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Voter registration for primaries ends Friday IN BRIEF Celebrity chef takes over State Club kitchen

The State Club, NC State’s restaurant located inside the Park Alumni Center, recently got two new additions to the staff. Gerry Fong, winner of the 2014 Season of Food Network’s “Cutthroat Kitchen” joined the staff as the new executive chef, and Chris O’Leary, the former food and beverage manager with ClubCorp, took over as general manager. The two joined the team in an effort to revamp the leadership of the private dining club that serves more than 400 members. Dinner and special events at the club are exclusive to members, but the restaurant is open to the public for lunch Monday through Friday. Fong is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. He became well known after his season on “Cutthroat Kitchen” where he won for his key lime pie recipe. SOURCE: NC State News

Jonathan Carter Correspondent

This Friday is the last day to register to vote for the North Carolina presidential primaries on March 15. The primaries are people vote for the candidates they want to represent their political party in the general election in November. Many college students have questions about the primaries, such as how to register to vote and where to vote. These questions are particularly important to students, as many students live far from places they grew up, which can affect their ability to vote. Anyone can check their voter registration online at the North Carolina Board of Elections website on the public voter search page. Information about a voter’s registration status, address of registration,

polling location and party affiliation can be found through searching on that website. For students wanting to register to vote, change party affiliation or change a place of residence to Wake County, the state requires voters to fill out a voter registration form, which can be printed off of the Board of Elections’ website, and have it postmarked to the Wake County Board of Elections by this Friday. If it is not postmarked by that date, the state will not accept the registration form. The mailing address for the Wake County Board of Education is PO Box 695, Raleigh, NC 27602. None of these voter services are currently available online and must be done by mail. Once registering is out of the way, there are three different ways to cast a vote in North Carolina: early voting or one-stop voting, absentee voting and regular election-day voting.

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Customers grab a cup of coffee at Jubala Coffee’s new Hillsborough Street location Wednesday afternoon. This Hillsborough Street location opened late last week as part of an expansion from its original North Raleigh location in Lafayette Village.

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An espresso machine sits on the counter of Jubala Coffee on Hillsborough Street Wednesday. Jubala Coffee features locally roasted Counter Culture Coffee for its customers.

Pope Francis scolds overeager crowd that knocked him over

Pope Francis scolded a crowd of people gathered to meet him during his visit to Morelia, Mexico after some in the group became too forceful and yanked him off balance. The pontiff raised his hand to the crowd and said, “No seas egoista! No seas egoista! (Don’t be selfish! Don’t be selfish!).” Earlier at the event, which was geared towards inspiring young Catholics, somebody in the crowd also pulled at the pope’s neck when he was bent down to talk with a disabled girl. Mexico’s El Universal, the news outlet that posted the video, called the overeager crowd “the first mishap of the pontiff on his visit.” That same day, Pope Francis urged the young Mexican Catholics to value themselves in times of hardship. SOURCE: NPR

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Student Senate votes to bus students to polls

College of Education holds open forums for dean candidates

The College of Education is in the process of holding open forums where students can come and ask questions to candidates applying to be the college’s new dean. The next upcoming forums are: -Monday, Feb. 22, 11 a.m. to noon in the Talley Student Union, Room 3222 Keith Wilson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale -Thursday, Feb. 25, 11 a.m. to noon in the Talley Student Union, Room 3210 Kathryn Chval, University of Missouri–Columbia -Monday, Feb. 29, 11 a.m. to noon in the Talley Student Union, Room 4280 Carole Basile, University of Missouri–St. Louis SOURCE: NC State News

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Jubala Coffee is currently haveing a soft opening with shortened store hours. The shop is known for not only its coffee but its food. Jubala Coffee says the mission is simple, “serve delicious, afforable drink and food that guests will want to return to week after week.”

