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For the past few years, John Stasko and his col-leagues have been promot-ing the use of a particular computer program that they have titled Jigsaw, cre-ating a lot of buzz.

Jigsaw, which is a free and downloadable desktop software that performs as a tool for document analy-sis, has been receiving large positive feedback from its users, which are exter-nal organizations across the country. According to Stasko, these organizations have found this program to be a helpful resource.

“One police department recently told us that Jigsaw helped them with a case and allowed them to arrest someone, get their thoughts

together, and !gure out who to further investigate,” Stasko said.

So far, Jigsaw has been used in backgrounds from journalism to law enforce-ment, and with the contin-uous stockpiling of docu-ments, Jigsaw eases the care of these !les. Speci!cally, according to Stasko, the program has been used by the fusion center in Seattle, Wash., a police detective case in Rockhill, S.C. and a religious scholar at Emory. Jigsaw has also been con-sidered by the Atlanta and Georgia Tech Police De-partment (GTPD) as well.

Stasko, a member of the School of Interactive Computing, and his team worked to make the Jigsaw program a simple and ef-fective way to analyze large documents sets. While Jig-

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According to the Geor-gia O#ce of Planning and Budget (OPB), increase in revenue from the Georgia Lottery will be used to in-crease the amounts award-ed for Helping Outstand-ing Pupils Educationally (HOPE) scholarships and grants by three percent.

In estimates from the Governor’s Budget Report released earlier last week, Georgia Lottery revenues increased to $910,819,213 from $866,365,210, which is approximately a $44 million and !ve percent increase from the previous year. $e lottery grossed $3.8 billion in the most

recent !scal year, up from $3.6 billion in the previous year. $e recent approval of online purchases of tick-ets by lottery o#cials may have contributed to this increase.

According to state law, a change in the Georgia Lottery revenues must correspond to a similar change in the expenditures on HOPE awards and the state’s Pre-K program, “Bright from the Start.” $is means that when rev-enue from the lottery in-creases, spending on these programs also increases. Conversely, when the lot-tery revenue fund decreas-es, it must be recovered by cuts in these programs.

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more and more data to handle, and we all know that people can only keep so much straight in our heads, and our goal of the program was to add ‘sense mak-ing’ to large sets of documents,” Stasko said.

After importing a large set of documents into the soft-ware, the software analyzes the content of each document and visualizes the set for easier re-view of the material, and once it processes the document sets, Jigsaw sets up di!erent views of the materials.

Jigsaw also provides di!er-ent views that are available for reviewing document sets, such as document viewer, list viewer, cluster view, word tree views and other document visuals.

"e purpose of these visuals and organizational applications are to identify themes, connec-tions, di!erences, similarities and other elements in individual documents or documents sets that need to be analyzed.

Because the program stands as visualization software for complicated sets of data and documents, the extent of its use can considered in journalism, research, private investigations or simple document manage-ment.

While the program has been strongly favored in the eyes of some law enforcement depart-ments, Stasko hopes that it will extend beyond current usage.

“I would bed more excited if more police forces or intelligence agencies that found bene#t from it,” Stasko said. “Even academic researchers could potentially #nd it that way.”

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Tech may soon be launching its #rst, in-house developed satel-lite into outer space.

Earlier this month, a team of over 60 undergraduate and graduate students in the AE de-partment won #rst place for their microsatellite, Prox-1, in the Uni-versity Nanosatellite Program (UNP). "e result of a Senior Design class and undergraduate research, Prox-1 will be launched into space from the Air Force Re-search Laboratory in 2015.

"e students were in control of the entire process, from the original design to making the satellite %ight ready. On aver-age, they would work from two to four hours a week, though in "crunch times" students could be

expected to work upwards of 40 hours a week.

"You'd be surprised how com-fortable two chairs pulled to-gether like a bed in a lab can be," said Prox-1 Project Manager and #fth-year AE student Kiichiro Deluca.

"e Prox-1 project was par-ticularly ambitious because of its size compared to other universi-ties satellites. Most universities build 10x10x30 cm satellites, while Prox-1 was 40x40x27 cm, or about the size of a co!ee table.

“Seeing the progress the stu-dents made and how the satellite brought them together was the most rewarding part of the Prox-1 project,” said principal investi-gator Professor David Spencer.

"e Prox-1 microsatellite’s pri-mary mission is to carry out auto-mated proximity operations. Two

spacecraft will be launched, a 50 kg satellite and a 10 kg satellite known as a Cube Sat, which will contain solar sail technology to be analyzed for further research.

Microsatellites have a promis-ing future in both the military and private sector. Because they are unmanned, the satellites can be used for servicing and in-spection in space. Also, because of their compact size, they take less time to build and have lower costs.

Presently, the Prox-1 team is re#ning the microsatellite for the launch. Prox-1 is expected to be %ight-ready and meet the Air Force’s standards for space%ight hardware and documentation.

“Building a satellite was the easy part, managing the people and orchestrating their e!orts was the hard part,” Deluca said.

"e competition is adminis-tered by the Air Force Research Laboratory, Air Force O$ce of Scienti#c Research and the American Institute of Aeronau-tics and Astronautics. UNP cycles every two years, and par-ticipants from universities across America design, build and test satellites.

"e Prox-1 team hopes that Tech will eventually become a powerhouse in developing and launching small spacecraft. "ey also hope that other universities and companies will turn to Tech to work on and learn about mic-rosatellites.

“At the end of the day, it was a dream come true just putting something up into space; it was what I had always aspired for,” Deluca said.

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When looking for time esti-mates for Stingers and Tech Trol-leys, students have been met with disappointment. For the past two weeks as all they saw was the mes-sage, “Transit service operating normally but unable to provide times and locations. Apologies.”

"is Tuesday marked the #rst time this semester that everything was back online, including the Nextbus services time estimates at bus stops and on mobile applica-tions.

“I started seeing some initial problems certainly after we got back from Christmas Break and New Years started…there were times when one or two buses might go out and usually it was an equipment issue with the GPS unit in the vehicles. "is was be-yond that,” said David William-

son, the Associate Director for Transportation at Parking and Transportation Services (PTS).

"e problem stemmed from the outdated nature of two main technologies used in vehicles, as well as the cellular industry con-tinually making changes to net-work capacities. PTS worked in conjunction with OIT, as well as the manufacturers of the GPS devices on the buses, to get to the bottom of the problem and come up with a solution to it.

“"e devices on the bus are basically a GPS receiver that cal-culates the current location and a cellular radio that takes that loca-tion and uses the cellular network to transport that information ev-ery 10 seconds or so to our serv-ers that we operate. Our informa-tion then goes to Nextbus, which controls the display of the data received while also [making it] available for lots of other uses on

campus,” said Dr. Russell Clark, the Associate Director of the Re-search Network Operations Cen-ter.

"e entire cellular industry continues to introduce more and more devices into mobile tele-communications technology that use 3G and 4G networks. "ese introductions reduce the capacity of the 2G networks, and can be seen re%ected in the performance of the technology on these buses, running on 2G, and their connec-tions and data rates continually slowing down.

"e temporary solution to this problem, as explained by Clark, involved code being put into the OIT servers that forces the devices to reset and reconnect to overcome the problems with connectivity.

“"at’s the band-aid that’s go-ing to get us through until we get these devices are replaced,” Clark said.

Because of how unpredictable the network connectivity can be, it is impossible to predict if prob-lems with location services that occurred in the #rst two weeks of this semester will happen again in the near or distant future. "is is why the plans for replacements of the technology have been acceler-ated to happen during either the next summer or fall semester.

“"e technology has been in place for about nine years, [and] we’re in the process of trying to replace that equipment. In the fall semester, [we] started talking with a couple of di!erent vendors about that..."e technology is a little bit old, and it’s time to replace it,” Williamson said.

“"ere will be no surplus or de#cit [from the lottery funds],” said David Lakly, Director of Education Division of OPB. “All projected lottery revenue in FY 2014 will be spent on HOPE and Pre-K programs.”

Although the award amounts for HOPE scholarships are expect-ed to increase, not all line items of the HOPE fund are recommended to increase. "e total budgetary amount of the HOPE scholarship is anticipated to increase from $408,235,018 to $424,345,076, an increase of approximately $16 million, while the amount under that sum attributed to the Zell Miller Scholarships will decrease by approximately one million dollars. Additionally, the HOPE scholarship budget for private schools, separate from the bud-get for public schools, decreased by approximately seven million dollars - yet, the three percent in-crease remained.

"e Governor’s o$ce and the OPB feel con#dent that the cur-rent lottery funding, in conjunc-tion with the recent changes in the HOPE scholarship, which has doled out $6.7 billion and given awards to 1.8 million students since its inception in 1993, will keep HOPE #nancially secure.

“Based on our projections, the programs are on solid #nancial ground for years to come,” Lakly said. “HOPE reform legislation already passed has safeguarded the long-term sustainability of the program.”

Changes in the HOPE scholar-ship two years ago have left many students worried about paying for school. On Mar. 15, 2011, Gov. Nathan Deal signed the bill that kept full tuition for the highest

achieving students under the new Zell Miller Scholarship, and re-duced the HOPE scholarship to 90 percent of tuition, adjustable each year to balance the lottery revenues and expenditures.

Concerns over the future fund-ing of HOPE led to Student Body President Eran Mordel to vote in support of casino gambling “for the purposes of supporting higher education, speci#cally the HOPE scholarship,” in a non-binding vote at conference call of the Student Advisory Council, an inter-university council of Student Government representatives.

Other student governments at universities across the state have passed resolutions in support of measures to increase revenues to pay for HOPE. "e University of Georgia Student Government Association passed one resolution supporting using Video Lottery Terminals to generate additional money to support scholarships.

"e release of the Governor’s Budget Report represents the #rst step in the state’s budgetary process. After the release of the Governor’s report, the Georgia House of Representatives reviews the budget, amends it and sends it to the Senate. "e Senate con-ducts its own review and passes its own amendments. "e di!erences between the versions are resolved in a conference committee, and after #nal legislative approval, the #nished budget is sent to the Gov-ernor for his signature.

