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New degree program links NCSU to UNC-CH
A new undergraduate degree in the biomechanical engineering field will join NC State’s engineering and UNC-CH’s medicine fields. Students in the program will be able to enroll in classes at both universities, and gain a joint degree from both universities. The proposal for the program will be considered by the Board of Governors. This collaboration is expected to serve as a model for future joint programs across the UNC System campuses. Although NC State already offers a major in biomedical engineering and UNC-CH offers a minor, the joint program will make both stronger. Biomedical engineering was ranked as the best job of the year in 2013 by CNN Money, and space in the program is expected to be in high demand. SOURCE: News & Observer
Revamp of AP U.S. sparks controversy
The redesign of the Advanced Placement U.S. History course is under debate and was heard by the N.C. Board of Education Monday. The absence of America’s “exceptionalism” in these new AP U.S. History course guidelines came under fire by Larry Krieger, a national activist and retired history teacher. Krieger wants the College Board to revisit the new guidelines and is among other conservative activists who believe that the course teaches a view of American history that is too negative. John Williamson, the executive director of AP curriculum for the College Board, said that the revision of the course was driven by teachers’ concern that there were too many topics to cover and that the new guidelines will allow for more flexibility for teachers. SOURCE: News & Observer
NCSU faculty members elected to be AAAS fellows
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected NC State faculty members David C. Dorman, Justin Schwartz, Bruce A. Sherwood and Mohammed A. Zikry as AAAS fellows. The largest scientific society in the world, the AAAS also publishes the journal Science. The NC State faculty members were among 401 other scientists recognized by the AAAS after being nominated by colleagues and taking part in a lengthy review process. In February, the fellows will be honored at an AAAS meeting in San Jose, California. SOURCE: NC State press release
Vivian Howard to speak at commencement
NC State’s commencement address will be given by Chef Vivian Howard, a North Carolina native featured on PBS’ “A Chef’s Life.” Howard opened Chef & the Farmer restaurant in 2005 and the Boiler Room Oyster Bar in 2013 with her husband Ben Knight. “A Chef’s Life” was a recipient of the Peabody Award in 2014 and showcases Howard and Knight’s experiences in the restaurant business. Also during the commencement ceremony, Chancellor Randy Woodson will bestow George M. Whitesides with an honorary degree. Whitesides is a chemist, a leading researcher in many fields such as soft robotics and has had breakthroughs in nanotechnology and new materials. SOURCE: NC State press release
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Trustees approve fee increases for engineers NC State’s Board of Trustees approved a special student fee increase for the university’s 8,800 engineering students, in addition to voting to raise the cost of tuition by at least 3 percent for the entire student body. Engineering students at NC State currently pay a $90 fee in addition to other required student fees. The new increase, approved by the Board in late November, would raise that fee to
$1,500 over the course of three years. In addition to the fee increase for engineers, the trustees approved a tuition increase of 3 percent for all in-state students and 6 percent for all out-of-state students in each of the next two years. If the proposal is accepted by the UNC-System Board of Governors, tuition for in-state undergraduate students will rise to $6,407 by 2016-17, increasing $182 next year and then another $187 a year later. Tuition for out-of-state undergraduate students will increase to $23,926 by the fall of 2016.
Standard student fees for all students would also rise $138 by the fall of 2016, raising the total to $2,396 for undergraduates and $2,407 for undergraduates. The fee increase request the Board of Trustees approved is made biennially, so it only officially approved the special engineering fee increase of up to $1,000 for the fall of 2016. However, the university is planning to request an additional $500 increase to bring the total annual fee for engineering students up to
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“Jobs within the next few years will require some form of post-secondary education.” Patti Baynes, program director of NC State’s College Advising Corps
high school students who apply for a post-secondary education. “The students that we serve are all in high-need areas,” said Patti Baynes, program director of NC State’s College Advising Corps. “The schools we serve have over a 50 percent free and reduced lunch
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GLBT students find solidarity in STEM fields Taylor Quinn Associate Features Editor
Two acronyms rarely seen paired together are GLBT and STEM. According to Ian Pike, a sophomore studying civil engineering, GLBT students are a big part of the science, technology, engineering and math fields, but they’re not very visible. He said that despite growing acceptance in American society, there is still a considerable amount of anxiety surrounding coming out in STEM majors. Pike and Kyle Vey, a senior studying biomedical engineering, hope to combat this fear by starting a chapter of the national group oSTEM (Out in STEM) to NC State’s campus next semester. “It’s not that [GLBT students] are not there, it’s just that they are not represented; they don’t feel safe being there as authentically as they want to be, so it’s definitely just like a culture of fear,” Pike said. Pike started in computer science
but said the major wasn’t going well for him and “neither was his gender,” so he dropped out of school to figure it out. “I’m transgendered and bisexual, so I get half the letters,” Pike joked. He ended up choosing civil engineering because he was helping people, but from “backstage.” He currently works for the Department of Transportation in the traffic safety unit as an intern. But according to Pike and countless national reports, the job search for GLBT students can be scary because gender identity and sexual orientation are not legally protected classes federally or in most states. “If I work for the state government, I could be fired for being trans, so I don’t want to be out at work,” Pike said. “That would be scary if I came out and my boss thought it was a negative thing.” Because Pike appears to be a straight man to someone who
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Stephanie Huang, junior studying art and design with a new media and animation concentration, using a hand held laser scanner to scan the skull of an Allosaurus(italics) as part of her internship at the NC Museum of Natural Science.
