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Strategy change improves endowment Joseph Havey Deputy News Editor
The N.C. State Investment Fund experienced an 11.9 percent return on investment for the past year, which ended on June 30, and a 9.7 percent return for the past three years. During fiscal years 2008 and 2009, the investment returns were negative. Mary Peloquin-Dodd, associate vice chancellor for finance and business and University treasurer, said this performance is consistent with a lot of other large university endowments in the United States, and it’s due to a partnership with UNC Management Company and better market performance.
The N.C. State Investment Fund’s portfolio includes real estate, private equities, energy and natural resources, long-biased equity, and long-short equity. “The major change in our investment strategy over the past ten years is that we began investing with UNC Management Company, roughly three and a half years ago or four years ago,” Peloquin-Dodd said. “They had a good 10 year performance, and it’s a diversified portfolio.” Most of N.C. State’s endowment fund is scattered in different organizations across the University, Peloquin-Dodd said. Many of these organizations invest in the N.C. State Investment Fund, which is a
New admissions process reduces surplus waste Katherine Kehoe Staff Writer
Graduate admissions at N.C. State are now greener and more effective thanks to NextGen, a new, innovative system developed by N.C. State faculty to improve the admissions process. Lindsey Gentile, the director of graduate admissions, said one of NextGen’s main goals is to make the admissions process easier for departments trying to review applications. “With the old system, even though applicants were applying online, there wasn’t a good way to get those applications over to the faculty to review them,” Gentile said. According to Gentile, NextGen is a new system for reviewing applications that is safe, completely electronic and easy to navigate, unlike the past graduate admissions process. “A lot of graduate programs were having to print applications out and make files, or they were posting PDFs on websites and servers that
weren’t exactly secure, so that was an issue,” Gentile said. According to Jack Foster, the technical lead of the project and designer of the program, NextGen was necessary in order to make the admissions process as quick and sustainable as possible. “Since there was not a common process for the review of graduate applications, there was a need by the colleges to have a centralized process to avoid printing application materials and to expedite the evaluation process,” Foster said. Gentile said being able to decrease the time it takes for admissions to release their decisions was an important factor when developing NextGen. “Usually for an applicant at the graduate level who is applying to a lot of different schools, the one that offers you funding is the one you are probably going to go to first,” Gentile said. “We wanted the graduate program to be able to get those deci-
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university-controlled fund. It makes decisions about where to invest based on performance and risk. UNC Management Company, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and was established in 2003 to provide investment services to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other UNC System schools. The company also manages the UNC Investment Fund, LLC. Peloquin-Dodd said growth of the endowment comes from both gifts and investment performance. In the three years of Chancellor Randy Woodson’s tenure, the endowment has increased from less than $400 million to $764.9 million, as of June 30. “Endowment growth depends on
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Racial tensions during the 20th century manifested themselves in literature, attendees of Monday’s English Department Speaker Series learned on Monday. Assistant English professor, John Williamson, talked about The Real Slaves of the Twentieth Century: Richard Wright and the African American White Novel Monday evening. Students and faculty interested in learning more about post-war African
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el underlies the conventional wisdom that a top-performing endowment has to be big (over $1 billion), heavily invested in costly alternative strategies like hedge funds and private equity, and managed by a large and sophisticated staff of internal investment professionals,” The New York Times reported. Peloquin-Dodd said smaller endowments with more exposure to domestic — or U.S.-based — equities may have performed better in fiscal 2013 because more of their investments are concentrated in an asset class that had better performance for the fiscal year, i.e. domestic stocks.