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Jubala Coffee opens Hillsborough location

With the North Carolina primary less than a month away, students have expressed concern over getting to the polls. On Wednesday, NC State Student Senate passed the Voting Bus Support Act in the Talley Governance Chamber. The bill calls on the university to provide transportation to and from voting locations for students on March 15, the day of the North Carolina primaries. The bus would run from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. “We are supporting the use of buses to make sure students

“It is a citizen’s right to vote, and it is the public’s responsibility to make polls accessible.” -Garret Mills, junior studying physics

are able to get to the nearest voting location since it is slightly inconvenient to them now,” said Student Sen. Jonathan Riggs, a senior studying animal science. Currently, the nearest voting location at Pullen Community Center is one mile from Talley Student Union and two miles from Hunt Library on Centennial Campus. The bill points out that it is difficult for students to vote off campus. The bill also pointed to several studies that support the transportation of students to voting locations. Young voters typically have a greater turnout in presidential election years, and the studies point out that providing transportation incentivizes people to vote. According to the bill, the 2012 presidential election occurred with 93 percent of the student body registered to vote and 90 percent of those registered went to vote. Garrett Mills, a junior studying physics, said he was excited at the possibility of a bus for students. “If the school’s goal is to get more young students to vote, then shuttling them is an excellent idea,” Mills said. “It is a citizen’s right to vote, and it is the public’s responsibility to make polls accessible. If I was a student with no car, I would highly consider utilizing the bus to get to the polls.” During the meeting, student senators said that NCPIRG and NC State University Transportation have supported

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Senate passes bill to make ClassEval results public Jonathan Carter Correspondent

FEATURES The secrets behind Double Barrel Benefit See page 5.

SPORTS Pack baseball heads to Myrtle for season opener See page 8.

The Student Senate passed a bill Wednesday evening that proposed ClassEvals be made public to students who are deciding what classes to add to their schedules. The main push for the ClassEval Publication Act came from students who were displeased with the university’s relatively short 10-day drop-date period that the UNC Board of Directors enacted in 2014. The bill states that, since students have such little time to drop classes, ClassEval should be used to benefit students by providing public student feedback on the courses they are interested in taking.

The product of this legislation could be compared to online evaluation websites such as Rate My Professor and Koofers. These websites provide public feedback in an anonymous web forum, which many university students consider beneficial. “Making ClassEvals public does have its benefits because if the evaluations are truthful, they can help sway a student’s decision as to whether taking a certain class would be benef icial to them,” said Charlotte Rogus, a freshman studying animal science. Diya Sashidhar, the academics committee chairwoman of the Student Senate, said the bill was created to give students more information about a class before enrolling.

Sashidhar said she will be meeting with the standing committee on the evaluation of teaching on Friday to discuss how the bill could be implemented. In addition to the ClassEval Act, the Student Senate also reviewed and passed the Advisor Eval Act, which would provide students with the opportunity of evaluating their academic advisers annually. The Student Senate recognized that there is no official way to evaluate academic advisers. This is seen as unfair by the students seeing as how students are assigned an adviser in their academic departments that they are required to work with throughout their college careers. The Student Senate passed this

bill which recommends that NC State provide students with optional adviser evaluations to be conducted annually. These evaluations will be anonymous, not requiring students to submit their personal information. “I think being able to evaluate advisers would be very helpful,” said Graham Whitehouse, a freshman studying first-year engineering. “I had a negative experience with contacting my adviser, and this evaluation could help give them advice to help them improve.” Once a bill is passed in the Student Senate, Student Body President Khari Cyrus must sign it before it can be implemented. Cyrus has 10 class days to sign or veto the bill.

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POLICE BLOTTER August 2 6:01 AM | UTILITY PROBLEM Jackson St/Method Rd Officer observed power line blown down. RFD responded and made appropriate notifications. 9:01 AM | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Off Campus Officer provided traffic control after tree fell blocking road. Raleigh Public Works notified to remove tree. 9:25 AM | MEDICAL ASSIST Avent Ferry Rd/Western Blvd Units responded and transported driver in need of medical assistance. 10:31 AM | FIRE ALARM Talley Student Center FP responded to alarm caused by contractor working in the area. 11:54 AM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Fountain Dining Hall Officer responded after tree fell on two vehicles belonging to non-students. 12:40 PM | INFORMATION UNIVERSITY Off Campus Student reported non-student had made unwanted contact. Student was referred to RPD. 4:56 PM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT North Hall Two students were involved in traffic accident. 5:11 PM | SKATE/BIKE COMPLAINT

Toxicology Report of three subjects doing trick riding on bicycles.

