Students, alumni join Relay for Life, raise thousands
With 900 registered participants and over 100 walk-ins, Tech’s annual Relay for Life pressed on despite the ominous tornado clouds formed around Atlanta. By the...
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Peterson walks for campus safety
The annual Campus Safety Walk took place last week on Thursday. Among the thirty or participants were Institute President Bud Peterson, his wife Val Peterson...
LCC 3401 evaluates Buzzport usability
For the past several years, Student Government Association (SGA) has been working on consolidating all of Tech’s online resources into one location so that with...
Concern over drug abuse leads to new tracking efforts
In partnership with campus police, the counseling center and other departments at Tech, the Office of the Dean of Students has begun tracking patterns of...
OIT moves to WPA for wireless security
Over 15,000 people on Tech’s campus use the Local Area Walkup and Wireless Network (LAWN) to access the Internet every day. Now, the Office of...
SGA shoring up Dead Week policy
Ever since Tech switched over to the semester system, there has been a Dead Week policy that stipulates professors should not assign work or give...
Budget cuts reduce Tech workforce by dozens
Given the current economic crisis, many state agencies are decreasing their workforce, and the University System of Georgia (USG) is no exception. While the USG...
Council Clippings
This edition of Council Clippings covers the UHR and GSS meetings from April 7, 2009. New UHR Positions UHR discussed a bylaws amendment to restructure...
Campus Crime
That’s my oil! On April 5, at around 2:40 a.m., police responded to the Perry and Matheson residence halls and observed a male student threatening...
SGA passes 11th hour budget changes
A stipend committee formed last week by the Student Government Association’s (SGA) Joint Finance Committee (JFC) introduced to Tuesday’s legislative sessions a last-minute student stipend...
Undergrad presidents to run off; Harley wins graduate presidency
For the third straight year the race for the undergraduate student body president position is going to a runoff. On the other hand, election results...
Voting opens for SGA elections
Polls for the SGA elections open today. Students have the opportunity to determine who will hold executive and legislative positions for the next academic year....
String of robberies hits center of campus
The recent outbreak of armed robberies on the periphery of campus made its way to the interior Monday when two students were robbed at gunpoint...
LIGHTS OUT, energy saved
By Katie Dextraze Contributing Writer Imagine watching from an extraterrestrial vantage point as just after sundown the lights in over 4,000 cities in some 88...
SGA releases presidential white paper
The undergraduates in the Student Government Association this week released a special white paper for the new Institute President G.P. “Bud” Peterson. The document outlined...
Jeremy, Gross crowd Ferst Center for Great Porn Debate
It’s not often that Tech encourages students to gather en masse on behalf of porn, but on Thursday, March 26, students in the Ferst Center...
RHA entices community to reduce campus energy usage
In order to improve conservation, the Resident Hall Association (RHA) has installed monitors to better manage energy consumption. Teaming up with Students Organizing for Sustainability...
Films fall short in regional Campus MovieFest finale
The Southern Regional Grand Finale of Campus MovieFest took place this past weekend at the Center Stage venue and the Atlanta Symphony Hall. The event...