She's No Square TV show reunites Tech friends for Hollywood "cruise"
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was really shocked," Kristin Patterson says about being picked for the Hollywood Squares College Tournament. Patterson, Mgt '99, went to the game show's try outs at the Student Center last fall and made it to the finals. Two weeks later she was selected as a contestant. "I was just lucky," says the 22-year-old Patterson, who spent five days in California and collected $2,500 before being eliminated. King World Productions, which produces Hollywood Squares, flew Patterson to Los Angeles on Oct. 21 and put her up in a hotel. A marketing trainee with the Atlanta Braves, Patterson met up with friends from Tech, Honor Hutton, CE '99, and Brittany Howick, IE '99. Hutton is in graduate school at UCLA, and Howick flew in from Utah, where she attends law school at Brig-
ham Young University. Although they were able to attend the taping and sit in the studio audience to cheer Patterson on, she was sequestered away from her friends before and during taping. During the show, Patterson became friends with contestants from other universities. "We were all just so shocked that we were there, but it was fun." After the taping, Patterson met Whoopi Goldberg and spoke with Donnie Osmond, celebrities who appeared on the tournament shows. Other stars on the show included actress Raquel Welch, rap singer Coolio and comic Caroline Rhea. Perhaps best of all, Patterson says, she spent time with Hutton and Howick cruising the Los Angeles tourist scene. "We went to Mann's Chi
Online: Transportation Site
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he Georgia Tech Library and Information Center now offers access to Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Online—the Web version of the National Transportation Library, the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information. TRIS Online includes about 400,000 bibliographic records on transportation research from the 1960s to the present. For almost 35 years, TRIS has been an important source of transportation information for researchers, engineers, planners, economists, environmentalists, designers, consultants, lawyers, teachers and students. For more information, visit http://tris.amti.com.
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Kristin Patterson makes the scene on TV's Hollywood Squares.
nese Theater where they have all the handprints and the Walk of Stars; we drove around Beverly Hills, and we went up to the mountain
where the big Hollywood sign is and took pictures," Patterson recalls. "It was definitely an experience I'll never forget."
Meeting of Techs Set for 2000
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eorgia Tech will play Big East champion Virginia Tech in the Black Coaches Association Classic Aug. 27 at 8 p.m. on ESPN. The preseason game will mean a dozen starts for George O'Leary's Jackets. The Jackets would have opened the season against Central Florida in Bobby Dodd Stadium. "I've always i<~ » favored playing a 12th game if we could/' O'Leary says. "I think it's good exposure for our players." Virginia Tech went 11-0 last season. Tech was 8-4.