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5:24 PM | SAFETY PROGRAM Public Safety Center NCSU PD conducted Citizen Police Academy. 5:46 PM | SPECIAL EVENT Witherspoon Student Center Officer conducted program at this location. 6:11 PM | FIRE ALARM Dearstyne Entomology Units responded to alarm. Cause unknown. 6:51 PM | FIRE ALARM Timber Hall Officer responded to alarm. Electronics notified to reset system. 7:37 PM | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Lee Hall Officer assisted Wake County Probation/Parole Office with home inspection for student. 9:01 PM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Main Campus Dr/CCMS Student was cited for speeding. 9:11 PM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Dan Allen Dr/Thurman Dr Student was cited for seatbelt violation. 9:42 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON DH Hill Library Report of subject screaming at trash cans. Officer did not locate anyone. 11:27 PM | INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT North Shore Condos Officers provided transport for student regarding Involuntary Commitment.

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For early or one-stop voting, there are nine different polling places in Wake County. Anyone registered to vote in Wake County may cast a ballot at any of these locations, regardless of their residential address. Early voting begins on March 3 and will be open until March 12. At these locations, voters are free to drop by any time the locations are open and fill out a ballot. If students living in Wake County temporarily don’t want to change their legal addresses to their campus homes, they must fill out an absentee ballot and send it by mail to the Board of Elections in their home towns by March 15, so long as they are currently registered to vote in that county. The absentee form can be printed from the State Board of Elections’ website. This cannot be done online and must be done by mail. Isaac Tolbert, a freshman studying firstyear engineering, said he is counting on absentee voting because he doesn’t want to give up his connection to his home county in order to vote at school. “I was born and raised in Caldwell County, and I want my vote to be representative of that,” Tolbert said. “I haven’t

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the bill. Student Sen. Logan Graham, a

Just like a wavin’ flag PHOTO BY SALONIKA TIWARI

elia Gentry, a sophomore studying first-year engineering, and her teammates on NC State’s Winterguard are warming up with a routine Wednesday. They have been practicing in Price Hall this week in preparation for their third competition this weekend.

lived in Wake County long, so I don’t know if I feel right voting in a place I’ve spent so little time in.” Students wishing to vote on Election Day can look up their polling locations on the North Carolina Public Voter Search. Polls open at 6:30 a.m. and close at 7:30 p.m. On this day, voters must report to their specific polling location assigned to them from their home county. Jacob Dremann, a freshman studying first-year engineering, said he took the necessary steps to ensure he can exercise his right to vote in March. “I changed my address to Raleigh to make it easier to vote and ensure that my vote would be cast,” Dremann said. North Carolina recently implemented a new voter ID law, which requires voters to be prepared to present a governmentissued ID card such as a passport, driver’s license, a state-issued ID or a military ID. Student ID cards are not a valid form of ID, and students wishing to vote without an accepted form of identification must get one before Election Day if they wish to cast a ballot. Voting in the primaries is different than other elections, as it involves a system of delegates similar to how the president is elected by the Electoral College in November. Voting in the presidential primaries

freshman studying political science, said this bill needs to be a reality for students. “This is to provide students with easy and safe transportation to allow them to do one of the greatest things in American democracy,” Graham said.

goes toward appointing delegates who represent voters of an individual party. Individual states have a certain number of delegates that candidates want to win, and the winner is determined by how many delegates he or she has. North Carolina has 121 democratic delegates and 72 republican delegates at stake. Each candidate’s goal is to win as many delegates in his or her party as possible. Votes cast in the primaries lead to the number of appointed delegates of a specific party. The more popular votes cast for a candidate equals more delegates appointed for that candidate. In the United States, there are three types of presidential primaries: open, closed and mixed. Each state chooses which system it wants to use. Open primaries mean any member of any party can vote in either the Republican or Democratic primaries. In closed primaries, only registered members of a certain party can vote in that party’s primary. North Carolina has a mixed primary, which means that Republicans and Democrats must vote in their respective primary, but unaffiliated voters can vote in either the Republican or Democratic primary.

At the meeting, Student Senate also passed the Voting Bus Finance Act, which allowed for Student Government’s funding for this transportation. Student Senators pointed out that they will have to try to reach out to other resources to finance this bill.

