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HOMECOMING
The Obstacle Course was created with the vision of the jungle
theme in mind and will replace
last years relay race.
We really wanted to bring the
jungle to Tech students, Watters
said. As they army-crawl through
the IC Lawn, TrECHing toward
an inflatable course, I hope they
are able to experience what we envisioned in February.
Every year, I think there is
excitement around events such
as Scavenger Hunt which is a
little tricky, so get ready! and
the Homecoming Concert, Watters continued. Im personally excited for all of Thursdays events,
the Homecoming Carnival and
Homecoming Concert.
Both are events where we all
get to feel a part of this tradition,
as even students who arent affiliated with teams get to meet people they may not have otherwise
met as they play games and vote
for their favorite booths or, after a
late lab, experience a convenient,
free and dope concert amongst
friends and peers.
One of the main issues that
was brought up among SCPCs
Homecoming Committee last
year was the idea of inclusivity
on campus and how Homecom-
Participants anxiously line up, waiting for the famous Mini 500 tricycle race to begin.
The Mini 500 race is a long-standing Tech tradition that has been around since 1969.
HOMECOMING
SCPC
POLLY OUELLETTE
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
While normally West Campuss Couch Park is not occupied
by more than a handful of students either studying or getting
some fresh air, the deserted landscape will soon be full of shouting,
whooping and singing individuals
and one Kid Ink.
This wildness, true to Homecomings TrECHing through the
Jungle theme, will accompany
the annual homecoming concert.
The concert is organized
through the combined efforts of
many individuals and groups,
but the Student Center Programs
Council (SCPC) does the most
legwork in pulling the event together. Last year, they brought
B.o.B. to campus for the free concert, and in 2014 they managed to
procure Hoodie Allen.
SCPC has several committees, and many of them work on
Homecoming events and the logistics that are required to pull
together each event during the
busy week. There is an entire committee dedicated to on-campus
concerts, which is currently led
by Jianna Caronan, second-year
Students get hyped at another years Homecoming Concert. Tech students may attend the
concert as well as bring one guest along for free, as long as they remember their buzzcards.
HOMECOMING
HOMECOMING
ERIKA CLASKY
Joseph mycock
Sahas Singh
Kyle Woumn
DAndre Waller
WEATHErlY LANGSETT
Shane Mudrinich
Amy Hart
ANDREW PERRY
Sarah dennis
Design by Brighton Kamen Student Publications
HOMECOMING
T eam
buzz celebrates
20 th anniversary
HANNA WARLICK
STAFF WRITER
On Oct. 22, TEAM Buzz celebrates its 20th year as an institute-wide community service day.
The day starts with check-in at
8:30 a.m. and breakfast provided
by Waffle House with Blue Don-
The Campanile is bustling in the morning with TEAM Buzz preparations. Volunteers representing organizations from all around campus come together participate projects around Atlanta.
HOMECOMING
INTRO
MUSIC
HOMECOMING
Welcome to the
Jungle
Window Display Contest
Friday, Oct. 21,
3pm
Powderpuff Cheerleading
Friday, Oct. 21,
10am-4pm
Iron Buzz
Sunday, Oct. 23,
9am-12pm
Mock Rock
Monday, Oct. 24,
7pm
Talent Show
Tuesday, Oct. 25,
7pm-9pm
Canstruction
Wednesday, Oct. 26,
2pm-5pm
Ugly Man on Campus
Oct. 24-Oct. 28
Homecoming Game
Saturday, Oct. 29
ENTERTAINMENT
OPINIONS
Opinions 5
Entertainment 9
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Sports 16
Top L: Photo courtesy of Offermans Woodshop; Top R: Photo by Jerod Ray Student Publications; Above: Photo courtesy of GT Communications
SPORTS
// NEWS
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NEWS EDITOR
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HyTech Racing
Taal Tadka Conference
Yellow Jacket Fencing Tournaments
Roller Hockey Club
Ballroom Dance Competition
SHPE National Conference
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bottles. The team plays at the intercollegiate level and at the local
level in a league in Alpharetta.
