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Multicultural Student Affairs sponsors academic boot camp that trains students to achieve a 4.0 GPA. Kali Mallory Staff Writer
One hundred students have the opportunity to participate in an academic boot camp over fall break and will then be guaranteed a 4.0 GPA. The Guaranteed 4.0 Boot Camp will take place Thurs., Oct. 7 and Fri., Oct. 8, where students are to attend a two day session and learn ways to improve their academic strategies and GPA. The program is also invented to reduce study time. According to Tracy Ray, director of multicultural student affairs, the Multicultural Student Affairs staff will supply students with hands on exercises, motivational tools, and enhanced examples, as students interact with the workshop’s speaker, Donna O. Johnson, through a DVD system. Ray found out about the Guaranteed 4.0 workshop through Robert Page, from the University of Kansas. “Robert is highly credible and cocoordinated an annual Symposium on the Recruitment, Retention and Graduation of Students of Color with Noel-Levitz. I worked for a couple of years to track down Donna O. to come to NC State to present, but had a hard time reaching her. Later, she came out with a book and workbook called the Guaranteed 4.0 Learning System,” Ray said. Coordinator Donna O. Johnson guarantees a 4.0 GPA, not Multicultural Student Affairs. Also, Johnson offers to pay students $100 if the program doesn’t work, according to Ray. “The key however is that you must use all of the strategies that she gives you. In over 10 years of hosting the program she has never paid out $100,” Ray said. “As she states, even if you just use a few of the strategies you are guaranteed to raise your GPA, but if you use them all you are destined to achieve a 4.0.” Keisha Okafor, a sophomore in arts and design, said she thinks the boot camp is a good idea. “I think it’s a good idea. It’s something all students would want. I just hope the program falls through,” Okafor said. It was complicated finding a time suitable for students to attend the program, according to Ray. “It is very challenging to find a time that students can fully commit to without class or work conflicts which is why it is being offered over fall break. The program will be offered at the beginning of the spring semester, just prior to the start of classes,” Ray said. Ryan Burnett, a junior in biological sciences, said the boot camp is a good idea, but he thinks the dates are unfortunate. “I think it’s a good idea, but I don’t know what they’re going to be doing. I wanted to go, but it’s during fall break and I don’t want to do work during the break,” Burnett said. Ray said the idea of the Boot Camp at the University stemmed from her past work with what is now the Academic Success Assistance Program, and the need for an effective academic-success program. “I wanted to find a way to drill in the skills and strategies to more students and in a timely fashion. The Boot Camp also serves as a followup or next step to our students that participate in the A.S.A.P. program,” Ray said. The Guaranteed 4.0 Boot Camp embraces diversity. According to Ray, the program is geared toward all students seeking to achieve a 4.0 or raise their GPA, regardless of major or academic standing. “We launched the program for the
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Telling the real story behind Facebook The cast of The Social Network answers questions about the controversy surrounding the film at a local screening Rich Lepore Arts & Entertainment Editor
This Friday, Columbia Pictures will release The Social Network, a film that is already being heralded as the film of the year by many major news outlets. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, and chronicles his meteoric rise from Harvard student geek, to founder of a 27 billion-dollar company. Eisenberg, along with co-star Armie Hammer and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, took part in a nationwide press tour earlier this month, and answered questions about everything from the film’s authenticity, to the difficult process of bringing the story to the screen. The tour’s second stop was here in the Triangle, where the cast visited local universities to screen the film. The Social Network, which was directed by David Fincher, has been the subject of controversy recently due to claims that the filmmakers took extreme creative liberties with Zuckerberg’s story. During a visit to Oprah this past week to announce a 100-million dollar donation to a school in Newark, Zuckerberg made his first public statement about the film. “This is my life,” Zuckerberg said, “I know it isn’t that dramatic,” The film’s creators, however, have never stated that the film was 100-percent factual. “I’m not a journalist or documentarian,” Sorkin said, “But I’m very aware that more people will get their opinion on this subject from the film than from anywhere else.” Sorkin compared the task of writing this film to the work of Truman Capote in writing In True Blood, or Tom Wolfe in writing The Right Stuff.
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“I like to think of this [film] as a brought against Facebook, each perpainting, not a photograph,” Sorkin son involved swore an oath to tell the truth, and proceeded to tell a comsaid. On the issue of Zuckerberg’s choice pletely different story. Therefore, Sorto not be involved with the making of kin decided to tell the story from each the film, Sorkin says that he doesn’t different perspective, framing the film fault him for his decision. But Sor- with courtroom scenes. “There are disputed facts,” Sorkin kin does take issue with Facebook’s said. “What I do official statement is connect those that the film is dots in the char“fiction.” acters.” “We disagree Helping him that it is fiction,” connec t t hose Sorkin said. “I dots in the film is think that FaceJesse Eisenberg, a book’s PR team young actor who is just as good Aaron Sorkin, screenwriter had pr i ma r i ly as our PR team, appeared in inand they’re doing exactly what you’d expect. First they dependent films before Network. To were ignoring this movie, hoping that create the character viewers see on screen, Eisenberg studied every clip it’d be bad.” If early reviews are any indication, of footage of Zuckerberg that he could Facebook PR did not get their wish. find. He also found a unique way of But turning the Facebook story into carrying Zuckerberg with him. “I’d carry an iPod around with me a film that is enjoyable to watch, as well as fair and balanced, posed quite with Mark’s voice on it,” Eisenberg said. “It helped me stay connected a challenge for its filmmakers. In court during the various lawsuits with the character.”
“I like to think of [The Social Network] as a painting, not a photograph.”
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Eisenberg said that this obsessive attention to detail was mirrored on every level of production as well. “The costume designer found the exact pair of shoes Mark wore in this one picture,” Eisenberg said. “There was one pair available online of these really rare shoes and [the costume designer] found them. And they were in my size! I only wore them for one scene and you couldn’t even see them in the shot.” Another technique Eisenberg employed in creating his authentic version of Mark was method acting. “I tried in preparation to equate success I’ve had [in Hollywood] with Mark’s success,” Eisenberg said. But although Zuckerberg has been successful beyond most people’s wildest dreams, the film doesn’t depict him as a particularly happy person. “I can only speak for the character in the film,” Sorkin said, “’Cause I don’t know Mark personally. But [Zuckerberg] was a guy with his nose up against the glass of social life, and
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Campus Fire Department has new ideas for public education The Office of the University Fire Marshal is changing their methods for approaching public education opportunities. Sagar Sane Correspondent
The Office of the University Fire Marshal is working on developing and implementing a new initiative towards public education regarding fire safety and hazards. William Stevenson, University fire marshal, said although public education system is present since the incep-
tion of the University, it has not gained much importance as it should have. “The public education program has been around since the inception of the university. However, it has not gained much importance. We now wish to regroup the infrastructure and start it afresh,” Stevenson said. Robyn Dawson, deputy fire marshal and a certified fire and life safety educator, has been appointed the program manager for this initiative. Dawson said it is difficult to encourage students to take the fire safety initiative and explain its importance.
