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A year after Angela Merkels
open-door migrant policy, headlines seem bleak; the recent elections have been disastrous for her
party, the center-right Christian
Democratic Union. A loss in Berlin came just after a third-place
finish in her home state, behind
the Social Democratic Party and
the right-wing Alternative for
Germany Party.
She admits Germanys was
ill-prepared for such an influx of
migrants, and is suggesting the
introduction of a cap. The number
of new asylum seekers is declining, from 92,000 to 16,000 refugees between January and July.
The biggest challenge for Germany now is to integrate asylum
seekers. While the housing of
refugees was once a concern, there
are now thousands of empty beds
in emergency shelters.
An estimated 23,600 refugees
still live in emergency shelters in
Berlin, but in smaller cities resettlement has been considerably
more successful. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
estimates that there will be a
shortfall of about 200,000 spaces
for language-learning courses this
year. The program suffers from a
teacher shortage, and only those
expected to permanently stay
in Germany have access to the
courses. Many refugees struggle
to break into the job market because they cannot work until they
are granted asylum.
Of the 322,000 refugees,
141,000 were unemployed. Many
of these refugees speak little to no
German, and have education levels inadequate for the jobs available. However, these refugees are
young. The hope is that integration will occur through language
immersion and training programs.
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Call me crazy but this section will have an erato house ad next
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its good to know that the first few games were a fluke and that
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General John R. Allen delivered the morning keynote address on combating modern extremism.
The Sam Nunn Forum takes place every two years and addresses international policy issues.
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The IMEET program will allow students to be directly involved in the process of Mars research.
Students will be recruited from all over the United States and from a variety of backgrounds.
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Working along with the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, the Museum of Aviation,
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Science Center, and using the
NASA Space Grant Consortias
resources, the IMEET will recruit
students from all over the nation.
The first two years of the program
will be the development stage for
aerial and ground robots, while
the third year will be the piloting
phase. There will be a workshop
Oct. 11 in the Weber Building of
Aerospace Engineering where the
deputy director of NASA will be
the keynote speaker for the initiation of the program.
Schrage has expressed interest
in a variety of ideas via NASAs
The Big Idea initiative that he is
looking forward to incorporating
into the design process, such as
In-Space Assembly.
We realized its difficult to
get payload deliveries to Mars, so
what were looking to do is to send
the parts into the Moons orbit,
assembling it while in orbit, then
sending it to Mars, Shrage said.
In addition, this program will
allow for minority students and
schools in underprivileged locations to be introduced to the
program and careers relating to
space exploration. Recently, Professor Schrage has been involved
with an initiative in which STEM
classes would be integrated into
one thousand high schools internationally, one of them being the
Marymount School of New York,
an inner city, all-girls school.
The objective is to allow 400
students to be a part of this program, but we hope to triple that
in the next few years Shrage said.
He hopes to continue his work
and strengthen the American
workforce through implementation of programs like IMEET.
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When finished, the landscape will operate as a cistern that connects to Atlantas sewer system. The project will provide an open space for students in addition to environmental benefits.
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Felicia Benton-Johnson serves
as Director of Diversity for Techs
College of Engineering, a job she
has held since 2004. As such, she
also heads Techs Center for Engineering Education and Diversity,
or CEED. This program works
with entities, both inside the Tech
community and otherwise, to promote a more diverse landscape in
Techs engineering programs.
The Technique was able to sit
down with Benton-Johnson to
discuss CEED and the impact it
has on students.
Technique: Could you give an
overview of some of the services
that CEED provides students?
Benton-Johnson: Okay, so,
CEED is the Center for Engineering Education and Diversity. We
give students retention support,
some one-on-one tutoring and
mentoring, financial support, academic advising and career opportunities, like connecting students
with corporate entities. The most
important thing for us is were really big on building relationships
with everyone we touch. The students, even parents, and corporate
entities. We try and create a safe
space for students to come and interact with us.
There are five people who are
on staff here and we like to make
sure that if one of us isnt available, someone else is, and they can
go in, give a student a hug, give
them a pat on the back, give them
sort of a push when they need the
motivation to keep going. We call
ourselves the safe space, a home
away from home for students.
Technique: What part of your
job do you enjoy the most?
Benton-Johnson: To be honest, the students. When people
say what do you enjoy the least,
definitely the meetings. But yeah,
the students, especially when you
see things come full circle. For
example, we have a summer engineering institute and the students
are here for three weeks. This happens as early as when theyre rising juniors in high school, and its
so cool that we see them now, in
the end, when they are graduating
from college. Its really crazy.
We see students that weve met
as a freshman and now theyre in
Ph.D. programs. Or when they
come back from industry. We
have a lot of students who come
back from industry and they come
in all the time and they come by
to say Hi that type of thing.
