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    TechniqueThe Souths Liveliest College Newspaper

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    Friday, March 4, 2011 Volume 96, Issue 25 nique.net SharpFalcon

    HOPE

    legislationpassed

    By Mike DonohueSGA Editor

    In an attempt to counteract increased schol-arship payouts, the Georgia House o Represen-tatives voted to cut HOPE scholarship beneftsto over 236,000 Georgia college students cur-rently receiving unds. HB 326 would removeunding or textbooks and mandatory ees, andit would establish a two-tier system which willaward ull tuition scholarships to those students

    who enter college w ith a 3.7 GPA and a 1200SAT score and maintain a 3.3 GPA in college.

    Students with a 3.0 GPA in high school andcollege would receive 90 percent o tuition, ad-

    justed each year by the legislature according tolottery revenues.

    In a 152-22 bipartisan vote on Tuesday,March 1, Republicans and Democrats cappedo a week-long debate over the ate o the bill.Introduced on Tuesday, Feb. 22 by Gov. Na-than Deal, the bill originally required studentsto maintain a 3.5 GPA to receive ull tuitionthrough what would be called the Zell MillerScholarship. During discussion in the HouseRules Committee, the Representatives loweredthe GPA requirement required to keep the ZellMiller Scholarship to a 3.3 GPA.

    e bill will now go to the Senate, where it isexpected to pass and be signed into law by Dealsometime in the next month.

    is is a realistic and sensible approach

    to preserve HOPE or today and tomorrowsyoung Georgians, said House Speaker DavidRalston (R-Blueridge) in a press release. I ap-plaud Governor Deal or taking action andleading on one o the most important issues theGeneral Assembly will address this year becausedoing nothing was not an option.

    We want to do everything we can to keepGeorgias best and brightest in school with theull beneft package, while still creating incen-tives or students to work hard and go above andbeyond, said Deal in the same release.

    While many House Democrats supportedthe bill, several took issue with how Republi-cans did not allow amendments, including oneinserting a grandather clause, to be discussedon the oor.

    Closing o debate on such an importantmatter is never a wise idea, said Rep. CalvinSmyre (D-Columbus) in a press release. Be-

    Capital campaign increases revenue, boosts endowmentBy Emily Cardin

    Assistant News Editor

    e frst Campaign Georgia Tech At-lanta Roll Out Event in Atlanta was heldin collaboration with e Georgia TechFoundation Inc. on Wednesday, March 2at the Coca-Cola Company headquarters.

    e event was held to kick o the At-lanta leg o the Campaign Georgia TechRoll Out tour that Institute Presi-dent G.P. Bud Peterson and others are

    leading throughout various areas o thecountry to garner fnancial support romalumni. e Georgia Tech Foundationis a not-or-proft, tax-exempt 501 (c)(3)corporation that receives, administers andinvests private contributions made in sup-port o the academics at the Institute.

    Financial donations have suered

    greatly over the past ew years in responseto the fnancial crisis seen across the coun-try. As bond markets and other fnancialsaety nets began to collapse, universitiessuered rom an increasingly large lack odonations.

    We frst caught wind o the recessionin June 2008, said Barrett Carson, vicepresident o Development. It was themost precipitous drop in philanthropy wehave ever seen. e preceding May wasthe best month we had ever seen, and in

    June, we dropped to rock bottom.Fortunately, however, the impact on f-nancial gits received by Tech was almostnegligible. Despite the act that the tax

    write-os were very miniscu le, beneac-tors paid almost all o their pledged dona-tions. In order to maintain the same rateo response, Tech administration chose to

    change their approach in donor relations.We stopped pressuring alumni or

    multi-year pledges, Carson said. Ourocus instead became stewardship. Weorged closer relationships with our do-nors, and we continued to actively meet

    with donors and aculty to keep the lineso communication open.

    is is a radically dierent model com-pared to other universities, especially asstates such as Mich. discuss the possibil-ity o removing the income tax deductions

    rom donations to public universities. Inact, Tech is close to a complete and ullrecovery.

    We are extremely close to being backat the pre-recession levels we saw in 2008,said John Carter, president and chie op-

    See HOPE, page 5

    Historic Roosevelt House demolished

    Photo by Eric Mansfeld / Student Publications

    The Roosevelt House crumbles to the ground as planned explosions set o throughout the building. Students were

    allowed to watch the event from a distance. The collapse occurred across from NAA at 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, Feb. 27.

    By Aakash ArunContributing Writer

    e Roosevelt House, a ormer Atlan-ta housing project located on CentennialOlympic Park Drive, was imploded onSunday, Feb. 27, at approximately 7:30a.m. e implosion, which was super-vised by Atlanta Demolition, attracted

    a large number o viewers. e 17-storybuilding, which was part o the AtlantaHousing Authority (AHA), served as apublic housing acility or seniors anddisabled citizens.

    A large number o Tech students at-tended the main event while some EastCampus residents watched rom theirdorm rooms and apartments. Housing e-mailed residents a list o precautions andkey points about the implosion includingkeeping windows shut during this pe-riod. Housing also shut o the air han-dlers to the North Avenue buildings to

    prevent dust rom being spread throughthe hallways.It is truly amazing how the engineers

    can plan such a dangerous demolition sowell to ensure the saety o such a densely

    populated area, said Tianlin Chang, asecond-year CEE.

    Channing Henderson, director o As-set Preservation and Enhancement romIntegral Property Management, said thatsince the AHA owns the land, members

    will come up with a plan to partner withproject developers to build a new struc-ture on the site in uture. Along with the

    AHA, Integral Property Managementserved as one o the primary companiesinvolved in the decision to demolish the

    Roosevelt House implosionThe 17-story building was imploded by Atlanta Demolition, which has perormed similar demolitions around Atlanta.

    Photos by Jarrett Skov / Student Publications

    See Roosevelt, page 5

    See Campaign, page 5

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    2 March 4, 2011 Technique NEWS

    Founded in 1911, the Techniqueis the student newspaper o theGeorgia Institute o Technology, and is an ocial publication o theGeorgia Tech Board o Student Publications. e Technique publisheson Fridays weekly during the all and spring and biweekly during thesummer.

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    From the fles o the GTPD...

    Campus Crime

    Handicapped thief

    A student, who initial lythought her car was towed, real-ized it was actually stolen aterchecking with GT Parking on Feb

    19. e student believed her tancolored Mercedes Benz had beentowed because it was parked ille-gally in a handicap spot near the

    J.S. Coon Building on Ferst Driveat Cherry Street. e student,

    who noticed her car was missingaround 4 p.m., did not notice anybroken glass where her vehicle hadbeen parked. She fnally reportedher car missing ater confrming

    with GT Parking on Monday,Feb. 21, that her car had not been

    impounded over the weekend.Ocers checked the area or thecar with no immediate results.

    Fifth Street KO

    A male student was knockedunconscious briey ater be-ing physically assaulted on thethe Fith Street bridge in theearly morning hours o Feb 27.

    A GTPD ocer came upon thescene around 3:30 a.m. when henoticed a stationary Grady Am-bulance with its lights ashing.Several students were gathered onthe sidewalk o the bridge arounda pool o blood.

    e victim and a group o

    riends were walking back romthe Wae House in Tech Square

    when three unknown males ap-proached the group. At least oneo the members o the group wasmaking derogatory comments to-

    wards the emales in the group.It was at this point that the vic-tim approached one o the malesto ask him to leave it alone, and

    walk away. e assai lant repliedto him to watch his mouth.

    e victim saw the male turn

    away and believes that it was justater that point when the assailantpunched him in the ace. Whenhe regained consciousness, there

    was a crowd o people standingaround him who let him knowthat an ambulance had alreadybeen called.

    e assailant was not able to beidentifed, although the studentguessed that he was probably inhis late 20s and was wearing a blueor green button-down shirt.

    POLL OF THE WEEKWhat is your reaction to Deals proposals?

    38%It needs to include a

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    support a

    sustainability fee

    on campus?

    Based on 85 responses

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    with the plan

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    Technique March 4, 2011 3NEWS

    Council ClippingsThis week in Student Government

    By Mike Donohue, SGA Editor

    Each week, this section includes coverage of die rent aspects of StudentGovernment, including the Undergraduate House of Representatives,Graduate Student Senate and the Executive Branch of both governments.

    JFC releases bud gete Joint Finance Committee

    released the submitted FY 2012budget to Graduate Senators andUndergraduate Representativesthis week, beginning the six weekprocess o allocating $4.7 millionin Student Activity Fees to orga-nizations. SGA plans on cuttingabout $700,000 rom the $5.1million in submitted budget re-quests in that time.

    For two months, JFC has metwith organizations to determinewhich items rom their budgetsmeet with JFC policy. JFC willinclude those recommendationsin documents sent to the Houseand Senate. However, these poli-cy-dictated cuts will not close thebudget gap, and JFC will recom-mend urther items to eliminate.

    Many o the cuts we will besuggesting will be amiliar romlast year: no non-Technique pub-licity, no Blueprintpictures, no in-tramural teams, etc. We are work-ing on a number o other cut s, butI would like to keep them in mycommittee until they have beenfrmly decided on, said Brad Bau-erkemper, the chair o JFC, in anemail.

    e House will consider thebudgets or the Student Center

    and Campus Recreation Cen-ter, Tier I organizations, as well

    as Tier II organizations, such asMOVE and Student Publications,beore Spring Break. At the sametime, JFC will evaluate and rec-ommend cuts to all other studentorganizations.