As over 200,000 Georgia stu-dents receive money from the HOPE and Zell Miller scholar-ships, discussions about the schol-arship’s funding are unlikely to cease. But for next year at least, recipients will have a little more money in their pockets.

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Ethics at Tech!e crucial link between education and life after Tech

!rough their many years of study, students will face a myriad of ethical is-sues. Aerospace engineers have the lives of hundreds of passengers aboard a plane they’ve designed. International a"airs stu-dents have to make the call as whether to preemptively invade another country or not. While these are only hypothetical situations for most students, examples like these are ones that most, if not all, of us may one day face in our future careers.

Currently, the independent ethics class-es that Tech o"ers do not su#ciently ad-dress the respective issues that many dif-ferent majors face on a daily basis in the classroom. Across the board, there are chances for discussion about ethical issues that present themselves in core courses that may go untouched due to the as-sumption that a separate ethics course will eventually address them. If ethical consid-erations were integrated into 4000-level core courses, the possibility of a deeper

exploration into the ethical issues one may face can be studied in detail and in a man-ner conducive to the course being taught.

A deeper and more integrated approach to ethical study could help to aid students in garnering a larger interest in the study of ethics in their $eld, rather than showing li%le interest and taking a general course just for the grade. In turn, this could give students the tools to approach many of the ethical problems that they will undoubt-edly face in their future endeavours.

Our professors are giving us the tools to shape and form the world that we will one day come to inhabit, and so we must have an ethical understanding of what it is that we may or may not choose to create. It is because of this that Tech, a well-known leader in the technical $elds, should focus on promoting a stronger focus in ethical studies that other institutions can use a model to follow and help the world’s future scientists create a be%er world overall.

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Beijing has always been good at being ‘o! the charts.’ Anyone who has observed China’s remark-able economic growth or watched the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics can attest to this fact. Recent air pollution readings coming out of Beijing keep in step with this tradition.

At 8 p.m, on Jan. 12th, Bei-jing’s Air Quality Index was re-corded to be 755, more than 200 points above the supposed maxi-mum of 500.

China’s environmental prob-lems are no secret. "e 2008 Olympics turned the global spot-light onto China’s pollution prob-lems when concerns where raised as to whether or not the athletes participating would be able to perform at their usual levels due to the overwhelming levels of air pollution in Beijing. "e World Wildlife Fund reports that in addition to severe air pollution, around 40 percent of the rivers in China contain water un#t for hu-man consumption. Nearly 30 per-cent of China’s land has su!ered from deserti#cation, the environ-mental phenomenon in which dry land loses water, wildlife and vegetation. In 2006, China passed the U.S. to become, by volume, the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases.

"e country has, of course, tak-en steps to mitigate the environ-mental issues it faces. In Novem-ber of last year, China announced the introduction of a mandatory “social risk assessment” for all ma-jor industrial projects as a method of gaging the environmental im-pact of new developments. On a smaller scale, the government of Guangzhou, one of the biggest au-tomobile manufacturing cities in China, announced that it would begin to limit the number of ve-hicles on the road with lotteries and auctions for license plates for new cars, thus cutting down the amount of new cars on the city’s street by roughly half.

But the news coming out of Beijing this weekend signals that the country’s pollution problem has escalated to a new level. "e index, which is established upon

the Environmental Protection Agency’s standards, marks an air pollution rating of 400 or above as “hazardous for all.” "e level recorded in China on Saturday night was nearly double that. By contrast, on the same day, using the same standards, New York City received an air quality rating of 19. "e rising levels of pollu-tion in China are a testament to the fact that the steps taken by the Chinese government are neither dramatic nor intense enough to seriously combat the air pollution issue.

By virtue of the ecological structures of our planet, climate change isn’t just China’s problem; it’s the world’s. Higher green-house emission levels from China means increased levels of climate change globally. Water pollution in China translates to lower wa-ter quality worldwide. Scientists across the U.S. have pointed to climate change as one of the chief causes for the severity of weather disasters such as Hurricane Sandy. 2012 was the hottest year ever re-corded.

Hence, climate change is, by nature, an international issue. Ul-timately, this means the U.S. has less control over this issue than issues such as gun control or the debt ceiling. "e U.S. acting uni-laterally in the eleventh hour will bring no solution to this problem. Furthermore, that same interna-tional aspect of the issue means that the actions of any and every country around the globe have re-percussions in the U.S.

However, the U.S. is and, for the foreseeable future, will be a superpower. In terms of environ-mental issues, this means the re-sponsibility of seriously tackling the issue lies with the U.S. Only once we begin to do so, will China and other countries follow in step. "e U.S. must show a commit-ment to putting an end to human-made climate change before we can expect other nations to do the same.

Moreover, the scale of the issue means that there exists no quick #x, no silver bullet. Instead, so-lutions to the problem must be multi-faceted and must be based around a long-term plan. All of these factors point to the fact that the time for action is now.

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It was still dark outside when the plane landed. I was groggy and barely awake after !ying through multiple time zones on a 24-hour !ight from Singapore to Atlanta.

For a brief moment, Atlan-ta’s Harts"eld-jackson Interna-tional Airport was a scary and confusing place. It took me a couple of min-utes to gather my thoughts and "gure out that you needed to take a tram to baggage claim.

It was from there that I dragged my two huge bags, in search of way that I could make it safely onto campus. Long sto-ry short, it was the most expen-sive cab fare I’ve ever had.

#e cab glided softly along the highway just as the sun was beginning to peak over the hori-zon. So, this was the city? One of the main reasons I chose Tech was its description of be-ing located in ‘Midtown’ and a ‘city campus.’ Coming from a densely populated island-city "lled with a sea of skyscrapers, I felt like I just stumbled upon a small town with a few tall build-ings scattered here and there. Not good.

For the "rst time, I was afraid, so afraid I had made the wrong choice of going to college far away from home without knowing a single person. Every-thing was foreign and there was literally not a single soul I knew. I was 18, and it was the "rst day of freshman year.

And it de"nitely wasn’t the last time I had that fear of being in the wrong place. Fast forward to now, and suddenly, it is my last semester at Tech. It all went by way too fast. #inking back,

it dawned on me, to my surprise, how much I’ll miss being in At-lanta after I’m gone.

#is city really has a way of growing on you. I love the drive back to Atlanta whenever

you head out for whatever rea-sons. You stare as the skyline slowly begins to emerge over the long wide highway, and of course, the pencil building, like a pinpoint on a trusty map, guiding you

home. But even more so than the

places, it’s the people that make a city. #e roommates who al-ways o$er to cook me dinner when I have a huge project to turn in the next day, or take spontaneous trips with me to the corn maze in Buford, or skydiving in Cedartown. #e friends who always make sure I get a ride back from the airport when I come back from a trip. #e friends that always makes me feel like I’m coming home again for the "rst time.

And now, on the cusp of graduation, we’re all going to go somewhere new to do whatever it is we have to do. While I’ll miss Atlanta, I know the next city I live in would have its own story waiting to unfold for me.

It’s the little things that make you fall in love with a city when you least expect it. It’s the little things that you take for granted on a daily basis. It’s the little things that go unnoticed every day that leave the biggest hole to "ll when you’re miles away, half-way around the globe. So take a moment and embrace where you call home. You may not know it, but it could the place you’ll end up missing the most.

When I began this incredibly long journey of redesigning the Technique, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. On a week-to-week basis, our sta$, myself included, is spoiled to use the tools, templates and styles developed and programmed by editorial boards of yore and we never, ever, peek behind the curtain for fear of permanently breaking a vital part of our pa-per. Needless to say, actually diving deep into the Technique stylesheet and template was an eye-opening experience.

Initially, I proposed the concept to Kamna, our Editor-in-Chief, simply as a way to improve the look of the paper. Over the years, new content drove the addition of small re-peating segments, such as Cam-pus Crime, Council Clippings and City Scene, each with its own distinct, and often poor, design. #is disjointed vision certainly did not represent the paper well, as a whole, and made people with a design-centric background, such as myself, cringe.

And thus began an almost six-month journey to what you

have in your hands today.With the help of our in-

credible talented design editor emeritus Brittany Miles (who, both fortunately and unfortu-nately, is studying abroad Down Under this semester), I poured through font after font, went through countless revisions and garnered input from a variety of people at the Technique, on Tech’s campus and even from schools from around the coun-try. Visually, the new Technique is exactly what we had hoped to come up with at the inception and is a drastic departure from our previous, and admittedly dated, design.

However, as the process moved forward, it became evi-dent that there was a massive

opportunity to not only remake the look of the paper, but to re-evaluate every portion of our content, ensuring all parts are truly a worthwhile use of valu-able real estate within each is-sue, especially to our readers, you, the students, faculty and sta$ of the Technique. #e read-ership of any publication should drive the published content. Af-ter all, what is a paper, website or even twitter feed without its readership? We believe it’s abso-lutely nothing.

#is fundamental question has led to the omission of some older segments, and even the addition of some newer ones. And, more importantly, this led to a major refresh of our online presence. Not only have we re-

freshed the look of our aging website, the site is optimized for any size screen you may own, from smartphone to desktop. De"nitely take some time to check it out at nique.net.

You’ll also "nd our newest addition to the Technique: Ev-erything Around Tech. Again with the reader "rmly in mind, we’ve built a robust platform where student organizations and outside businesses, alike, can share events happening on and around campus. Not a tra-ditional campus calendar, Ev-erything Around Tech works to provide a variety of events that are of interest to students.

Ultimately, we at the Tech-nique appreciate and seriously consider all feedback from our readership. Please do not hesi-tate to contact either Kamna (at editor@nique.net) or myself (at managing.editor@nique.net) if you have any questions, concerns or comments about the redesign or even the Technique in general. I sincerely hope you enjoy the new Technique and look forward to continuing to produce the South’s Liveliest College Newspaper.

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“CS, because I’m super excited about it and I think

I’ll be good at it.”