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Sanding the ends of his split mold, Brett Boger, a senior in TDE education, works on a mold at the Craft Center in Thompson Hall Tuesday. A clay class instructor had asked Boger to make the mold for students to use in class. Boger said he enjoys using the Craft Center because it “provides a great opportunity to express my artistic abilities, while working with really nice woodworking equipment.”
Freshman running back making impact for the Pack early in the season. See page 8.
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Board preventing ‘fake’ honey sales Real Honey Honey that is considered to be in its purest form. Pure honey is also considered raw honey, meaning it has not been altered in any way. Pure honey tends to be darker in color.
Fake Honey Honey has been altered in any way. The alterations can include anything from heating the honey to adding corn syrup or any other substance. Fake honey tends to be lighter in color. Source: John Ambrose, photos by luis zapata
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first time this past summer with the start of first summer session I classes. We had 47 students that participated,” Ray said. “There was diversity by major, college, age and class. Many non-degree seeking students are working to get accepted into an undergraduate or graduate program so we found that the program appeals to all students.” Okafor is a design student and said she doesn’t think the program would help her. “I don’t think it would help me because grading is different for design students,” Okafor said. To determine whether the boot camp was a success, performance will be assessed, and there will be a survey administered at the end.
“We have already begun receiving success stories from this summer. We are still in touch with the summer boot camp cohort and will follow the group through the fall semester. The same will be true for the fall break cohort to measure their individual and overall success as a group,” Ray said. “The group of students from this summer was fantastic so I am really looking forward to meeting our second set of boot camp cadets.” Burnett said she would expect the program to be successful if the students were accompanied throughout the academic year. “If it was something helping you to do the work, I could see it being very successful because half of the battle is doing the work. The program could help, but I don’t think it could guarantee a 4.0,” Burnett said. Currently, only Multicultural
North Carolina has recently created a honey standards board to prevent honey from being improperly labeled for sale. Sagar Sane Correspondent
Consumers unknowingly purchase honey which is has been altered in some way, and is no longer considered to be pure honey. The honey standards board has set up new measures to curb unscrupulous sellers from selling adulterated honey. Honey is considered to be adulterated, or fake, if any product has been added to it prior to the sale of the honey. Adulterated honey bottles are mislabeled in such a way that it looks like a pure honey bottle which easily deceives the consumer who unknowingly buys that adulterated honey. The honey industry is looking to be proactive and take whatever steps are necessary to keep it from becoming a widespread problem, according to John Ambrose, interim dean of undergraduate academic programs and an entomologist and bee expert, who sits on the newly created honey standards board for the State of North Carolina. Adulterated honey is cheap and easy to make. “People use corn syrup as a honey substitute. It costs one-fifth of the pure honey. We are trying to regulate new ways to help the honey industry, already facing problems due to the collapse of honey colonies in past two decades, to stop adulteration of honey,” Ambrose said. Last year, the honey board was set up in Florida. Since then, California and Wisconsin have followed. North Carolina is the most recent state to create a honey standards board.
Student Affairs is administering this program, but Ray said there has been support from departments like University Housing and her colleagues in the Division of Student Affairs.
BOOTCAMP INFO: Deadline to register: Sept. 30 at 5 p.m. Website to register at: http://ceres.cals.ncsu. edu/surveybuilder/Form. cfm?testID=10382 Partial list of sections during program: • Unwritten Rules of the Classroom • Secrets and Insights about Your professor • Help! I Procrastinate • Stress Management and Time Management • The Guaranteed 4.0 Principles Source: TRACY RAY, DIRECTOR OF MULTICULTURAL STUDENT AFFAIRS
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“Each state has decided to make the standards similar to each other so that when the federal government decides to put a standard, these individual states’ standards can be easily rolled in,” Ambrose said. According to Ambrose, the honey standards board relies partially on bee keepers to keep watch for adulterated honey. “We wrote the standards for it and in July last year, at the summer meeting, we took it to the N.C. Department of Agriculture for approval,” Ambrose said. “The Agriculture Department does not want to act as honey police and investigate the problems on their own because it may not be always feasible. The way we work across the state is that, the bee keepers themselves are on a lookout for chances of adulteration.” Labs in Texas are certified to determine if honey is pure or if it has been altered, according to Ambrose. “The Honey Board takes samples of honey that is thought to be adulterated and sends it to certified labs in Texas and other states for analysis. If adulteration is proved, the Agriculture Department is informed about that,” Ambrose said. If a seller is found guilty of selling adulterated honey, the seller is warned against selling fake honey or the mislabeling of honey. “If the seller doesn’t refrain from selling bad honey bottles in spite of warnings, taking legal action is our last step,” Ambrose said. In North Carolina there are about 10,000 bee keepers who breed 100,000 to 200,000 colonies of honey bees and most of the bee keepers are willing to participate for this cause, according to Ambrose. “In past two decades, there has been a severe loss of bees throughout the country,” Ambrose said. “California farmers, who produce the highest percentage of almonds, have to pay to
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migrate the bees from other states in order to keep the business going.” According to Ambrose, altered honey is generally sold as sourwood honey “Anything added to honey makes it adulterated. It can be water or corn syrup or anything else. It is important that honey remains in pure state until it reached the consumer,” Ambrose said. “Many times, adulterated honey is sold as sourwood honey, one of the finest forms of honey which costs two or three times the regular honey.” In the early 1980’s, at the Farmers Market in Raleigh, a family from Mississippi went to the dealers with truck load of adulterated honey saying that it was sourwood honey, which is normally found in mountainous regions. The family from Mississippi convinced the dealers to sell their honey and made profit out of that. “At that time, the government was slow to respond and act against them. But, later they were arrested and charged when they tried to do the same thing in Tennessee,” Ambrose said. Honey has lot of medicinal benefits and there are experiments which prove that it is useful against ailments such as allergies and hay fever, according to Ambrose. Pure honey has a sweeter f lavor than honey which has corn syrup in it. “Pure honey has a distinctive flavor which is not found in the honey mixed with corn syrup. One teaspoon of corn syrup honey is equivalent to twothirds of pure honey,” Ambrose said. Amey Deshpande, a graduate student in electrical engineering, said having standards and rules against adulterated honey will create awareness amongst the customers too. “The mislabeling especially makes it difficult to distinguish between pure and impure honey,” Deshpande said. “With these standards put in place, I think I will be more alert while buying honey bottles.”