    When asked how organiza-tions can prepare or their bud-get deenses, Bauerkemper said,...know your priorities. Cuts areinevitable...[so] it is importantor every [organization] to under-stand that [it] will not get every bito unding that they are request-ing. ey may not even get every-thing that they got last year, but...

    we are commit ted to meeting therequests as best we can.

    UHR is projected to pass theirversion o the budget on April 5

    while GSS will discuss and passthe entirety o the budget onMarch 30 or March 31. I thereare dierences between the twoversions, Senators and Represen-tatives will negotiate and pass afnal version on April 12.

    Sustainability feeGraduate Student Body Presi-

    dent Anthony Baldridge spokeout strongly against the proposedGreen Fee during the GSS

    meeting on March 1.We will not stand or the sus-

    tainability ee, Baldridge saidduring his weekly report to Sena-tors. [is ee] will not happen.

    Baldridge admonished Sena-tors to not author any resolutioncalling or the implementationo the ee, promising to veto it.He then said that sustainabilityinitiatives can be better handledthrough SGA administered Stu-dent Activity Fee unds.

    We eel with the oversightwe can provide and a lso just w iththe general way we can handlethings in SGA...[that] we are bestto handle the sustainability ee,Baldridge said, pointing out theupcoming bill authorizing eesto pay or a new set o bike racksas an example. He continued bysaying that he was working withUndergraudate SGA to make theSustainability Committee a jointcommittee, incorporating gradu-

    ates and undergraduates.e ee was frst proposed by

    students rom Students Orga-nizing or Sustainability and theGreen Week committee. It wouldcharge students between $3 and$20 each semester and would beallocated by a board o studentstowards sustainability based proj-ects.

    Beore being enacted, the eewould need to be put to a studentreerendum by a two-thirds vote

    o the Undergraduate House, ol-lowing which a reerendum willbe held during SGA elections. ereerendum must pass with 50percent o the vote beore imple-mentation.

    e ee would have to also passthrough the Mandatory StudentFee Advisory Committee, a com-mittee o students and adminis-trators that discuss new ees and

    whether or not to increase oldones.

    News Briefs

    GTPD ocer involvedin car accident

    GTPD Ocer Joseph Figuraspolice car collided with an 1800gallon truck on Monday, Feb. 28at 8 a.m. Figura was respondingto a call rom the Atlanta Policeregarding a suspect on Ivan Al-len Boulevard as he was driving

    through the intersection o PineStreet and Centennial OlympicPark Drive when the accident oc-cured. e ocer was injured andsent to Grady Memorial Hospital.

    According to Inst itute spokes-person Matt Nagel, Figura is25 years old and has been withGTPD or three years. OcerFigura was released rom the hos-pital later in the aternoon.

    Chemical spill atMiRC

    At 1:13 p.m. on Feb. 25, a si-lane gas leak occurred in theClean Room at the basement othe Petit Microelectronics Re-

    search Center. A student workingin the lab noticed a hissing noisecoming rom the storage roomand immediately let the room.Both the Petit and College oComputing building were evacu-ated, and all occupants were sentacross the street.

    e Atlanta Fire and Environ-mental Health and Saety as wellas two Atlanta Fire Departmenttrucks were present on the sceneto investigate.

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    Bill Summary

    You can follow Mike at the Niques blog, The Pulse. Check in at 7:30p.m. on Tuesday for updates from UHR sessions at nique.net/pulse.

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    Campaign rom page 1North Ave. to undergo renovations

    In recent years, Tech has per-ormed the necessary studies tobegin the planning stages o re-developing the Institutes por-tion o North Avenue. is year,implementation will begin on thatproject to go along with this years

    addition o North Avenues dininghall.e studies were originally de-

    veloped to put into place a plan orcampus development along North

    Avenue and to more ully andormally integrate that area withTechs campus.

    e results o the studies point-ed towards a consistent streetscapeo North Avenue beginning at theDowntown Connector and goingto Northside Drive, redevelop-ment o the plaza in ront o Bob-by Dodd Stadium and a soten-ing o the transition between thestreet and Tech Tower lawn.

    With this project, we are go-ing to try to open up some o theareas adjacent to North Avenue

    such as Tech Tower lawn and pos-sibly the green area in ront o the

    Wardlaw Center so as to betterintegrate it with the street, saidDavid Bowman, the lead architector the project.

    ese improvements have beeninspired by a recent push to im-prove student saety in the North

    Avenue area, especially with theaddition o the new dining hall atNAA.

    With the new 300 seat all-you-care-to-eat dining hall open-ing in the Fall, we anticipate addi-tional pedestrian movement alongNorth Avenue. e streetscape

    will provide a much saer environ-ment and will stay uniorm with

    other streetscape movements thathave been happening all over cam-pus, said Howard Wertheimer,the director o Capital Planning

    By TJ KaplanStaf Writer

    and Space Management or theInstitute.

    According to Wertheimer, econstruction will occur in phases,labeled AD, which will eachbe completely separate so as tominimize obstruction and in-convenience to pedestrian trac.Each o the phases will take about45 days to complete.

    e typical streetscape update

    that will occur in each section othe build will include a wideningo the sidewalk and a special ex-tension o the sidewalk or trees

    Photo by Chris Russell / Student Publications

    Work will begin in the coming months to remodel the Institutes

    portion of North Avenue and make it more pedestrian friendly.

    and street lamps.Future projects in the area

    include the addition o studentsupport acilities, expansion othe Alumni House and adminis-trative space on the south side oNorth Avenue.

    Even urther in the uture thereis the possibility or modifcationsto the North Avenue Bridge overthe connector, reorientation o

    trac on Techwood Drive andthe potential re-routing o TechParkway to better connect North

    Avenue and Marietta Drive.

    erating ocer o GT Foundation.We have about $1.3 billion inactive assets, and we have seen amost remarkable recovery.

    e event began with a speechrom John Brock, chairman andCEO o Coca-Cola EnterprisesInc., who was announced pub-licly on campus as the CampaignChair o Campaign Georgia Techlast Sept.

    Brock discussed the opportu-nities that philanthropic dona-tions create, such as the 3000undergraduate scholarships thatexist currently on campus becauseo donations.

    According to Brock, aroundone in eight aculty chair posi-tions are endowed. It is a goal othe campaign to double that pro-portion in order to endow everyone in our positions. Continuousdonations rom alumni will helpsuch policies.

    While discussing the activerole that philanthropy has playedin the history o the Institute,Brock reerenced the single larg-est donor to Tech, Mrs. Letty Pate

    Whitehead Evans, or whom the

    Tech Tower building is named.Evans was appointed to the Boardo Directors o the Coca-ColaCompany in 1934 and was oneo the frst emales to serve on theboard o directors or any Ameri-can corporation. Evans estate hascontributed millions to Tech eachyear and continues to contributearound $7 million annually.

    It is because o people likeLetty Pate Whitehead Evans thatTech has the reputation that itdoes today, Brock said. Phi-lanthropy has been a part o theabric o Tech or its 126 years inexistence. We must continue thetradition.

    e tradition o donation and

    alumni support was heavily em-phasized throughout the evening,especially by Peterson.

    Peterson discussed the strategic

    plan or the next 25 years, whichwas one o the very frst in itiativeso the campaign. Peterson workedclosely with Alred P. West, who

    was Campaign Chair during thequiet phase, to establish a strongfnancial oundation or the cam-paign. Beore being announcedto the public, West had managedto generate undraising totalsreaching more than $900 mil-lion. However, the current philan-thropic projections greatly exceed

    that.is campaign is intended toraise $1.5 billion by Dec. 21, 2015,the most aggressive campaign wehave ever undertaken on this cam-pus, Peterson said. In order toachieve our goal, we have to raisearound $2.3 million a week. is

    will present some challenges, but Iam confdent that we can achievethat.

    According to Peterson, costsare only rising. Ninety percent othe tuition today is more than 100percent o the tuition rom twoyears ago. In order to exceed that,only an 11 percent increase wouldbe needed and tuition increased16 percent last year alone. ecampaign has raised just under

    $1 billion in an eort to generateunds to help address the risingcosts o school.

    Proessor o the Practice o Fi-nance Gary Jones emphasized toall in attendance that any dona-tion, at any size, would be appre-ciated and helpul.

    Weve had donations rom $5to $50 billion, Jones said. A loto students donate in $5 incre-ments through the Student Foun-dation, and we received our larg-est donation o $50 billion a ew

    weeks ago.According to Peterson, Collab-

    oration between the Alumni As-sociation, which raises donationsthrough Roll Call, the Georgia

    Tech Foundation and the Oceo Development is paramount inorder to achieve short- and long-term donation goals.