Design students help to recreate ancient crocodile Gavin Stone Staff Writer
Design students from NC State helped create a 3D model of the skull of a newly discovered species of crocodile recently uncovered in Durham. The students worked with the NC Museum of Natural Science and a team of researchers including Lindsay Zanno, an assistant research professor in the NC State department of biology and the director of the Paleontology & Geology Research Laboratory at the NC Museum of Natural Science. The specimen is one of the oldest known species of crocodile and is from the Triassic period, making it about 231 million years old, according to Zanno. When the discovery was made, Zanno sent out an email to stu-
dents in the College of Design asking for any students interested in reconstructing the skull for credit or just for fun. Three students responded to the email: Stephanie Huang, now a junior studying art and design with a concentration in new media and animation, and Joe Savage and Mary Katherine Snow, who at the time were both seniors in industrial design but have since graduated. “We had skull bones from a new species of crocodile, and we wanted to model the whole skull,” Zanno said. “So we had students scan in the pieces of skull that we did have and then scan in skulls of some of its close relatives. We then took pieces of these completed skulls to fill in and create a 3D model which in-
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$1,500 by the fall of 2017, according to Dean of the College of Engineering Louis Martin-Vega. Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Warwick Arden said the fee is necessary in order for the university to keep pace with other schools across the country that are pouring money into engineering programs. NC State is currently producing well-prepared and highly sought-after graduates, but it will not be able to continue if the university does not make significant investments as technology and the field of engineering is constantly evolving, Arden said. “The bottom line is engineering is not a static field,” Arden said. The engineering fee would be used to expand existing
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rate.” Regardless of background, college tuition is expensive, especially for students who fall under low income. “Many times, though, the price of tuition is misunderstood,” Baynes said. “They don’t realize that they can apply to use the FAFSA, federal pell grants and scholarships.” Not only does the price tag of college hold these students back, but also the lack of knowledge about college and the application process in general. For many of these students, they are the first in their family to attend college, according to Allison Lee, a college advisor at Louisburg
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doesn’t know his identity, the conversation doesn’t have to come up; however, he wishes it could because it’s not something he hides anywhere else. According to Renee Wells, the director of the GLBT Center, the reason GLBT students aren’t visible in the STEM field is because the dialogue isn’t either. She said the coursework does not spark conversations about sexuality and identity like it would in the humanities, so students do not feel comfortable talking about their own sexuality and identity. Wells said STEM professors should be more intentional about signaling they are inclusive of all their students. She noted a significant skew toward humanities fields in
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educational enhancement programs, develop new programs and address critical infrastructure needs, according to Martin-Vega. “It’s not necessarily something we are thrilled about doing, but we don’t have any other choice right now,” Martin-Vega said. Programs that would be expanded would include Research Experiences for Undergraduates, the Engineering Entrepreneurship Program, the Grand Challenges Scholars Program, International Internships, Study Abroad, the Women in Engineering Program and the Minority Engineering Program. In addition, the fee would enhance undergraduate and graduate professional development programs and increase support for student research assistantships. Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Jeff Braden said it is common
to see universities across the country charge more for professional and technical degrees because the cost of educating the students is much higher. “It costs more to be a nuclear engineer than to be a poet,” Braden said. In addition to the cost of the students’ educations, Braden said the fee is justified because the graduates often receive higher starting salaries and tend to see a larger return on their educational investment. “It’s not unreasonable to ask for them to pay more for their education,” Braden said. Martin-Vega said the practice of charging engineering students more for their educations has become the norm among public land-grant universities with engineering programs. In fact, NC State and Georgia Tech are the only two schools within their group of peer schools that do not
a have a substantial separate fee for engineering students, and even Georgia Tech’s undergraduate tuition is a few thousand dollars more a year than NC State’s, Martin-Vega said. Martin-Vega said, even with the added fee, the total amount engineering students pay for their educations at NC State is still going to be lower than any of the university’s peer institutions at the current moment. “I know it’s something for the students who go here to see this bump, but were they to go elsewhere, even if they lived in those states, they are not going to find a program of this quality that costs any less,” Martin-Vega said. In recent years, public universities from across the country have turned to tuition and fee increases to help offset repeated cuts in their allocation from their respective state budgets.
Increases continue to raise concerns in the UNC-System and beyond about the rising cost and decreased affordability of public higher education in the U.S. Travis Tippens, the president of the Engineers Council and a senior studying electrical engineering, was a member of a committee of students that met a few times to discuss certain areas where the College of Engineering could use the money to best benefit students. Although charging an additional fee for engineers would have beneficial outcomes for students within the college, Tippens said he is not thrilled to be having to pay the fee himself. Tippens said the responses he heard from engineering students were “nothing positive.” “Nobody wants to pay more for their education,” Tippens said. The College of Engineering
hopes to offset some of the costs for students by using the money to fund more opportunities that provide educational experiences for the undergraduate students while also providing them with financial compensation, such as teaching assistant positions that offer students a stipend for their work, according to Martin-Vega. “It isn’t like we are simply going to take all of this and leave people out in the wind or something like that,” Martin-Vega said. Arden said no money from the fee increase will be used towards directly hiring faculty, and the money will be put back into engineering programs that are meant to benefit the students who are paying for them. The Board of Governors will vote on the increases early next year.