we are planning to put up a kitchen fire alarm simulation with the help of Raleigh Fire continued from page 1 Department and the Univer“Students normally see us sity Housing Staff. We will at work when it is an emer- model two kitchens similar in gency or for some legal con- structure, except that one will frontations,” Dawson said. have a sprinkler system in case According to Dawson, of fire and one will not. These everybody in the office simulations will help educate participates in the public the public about the hazards of not having fire safety equipeducation programs. “Each individual of the ments like sprinklers or fire exFire Safety Department will tinguishers. The implications participate in the program of such a simulation will lead in some way or the other. It to further simulations in future is important to share the in- for living rooms, dorm rooms, formation about fire safety etc.”, Stevenson said. Stevenson said that this event with the students as they are the most important assets is open to public. It will also to any university,” Steven- be recorded and provided electronically also. son said. “We expect to have some loThe Office of the University Fire Marshal is working cal news coverage too,” Stevenson said. to inform Dawson students explained about the some of the programs, programs according that are to Stevencarried out son. by the fire “We and safety compile departsome ment. programs Gaurav ourselves Robyn Dawson, deputy fire marshal Tungatkar, and put it a graduate out to students to share or we some- student in computer networktimes buy it from outsiders. ing, said fire public education As far as possible, we try to will be useful. “I do not have much knowlput the program information on all types mass me- edge about the activities of fire dia. We have also recently and safety department. Thus, started online training and fire public education initiative online courses on public ed- will be definitely fruitful,” Tunucation for fire safety. On- gatkar said. Rohan Bhutkar, a graduate line is the best way to reach students these days. We are student in computer engineerworking closely with the ing, said the online classes will WolfBytes and other elec- help spread the awareness. “Once the online Fire and tronic media also,” StevenSafety class is offered to the son said. Stevenson believes that public, it will help spread the his staff has a lot of experi- awareness even further,” Bhutence and that the program kar said. is shaping out well. “On October 20 this year,
“Students normally see us at work when it is an emergency or for some legal confrontations.”
fire saftey classes: Fire safety classes - Fire extinguisher classes, first aid classes, etc. are held which provide basic safety guidelines to students. The department is in the process of creating an online Fire Safety Class to be put on the website. The detail announcements will be done as we finalize Fire drills - The drills are carried out to simulate real life emergency situations like evacuation drills for kitchen, dorm rooms, etc Respond to emergency calls, publish and give away brochures, pamphlets, etc. There is monthly inspection of all the campus buildings and the fire extinguishers at all locations At construction sites across the campus, like at the Hunt’s Library construction site in centennial campus, the fire safety personnel work along with the contractors, check for the fire alarms at the site. This is done to prevent from fire related mishaps. The project contractors send building plans to the fire safety departments. Permits are granted if the plans are sufficiently equipped against fire hazards. Jon Brann, chief deputy fire marshal and David Michniuk, deputy fire marshal look after this. Source: robyn dawson, deputy fire marshal
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Facebook, the social networking site launched in 2004 by a group of students from Yale, has become an Internet phenomenon with 500 million active users from across the world. The Social Network, a movie directed by David Fletcher, based on a novel about the site opens Friday.
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Some of the largest companies that affect us socially every day were developed while the founders were in college. Students should take advantage of opportunities and resources while they are in college to develop and expand their own ideas.
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any students could not imagine a day without checking their Facebook or googling a question, however few think about the humble beginnings of these giants in our society. Both of these corporations, along with Fedex and Napster, to name a few, were the fruits of college ideas. Developing innovative ways to think about the way people interact with their surroundings is one of the ways these companies came to exist, but it is also how students approach projects. By applying these simple ways of thinking to doing projects in and out of class, students can get the most out of their college experience. When professors assign projects, students usually cringe as they anticipate the work load.
However, students should not discount class projects while in college. The projects are meant to help students gain a better understanding of the subject matter and delve deeper into a specific area. Students should use the opportunity to make discoveries and gain a better understanding of the subject, and seek to adapt it to their own interests. Projects do not have to be confined to class. Passion and interest are the best stimulants, so students should seek out something to get involved in so they can exercise their skills. Hobbies can develop skills and interests, which can generate
questions that students can test and research in their spare time. This doesn’t have to be done alone. Friends can play off of friends, just like Mark Zuckerberg did as he developed Facebook. N.C. State is said to be “the autobahn of innovation” and students are encouraged to use their intellect and imagination to develop and implement their ideas. The University is the perfect place to cultivate ideas because there are experts in all fields accessible to students. Much like how Sergey Brin and Larry Page worked with faculty at Stanford to develop the idea that a “googol”
could be applied to searching on a network, students can talk to these professors or researchers. Getting involved in research and projects, despite what major they are in, students can increase their experience and work no new ideas. College does not have to be a time of parties and homework. There will be life beyond college and students shouldn’t wait until afterwards to start using what they are learning. Finding an interest and a passion while in college will allow time to develop ideas while still having access to an extensive support system. Some of the greatest ideas do not come with age, they come with knowledge and thought.
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ne of my fraternity’s founders once proclaimed the philosophy, “To do what ought to be done, but would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.” This statement, which he originally envisioned in the 1800’s contains a powerf u l message Alex Lewis and holds true Staff Columnist today. A spirit of charity is a basic principle grounded in the human element and is something we should all embrace. On the path toward getting my Eagle scout award, I was often annoyed by the age-old stereotype of Boy Scouts helping the old lady across the street. Despite that irritation, I’ve figured out the imagery evokes a powerful message. I’ve learned that sometimes the smallest of deeds can make the biggest difference in someone else’s day. Even though holding the door or picking up a dropped pencil for someone requires very little effort, it could possibly be the best thing you could do. My fraternity requires us to turn out to complete a number of service hours each semester. While doing something bigger than ourselves, we reaffirm ou r c o m mitment to t he community and our desire to help others. According to the Greek Life office, members volunteered an average of 33 hours totaling to more than 64,000 hours being donated by fraternity and sorority members toward the causes of service and philanthropy last year. Sometimes giving back can be a little more formal and can add up quickly. But service isn’t just for Greeks. One of the most substantial acts of humanity that takes place on campus took place last week in the form of Habitat for Humanity’s “Shack-a-thon”. Attended by
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33 student groups, Shacka-thon comprised 17 shacks which participants populated throughout the week as they raised money for this important cause. Habitat for Humanity seeks to help others by building simple, decent housing that is affordable. It is a very humble effort helping those without homes or in substandard living conditions and NC State’s chapter is doi ng a good job of carryi ng out that mission. No matter where your day may take you, remember to always be open to helping others. There are many ways to go about this, whether you join a dedicated campus organization or you simply lend a helping hand to a person in distress. Either way, your efforts will not go unnoticed because even small things can add up to make a big impact. Send Alex Lewis your thoughts on helping to letters@technicianonline.com.