You see what youve done when
students come back. Or they come
back in smiling and they just tell
you, Oh my gosh I did so good
on this test or this project, and
its really cool to see.
Technique: Is there any particular program that CEED runs
that you are the proudest of?
Benton-Johnson: Most proud
of? Well theres more than one
project that we have in this initiative. The partnership with Intel,
we became a partner with Intel
last year. They gifted us $5.5 million over the next five years to
increase the number of underrepresented minorities across engineering and technology.
With that, it has enabled us to
increase the number of students
that weve impacted. For one
weve expanded our peer to peer
program, so now were supporting 120 students in that. Across
the college of engineering and college of sciences and computing.
Thats where we do a peer mentoring approach with upperclassmen
mentoring underclassmen within
the same major. And then we also
have graduate students who mentor the mentors.
Also the partnership with Intel
has enabled us to support more
students financially. So we have
whats called retaining inspirational students in engineering
and technology; we call it RISE.
RISE is for your nontraditional
student who is pursuing engineering or technology, sometimes a
graduate student, and they are
resilient in pursuing their degree.
have gone on to pursue STEM degrees. We have a number of programs, I cant really just tag one,
were proud of a good number of
them.
Technique: That is certainly
understandable. You are doing
great things here.
Benton-Johnson: Yeah, and
were excited about that, having
good people makes a big difference. We wouldnt be able to do
this with people who arent committed to the students and to
making sure they obtain their
degrees. Even for [engineering]
students who we meet and who
See FBJ, page 13
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CEED director Patricia Benton-Johnson has been the director of Diversity for Techs College of Engineering since 2004.
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The Cereal Club meets on Thursdays in Smith Residence hall. Beginning as a small group
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the mass of clothes become easier
to navigate, but it also stands less
a chance of needing to be ironed.
PICK THE RIGHT SETTING
Are you washing sheets or
towels? Choose hot wash and hot
rinse. Are you washing your favorite red u(sic)ga shirt? You can go
ahead and throw that away. But
for the other red shirt you still miraculously own, wash on cold and
rinse on cold. A general rule of
thumb is that the hotter the temperature of the water, the cleaner
the item will get. However, things
that bleed like red or those new
jeans should go on cold to keep
the color in. Cold water also saves
energy, so thats a plus. But in
general, you can wash everything
on warm. It usually wont shrink
or fade clothes, and it wont set a
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Intouchables
Intouchables tells the true story of Philippe, a wealthy, physically disabled risk taker,
the picture of established French nobility, who lost his wife in an accident and whose
world is turned upside down when he hires Driss, a young, good-humored, black,
Muslim, Senegalese immigrant and ex-con as his caretaker. Their bond proved the
power and omniscience that love and friendship can hold over all social and economic
differences.
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The Escapologist, Andrew Basso, performs Harry Houdinis great escape. His hands were handcuffed and his feet padlocked in above him as he was immersed upside down and tasked with escape. He spent over three minutes underwater while the tense audience attempted to hold their breath with him.
The Illusionists
PERFORMERS: Jeff Hobson,
Dan Sperry, Colin Cloud,
Kevin James, Ben Blaque,
Andrew Basso and Yu Ho-Jin
LOCATION: Fox Theatre
DATE: Sept. 28Oct. 2
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The captivating Illusionists:
Live From Broadway show has
come to the Fabulous Fox Theater, and audiences are sure to be
amazed. The Illusionists are seven
magicians gathered from all corners of the earth, each with their
own unique style and act. The
Illusionists blend technology,
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
In a year where cinema and
television alike have been dominated by remakes of everything
from Ben-Hur to Ghost-
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OUR TAKE:
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Jason Isbell and Josh Ritter
kept a packed house at the Fox
Theatre engaged for over three
hours on Sep. 24, treating the audience to classic American narratives, intense swings of emotion
and a uniquely powerful concert
experience.
Isbell, the recent recipient
of the American Music Awards
for album and song of the year,
played an 18-song set accompanied by his band, the 400 Unit,
and by his wife, Amanda Shires,
who normally tours separately.
The group played before three
fake stained glass windows on
a stage enveloped in smoke. For
Decoration Day, a hard-driving tribute to a (fictional) classic
American family blood feud, the
stage-lights turned a fiery red, obscuring the group in a smoky hellish haze, perfectly complementing
Isbells anguished howls, Sadler
Vadens stabbing guitar licks and
the sinister sound of Amanda
Shires fiddle.