Representative Scott asked if
the team water bottles would stay
with the team, or if the players
MAURA CURRIE
LINDSEY PLOUSSARD
STAFF WRITER
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NEWS EDITOR
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HEED
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agenda around leadership development at Georgia Tech for faculty and for staff. The provosts
office, just this last year, launched
a new initiative to give faculty
and academic leaders an opportunity to learn leadership skills and
traits that would make them better prepared to become academic
leaders such as chairs, associate
chairs, deans, administrators, vice
provosts, those kinds of things.
The HEED award emphasizes a
number of areas in its application,
including the overall demographics of the school, retention rates by
demographics, job advancement
opportunities for faculty as well
as the overall academic strength
and culture of the school. Dr. Ervine explained that many factors
which are not necessarily listed in
the application may come out in
the final stages of selection, when
candidates for the award are compared against one another to select
the most qualified institutions.
One specific criteria that becomes important in the last
stages of selection is a universitys
continuing commitment to improving diversity. Dr. Ervine explained that, since the publication
is always seeking to highlight new
universities, applicants have to
continually compete against their
peers and prove that they are worthy of receiving the award.
Dr. Ervine explained one of
these aspects of continuing improvement, saying that [Institute
Diversity is] positioned to continue to push and develop a vision for
an inclusive and welcoming campus community.
He tied this into the departments work with other campus
organizations, saying, You cant
do this alone. If youre working
alone, youve got a problem.
The HEED award selection process is overseen by Potomac Publishing, Inc., the
publisher of the INSIGHT into
Diversity magazine.
// NEWS
Students use fitness equipment available to members at the Campus Recreation Center.
As a Healthy Campus 2020 Partner, Tech will stress on-campus wellness resources for students.
Opinions
OUR VIEWS | Consensus Opinion
The Consensus Opinion reflects the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of the
Technique, but not necessarily the opinions of individual editors.
Friday,
October 21, 2016
DrawnAndQuartered
Equal Opportunity for Religious Holidays
... whats so bad about telling a professor at the
beginning of the semester? It sounds to me that
that would help them plan better for the semester,
especially if they find lots of students will be gone one
day. The dates are pretty set; you dont have to wait
for someone to announce when they are.
lledrubnave
... The creation of the new policy was to address
the fact that there was not a current policy allowing
students to have excused absences for religious
holidays. The intent of this policy was to allow
and encourage students from all backgrounds to
celebrate and observe their traditions.
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// OPINIONS
ANNIE MULLINS
FIRST-YEAR MSE
No.
Is it impossible to divorce
the ideas of who we may
look like and who we
actually are?
BRENDA LIN
EDITOR EMERITUS
THIRD-YEAR CS
Im going to the
homecoming concert.
DAN DEMIKO
SECOND-YEAR EE
SHAN SUEN
SECOND-YEAR CMPE
NICK JOHNSON
MANAGING EDITOR
// OPINIONS
DAVID ALMAN
FOURTH-YEAR AE
ROUND TABLE
DAVID RAJI
OPINIONS EDITOR
Decrying the voting
process of the U.S. is a routine duty I fulfill at any given opportunity. My hope
is that, with enough bombardment of the same facts
and rhetoric against the
system, enough people will
develop awareness of how
unacceptable of a state it is
currently in.
At its heart, the winnertake-all and first-pastthe-post voting rules that
define and govern the conditions for election victory
are supremely unfitting for
any nation that chooses to
claim itself a democracy. To
be clear, by winner-takeall, I refer to the fact that
in the presidential election
especially, the candidate
who finds themself the
recipient of the most popular votes is awarded all
electoral votes for that state.
The effect of this practice
is that often nearly half of
// OPINIONS
WILL FINCH
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Voting it propels
the plot of shows like
The Bachelor, and it just
so happens to be how we
choose our government representatives.
However, it seems as
though voters choices for
the final rose are growing
increasingly more extreme
in their views and only
becoming more polarized.
Such is the voting system
that Tech students the
newest generation of voters
are participating in: not
agreeing upon a representative of collective ideals and
beliefs but rather a tool that
two warring factions use for
party advantage while perpetuating partisanship in
America.
One of the most common foundations for political campaigns is electing more of one party and
preventing the reelection of
the opposing party. In the
Entertainment
technique
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Kara Pendley
Monica Jamison
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Friday,
October 21, 2016
OUR TAKE:
AVANTI JOGLEKAR
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
One characteristic that Ron
Swanson, the beloved mustachioed character from NBCs
sitcom Parks and Recreation,
shares with the actor who portrays
him, Nick Offerman, is a sincere
love of woodworking. Good
Clean Fun: Misadventures in
Sawdust at the Offerman Woodshop is a 344-page love letter to
the art of woodworking and the
people who admire and engage
in the craft.