“I’ve learned that sometimes the smallest of deeds can make the biggest difference in someone else’s day. ”
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ou may have heard the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, or the UN MDGs, being frequently discussed in the media last week. A three day su m mit on t he MDGs just concluded i n New York, w it h “the adoption of a global action plan to Theju Jacob achieve the Staff Columnist eig ht a nt ipoverty goals by their 2015 target date,” according to the UN website. Stories on the event carried discussions on funding for the development programs, how many of the so called developed nations have or have not met their goals in providing funds, and how these funds are being used. Not surprisingly, good intentions from the donor countries have not always brought about the intended transformation in the recipient nations. The reasons could be anything from corruption and mismanagement of funds, to cultural differences and the donors not realizing the reality of the recipients. Any development scheme needs to start out with a clear vision regarding the end goal,
and should chart out the steps to achieve the goal, to be successful. The timelines for the steps should be outlined, and the parameters to measure their success should be defined. Of course, a well-defined goal would not automatically transform itself to palpable results -the reality on the ground could be very different from what the organizers have perceived it to be. Participation from the local community is hence unavoidable in such schemes, but a system of transparency and accountability should be put in place to make sure that the money reaches the intended recipients. The development goals themselves ought to be designed to be sustainable. Simply throwing money at the poorer communities may bring about changes that look good on paper, but hardly lead to any real progress. In a column published in the New York Times about 2 weeks ago, Nicholas Kristof spoke of the World Bicycle Relief Program, which distributes bicycles in the belief that bicycles are a more effective means of transportation in poorer communities. In the specific example cited in the column, they redesigned the bicycles to suit the local terrain and trained a mechanic for ev-
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ery 50 bicycles distributed. The program organizers even recruited village elders to oversee the program and to ensure that male members of their families do not confiscate bicycles from girls. Though still too early to be called a success, this plan struck me as having a good probability of bringing about effective changes in the lives of the people involved. A few of us, like members of the Model United Nations club at CHASS, might be in positions to oversee development schemes in various locations around the globe in the future. Majority of us will not go on to be UN committee members or to manage multimilliondollar foundations, but we all will, at some point in our lives, play the role of a community organizer or something similar. Keeping our end goals in sight and taking steps to ensure that those goals are met should be our priority. Send Theju Jacob your thoughts on developing effective development plans to letters@technicianonline.com.
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All nighters for Magic, not school Gamers resisted the urge to sleep at midnight Saturday to celebrate the pre-release of “Scars of Mirrodin,” the newest card set for Magic: The Gathering. Aaron Andersen Correspondent
At midnight Saturday, gamers gathered for a tournament at a local table-top-gaming store called Game Theory to celebrate the upcoming release of the newest set of Magic: The Gathering cards. The new set, “Scars of Mirrodin,” dubbed “Scars” by the players, is scheduled to be released October 1. The tournament officially started at 12:47 a.m. and ended at about 8 a.m. Out of a total of 62 seats available, 58 people were playing. Store manager Abraham Wesley said that he and the owners, Rob Newhart, Bo King, and Ethan and Nichole Nicholas have been planning this event for about a month and a half. Game Theory is a home away from home for many table-top and card gamers in the Triangle. The store opened this year in the first week of March. It hosts many games, including Magic, Dungeons and Dragons, Warhammer, and even poker. In order for a store to hold an official Magic tournament, the store must become an official premiere store through Wizards of the Coast, the company that owns Magic: The Gathering, as well as some other games that Game Theory hosts. “We are pretty much the only store that has ever gotten premiere status through Dungeons and Dragons League play,” Wesley said. Several N.C. State students and alumni attended this event, including the official judge Jason McFarland, who graduated in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in science education. An article about the Collegiate Association of Table Top Gamers (CATTG) in the Technician got him back into playing Magic while he was a student. He became a judge in May 2009. “It’s not easy,” McFarland said about being a judge. “You have to work long hours and travel a lot.” McFarland was responsible for overseeing the tournament Saturday which had a total of six rounds. Players competed with decks they made that n ig ht u si ng six booster packs,
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which are packs of 15 random cards. Each round consisted of at least two games, where one player had to win two games in order to win the round. Whoever had the best scores at the end of the competition got prizes, consisting of mainly more booster packs. Adam Stegall, senior in polymer and color chemistry said his favorite part about Magic is opening those booster packs. “There’s nothing quite like that feeling,” Stegall said. “I guess it’s sort of like drugs for other people, but I wouldn’t know about that.” Stegall has been playing Magic for about eight years. He said it was his first time at Game Theory and that he likes it. He is a member of the NCSU Table-top Gamers club, which is a chapter of CATTG. The club plays various games, including casual Magic in Talley Student Center on Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. Loomis Cochrane, an employee at Game Theory and a junior in electrical engineering at N.C. State also took part in the tournament. He is part of an unofficial Magic club in the Quad residence halls. The hall councils for the Quad and Watauga hall are planning on having a meeting to teach people how to play Magic sometime in November. The club meets every Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the t s a e co Honors Village Commons building. h t f
Cochrane is also a “Rules Advisor.” According to the Wizards of the Coast website, this is similar to a judge. “Rules Advisors,” however, are not tournament officials. The only official judge at the tournament was McFarland. If any players had questions during the tournament, they called for McFarland. He is one of about 1300 “Level 1” Magic judges in the world. This means that he is of the lowest level of the judges, but he still has the responsibility of knowing all of the rules. McFarland said he likes judging in Raleigh the best because Raleigh is his home. “I love seeing people grow in skill,” McFarland said. “It’s just that teacher thing in me.” As this was a late event, several of the players looked very tired near the end of the tournament. Several mistakes were made, and some people lost due to those mistakes. A few took naps between rounds to try and avoid this. Almost all of them had drinks with some amount of caffeine in them. One of the more popular drinks was “5-hour Energy”, which is a staple at many midnight events at Game Theory. “Thank you all for coming today,” Wesley said during the final round. “But if you are going to be here all weekend, please, go home and take a bath!”