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“ME 2110, working in groups building robots.”

T. DhananiFirst-year CS“Physics.”

What class are you most excited about this semester?

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Television is gripping the na-tion. It is everywhere, it plays to every possible audience de-mographic and it covers every subject you can think of. We watch television about zombies, television about early-20th-cen-tury British aris-tocratic families and, as the Gold-en Globes have recently proved, sometimes we just watch televi-sion about televi-sion.

As a com-plete television addict, I can attest to the fact that the tube can take over your life if you let it. I have had two LOST marathons in the past year alone. #ere is just noth-ing sweeter than discovering a new show, meeting the new characters, immersing yourself in the plotlines and twists and before you know it, it’s 5 o’clock in the morning and you’ve "n-ished the "rst three seasons. But every time this happens, though it can be so much fun, I know in the back of my mind that man was not put on this earth to sit in front of a screen. #ere are so many things that I cannot expe-rience because I choose to expe-rience television, and with the start of another back-breaking semester here at Tech, time has become something that I cannot a$ord to waste. So I have had to ask myself a question. How big of a role should television play in life?

Of course, when I say tele-vision, I don’t mean the news, the weather or anything that might actually be useful to my life. No, I’m talking about com-edies and dramas, action heroes and clowns. But is my undy-ing campaign of hatred against Jo$rey Baratheon really worth

all the time I put into it (Yes.)? What about my respect for Ron Swanson’s opinion of vegetar-ian bacon? I suppose the hon-est answer would be that no, television-based entertainment

should not take precedence over schoolwork or life in general, and I should therefore cut all ties with the tube right here and now. But what a boring world that would be! If we consid-er education and

success in life to be the ultimate goal, completely predominant over entertainment, then we may as well just hand our brains over to the robots now and save ourselves a war. Of course, I wouldn’t be anywhere near this university if I didn’t value edu-cation above all else, but some-times it can be a good thing to sit back and give the gears a break. And say what you want about television, but in my ex-perience it has proven itself time and again to be one of the best ways to escape the problems of this world, take a step back and catch my breath.

Overall, I wholeheartedly agree that television is a com-plete waste of time. On paper, it is clear that every second I spend in front of a screen is a second that I could spend building bridges, !ying to Mars or simply bettering mankind. But nothing is ever so black and white. I am human, and our species’ ability to waste time is what separates us from the animals. Maybe television makes me a more cul-tured, knowledgeable individu-al, or maybe it gives me a better perspective on what is really im-portant in life. But one thing is for sure: it helps. And so it stays.

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When I was a freshman, I found myself chock-full of feel-ings. Part of me was enthusias-tic and eager—simply over the thought of coming to college; it represented freedom, fun and a fresh start. !e other part of my freshman self was anxious about who I would choose to become, given this opportunity.

A fresh start allows you to mold yourself into who you want to be. You can get involved, pick your friends, stay up late and eat what you want. College gives you the chance to create a new You—with new habits, too.

Now, I knew I was coming to the one and only Tech: an institu-tion with revered academics and rich tradition. However, I found that the stereotype of Tech being a “drinking school with an engi-neering problem” contained trace amounts of validity. I didn’t know if I should be excited or worried about this tongue-in-cheek repu-tation. For starters, I’m not an engineer, so there’s that. More on subject, however, I had rarely even crossed paths with the drinking lifestyle through my high school days. Don’t judge.

Since then, I’ve learned that we (students) drink for a multitude of reasons: celebration, stress, boredom, habit and just for that temporary loss of inhibition that can at times feel liberating. How-ever, Tech’s student body also has

had negative consequences related to drinking. Recent years have brought increases in alcohol-relat-ed incidents, ejections from ath-letic events and hospitalizations. !at’s not exactly the “fun” I was looking forward to when I came to Tech.

In the spring semester of 2011, I had the opportunity to join in on a vision with a handful of pas-sionate, driven and ridiculous (in a good way) individuals. !e goal was to rede"ne what it meant to have fun in college. We knew one thing: alcohol abuse is a problem on our campus. Tech already has fantastic resources for "ghting this issue, but there was a void. Where was the fun alternative to drinking? We decided to address this issue by doing what students do best, partying.

And so, Wreckless was born. If you haven’t heard about it yet, Wreckless is a student organiza-tion with a mission to throw o#-the-chain parties as an alterna-

tive to abusing alcohol or drugs. We’ve hosted several events since our founding: Snow My Gosh, Don’t Worry Beach Happy, Jama-zon Rageforest and a few others.

We’re not here to be just an-other club nor a social wrist-slap-per. Instead, we want to foster a community of Tech students who want to have an unforget-table weekend without alcohol, drugs and the consequences that can sometimes come with them. We want Wreckless to be a com-munity that anyone can join for a great time—whether you attend because of a lifestyle choice you’ve made or you just want a night o# from your normal routine.

And on that note, you can start tonight! Wreckless is hosting “CAUTION: Flannable!” tonight at the Tech Green from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. !e theme is $annel, so throw it own if you own it and come join us for a FLANtastic time. Check it out on facebook (along with the Wreckless page).

OUR VIEWS

Four-Day Week Sonnet #18

Ah, the four-day week. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Perhaps not, but I guess I will so long as men can breathe, or eyes can see. So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. But for real, four-day weeks are pre!y amazing.

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Fast-Falling Falcons

Let those who don’t believe in curses be warned. !e At-lanta sports curse is alive and well! Point in case, our one and only hope to breaking it, the Falcons, lost their "nal playo# game, proving that voodoo is actually a real thing.

‘Murica!!!Whether she lip-synced it

or not, Beyonce Knowles re-minded the nation once again why Francis Scott Key penned our great national anthem that fateful night in 1812 and why it is so great to live this nation that we call home.

!e Long HaulGet all the fresh water and

survival supplies that your North Ave dorm can hold be-cause we’re in it for the long haul now. We o%cially have eight more weeks until our next break for class. Remem-ber: just breathe.

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Researchers at Tech are mak-ing strides in the !eld of robotic intelligence through projects that look to both human and ani-mal behavior as inspiration. Dr. Ronald Arkin, Director of Tech’s Mobile Robot Laboratory and Regents’ Professor in the College of Computing, and his team are investigating these behaviors and working to implement them in robotic systems.

Dr. Arkin and his students and colleagues are working to discover how they can transfer animal instincts to robots, en-hancing their capabilities.

“We’ve spent a good amount

of time looking at human behav-ior, but we always look at ani-mals as well. You’d be surprised how smart they are. I think in many ways our intelligence when viewed by ourselves is a little overrated. Animals have to be ex-tremely smart to survive in their environments… they have to be successful predators, and most of them are,” Arkin said.

Funded by the O"ce of Naval Research, Dr. Arkin is currently working on a basic research chal-lenge that also involves naviga-tion techniques. He is collaborat-ing with another faculty member, Frank Dellart, an Associate Pro-fessor whose work is in the areas of robotics and computer vision.

Dr. Arkin and Dr. Dellart are

investigating ways of implement-ing a concept called optical #ow, which they compare to driving down the highway and seeing everything streaming past. As this happens, people can recover depth with a single eye, thereby creating a ‘depth map’ of the world that relates the distance of objects from a particular view-point.

$e research is looking to change the way robots visually perceive their environments in a process known as mental rota-tion, which would make use of the depth map to create a frame of reference robots can follow di-rectionally.

“Humans and some higher-level primates have this capabil-

ity to perform mental rotations, which is similar to IQ tests where you identify objects with di%er-ent shapes. As we import those functions into robots to perform navigational tasks, our hunch is that they can be used for giving advice, the same way that hu-mans use maps,” Arkin said.

$ere may be practical impli-cations associated with the proj-ect, but Dr. Arkin emphasizes that the process itself has to be fully understood before they can see if it does !t a certain role in robotic intelligence.

“We’re not trying to under-stand in this case how to make the navigation process necessar-ily better, but how to use really solid techniques to help robots get from point A to point B and to understand why we as humans have this capability as well,” Ar-kin said.

Again inspired by biology, Dr. Arkin is leading a team on vari-ous projects for the U.S. Depart-ment of Defense investigating the potential for robots to learn how to deceive other robots and people as well, especially on the battle!eld. Dr. Arkin emphasized that deception, which is at this point a relatively understudied area of robotics initially requires trust. $ey studied this !rst in the situational context of know-ing when and how to deceive.

To this end, Dr. Arkin’s team has been studying other examples of deception, which is rampant in nature between predators and prey.

One of the examples that Dr. Arkin cited is the behavior of the

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For some students, apply-ing what they’ve learned in the classroom to real-world scenarios won’t happen until they leave Tech’s labs and lecture halls. For members of RoboJackets, howev-er, applying engineering principles is part of the job.

RoboJackets, a robotics club made up of Tech students, faculty and alumni, share an interest in building machines, programming software and competing against their peers.

“I joined RoboJackets because I was interested in hands-on de-signing and building. I remember watching BattleBots on TV as a kid and thinking that it would be really cool to build one some day,” said Kevin Umana, a !fth-year AE major and Project Manager for the BattleBots team.

$e organization is made up of four teams that participate in competitions throughout the year. Each team works on various proj-ects with di%erent design param-eters and goals.

$e Intelligent Ground Ve-hicle Competition (IGVC) group

works on 300-pound autonomous robots which operate outdoors in o%-road conditions. Obstacles have to be avoided by the robot alone without a human controller.

$e IGVC group competes in an annual competition held by the Association of Unmanned Ve-hicle Systems where thirty teams put their robots through a course given by GPS waypoints.

RoboCup teams design au-tonomous robots. $e robots are smaller and compete in soccer tournaments against other auton-omous robots in teams of six.

$e robots must communicate with each other to outsmart their opponents.

$e RoboCup team has com-peted in tournaments around the world since 2007.

“My favorite event so far has been the RoboCup 2011 in Is-tanbul, Turkey. It was a lot of fun meeting other teams and making new friends at these events. Also it gave me the opportunity to travel,” said Nikolaus Mitchell, a third-year ME major.

