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, but many of the objectives are vague and seem to be goals that Tech has already laid out for itself and is striving to achieve. The year of work put into the plan was certainly not wasted, but the groundbreaking aspects that were expected with this drawn out process seem to have not yet materialized in this document.

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.

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 a new starting quarterback. But what UGA should be worried about this coming season is possible NCAA sanctions and possibly a new head coach.

Mosque debate needs cultural perspective

Hot: Game time

Just over a year ago, the Tech community undertook the task of developing a strategic vision for Tech that will shape our future for the next 25 years. Our challenge was to create a shared vision to ensure success in a rapidly changing environment, allowing us to make the best investments today to better prepare our students and the Institute a for the future.

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 short term and the larger problems of the future.

HOT: Bye bye swamp

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 right time to witness the perennial renewal of Tech in the oppressively humid days of late August.

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 where the Twin Towers once stood as being “intolerant” of the religion of Islam. Instead of pointing fingers at each other, we need to evaluate the cultural significance of building a mosque two blocks away from the most significant event in my lifetime.