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The Jackets hosted the undefeated Duke Blue Devils on the Flats on Saturday, in a matchup with far different implications than many expected at the start of the season. Tech came into the bout off a shocking loss to Stanford, who, aside from their victory over the Jackets, have lost their last three FBS games by a combined score of 150-17. This dropped the J
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In 2021, Jeff Horwitz published “The Facebook Files,” an investigative series that revealed that Facebook was aware of the negative effects of its social media platforms and chose to ignore them anyway. The media storm that erupted due to “The Facebook Files,” combined with nostalgia for 2010’s “The Social Network,” led to the announcement of a pseudo-sequel
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Hosted annually every October, the Atlanta Pride Festival is the largest LGBTQ+ event in the South, amassing 350,000 attendees each year. It’s also one of the oldest Pride celebrations to exist, as Atlanta’s first pride parade was in 1970 on the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an event which would become known as a catalyst for the LGBTQ+ mov
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I was sitting in the student center last week when I overheard two girls absentmindedly conversing about a friend. “Is he white?” the first asked her friend. The other quickly replied, “He’s actually Wasian.” Unconcerned, the first simply remarked, “Same difference.” This remark was not meant to be harmful, but it exemplifies how easy it is to fit people and
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Tech reached the top 30 national universities for the first time in the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, continuing several years of upward movement across the Institute’s colleges. The 2027 rankings, released on Sept. 22, placed Tech at No. 29 among national universities, a three-spot climb from No. 32 last year. Among public universi
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For a campus where most students spend their days in classrooms, labs and study spaces, Tech’s Battle of the Bands offered a different way to experience the Institute: through guitars, drums, vocals and original music. The event, organized through a collaboration between GT Arts and the Georgia Tech Musicians Network (GTMN) , brought student bands together f
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Spend enough time at a Tech football game, and one will likely hear students cry, “Raise the Ratio!” For decades, students have replaced the phrase "To cheer the brave and bold” with “To raise the ratio” in the school’s fight song. However, looking at the numbers, is the ratio actually rising? While the gender balance at Tech has yet to become even, the perc
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Tech Volleyball heads into ACC play this weekend after wrapping up their non-conference schedule Saturday night. The Jackets began the season undefeated, winning their first seven matches before falling to every ranked opponent and finishing 8-3. Opening the season at the Cyclone Invitational, Tech dominated a weekend that saw them drop just one set. With 10
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Thomas A. Fanning, M.S. IM ‘80 and HON Ph.D. ‘13, has been named the sole finalist for chancellor of the University System of Georgia. The University System of Georgia (USG) Board of Regents announced Fanning’s selection Sept. 16 following a national search for a successor to Chancellor Sonny Perdue, who announced his retirement in April. Perdue will conclud
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Since the HBO series “Sex and the City” premiered in 1998, the show’s protagonist, Carrie Bradshaw, has drawn a myriad of mixed reviews. The show follows columnist Carrie and her best friends as they navigate romance and adulthood in New York City. They make questionable decisions, fall in and out of love and pursue successful careers, all while making time
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