High School and NC State graduate. “They have in their mind that they cannot go to college, so as advisors we bring them resources,” Lee said. College Advising Corps uses a “near-peer” method to encourage these rural students to apply to college. The college advisors must be recent graduates, so they are close in age with the high school students they are helping. “We are promoting a college-going culture at the schools,” Lee said. “A lot of the guidance counselors are a little older, so it’s nice for the students to have someone close in age to help them with this important process.” On average, the guidance counselor to high school student ratio is about 1 to 450, where students only have
about 20 minutes over the course of the school year to speak with their counselor. College advisors work alongside guidance counselors to alleviate their workload and to talk with students about options for college. At the beginning of the year, they work primarily with seniors by taking them on college visits, bringing college representatives in to the high school and discussing financial aid. A lot of these high school students have never been on a college campus, according to Baynes. “We are informing students of all their options and making sure their options are informed,” Baynes said. At Louisburg High School, 90 percent of the seniors applied to college this year, a drastic increase from previ-
ous years, according to Lee. “The other 10 percent of students have different reasons for not applying,” Lee said. “College is not for everybody.” By the end of the first semester, the college advisors would have met all students in the senior class, according to Danielle Neujahr, college advisor at Franklin High School and recent graduate of NC State. After the first semester, college advisors target underclassmen to prepare them for the college application process. “Those 685,000 students that make up our rural populations, we need them to be educated,” Baynes said. “Jobs within the next few years will require some form of postsecondary education.” NC State’s College Advis-
ing Corps is one of the many universities partnered with the National College Advising Corps that has served over 543,000 students in 14 states across the country. The John Belk Endowment funds NC State’s College Advising Corps. College advisors receive a full-time salary, state benefits and an education award, which can pay off student loans from undergraduate debt or future loans if the advisor decides to go to graduate school. However, for the college advisors, the job is more than encouraging rural high school students to apply and attend college. “Being a college advisor is all about making a difference in every child’s life,” Lee said. “We’re showing these kids
that they can go to college when people have always told them they can’t. They’re all very bright, but some of them have fallen through the cracks.” Our future’s success relies on the success of these students, Baynes said. “Currently we’re behind in bachelor degree attainment all over the world. Research has shown that the greater the percentage a country’s population is educated, the better its work force and the better its economy.” According to Neujahr, the results will not be evident immediately. “It may take a few years to see rates increase, but eventually there will be a huge spike in the numbers of rural high school students attending college,” Neujahr said.
the GLBT-CA’s Project Safe Ally training, a course that teaches faculty and staff how to be inclusive and supportive to students with all genders and sexualities and gives them a sticker to place on their door to show solidarity. “I think statistically if you look at the faculty and staff who go through our Project Safe Ally training, they tend to be heavily from liberal arts and humanities fields,” Wells said. “So I think that kind of perpetuates the idea that maybe this isn’t a safe space, not that STEM fields in any way are overtly hostile but I think it’s just this compounding of we are not having these conversations and people aren’t putting stickers out that say ‘hey you’re queer, you’re here, come on in,’” Wells said. That’s part of why Pike and Vey want to create a safe space for the GLBT community to network in the STEM fields
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Junior studying civil engineering Ian Pike stands in front of the main building for his major Mann Hall. “As a transgender student, I’m trying to diversify what it means to be in STEM,” Pike said.
and discuss and overcome some of the challenges they
could face professionally. “We are a STEM school, we are heavily engineering and science-focused and we are also heavily focused on diversity,” Pike said. “It didn’t make sense that it wasn’t already here.” He went on to explain that when he attended STEM professional development groups, they were great, but he left with many important questions unanswered, like how he should to talk to a recruiter and ask about the discrimination policy or
how to find the best GLBTfriendly companies in his field. According to Eric Patridge, founder and president of the national oSTEM professional society, the group strives to help connect people with their peers who are at their same level and who can help advance them in their career. “OSTEM helps to revive the peer-to-peer network that will help LGBTQA students succeed in STEM fields,” Patridge said. According to Pike, STEM
is a broad category that has diverse career paths that can lead to highly accepting groups of professionals on one end and old-school boys clubs on the other. Because of that variety, some students, like Jason Endries, a senior studying meteorology, don’t feel like being a member of the GLBT factors into their STEM experience, in school our out. “I want to get into wind power meteorology, which if you are in the wind industry I can see the people being more progressive and forward thinking,” Endries said. Either way, Pike says oSTEM will hold planning meetings next semester and will welcome anyone who wants to support launching their science career as a young, out professional. To get involved, contact Pike at itpike@ncsu.edu.
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cluded all the missing elements.” Huang was able to do contract work for Zanno over the summer during which she modeled the skull of the still unnamed crocodile species. Prior to taking on this internship, Huang had taken a digital modeling course; however, she said that this internship was much more hands-on. “[The staff researchers] were able to tell me, ‘oh this bone should go here or there,’ but the end product was a lot of my vision too,” Huang said. “It was fun to do and also a really good learning process.” Even with the skull pieces that had been provided by the museum and the fossils from relatives of the new specimen, ad-
ditional elements had to be created from scratch. “She was able to model this and figure out how the skull would look, which was really cool for us because we weren’t really sure what the shape of the skull was actually like until she started doing this work.” Zanno said. Huang, Snow and Savage used a 3D surface scanner at the Museum of Natural Science to scan the existing crocodile fossils into the computer. This was done by placing motion dots on the bones, similar to those that actors use for CGI effects in sci-fi movies. A handheld laser scanner was used to slowly move around the fossil until there was a cloud of data points that the computer could use to assemble the polygons that make up the final model. According to Zanno, this method is
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becoming much more popular and is on the cutting edge of 3D modeling technology. However, the primary method of modeling is still molding and casting. This method is a weeklong process involving many chemicals and the molds don’t last for very long, according to Zanno. In the past, Zanno has had paleoartists work on the final models of dinosaurs seen in children’s books that show the dinosaur with its skin in its natural habitat. Recently, she has reached out to graphic artists from deviantART, an online art sharing community, to help come up with final models. Zanno said she is open to having design students from NC State help with these kinds of projects in the future.