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    Time to get Buck wildlovin me a man in uniorm, especially Navy guy in econ 2100noonbootyul weatheryouve got a hot photographer ;)girl in me2202 and ece3710 that looks like hermione. youre hotHello? IT. Have you tried turning it on and o again?people seem pretty upset about HOPE, so i guess i should be too

    Why yes, I am indeed taking the bus to t he g ym when its 70degrees outside.im just watching Dexter in the library - i promise its not pr0n

    AMC - great idea! lets get rid o the name o someone who actu-ally meant something to GT other than moneyi youre coming to the third oor, please dont sit down and talkon the phone or 4 hours...Stued Steakhouse rom BKHey Technique editor - no one reads your paper.phew! I was araid the new dining hall was going to have betterood than Brittain. So relieved to hear that its going to be exactlythe same.

    watching my drunken white roommate try to do the dougie =classicDoes anyone ever actually win those aux services giveaways??my b just created an infnite loop in matlab saying i love you andthen tried to deny his techyness

    why cant the librar y properly regulate temperature conducive tostudying?

    just got a twitter so my statements wont be rejected. now a ll ineed is ollowersfrst dienamics and then death bods. good grie

    girl on red route with red ower in your hair: you are beautiulSlivers are basically anonymous Tweets.georgia tech turned down a zelda musical and let uga have it?!T-Square Unscheduled Outage Posted: 2009-08-05 12:52:24T-Square- Cant live with it, Cant live without itIts so appropriate: the way we ampliy the sound

    Roosevelt rom page 1 HOPE rom page 1

    Photo by Jarrett Skov / Student Publications

    Clean-up crews will work on cleaning up the rubble from the site of the Roosevelt House for

    approximately two months, removing debris from the area in order to make way for a new building.

    cause o the magnitude o thisprogram, the ar-reaching impacto HOPE or all Georgians andbecause o our economy, we sim-ply must provide amilies moretime to plan and prepare. We aredoing our best to work with theGovernors oce, which has indi-cated a willingness to continue thedialogue. Time is o the essence.

    Corey Boone, Undergradu-

    ate Student Body President andourth-year MGT major, hadsome reservations about the con-tent o the House bill.

    I have mixed eelings. I thinkthat its great that they changedthe GPA requirement because that

    would open up the door or moreull tuition to be covered by theZell Miller scholarship or Geor-gia Tech students, Boone said.Needless to say, we still need agrandather clause or GeorgiaTech and other students to beable to fnancially plan and studyenough to increase their GPA.

    Other Tech students were alsounhappy with the lack o a grand-ather clause and the increasedcosts it would cause.

    I dont understand why thereisnt [a grandather clause], or whythere isnt even a mention o it,said Steven Ball, second-year CSmajor. Housing costs go up ev-ery year. Mandatory ees seem tobe going up or stupid things likeathletics and stu.

    We can probably handle it,but its something we dont wantto pay or, said Chip Cely, sec-ond-year CS major. I I had toraise an amount o money or col-lege, it would be a big hindrance.Luckily my parents are able tocover the cost.

    Charlotte Huang, second-yearIE major, recognizes the beneftso the program, despite being

    rom out-o-state.I think that HOPE was prettycool. I think that in general, its acool program to have or all states.

    People should look at the beneftso having it, Huang said.

    Cely and Ball hoped that thelegislature would look into othermethods o shoring up the schol-arship.

    Maybe they should come upwith another income source be-sides the lottery. Rich people dontgo into the lottery, so its mostlythe poor people paying or our tu-ition directly, Cely said.

    What are the chances that this

    happens again in the uture, nowthat theres a precedent set? Ballsaid. ey can change it withouta grandather clause. ey can justchange it to an arbitrary number.

    Several hundred students pro-tested the bill the morning o

    Wednesday, March 2 at the stepso the capitol. Organized by Geor-gia Students or Public HigherEducation, students rom Georgiaschools including Tech attended.SGA did not sponsor the event,however.

    I was reached out to, Boonesaid. But we did not want to goout there in an unproessional,unorganized manner and repre-sent the 13,000 undergraduatestudents o Georgia Tech unless

    there is a centralized key measurewe are bring orward. We eel thatthe relationships weve built overthe past ew weeks have been cul-tivated through one-on-on talksrather than getting out and creat-ing sound bites and having pressconerences. We eel our approachis the more eective approach.

    Boone also cited the vulgar na-ture o some o the rallys iers asa reason that SGA did not wish toendorse the rally.

    SGA has worked on HOPEthroughout the course o the se-mester, most recently presenting aHOPE white paper to state legisla-tors at the GT Day at the Capi-tol. Boone said that SGA does not

    plan to hold another event at thecapitol and will continue the per-sonal approach it has taken so arto advocate those changes.

    Roosevelt House.e demolition o the Roos-

    evelt House took about a year inplanning. Weve been workinghere or fve months. ere will bea new project on this land decidedby the Atlanta Housing Author-ity, said Barry Roberts rom At-lanta Demolition.

    e company used approxi-mately 150 pounds o explosives

    to bring down the RooseveltHouse. According to them, thebuilding was frst weakened andthen allowed to all. Holes werecut into the side o the buildingand extra explosives were added toensure that it ell away rom thenearby NAA.

    North Avenue and Centennial

    Olympic Park Drive were closedto pedestrian and vehicular tracrom 7-8 a.m. but there were stilla number o people who watchedthe implosion rom TechwoodDrive. e building site clean-up

    will take at least a month to com-plete.

    Atlanta was the frst city inthe United States to constructbuildings or the underprivilegedand disabled in the 1930s, replac-ing slums by widespread housing

    projects like the Roosevelt Houseand Palmer House. In 1994, cityauthorities decided to replacethem with modern mixed-incomeprojects.

    e Roosevelt House was builtin 1973 and contained 150 apart-ments, but it had been vacant orthe past two years. e building

    was named a ter President Frank-lin D. Roosevelt, who oundedthe national public housing pol-icy along with Atlanta developerCharles Palmer. It was the secondlast public housing project slatedor demolition in the city. ePalmer House, which is the lastremaining public housing project,

    will not be imploded, but it willbe demolished oor by oor overthe next three months since animplosion would be dangerous to

    surrounding establishments.e inrastructure o thesebuildings was old and crumbling.Now we have an opportunity tobuild something more up to date

    with no challenges posed by theinrastructure. Demolition is theonly way to build new structures,Henderson said.

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    While I generally approve ofthe opinions expressed in theHot-or-Not section, whether Iagree with them or not, I was dis-apointed to read one disparagingthe campus group that holds theHumans Versus Zombies (HvZ)game every semester. I can un-derstand the sentiment; its sortof disruptive to have people run-ning around inging marshmal-lows and socks at each other, butI think calling them out was toomuch.

    Plenty of campus traditions aremore disruptive and destructivethen the HvZ game. Stealing the

    Ts o of every accessible campussign, for instance (including theentrance signs. Maybe that shouldmake it into to Hot-or-Not?). HvZdoesnt deserve your scorn. Its aninclusive game that gets the nerdi-er Techies out in the sun interact-ing with each other and cooperat-ing. Its fun to try and surviveor hunt, and its a unique expe-rience that everybody should tryat least once. e campus needsgroups doing diverse things togive everybody somewhere a rea-son to come to Tech.

    Do you think people would beturned away by the new traditionof the HvZ game? I dont thinkits the place of the campus news-

    paper to disparage a single groupsimply because you nd themannoying because it denitelydoesnt reect the opinions of the

    whole campus, and it doesnt pro-mote an inclusiveness conduciveto a great college experience for allTech students.

    Joshua TerrellSecond-year ME

    Plastics need to beadapted, not eliminated

    Tech has always done a phe-nomenal job of promoting greeninitiatives on campus throughthings like recycling programsand LEED certication. Receiv-ing Princeton Reviews TopGreen Award is evidence that theInstitute is pursuing every oppor-tunity to maintain its high greenratings and promote sustainableinitiatives.

    However, we should not let therhetoric of the green movementget too carried away as to dissuadestudents from buying bottled wa-ter on campus.

    e green movement to banthe sale of plastic water bottles onsome college campuses has gonetoo far. It would be overreach-ing to assume that banning waterbottles on campus would have animpact on the environment given

    the incredible success of Tech andCoca-Colas recycling programsand innovative plastics, such asthe PlantBottle.

    In 2009, Coca-Cola openeda bottle-to-bottle recycling plantin Spartanburg, S.C. that willhave the capacity, when fully op-

    erational, to produce 100 millionpounds of recycled PET plasticchips enough to produce twobillion 20-ounce bottles of Cokeor Dasani or whatever, accordingto Greenbiz.com .

    PET plastic isnt just recycledback in to new water and sodabottles. Recycled plastic becomesooring, playground equipmentand auto parts. It also becomes -bers for clothing, such as t-shirtsand eece jackets, and for carpet.National Association for PET

    Container Resources statisticsshow that it takes just 19 soda bot-tles to make enough ber for anextra-large T-shirt or one squarefoot of carpet and only 14 plasticbottles to make enough berllfor your next ski jacket.

    If environmentalists posit thatwater bottles ll up our landllswith a plastic that wont decom-pose, there is a new solution: thePlantBottle. is new bottle forDasani water from Coca-Cola ismade with up to 30 percent plant-based material and is appropriate-ly named PlantBottle. Coca-Colaalso has a stated goal to developa bottle composed of 100 percentplant-based materials.

    According to Coca-Colas web-site, the PlantBottle is the onlybottle made of plant materials,

    which is also 100 percent recy-clable. While this new bottle willbecome widely available on ourcampus in just a few months, itis still important to remember torecycle it.

    Small changes in our everydaylives, such as turning o the lightsand the water when we brush ourteeth, are changes everyone canand should make. Students, fac-ulty, and sta all play an integralrole in ensuring the success ofTechs recycling program.