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the year, although since Chancellor Woodson has come to the University, more of the growth has come from gifts to the University and its associated entities,” Peloquin-Dodd said. “I know that philanthropy is a huge part of the growth. The University is raising money from year to year. Not every year is consistent for investment performance.” Earlier this year, the National Association of College and University Business Officers unveiled its preliminary results for endowment performance for the year that ended in June. It found that smaller endowments (less than $1 billion) performed far better than their larger counterparts. “The long success of the Yale mod-
The N.C. State Jazz Ensemble II performed for the last time this semester on Monday at the Titmus Theatre. The show featured two jazz combo groups and a big band, which performed jazz standards, including improvised solos by several of the performers. Nick Sheeran, a sophomore in business management and marketing, plays lead trombone for the Jazz Ensemble II big band. The big band included saxophones, trumpets, trombones, a piano, a bass and drums. He said the ensemble, which practices twice a week with its 19 players, gives a great amount of freedom to improvise solos. Sheeran said performing requires
cooperation between both sections and individuals when working on a piece. “I like this program because I get a good experience with the freedom of self expression with jazz,” Sheeran said. “It is a good way to step out of my comfort zone as opposed to playing music of other types of ensembles.” Wes Parker has been the director of the jazz studies program, led the jazz ensembles and combos and teaching jazz history and improvisation at N.C. State since 2006. Parker said he hopes people come to future events to support jazz and the music department. The jazz ensembles have three to four performances each semester. The Jazz Ensemble is a subset of the music program at N.C. State, which recently celebrated its 90th anniversary.
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Jacob Lasky, a freshman in biomedical engineering plays trombone for the big band. He said he likes the freedom and the way jazz allows the players to be creative. A trio with piano, bass and drums called the Jazz Lab Combo opened the performance, followed by the jazz big band. The big band started off with Neal Hefti’s “Splanky” and a Count Basie song. Throughout the night, the band also performed standards by artists such as Mark Taylor, Jeff Jarvis and John Fedchock. “This performance is a great chance to experience a different form of music,” said Cory Temple, a senior in physics
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sions out quickly so they weren’t losing their applicants to other schools.” Improving the processes sustainability came along with the reworking of the system for efficiency, Gentile said. “People were just printing it out because there wasn’t an easier way to do it,” Gentile said. In addition to no longer using paper for any
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who plays the bass trombone. Temple said people have complimented the Jazz Ensemble II group and said it’s the best big band N.C. State has had in years. Temple, Lasky and Sheeran each said Parker has been a great professor from whom they enjoy learning.
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“Ours is more diversified,” Peloquin-Dodd said. “We diversify to reduce risk. You can look back at the performance of domestic equities to see they don’t always have a good year. One year up could be up 21 percent, another could be down 35 percent.”
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American life attended the event. Williamson specializes in African American and American literature. Williamson started off his lecture by discussing whitelife novels, which are novels written by African Americans telling the stories of white characters. “The authors [of these novels] are often as sympathetic of their treatment of white characters as they are critical,” Williamson said during his lecture. White-life novels were highly uncommon during the 20th century. It was common for white authors to write from the point of view of other races — typically minorities — and to sympathize with the main characters, but black writers did not have this privilege. “Black privacy was violated in the name of protecting white privacy,” Williamson said. “Midcentury black writers had to confine their visions to tragic versions of being a black man in a white man’s world. In turn, this sort of repression served as a restriction of an African American author’s life as an
part of the review process, the new system was built into graduate admission’s current student information system, which further reduces the amount of University resources used to develop this program, according to Gentile. “We didn’t have to go out and pay for something new we were adding on to an already existing system,” Gentile said. Foster said that the initial planning for the program began in late 2012, and the first phase of the four-part admissions system was implemented in October 2013. Phase one of NextGen encompasses gradu-
Parker was also the assistant director of the N.C. State Marching Band from 2006 to 2010. He has played with jazz orchestras and ensembles all over the country and has worked with artists such as Josh Groban, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Aretha Franklin and the Temptations. Daniel Miller, a junior in chemistry, said he enjoys being a part of the jazz band to
get away from schoolwork and studying. “This is my first semester playing for the jazz band,” Miller said. “It is really fun to play with my colleagues and friends.” Jodeen Henry, a junior in anthropology, said she enjoyed the concert. “I’ve never listened to a whole jazz concert before so I thought it was very interesting,” Henry said.
For the 12-month period ending on June 30, domestic equities, such as the DOW Jones or the S&P 500, returned an average of nearly 21 percent. “We have large number of foundations, and each has a board,” Peloquin-Dodd said. “We try to invest most of our endowment assets centrally. So those boards tend to adopt same sort of investment policies, to make it easier on everyone.”