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Affleck swings and hits with ‘The Town’ The Town
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The Town — directed by and starring Ben ‘Chasing Amy’ Affleck—is the latest action/ crime/gangster film set in Boston, Massachusetts. The Town focuses on a tight-knit gang of bank-robbers in Charlestown, a suburb of Boston who are trying to avoid the cops while planning—you guessed it— one last big score. The Town is highly unoriginal—it is Good Will Hunting w it h g u ns — and slick, but it does have enough talent a nd sk i l l i n front of and behind the camera that is used wisely—most of the time—to make it easy to recommend. Affleck plays Doug MacRay, a Boston bank robber who lives a tough life of crime but—wait for it—has a heart of gold. He and his fly crew of crooks rob a local Cambridge bank in the first scene and they take a Claire—played by Rebecca
‘Vicky Christina Barcelona’ Hall—hostage and then let her go after the coast is clear. On the robber’s trail is FBI agent Frawley played by John ‘Don Draper’ Hamm who is a little too obsessed with catching MacRay and his crew. Since Claire may be able to identify the robbers to the FBI, MacRay begins to follow her around and they eventually meet and strike up a relationship. Will MacRay and his crew make the last big score? Will Claire find out that her boyfriend was the one who terrorized her and scarred her for life? Will agent Frawley ever catch up to the apparently genius bank robbers? Affleck returns to the screen as an above average lead—he m i g ht b e lucky that he is playing the strong, quiet type. It is refreshing to see him in a role that lives up to the promise he showed early in his career in Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting and even as O’Bannon in Dazed and Confused. Hamm is fine as the overly determined FBI agent. While his role is underdeveloped, his acting ability is more CSI than Scorsese.
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Jeremy ‘Hurt Locker’ Renner is intense and believable as Doug’s sociopathic best friend Jem Coughlin who provides the unpredictable and surprising moments. Rebecca Hall and Blake Lively —the two leading ladies—are good but they aren’t given much to do since the story is ultimately driven
by the choices made by the three male leads. I wish that Hall had served more of a purpose throughout the latter part of the film, because the early scenes with her are fantastic. Affleck excels as a filmmaker. He knows how to choreograph a simple, tense action sequence like the opening bank robbery.
Affleck is assisted by cinematographer Robert Elswit and editor Dylan Tichenor, both whom worked recently on There Will Be Blood and there are definite echoes in terms of visual style. Like Blood, the faces take up most of the screen, you are looking the characters squarely in the face most of
the time, which adds to the drama. The action sequences here are superb—especially a robbery towards the middle of the movie. The Town finds a good balance of action and quieter
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Teen drama, on and off the screen Shows like Teen Mom are under fire for their potential glamorization of teen pregnancy. Brooke Shafranek Staff Writer
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‘Future’ series returns from the past The fan-favorite Back to the Future series spawns several new projects in celebration of its 25th anniversary. Jordan Alsaqa Senior Staff Writer
First released on July 3 in 1985, Universal Studios’ Back to the Future went on to become the highest-grossing film of the year, as well as the first film in a successful trilogy. Since its release, Back to the Future has seen two sequels, a ride at Universal Parks and Resorts, and tie-in material including video games, comic books, and an animated series. The films follow the story of Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox in one of his defining roles, as he travels through time in a DeLorean built by his friend Doctor Emmett Brown, played by Christopher Lloyd. Over the course of the trilogy, Marty must ensure his parents stay together, save the Doc from death in the Old West, and ensure the protection of his own future bloodline. Matthew Lanouette, a senior in parks, recreations and tourism management, shared his opinion on why the movies have gained such popularity. “Back to the Future is a classic,” Lanouette said. “It has just about everything anyone would want in a movie, and Marty McFly is a loveable character. I liked how the movie showed the consequences of changing the past.” Now celebrating its twenty-
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moments between Doug and Claire. The script is decent and is based on a novel by Chuck Hogan. The handling of the romance—which is usually tangential to a crime movie—is placed towards the center and is quite effective. It is refreshing when a love storyline in a crime film is as tense and interesting as the robberies themselves. The Town does have its problems. While there is a lot of good tension and suspense, especially during the bank robbery scenes, the way the film plays out is rather predict-
fifth anniversary, the Back to cards to go back in time and the Future franchise is seeing a change key events in the film renewed level of interest. For to ensure that they are born. The game’s selling point is the long-time fans of the series as well as people discovering the “Time Line,” a series of cards films for the first time, it is a that span the key moments of busy year for the Back to the the franchise in chronological order. By changing these Future universe. The biggest release to come events, characters can both for most fans this year is the save themselves and doom the new anniversary edition box other players. Once the timeset, which collects the en- line is set up in a player’s favor, tire trilogy with new special they must stop Doc Brown features not included on the from ever inventing time travel previous set released in 2005. before another player can make The new features will include a change. Video game fans also have a a six-part retrospective look at the series, with new interviews new release to look forward to, as Telltale with both the Games ancast and crew. nounced a Also included new game at are music vidlast month’s eos, commenPenny Artaries, and all cade Expo. the extras inSet for recluded on the lease later previous DVD this fall, the releases. ne w B a c k The new to the Fubox-set w i l l ture v ideo also come in a ga me w i l l Blu-ray format, Matthew Lanouette, senior in parks, recreations and tourism be released allowing viewmanagement in episodes, ers to experiand will be ence the series all over again in re-mastered an adventure game featurhigh definition. The new an- ing the further adventures of niversary edition will be avail- Marty and Doc Brown. Telltale has made a name for able near the end of October. Another new release comes itself in recent years by revivfrom Looney Labs, makers of ing classic franchises with new the popular card game Fluxx. releases. Tales of Monkey Island, Earlier this month, they re- Wallace & Gromit’s Grand Adleased Back to the Future: The ventures, and the Sam & Max Card Game, in which players games have all been similar take on the roles of descen- episodic adventure games, all dants of characters from the of which have received high films. The goal for each player praise from gaming critics. For Back to the Future: The is to use the various time travel
“Back to the Future is a classic. It has just about everything anyone would want in a movie...”