EARLY VOTING LOCATIONS:

EARLY VOTING TIMES:

Apex Community Center 53 Hunter St Apex, NC 27502

Thursday, March 3 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Herbert C Young Community Center 101 Wilkinson Ave Cary, NC 27513 Avery Street Recreation Center Annex 201 Avery St Garner, NC 27529

Northern Regional Center 350 E Holding Ave Wake Forest, NC 27587 Falcon Park Hut 105 Falcon Dr Fuquay-Varina, NC 27526 Wendell Community Center 601 W 3rd St Wendell, NC 27591

Student Sen. Nute Thompson, speaking on behalf of the sponsors for the Voting Bus Support Act, said this bill is meant to promote voting rights for students. “This is a good thing we can do and a step in the right direction to-

Saturday, March 5 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Sunday, March 6 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Monday, March 7 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Lake Lynn Community Center 7921 Ray Rd Raleigh, NC 27613 Chavis Community Center 505 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Raleigh, NC 27601

Friday, March 4 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday,March 8 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 9 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Thursday, March 10 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Friday, March 11 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Saturday, March 12 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. SOURCE: WAKE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS

wards voting rights here at NC State,” Thompson said. Student Body President Khari Cyrus must still sign the bill before it can be enacted. Cyrus has 10 class days to sign or veto.

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North Carolina is a botched nose-job I

’ve never liked the idea of nose jobs. Something about taking a body part you’re born with, something central to you, and changing it, simply because it doesn’t suit you, just doesn’t seem right. Yet, despite my obLogan jections, nose jobs, brought on Graham by modern technology, have Correspondent become our country’s new phenomenon. Interestingly enough, however, we’ve been doing political nose jobs to our nation’s congressional districts far longer than cosmetic nose jobs have even existed. Gerrymandering is the process of redrawing a state’s congressional voting districts so they favor one party over another. Gerrymandering as we know it first came about in 1812. It occurs when one party tries to gain more seats than another party, despite the fact that their party doesn’t have more support than the other. By drawing a few districts that dramatically favor the opposing party and then allowing the majority of districts to be barely won by their own party, political parties are able to win more seats than they should have from popular support. This allows politicians to pick their voters not, as it should be: the voters picking their politicians. There is something fundamentally wrong with gerrymandering. We can’t redraw our nation’s congressional districts whenever they don’t benefit the state’s majority party like a Kardashian remakes her nose when it doesn’t suit her. Congressional districts are far too important and far too precious to be put under the scalpel. North Carolina, unfortunately, isn’t immune to its fair share of plastic surgery. A couple years back, the state’s Republican Party was able to redraw our state’s congressional districts so that, in the 2012 election, when Mitt Romney won just 50.39 percent of our state’s vote, Republicans won nine of North Carolina’s 13 congressional districts. Yet, Republicans took their gerrymandering one step further. Going beyond simply suppressing the Democratic vote, the state GOP also redrew the districts so they disproportionately suppressed the black vote as well.

While gerrymandering to gain an advantage over another political party is legal, gerrymandering along racial lines isn’t. So, two weeks ago, a panel of three federal judges handed down a decision to require our state legislature to redo two racially drawn congressional districts before the March 15 primaries. While this is a needed and appropriate step forward, we as a state and even a nation need to begin reconsidering the legality of not just racial gerrymandering, but also political gerrymandering. For, when North Carolina’s state Republicans are forced to redraw the racially gerrymandered districts later this month, they have already claimed that they will “use the political data (they) have to (their) partisan advantage.” So, while the Republican Party in North Carolina has been pushed back from wide scale racial gerrymandering, the redrawn congressional districts will still not represent the general public. Perhaps the more troubling thing with political gerrymandering is that it has an incredibly easy fix, yet it still exists. Simply by creating a nonpartisan panel to draw our state’s districts, political gerrymandering would become extinct. No longer could politicians from either side of the aisle strategically choose what district people voted in. Last year, such a bill was introduced in the North Carolina Legislature by Republican Rep. Chuck McGrady. The bill gained bi-partisan support, and its ideas had seen success in other states at solving the gerrymandering issue, but it got nowhere. The bill would have been revolutionary, needed so desperately in a state where gerrymandered has run rampant for years. It is due time that we end gerrymandering once and for all. North Carolina’s gerrymandered districts are nose jobs done wrong: disgusting leftovers of politicians’ need to win despite the public not wanting them to. Every time a district is gerrymandered, it gives votes, not to the people themselves, but to the politicians who drew them. That’s the grossest plastic surgery of all.