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Assistant English professor John Williamson speaks about the “White Novel” on Monday.
artist.” Williamson spent a substantial portion of his discussion speaking about Richard Wright, an African-American author who wrote numerous pieces of controversial literature. Williamson has written a book including information on Richard Wright and other famous African-American novelists called, Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel. Williamson said many factors have influenced him to research White-Life novels. “I came across these ‘white
novels’ as a graduate student but I knew very little about them,” Williamson said. “I had heard of some of the authors but I came across someone named Frank Yerby who I had never heard of before. He was an African-American novelist who is fairly unknown and who wrote literature with a noncritical vision of the south, something that was relatively uncommon.” Williamson said that he wanted to know what he could learn from these works that were so foreign to him and that influenced him to write his novel and conduct
ate faculty application evaluation, review, rating and posting of admissions decisions. According to Foster, the later phases being released in the future are designed to create ways for the graduate administrators and faculty in the colleges to better match new and existing students with research and teachingassistant openings. Planning NextGen began with a focus group made of graduate application reviewers that met several times until they created the design, according to Foster. Foster said that he thinks the best part about NextGen is its custom test-score indicators
his research. “I enjoyed the presentation as it exposed me to a new area of literary history,” said Justin Hills, a senior in human biology. “It was interesting to learn of how the creativity of many celebrated African-American authors was stifled.” Hills said he was fairly intrigued by the idea of whitelife literature. “This area was of interest to me primarily because I believe that African-American literary history greatly enriches world history, in its entirety,” Hills said.
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We must take action to stop the sale of the Hofmann Forest sale Let me preface this letter by stating that I believe the N.C. State Student Government does many great things for the student body, and I appreciate all the hard work that the members do to make our university the best. I briefly spoke to Senator Alex Grindstaff in the Brickyard last week during a student and faculty protest of the Hofmann Forest. He said he was writing a resolution to oppose the sale of Hofmann Forest and that the resolution would be heard that very night. I was so ecstatic to hear this. Finally, Student Government would hear what the students have to say on this issue. That same night, the fast-track for the resolution was cancelled. Student Body President Alex Parker stated that not enough student input was in this resolution and said he would veto the bill if it
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{ LETTER TO THE EDITOR } had gone through. The bill was then moved to the Public Affairs Committee to be discussed so there could be more student input on the resolution. Deans Eatman, head of the Public Affairs Committee, said the resolution would be discussed at a future meeting because the agenda for last night’s meeting had been previously set. I appreciate the speed with which Mr. Eatman replied to me, but I do not appreciate this resolution being put on the backburner. I am sure the topics discussed in last night’s meeting were important, but when you have articles in local papers every day about a topic that is making national news, a question of prioritizing arises. Mr. Eatman has voiced his personal opinion that he sides with administration’s decision to sell the forest. This makes me wonder when this debate on this resolution will take place. We only have one more week of classes this semester. How long after this forum takes place will Student
Government be able to vote about anything? Every day we wait is one less day for students to lend their voices to this debate. The actions that the leaders of Student Government have taken so far say this to me: “We agree with the administration on this topic.” I applaud how proactive Grindstaff has been in relation to this topic. He has stepped up to be someone students against the sale can talk to in Student Government. The Technician had a poll to see if students thought the University should cancel the sale of the Hofmann Forest. Of the 250 students who responded, 86 percent said they were against it. This says to me that the student body does not agree with administration on this topic. Even if this is not completely representative of the entire student population, there has been enough student opposition to this sale and to how it has been handled to warrant some urgency in its handling with Student Government.