$e team is currently working on its robots for the 2013 Robo-Cup, which will be held in Eind-hoven, $e Netherlands.

$e third competitive team, BattleBots, builds medium-sized robots that can withstand con-stant pummeling. Robots are pit-ted one on one against each other in an arena while under the con-trol of a human driver.

$e nature of BattleBots large-ly requires mechanical skills to make the most durable robot pos-sible, but electrical and program-ming skills are still necessary.

“One of the biggest skills I have learned is how to machine metal into useful parts. I have also learned a great deal about electronics that were never taught in the classes I’ve taken,” Umana said.

$is April, the BattleBots team will travel to San Mateo, Calif. to compete in RoboGames.

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It could happen, and if it does, that little Roomba’s wall-bump-ing, #oor-vacuuming antics won’t be so cute when it grows a tita-nium arm and piercing red ma-chine-eye à la Terminator.

Even Cambridge University re-searchers and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking agree that sen-tient robots could be “mankind’s ultimate undoing.” In the very real chance that we live to see the hellish !restorm, here are some tips to stay alive.

RECOGNIZE THE EARLY STAGESMost people won’t notice the

imminent robot apocalypse until Christian Bale goes down, guns blazing. According to Dr. Daniel H. Wilson, bestselling robotics engineer, “If [a robot] is doing something that’s outside the scope of what it was made to do, you should be very suspicious.”

KNOW YOUR LIMITSIt’s well into the apocalypse,

and suddenly, you’re facing an an-gry humanoid android.

“[$ese robots are] not made out of material you’re going to be able to harm,” Dr. Wilson said.

If possible, avoid direct combat with robots and instead, employ the years of parkour training that preparing for the zombie apoca-lypse has given you to get away.

EXPLOIT WEAKNESSESRobots have cameras, motion

detectors, infrared sensors and microphones to visualize their surroundings.

More often than not, these sensors will be more vulnerable than the rest of the robot. Destroy these !rst; a robot that can’t see you probably can’t hurt you. Re-member, you still have hope.

GIVE UPJust kidding. Everything you

have been doing up to this point has basically been postponing the inevitable. A robot is emotionless; it doesn’t feel the frigid, gripping fear that haunts your every step. It carries out its actions with su-perior intelligence and steely e"-ciency. Good luck surviving.

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As a part of a seminar series hosted by Tech’s Center for Ro-botics and Intelligent Machines (RIM), representatives from the ocean data services provider Liq-uid Robotics spoke about their Wave Glider technology, the !rst wave-powered autonomous ve-hicle of its kind. Liquid Robotics is looking to hire students with the initiative and interest to help build an ocean infrastructure for collecting data.

"e marine robots harness en-ergy from currents in the ocean, taking no fuel—they are instead powered by solar panels. A sub-marine section underneath uses the ebb and #ow of powerful sur-face wave motion to thrust the Wave Glider forward on a series of articulated wings.

“"e Wave Glider technology e$ectively lowers the barriers to doing ocean research. It can be both expensive and dangerous to send out manned crews out on the open ocean for extended pe-riods of time, especially for when it comes to ocean data collection that has to be done far away from the shore,” said Dan Moroni, Proj-ect Strategist at Liquid Robotics.

As well as being economical and ecologically sound, Wave Gliders are also able to deliver im-mediate feedback to their pilots.

Equipped with GPS for navi-gation, communication capability with satellites, and sensors for data collection, sensors on the Wave Glider can be used to monitor everything from the presence of

oil and algae to real-time seismic activity for the many companies they have partnered with, such as Schlumberger Oil & Gas and Chevron.

“We have sensors on the ocean #oor collecting seismic data, and we can go out every six months to get and study that data, but what good is that if you’re not getting it in real-time? Our Wave Glider can sit above seismic centers and deliver the data as it’s gathered,” Moroni said.

Operating out of Sunnyvale, Calif., Liquid Robotics developed the Wave Glider within two years of the company’s foundation in 2007. "ey have deployed roughly 150 Wave Gliders so far, and at any given moment there are about 40 of them #oating out on ocean currents around the world.

"e marine vehicles can endure out on the ocean for up to a year at a time without needing to be refueled or recon!gured. "reats to the Wave Gliders’ longevity on missions include encrusters like barnacles, which attempt to turn the vehicles into a habitable zone.

Wave Gliders have come a long way since they completed their !rst long-distance endurance test in Jan. 2009, circumnavigating Hawaii’s Big Island. In Nov. 2011, Liquid Robotics deployed four Wave Gliders on a mission that would span involve a 9,000 nauti-cal-mile journey from the coast of San Francisco.

Along the way, they battled storms and sharks, relaying high-resolution oceanographic and at-mospheric data until one of the vehicles, “Papa Mau,” landed in

Australia after a year’s time and became the !rst autonomous ve-hicle to cross the Paci!c.

Integration is an essential part of Liquid Robotics’ projects. "ey want the Wave Glider to be a foundation upon which other re-searchers from a cross-disciplinary approach—from software engi-neering, electrical, mechanical and ocean science !elds—can ap-ply the platform and expand on it.

“We’ve created a thriving aca-demic program, hosting seminars all over the world with institu-tions’ oceanautics departments and other !elds. We talk to them about what we do and how we can !t in, the projects that they are working on and how we can

bene!t from each other’s work. We want to get the Wave Glider technology out to as many di$er-ent people as we can,” said Amy Rubsamen, Liquid Robotics’ Aca-demic Liaison and Sales Manager.

One of the greatest drives of the Wave Glider technology is to encourage problem-solving in ar-eas where the turbulent environ-ment and challenges presented by ocean climate a$ect human activities in ways that are not en-tirely understood. Measuring the di$erent factors that are involved with this environment is a vital function of the platform itself.

“"e ocean is extremely im-portant to global society…but much of it is also uncharted ter-

ritory that often corresponds with issues that need addressing like climate change and seismic activ-ity that can have a big impact on how we live,” Moroni said.

Liquid Robotics is current-ly considering the “larger than life” problems that they believe the cutting edge technology of Wave Gliders can help to address through the potential of future collaboration.

“It’s upsetting that we don’t know very much about our oceans, and I’m hoping that our platform will make them more ac-cessible to people from converging !elds who want to use the tech-nology for !nding solutions to major problems,” Moroni said.

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In the midst of a whirlwind of technological advancements, ro-bots continue to gain prevalence in modern society and Tech con-tinues to keep pace in the !eld.

Focus sat down with students to !nd out what kinds of robots they would like to see invented in the near future, and the impact that they would have.

Many students suggested ro-bots as a remedy for the repetitive and mundane tasks we deal with every day, from doing laundry to taking out the trash. However, Ashfaque Kachwala, a third-year IE major, has grander aspirations.

“I would like a robot that could teleport me. It would be as big as the entrance to the Geor-gia Dome and would allow me to teleport from here to India instan-taneously, so I could study and attend classes during the day here on campus and go back [to India]

at night to see friends and family,” Kachwala said.

Most people would agree that there are just not enough hours in the day, so the idea of cloning oneself is appealing. But because cloning and robotics are not in the same place at this time, Priya Bajaj, a third-year EE major, pro-posed a robot that would essen-tially live part of her life for her.

“"is robot would do half of my social activities and half of my academic activities, because at Tech I just cannot possibly do both. It could function on my command and change appearance on order,” said Bajaj.

A trend appeared between many students who desired a ro-bot that would take their places.

“How about a robot that would attend my classes, especially on rainy mornings at 8 a.m.? It would take my clicker quizzes for me, but I would take the tests,” said Rahul Castelino, a third-year EE major.

Others, like !rst-year EE major Sydney Geren, had humbler am-bitions for their robotic compan-ions.

“I need a robot that would get me down from my bunk bed be-cause I hate getting down myself. It would rise up from under the bunk, I would roll onto it and it would bring me to the ground. It’s simple enough, really... that would be nice,” Geren said.

Although many of these ideas may not be implemented in the near future, some students pre-sented ideas that are currently being developed. Leah French, a fourth-year PSY major, proposed a robot integrated into a car.

“Mine would be a robot that could drive me places. I drive a lot so it would be nice to be able to take a break. "e robot would be

built into the car so I could sit in the driver’s seat. "at way, in case anything went wrong I could just switch it o#,” French said.

Along those lines, because technology is not always depend-able, some robots that are other-wise fully capable of being devel-oped are not being produced due to liability issues. For example, a lawn mower that mows the lawn autonomously could cause prob-lems if it malfunctioned.

“I’d like to see a robot invent-ed that would mow my lawn. It would look like a regular lawn mower and would know the boundaries of my yard... though it probably has not been done yet for safety issues. You wouldn’t want an unsupervised spinning blade,” said Vikrum Sheorey, a fourth-year EE major.

Humorous approaches were also taken to the idea of robotic aides. Cole Bevis, a !rst-year CMPE major, desired a robot that partially mimicked his own mom.

“I would have a robot that would do my laundry, iron it, fold it and put it back in my drawers. It would be small enough to !t in the bottom of my hamper, and I would call it MomBot,” Bevis said.

Bevis was not the only person to propose a laundry assistant. Derek Jett, a fourth-year PUBP major, had a similar idea but went into further detail.

“It would be a personal assis-tant that would iron my business shirts and suits. I picture an iron-ing board with two arms. One arm would properly lay each piece of clothing out while the other pressed it. On the top would be a starch container that automatical-ly puts the right about of starch,” Jett said.

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gram FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Tech-nology) organizes events to reach out to high school students inter-ested in robotics.

In January, the annual kick-o# event was held in Ferst Center. Over 900 students representing 50 high schools attended to listen to guest speakers, receive give-aways, participate in workshops and discover this year’s challenge.

"is year’s challenge is to build a robot that can throw Frisbees into goals. At the kick-o# event, members of RoboJackets gave me-chanics, electrical and program-ming workshops to high school students. "e students will have six weeks to make a robot ready for competition.