The book features how-to,
mirth, fashion tips, recipes, odes
to wood and assorted tomfoolery as advertised on the cover, all
while retaining the light-hearted
tone established by the lyrics to a
song, its good, its clean, its good
clean fun.
Im no wood scientist, writes
Offerman in a section titled On
Wood, but I thought I would
take a moment to talk about this
bewitching material itself. After
all, its the very reason were all
here on this page today.
This homage to the substance
itself ranges from poetic to scientific while maintaining the sort of
humor one brings to a topic they
know and love well.
Good Clean Fun also provides much insight into the woodworking that happens at the Offerman Woodshop, a shop that
Offerman runs in L.A. The Offerman Woodshop produces fine,
handcrafted furniture and other
fun items such as ukuleles and
moustache combs.
Nick Offerman wields a wooden ax outside his woodshop where he is always finding innovative ways to utilize trees. Offerman combines his love of woodwork and comedy in his new book, Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at the Offerman Woodshop.
TELEVISION
OUR TAKE:
JOSH TREBUCHON
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
// ENTERTAINMENT
The Accountant
GENRE: Action Thriller
STARRING: Ben Affleck and
Anna Kendrick
DIRECTOR: Gavin OConnor
RATING: R
RELEASE DATE: Oct. 7
OUR TAKE:
LAKSHMI RAJU
STAFF WRITER
A neuroatypical accountant
who disposes of those that clash
with his moral code is the idea
behind The Accountant. This
stars Ben Affleck (Gone Girl) as
Christian Wolff, the accountant,
and other notable actors Anna
Kendrick (Pitch Perfect) and
J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man).
The audience is first introduced to Wolff, diagnosed with
autism, via flashbacks of his childhood. The audience learns that
his mother wanted him to be in
a care home as a child, with other
neuroatypical children and the
caregivers who can help him
adapt. Wolffs father disagrees,
and this division leads to a
rather unexpected outcome for
Wolff. The relationship between
Wolff and his brother is an important touchstone that recurs
throughout the movie.
Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick, playing Christian Wolff and Dana,
shoot scenes in a conference room in Klaus on Techs campus.
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// ENTERTAINMENT
Gameshow
Two Door Cinema Club
LABEL: Parlophone
GENRE: Indie Rock
TRACK PICKS: Beacon,
What You Know and I Can
Talk
OUR TAKE:
EMMANUEL HALDOPOULOS
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Alex Tremble plays rhythm guitar in Portugal and Russia during Two Door Cinema Club tour. The
band recently released their new album, and it is sure to please new and old fans of their music.
FALLING
FROM PAGE 9
// COMICS
CLASSIC
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// SPORTS
Freshman running back Dedrick Mills breaks an arm tackle by a Georgia Southern defender. Mills
has not garnered media attention, but he has established himself as a critical offensive piece.
// SPORTS
CASEY MILES
Tech players celebrate with fans after a victory at Bobby Dodd. Neither party has held up its end
over the past few seasons, and both might be to blame for tough recruiting and financial issues.
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SPORTS EDITOR:
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ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR:
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Friday,
October 21, 2016
Third-year Arthi Nithi poses with her medal after a successful performance at USA Powerlifting
Raw Nationals. She will represent the U.S. in Minsk, Belarus, this coming summer at Worlds.
QUINTON STEPHENS
MENS BASKETBALL
CHRIS JOSEY
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Techs basketball team will
embark on a very different journey this season. Newly appointed
head coach Josh Pastner will seek
to make a name for himself and
his young team in the Atlantic
Coastal Conference arguably
the toughest basketball conference in Division I sports.
Leadership will fall upon
Quinton Stephens, a fourth-year
Atlanta native. He returns to the
roster as one of the most experienced players in the lineup and
the highest scorer returning from
the 201516 season.
Stephens recently sat down
with the Technique to discuss his
Senior Quinton Stephens stares down a defender (left) and jumps into action against Duke (right). The senior is the most prolific returning scorer from last season, and he will have to provide maturity and experience to a young team rebuilding under a new coach.