able. The final shootout was ill conceived and a letdown after the excellence of the earlier scenes. I was also hoping for a messier ending, which I felt a movie about criminals and murderers deserved. Instead, we get a final shot straight out of a Nicholas Sparks movie adaptation. One cannot help but think of Martin Scorsese’s The Departed as a recent Boston gangster film. While that film was far from perfect, it at least provided surprises and some unconventional plot points. The Town is unfortunately rather trite and clichéd with its final act where the tension should be exploited. Instead, I could have told you from about the one-
Adventure Series, the developer has gone the extra mile to guarantee the games have an authentic feel. Christopher Lloyd has been brought on to voice his character, and Bob Gale, screenwriter for all three films, has worked closely with Telltale to make sure the story of the games rings true. “I’ve been having story meetings and exchanging emails and phone calls with the folks at Telltale to make sure that what they develop feels like Back To The Future,” Gale said in a recent interview. Another plus is the art style, which strikes a balance between realism and cartoon, giving an air of familiarity to the characters and the world. Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox are both allowing for their likenesses to be used in the game. Melissa Dalena, a sophomore in animal science, has always been a fan of Christopher Lloyd’s character. “I’ve a lways li ked Doc Brown,” Dalena said. “His crazy white hair makes him seem like a hilarious version of Einstein.” Even N.C. State is getting in on the celebration. This Friday night, the Witherspoon student cinema will be airing the first Back to the Future for free at midnight. Students are welcome to come and enjoy the first film in the franchise, one that has managed to remain popular over the past twentyfive years, as it was originally intended.
It’s no wonder why television programs about teenage pregnancy are so popular: the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world, and The Center for Disease control found that onethird of girls get pregnant before they turn twenty. Despite the success of these new shows, they have recently come under fire for glamorizing teenage pregnancy. The Secret Life of the American Teenager, 16 and Pregnant, and Teen Mom are examples of current trendy television shows that do not show a realistic view of what it is like to have a child. Melissa Reed, the Vice President of Public Policy at Planned Parenthood Health Systems, Inc., said that “teen pregnancy is portrayed in the media as something that is easy and that can be dealt with in an easy fashion, when that’s not the reality.” Reed is constantly surrounded by the true stories of teenage pregnancy, and the statistics behind these stories are astounding. “About 30% of girls who drop out & don’t get diplomas is because of parenting & pregnancy issues,” Reed said. “Most end up in poverty with the child. The reality is different than what
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social life reflects back on you—tells you who you are. The world told him he was a loser.” Zuckerberg’s social alienation is clear in every frame of the film, but so is his fervent dedication to his craft. “Mark is part of this small subset of angry tech-geniuses,” Sorkin said, “who don’t understand cheerleaders, and wonder why [cheerleaders] don’t like them, even though they’re running the world.” Eisenberg’s view of Mark’s character is a bit different, however. “[Mark] is so singularly focused on the creation of Facebook that the other aspects of his life become meaningless or irrelevant,” Eisenberg said. Eisenberg’s ability to empathize with Zuckerberg is understandable due to the amount of time he spent with the character. But surprisingly, Hammer, who plays the twin brothers who sued the real-life Mark, doesn’t see him as a bad guy either. “It’s easy to see a villain in Mark,” said Hammer. “But it’s more fair to characterize him as an anti-hero.” Hammer faced a chal-
the media makes it out to be.” The television shows aren’t helping the struggles of teenage mothers. “Those shows don’t show the negative situations that can happen,” says freshman Iryna Feshchak, a Political Science major. “It makes the whole ‘having a baby’ thing not as difficult as it really is in real life.” Jennifer McGuire, a freshman in management, said that her sister got married when she turned eighteen, got pregnant in May of last year, and gave birth on her twentieth birthday. “They live paycheck to paycheck,” Maguire said, ”so it’s constantly doing things like trying to buy baby formula. Sometimes I feel like the people on the television shows are unrealistic—my sister is more realistic because a lot of the girls haven’t grown up yet, and once you have a kid you have to grow fast.” The issue of teen pregnancy has become so rampant that some schools are aiding young mothers through high school. Michelle Halpern, a sophomore in social work, has personal experience with these programs. “At my daughter’s high school in L.A.,” Halpern said, “there was a nursery for the girls who stayed in school. The other girls ‘ooh’and ‘aah’ over the cute little babies.” Halpern said that it is similar to the television shows in that it manifests an unrealistic lifestyle of being a mother. The television programs will not be likely to disappear given their high number of viewers, and later years will tell if the shows’ glamorization of teen pregnancy has an impact on their watchers.
lenge of his own in portraying two twin brothers in the film, a feat that was achieved through the magic of special effects. Throughout the process, he gained a great deal of respect for the pair. “These twins are really interesting characters,” Hammer said. “I mean, they’ve been to the Olympics for rowing, and started all of these other startup companies. They have these whole lives outside of Facebook.” Network’s cast also includes Rooney Mara as Zuckerberg’s short-lived love interest Erica, Justin Timberlake as Napster inventor Sean Parker, and Andrew Garfield as Zuckerberg’s ex-best friend and Facebook’s original CFO Eduardo Saverin. These young actors are all are at the top of their game in Hollywood at the present moment. Mara was recently chosen to play Lisbeth Salander in the American version of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and its two sequels which are shooting now in Sweden, Justin Timberlake is a pop music star who needs no introduction, and Garfield was recently chosen to play Spiderman in the forthcoming series reboot. The Social Network, believe it or not, represents the calm before the storm of success that is waiting just ahead for these actors. On Friday, moviegoers will be able to decide if all their hard work on this film has paid off.
hour point exactly where this movie was headed. Once the main questions about Doug’s character were answered, there isn’t much drama left to exploit. While The Town is farm from a masterpiece, it offers more then enough thrills and good performances that it is definitely worth checking out. I would recommend seeing this in the theatre since the filmmakers know how to fill a screen and use sound effectively. At home, it would probably seem even more typical.
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In the student section, Kim Schreiber, a freshman in animal science, is lifted 30 times after N.C. State scores its third touchdown during the Cincinnati game Thursday, Sept. 16.
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the game, only about 7,000 secured that opportunity after the first lottery. “Obviously everyone is upset about ticketing,” Andy Walsh, a sophomore in political science, said during Student Government’s Campus Community Committee meeting Tuesday. “It’s a very weird system.” But guest tickets are not a new feature for Parents and Families Weekend. “We always give out guest tickets for [the Parents and Families Weekend] games,” Walsh said. “[Johnson] told me they had 4,000 guest ticket requests. 20,000 ticket requests. So that’s a whole lot of people that are going to get left out.”