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Memories make more meaningful gifts than material A
couple weeks ago my friend Jacob and I went to see We Were Promised Jetpacks, a favorite band of mine, as Jacob’s gift to me for my 20th birthday. The concert was awesome and as I discussed it with my other friend Celeste, it was brought to my attention how truly t houg ht f u l t h i s present had been; I got to experience something I loved and the wrapping wouldn’t clutter my Estefania waste bin. CastroI thought about Vasquez this conversation Staff Columnist l a t e r when Celeste asked for Christmas present advice. “Wow,” I thought, “I haven’t even beg u n to t hi n k about what I’m getting ever yone. I may just be the most self ish human being in the world. I don’t really fancy gift-giving.” Well, I thought it through, perhaps too much, and came to a noble
conclusion to pardon my lack of gift-giving spirit. I’ve come to gather that my qualm is with the system of gift-giving and receiving that we as a society of well-to-do beings are chained to. Not gift-giving as a practice, but the culture we have created and cling to. So, you tell your friend you like honeybees. Your friend, being the attentive friend she is, hears this and starts planning your birthday present eight months in advance. You open your present and there it is; a pair of honeybee earrings. A few birthdays and gift-requiring holidays later and your apartment is filled with honeybee mugs, a tea brewed from honeybee honey found only in the Amazon, honeybee throw pillows, honeybee phone and laptop cases and a honeybee snow globe that winds to sing some deep melody. Your friend meant well and it isn’t that she doesn’t know you at your most intimate level. What happens in these oft-occurring situations is that we confuse what someone says
they like with something they want. I like books, plants and hairbands. However, even if you know me like the back of your hand, you probably won’t guess correctly what types of books, plants and hairbands I want around me because honestly, I probably don’t know myself. Our preferences develop and change far too quickly for anyone to keep up and no one should be tasked with trying to decipher the fads we go through. We as gift-receivers shouldn’t be chained down to things we said we liked once upon a time. If I say I like blue scarves, I should have the freedom to develop a new opinion as soon as tomorrow. T h i s ne x t p oi nt p e rh ap s alienates me as having been quite fortunate, but I think if we all really consider it, it applies pretty evenly throughout. I have a lot of stuff. I have enough things. I’m just as materialistic as the next gal, but if you’re going to buy me yet another trinket, please don’t. It’s not that I won’t love it. I
might, but I truly don’t need it. If I really wanted another dragonflyin-gel paper weig ht, I wou ld have gone out and gotten one. So when a present-giving situation arises, I sigh and strain to come up with an idea that is practical, heartfelt and most importantly, something the person wants rather than something I’d like to give. I’d like to think that the struggle I have with picking presents is actually a testament to how well I know my loved ones. I know my mom likes candles, but I also know she doesn’t want another homemade candle modpodged with our pictures and a sappy mother-daughter quote. So this puts me in a tough spot. I don’t want to just buy a sweater. My mother deserves more than that, but I can’t just make a Pinterest craft that she doesn’t need. If I get her nothing, I look as sloppy as the could-have-been craft. What is a gal to do? All of this because we have been taught that to be thoughtful is to
struggle through the process of finding the perfect present. But I’ve f ig u red it out. I understand why Jacob’s gift was so special. He gave me something I could experience, not a picture frame I could keep around forever. Something that would only last an hour or two, but that I would appreciate and remember for much longer than a battery-operated music box would run. This isn’t an argument for some grander good or for remembering the reason for the season or for any altruistic way of life. Honestly, this is me saying we can do better. You like honeybees? Forget the honeybee flashlight keychain. Let me perform for you an embarrassing, yet heartfelt and precious play about a honeybee queen starring a character with your name. You like records? Let me look up record stores around here and give you a compiled list and 20 bucks. Let me fill your heart, not your desk drawer.
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The future tense makes our futures tense T
he United States’ academic culture today perpetuates the notion that exam week is something to be objectively feared — a professorinf licted monstrosity that shows up once a semester. It’s an experience through which students must suffer as the martyrs they are. Of course, this outlook is somewhat biased; though, it serves as a bonding point for many who dread the bombardment of tests. So often in groups of students, peers veer Mary Anna away from thoughts of Rice required cumulative Staff Columnist knowledge, impossible multiple-choice questions, essays that must be written without outlines and topics they have yet to study, trying their best to avoid breaching the subject of exams amongst themselves. When a brave soul ventures to approach the topic — risking social stigmatization (i.e. “Taylor only wants to talk about school”) — and thereby brings it to the forefront of conversation, the group members bemoan their common, abject fate. Perhaps that’s an exaggeration. However, the idea that a looming event will remain nonexistent in its place in the future as long as one refuses to acknowledge it is not the most conducive to our future success.
In 2012, economist Keith Chen released findings that suggested that people who speak in languages that do not contain a strong future tense tend to be better at planning for the future than those who do not. For instance, while an English speaker would say, “Next year I will vacation in Florida,” it would be more suitable for a Finnish speaker to say, “I vacation in Florida next year.” Closing the gap between future and present allows those who don’t utilize a strong future tense to associate more with the consequences of their current actions. I don’t mean to suggest an overhaul of the English language. In that regard, more pressing matters come to mind (such as how the plural of “goose” is “geese,” yet the plural of “moose” is still “moose”). Nor do I wish to vouch for the theoretical amusement that everyone should derive from exam week. It is not a particularly fun week. But what is important is that we, to a larger extent, begin to relate our choices in the present to the outcomes we may have to accept in the future. Though it may not seem like it, the future is as integral to our existence as the present. Despite that we can’t perceive it as being here right now at this very second, we should realize that one day we will have to live in it. If we spend our time being frightened of the inevitable, we risk making the avoidable
inevitable, such as exam stress and academic failure. In today’s social media-saturated environment, the belief that people should be able to say or do whatever they want without facing appropriate penalty is rampant (I would advise looking at certain subreddit forums for examples, but I really wouldn’t want to subject anyone to that). More specifically, there seems to be a disconnect between how people view their actions, such as procrastination, and the consequences of those actions, such as poor grades. However, respective consequences should not be isolated from their actions — slacking off today should not be separated from the possible feelings of remorse accompanying tomorrow’s bad test grade. Along these lines, most decisions we make ultimately sustain the opportunity for personal growth. This doesn’t mean that we should consider every menial choice to be of the utmost importance, but instead that we should be more careful in allotting the time we have. Compartmentalizing as a way to evade impending responsibilities and events that can affect you extensively is, in itself, a form of denial. In this way, exam week should not merely be dreaded from afar; it should also be seen as a chance to bolster our futures.