“I have two favorite events—the kick-o# and the FIRST Ro-

botics Competition (FRC). It con-sists of two days of frantic testing, competing and repairing whatever happens to go wrong,” said Alex Eng, a third-year NRE major.

Last year, a team mentored by RoboJackets made it to the semi!-nals of the elimination round.

In addition to its four main teams, RoboJackets conducts in-dependent research on control systems and new designs which could be used in future compe-tition robots. RoboJackets also participates in soap box derby competitions, working with GT O#-Road—an organization that designs and builds an o#-road ve-hicle for competitions.

“In school you learn a lot of theory. In our club you’ll actually get your hands dirty by design-ing, programming and building robots,” said Jordan Mazaira, a !fth-year ME major and president of RoboJackets.

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Tech’s Center for Music Tech-nology (CMT) is working on a project dealing with independent but interacting musical robots. A project headed by the Center for Music Technology, the project has been under way for a year and a half.

Aaron Albin is a Ph.D student working at the CMT, and the Swarm Musical Robots project is his brainchild. “It started out with a class I took with Jason Freeman called Computer Music Composi-tion…. One of the things that we had to do was create an algorith-mic music composition,” Albin said.

Albin began to think about how di!erent particles can inter-act to form music. In Dr. Free-man’s class, the students needed to come up with a set of rules they would use to generate music out-

put but otherwise had complete freedom.

Albin decided that his algo-rithm would be based o! the movement of particles and set to work modeling. According to him, the project started o! as a simple software simulation.

Albin explained that one of his ambitions was to attempt to create a new sort of musical instrument. “One of the things that I noticed was that new musical instruments always had something physical, something real, but my project was a software simulation,” he said.

So, after deciding to add a physical component to his cre-ation, Albin decided to rely on swarm robots.

Swarm robotics is a sub-"eld of robotics concerned with the operation of multiple small physi-cal robots. It particularly focuses on the physical and programmatic design of robots, with emphasis

on the robots’ controlling behav-iors.

Jason Clark, a graduate student working at CMT, was respon-sible for the physical design and construction of the robots. He explained the way the robots in-teract.

“You provide a seed song, in our case, the Georgia Tech "ght song. Each of our robots had its own bell, and so it has its own part of the song that it can play. We feed the robots a seed, and they…"nd each other…. We were really interested in the idea of evolving music,” Clark said.

#e robots each are mounted with an Android smartphone, which serves as a collective “brain.” #e robots are thus able to communicate through Wi-Fi and form a swarm.

#e robots are aware of their own responsibilities within the whole melody, and they "nd other robots which should be adjacent to them. In this manner, they are able to build up a whole song, per-form minor variations on it, and associate melody with movement.

Albin hopes that his robot-ics project will impact the way in which robotics competitions are conducted at the high school level.

“High school robotics pro-grams are typically competitive things... I don’t think there’s nec-essarily as much focus on artistic robotics, especially musical robot-ics. I feel that by having that, you could potentially address a di!er-ent type of student need,” Albin said.

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Another ongoing project con-siders handicap principle, which deals with the dishonesty of wast-ing resources to show strength. Along these lines, Dr. Arkin’s team is beginning to study an-telope, which exhibit a behavior called “stotting,” where, rather than running away from a preda-tor, they jump up and down, in-dicating to the predator that they are "t enough escape. #is some-times convinces the predator to abandon the hunt.

Where deception comes into play, Dr. Arkin hopes to learn how to implement the technique of feigning strength where strength does not exist in the software for their robots

“Suppose there are some un"t antelope that jump up and down, knowing that they couldn’t out-run the lion, but hoping that the lion won’t call their blu!. #e real question is, like in poker, knowing when to gamble,” Arkin said.

“Sun Tzu said that all warfare is based on deception. #e results of this test were unsurprising but very interesting in terms of what we can do with this capability. If

you want robots to be on patrol and to guard your resources, from ammunition to "rst aid supplies or even people hiding, you don’t want the robot leading the enemy directly to them,” Arkin said.

Dr. Arkin does emphasize a moral obligation that we have to re$ect on the ethics of robotics studies It is his hope that people will examine as a community and a society what guidelines and re-strictions should be made, espe-cially in the military.

“When you start opening that Pandora’s Box, what should be done with this new capability? I believe that there is a potential for non-combatant casualties to be lessened by these intelligent robots, but we do have to be very careful about how they’re used and not just release them into the battle"eld without appropriate concern. Robots could do things that put soldiers at risk, and there is the possibility of human aug-mentation with cyborg soldiers as well that could change the struc-ture of society,” Arkin said.

Dr. Arkin teaches a course CS 4002 on Robotics and Society, examining the e!ects of advanced technology on our modern world. He encourages broad discussion on the implications of recent ad-vances in robotic intelligence.

“We, historically, have not been as concerned with the tech-nology that we are creating as we should have been, and we need to change that. I’m glad I have the opportunity to raise these ques-tions in my class with students as well, and to gain a better un-derstanding myself through their opinions,” Arkin said.

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Rucker releases new album, continues with success

and I thought it would be a tricky role to pull o! and, if it worked, it could be a good "lm.

How hard was it for you [Nicholas] to not blink?

NH: #e not-blinking thing was a silly decision, because I was talking to Jonathan and I said, “Do you reckon dead people blink?” And he said, “I guess not.” If I was smart about it they could

have cut around my blinking, but I decided no, I wasn’t going to blink.

Was there anything di!cult for you to do in this movie as opposed to your previous "lms?

NH: #ere was obviously the fact of not really being able to communicate properly. It made it something di!erent to try and emote without emoting too much

and connect with Teresa’s charac-ter. #at was the main thing the character was trying to express, like most guys, but failing to [do so] with girls.

TP: Because I have much of the dialogue in the movie I have never come up against that before. I’m usually playing a supporting character, but this one was a "rst lead role and I found it quite chal-

lenging to balance. I found it dif-"cult to balance the initial situa-tion she’s in because she starts out petri"ed by R, and then her fear needs to transition into a place that will organically take her into falling in love with him, so she had to be fearful but curious as well. Finding that balance was quite challenging as an actor.

What do you think people can learn from zombies?

NH: #ey can learn that if you try your best that things can get better and you can change for the better. I think there’s that moment in the "lm when they’re talking about [how] being a zom-bie is not that di!erent from being a human, in some ways. We live in such a fast-paced world now with so much technology and things going on whereas sometimes you need to stop and notice the small-er things around you. Perhaps stop and smell the roses, and the little things.

TP: I think from this movie in particular and the zombies in this "lm, it’s really just [to not] give up hope; as dark and dismal as your situation may seem, love and the power of human connection can really bring you through to the other side. And this too shall pass.

Was there anything fun or interesting that you had to learn how to do for this movie?

TP: Shoot a shotgun – that was fun!

star can hope for: while perform-ing at the Grand Ole Opry, leg-endary country musician Brad Paisley interrupted Rucker and said, “I have two questions: one, are you still the worst poker player in the world? And two, would you like to become the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry?” Rucker accepted and was o$cially inducted on Oct. 16, 2012.

Now, much matured from his initial beginnings in country mu-sic in 2008, Rucker’s latest album blends his time-honored, sooth-ing tones with some new spins. #e album’s single, also titled

“True Believers,” was released in August of 2012 and received posi-tive feedback from country crit-ics. Amazingly, Rucker wrote ten of the album’s twelve songs, with the exception of “Love Without You” and his rendition of the Bob Dylan tune made famous by Old Crow Medicine Show entitled “Wagon Wheel.”

Although “Wagon Wheel” has received some criticism from OCMS-lovers, there is no doubt that Darius puts a unique, unfor-gettable and still pleasurable spin on the old classic. Other tunes o! of the album are equally notable:

a mixture of deep and playful hits blends perfectly with Rucker’s rocker vibe and country twang.

Ultimately, on True Believers, Rucker seems to have become even more comfortable as a leader in the country music industry. As Rucker stated in a recent inter-view, “For this album, we really paid attention to what our friends and fans were telling us on the road. #e result is an album that I’m so proud of because my fans really have been the true believers since I released my "rst single to country radio. I can’t wait for ev-eryone to hear it on January 22.”

on the Hot Country Songs since 1983 with his debut single “Don’t #ink I Don’t #ink About It” on his "rst country album, Learn to Live. From there, the success sky-rocketed: popular radio tunes such as “It Won’t Be Like #is for Long”, “History in the Making,” and “#is” led Rucker to become the "rst African American to win the Country Music Association’s New Artist Award and become a true household name among country music fans.

While working on True Believ-ers, Rucker received one of the greatest honors a country music

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“I just wanted to go out and make a record that I’ve always wanted to make since I was a kid.” #ese words were spoken by Darius Rucker earlier in his multi-decade career, and now he has done just that and more. #is past Tuesday, Rucker released True Be-lievers, his fourth overall studio album and third set of country hits. Starting out as lead singer, rhythm guitarist and founder of Hootie & the Blow"sh in 1986, Rucker has since experimented and delved into multiple avenues of the music industry.

After releasing "ve studio al-bums and obtaining a respectable six Top-40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 while in the legendary rock-and-roll band, Rucker went solo and released an R&B album, Back to !en, in 2002. #en, upon signing a record deal in Nashville, Rucker became the "rst African-American to chart a number one

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On Feb. 1, a new type of ro-mantic comedy is set to debut on the Hollywood scene. Warm Bod-ies is the story of a zombie named R (Nicholas Hoult, X-Men: First Class) who spends his time wish-ing he could connect with others – that is, before he falls in love with the feisty human, Julie (Te-resa Palmer, I Am Number Four). As R spends more time with Julie, he begins to revert back into a hu-man, and their love infects other zombies. #is comical tale "nds the perfect line between love and gore.

#is week, stars Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer sat down for a Q&A session with the Technique to discuss their views on zombies, romance, acting and much more.

What initially attracted you to the project?

