What Happened At Tech Tower?! Did Someone Steal The T's?!

I love it… Tech traditions FTW

A huge thanks to the administration for trying to educate the students, although it may well backfire. I’ve been against the whole “stealing random Ts” thing since it gained any momentum. Yes, I understand the kitsch and fun of it. But what students tend not to realize, living in their insular student-y worlds, is how things look to visitors and outsiders. When a visitor to campus—whether it’s a prospective student, a parent, an away fan, or even a CEO looking to conduct research with the institute—sees signs that read “A lan ic Drive” or "Fowler S ", it makes us look foolish, unprofessional, and unkempt.

And while students may claim this is an homage to the old tradition of stealing the Ts from Tech Tower, it’s really not. It’s just juvenile vandalism, hardly different than stealing any random road sign or real estate sign or bashing a mailbox.

Please, students, grow up and let the Institute show itself in a professional light.

Stealing T’s from anywhere other than Tech Tower has always fed into this whole “GT is in a rough part of downtown where students get stabbed and raped all day” angle that the AJC sells to suburbanites. When my parents were on campus and the T’s were all gone off the signs they always ask me if I felt safe where I lived on campus, etc. They were always like “Hmm…what a nice place….” sarcastically. By contrast, my sister went to Alabama where the campus is like a well-manicured public park (as a big public college campus is expected to be), and no one ever thinks twice about their kid’s safety there.

Bottom Line – It’s not the real tradition and makes GT look completely classless.

Perhaps the should change to adding a “G” superscript in removable form above random “T’s” on campus??