    However, lets not allow anoverzealous green movement de-monize products that have been

    created to help the environment.Corporate recycling campaignsand innovative, sustainable pro-duction go a long way to achiev-ing green goals, too.

    Kristen Greigird-year IAML

    OpinionsTechnique

    6Friday,

    March 4, 2011

    Get your acts frst, and then you candistort them as much as you please.

    Mark Twain

    Opinions Editor: Matt Hofman

    OUR VIEWS Consensus opinion

    rillerdome without thrillNew direction needed for mens basketball program

    is Sunday will mark the end ofAlexander Memorial Coliseum. erillerdome, as it is aectionatelyknown, has been the sight of many greatmemories for generations of Tech studentsand fans. When the new facility reopensas McCamish Pavilion, the arena will, intime, develop a fresh and exciting gameexperience for the people who love Techbasketball.

    Still, it is unfortunate that the facilityslast game comes at such a low time for

    the mens basketball program. For manyfans, the thrill has been long gone. ememories of the magical Final Four runless than a decade ago have all but fadedaway and seem more like a myth than aseries of exhilarating contests. Studentsand fans alike have become disenchanted

    with the team, and it appears that there islittle hope of winning them back underthe current leadership.

    Paul Hewitt has done many greatthings for Tech basketball. When he

    came to Tech, he rejuvenated a programthat had begun to ounder. He broughtin new and talented recruits and installeda more modern playing style that invitedfans back to the games to watch exciting,fast-paced contests that many across thenation envied. He took his teams into theNCAA Tournament and had Tech fanssitting on the edge of their seats, condentthat their team always had what it took topull out a win.

    But over the past several years, the

    program has regressed, and change isneeded. In order to reinvigorate the fanbase, a new head coach must be broughtin to take the program in anotherdirection, much the same way Hewitt did11 years ago. With the team playing homegames away from campus next season, thetiming is also apt for the program. People

    will one day remember the once-greatTech teams Hewitt coached, but beforethe beginning can be reread, the chaptermust rst come to an end.

    EDITORIAL CARTOON By CASEy TISDEL

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    Technique March 4, 2011 7OPINIONS

    e mockery target ofthe day is print media. Ev-ery couple of weeks, theres astory somewhere about, Ma-

    jor bookseller Boundaries de-clares bankruptcy, Farms& Pebble in nancial hot wa-ter or, my personal favorite,Print is dead. In the age of

    the Internet, it seems like ev-eryone has dismissed the ideaof something as old-fashionedas a book completely pointless.

    Let me get this straightright o the bat: I read. A lot.

    As in I-just-bought-my-fourth-bookshelf a lot. Sci-, classics,theology, fantasy and prettymuch anything ever classiedas weird. You name it, Iveread it, and if I havent, let meknow so I can start it now. Ialso have an e-reader (a Nook)and take it with me every-

    where I go. Give me ve min-utes of nothing happening,and Ill be buried in an e-bookin no time.

    Do I think books are dead?

    No. Do I think theyre dying?No. Do I think theyre on the

    way out? Absolutely not.For a medium thats re-

    mained relatively unchangedsince Gutenberg rolled out hisprinting press in the 15th cen-tury, the Information Age hasopened up a whole new host ofpossibilities for books, even iftheyre not in their traditionaldead-tree-pulp form. E-read-ers have turned getting yourhands on a new book into athree-minute process, e-bookshave dropped the cost of print-ing a book to essentially noth-

    ing, and the Internet oers theability to build communitiesaround books, authors andgenres that put old-fashionedbook clubs to shame.

    In a nutshell: books wontchange. e way we interact

    with them, however, will.ink about it. Say youre

    watching the Daily Show, andthe guy across from Jon Stew-art starts talking about hisnew book. With an e-reader,you can be reading a copy ofthat book before the interviewis over. Or say a new book ina series comes out ve yearsafter the last one. You cant

    remember the plot, the char-acters names are all runningtogether, and everyone you doremember is killed o in therst chapter. It might makeyour high school Englishteacher roll in her grave, but aquick trip to the series Wiki-pedia page will get you caughtup in 10 minutes.

    e book isnt dead. Farfrom it. Readers just have moreoptions than ever before to in-teract with their favorites.

    Perhaps more importantly,authors have more ways ofinteracting with their readers.

    From blogs to social media toself-publishing, authors sud-denly have way more interac-tion with their fans than theirpicture on the back cover.

    Take publishing. e asso-ciated costs made self-publish-ing in the past if not impossi-ble, then at least unreasonablyexpensive for an author toundertake on his or her own.

    Authors had to go to publish-ers that took the lions share ofsales in exchange for the capi-tal required to print and adver-tise their books.

    Look at those costs today.e cost of printing a book

    on the Kindle or Nook is es-sentially nil. If youre willingto do a bit of work yourself,you can handle the entire pro-cess of publishing digitally onyour own. Granted, authors

    will still lose some port ion tocosts from the seller, but theycan essentially go from receiv-ing royalties from publishers tohaving complete control overtheir own costs and earnings.

    And as far as advertisinggoes, grassroots advertisingcampaigns have never beeneasier. Between authors per-sonal blogs, national blogs like

    Gawker Medias sci- blogio9and word of mouth throughsocial media, an author caneasily reach an audience that

    would have required a majorpublisher and massive capitalinvestment in the past. I fol-low a half-dozen of my favor-ite authors blogs, and I always

    know when they have a bookcoming out, what its about,what kind of special dealstheyve got going on and whatthe authors up to in general.

    Personally, I look at bookslike I look at music and mov-ies. Despite the ratings of theMPAA and RIAA, the rise ofthe Information Age didntkill the lm or music indus-tries. Some studios and la-bels found ways to adapt andthrive, others didnt. Mostmusic and movies are nowconsumed entirely digitally,indie endeavors (particularlyin music) have much more ex-posure and bands and studioscan interact directly with their

    fans.I look at books the same

    way. e sellers and publishersthat adapt to technology willthrive, and the ones that dont,

    wont. People who wouldnever have had the chance to

    write before can now breakinto the market fairly easily.Between Amazon, eBay ande-readers, books are easier tond and access than ever be-fore. While I hope the dead-tree book doesnt go the wayof the dodo, even if it does,books and reading arent go-ing anywhere anytime soon.

    Technology brings new age for booksThe sellers and publishers

    that adapt to technology

    will thrive, and the ones

    that dont wont.

    Chris RussellOnline Editor

    Kristen DucoteFourth-year BIO

    I thought it was interestinghow they design it to implode

    in on itsel .

    David BrumleyTird-year BCHM

    I was impressed by themtearing it down yet main-

    taining saety.

    Jessica BlairTird-year CM

    It was awesome, and Iwished every day could start

    of like that.

    Rob AgocsSecond-year ME

    I thought it was delicious!

    What did you think ofthe Roosevelt House

    demolition?

    BUZZAround Campus

    ese past few weeks, themass media has been jam-packed with coverage of the2011 Grammy Awards and

    Academy Awards. While theAcademy Awards did a com-mendable job of reectingviewer opinion and contempo-rary cultural preferences, theGrammys once again provedthat they are a culturally ir-relevant awards show that isdeeply opposed to honoringmainstream pop icons.

    e Academy Awards hap-pened this past Sunday, andthe results denitely reectedthe average consumers taste.Te Kings Speech won Best Pic-ture and Best Actor for CollinFirth, Natalie Portman wonBest Actress for Black Swanand oy Story 3 won Best Ani-mated Feature Film. Overall,at the end of the night, youcame away with the sensethat the actors and lms whodeserved to win won. If onlyyou could say the same for theGrammys.

    e obvious choice for BestNew Artist was Justin Bieber.

    While there are varying viewsabout his music, it cannot bedenied that 2010 was his year.He had a No. 1 album, MyWorld 2.0, and went from un-

    known to teen idol seeminglyovernight. He was everywhere,almost to the point of over-saturation, and his culturalimpact was a deep one. WhileI could maybe understand ifhe had lost to Florence & theMachine or Drake, two artists

    Ive actually heard of before, tohear that he lost to a jazz sing-er named Esperanza Spalding

    was just laughable.e Grammys are supposed

    to honor the artists that areshaping the cultural historyof our generation, not artists aselect few elite judges think weshould like. Esperanza Spald-ing may be the most talented

    jazz singer ever, but the factremains that the majority ofviewers didnt even knew whoshe was when her name wasannounced; I certainly didnt.

    It seems like the Grammysare morally opposed to givinga Grammy to a pop star thatcan be seen as cheesy or over-manufactured to music crit-ics, but at the end of the day,

    what matters is the opinion ofthe American public, not elitemusic critics. ats whats

    shaping our cultural history,and awards ceremonies shouldreect this.

    is misplaced recognitionhas happened repeatedly inthe last couple of years, fromKanye West losing Album ofthe Year to Herbie Hancock in

    2008 to the Jonas Brothers los-ing Best New Artist to Adelein 2009. While I do like a fewof her songs now, at the time,the vast majority of people didnot know who Adele even was,and it was completely out ofleft eld.

    Its almost as if the Gram-mys have veered too far to-

    wards the opposite side of thespectrum after they receivedcriticism for catering too muchto mass consumerism in thepast. However, that doesntmean that they need to rewarda random, unknown artist

    with one of the biggest awardsof the night. ere is a balanceto be struck, and they desper-ately need to nd it.