TP: For me, it was the script. I read it and it was so unique, and original and refreshing. #e fact that you’re hearing from the zom-bie’s perspective was something that hadn’t been done before. And it made me laugh; I really cared about the characters, and I thought it was grounded in reality in a strange way.”

NH: I really enjoyed reading it. I thought Jonathan Levine was a director I wanted to work with. I enjoyed [his] previous "lms, and I cared about the character – I thought he was funny and daring,

Darius Rucker, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, has paved the way for African-American country singers, expanding the genre and opening it up to new possibilities. With his latest album, Rucker stays true to his tradition of creating unique and soulful tunes.

With a vacant expression and a large quantity of makeup, Hoult successfully portrays the protagonistic zombie R, a role that required much physical body language in place of spoken lines.

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Tech StarCra! team reaches success on global levelcompeted in the AZUBU Col-legiate Champions season of the Collegiate StarLeague. What was that experience like?

“!is is the first year that the CSL has been the AZUBU Col-legiate Champions, so the level of excitement was high. !e prize pool was an enormous $91,000 for StarCraft, so there was a lot of incentive to practice hard and do well. Coming into the season, we felt that we had a very strong chance of winning, as we had at least two more Grandmaster level players than any other school in the world. !e majority of the tournament was very stressful, as we had the hardest bracket of any school (facing two national champions and a runner up back to back to back).”

How do the competitions

work?!e CSL is what is known as

a Proleague style team league, in reference to the premier Star-Craft team league, the SK Planet Proleague. !is means that the matches are either best of five or best of seven, depending on if it is group stages or the playo"s. Before the match, both teams are given a list of the maps that will be played so that they can pick their lineup. Once both lineups have been submitted, the players play a best of one on their map vs. the player sent by the opposing team. !e first team to get either three or four map victories (depending on Bo5 or Bo7) wins the match. In the event of a 2-2 or 3-3 tie, an ACE player is chosen from each team, and the match is played on the remaining map. !e current match format is 1v1, 1v1, 1v1 (if Bo7), 1v1 (if Bo7), 2v2, 1v1, ACE. !is style of competition is very stressful on teams, as best of one matches make it much easier for a lesser skilled player to upset a bet-ter player in a fluke victory.

!e StarCraft team made some serious progress in this year’s season. What were some of the highlights?

Our team made it to the final round of the North American tournament before losing 4-2 to University of Washington. I firmly believe that, had we won this match, we would have taken the world championships. Our highlight of the year has to be our match against last year’s cham-pion, University of North Texas.

League, our players compete in many tournaments all around the world. !e club takes trips to multiple Major League Gaming (MLG) events each year to com-pete and watch. During our most recent trip, one of our players, Harry “MaSsan” Cheong, made it to the Open Bracket finals, which is almost unheard of for an amateur player. MaSsan was also invited to play in the IGN-ProLeague (IPL) in Las Vegas. Another one of our players, Derek “!eoRy” Travisano, regularly competes in and wins online tour-naments consisting of some of the best players in the world. Our reg-ular players compete in GameFest each year and a local tournament at the LAN center/bar, Battle and Brew.

!e Tech StarCraft team

the relatively low skill ceiling for a game like Halo. After watching this, I began to play StarCraft: Brood War casually while keep-ing up with the pro scene. Around the time that I started looking at colleges I was introduced to the CSL. I remember watching a game between MasterAsia and Nony (one of the most famous American players ever). !is was one of the things that got me re-ally interested in Georgia Tech, but also it made me realize that I could actually represent my school in a game that I loved. After that I was motivated to practice hard in order to be good enough to play on Georgia Tech’s team.

In what competitions and events does the team partici-pate?

Outside of the Collegiate Star-

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!e videogame StarCraft, as well as its many sequels, calls for players to develop battle strate-gies within an alien militaristic setting. It has been a favorite of college students across the world since its creation. Some fans have decided to take their love for the game a few steps further, toward a more competitive setting. Here enters the Tech StarCraft team.

!is team of avid gamers has been around since the first sea-son of the Collegiate StarLeague (CSL) in 2009, and has been set-ting records and holding titles in the area of competitive StarCraft-playing ever since.

!e Technique had a chance to speak with Marco “ReMiiX” Cognetta, Captain of the Star-Craft team, about the team and its recent competitions and accom-plishments, as well as its goals for the next season.

What got you interested in StarCraft?

Before I played StarCraft, I competed in professional Halo tournaments when they were just starting to get popular in the US. I remember being blown away by a video a friend showed me of a Ko-rean StarCraft: Brood War tourna-ment because of the amount of people that were there. It amazed me that hundreds of thousands of people would show up to watch these events and that the players were treated as national celebri-ties. On top of that, the skill level that they played at was absolutely ridiculous, especially compared to

Members of the Tech StarCraft Team, formed in 2009, rank among the most skilled players in the world. They regularly compete against other colleges around the globe in the Collegiate StarLeague.

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Dallas mourns star passing, continues on

up watching the show, as well as to young adults.

"e !rst season of the new Dallas proved just as delightfully melodramatic as the original se-ries. Bobby and J.R. continue where they left o$. "ey are !ght-ing over the family ranch, and their two sons side with their re-

their own: John Ross and Chris-topher, respectively, who are both in their twenties. Essentially the show jumped forward a genera-tion from the old series to the new, with the characters evolving be-hind the scenes. Consequentially, the current Ewing drama appeals to the older audiences who grew

spective fathers. "ey join in on the fray, bringing a younger and more energetic fuel to the !re. Other characters intertwine with the family feud, causing an end-less supply of drama for the show’s audience.

Many of the actors and actress-es of the old series returned for the new, the most famous being Larry Hagman, who plays J.R. Ewing. A Dallas legend, this actor imbued his character with all manner of drama and intrigue since the very beginning of the show. However, Hagman su$ered through che-motherapy for throat cancer all throughout the !lming of the new show, and in a tragic turn of events, passed away on Nov. 23, 2012. Obviously his passing hit both the Dallas crew and story-line pretty hard, especially since it requires the infamous character to be abruptly terminated in the story.

"e second season was !lmed over the summer, however, so J.R. will return with the show one last time. "e interesting part will be seeing just how much the storyline will evolve to accommodate Hag-man’s unfortunate death. Can Dallas remain as entertaining and dramatic without its most ruthless and deceitful !gure? Audiences will have to wait and see how the show will continue.

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Next Monday, Jan. 28, the gripping drama Dallas will return with a new 15-episode second sea-son after just four short months o$ the air. "is TNT show is a continuation of the wildly popu-lar soap opera with the same name that aired on CBS from 1978 to 1991. "e series follows the lives of the Ewings, a wealthy fam-ily in Dallas, Texas, with roots in ranching and, most importantly, the oil industry. In short, the Ew-ing family has never been a highly functional bunch. Betrayal, deceit and backstabbing plague the fam-ily, preventing them from becom-ing the ideal wealthy dynasty.

Because the current incarna-tion of Dallas is a continuation of the original story rather than simply a revival, several new char-acters and storylines have been in-troduced to the show. In the old series, the mother and father of the Ewing family, Ellie and Jock, had two children named J.R. and Bobby who were in their twenties. "e two brothers fought endlessly and disagreed on most every-thing—Bobby was honest and decent, J.R. was the bad boy who lied to get his way. Fast-forward to the current series. J.R. and Bobby are older and have children of

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NH: I got to drive the car around on the runway; that was fun. I also got to watch a lot of zombie !lms…just trying to !g-ure out what I was going to do and how it was all going to work.

If you guys could take a few things with you from the collec-tions on the plane for any kind of apocalypse, what would you take?

TP: De!nitely the vinyl; I liked the David Bowie vinyl. I’d take that and listen to some good music. My shotgun…and the ste-reoscopes! We played with that in the !lm, and that was cute and fun and always changing.

NH: I’d take a little generator so I’d have some sort of electricity. I’d take a photo album. …And I’d take some arts and crafts.

Do you think that you, per-sonally, could fall in love with a zombie in a zombie apocalypse?

TP: I totally could if the zom-bie was like R, I mean, he’s sweet and he wants to take care of me and keep me safe…and he’s got great taste in music. A sweet, sensitive guy, sure! And he didn’t smell too bad. I was really sur-prised by that.

NH: I don’t know if I would be so successful in the falling-in-love-with-a-zombie thing, be-cause it works for you in the !lm because you managed to heal me. I don’t know if my love’s strong enough to heal someone.

Larry Hagman, who played the character of J.R. Ewing in both the original show and the new, will be sorely missed by fans of Dallas.

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!is past November, Cana-dian duo Crystal Castles dropped their third self-titled album (III) worldwide. Since their formation in 2004, vocalist Alice Glass and producer Ethan Kath have been developing a unique sound and style unidenti"able to any stan-dard genre. Some slot it as simply experimental electronic music. With (III), Crystal Castles contin-ue to blur the boundaries between genres and drift away from today’s music standards.

(III) was produced entirely by Kath using a new keyboard and pedal setup to provide listeners with a new experience. No com-puters were in their studio either. Everything was recorded in one take directly to tape. Kath believes the "rst take is the “rawest form of expression of an idea.” !is album is by all means raw expression.

SPIN Magazine summarized the album most succinctly: “de-lightfully dark.”

Dark it is indeed. As with their previous two albums, Crystal Castles has produced a work of art meant to transport listeners to

berated vocals and a light chime-like feel. “Telepath” does an ex-ceptional job by taking all those characteristics and delivering an upbeat tune with unlimited head-bob and chair-dancing potential. !is is not something to dance to at a party, but it has this pecu-liar ability to force feet to tap and bodies to move. It does not make for what most would consider a happy tune, but it still maintains the album’s eerie theme.

Of all the tracks in this album, none stand out more than “In-sulin.” !ough it is not likely to be considered the album’s most enjoyable or compositionally im-pressive song, it is unmistakable and unforgettable. Like an angsty teenager’s ideal song, it is "lled

with white noise, heavy distor-tion on vocals and synthesizers, hard hitting drums, a deep bass and heavy passion. Screaming normally ruins a track, but Glass manages to pull it o# and get her message across. As with most of the lyrical songs, listeners will have a hard time understanding what is being said with all the dis-tortions and "lters. For some, this will make songs re-playable in or-der to decipher what is going on, but this may deter less dedicated listeners. People looking for joy-ful lyrics are looking in the wrong place because (III) is not meant to be a happy album.

