed in histhird-straight NCAA OutdoorTrack & Field Championships,placed 11th in the triple jumpon the nal day of competition.Even though he missed All-

America honors by just one spot,he does post his best-ever nishin the championships.

In Indoor Track & Field,nine Jackets have been namedto 2009 All-ACC AcademicTeams. e ve men includesophomore Hunter Clasen, se-nior E.C. Gibbs, junior TimGuglielmo, and junior Billy

Mateker. e four women in-clude senior Alana Clooten, ju-nior Ti any Grant, sophomoreErica Penk, and sophomore Jo-anna Wright. ey were all rec-ognized with this honor becauseof their impressive seasons bothin and out of the classroom

de cit by rolling up 26 points inthe third quarter and pulled out a 45-42 win in Athens.

Outside of SEC teams, mostof Techs future non-conferenceopponents will be teams fromaround the Southeast. In 2010, the

Jackets will begin a three-game setagainst Middle Tennessee Stateand will also face a FCS school inSouth Carolina State, along withthe game at Kansas and the an-nual battle against Georgia. Techhas scheduled two future home-and-home series against Confer-ence USAs Tulane in 2014-15 and2018-19. e notable exception

to the general trend of Southeastopponents is Syracuse, a Big Eastsquad whom the Jackets will facein 2015-16.

Top competition on the horizonKansas added to schedule for the 2010 and 2011 seasons.

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David Duval putts the ball as a All-American during the 91 - 92 season.

e score was 9-under-par. He was one of the 17 players withscores low enough to be invited tothe U.S. Open.

is was his second Majorstournament in the last 10 Majortournaments and his sixth Majormoney nish since 2002.

Stewart Cink nished tied forNo. 27 at the U.S. open. He shot a 286 and nished 6-over-par, tied

with ve other golfers including former No. 1 golfer Vijay Singh.He was auto-quali ed to thisyears U.S. Open after nishing inthe top-15 of the eld at last years

U.S. Open.Cameron Tringale, a 2009

graduate, and Matt Kuchar,a 2000 graduate, also quali-

ed to the U.S. Open. Neithermade it past the halfway cutat the tournament, which wasset at 4-over-par after a delayedDay 2.

Kuchar shot a 71 to nishthe rst round seven strokesbehind the leader. He shot a 77in the second round. Tringaleshot a 70 in the rst round, butshot a 77 in the second round.

Tringale nished tied forthird place at the United StatesOpen Golf Championship ata sectional quali er in Ball

Ground, Ga. He shot a 66 anda 68 through the 36 holes, goodenough to nish 10-under-par.

Kuchar nished tied for rstat his quali er at Hawks RidgeGolf Club in Ball Ground, Ga.He shot a 66 and a 68 to nish10-under-par