Welcoming the ACC to Tech

Welcoming the ACC to Tech

By Scott Lange
Assistant News Editor
ATLANTA
November 13, 1998

Georgia Tech is playing host to the eighth annual ACC Leadership Conference today through Sunday. Organizers intend the weekend to foster communication between the conference's member schools and make the ACC "more than just an athletic conference."

Each of the ACC's nine member institutions selected "ambassadors" to the event. Tech's representatives to the conference were chosen by Undergraduate Student Government President Marc Galindo.

Tech's delegates represent a wide variety of campus organizations. SGA, Greek life, FASET, and Housing are some of the areas that they have experience in.

Conference attendees have a variety of workshops, community service activities, and recreation planned for their time in Atlanta. All participants in the conference will work on a project as part of tomorrow's TEAM Buzz project.

Dean Gail DiSabatino, Dean Karen Boyd, and several other Institute administrators are hosting workshops for the delegates. The sessions will cover topics such as diversity and promoting student leadership. The schools will also participate in sharing methods of solving common campus dilemmas.

While in Atlanta, students attending the conference will be treated to a wide variety of entertainment and sight-seeing. The group will eat at local restaurants from opposite ends of the dining spectrum-The Imperial Fez and The Varsity.

Entertainment will include an ACC trivia contest and a performance by the Gold Rush Dancers. On Saturday, the ambassadors will also be taken on a driving tour of Atlanta that will focus on Olympic venues.

In addition to the six ambassadors, twenty other Tech students will serve as hosts for the conference. They will be assigned to a specific visiting school and will be responsible for assisting that school's delegation and making them feel at home.

The workshops and conference sessions will take place throughout the weekend on the Tech campus. Visiting delegates will stay off campus at the Georgian Terrace Hotel.

The weekend will wrap up with the announcement of the host school for next year's conference. Officials hope that the departing students will be able to take things they have learned home to improve their campuses and the ACC.

Georgia Tech's delegates to the leadership conference are Erica Young, Becky Glatzer, Suzy Robinson, Shiva Persaud, Flynn Williford, and Amit Keswani.

Copyright © 1998 by Gregory S. Scherrer, Editor and by the Student Publications Board

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