    Several veterans of the mu-sic business have also comeforward to express their disap-pointment with the Grammy

    Awards, including music ex-ecutive Steven Stoute, whowent so far as to print a fullpage advertisement in theNew York imes. He pointedout how funny it was thatthe Grammys understand thecultural signicance of artists

    like Justin Bieber and Eminemwhen it comes to advertisingtheir awards show to increaseviewership and ad revenue, but

    when it comes to rewardingthem for their musical achieve-ments, the Grammys choosenot to recognize them.

    I think the problem is thatthe Grammys are trying toohard to be like the Academy

    Awards by awarding their re-wards to artists that their judg-es feel are talented singers andsongwriters, which is usuallynot found in the typical main-stream pop icon. What theydont realize is that the Os-cars strike a balance betweencheesy blockbusters and lmsof distinct artistic value. If arandom indie movie that noone had heard about or evenseen won Best Picture, there

    would also be criticism. Anaward should go to the artistic

    work that reects mass publicopinion, not private. While itsnice that the Grammys maybe trying to bring recognitionto unknown artists, this typeof awards ceremony is not thevenue for it.

    Hopefully the Grammyswill get it together for nextyear and start choosing artiststhat are actually relevant to

    the average consumer. If not,their reputation will continueto worsen, and the Gram-mys will become less and lessa reputable awards ceremonyand more and more an inatedthree hour commercial for themusic industry.

    Grammys need to reect pop cultureThe obvious choice forBest New Artist was Justin

    Bieber...it cannot be denied

    that 2010 was his year.

    Patricia UcedaEntertainment Editor

    Photos by Virginia Lin

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    8 March 4, 2011 Technique OPINIONS

    Student-faculty interaction key toimproving quality of education

    Since my arrival at Tech lastSept., I have met, formally andinformally, with a lot of students.I have been very impressed. eleadership is outstanding. Stu-dents participating in activities

    such as the Honors Program andthe Presidents Scholarship Pro-gram are especially committedto learning and pursuing the verybest education possible.

    Feedback from talking withmany students during my regularopen lunch periods, as well as datafrom formal surveys, indicate thata large majority of undergraduatestudents are very satised with theeducation and student experienceoered at Tech. Nevertheless, asignicant minority is not as hap-py, mainly due to the perceptionthat access to the faculty and ap-propriate mentoring from facultyand senior sta members is notthe reality for those students. ata signicant minority is not fully

    satised is a problem that we musttackle, together.

    By the time every student grad-uates from Tech, at least two orthree faculty members, research-ers or academic sta membersshould know him or her su-ciently well so that they would feelcomfortable writing an informedand personal recommendationletter to a graduate school or a po-tential employer. To achieve thatgoal, we must certainly strengthenthe classroom and extra-curricu-lar interactions. e easiest way,though, to create the environmentfor routine student/faculty inter-action is to improve the mentoringand advising. At the very least, all

    rst-year students, and the over-whelming majority of higher divi-sion students, should have regula r,formal access to a faculty member

    and/or senior academic sta per-son for academic mentoring. Wehave the instruments already toformalize and implement a seriesof pilot programs or experiments.

    For example, the GT1000 se-ries already touches some 70 per-cent of freshmen and 54 percent ofupperclassmen. Other opportuni-ties for increased interaction withfaculty include the Honors Pro-gram the Presidents ScholarshipProgram, seminars, undergradu-ate research and the inkBigLiving Learning Communities.

    One could think about adding afaculty mentor program wherea couple of handfuls of rst-yearstudents could be associated withand advised by a faculty member,research scientist or senior stamember. Other possibilities are aresidential advising program withfaculty and their families residingin dormitories.

    Students and their educationare at the top of our agenda. Ihave noted that the ve goals ofour visionary strategic plan can betranslated into seven simple ideas:students, students, students, entre-preneurship, innovation, global-ization and being lean and mean.

    We are developing short- and me-

    dium-term implementation plansfor ideas addressing these goals.Ideas and activities are varied. Im-minent is the Fall opening of the

    Clough Commons, recently putunder the administrative and pro-grammatic control of the Libraries

    with guidance from the CloughCommons Academic AdvisoryCommittee. At the request ofthe student leadership, were also

    working on an internship pro-gram in Washington, D.C. andstrengthening of similar activitiesin Georgia. We are investigatinga way to provide a health insur-ance ombudsman for students(graduate and undergraduate). Weare looking at strengthening the

    communication requirements andservices. Campaign Georgia Techseeks to improve and expand theGeorgia Tech Promise scholarshipprogram so that all qualied stu-dents can at tend Tech.

    We can go a long way in ad-dressing the concerns of some ofour students by increasing oppor-tunities for faculty interaction.

    A lot can be achieved by simplyrepurposing part of ongoing activ-ities. It will indeed require someincentives for students, facultyand sta. But more importantly, itrequires a change of culture. atmust begin with all of usstu-dents, faculty and staaccept-ing the premise that an unaccept-

    ably large minority of students arenot fully satised and we all mustwork to provide opportunitie s forengagement.

    OUR VIEWS hotornot

    Dy-no-mitee Roosevelt House had

    a grand exit on Sunday morn-ing, dropping faster than someNorth African regimes. Onerequest: in the future, pleaseset the building demolitionto be later in the day. Oftentimes, college students partakein festivities on Saturday nightthat keep them out late andmake them hyper-sensitive toloud sounds on Sunday morn-ings. Please be courteous.

    HOT o r NOTCampaign Georgia Tech

    seeks to improve and expand

    the Georgia Tech Promise

    scholarship program.

    Rafael BrasProvost & Executive VP or Academic Afairs

    HOPEfully notGovernor Nathan Deals

    proposal to x HOPE is mak-ing its way through the Geor-gia General Assembly. Whilethe GPA requirement to keepfull tuition was lowered fromthe initial 3.5 in the proposalto a 3.3, the lack of a grand-father clause for current recipi-ents still makes the x a lousyone for students. Luckily, thereis still time for the state Senateto x these errors.

    North Ave-viewe plan to improve the

    streetscape of North Avenueis a much needed safety andcosmetic change for the southend of campus. With the an-ticipated increase in trac tothe new dining hall, this proj-ect is more important thanever. Going to class is enough;having to dodge the splash-

    ing rain water from cars, andsometimes the cars themselves,is just overkill.

    Panther pounceWhen a Tech team loses

    to an in-state rival, fans nor-mally have the luxury of theother team being an hour-plusdrive away and out of sight,not a few blocks down theroad in downtown. e base-ball teams rocky start got evenbumpier when the Jackets fellto Georgia State on Wednes-

    day. At least Tech will have achance at redemption later inthe season.

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    Archives delveinto global,Tech history

    By Alex KesslerContributing Writer

    Walk up Freshman Hill to the library. Turn right and walkdown the steps. On the immediate right, tucked away in a se-cluded corner, is the Library Archives, the core of Techs histori-cal safekeeping.

    Locked deep within the vaults of Techs archives lay the toolsof revolution, weapons that overthrew monarchs and dawned anew age of democracy and science. Books and ideas written byauthors hundreds of years ago carried the Western World fromthe dark fog of feudalism into the bright light of intellectual dis-covery.

    Sitting in an ordinary grey box underneath the library is a324-year old book written by Isaac Newton that introduces forthe rst time in history his famous theory of gravity: Te Phi-losophi Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

    e rst few rows of the archives are the current Tech sciencection book and magazine collection, which holds over 10,000unique publications, most of which are the last copies remainingon earth.

    e collection was actua lly begun by Irving Bud Foote, Techsrst science-ction scholar and a former LCC professor. Footedonated his personal library, containing rst edition works byH.G. Wells, Isaac Asimov and Jules Verne.

    e next row contains the entire U.S. ocial governmentpublished records of the Civil War. Dating back to the early1890s, this anthology of books details every battle, manifest, let-ter, speech and legislative record of Americas bloodiest war.

    Far from entertainment and ction, the archives hold immea-surable resources for research on any topic.

    See Library, page 12

    @GTGreenBuzz: @RT @Georgia_Tech:Outracing the wind Wired Magazineshowcases Georgia Tech alums windpowered vehicle. http://bit.ly/hfymx

    [email protected]

    Focus Editor:Kamna Bohra

    Technique

    9Friday,

    March 4, 2011

    E-week brings fun to engineeringBy Mehouz Jalal

    Contributing Writer

    Being an engineer became muchmore exciting when Tau Beta Pi, anengineering honor society, hostedits annual Engineers Week. isyear marks the 60th anniversary ofthe event, which has strived to giveengineers some well needed relax-ation.

    is year, E-Week was held f romFeb. 20-26, entertaining studentsat Tech with multiple programsacross campus.

    Based on the one event I at-tended, not many people showedup initially [and that] deterred myexperience at rst. As the eventprogressed and attendance grew, itturned out to be an evening well-spent, said Akhil Modi, a second-year ME major.

    ese events are designed topromote teamwork, creativity andfun, said the E-Week organizerson the E-week website.

    e week commenced with theHumpty Dumpty Drop, whichencouraged participants, both in-dividuals and teams, to design aninnovative apparatus that wouldprotect an egg from breaking whendropped down the entrance stair-

    wells of the Bobby Dodd Stad ium.Among the four competitors, thewinner wa s Allan Visochek, a rst-year AE major.