Perhaps the most accurate short description of this album comes from PREFIX Magazine’s

statement: “It’s an invisibly po-litical record—and an absolutely necessary one.”

Before the release of the album, Glass stated:

“Oppression is a theme, in gen-eral… A lot of bad things have happened to people close to me since II, and it’s profoundly in-$uenced my writing as I’ve real-ized there will never be justice for them. I didn’t think I could lose faith in humanity any more than I already had, but after witness-ing some things, it feels like the world is a dystopia where victims don’t get justice and corruption prevails.”

!ose looking for an audible journey that is on the cutting edge of experimental sound will be pleased with Crystal Castles’ lat-est update to their discography. It is packed with raw emotion, harsh sounds, fast beats and artistic $are.

!is album is not for the faint of heart, nor is it for the close-minded music listener. (III) is un-deniably heavy. It is meant to be listened to intently and respectful-ly, then to be re$ected upon and discussed for its deeper meaning.

For any listeners looking for a unique musical experience or deep and expressive tracks, Crys-tal Castles’ (III) is a must buy. It is not for those seeking a standard style or broadly-accepted sound, but it is a deep, musical e#ort into the look of humanity’s imperfect and fallen state. While it can’t be "xed, it can be dealt with by ap-preciating Crystal Castles modern take on trials through deeply ex-pressive content.

a very dark and distorted reality, evoking powerful emotions and eliciting profound reactions.

Listeners are not eased into this world, but rather thrust into it. !e "rst track in the album, “Plague,” sets the mood with ee-rie, distorted white noise that leads into vocals that can only be described as epic. Alice Glass has a gifted voice, however, it is strenu-ous to try to understand the lyr-ics she sings. It would seem that inclusions of Glass’ vocals is more for artistic e#ect than actual lyri-cal content.

!is duo has plenty of variation to satiate any listeners’ appetite for variety. “Kerosene” and “Trans-gender” both provide droning bass-lines, chopped up and rever-

Producer Ethan Kath and vocalist Alice Glass are the duo behind the darkly distorted, yet rhythmic sounds, of Crystal Castles. They have previously collaborated on two albums before their latest, (III).

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on the Swedish Singles Chart and at number 21 on the US iTunes Dance Charts. Rolling Stone magazine rated the track as 35th best of 2012. Additionally, “I Love It” has served as the theme song for Snooki and JWoww on !e Jersey Shore and is featured as part of the soundtrack for the 2012 racing game Need for Speed: Most Wanted. It has been remixed and extended by various well-known artists such as Nari and Milani, Disfunktion and Cobra Starship. Icona Pop’s most rapid recogni-tion has been in North America, but their reception in Sweden has been more competitive because of pre-existing pop bands. !e duo says that this is hardly a worry and are con"dent that they will continue gaining popularity. Jawo

and Hjelt have promised to keep their music fresh and lively for their fans.

Icona Pop toured the US with Marina and the Diamonds in De-cember 2012 and will soon begin working on their new album, due out in 2013. !e DJs have also participated in numerous music festivals around the world, includ-ing electro music festival Sum-merburst at Gothenburg, Sweden.

Pop music has been dubbed as a lost art and has often been combined with other genres, but Icona Pop has recognized that pop itself is important. !ey like to de-scribe their music as “bittersweet” - a mix of happiness, lust and sad-ness. !eir work is focused on a younger audience, and the song lyrics are primarily based on free-

dom, partying and having a ‘don’t care’ attitude towards life. !e duo has frequently expressed their love for parties and fun, and this love is directly conveyed through their lyrics and tunes.

!ey released their second single “Ready for the Weekend” on Sept. 11, 2012. Both “I Love It” and “Ready for the Weekend” are featured in the extended play released on Oct. 16, 2012. Several Swedish producers and DJs have pitted this duo to rise up in the pop and electro rankings and con-tinue to release successful albums over the next few years. !ey are sure to rise to the occasion and deliver some wonderful tracks in the near future. pop and electro fans should stay on the lookout for their upcoming releases.

!is team was heavily hyped up by the CSL writing sta# as the team to beat, and was predicted to beat us 4-3. However, in a fan-tastic match, we managed to shut out North Texas 5-0. !e next week, we played the year before last’s champion, University of Waterloo. !is match was very important to us, as Waterloo beat us in a preseason showmatch and is now the school where MasterA-sia teaches. Additionally, Water-loo has some very bad mannered players . . . who were extremely rude to many of our players before the match. We ended up winning the match 4-3 in the ACE, after !eoRy defeated Zoku in the reg-ular match and MaSsan soundly defeated him in the ACE match (which was one of the most one-sided ACE matches of the entire season).

What are your plans for get-ting farther in the competitions next year?

!e next season starts at the end of March, and as we are not gaining or losing any players, our primary goal is just keeping our players motivated. Our goal for the upcoming season is to win the World Championships in Seoul, South Korea. I am very confident in this team’s ability to beat any other school in the world. Person-ally, my goal is to finally achieve the rank of Grandmaster, so that we can have an ACE player from each race.

Any readers interested in join-ing this group of gamers should visit the “GaTech StarCraft” group on Facebook.

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Swedish duo Icona Pop is a new up-and-coming electro house and synthpop DJ. !e duo is com-prised of Aino Jawo and Caroline Hjelt, who joined forces in 2010 to form Icona Pop. !e band was ini-tially based in London and signed a deal with Ten Records in 2009, but is now based in its hometown in Sweden. !eir music is primar-ily synthpop, with traces of punk, indie pop and electro house.

!e duo has been rapidly gain-ing in$uence both in Sweden and around the world, with its latest track “I Love It,” featuring Charli XCX, topping charts everywhere and being played by other famous DJs such as Swedish House Ma-"a, Nari and Milani and Avicii at concerts and in remixes. !e track currently has over six million hits on YouTube, peaked at number 2

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After fooling an entire city into thinking this might actu-ally be the year an Atlanta team wins a championship, the Atlanta Falcons have once again come up short in the playo!s.

"e Falcons came out #ring on all cylinders, as the o!ense looked unstoppable and the defense wasn’t allowing the 49ers to get anything going. Just a little over a quarter into the game, the Falcons were up by 17.

"at was about as good as it got for the Falcons on that Sunday, as they would manage to blow the lead. It was similar to the previ-ous week against the Seahawks, but this time the Falcons were not

able to overcome it.As I watched the team unravel

in the second half, there was so much they were doing wrong. "e Falcons were unable to get in the head of #rst year starter Colin Kaepernick at all as he was 16-for-21 with no interceptions. "ere was no pressure on him at all has he would leisurely drop back just to #nd an open receiver open 20 yards down the #eld. Matt Ryan also had two turnovers in the second half including a crucial fumble with the Falcons in scor-ing range. As bad as the Falcons had played in the second half they were still only ten yards away from winning the game late in

the fourth quarter, but after in-completions on third and fourth down, the whole city was left wondering how the Falcons could blow a 17-point lead and a chance to play in the Super Bowl.

Immediately after the game was #nished I got on Twitter to see how other fans were reacting. Most fans were blaming the loss on one thing: the referees. Wheth-er it was the blow to the head call against Cli! Matthews that ex-tended a 49ers’ drive, or the lack of a pass interference call against the 49ers as Roddy White went to catch the ball on the Falcons’ last drive. "ere were so many mis-takes the Falcons made in the sec-ond half that you could blame for the loss, but many fans just didn’t want to admit that the Falcons lost this one on their own.

"is is a common occurrence among sports fans. Whenever our favorite team loses a close game we are so quick to blame the refs. In most cases the refs probably did make a few calls that didn’t go our way, but should we really expect the refs to be right 100 percent of the time? Nobody expects the quarterback to complete all of his passes. Nobody expects a basket-ball player to make all of his shots, or for a baseball player to get a hit

every at bat. So why we should we expect the referees to make get ev-ery single call right?

It’s time for us fans to just ac-cept that the referees are going to make some bad calls. Even with instant replay it can sometimes

be hard to tell what the right call is, so it is nearly impossible to be perfect when having to make it I real time. As hard as it is to admit, sometimes the responsibility of the loss falls solely on our teams’ shoulders.

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Both the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams completed their ACC slate this past weekend on the campus of North Carolina State. "e teams competed in a double dual meet against Florida State and the host-ing Wolfpack, meaning that each

event for Tech counted in two separate dual meets. Although all four matchups were losses, Tech showed some bright spots as it heads towards the end of the sea-son.

Perhaps the biggest high-light of the meet was Matthew Vaughan’s victory in the 200-yard breaststroke, which he #nished in 2:03.31. He was also on the 200-

yard medley relay team that #n-ished third, accompanying Nico-las Colletti, Nico van Duijn, and Andrew Kosic.

Yuval Safra, a recent acquisi-tion for the Jackets, also had a successful meet, coming in sec-ond in the 1000-yard freestyle. His time of 9:24.63 in that event was the best for a Tech swimmer since 2007. Safra was also part of a

three-man #nish in the 500-yard freestyle, as he, Zach Tillman and Mats Westergen #nished fourth, #fth and sixth, respectively. Chris Khosravi highlighted Tech’s div-ing, as he #nished in the top three in both events.

"e women’s side saw a lot of #fth place #nishes for the Jackets, as Hailey White, Kate Riley, Kate Woolbright, Kate Brandus and

the 200-yard medley relay team each took #fth place to lead the Jackets in those events. Brandus also took third in the 200-yard butter$y.

Tech’s divers experienced some success, with Shannon Lumbra knotting two top three #nishes, Ashley Hardy taking fourth and #fth and Sarah Roethel #nishing seventh twice.