However, athletics is aware of the high demand and will be giving out extra tickets tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. according to Walsh. “Athletics understood because this game is very big, that they were going to help us all out and close down selling tickets that got returned and there’s 1,500 tickets that will be given out to students [Wednesday],” Walsh said. “Guest tickets can be purchased from those, too. Every student that goes up can get two guest tickets.” But beyond this weekend’s game thoughts of how to change the student ticketing system are being thrown around, but because of the risk of the system crashing, chances for a change seem slim. “We need to find a way, if this happens in the future, to better the system for students to
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be able to get tickets,” Walsh said. “There are things that need to be switched with the system. The problem is with the student ticketing automation system that we use, if we make any changes… if we try to change the coding, it could crash the system.” The earliest the ticketing system could be changed would be next year, according to junior in economics Chandler Thompson. “There’s not much we can do for this year except limit guest tickets,” Thompson said. “My suggestion would be to look into ticketing options, knowing that you’re looking forward to next year.” Senior in biological sciences Sam Dennis expressed his concern that another problem with the current system is that students don’t understand the
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ticketing system. “What I as a student am most frustrated with is I feel there is no transparency between athletics and what’s going on,” Dennis said. “A lot of the student body is very upset and it comes from them not being educated on the process and not being consulted.” The current online ticketing system was implemented in 2004, and has not dealt with N.C. State receiving national recognition and the subsequent rise in ticketing demand. But for any change to occur, Thompson said students need to be involved in the process. “Students are passionate about their tickets here,” Walsh said. “Football games and basketball games are some of the events that really bring the campus together. This is something students should have a complete say in. In a way they pay for these football tickets. They give a lot of money to athletics to every single year.” But the unrest caused by students not getting tickets does serve to increase awareness of student ticketing and gives Student Government something to work with according to Walsh. “This isn’t something that shouldn’t be taken lightly especially because you can see how emotional people get when they don’t get a football ticket,” Walsh said. “If people are complaining, we have something to work with.”
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Appalachian State evened the score at the 49:21 mark. Less than a minute later, Lassiter stepped up and scored his second goal of the game and fifth of the season, drilling a penalty kick into the back of the net. But this time when Lassiter scored to give his team the lead, it would be for good. “My two goals were good,” Lassiter said after the game. “But without Zane and Smitty drawing the fouls on the blocks I would have never had
a chance so it’s all on them.” Men’s soccer will next face No. 12 ranked Boston College on Saturday in their first away game after a three game home stretch. “This game will probably be completely different than the Boston College game,” Tharakan said. “This game was more of a hardnosed effort, a blue collar effort to say the least. We’ll probably have to keep the ball a bit longer and be a bit smarter with our decisions. But every time we step on the field we expect to win and nothing will change when we go to Boston College.”
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named the top two backs, he found himself in a competition to earn more snaps and prove he could be productive. “We both work hard out there,” Greene said. “We both just keep pushing each other. We say, ‘Who’s going to get the touchdown first?’ We both try to make the right reads and find our blocks. It’s all a competition out there for us.” Greene will look to continue his crowd-pleasing touchdown streak and help the Pack take down the Virginia Tech Hokies Saturday at 3:30 p.m. “They have a very fast team,” Greene said. “But I’m really ready to be able get back and be able to listen to the crowd this week. I’m going to be throwing my hands up and trying to get everyone else pumped up.”
tion sheet to reading the wind accurately,” Marsh said. “Just helping with everything and getting them in the groove of the game. But what is fun is that they have fun doing it. They are laughing saying they have never ironed anything in their life.” Rounding out the Pack scores was a 13-over posted by sophomore Haley Hammond and a 14-over by senior Brooke Baker.
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Sports
COUNTDOWN
• 3 days until the football team takes on Virginia Tech
INSIDE
• Page 7: A continuation of the stories on Mustafa Greene and the student tickets
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Football
Women’s tennis hires new assistant coach The women’s tennis team named Susanne Depka as its new assistant coach Tuesday. Depka, who used to be an assistant coach at Northwestern, had been codirecting a high performance junior tennis program in North Carolina. During her seven years with the junior tennis team, she helped 15 players gain Division I scholarships. Depka is a graduate of the University of Illinois and was named the MVP of the tennis team in her senior year. After college, she managed to play professionally achieving a top500 ranking in both singles and doubles tennis. Source: N.C. State Athletics
Cross country runners named Performers of the Week
Junior runner Ryan Hill and freshman Laura Hoer earned ACC Performers of the Week honors after Hill helped lead the men’s team to a second-place finish at the Roy Griak Invitational, while Hoer won the event in the women’s race. For Hoer, it was her second victory of the season. She also ran the third fastest time in the history of the race, posting a time of 20:38:4 in the 6k race. Source: N.C. State Athletics
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Friday Men’s Soccer @ Boston College Chestnut Hill, Mass., 7 p.m. Women’s Soccer vs. North Carolina Dail Soccer Field, 7 p.m. Women’s Volleyball vs. Florida State Reynold’s Coliseum, 7 p.m.
Football Standings: ATLANTIC DIVISION SCHOOL
CONF
OVERALL
NC State
1-0
4-0
Florida State
1-0
3-1
Wake Forest
1-1
2-2
Maryland
0-0
3-1
Clemson
0-0
2-1
Boston College
0-1
2-1
COASTAL DIVISION SCHOOL
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OVERALL
Virginia Tech
1-0
2-2
Georgia Tech
1-1
2-2
Miami
0-0
2-1
Virginia
0-0
2-1
North Carolina
0-1
1-2
Duke
0-1
1-3
Source: theacc.com
Did You know? That Russell Wilson is leading the ACC in total offense, averaging 299 yards per game.
The ‘Moose’ is on the loose
SG talks ticketing changes
Cory Smith
Concerns over current ticketing system prompts Campus Community Committee to discuss revamping.
Freshman running back making impact for the Pack early in the season.