Student Government is supposed to represent the views of the students, not the views of the administration and not personal views of members. The collective view of the students of this university. I do not go to Alex Parker University and I am not in the Deans Eatman College. I go to N.C. State and I, along with many in this student body, do not agree with how this sale has been handled. I challenge the N.C. State Student Government to work quickly to have a student forum regarding this resolution. I challenge the N.C State Student Government to prove me wrong and show that they are willing to hear the student voice on this issue as quickly as possible. Brian Iezzi sophomore in textile engineering/materials science and engineering
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lthough the Nov. 24 deal regarding Iran’s nuclea r prog ra m failed to satisfy the hopes of everyone involved in the negotiations, it is by all means a favorable middleground g iven t he leverage the international comTim Gorski munity has Deputy Viewpoint Editor due to the most recent crippling sanctions against the Iranians. This deal eliminates Iran’s ability to produce a nuclear weapon in the short term by eradicating Iran’s uranium, which is 20 percent enriched, freezes Iran’s ability to enrich high-grade uranium, provides a legal basis for invasive inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency and creates a definite timetable for a permanent solution to the timeworn issue of Iran’s nuclear program. And to top it all off for the anti-nuclear Iran advocates, all of the above stipulations were reached without a total end to the economic sanctions that are responsible for Iran’s willingness to negotiate. Despite this, hardliners such as the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, expressed vehement disapproval of the provisions outlined in this short-term agreement. Netanyahu, who has described the new and more progressive Iranian Prime Minister Hassan Rouhani as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing,” called for the complete annihilation of Iran’s nuclear technology in his speech to
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the United Nations General Assembly, even if it is used for peaceful purposes such as medicine or power. Historically, Iran-Israel relations have been less than friendly. Iran’s former Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been outspoken in his call for the destruction of the Jewish state as well as his denial of the Holocaust. But it is important to note that Rouhani is radically different from his predecessor. Rouhani effectively ended the international diplomatic deadlock that characterized Iran’s foreign policy (or lack thereof) since 1979. Israel’s rejection of the latest nuclear deal in pursuit of total Iranian proliferation is strikingly unrealistic, lacks any trace of empathy and is becoming burdensome foreign policy stance to bear on the part of its allies, particularly the United States. Iran’s leaders have repeatedly stated that they are not in the business of trying to procure a nuclear weapon. But even if they were, there is an argument for them to be able to do so: Iran, like Israel, is an ethnic minority surrounded by nations that can reasonably be considered to be a threat; moreover, how can Israel, a country subject to numerous resolutions by the U.N. for war crimes against Palestine, and a possessor of nuclear weapons, claim that Iran has no right to produce them? Despite this, the U.S. and the rest of the international community are overwhelmingly in favor of a non-nuclear Iran. After all, what good is there in having more highly dangerous weapons in a relatively unstable region?
But although the alliance in foreign policy preference between the U.S. and Israel has been tightly knit for centuries, the issue of Iran’s nuclear program may lead to its unraveling a situation that is unfavorable for both parties, particularly Israel. Americans, their leaders and even American Jews are in favor of a nuclear deal with Iran, much to the dismay of Netanyahu. Fifty-six percent of Americans support a nuclear deal with Iran, according to the latest CNN poll. President Barack Obama said, “For the first time in a decade, we’ve halted the progress on Iran’s nuclear program,” and that the deal was a result of “clear-eyed, principled diplomacy,” The New York Times reported. Unlike Obama, Netanyahu characterized the deal as a “historic mistake,” and said, “Israel has the right and the obligation to defend itself, by itself, against any threat.” He moved on to state that relations between Israel and Washington are “under severe strain.” A poll of American Jews by the Anti-Defamation League revealed that although 76 percent considered Israel a “strong ally,” 48 percent were in favor of neutrality whereas 40 percent advocated American support for Israel, should Israel attack Iran. A divide such as this between Americans and Israelis regarding key policy issues is unprecedented and could be a sign of greater disagreements to come. Disagreements such as these are not in the best interest of any party.
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hanksgiving is a holiday for giving thanks for the preceding year, for the loved ones around you and now for cheap stuff. We all know some incomplete history about how Thanksgiving began, a nd nat uTyler Gobin r a l l y o u r Staff Columnist celebration of the holiday has changed throughout the years, but it’s beginning to lose its meaning. It is loosely understood by most people that Thanksgiving comes from a meal held between the Pilgrims and the Native Americans. Its origin traces back to a celebration of the successful harvest after days of fasting. There remains a large amount of debate about the date of the first Thanksgiving celebration, but George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide Thanksgiving celebration on Nov. 26, 1789. Thanksgiving is currently observed on the fourth Thursday of November and means something different to everyone. As elementary school students, we might have viewed Thanksgiving as just another break from school, having not always understood why such a day is celebrated, as it simply marked the day our parents started asking about our Christmas lists. As we grew older and progressed from elementary school and into middle and high school, family time
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might have become a little annoying. We still looked forward to the days away from school, but maybe not as much to Thanksgiving Day itself because it meant we had to spend the entire day with our family and not our friends. This phase quickly faded for high school students spending their first semester in college and finally realizing the true meaning of family. We jet away from campus as fast as humanly possible to spend every waking moment with the people we might have previously seen as annoying. Thanksgiving finally makes logical sense as a day to give thanks. Unfortunately, the black shadow surrounding the following Friday is slowly smot heri ng Tha n k sg iving. Companies in a war for Thanksgiving sales are pushing each other to make the immoral decision to keep their employees stocking shelves instead of stocking their stomachs. Target, Sears, Macy’s, Kohl’s and J.C. Penney will open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving while Best Buy will open at 6 p.m. and Walmart will start sales at 6 p.m. For some retailers, last year was the first year they opened on Thanksgiving, but the earlier openings did not have an effect in overall holiday sales. From 2010 to 2011, holiday retail sales increased 5.6 percent, but from 2011 to 2012 they only increased 3.5 percent. Without an increase in overall holiday sales, is opening early really worth it?