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ery infrequently does ou r g ov e r n m e nt operate on an “ask and you shall receive” basis, but it seems we’ve reached one of those occasions. President Barack Obama announced Monday his plans to allot $263 million in Nicky Vaught funding to provide Opinion Editor around 50,000 body-worn cameras and appropriate training for law enforcement officers nationwide. This announcement comes in the wake of several cases of police brutality, including the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio. Additionally, Obama said he wants to moniter better the mass distribution of military-grade equipment and weaponry to police departments. Much of the public has demanded police wear body cameras, especially due to the overwhelming amount of contradictory evidence surrounding the killing of Michael Brown. For t hose who don’t know, Cleveland police shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice because they thought his airsoft pistol was a real gun. Cleveland, a newspaper na med af ter its tow n, reported in an editorial that police originally said Rice was sitting in a group when they approached him. Further, police said they told him to put his hands up and shot when he reached for what looked like a gun. Surveillance revealed that Rice was, in fact, alone when police approached him and that he had his hands up when Timothy Loehman shot him twice. Without the aid of video surveillance, the police’s account may have been the final say, which would allow for Loehman to get away with his impulsive murder.
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Add it iona l ly, R ia lto, California, Police Chief Tony Farrar, Police Foundation executive fellow, conducted a yearlong study testing the effects of body cameras on police’s use of force. Farrar found that the introduction of cameras significantly reduced accounts of police brutality. For these reasons illustrated, it is absolutely v ita l t hat police wea r cameras on their uniforms. We must, however, look at some necessary stipulations t hat would ensure t he cameras’ effectiveness. For one, there needs to be regulations regarding when police may or may not turn off their cameras, as well as when they may or may not release the footage. In September, Utah police shot Darrien Hunt six times in the back, killing him, according to Daily Kos. Evidently, the cop who shot him was wearing a camera, but had turned it of f. Though this adds suspicion to the case, it allows for greater ambiguit y and, therefore, a greater chance of getting away with murder. As NPR reported back in 2011, there would also be the issue of privacy. These cameras would capture people in very private or weak moments, especially in cases of domestic disputes. If no regulation forbids the sharing of the footage captured, there is nothing aside from honor to stop police from sharing or posting the videos—but if police were known to be honorable, we wouldn’t want them to wear cameras in the first place. Though there might be a little more regulation necessary to implement them, body-worn cameras pave the way for reducing the perceived police state and bringing balance between authority and the populace. Instead of relying on other police, who may be inclined to cover up for their fellow officers, the public can now hold police accountable for their actions.
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FALL EXAM ISSUE 2014 • PAGE 5
Alumnus discovers success in two careers Kevin Schaefer Associate Features Editor
Chuck Small spends his workdays doing anything from meeting with his students to responding to suicide referrals; and it’s a job he says is “never boring and never the same from day to day.” Small is a counselor at Enloe High School, and started working there in 2011 after obtaining a Master’s degree in counseling from NC State in the spring semester. Yet for Sma l l, his current occupation is vastly different from what he did throughout the first half of his career. Prior to graduate school, Small spent more than 20 years in journalism, working ever y where f rom his college newspaper to the copy desk of The News & Observer. Small said he developed an interest in journalism at an early age, after his initial career plans didn’t quite pan out the way he thought. “When I was in middle school and early high school I thought I wanted to be a comic book artist,” Small said. “I thought I had some artistic talent and I tried out and drew some comic strips for the school newspaper and quickly found out that they didn’t share my opinion of my artistic skills.” Despite the lack of interest in his artwork, Small said that the editors of the paper did enjoy his writing, and that they would accept stories from him. “It was interesting because I had never thought of myself as a writer at the time, but when they said they liked my writing I said ‘OK I’ll try that,’” Small said.
From there, Sma ll went to the Indiana University for his undergraduate education where he double-majored in English and journalism and worked at the school newspaper. Small had attended a journalism conference there while he was in high school. Small said that even in the 1980s while he was in college, he wanted to do something in high schools. Thad Ogburn, the Metro Editor of The N&O, worked with Small for many years. He said that counseling was a perfect fit for Small when he did switch careers. “It was a little bit of a surprise because I know he had certainly enjoyed journalism and he had had a variety of jobs, but he also had really enjoyed working with young people,” Ogburn said. Small said he took as many education classes as he could and student taught his senior year. However, he said he had reservations nonetheless. “I had done student teaching and although I enjoyed it, I felt like I was too close in age to the kids that I was teaching,” Small said. “I was 22 and my students were 17. I needed to grow up more and have a bigger age gap between us before going into the high schools.” Instead, Small said he decided to go straight into journalism, and got a job on the copy desk at the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette in 1985. He also interned there for two summers in college. Then in 1987, Small got a call about an opening on the copy desk of the South Bend Tribune. “It was a difficult decision for me because I liked Fort Wayne a lot, but
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Chuck Small, former NC State graduate student who studied counseling from ‘09-’11, speaks with Philomena Karol, also a former NC State graduate student, Tuesday, Dec. 2. Small worked as a copy-editor for the News & Observer for 15 years before transitioning to a career in counseling.
the salary I was making was barely allowing me to pay my student loans and I was afraid I might default,” Small said. When South Bend offered him an increase in his salary, Small went to his boss at Fort Wayne to see if they could match it. When they denied his request, he went to South Bend and stayed there until 1993. Small moved to Raleigh in October 1993, after meeting his now husband Tom, and got a job as a Copy Editor at the N&O. He continued working there for 15 years. Ogburn said that in addition to Small’s work as a copy editor, he also initiated several journalism programs which were geared toward the Triangle’s youth.
