. 1775 2,400,000 1.2 American football Many startup companies are produced through research conducted at Georgia Tech with the Advanced Technology Development Center and VentureLab ready to assist Georgia Tech's researchers and entrepreneurs in organization and commercialization the Georgia Tech Research Corporation serves as Georgia Tech's contract and technology licensing agency Georgia Tech is ranked fourth for startup companies eighth in patents and eleventh in technology transfer by the Milken Institute Georgia Tech and GTRI devote 1,900,000 square feet (180,000 m2) of space to research purposes including the new $90 million Marcus Nanotechnology Building one of the largest nanotechnology research facilities in the Southeastern United States with over 30,000 square feet (2,800 m2) of clean room space. Gwinnett Place Community Improvement District around Gwinnett Place Mall, 3.2 French and Indian War In 1959 a meeting of 2,741 students voted by an overwhelming majority to endorse integration of qualified applicants regardless of race Three years after the meeting and one year after the University of Georgia's violent integration Georgia Tech became the first university in the Deep South to desegregate without a court order There was little reaction to this by Tech students; like the city of Atlanta described by former Mayor William Hartsfield they seemed "too busy to hate" in the 1967-68 academic year 28 students out of 7,526 were black in 1968 William Peace became the first black instructor and Marle Carter became the first black member of the homecoming court in 1964 Dr Calvin Huey became the first black player to play at Bobby Dodd stadium when he took the field for Navy the first black person to play for Georgia Tech was Eddie McAshan in 1970. Bullpen 1.4 Soccer Each region has its own distinctive characteristics for instance the Ridge and Valley which lies in the northwest corner of the state includes limestone sandstone shale and other sedimentary rocks which have yielded construction-grade limestone barite ocher and small amounts of coal. Main article: Media in Atlanta Derek Kan The area's prolific rains are drained by many different streams and creeks the main basin is that of the Chattahoochee River running northeast to southwest the further northwestern suburbs drain into the Etowah River via the Little River and Lake Allatoona the southern suburbs are drained by the Flint River and the east-southeastern ones by the Oconee River and Yellow River. On October 13 1885 Georgia Governor Henry D McDaniel signed the bill to create and fund the new school in 1887 Atlanta pioneer Richard Peters donated to the state 4 acres (1.6 ha) of the site of a failed garden suburb called Peters Park the site was bounded on the south by North Avenue and on the west by Cherry Street He then sold five adjoining acres of land to the state for US$10,000 (equivalent to $280,000 in 2018) This land was near Atlanta's northern city limits at the time of its founding although the city has expanded several miles beyond it a historical marker on the large hill in Central Campus notes the site occupied by the school's first buildings once held fortifications to protect Atlanta during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War the surrender of the city took place on the southwestern boundary of the modern Georgia Tech campus in 1864, Croatia (84) FR Yugoslavia: RTS RTCG The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) which operates rail bus and parking lots in the city and surrounding area has its own police force Overall crime rates in are about 30 per every 100,000 system daily riders which is identical to the crime figure for the Washington D.C area's WMATA higher than crime figure for the Boston area's MBTA and lower than the crime figure for the San Francisco area's BART Homicides within the MARTA system have varied in the fiscal year ending in 2017 for example there were four homicides investigated by MARTA police but there were no homicides in the MARTA system in any of the previous last four fiscal years Total crimes in the MARTA system have declined from fiscal year 2013. .
Georgia Tech Cable Network or GTCN is the college's branded cable source Most non-original programming is obtained from Dish Network GTCN currently has 100 standard-definition channels and 23 high-definition channels. . . The campus is organized into four main parts: West Campus East Campus Central Campus and Technology Square West Campus and East Campus are both occupied primarily by student living complexes while Central Campus is reserved primarily for teaching and research buildings, M On June 28 2013 the Atlanta Braves retired former third baseman Chipper Jones' jersey number 10 before the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks He was honored before 51,300 fans at Turner Field in Atlanta He served as a staple of the Braves franchise for 19 years before announcing his retirement at the beginning of the 2012 season Chipper Jones played his last regular season game for the Braves on September 30 2012.
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