    [e competition] was won byVisochek on the tie-breaking basisof weight and creativity. e judgesunanimously agreed that his device

    had the most merit because it didnot reach terminal velocity in thetest and utilized a protection sys-tem unlike anything else seen, said

    James Fisher, an E-Week chair anda third-year ISyE major.

    E-Week also included a RubiksCube Contest. Among 22 con-testants, Chris Tran, a rst-yearBCHM major, solved the cube

    with the f astest time of 22.38 sec-onds, ve seconds faster than anyother contestant.

    e following event was the

    Build-a-on in which the teamswere required to bring in 15 cansof food to be able to participate inthe event.

    ese teams were then providedwith a set of cans and were asked to

    make a creative and unique struc-ture using the cans and other al-lowed items.

    ree teams competed in theevent: Tau Beta Pi, Pi Tau Sigmaand [the Society of Women En-

    See Engineers, page 11

    Image courtesy of Benjamin Plantz

    Engineers Week participants practiced engineering with real-world

    applications, such as skyscraper building, outside of the classroom.

    By Kamna Bohra

    Focus Editor

    Some students struggle to bal-ance engineering classes alone.Others nd distress in takingclasses and participating in extra-curriculars. But for Wendy Brown,a fth-year BMED major and an

    Atlanta Falcons cheerleader, thework loads of two entirely dierentactivities are manageable both onthe eld and in the research labo-ratory.

    Academics and my career goalsare important to me, but my per-sonal goals like dancing and cheer-ing are too. I maintain that if itsimportant to you, youll nd a wayto make it work, Brown said.

    Brown has been dancing for her

    whole life, becoming more involvedwhen she began high school. Dur-

    ing her college years, she was on

    Gold Rush, Techs ocial athleticdance team, for her rst four years,and she became captain her lastyear on the team.

    Browns collegiate coach, whois a former cheerleader for both the

    Atlanta Falcons and the AtlantaHawks, rst introduced her to theidea of cheering for a professionalathletic team.

    Before then, I had thought ofcheering for the NFL as [a] nichelike something only a select groupof special people got to be involved

    with. Once I saw it as a tangible op-portunity, I knew I wanted to doit, Brown said.

    In addition to six hours ofweekly practice and workout ses-sions, Brown is required to be at

    the Georgia Dome several hoursbefore each game. Before attending

    any practice, Brown must have her

    material and routine memorized,which require s even more time.Along with the a thletic side, the

    Atlanta Falcons cheerleaders arerequired to participate in 20 char-ity appearances over the course ofthe season. ese appearances haveincluded visiting brain and spinalcord injury patients and teachingcheer camps for the under-privi-leged children.

    As for her time o the eld,Brown has been conducting under-graduate research throughout heryears at Tech, and Browns plansare to receive a Ph.D. in Tissue En-gineering and then attend medicalschool.

    My ultimate goal is to be areconstructive surgeon and work

    with the militar y to develop bio-

    SeeWendy, page 11

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    gineers]. Over 400 pounds ofcanned goods were donated to the

    Atlanta Community Food Bank.$100 worth of canned goods [wasalso] donated by Southern Com-pany, said Ann Trippe, presidentof Tau Beta Pi and an ECE gradstudent.

    E-Week included a skyscrapercontest in which contestants de-signed and built a skyscraper us-ing marshmallows, skewers, spa-ghetti noodles and toothpicks, a

    true test of engineering skills. eparticipants towers ranged fromve to seven feet in height.

    Nearly all of the towers col-lapsed at the end of the contest.

    Toward the end of E-Week, adodgeball tournament providedsome much needed physical chal-lenge to participating students.Overcoming the onslaught ofdodgeballs was the winning team

    of CHBE grad students BrianKraftschik, Ryan Lively, Michael

    Abrahamson, Gregory Cmarik,Alexander Jordan, Matthew Mis-tilis, Brennen Mueller, Khaldoon

    Abu-Hakmeh and PrabuddhaBansal.

    Finally, E-Week came to a closewith comedy night consisting ofcomedians Michael Kaiser andMarshall Chiles, regulars at theLaughing Skull Lounge locatedon Peachtree Street.

    It was interesting noticing

    events all around campus. emood was pretty festive, whichcontributed to a happier atmo-sphere in a week where professorschoose to pile on the tests. I feela lot of them were actually veryinclusive. ere wasnt really thatmuch time [though]. After all, it

    was the week before the week ofdrop day, said Akshaya Srivas-tava, a second-year AE major.

    Engineers from page 9

    logical reconstructive and regen-erative technologies for use in sur-gery, Brown said.

    Meanwhile, Brown is nish-ing her last semester of coursesand her undergraduate thesis. Ad-ditionally, Brown will be hostinga segment of the Science of theNFL series that is produced byNBC Sports, NBC Learn, NFLand the National Science Founda-

    tion. Her segment will focus onNewtons third law of motion.In striking a balance, Brown

    does nd some stress, but shethoroughly enjoys her academicand athletic careers.

    As far as school work [goes],I have nished a lot of my de-gree requirements already, so thathelped me not completely over-load myself. I have denitely hadsome very late nights in Whitakerthis year, though, between study-ing for the GRE, doing home-

    work and trying to nish myundergraduate thesis. Its funny,though, because I almost dontmind the work load, Brown said.

    Brown notes that she is not theonly member of the Falcons cheer-

    leading team with a diverse careerpath.

    Every Atlanta Falcons cheer-leader has a career. Its actually arequirement to be on the team,and interests vary a lot. We haveeverything from lawyers, nurses,nancial analysts and nancialadvisors to TV producers, full-time students and moms on theteam, Brown said.

    Pursuing two entirely dierentcareer paths is feasible to Brown,and she works to dispel the stereo-types associated with cheerlead-ing.

    I denitely think there is noreason you cant have it all, andI would like to work to discredit

    stereotypes and discourage thetendency for people to automati-cally assume that women pursu-ing things like dancing or cheer-leading or modeling arent smart,Brown said.

    My advice to people encoun-tering this type of discriminationis to just stop listening and worktoward accomplishing your goalsfor yourself, Brown said.

    Wendy from page 9 Tech CHEFS supports healthy eatingBy Amira Saleh

    Contributing Writer

    On Saturday, Feb. 26, the sec-ond annual Tech Chef competi-tion was hosted in Brittain DiningHall. Tech Chef is a nutritionally-based cooking competition, and it

    was the closing event of GT Body

    Image Week.e event was created throughthe combined eorts of GT Din-ing, Auxiliary Services, HealthPromotions and Cooks for Heri-tage, Education, Fellowship andService (CHEFS), a student-runorganization that promotes cook-ing and healthy eating habits.

    e dierent Tech studentteams each had an executive chefand two sous chefs, who aredirect assistants to the executivechief.

    ese teams competedthroughout the day in breakfast,entre and dessert rounds. Eachteam had 45 minutes to create adish of their choice that was com-posed of 45 percent of the key in-

    gredient: low fat ricotta cheese.We chose low-fat ricotta

    cheese because it is healthy, can

    be sweet or savory and is a versa-tile enough ingredient to be usedin breakfast, entre and dessert,said Julia Turner, CHEFS presi-dent and founder and a third-yearSTaC major.

    Each round was scored by adierent panel of three judgesincluding sta members from

    around campus. Judges evaluatedteams based on taste, ingredients,cleanliness and presentation withtie breakers being determined bythe lower fat recipes.

    I like food, and I like to judgepeople, said Brett Hulst, an areamanager for the Freshman Expe-rience dorms, of his decision toparticipate as a judge.

    Hulst also watched to makesure teams followed proper foodsafety gu idelines.

    No one likes food poisoning,said Dori Martin, the events em-cee and marketing manager forGT Dining.

    Tech Chef generated a crowdof students and sta. Some stu-dents stayed for the entirety of the

    six-hour competition just to sam-ple the dierent student-created

    Photo by Tiara Winata / Student Publications

    Students competing in the Tech Chef competition were scored

    based on taste, ingredient choice, presentation and cleanliness. See Chef, page 12

    Photo by Sho Kitamura / Student Publications

    Often considered the beacon of engineering, the Rubix Cube was

    the center of one of the competitions during Engineers Week.

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    Locked away in a hermeticallysealed room closed to the pub-lic is Techs rare book collection.e moisture and temperature arestrictly controlled to ensure thelongevity of prized historical pos-sessions.

    Among the inuential literaryworks stored there a re Rene Des-cartes Philosophica published in1656, Gottfried Leibnizs Combi-

    natoriafrom 1690 and Blaise Pas-cals treatise on his triangle theo-rem from 1665.

    So delicate are these books thatone fears that opening them allthe way will break the bindings.ough they are old, their pagesare crisp and clear due to advancedpreservation methods. e full-page colored pictures retain theiroriginal shine and detail, and thevolumes do not appear as thoughthey were hand-crafted centuriesbefore.

    Conservation is not the onlyreason to keep these books be-hind closed doors. Newtons Prin-cipia is valued at approximately$285,000.

    e most expensive item in

    the archives is a small collectionof nine atlases from 1664, whichis collectively valued at a total of$400,000. ese atlases actuallyonly contain pictures of bridges,but their age and condition haveincreased their value almost 1000times.

    In fact, any otherwise commonobject is worth more due to pres-ervation.