“One of them was called Nando Next and it was for high school students to write movie reviews or music reviews,” Ogburn said. “For a while we even had our own Nando Next page fairly regularly in the paper that would have content that students from local high schools had put together.” Ogburn said Small also initiated Journalism Day, an annual event where The N&O uses the journalism school at UNC-Chapel Hill for a series of programs designed for high school newspaper and yearbook staffs to come and learn from members of The N&O staff. “Chuck really put that together w it h some people f rom t he journalism school and he was always
coordinating it,” Ogburn said. In 2008, the N&O had its first run of buyouts. Small said that he felt uncertain about staying at the paper when one of his coworkers, Suzanne Brown, previously the Arts & Entertainment Editor, accepted a buyout. “I was stunned that they took her up on it,” Small said. “I thought they were going to say we can’t afford to lose you. I thought, if they’re going to do that for her, they’re probably going to do that for anyone.” Small left the N&O during the second round of buyouts in October 2008, saying his last day was exactly 15 years after his first. After teaching a news
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Architect loses sight, but not vision Page Harris Staff Writer
Though being visually impaired in a highly visual field may sound discouraging, for architect Chris Downey, it’s just another part of his creative inspiration. Downey, 51, lost his vision in March 2008 after undergoing surgery to remove a benign brain tumor that was causing damage to his optic nerve. “It w a s t o t a l s i g h t loss, instantaneous and unexpected,” Downey said in a phone interview with the Technician. After Downey lost his vision he said his biggest question was how he was going to keep doing what he loved. “At first I felt discouraged when the doctor told me there was nothing else they could do,” Downey said. “I did not want to change careers. I’ve always been committed to architecture.” Downey even ended up losing his job toward the end of 2008 and by January 2009 he had been blind for not even a year, had no job and had a family with a young son at home. Fortunately it was not too long before he found out about a firm wanting to build a rehabilitation building for blind veterans. Downey felt a personal tie and was very interested. “I embraced my disability in the work I was doing,” Downey said. “It ended up having real value, and I knew I wanted to build a career out of that.” According to Downey, he likes to do things on his own. “I travel and get around independently,” Downey said. “The one hang-up is that I can’t do my drawings on the computer but I can read them on my own. I used wax sticks for my designs, which as you work with them they get a little tacky and you can
stick them to the paper. Then I photograph it with my cell phone.” Downey graduated from NC State in 1984 with a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Architecture. During his time at NC State, Professor Patrick Rand took notice of Downey’s innate talent. Ra nd taug ht Dow ney during his junior year in the fall of 1983. During that time building for sustainability was fairly unfamiliar, according to Rand. “ We h a d a d e s i g n competition amongst the studio classes to design passive solar housing using concrete block as the primary material,” Rand said. “They were supposed to design eff icient and affordable housing that any normal family might be able to access.” Downey ended up winning the competition. “He was an outstanding student, there’s no question about it,” Rand said. “We all knew he had huge potential.” Downey said that kind of problem solving and “creating delightful and functional environments,” was what got him excited about the work initially. “Now I am able to engage in [my work] differently,” Downey said. “I can think about architecture differently. It’s interesting as an architect to become a part of the disabled community and I can pay more attention to the accessibilities aspect of it.” A lt houg h he is now completely blind, Downey has taken his situation and used it as inspiration. He now works as a consultant for many architecture firms that involve projects designed to improve accessibility for the disabled. “I completed a project this past year called the San Francisco Independent Living Resource Center [SFILRC] ,
a nd that was really the first
and only project to date that I have served as the lead architect,” Downey said.
The SFILRC is a nonprofit that provides services, training and advocacy for people with all kinds of disabilities. Most
of the staff and their clients have some sort of disability, sometimes more than one. Another aspect of Downey’s
reinvented career involves his drawings. Since they’re all
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The Truth about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement Does it stand for Middle East peace or does it seek Israel’s destruction? Leaders of the effort to boycott, divest from and apply sanctions against Israel—the so-called BDS movement—say they stand for an “end to the occupation of the Palestinian territories,” “justice in Palestine” and “freedom for the Palestinian people.” But what are the real motives of BDS leaders—do they really want peace between Israel and the Palestinian people?
What are the facts?
security forces in the West Bank, they also mean Israelis “occupying” the state of Israel. While the BDS movement uses highly emotive language in The third telling fact about the BDS movement is that it their appeals for support—such as “ending repression” and consistently and vehemently opposes any efforts to bring “Israeli war crimes”—a closer look at the real motives of the Israelis and Palestinians together to work in peace and on movement reveals a more sinister goal. peace. For example, BDS leaders advocate boycotting cultural First, note that the BDS movement focuses only on alleged exchanges between Israelis and Palestinian artists. They war crimes and repression by Israel—and ignores real war condemn educational cooperation between Israeli and crimes and tyrannical repression by other Middle Eastern Palestinian universities. Most revealingly, they oppose peace nations and terrorist organizations. When Hamas and talks between Israel and the Hizbollah target thousands of rockets at Israeli civilian populations Rather than a movement that seeks Palestinian leadership, calling them in violation of international law, peace and freedom, BDS is motivated “collaborationist.” BDS is not about “occupation.” BDS utters not a word of criticism, by an obsessive hate of Zionism. In short, BDS is not about peaceful let alone a call for boycotts or coexistence or ending the sanctions. When Iran’s government “occupation” of the West Bank. Indeed, Omar Barghouti, a