Lit Crit, Part VII

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Re: Why College shouldn’t be free There are arguments to both sides of the free tuition debate. I say this having previously also been against free tuition. I was also lucky enough to have parents who were able to pay for my tuition. The author says that college is a privilege, not a right, but America pretty much already made education a “right” by requiring funds for mandatory public schooling up to high school. Much of the reason was to make people more educated and close economic gaps. The same reasons apply here. A high school degree isn’t what it used to be, and without a college degree, most people now can’t get decent-paying jobs. This presents economic barriers that perpetuate themselves. If you can’t get a high-paying job with a college degree, you’re less likely to be able to pay for your children to have one. At toptier institutions, students with wealthy family outnumber those without 14 to 1, which means college affordability isn’t based on how hard you worked, but how hard your parents worked. Nor is there any evidence that “paying” for college means you are more likely to try harder; the average college completion rate in United States is between 50 and 60 percent. Parks and Rhodes scholarships definitely award trying hard, but the same would be true even with free tuition, since they also pay a living stipend (wage) which students usually have to forego to attend college. Nor does free tuition take away punishments for not trying. Students at NC State have to maintain a certain GPA, or we get the boot. That’s part of what prevents slacking. Toptier universities would still have tougher requirements for getting in, so you’d still have people competing for more desirable degrees. Free tuition isn’t necessarily a joke. Several countries around the world do this, some of which outperform us in education. These countries pay higher taxes,

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but that’s another argument. Having an educated population benefits society and helps lowskill workers whose jobs are lost every year by automated technology and cheaper overseas workers. The U.S. could even go half-way into this to start off. Obama’s free tuition to twoyear community colleges is a good example, as it would make technical trades more affordable and could even force more expensive universities to stop rising costs through competition. We could even go for free graduate school, since many grad students’ tuitions are paid for by federal grant money anyway. If you don’t like the thought of paying for someone else’s education, consider this: Each year, NC State students pay $120 to Athletics, a program that is not revenue neutral, part of which pays for athlete scholarships. That’s almost as much as the Student Health ($170) and actual education ($220) fees. NC State fees and tuition rise every year, handing us the bill for gym renovations, and athletes and student centers we voted against, and no one seems to be doing anything about it. Bryan Maxwell Graduate student Biological and agricultural engineering

Re: Why College shouldn’t be free When I first saw the headline yesterday, “Why college shouldn’t be free,” I thought it would be an instance of one of the Technician writers practicing her satire. As I read on, I was disappointed to realize that there was not a shred of satire to be found. I was appalled to read that “college is a privilege, not a right.” While there are some arguments I understand for why college shouldn’t be free, I found none in the article. The article includes many underlying assumptions that are invalid. Furman implies that free universities would

equate to “on-the-fly decisions” to attend college. However, she ignores the reality that, free or not, universities still hold stringent admissions policies that cannot be bypassed. Rather than decreasing the competitiveness of universities, free universities would increase the application pool and thus increase competitiveness. These admissions requirements would still require a great deal of planning and dedication throughout high school. To assume further that all students who work hard are able to attend universities ignores the systematic barriers those in less privileged positions face. It ignores the institutionalized racism that exists in our country that continues to disadvantage minorities who often attend high schools in less wealthy districts lacking resources for an equal high school education. Furthermore, Furman assumes that all students are able to obtain scholarships to pay for college if they try hard enough. As great as a meritocracy sounds, it is far from our country’s reality. Furman also claims that the students on scholarship in her classes are always the ones with the most participation and class engagement. However, I find it hard to believe that Furman is familiar with the scholarship statuses of every student in her classes to accurately assess the correlation between scholarship money and class participation. College tuition does not cause students to correctly prioritize their future options nor does it affect their work ethics. Instead it only reinforces existing systematic oppression of minorities and lower classes making better futures an exclusive option for those with the financial means to attend college. Best regards, Celeste Loia Senior French language and literature