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Marketers try to develop their companies to represent something existential, but with these earlier opening hours the companies are becoming more inhumane. A company is a separate entity from its owners and managers, but that doesn’t mean it needs to disregard personal characteristics. It seems that companies think they can force employees to work because there isn’t a person taking the rap. Recent news headlines have been saying thing such as, “Walmart to launch Black Friday sales earlier.” If the name “Walmart” was replaced with a person’s name that person would be seen as insensitive and unsympathetic. Knowing a person was individually behind the statement would change people’s perspectives and possibly cause them to disassociate with him or her. As stores prepare to open earlier than ever before, people have the opportunity to choose whether to associate with that person or punish them by simply enjoying some football with family instead of spending time in the parking lots with patrons. There hasn’t been enough time to collect data on the stores that open on Thanksgiving compared with those that don’t, but I hope the stores get punished for their decisions. This Thanksgiving, don’t change your routine just because that TV might not be on sale tomorrow. The memories you can create with loved ones will last forever.
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Doctor Who anniversary special rings true Nicky Vaught Deputy Features Editor
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A buzz filled the theatre at Mission Valley Cinema this Saturday. Not just the metaphoric buzz used to describe an anticipatory crowd, but also the buzz of whoknows-how-many replica sonic screwdrivers — iconic to the
Doctor Who series. Doctor Who is a British science-fiction series that follows the Doctor, who has been portrayed, at this point, by 13 men, through space and time in his bigger-onthe-inside TARDIS, which disguises itself as a 1950s police box. On May 18, fans of the show stared agog at their screens, jaws collectively dropped, as the season 33 finale ended with one of the biggest cliff hangers in the show’s history. Showr u nner Ste-
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ven Moffat teased us with a big, “TO BE CONTINUED NOVEMBER 23RD,” after introducing the legendary John Hurt as an unnumbered, forgotten incarnation of the Doctor, who we later call “The War Doctor.” Most fans knew Nov. 23 to be the date of Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary, which would be celebrated with a film-length episode, “The Day of the Doctor,” written by Moffat. Within the first 30 seconds, the audience saw no fewer than five references to the first episode — one of which being a policeman walking past Coal Hill School, where everything began. From that point on, I knew the film would be chock-full of all sorts of throwbacks to the classic series, which I had worried might not happen. The special featured the return of fan-favorites David Tennant, who portrayed the tenth incarnat ion of t he Doctor, and Billie Piper, who portrayed Ninth and Tenth Doctors’ companion Rose Tyler. Moffat had only ever written a few episodes for Tenna nt a nd even fewer for Piper, so I was apprehensive about how he might go about portraying them. But, of
course, Moffat did’nt disappoint. We see Tennant playing the lovesick Doctor as always, carrying on with a romantic affair with Elizabeth I (Joanna Page). As for Piper’s performance, I didn’t expect it to be at all what it was, but it was my favorite of hers by far. Currently portraying t he E le venth Doctor, Matt Smith also ret u r ned a longside current companion Clara Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman). Smith’s performance is just about flawless, as he plays off his co-stars exceptionally well. The episode centers on an invasion of Earth, staged by Zygons — creatures Classic Who fans hadn’t seen onscreen since 1975 — as well as the last day of the Time War, which The War Doctor supposedly ended centuries ago by destroying his planet, an act of genocide that would haunt the Doctor for his ninth, tenth and eleventh incarnations. Funny, nostalgic and plot-driven, the episode is utterly f lawless. And, more importantly, it puts the show on track. More t han just looking back on the past 50 years, Moffat ensured the show would continue forward. When the show returned in 2005 after a pretty long hiatus,
then-show-runner and developer Russell T. Davies incorporated a new concept into the show: the Time War. Davies depicted the Doctor as a last-of-hiskind, lonely-god figure. Though that made for some moving stor ies, it was good to see Moffat effectively u ndo D avies’ change in an artful and compelling way. And even better to see this character finally have a purpose beyond aimlessly wandering about the universe. Moffat also played well off of the deus ex machina Davies used in 2008’s “Journey’s End,” making for a brilliant and exciting climax and, in some way, resolution to much of the show’s prevailing conflict of the past eight years. To avoid giving too much away, all I’ll say about the cameos is that they are perfect. They