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On Sunday, Jan. 20, the Tech women’s basketball team hosted the No. 10 Maryland Terrapins in a 66-57 loss.

!e team’s fourth straight loss drops them to 8-10 on the season (1-6 ACC), while Maryland im-proves to 15-3 (6-1 ACC). !is was the Jackets’ seventh game this season against a ranked opponent.

!e two teams played a close "rst half, with Tech’s full-court press frustrating the Maryland of-fense. Tech lead by as many as six midway through the half, spurred on by 22 points from the bench. A late 9-0 run by the Terrapins saw that lead evaporate, but the Jack-ets trailed just 32-29 at the half.

Junior guard Tyaunna Mar-shall led the Jackets with 18 points, 10 of which came in the "rst half. !ose points put Mar-shall at a career total of 1,255 points, putting her 15th on the team’s all-time list. Marshall also added nine rebounds and two as-sists.

“It was good to see Ty Mar-shall take the game over a little bit. !at’s what I’ve been waiting for her to do all season long as our go to player,” said head coach Ma-Chelle Joseph, courtesy of ram-blinwreck.com.

!e rest of the Jackets struggled o#ensively throughout the game. !e Jackets shot just 35.9 percent from the "eld in the game, and only had one player score in the double digits. Maryland also held a large advantage in the rebound-ing department, out rebounding

Tech by a margin of 52-29.!e start of the second half

proved to be the decisive segment of the game. !e Terrapins came out strong, and had a 15-0 run early in the half to take a 16-point lead. Maryland was quick on the transition to start the second half, while the Jackets struggled to get going on both ends of the court. !e Terrapins’ second half domi-nance was helped greatly by for-ward Alyssa !omas, who scored 28 points by shooting 11 of 25 from the "eld.

!e Jackets did make a surge

late in the game to make it excit-ing. Sophomore guard Sydney Wallace hit two three-point shots with less than "ve minutes left to cut the lead down to nine points. However, Wallace went down with a lower-body injury with just 3:29 left in the game and did not return. !at sparked two quick scores by Marshall to get the Jack-ets within "ve points of the Ter-rapins, but that would be as close as the Jackets would get.

Tech’s next contest will be on Jan. 25 when they visit Florida State.

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!e men’s and women’s track and "eld teams travelled to Bir-mingham, Ala. this past Satur-day to participate in the Auburn Indoor Invitational, and set a few school records during the meet. Freshman sprinter Broderick Snoddy, who is also a running back on the football team, broke the school record in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.75 seconds. !e time was good for "fth place in the event, while also besting se-nior Perron Jones’s record of 6.77 seconds set last year. Snoddy also "nished "fth in the 200-meter with a time of 21.51 seconds.

Senior Shawn Roberts broke

the meet record in the mile, "nish-ing "rst in the event with a time of 4:07.42. Sophomore Zack Fanelty and junior Cole Jackob competed in the 800-meter, "nishing in sev-enth and tenth respectively.

For the women, freshman Maria Bo# and sophomore Lau-ra Serres competed in the mile, while freshman Donjhae Jones "nished the 60-meter hurdles in 9.01 seconds. Senior Elena Hub-bard and sophomore Diana Pres-sel ran well in the 3000-meter, with Hubbard cutting ten seconds o# her previous time in that event. Sophomore Samantha Becker tied her personal best in the pole vault with a leap of 3.70 meters, while the 4x400-meter relay team took tenth.

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!e men’s tennis team kicked o" their 2013 cam-paign with a doubleheader Friday vs. Old Dominion and Lipscomb in their new home, the Ken Byers Tennis Complex.

!e Ken Byers Tennis Complex, which features six indoor courts and ten outdoor courts, was an ad-dition made possible by Ken and Trish Byers and is located across the street from the similarly-new Hank McCamish Pavilion.

!e Jackets inaugurated their new arena in style with a 5-2 win over Old Dominion in the afternoon match. Senior Juan Melian, sophomore Vikram Hun-dal, sophomore Eduardo Segura and freshman Na-than Rakitt all collected wins in singles competition.

Tech swept the doubles matches in convincing fash-ion courtesy of the teams of senior Juan Spir and Hun-dal, Melian and Rakitt, and freshman Garrett Gordon and Segura.

Rakitt won his singles match easily in straight sets 6-2, 6-1, while Segura also won in straight sets with a 6-0, 6-4 victory. Having already won the doubles point, the Jackets had a 3-0 lead over Old Dominion. !e Monarchs, however, made things interesting after upsetting Tech’s top player Juan Spir and Gar-rett Gordon in straight sets, making the match score 3-2.

Tech’s remaining singles matches, featuring Hundal and Melian, were nothing short of suspenseful. Hun-dal trailed 5-2 in the second set after winning the #rst set 7-6, but rallied with his

back against the wall to not drop another game and win the set 7-5. With the overall victory over Old Domin-ion safely in hand, Melian fought back after a lacklus-ter second set 1-6 to win in three sets, 7-6, 1-6, 6-1.

!e Jackets had little time to rest before their 7:00 p.m. nightcap against Lipscomb. Tech swept the doubles matches for the second time that day, with wins by the teams Spir and Hundal, Melian and Rakitt, and Gordon and sophomore Colin Edwards, who saw very limited action in the fall 2012 season due to injury.

Tech’s doubles play sweep proved to be the de-ciding factor in this match. Melian, #lling in the top singles spot for Spir (ill-ness), had to withdraw from competition due to an ankle injury just three games in to

his match. Hundal, Segura, and Rakitt all won their matches at second, third, and fourth spot, respective-ly. Segura was the only play-er of the three to take his match to three sets, but won his third set convincingly 6-1. Gordon and fresh-man Anish Sharma both lost tough-fought matches. Sharma, after winning his #rst set 6-4, dropped the next two 7-5, 7-5, making his opponent #ght for every last point.

Tech’s underclassmen performed very well Fri-day, with Hundal, Segura, and Rakitt each collecting two wins in singles and #ve combined doubles wins.

!e Jackets will head to Los Angeles, Calif. for the ITA Kicko" Weekend next weekend, a tourna-ment consisting of players from Southern California, Fresno State and San Diego.

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Tech headed to Chapel Hill, N.C. on Wednesday

night to face !e North Carolina Tar Heels. In a game where North Caro-lina held the lead for forty minutes, Tech came up

short losing 79-63. After starting the season o" 10-2, this is the #fth straight loss for the Jackets who are now 10-7 (0-5 ACC).

Sophomore James Mi-chael McAdoo started the scoring o" for the day with a layup to give North Caro-lina a two-point lead. After a slow start o"ensively for both teams, North Caro-lina eventually found some rhythm. Carolina made three three-pointers in the #rst ten minutes of the game, two of them by soph-omore P.J. Hariston putting the Heels up 20-13 at the 12:41 mark.

After two made free throws by junior forward Kammeon Holsey, Tech had cut the lead down to #ve with 12:06 remain-ing in the #rst half. North Carolina would then go on a 10-2 run over the next two minutes, capped by a Reg-gie Bullock three-pointer.

Tech responded and-looked to be gaining mo-mentum with an assist by freshman point guard Solomon Poole that led to a dunk by junior center Dan-iel Miller and a made three pointer by Poole that cut the North Carolina lead to four with two minutes left in the half,

However, two made jumpers by the Tar Heels in the #nal 1:17 of the half, increased their lead back to eight heading into the lock-er room.

North Carolina started the second half on a 9-2 run putting them up 49-34 and forcing Tech coach Brain Gregory to take a timeout at the 17:28 mark. Tech drew within twelve with 16:01 remaining after a layup by freshman guard Chris Bolden.

Tech would continue to $irt with what appeared to

be a comeback for the rest of the half. With 12:24 remaining in the game freshman guard Marcus Georges-Hunt drove down the lane for an easy dunk to pull Tech within eleven, but they were never able to close the gap any further.

!e play of the game came at the 6:23 mark in the second half. After a steal by North Carolina’s Dexter Strickalnd, he passed the ball up court to P.J Haris-ton who #nished with a thundering dunk.

In the end, Bullock led the Tar Heels with 17 points making seven of his 12 shots. Hariston provided a nice spark o" the bench scoring 15 points including three three-pointers. McA-doo nearly #nished with a double-double with 14 points and nine rebounds. Overall, North Carolina hit 42.9 percent of their shots from the #eld and 35.3 percent from three -point range.

Holsey led Tech in scor-ing with 18 points to go along with nine rebounds, six of them coming on the o"ensive glass. Freshman forward Robert Carter Jr. #nished with nine points and 12 rebounds.

Senior guard Mfon Udo-#a struggled, shooting one-for-nine and #nished with three points. Poole also struggled shooting, con-verting on only one of six shots.

Poole did lead the team with three assists, but also had three turnovers. Walk-on Freshman guard Brooks Doyle got in late in the game and logged his #rst minutes of conference play

this season. With only six attempts,

Tech had problems getting to the free throw line, but they did convert on #ve of them. After shooting only 50 percent from the line last week against Duke, shoot-ing 83 percent from the charity stripe against North Carolina showed some signs of improvement.

Tech did continue their struggles from three point distance making only four of 15 attempts. Tech out rebounded North Carolina 48-42, but committed #ve more turnovers than Caro-lina.

“In this league, you need to be able to be aggressive but composed, when you play some of these teams that really deny and try to speed you up. !ey sped us up. It’s not the hardest thing to do against an inex-perienced or younger team like we have. It’s one of the biggest challenges, especial-ly on the road,” said Head Coach Brian Gregory. “But when you look at your two starting big guys had seven of the 19 turnovers. Some-times your big guys get even more sped up because you have to use them to relieve some pressure. It’s some-thing we need to keep get-ting better at.”, courtesy of ramblinwreck .com.

Tech returns home and will look to pick up their #rst conference win of the season against Wake For-est Saturday, Jan. 26, at 3:00 p.m. Wake Forest is 10-6 (3-3 ACC) on the sea-son and is coming in o" an 88-84 victory over the eigh-teenth-ranked North Caro-lina State Wolfpack.

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