Staff Writer
After losing two running backs in the offseason, Toney Baker to the draft and Jamelle Eugene to graduation, coach Tom O’Brien was left with the tough task of finding a compliment to redshirt junior quarterback Russell Wilson. In freshman running back Mustafa Greene, O’Brien has found a young back capable of stabilizing the running game and giving Wilson a target out of the backfield. And his coach hasn’t been the only one pleased with Greene’s early start. While at Irmo High School in Columbia, SC, Greene was named a four-star recruit during his senior year. He also earned the nickname ‘Moose,’ which has carried over to his young college career. “It feels great to hear people calling me Moose,” Greene said. “[Fans] have been calling me ‘Moose’ since high school, but to hear that from college fans is a great feeling. The fans are a great energizer. I feed off of them,
By the Numbers Virginia Tech’s Ryan Williams stats through first four games of 2009 vs. Mustafa Greene’s stats through the first four games of 2010 STATS
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GREENE
ATT
84
53
YDS
495
251
AVG
5.89
4.6
TD
8
4 SOURCE: ESPN.com
and so does the line. That’s what gets us pumped up.” To fans familiar with the “U” chants used in years past to celebrate big plays by Eugene, Carter-Finley sounds familiar after Greene’s big plays. But now, the usual chant of “U” has been changed to “Moose.” Through four games, Greene is leading State in rushing, with 242 yards and an average of 4.6 yards per attempt, with four touchdowns. “He is certainly the right type of kid and he’s very humble,” O’Brien said following the Georgia Tech game. “We know he’s going to work hard and study what he is doing. Hopefully he can’t do anything but get better.” Though he may not be one of the biggest players on the football team, at 6’0” and 190 pounds, Greene has showed his toughness. Against Georgia Tech, Greene burst through the line untouched on several occasions, running free for substantial gains before meeting Yellow Jacket linebackers, who he drug forward for extra yards. “To have the other players there with me during big plays like that is a huge motivator,” Greene said. “They motivate me to just keep on moving and fight for more yards.” Fans may be getting their first taste of what type of talent Greene can bring to the Pack, but O’Brien said he learned quickly of Greene’s star potential back in August. “[Mustafa] was a guy who stood out in preseason, which is why he got the opportunity to play,” O’Brien said. “He made a habit of making runs like the fans have seen against our defense before t he season started. We’re
happy for him and we’re happy for our offense to have a back that is capable of making those plays.” Another valuable aspect of Greene’s game is his competitive nature. This year, he has competed with several players to earn his carries. During preseason workouts, the coaching staff was looking at several different running backs, including redshirt junior Curtis Underwood, sophomore James Washington and fellow freshmen Tony Creecy and eventual starter Dean Haynes. After Haynes and Greene were
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Brent Kitchen Agromeck Sports Editor
The football team will play Virginia Tech this Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and many students are not happy about it for one simple reason—they won’t be there. The team is in a position to gain even more national attention as N.C. State is in the AP top-25 for the first time since 2003. But that fact along with the coincidence of Parents and Families Weekend has surged requests for student tickets to well more than the number of tickets available. According to chair of Student Government’s Commission on Athletics Jeffery Johnson, a senior in business administration, more than 16,000 students requested tickets for 8,000 seats. But in addition to the volume of requests, students were allowed to request for up to two guests tickets and according to Johnson, approximately 1,000 were awarded. This means that although 16,000 students want to sit in the student section at
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Men’s Soccer
Women’s Golf
Men’s Soccer holds off App. State, 2-1
Marchand wins first collegiate tournament
Wolfpack men win at home against an aggressive Appalachian State team.
Freshmen helps lead Pack to second place finish at Starmount Classic.
Christina Owens Staff Writer
Senior defender Tyler Lassiter helped to lead the North Carolina State men’s soccer team to victory Tuesday night against the Appalachian State Mountaineers as Lassiter scored both goals in the 2-1 match. Being primarily a defender, Lassiter does not often score, much less twice in one game, but coach George Tarantini knows how multitalented his senior defender is. “I just told Tyler that he’s doing a fantastic job,” Tarantini said. “I think he’s so good on defense and such an important player for us. I’m very proud because of all the things he does in a game for us, just like he did tonight. It was a game we need to win and we did and we played with intensity and played very tough. I thought we played with a lot of emotions and we did what we needed to win” After losing 2-1 to their previous opponent Virginia Tech, the men’s soccer team knew it had to shake off the hard loss and hit the field knowing that it had to go out and get win. “We were all very depressed about that loss,” Lassiter said. “It was a tough one to take but we knew we
Taylor Barbour Deputy Sports Editor
Danielle Neujahr/Technician
From a corner kick, Tyler Lassiter, a senior defender on the State soccer team, heads the ball towards the goal Sept. 28. With a total of seven yellow cards and one red card issued throughout the game, the Wolfpack pulled away with the win against Appalachian State, 2-1.
had more games to play and we had to forget about those and come out strong for the rest.” Lassiter came out strong and scored the first goal of the night for either team, at the 5:31 mark. Lassiter scored a header off a throw in from junior defender Zane Tharkan, who made many big plays in his first career start. “It felt great,” Tharkan said. “I couldn’t ask for better teammates to surround me when I was getting on the field. The coaches had a lot of trust in me so it didn’t make the start that much harder than any
other game, it was just one big progression and a part of the flow of things. “I just kind of played within myself, I didn’t really do anything extraordinary, just tried my best and played my hardest and the goal wouldn’t have happened if Tyler wasn’t there.” Lassiter’s goal was the only one of the first half with State and Appalachian State attempting only two shots combined. It was not until the second half that
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In just her second college golf event, freshman golfer Brittany Marchand earned her first collegiate victory in a college tournament Tuesday. Her 3-under (141) was enough for her to tie for first place with Alex Buelow from Stetson University, while helping the Pack to finish in a tie for first place in the two-day tournament at the UNCG Starmount Classic. Although the Wolfpack tied with East Carolina at 19-over par, State ended up settling for a second-place finish because of the tiebreaker rule, which awards the win to the team with the lowest scoring fifth golfer. Coach Page Marsh admits she was disappointed but hopes the lost opportunity of the finish will inspire the team down the road. “A win is a win is a win, but I feel that disappointment is a huge motivator,” Marsh said. “I know while they were elevated at the finish, but were still not happy that they didn’t outright win. But it was a really good trip on a couple different levels.” The event was originally scheduled to be a three-day tournament, but the rain cut the tournament short by one round. And heading into that
final round, Marchand was in second place, one stroke behind the leader, and a 2-under round enabled her to finish in a tie and capture her first victory. “It was exciting for the team to play well together and to see Brittany win her first collegiate event,” Marsh said. “It was one of her goals and she accomplished it in her second tournament.” But Marchand’s finish did not come as a surprise to Marsh, who believes the golfer’s commitment to the sport and the energy she brings to the game not only helps her on the course, but helps the team. “Her impact first started with her energy and dedication to academics and to golf,” Marsh said. “She is a very conscientious young woman and has a passion about doing things well and goes about it very good. Her spirit is very contagious, which is fantastic for the group.” Not to be outdone , two other freshmen golfers, Ana Menendez and Maureen Dunnagan, finished in the top-20, posting scores of 5-over and 6-over respectively. Meneddez finished 11th and Dunnagan finished 14th. And with the freshmen playing so early in their careers, Marsh and the coaches had to teach them few things outside of just the golfing basics. “It is fun. You are doing everything from teaching them how to iron clothes to teaching them how to read a hole loca-
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