had us looking to the past and future, which makes sense for a show about time travel. It was also nice to see Hurt’s Doctor regenerate into the Ninth Doctor. With the inclusion of Moffat’s “Night of the Doctor” short, which featured Paul McGann’s regeneration into the War Doctor, and the upcoming Christmas special, which will feature Smith’s regeneration into Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth, that makes three regeneration scenes in one year. That’s pretty impressive in my book. All in all, the episode could not have been better. Moffat again asserts himself as one of the most clever television writers alive, using some of the finest actors Britain has to offer to create a memorable and beautiful ode to the show’s saga. The episode was simulcast across the globe, winning the show a Guinness world record and providing fans the opportunity to watch the episode at the exact same time. If the Christmas special, also Moffat’s handiwork, is half as good as “The Day of the Doctor,” I’m sure I’ll love it.
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Mice genetics may help solve mystery of human obesity Kaitlin Montgomery Staff Writer
Fat mice: that’s why Harvard University scientists sent Peter Ferket, professor of poultry science, a jar of mouse poop. The study Ferket conducted concluded two mice could eat, exercise, excrete and behave the same way with only one becoming obese. According to Ferket, it began with Harvard scientists trying to see if the mouse that ate more was told to eat less and would become more like the thinner mouse. Ninety days later, the scientists at Harvard realized something was off. “They ate the same, they looked at their behavior and one didn’t change in terms of activity; they were both the same in activity,” Ferket said. “They stuck it in a calorimeter that measures the body heat and activity and the respiration. From there they realized the caloric use was no different. So they were still asking the question why the certain mice were getting fatter if what goes in the mouse is no different.” Ferket said that was when the scientists came to him for help. “We in poultry science, because feed efficiency is really important, want to make sure whatever a chicken eats causes them poop the least amount,” Ferket said. “With this, more of the nutrients going to the meat which is the part we eat. … in fact all agricultural animals whole terms of digestibility are extremely important because it has an impact
on resource uses, energy uses, environmental concerns.” With the use of an instrument called a bomb calorimeter, Ferket is able to measure the energy going on the animal and the energy going out. According to Ferket, there are very few laborites in the country that can actually preform this study with this type of equipment and have the expertise to do so. “They asked me what they should do,” Ferket said. “That’s when I suggested that we needed to take a look at the energy, what the digestibility was. We needed to figure out if they really were digesting the food better. Maybe they had better enzymes.” Ferket usually works with anywhere from a gram or .5 grams of feces to properly measure enzyme activity. To make an accurate conclusion, Ferket said he would have to do multiple replications of his findings. “I told them, ‘Go ahead, send me some mouse feces,’” Ferket said. “They sent it to me in a little jar and in the bottom of the little jar there were maybe five or six pellets. I didn’t have enough so I had to come up with a way to measure the mouse feces using my analytical constraints.” To make up for the small amount of feces he was given, Ferket decided to take wheat flour and determine its energy content. Ferket was able to turn the wheat flour into pellets that and burn it to determine the pellets’ calories. “We went over to our mouse colony and said, ‘Give us all the mouse poop you’ve got!’” Ferket said. “We could see
that this was how regular mouse feces should have energy and we blended it with the flour doing a bomb calorimetry on that.” After six weeks of working on the bomb calorimetry and retuning his findings to the scientists at Harvard that a possible conclusion was reached dealing with the MRAP2 gene. This particular gene works as an activator turning on and off. “That’s where it started a whole new thought process,” Ferket said. “Up until now obesity has been considered a behavioral problem. Based on this research and some on this gene it may not be the case. There are some people that have the same kind of variance in the MRAP2 receptor. They’re different in humans but there’s some kind of similar issue that may indicate that for some people, not everyone, who are morbidly obese that it’s not their fault.” Ferket said that while this finding sounds specifically technical, there is a heavy social aspect to the research. “When you step back and you think about it, this is something I always encourage everyone to do, there’s a social aspect,” Ferket said. “There are some people that just can’t help it … behavior can impact it but that’s not always the case.” Ferket said that the interesting part of this type of research is the solutions for these kinds of problems. “For those patients maybe it’s as simple as a drug,” Ferket said. “To take it even further maybe there are new things like gene therapy. We have to
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Peter Ferket, an extension nutritionist, is part of a research team that has successfully proven that genetics may be the cause of obesity in mice, which has also been seen in humans. Ferket believes that Hippocrates was right in stating “Food is our medicine, and medicine is our food.”