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ednesday, the Technician ran an opinion column titled “Why college shouldn’t be free,” by Missy Furman. Connor Usually I enBolinder joy Missy’s Correspondent columns, but I took issue when she dismissed the idea of affordable higher education as a joke and implied that it is easy to conjure tens of thousands of dollars to pay for an education that has become necessary in the 21st century. In-state NC State students pay nearly $9,000 in just tuition and fees every year; no student needs to be reminded that college is expensive. Adjusting for inflation, the cost of tuition and fees at public universities has nearly doubled since 2000, making higher education increasingly inaccessible to those who cannot afford it. Missy’s column acknowledges this fact, but with a quick hand-wave,

she suggests that those who do not have the resources to pay their own way simply “get a scholarship,” as if it’s a two-step process to get accepted to college and receive a full ride. To disregard the crippling financial burden that many students face is extremely disrespectful and is out of touch with reality. Making college tuition free would encourage more people to attend, this is where the truth of Missy’s argument begins and ends. Still, it is difficult to understand how this is a bad thing. Making college tuition free would not let anyone just wake up and decide to “try that college thing” at any four-year university on a whim. Admission standards would still exist, and in fact they would likely become more selective, since there would be a surge in students applying for college. Students will certainly not “get their money no matter what,” regardless of their aca-

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“If someone can afford to shell out $10,000 per year to go to college just so they can party, they almost certainly have enough money to go to college at its current cost, and a trip down Maiden Lane shows plenty of people who fit that bill.” demic performances, nor is that even the proposal on the table. Eliminating the cost of tuition does not equate to giving students money. That sort of system already exists to some extent in the form of federal grants, which are by no means unconditional. Even if there was no tuition to be paid, academic probation and dismissal have always existed, and they would not go out the window. Students with no am-

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bition would not be allowed to sleep through every class with no penalties; they would be kicked out, free tuition or not. In fact, as any student knows, tuition is not the entirety of our expenses. Beyond tuition, costs such as textbooks, transportation, room and board total to about $10,000, according to NC State. Whether or not these daunting costs are justified, they are surely daunting enough to keep anyone from

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going to school “just for fun.” If someone can afford to shell out $10,000 per year to go to college just so they can party, they almost certainly have enough money to go to college at its current cost, and a trip down Maiden Lane shows plenty of people who fit that bill. But for those students who have to foot their own bills, the current cost is very real and present in either labor — over half of all undergraduate students work in college, and about 40 percent work full time, according to a Georgetown University study — or the 61 percent of public university students in North Carolina who graduate with debt, with an average of over $25,000 in debt per student. Scholars are not the only hard workers on this campus, and debt is a much more present reality than scholarships for most, even those who work two jobs, the fulltime students who moonlight

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as full-time workers. Finally, whether you like it or not, taxes and fees are a necessity that we must pay as citizens and students. You pay into the system to benefit others, just as others have paid to benefit you. All financial aid has to be paid for by someone, whether it comes from a private scholarship, the university or the government. Every day on this campus, you make use of something that was paid for by someone else, in the form of your school or your schooling. It’s only fair to give back. All things considered, Missy is correct about one thing: College is a privilege. College, as it stands now, is by and large exclusively for the privileged who can afford it. This is wrong. If a student genuinely desires to attend college, he or she should be given the opportunity to make it happen without working more than 40 hours to build his or her own door.

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Lead guitarist for Museum Mouth, Graham High, performs during the Double Barrel Benefit for WKNC in Kings Barcade. The event, which was held to raise money for the college radio station, was held last Saturday.

Laurie Howard Correspondent

WKNC’s 13th annual Double Barrel Benefit fundraising event began its two-night concert with a sold out show Saturday night at Kings Barcade in Raleigh. The event is the main fundraiser for WKNC, which is largely self-funded. The university contributes funding to cover licensing fees, but the station is left to bridge the remaining, and pricey, gap. As an original alternative to extensive radiothons, the event’s profits cover over 14 percent of the station’s annual income, an important fraction of the upkeep cost. “When you’re talking percents, [14 percent] doesn’t sound huge, but when you think about what good $6,000 or $7,000 does it’s pretty significant,” said Matt Brown, general manager and a senior studying electrical engineering. “Without that money, we would not be able to do what we do at the capacity we do... Double Barrel helps keep student fees lower and just helps the station stay strong.” Though the event is a culmination of local artists, distinctive venues and a vibrant audience, Double Barrel’s success is largely determined by those behind the set. Plans begin rolling as early as the summer prior, ensuring that by February, everything falls into place.