    Aside from books , the archiveshold old RAT caps, footballs, let-ters, pins and even a ceremonialBritish sword. At the bottom ofone shelf, sitting plainly in abox, is a vase created in Picassosstudio. Two Oscars won by a Y.Frank Freeman are in another

    box in the same room. e 1996Olympic Torch from the Atlantagames is also located here.

    e library reserves are not

    only a bookcase for history, butalso an ark for Tech and Atlantaculture.

    e rst T-Book ever publishedis found in the Library Archives as

    well.About ve inches tall and not

    much wider than a credit card,this booklet contains, as always,the words to the ght song, a syn-opsis of Techs history and a foot-ball schedule for 1909.

    When Tech was an all-male

    school, it had regulations for attireproper for a gentleman and in-

    structions for RAT cap usage.At the time, Tech was a trade

    school, and experience in the shopwas required for all engineeringstudents. us, the freshman class

    was then commonly referred to a sthe apprentice class, accordingto the rst RAT book publication.

    Although seemingly out ofreach to the average student, atour of the Library Archives onlyrequires an appointment made inperson or online. e research col-

    lections are open to everyone foracademic use.

    Library from page 9

    cuisines.e winning dish of the break-

    fast round was called Whey Outere Breakfast Burritos.

    Its a reference to the largeamount of whey in ricotta cheese,said Nathan OConnor, executivechef of the rounds winning teamand a fourth-year ISyE major.

    My biggest challenge wasdenitely creating a recipe that

    met the 45 percent ricotta cheeserequirement, OConnor said.OConnor, however, enjoyed

    the competition and plans tocompete again next year.

    During the entre round, apower breaker shorted out, andthe Tech chefs faced more chal-lenges than just cooking under atime constraint.

    However, the entre team ledby executive chef, Aya Ishizu, afourth-year ISyE major, workedbeyond the distractions and wonthe round with a VegetarianFriendly Ricotta Noki.

    e nal dessert round wastaken by a team led by executivechef Mya Oren, a fourth-yearMGT major. Orens team created

    Healthy Ricotta Fruit Cups madeof semi-sweet chocolate cups with

    a creamy ricotta lling infusedwith orange clementine avor.

    Oren, who one day hopes toopen a bakery, also plans to enterthe competition again next year.

    e winners from each roundreceived aprons that said TechChef 2011 Breakfast Champion,Entre Champion or DessertChampion.

    Ishizus entre team was theoverall winner of Tech Chef 2011

    with a score of 87.16 points. In

    addition to her champion apron,Ishizu received a $140 Heikoknife, and her sous chefs received$25 gift cards courtesy of GTDining.

    e Tech Chef 2011 champi-ons recipes from each round willbe posted in an online cookbookformat on the CHEFS organiza-tional website.

    Martin said that the turnoutnearly guarantees Tech Chef willhappen again next year.

    Tech Chef 2012 will be hostedin the newly built North Ave Din-ing Hall. Students do not have tohave a meal plan to participate or[to] come watch the event, Mar-tin said.

    Turner will return again next

    year as student coordinator for theevent.

    Che from page 11

    Photo by Tiara Winata / Student Publications

    Students practiced cooking on a set time limit and had to design

    a breakfast, entree or desert primarily made up of ricotta cheese.

    Photo by Wei Liao / Student Publications

    The aisles of the Library Archives include artifacts from the worlds

    of science and technology, along with the Institutes beginnings.

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    Entertainment Editor:Patricia UcedaAssistant Entertainment Editor:Zheng Zheng

    Technique

    13Friday,

    March 4, 2011

    FILM

    Drive Angry

    GENRE: Action, Fantasy

    STARRING: Nicolas Cage andAmber Heard

    DIRECTOR: Patrick Lussier

    RATING: R

    RELEASE DATE: Feb. 25, 2011

    OUR TAKE:

    By Hank WhitsonSta Writer

    Bulletstorm became ava ilable or purchase on Feb. 22, 2011, and it canonly be described as obnoxious and completely ofensive. Fortunately,these traits actually help the game. Developed partially by Epic Games,a team known or the Gears of Warseries and the Unreal Engine, thegame rewards you or shooting enemies in the privates or dispatchingoes while drunk. Furthermore, every exchange o dialog is punctuated

    with at least th ree proanities. On the ip side, it is also a lot o un andmuch smarter than its advertising or demo would lead you to believe.

    You are stepping into the boots o disgraced soldier-turned-space-pirate Grayson Hunt, who crash-lands on the doomed resort planet,Stygia, ater a botched suicide run against his nemesis, General Sarrano.Graysons straight man is Ishi Sato, a crewmember and riend who hasbeen transormed into a cyborg ater sustaining horrible injuries in thecrash. Trishka, a tough soldier chick in Sarranos employ who is looking

    to escape Stygia, later joins the duo.e story is ridiculous, sel-consciously crass and tremendously re-

    reshing, especially when weighed against the over-wrought wreck oCall of Dutyand Gears of War. ere are some clever wrinkles, like Ishistruggling to maintain control o his mind as the logical processors ohis cyborg hal try to take over. e game even begins with aMelvillereerence.

    Kill with Skill is the games tagline, and its main game play hook isa point system that awards players or completing skill-shots: obscenelysadistic recipes or killing oes in novel ways. e Wii game Madworldeatured a similar mechanic, but Bulletstorm is best thought o as TonyHawk with guns instead o skateboards.

    Each reght is a rail to grind of o, an opportunity to pull of crazytricks with your gun, the telekinetic leash attached to your hand andyour over-sized action hero boots. More elaborate kills award players

    with more points , which can then be spent to purchase upgrades andammunition, and each level o the game introduces more skill-shots ornew rearms.

    e leash and the boot are more versatile tools than you might ex-

    pect, allowing you to yank enemies close, kick them away and slow themdown in the process. e games arsenal is suitably bombastic, eaturingquadruple barreled shotguns and a gun that res exploding ails. Everygun has a genuinely novel alternate re mode.

    Unortunately, the arsenal is not quite large or innovative enough tomake the scoring system eel as robust as it should. e games openingramps up a little more slowly than it should, ofering too ew weaponsand scoring options at the outset. For the inevitable sequel, it would begreat to see a ull spread o BioShock-like super-powers.

    All the same, the campaign is a memorable experience lled withcreative situations like ghts in allen skyscrapers and exploding dams,a sequence where you guide a robotic tyrannosaurus-like-monster

    Cage revs engine in Drive, fails to ignite

    GAMES

    Bulletstorm

    CONSOLE: Xbox 360,PlayStation 3, MicrosoftWindows

    GENRE: First-Person Shooter

    DEVELOPER: Epic Games

    RATING: M

    RELEASED: Feb. 22, 2011

    OUR TAKE:

    By Chris Ernst

    Senior Sta Writer

    Drive Angryis an R-rated, 3D,supernatural action ick with un-pretentious goals and explosionsto spare. While the lm may nothave a loty purpose, it still doesnot quite succeed because o its Image courtesy of Summit Entertainment

    Image courtesy of Epic Games

    obuscated plot, wooden actingand slow pacing.

    However, all is not lost becausewhile it is no lm o note, it sti llentertains sporadically. e 3Delements are pretty un, but manytimes, they were just distractingand heavy-handed. Overall, it isnot a movie worth the price oadmission, let alone the 3D sur-charge.

    Drive Angrydoes not try to bea great lm that goes down in his-tory as a classic. Instead, it tries tobe more o what it actually is: a B-

    action movie that is good as or-gettable uf. Because it knows itsplace in the cinematic landscape,it exploits the some o the ele-ments that would otherwise try tobe smoothed over to avor a morehigh-brow audience.

    e lmmakers emphasize

    the un o the movie: the beauti-ul Amber Heard, ast cars, loudguns, guitar-driven rock and anobvious split between the goodand bad guys. ese are not only

    what make the lm succeed, butalso what bring it down. e ele-ments are things that every audi-ence everywhere has seen beore.

    ere is nothing new here, andthe envelope is never pushed oreven touched at all. is movieonly works in its sel-aware aug-mentation and subsequent exag-geration o the low-brow ingredi-

    ents.What doe s not work (and usu-ally does not ever) is Nicolas Cage.Someone needs to tell him he canturn down a part. His heavy-handed delivery o oddly empha-

    See Bullet, page 14

    See Drive, page 16

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    Killzone aims for top spot among PS3 shooters

    By Andrew AkkerContributing Writer

    In the world o rst-personshooters, the Killzone ranchisestands out, bringing ast-paced ac-tion along with a good sense thatyou are wreaking havoc on every-one in ront o your gun.