think about some people who have this genetic defect that maybe this really is a disease.” The possibility for companies to start looking at new drugs or new medical applications to help, Ferket said, is
an exciting idea. “We’re entering into this whole aspect of customized medicine and customized nutrition,” Ferket said. “The more information that we have about our genes and
what they do the more likely we can find some more custom things for people whether in nutritional ways or therapies and things like that.”
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Oregon freshman Edward Che“It was a cold, muddy, chalserek. Cheserek became the first lenging day,” Geiger said. “Overfreshman in Oregon school his- all, the team got out a little bit too tory to win the national indi- slow. It was difficult to make up vidual title. ground if you got behind, and we The Wolfpack men’s cross got too far behind at the start.” country team finished 28th overRedshirt freshman Sam Parall at the championship. Geiger sons, redshirt sophomore Grasaid that he was pleased that his ham Crawford and redshirt team made the tournament but junior Michael Mansy placed in said he had exthe top 200 and pected a better gave the Pack its result. second, third “I t houg ht and four t h that we could best f inishes, be a top-20 prorespectively. gram,” Geiger Freshman Jacob said. “Prior to Thomson, redt he reg iona l shirt freshman championships, Sam Roberson we didn’t exa nd red sh i r t pect to be in the sophomore Rollie Geiger, head men’s NCA A Finals. Bobby Mintz cross country coach The good news rounded out the was that we made the champi- Pack’s runners. onship.” “Overall, the team is very The team recorded an average young,” Geiger said. “The biggest finish time of 31:47, 68 seconds issue for us, why we weren’t a topslower than champion Colora- 20 or top-15 program, was simply do’s average time. The Buffaloes the youth of the team. A lot of the earned their fourth champion- guys are freshmen. It’s good that ship in 13 years. we’re a young program, but we Conditions for Saturday’s race needed a little bit more experiwere in the dumps, which Geiger ence for the guys this year.” said made it harder for his team Looking forward, Geiger said to be competitive. that the men’s team will need to
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Redshirt senior Andrew Colley finished seventh in the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships held at Indiana State on Saturday. The finish was the best ever for an N.C. State runner in a national championship and earned Colley his third All-American nomination and fourth All-ACC award. “It’s a heck of a career when you can make All-American three times out of four,” men’s head coach Rollie Geiger said. “That puts him in rare company.” Colley entered Saturday’s 10K event coming off of a second place finish the NCAA Regional Championships on Nov. 15, finishing just one second behind the regionals winner, UNC-Greensboro senior Paul Chelimo. Before Saturday, Colley had not finished outside the top five in any race this season. “He ran a great race,” Geiger said. “He had a little tightness in his glute, so I think that he could run with anybody on any given day.” Colley finished the contest with a time of 30:12.44, which was merely 31 seconds behind
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Today WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. DAVIDSON Raleigh, N.C., 6 p.m. MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. FLORIDA GULF COAST Raleigh, N.C., 7 p.m. Wednesday VOLLEYBALL VS. DUKE Durham, N.C., 2 p.m.
