What’s HOT and what’s NOT around campus this week. Hot: Game time The best part of fall semester begins tomorrow: football season. While the match up should (hopefully) not prove to be that compelling, the [...]

Mosque debate needs cultural perspective The writer [“Mosque location lacks sensibility” printed Aug. 27 claims that “[Islam] and the Arab culture have vast hatred toward Western culture.” This is untrue. Many Muslims and Arabs around [...]

This past offseason the UGA football team has had to endure many changes. The team has to answer to a new athletic director, they have a new defensive coordinator and they have to break in [...]

While the administration deserves praise for seeing the need to set Tech on the road to success, the path laid out with the new strategic plan is unclear. The document itself has good ideas within [...]

It’s called Computer Science. Not Information Technology, not Software Engineering, not Information Systems, not Programming and not a dozen other things that would pigeon-hole my major into just one bucket. I like this. Computing is [...]

Welcome, or welcome back, to Tech. In the fall, the Institute is a fantastic place to be. Whether this is your first year on campus, or you’ve returned for your sixth, you’re here at the [...]

The first lesson a news writer learns when interviewing a subject, aside from journalistic integrity and the avoidance of bias in an article, what not to ask, otherwise known as taboo topics—religion, gender and race. [...]

With constant talk of conference expansion and realignment filling the blogosphere and in some cases conferences actually making moves, the ACC must move quickly to avoid being lost in the shuffle. While many believe (admittedly [...]

Throughout the large protests that have flooded the streets, televisions, newspapers, magazines, and talk shows have been signs depicting individuals who disagree with the building of the New York City mosque within two blocks of [...]

What’s HOT and what’s NOT around campus this week. HOT: Bye bye swamp The new irrigation systems and grass at the Burger Bowl are a much needed upgrade to one of the most common recreation [...]

Crowds of students swarming though the Student Center is a traditional rite of the beginning of fall semester, but the magnitude of the crowds this year point to challenges the Student Center faces in the [...]

The Class of 2014 brings with it some of the brightest minds that Tech has ever seen. You all have the most diverse class with the highest test scores to date. With such incredible credentials, [...]

Let me welcome everyone to the fall semester and another academic year at Tech! This time of the year always brings a different atmosphere to Tech with orientations, campus events and a welcoming environment for [...]

Welcome to campus! You have the distinction of being part of a student body that boasts the best-qualified and most diverse freshman class ever. In addition, 2010-2011 will be a banner academic year for Tech [...]

HOT: Green glory Tech was named to both the Princeton Review Green Honor Roll and the Sierra Magazine’s Cool 20 for efforts in campus sustainability and promotion of green technology. Such recognition shows that Tech [...]

What happened in sports this summer? When asking this question, actual sporting events were likely not the first things to come to mind. No, it was likely a long list of ridiculous announcements and news [...]

While the new school year marks a new beginning for some of us, for the majority it means the second, third, fourth, fifth or even sixth year beginning. This fall is the beginning of my [...]

We welcome all the new students, staff and faculty members to campus and look forward to a productive and eventful year. However, with change, especially to the upper level administration, comes adjustment. The campus community [...]