Promotions are first in line, dictating the fundraiser’s composition based on expected budget outcomes. With a nonexistent event budget, WKNC heavily relies on funding from local patrons. “It’s reaching out to potential sponsors, sending lots of emails, meeting people, shaking hands … trying to find who can support WKNC,” said Julie Smitka, promotions director and a junior studying physics, mathematics and philosophy. “Promotions is in charge of getting most, if not all, of the funding to make the event happen.” After a clearer outlook on budget is identified, the staff begins pulling together the rest. Around October, the search for bands begins and decisions regarding venues have to be made. “We look for the headliners first, because they’re going to be the hardest to find,” said Yvonne Chazal, program director and a senior studying mathematics. “From there you fill in. We try to stay with local bands; most of them know about WKNC. [The station] is a very important part of the local music scene.” Another key factor in the success of Double Barrel is that the artists are open to play for a very low cost, according to Brown. “The artists are just so awesome,” Brown said. “They are either performing at a super

discounted rate, or for free in some cases, to help out the station, and we’re super thankful about all of that.” Brown said only a few Board of Directors at WKNC know which artists are considered for Double Barrel during the planning process. Brown said this year, they mostly knew which artists would be performing by mid-November, and Dec. 16 they officially made the announcement. Brown explained that once they formed the lineup, they wanted to announce it before winter break. “Knowing the bands stays under pretty close wraps,” Brown said “The announcement is pretty much an announcement for most folks, including people at the station.” Reserving venues is a simultaneous process, dependent on the establishments’ availability and space constraints, as well the artists’ limitations. “It’s kind of a weird balancing act because you have to keep in contact with both the venue and the bands,” Chazal said. “You can’t put a solid hold on the venue until you have a band, but you also can’t pull in a band if you don’t have a place for them to play.” The past few years have been somewhat of an experiment concerning venues. The Pour House, Lincoln Theater and Kings Barcade have all been locations in the past, and they are some of Raleigh’s best-known music hotspots

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Lead vocalist Reid Johnson performs during the Double Barrel Benefit, hosted at Kings Barcade in downtown Raleigh. His band, Schooner, along with three other local performers, helped raise money for college radio station WKNC last Saturday.

for local bands. Two years ago marked the first time the event moved out of Raleigh, featuring one night at Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro. Though WKNC was apprehensive about listeners’ reactions, it proved to be a good move. “It ended up working out,” Chazal said. “Moving to a larger venue expanded Double Barrel’s horizons, and we’ve been trying to match that every year since then.” Cat’s Cradle will again be hosting the final night, this year with a combination of hip-hop and electronic acts, headlined by Deniro Farrar, Professor Toon, SkyBlew and Earthly.

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This is the first time the event has singled out a night reserved for a genre dissimilar from its typical indie rock lineup. Though the station’s primary focus is on indie rock, they are by no means strangers to other genres. The new night was a welcome change, opening the event to a broader audience. “The main idea was just giving more representation to the other types of music we play,” Smitka said. “We knew from the get-go that we wanted to do at least one night of Double Barrel not indie rock … our staff, for the most part, was most excited about doing a hip-hop night.” The Double Barrel Benefit is

still evolving, and changes and experimentation with the fundraiser are only to be expected. Guided by the efforts of those at WKNC as well as by an appreciation and passion for local music, the fundraiser’s future looks all the more promising. “It’s all worth it,” Smitka said. Brown said he is excited for what’s in store at Cat’s Cradle for the second night of Double Barrel, especially after selling out at the first night. “Selling out was absolutely awesome, we made our goal for night one, which is fantastic,” Brown said. “Now we just got to come back and get night two.”

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Schooner band member Joshua Carpenter plays the guitar during the Double Barrel Benefit at Kings Barcade in downtown Raleigh. The benefit raised money for the college radio station WKNC, and the event was held last Saturday.