N.C. State will try to end its disappointing season on a high note at Senior Day this Saturday. The Wolfpack will play against Maryland in Carter-Finley Stadium at 12:30 p.m. State (3-8, 0-7 ACC) has lost seven straight games and eight of its last nine, but will take on a Maryland (65, 2-5 ACC) team in equally bad form. After starting the season 5-1, the Terrapins have lost four of their last five, including a 20-3 drubbing at the hands of Syracuse on Nov. 9. The Wolfpack leads the overall series against the Terrapins 33-32-4, including an 18-15-3 mark in Raleigh. N.C. State’s first-year head coach Dave Doeren said he knows these two teams have a history together, with the first game between the two programs having been played in 1909. “I do know about the series and how far it goes back,” Doeren said. “[N.C. State Athletics Director] Debbie [Yow] has a lot of history there too. I know that’s important. But for us, it’s senior day and that’s really all that I’m focused on.” Doeren said he wants to help all 21 of State’s seniors finish their careers with a win on Saturday. “I know a lot of the guys, even though I’ve only had them nine to 10 months, have
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Redshirt freshman tight end David J. Grinnage is tackled during the football game against East Carolina in Carter-Finley Stadium on Saturday. The Pirates defeated the Wolfpack 42-28, dropping N.C. State to 3-8 on the season.
grown a lot this year,” Doeren said. “As a coach it’s always one of the biggest honors to send those guys out the way they want with a win. That will be our entire mind-set of the week, helping our seniors walk out of Carter-Finley the way they want to.” Included in this group of seniors is graduate student quar terback Bra ndon Mitchell. Mitchell had by far the best game of his N.C. State career on Saturday against East Carolina, throwing for four touchdowns and 312 yards. Doeren said Mitchell’s play
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Player of the week Phillip Rivers Quarterback, San Diego Chargers: 27-of-39 for 392 yards and three touchdowns Rivers completed 27 of 39 passes for 392 yards and three touchdowns, including the game-winning score with 24 seconds left, in a thrilling 41-38 road win over the Kansas City Chiefs. His passer rating of 127.3 was his season high.
against the Pirates showed i mprovement f rom h is previous outings this season. “What I like was he didn’t hurt us,” Doeren said. “He took the throws that were there. He overthrew a couple of guys, but that’s ok. That’s going to happen. I thought he was accurate underneath. He gave the receivers a chance to catch a lot of balls and for the most part, our receivers came up with those caches for him even when the weren’t perfect throws.” Despite their recent string of bad results, the Terrapins are still a dangerous team,
defeating Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. on Nov. 16. The Terps’ passing game has struggled since losing two of its top wide-outs, sophomore Stefon Diggs and junior Deon Long, against Wake Forest on Oct. 19. But dual-threat senior quarterback C.J. Brown has kept Maryland’s offense af loat, running for 122 yards and two touchdowns and 135 passing yards and a touchdown against Virginia Tech. Doeren said he appreciates t he crowd suppor t t he Wolfpack faithful has given
the team this season. He also said he hopes to see a packed house on Saturday to send State’s seniors off in style. “I know it’s challenging with the holiday weekend for families that travel to see their families in other places, but I know our fans will do everything they can to come support these seniors,” Doeren said. “It would be unbelievably appreciated for all the Wolfpack fans who can make it to the game to send these kids out the way we all would want to see them sent out, and that’s with a great Carter-Finley crowd.”
Honorable mention: Mike Glennon Quarterback, Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 14 of 21 for 247 and two touchdowns Glennon completed 14of-21 passes for 247 yards and two touchdowns in a 24-21 win over the Detroit Lions. It was the Bucs third straight win after dropping the first eight games of the season, and Glennon posted a season-best 138.4 passer rating
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Play of the week: SAN DIEGO V. KANSAS CITY • On 2nd-and-15 with 31 seconds remaining in regulation, San Diego quarterback found fourthyear wide receiver Seyi Ajirotutu on a 26-yard touchdown that sealed the Chargers’ victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. The score highlighted San Diego’s 17-point fourth quarter in its fifth win of the season.
• Cole made his first career start for the Vikings and made 13 tackles in a 26-26 tie with the Packers in Green Bay. He also recorded his first career sack in the NFL’s first tied game of the season.Cotchery’s seventh touchdown reception this season, which is a career high for a single season.
ANDRE BROWN RUNNING BACK, NEW YORK GIANTS • In his third game back from injury, Brown rushed for a season-high 127 yards on 21 carries. The Giants dropped to 4-7 after losing on a last-second field goal in its NFC East rivalry match against the Dallas Cowboys, 24-21.
STEPHEN TULLOCH LINEBACKER, DETROIT LIONS • Tulloch, who has still yet to miss a game in his eight-year NFL career, was credited with 10 tackles on Sunday against the Bucs, bringing his season total to 91.