violently crushes peaceful protests and Egypt stifles its press graduate student at Tel Aviv University and BDS founder, and political opposition with a dictatorial hand, BDS is admits, “If the occupation ends . . . would that end support for likewise silent. Why? BDS? No it wouldn’t—no.” By singling out Israel for criticism and economic pressure, Not only do BDS leaders admit this, but they implacably BDS employs a double standard—a hypocritical and dishonest support the “return” of nearly five million descendants of Arab tactic frequently used by anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate refugees who left during Israel’s war of independence in 1947. groups. In fact, most of these Palestinians are not truly refugees—fully The reason, as we’ll see, is that the BDS movement is not 95 percent of them have never set foot in Israel. really interested in alleged war crimes or repression. Rather its Most importantly, the immigration of millions of Arab purpose is to delegitimize and then destroy Israel. refugees’ descendants to Israel would make Jews a minority in The second critical fact about the BDS movement is that their own state. As President Obama has correctly noted, “The while it masquerades behind words like “freedom” and ‘right of return’ would extinguish Israel as a Jewish state, and “occupation,” one need only listen closely to its rhetoric to that’s not an option.” Yet destroying Israel by flooding it with realize that these are code words for the elimination of Israel. millions of Palestinians is precisely what BDS leader Barghouti BDS leaders oppose a two-state solution—why? While the insists upon: “This (the right of return) is something we United States, Western European powers, Israel and the U.N. cannot compromise on.” Security Council have embraced a “two-state solution” as the BDS’s goal: “Extinguish Israel as a Jewish state.” BDS basis for peace in the Middle East, BDS leaders, such as Ali unequivocally rejects Israel’s many peace offers—including Abunimah and Omar Barghouti, are clear: They openly and numerous land-for-peace proposals supported by the United outspokenly oppose a two-state solution. Why? States—and rejects Israel’s willingness to sit down to direct Because when BDS supporters talk about “the occupation of peace talks without preconditions. Palestine,” they refer not to disputed West Bank territories, but Thus, the facts make BDS’s intentions clear: Rather than to all the land between the Jordan River and the being a movement that seeks peace and freedom, it is a Mediterranean Sea—including all of Israel. When they talk movement motivated by an obsessive hate of Zionism and Jews about “freedom,” they don’t mean freedom from security and opposition to the Jewish state—one bent on fomenting roadblocks, they mean freedom from Jews in their midst. strife, conflict and enmity until Israel is utterly defeated. When they talk about “occupation,” they mean not just Israeli If you support peace between Israel and the Palestinians, if you support two states for two peoples—living side by side in cultural, social and economic harmony—please oppose the ill-intentioned BDS movement in your community. Speak out against hateful, one-sided campaigns to boycott Israeli goods, to divest from companies that do business with Israel and to enact sanctions against the state of Israel. This is not the path to peace! This message has been published and paid for by
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FALL EXAM ISSUE 2014 • PAGE 7
Men’s Soccer: C+ Jordan Beck Associate Sports Editor
The NC State men’s soccer team had the most “NC State” season possible under the circumstances. Promising talent? Check. Big expectations? Check. Slow start to the season? Check. Loads of injuries? Check. Avoidable losses and ties with lesser teams? Check. Finding its feet and pulling off a signature win? Check. Building hype for a tournament run? Check. Heartbreaking overtime collapse to end the season? Check. The Pack’s 7-7-4 (1-4-3 ACC) record simply does not tell the story of the team’s roller coaster season. The team lost by more than one goal just three times the entire season, 3-1 to Cal Poly and Coastal Carolina, and 2-0 to eventual ACC champions Clemson.
Alec McCauley, junior goalkeeper
Coming up just short was a recurring theme in losses against Virginia Tech, 3-2; UNC-Chapel Hill, 1-0; Wake Forest, 2-1; and finally Duke, 3-2, in the ACC tournament. The Wolfpack also scored a few signature victories, however, knocking off then-No. 5 Louisville, 2-1, and eeking out a 2-1 result against South Carolina in overtime. Injuries also plagued the Pack, forcing head coach Kelly Findley to rely on a younger contingent of players. However, this group will continue next season, and with another strong recruiting class, the core of the team will be strong in 2015. Bottom line: State did not meet its goal of making the NCAA tournament, but it did establish a core group capable of competing against the best teams in the country that will need minimal upgrades in the offseason.
Men’s Cross Country: B+ Michael McLamb
Women’s Cross Country: A Adam Reece Correspondent
For the NC State women’s cross country team, senior runner Joanna Thompson was expected to carry the load, which she managed to do throughout the season. This year’s team started off the season strong with a first place finish at the Wolfpack Invitational in September. Further into the season, the Pack runners finished seventh in the ACC championships. The team also earned a bid to the NCAA championships by finishing fifth at the Southeast regional competition that was held in Louisville, Kentucky. At the NCAA
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Although the NC State men’s cross country team failed to receive a bid to the 2014 NCAA Championships, the Wolfpack remained relevant in the highly competitive ACC. After losing the services of three-time All-American and two-time ACC Performer of the Year Andrew Colley, the Pack needed new leadership to emerge. Redshirt junior Graham Crawford and redshirt sophomore Sam Parsons answered the bell in the ACC Championship race. Crawford posted a fifth place finish, while Parsons claimed fourth behind a blistering time of 23.25. Parsons also qualified as an individual for the NCAA Championships where he
Championships, the team ended the season with a 16th place finish in Terre Haute, Indiana. The team had very high moments throughout this season, but slightly stumbled at the end of the year. For next season, the team looks to compete at a high level throughout each tournament, as the team will be prepared to peak at the end of the year at the ACC and NCAA championships. With Senior Joanna Thompson running her final race this season, there will be a lack of leadership next year. This will also give someone else the opportunity to step up and take over her position as leader of the Pack.
