News Briefs
News Briefs The Bunger-Henry building recently experienced a spate of safety incidents that prompted the involvement of Environmental Health and Safety, the Georgia Tech Police...
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GTL celebrates 20th anniversary
2010 marks the 20-year anniversary of the Georgia Tech Lorraine (GTL) satellite campus in Metz, France. GTL is Tech’s first international campus. “We will be...
Institute, students respond to budget cuts
On Saturday, Feb. 27, the Institute submitted its proposal to the University System of Georgia (USG) to help close a $385 million budget shortfall for...
Black Leadership Conference celebrates history, legacy
The African American Student Union (AASU) held their annual Black Leadership Conference (BLC) from Feb. 19 to Feb. 21. The weekend long event started with...
GA legislators in favor of tuition hikes
“We have got to cut approximately another 200 to 300 million dollars out of your budget, please prioritize where those cuts will come, if not...
UHR votes “no” on HB 615
The Undergraduate House of Representatives (UHR) voted on Feb. 23 to pass a resolution opposing current legislation in the Georgia General Assembly to repeal the...
Campus Crime
On Feb. 17, an officer was flagged down by an individual at North Avenue near the intersection of Northside Drive and informed that there was...
Council Clippings
SGA passed a bill requesting funding by the Club Math organization to host Mathemagician Arthur Benjamin, a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. The...
Breaking the Bubble
A lot of things went on outside the bubble of Tech in the past week. Here are a few important events taking place throughout the...
SGA election code updated
Following election campaign violations and voting issues in recent freshman Student Government Association elections, the new elections code came to pass in the Undergraduate House...
Task force to edit registration process
The Registrar’s office has teamed up with SGA and academic advisors across campus to form a registration task force in order to discuss potential and...
JFC revises governing policy
The Joint Finance Committee (JFC), the arm of Student Government Association (SGA) in charge of funding-request regulations for chartered student organizations, is proposing to make...
Tau Beta Pi, SWE celebrate Engineers Week
This past week, Feb. 14-20, engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi hosted National Engineers Week (E-Week) at Tech. “We’re the largest engineering school in the...
Commencement fair gives a real world look to undergraduate students
For hundreds of fourth, fifth, sixth and even seventh years, Wednesday Feb. 17 marked the beginning of their last days at Tech as undergraduates with...
Committee accepting provost recommendations
The Provost Advisory Search Committee began actively reviewing candidates for the post earlier this month. The current provost, Dr. Gary Schuster, announced his decision to...
Strategic Planning draft released
Following months of discussions and meetings with students and faculty across campus, Tech’s Strategic Planning Committee publicly released the first draft of the Strategic Planning...
New dining slated for Student Center
The Student Center is getting a makeover with the addition of five new franchise restaurants. An expanded Chick Fil-A, Subway and Taco Bell restaurants will...
Royster named new Ivan Allen College Dean
Jacqueline Jones Royster has been named the new dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts following a semester-long search and month-long finalist application...