    Ater the rst slightly disap-pointingKillzonecame the sequel,Killzone 2, which continued thestory and nally brought the ran-chise to a next-generation console.Killzone 3 brings a similar dish to

    the table with another continua-tion o the previous story line andslight tweaks to the gameplay.

    e story o the third gamestarts out where the second oneended. e war between the hu-mans and the Helghast rages on.e player begins the game play-ing as what is believed to be a Hel-ghast soldier, learning the basicso the game play and attendingto the Chairman o the Helghanarmys broadcast to the people.However, ater the protagonist isrevealed to be a human namedSev, the game cuts to six monthsearlier.

    e gameplay o the maincampaign is very similar to the

    previous game in the ranchise,Killzone 2. e main part o thecampaign is to progress throughthe story, picking up where the

    previous game let of. However,the game keeps things resh with acouple o new weapons and abili-ties to use against the enemy. New

    weapons include the WASP, amulti-rocket launcher designed totake out heavy machinery such astanks or airships. A new ability in-cludes the brutal melee which is

    also the goriest part o the game.Perorming this ability will do oneo several moves such as gouging aHelghans eye out or breaking itsneck.

    e new weaponry adds a bito a new element o strategy tothe game, as well as a resh way ocreating destruction in your path.However, the players overall willnotice practically no diference inthe campaign rom the previousgame.

    e multiplayer is where thegame starts to look like a newinvention. e player can chooserom ve diferent classes to playas such as an Inltrator wieldinga shotgun, a Medic who can re-vive players or an Engineer who

    is good with repairing structuresand building turrets. Similar gamemodes to the previous games areavailable, such as Guerilla War-are, which is a straightorwardteam deathmatch style game play,

    which just relies on body count asthe objective to win.

    Killzone 2s Warzone hasalso made a return in Killzone 3 asanother option or multiplayer ac-tion. Warzone is a multi-missionbased mode which has the playerson teams competing in diferentobjectives such as Body Count,

    Assas sination (targeting a singleteam member) or Capture andHold (an area deense mode).

    e new mode or Killzone 3

    is Operations. Operations havethe two teams, one is the Earthbased Interplanetary Strategic

    Alliance (ISA) and the other the

    Helghast, trying to take over ordestroy the others base o opera-tions. For example, in one map,the ISA must destroy a Helghandam. e cool thing about thismode is that at the end o thegame, depending on which team

    wins, a specia l cut scene will takeplace. e cut scene depicts heroicevents o a player who contributedthe most to the victory against theother team that ended up ailingin their eforts and are ultimatelydestroyed. e multiplayer pro-gression uses a simple levelingsystem, 45 in total. When level-ing up, the player can choose toupgrade certain weapons rom thevarious classes, such as upgradingthe Engineers sentry gun or get-ting a more powerul sniper rieor the Marksman class.

    Players can also play in theBotzone. e Botzone is a place

    where players can play aga inst A Iin various game modes and team

    make-ups. With all o the goodthings Killzone 3 brings, thereare some problems with it thatirked me throughout the game.

    e rst is the little annoyancesin the campaign. e AI team-mates would oten not be ableto see your dead body staring atthem in the ace when they lookaround to revive you i you aredying. Another problem is that

    the character will randomly clipthrough the environment and getstuck in certain places, which canbe annoying i the player is in themiddle o combat.

    A big gripe about this gameis the annoying acceleration thattakes efect when you move yoursight around. is was also pres-ent in Killzone 2and isnt any lessannoying. It makes it dicult tomove your target onto exactly

    whom you want to i your sensi-tivity is on the higher side. Onceyou get used to it, however, it be-comes easier to target.

    With these problems, Killzone3 is still a very acceptable sequel tothe previous games in the series.

    It rightully earns its place as oneo the best shooters on the Playsta-tion 3 so ar, and it will take a lotto best it in the uture.

    GAMES

    Killzone 3

    CONSOLE: PlayStation 3

    GENRE: First Person Shooter

    DEVELOPER: GuerrillaGames

    RATING: M

    RELEASED: Feb. 22, 2011

    OUR TAKE:

    through a rampage and a lengthyZelda-esque boss-ght with a car-nivorous plant. is kind o heavyscripting would normally be sti-ing, but the point system invitesenough improvisation to keep theexperience eeling uid and resh.Stygia is an absolutely beautiuldystopia with clever architectureand polished landscapes.

    Next time, however, Epic and

    People Can Fly, the other devel-oper, should spend a little moretime ne-tuning the engine. Forthe most part, the game is quitestable, though I did encounter aew collision bugs that orced meto reload rom checkpoints.

    e multiplayer is heartbreak-ing. e lack o any kind o localmultiplayer is a criminal omissionbecause Bulletstorm would havemade an outstanding party game.

    Another, less-keenly elt absence isthe lack o a PvP mode. e onlykind o head-to-head game playis Echoes mode, which is es-sentially a score attack mode withleader boards.

    e real meat o the onlineexperience is essentially a Horde

    Mode clone, where a team o ourplayers take out waves o enemies

    while trying to score as manypoints as possible. Setting up orassisting your team with an elabo-rate team skill-shot is exhilarat-ing, but the experience is best en-

    joyed with riends. Not being ableto invite a riend over or a roundor two is a tremendous missed op-portunity.

    Bulletstorm is not quite as greata game as it could be, and its crass-ness may turn a ew people of,but it is an enjoyable over-the-topromp with a meaty campaign andseveral good ideas.

    I you are looking or some-thing new in rst-person-shooting

    that is available to all the gam-ing systems rom Playstation 3 toXBox 360 to Windows, g ive thisscrewball comedy a try.

    Bullet from page 13

    Image courtesy of Geurrilla Games

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    Radiohead keeps songs simple

    By Yameen HuqContributing Writer

    Feb. 18, 2011 saw the releaseo Radioheads latest album TeKing of Limbs. A digression romthe bands previous work, this al-bum provides stark atonal soundslaced with minimalistic percus-sion rhythms.

    e album starts out withBloom. Its a sparse, minimal-istic song that relies on a repeat-ing drum pattern and eremin-esque sounds. ese sounds aresprinkled with brie vocals that

    help guide along what is generallya slow, contemplative piece. esong runs a bit too long and, un-ortunately, relies too much on thesame repeating motis.

    Morning Mr. Magpie ol-lows Bloom. More ethereal andast-paced, this song is driven bypulsing, rhythmic baselines. esong, like its predecessor, is stillbare-boned, but the aster paceand almost oreign eel give it amuch stronger kick. A great songor thinking, Morning Mr. Mag-pie is surrealism meets minimal-ism.

    Next on the list is Little byLittle which ollows the albumtrend o generally increasing the

    energy and tempo o each suc-cessive song. Built upon the re-peating, light sounds o a drummachine, the song is much more

    reminiscent o Radioheads previ-ous work. Interspersed with eerie,airy vocals, this song has a muchmore classic eel and is an im-provement rom the previous twosongs in terms o momentum.

    Feral is the next piece. Heav-ily emphasizing rhythms, the songrelies substantially less on melodyand more on sweeping drumbeats.e only melodies placed on topo the beats are haunting, ghostlysounds created by synthesizers

    and the human voice. e eerie,renetic eel o this song continuesto convey the abstract nature othis album.

    e next song, Lotus Flower,is again very limited and con-strained in its sounds. e vastmajority o this song is again acomplex drumbeat with occa-sional electronic harmonies as ac-companiment. e song carries astrong urban eel and has a tonesteeped in modernity.

    Changing the atmosphere isthe ollowing song, Codex. Re-placing drums or soter pianomusic, the song interminglesthis with whispery wind instru-ments to create a nostalgic, almost

    mournul atmosphere. e lyricshere are sung normally and aremostly a return to Radioheadsmore traditional songs. Fans who

    were displeased with the experi-mental qualities o this album cannd much more standard are toenjoy in this song.

    e penultimate song, GiveUp e Ghost, is an even moretraditional song. Relying onacoustic guitars and old bongosinstead o drum machines, thissong contrasts the urban eel o itspredecessors or a more harmon-ic, natural tone. e choral vo-cals echo harmoniously with the

    acoustic sounds and end in slow,soothing whispers.

    However, the nal song, Sepa-rator, returns to where the albumstarted: more drum machines.

    While not bad, the drumbeat swill wear on anyone who listensto this album rom beginning toend. Overall, this last song man-ages to combine some o the natu-ral vocals o the later songs withthe urban drum machines o thebeginning songs.

    is albums experimentalnature is not or everyone. erecord is short, and the acoustic,mainstream songs in this albumare ar and ew. Anyone who isinterested in contemplative, inno-

    vative music that embraces qualityover sheer complexity or traditionwill greatly enjoy Radioheads lat-est oray into innovative music.

    MUSIC

    RadioheadThe King of Limbs

    LABEL: Self-Released

    GENRE: Alternative Rock,Electronic

    TRACK PICKS: Bloom and

    Little by Little

    OUR TAKE:

    By Andrew NelsonContributing Writer

    Nearly every city, metropolisor nowheresville in the Southeastincludes some variety o barbe-cue. Atlanta, with its established

    wealth o cuisine, hosts a bluesybrand o barbecue.

    ough barbecue restaurantsare spread across the city, the best

    are usually on the east side o In-terstate 85. is week, we oundour ribs and blues at MaddysBBQ in North Decatur, about amile east o Emory.

    A beaming man in an apronawaited us behind the register, theprimed open barbecue pit behindhim. eir oferings were slabs oribs, a hal or quarter o a chickenor a combination o the two.

    A good ribs joint doesnt relyon variety to be winner. In act,Maddys was Access Atlantas2006 pick or best ribs and City-search Atlantas pick in 2008.

    ey also ofer the usual assort-ment o sides, including coleslaw,rum baked beans, Brunswick

    stew, potato salad and macaroniand cheese.About 10 minutes ater order-

    ing, we had our ull rack o ribs

    ($18.95), mac-n-cheese ($2), a ewslices o white bread and a ewounces o barbecue sauce or dip-ping.

    Maddys sauce has an excellentbold tomato, savory avor. iswas pleasantly unexpected as itcontrasts with the usual


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