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Wolfpack fall season in review Conor Donovan named to U-20 camp squad NC State men’s soccer team freshman defender Conor Donovan was part of a 10-man roster called up to a December U.S. Men’s Under-20 National Team camp, to be held in Bradenton, Florida. Donovan, who is no stranger to the Under-20 team, will meet with fellow players for off season fitness training from Dec. 3-10. The U-20s are coached by NC State alumnus Tab Ramos, who is looking to keep his non-European-based players in good physical condition in preparation for the CONCACAF U-20 Championship later this year. SOURCE: USSOCCER.COM
Football: B+ Drew Nantais Staff Writer
After an abysmal 3-9 season, which lacked a single ACC win, the NC State football team looked to improve in its second year under head coach Dave Doeren and did just that. Starting off the season 4-0, the Pack looked primed to upset the then No. 1 ranked Florida State Seminoles. Unfortunately, that was easier said than done, and the Wolfpack went on to lose that game, and its next three to boot. Clemson’s midseason 41-0 beat down on the Pack served as a definite season low. However, the Pack finished the season strong, winning three of its last five games, including three ACC wins over Syracuse and in-state rivals Wake Forest and UNC, helping the team gain bowl eligibility for the fourth time in five years. Florida transfer and redshirt junior quarterback Jacoby Brissett solidified the quarterback position this year, something State didn’t have
Jacoby Brissett, redshirt junior quarterback
Schooley, Thornton, Hines named to ACC AllOverlooked team On Tuesday, after not making any of the three All-ACC teams, junior center Quinton Schooley, junior running back Shadrach Thornton, and freshman wide receiver Bo Hines were named to ESPN’s ACC All-Overlooked team. Schooley anchored the offensive line that helped the Pack finish second in the ACC in yards per rush. Thornton led the Pack in rushing and finished sixth in the ACC with 811 rushing yards and ninth with nine rushing touchdowns. As a freshman, Hines led the Pack in receiving with 537 yards on 42 receptions, over 200 yards more than any of the other receivers.
The NC State wrestling team jumped a three spots in the latest edition of the USA Today/NWCA Division I Coaches Poll, landing at No. 20 in the nation. The Wolfpack entered the poll last week ranked No. 23. NC State is 6-2 on the season so far, with its only losses coming to No. 3 Cornell (20-13) and No. 8 Nebraska (16-15). The Pack will return to tournament action this weekend when it travels to Las Vegas, Nevada to compete in the Cliff Keen Invitational Dec. 5-6. SOURCE: NC STATE ATHLETICS
QUOTE OF THE DAY “For our schedule, we are state champions and proud to be that way.” Dave Doeren,
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Fall 2014 proved a rough and forgettable season for the NC State women’s soccer program in its second year rebuilding under head coach Tim Santoro. The Pack finished 2-15-2 overall and last in the ACC with an 0-101 record, racking up a minus-29 goal differential across the year in easily the toughest conference in the country. With that said, winning games was not a priority for the Wolfpack this year. Gaining experience, integrating a highly rated recruiting class and building team chemistry
and identity on the field were vastly more important. However, that too was interrupted, as injuries decimated key players throughout the season, including last year’s points leader, sophomore Jackie Stengel. As a result, Santoro was forced to constantly juggle his players and lineups, which hurt onfield chemistry. The combination of injuries and inexperienced players caused the Pack to struggle to compete against the lower half of the ACC, much less perennial powerhouses like Florida State, Virginia and UNC-Chapel Hill. But building a contender has to start somewhere, and with another strong recruiting class entering in 2015, the return of injured players and a core of now-experienced
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last season. A strong running game anchored by junior Shadrach Thornton and sophomore Matt Dayes, as well as the emergence of freshman wide out Bo Hines also helped revitalize a much maligned Wolfpack offense. After a successful season, the Pack looks to improve upon its success and establish itself as a major player in the ACC in the near future. A four-win improvement over last year paired with the 35-7 thrashing the rival Tar Heels has helped the Pack regain its lost identity, giving hope to Wolfpack players and fans alike.
File/Technician Sophomore forward Gladys Loyas fights for posession of the ball during the women’s soccer game against North Carolina at Dail Soccer Stadium Sept. 28.
players like freshman midfielder Franziska Jaser and freshman forward Kayla Saager, the Pack can
rinse the bad taste of 2014 out of its mouth and continue developing into a competitive program.
Women’s Volleyball: BWhat was initially expected to be a fruitful year for the NC State volleyball team ended with disappointment, as the team faced unexpected difficulties throughout the 2014 season.
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Women’s Soccer: D
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Wrestling ranked No. 20
“Like I’ve said all along, we are getting better, and we are moving towards where we want to be ”
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Sophomore setter Maggie Speaks sets the ball for a spike during the Wolfpack’s match against Syracuse Sept. 26.
After dropping its opening match of the season to Eastern Washington, the Wolfpack (16-14, 5-13 ACC) rattled off 12 straight wins, just one short of tying the school record. During that stretch, the team won three invitational tournaments and discovered an identity as a team. However, the squad’s season was derailed with the quick and unexpected release of senior outside hitters Rachel Buckley and Nikki Glass for violation of team policy. Buckley was a captain of the team, and had led the team in kills per set up to that point in the season. The young State team lacked the leadership needed going forward in a grueling ACC schedule, and the squad proceeded to drop nine of its next 10 matches. Behind the improved play and leadership of seniors outside hitter Dariyan Hopper and middle blocker Alesha Wilson, the Pack put together a respectable finish to the season, garnering five conference victories to finish 13th in the conference, despite the setbacks it faced throughout the season. Along the way, the team managed to find a new identity under new and emerging talents. Freshman middle blocker Kaitlyn Kearney finished the year with the most kills and blocks on the State roster, while freshman Emily Harris and sophomores Maddie Brown and Rachel Eppley gave hope for a strong Pack defense in the years to come.
Dariyan Hopper, senior outside hitter
Randy Woodson
Wes Moore
Women’s head basketball coach
Elliott Avent
Rusty Mau
Student body president
Devan Riley
Student body vice president
Ravi K. Chittilla
Jake Lange
Jordan Beck
Katherine Kehoe
Ellyson Williams
Chancellor
Record: 79-51 Rank: T-5
Record: 79-51 Rank: T-5
Record: 74-56 Rank: T-8
Record: 76-54 Rank: 7
Record: 72-58 Rank: 10
Record: 81-49 Rank: 3
Record: 84-46 Rank: 2
Record: 80-50 Rank: 4
Record: 88-42 Rank: 1
Record: 74-56 Rank: T-8
Head baseball coach
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