GMOs: not as evil as you might think
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are organisms that have their genomes altered in favor of specific traits. For example, using the technology, you could create a...
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The unseen prejudice of giving blood
This week, I was confronted with signs on Skiles walkway and by the Student Center alerting me to the Red Cross blood drive happening on...
A 24-hour library jeopardizes students
On Wednesday mornings, I go to the library to print out assignments for class, and without fail, there is always someone asleep in a booth...
Privacy in the internet age
Cambridge Analytica highlights a much larger problem
The death of the Great American Novel
A few years back, a very troubling commercial began making the rounds on major networks. I don’t remember exactly what was being advertised, but a...
A possible alternative to the flagrant behavior of UHR
With its most recent meeting, the Undergraduate House of Representatives (UHR) of the Student Government Association (SGA) gave up all pretense of playing by its...
Laughing right up to the cliff: a diagnosis
In a day and age focused on technology, data collection and constant government monitoring, it can feel at times as though George Orwell’s “1984” has...
UHR failed the student body with budget cuts
This past week, SGA has been celebrating I <3 GT week, an incredible outreach and celebration of us as a student body and Institute. On...
GSS Responds to Technique Rideshare Consensus Opinion
Editor’s Note: This Letter to the Editor is in response to a Technique consensus. The rideshare bill offered unlimited $1 rides from 10 p.m. to...
Understanding the nuances of abortion and birth control
On February 27, Vice President Mike Pence said that, “[we can], in our time, restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law,”...
The unlikely supportive atmosphere at a hackathon
This past weekend, three of my friends and I took a road trip to Tallahassee, Florida to participate in our first hackathon ever. It was...
The necessity of knowing what actions are committed to
The presidential elections for SGA this year cannot really be considered one. Evan Gillon and Ayo Aladesanmi are running uncontested for the position of president...
The forgotten practice of doing nothing
One of the best classes I’ve ever taken at Tech is Dr. Hans Klein’s PHIL 3127 class, not just because of its effect on my...
Excessive consumption in the land of plenty
If you have ever gone out to eat with me, you know that if I cannot finish my food, I will either take it to...
What makes us human in the age of artificial intelligence?
I, like most of the population, have been binging on Black Mirror. If you have seen the series, you know some episodes revolve around the...
Groups and the power of teaching ourselves
If you’ve ever been in a group project — and you probably have, since they’re practically inescapable — you might find that you fall into...
Reporters that manufacture pseudoscience: please go away
I am sick of pseudoscience. Let me clarify: I am sick of the phenomenon of replacing what we can term “real” science with its largely...
Rideshare bill dies in GSS
Graduate students defeat proposed funding