Honor Code
As Honor Week wraps to a close, the question arises as to how to get students more invested in a “culture of honor” at Tech....
Consensus Opinion
Consensus: BoR Representation
With SGA election season in full-swing, increasing student interaction with the Board of Regents (BoR) is a topic on many students’ minds. Currently, the two...
SGA Elections
With SGA elections approaching quickly, it is important for students to start thinking about who will represent them and, even more, why they should care...
Consensus: SGA Elections
With SGA election season gearing up, students should begin thinking about what they want to see in candidates, and more importantly, candidates should begin considering their platforms.
Late night dining
With GT Dining looking at discontinuing late-night dining and hot breakfast at the North Avenue Dining Hall (NADH) in Fall 2012, dining on campus needs to be reevaluated with an eye toward what students really need.
Consensus: Housing Registration
Housing’s new registration system is being rolled out in the coming days, and there are several new features worth mentioning, with the new system for finding roommates at the head of the list.
Consensus: Communicating Science
In his talk this week, Randy Olson made the claim that we, as engineers and scientists, need advocates for science and technology that are able to communicate with a general public that doesn’t share our background.
Consensus: Fitness and Wellness
For years, HPS 1040 has been the quintessential grin-and-bear-it class at Tech. While not a hard class, it is not particularly exciting or informative, either.
Consensus: Fee Transparency
This week, the Mandatory Student Fee Advisory Committee released their recommendations for increases to student fees for the following year, and while the recommendations of the committee are spot on, some of the fees they had to consider are worrisome.
Consensus: Concealed Carry
Yet again, gun rights advocates are trying to push the Ga. General Assembly to pursue legislation that would legalize concealed carry on and around college campuses in the state.
Consensus: Piracy Protection
As many Tech students are aware, this past Wed., many popular websites protested a pair of bills (known as SOPA and PIPA) by either posting calls-to-action (as with Google) or blacking out entire sites (as with Wikipedia and Reddit).
Consensus: Legislative spending
This week’s GT Day at the Capitol highlighted the importance of the relationship between the legislature and universities, but it is important to distinguish between issues the legislature should resolve for the entire university system and issues that each school should resolve for itself.
Campus Careers
The recent collaboration between Career Services and the Division of Professional Practice to build a common job-search site and clarify the roles of each is...
Mobile emergency app fails to address campus safety issues
The administration deserves credit for thinking of new ways of addressing crime on and near campus. However, the newly purchased Rave Guardian system does little to address real safety problems on campus.
Game day behavior reflects poorly on Tech, shows lack of class
Tech’s victory against Clemson started a lot of chatter around campus, not just about the victory, but also about fan behavior at the game.
‘Occupy’ highlights students’ apathy for world events
Despite mixed reactions from the press, the Occupy movement has spread from Wall Street to major cities all over the country—including Atlanta. For several days, protestors have occupied prominent parts of the city, with Woodruff Park playing home to most of them.
Stingerette reform needed
The recent uptick in campus crime has put a lot of scrutiny on campus services, including the Stingerette.
Safety requires campus wide response
Recent crimes both near and on campus—beginning with the robbery at gunpoint in Home Park a few weeks ago and the recent attacks on women—have started a conversation about campus safety.