Isbell, born in the Shoals of
north Alabama, identifies strongly
with his roots: the influence of the
legendary studios in the area including Muscle Shoals Sound Studios and FAME Studios, where he
worked in his early twenties. Isbell
made himself known on Goddamn Lonely Love, Palmetto
After opening for Jason Isbell at the Fox Theatre, Josh Ritter will be touring the U.S. through Dec. 3 promoting his new album
Sermon on the Rocks. His songs and instrumental music will be featured in the new John Krasinski movie, The Hollars.
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Designated Survivor
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WHEN: Sept. 21
STARRING: Kiefer Sutherland
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Kiefer Sutherland (24) returns to television as Tom Kirkman in Designated Survivor as he steps in as President.
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One of the most fun and engaging acts of the show was
Clouds mind reading act. Cloud
has a degree in forensic investigation, and he uses his skills to read
people and to manipulate them.
He starts by picking two members
of the audience to directly participate, and gives them each a card
with a question to answer.
While the two write down
their secret answers, he engages
the audience with a which hand
is the coin in trick. Then he proceeds to correctly deduce the answer to each of the chosen persons
question. He even manipulates
one of the participants into reading his own mind.
Another fantastic act was that
of The Anti-illusionist. After
poking fun at the classic rabbit in
Colin Cloud, The Deductionist, reads the thoughts of the audience as well as those of two
volunteers. Cloud has a background in forensic science and displays his skills spectacularly.
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CONTRIBUTING WRITER
When the Jackets play host
at Bobby Dodd Stadium on Saturday, eyes are trained on Paul
Johnsons triple option offense
and opportunistic defense. Yet in
the same confines is another spectacle on the sidelines: that of the
cheerleaders, notable athletes in
their own right.
Ali Mac Jinks joined the cheerleading team during her third year
at Tech. Now in her penultimate
fall on campus, she balances cheer
with a rigorous extracurricular,
social and academic schedule.
She also works as a Georgia
Tech tour guide, is on the LEAD
recruitment team, does speaker
procurement for TEDx Georgia
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The pivotal play against Clemson was also perhaps the most
memorable for Tech fans. With
two minutes left in the first half
and Clemson leading 14-0, Ted
Roofs defense did what it needed
to do most: force a turnover.
Unfortunately, that success
was extremely short lived as junior defensive back Lance Austin proceeded to run the ball a
couple yards out of the end zone
and fumble it back into the end
zone for a safety. While the result wasnt the most points Tech
couldve given up on the play, it
was extremely deflating and made
what could have been a two-posession contest one that was out of
hand by halftime.
The most common rhetoric being used to describe the Jackets is
that it is slowly building up like
the 2014 team did. That still seems
to be the perfect description.
In 2014, the Jackets suffered
two tough losses in a row to Duke
and UNC. This year, Tech is coming off a crushing loss to Clemson
in which the offense was dismantled. Hopes may be bleak right
now, but Tech has been in this
situation before.
Unfortunately for Tech, the
saving grace that is usually the
triple option has looked shaky this
year. In their first two games last
year, a season many want to forget, the Jackets scored 134 points.
This year, Tech hasnt even broken
into the triple digits through four
games, putting them towards the
bottom of nation in scoring.
The best offensive game this
year, against Vanderbilt, can
be seen as a fluke right now. It
doesnt matter how good a defense
is, the biggest thing that shuts
down Techs offense is a smart defense; Boston College and Clemson both displayed that in their
Dedrick Mills scores after scoring a touchdown against Vanderbilt. The freshman B-back has gotten off to a fast start, shouldering much of the load in a Tech offense that is yet to reach its ceiling.
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Danny Hall looks on during a baseball game. While Hall experienced success towards the
beginning of his career, his teams relative mediocrity as of late makes his extension questionable.
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Danny Karnik is typically on the other side of the lens. The GTRI researcher and Georgia Tech
Athletic Associations official photographer has captured events from 90 venues worldwide.
Sports
After a brutal defeat to the Clemson Tigers, Tech will look to rebound this weekend against the Hurricanes. Tech is coming off the worst offensive performance in
Coach Paul Johnsons nine-year tenure and
it doesnt appear to get any easier going up
against a talented but inexperienced Miami
defense. Coach Johnson is 2-6 against the
Miami Hurricanes, with both wins coming
at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
In last years matchup, a non-Justin
Thomas led offense had 314 rushing yards
against Miami. However, Tech was doomed
by their four turnovers. For the Jackets to
be successful, theyre going to have to win
the battle on the perimeter and force Miamis young linebacker core and secondary
to outplay them.
Miamis veteran O-line will present a
challenge to the Jacket defense as Tech has
had issues rushing the passer this year. A
matchup to watch will be junior defensive
end Antonio Simmons vs senior offensive
tackle Sunny Odogwu. Simmons has proven himself to be Techs most reliable pass
rusher through four games. That is especially important given junior KeShun Free-
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