“Lady in the Dark” film screening

Underwear run on Glenwood

North Carolina Museum of Art Friday, 8 p.m. Join the NCMA for its weekly winter movie screenings. This week brings a “Lady in the Dark,” a classic from the silver screen. Filmed in 1944 on 35mm film, if you’re frustrated with the modern cinema, this is your chance to witness the golden age of Hollywood on the big screen. Tickets are $5 for students.

Glenwood Avenue Downtown Raleigh Saturday, noon Cupid’s Undie Run is your chance to run downtown Raleigh in your underwear. Registration for this one mile fun run to raise money for the Children’s Tumor Foundation is still open. It even includes an after party at Solas on Glenwood Avenue.

Wrestling tournament at CAM Contemporary Art Museum Sunday, noon – 5 p.m. The worlds of pro wrestling and modern art do not converge very often. Watch this weekend as the BAM at CAM showcases the art of the ring. There will be multiple matches throughout the day including tag team lucha libra-style matchups. The event is free.

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Vitamin D: unleash the power of the sun Emily Boyette Correspondent

Getting through the winter months can be hard enough, but making sure you get enough vitamin D might need to be the second thing on your to-do list. The winter season makes it difficult to get outside, eat healthy and take care of yourself like you would during the spring and summer months of warm, beautiful weather. Out of all the vitamin supplements that are offered in drugstores, vitamin D is by far the most important, according to Alli Nickell, a junior studying nutrition science and vice president of the Nutrition Club at NC State. “Vitamin D is so important because it helps build strong bones by regulating calcium release from the bones and triggering more calcium to be absorbed in our small intestine,” Nickell said. According to Nickell, vitamin D enhances the absorption of iron, zinc, magnesium and phosphate, which all have positive health effects. It can also help our immune system and has been linked to preventing some types of cancer. Sarah Ash, a professor in the Department of Food, Bioprocess and Nutrition Sciences, said that vitamin D is a hormone. Its main role is in the maintenance of blood calcium levels. “[Vitamin D] works, along with two other hormones, to keep calcium levels within a narrow range by promoting its absorption from food in the GI tract and removing it from bone,” Ash said. Ash said that common knowledge of vitamin D has to do with bone strength; howev-

er, there’s actually more to the vitamin than that. “While most people associate it [vitamin D] with helping to build strong bones, the reality is that it will pull calcium from bone if not enough is available from the diet,” Ash said. “That’s because calcium has many critical functions related to muscle contraction and nerve transmission that require its levels in the blood to be carefully controlled. Having enough calcium leftover to put away into bones is a ‘bonus.’” However, according to Nickell, it is common for people to usually lack vitamin D during the winter months due to a lack of sunlight from being inside more often. Nickell also said that even in the spring or summer, it can be hard to get the exact right amount if you are not taking vitamin D supplements daily due to sunscreen. “Our skin converts sunlight to vitamin D, and then it is sent to the kidneys to be activated so it can do its job,” Nickell said. “Also, when people do go out in the sun, they usually wear sunscreen which blocks this conversion of sunlight to vitamin D. It is a double edge sword, though, because UV light is also a carcinogen [or a substance that causes cancer] so that makes wearing sunscreen a priority for most people.” Not only does vitamin D help with bone strength, but it can also cause a huge change in mood and in some cases can be a preventing factor of dementia and thinning of the hair. Megan Wienhold, a freshman studying nutrition science and food chair of the Nutrition Club, said there are certain signs when an individual lacks vitamin D. “A lot of the time, vitamin

D deficiency will make you feel weak because you do not have enough strength in your bones,” Wienhold said. “I have also heard of people sweating more than normal when they are not getting enough vitamin D.” Incorporating vitamin D into our regular meals is a lot easier than one would think, according to Wienhold. She said the main source of vitamin D that most people think of is through dairy — with milk, yogurt and cheese being great options. “Drink milk,” Wienhold said. “Maybe not with every meal, but at least with one meal every day.” According to Nickell, beyond eating dairy products, there are other common foods that contain a significant amount of vitamin D. Many breads and cereals are fortified with vitamins and minerals, including vitamin D. Another alternative route that many people take are vitamin D supplements, but one thing to be sure of is that your supplements give you from 800 to 2,000 IUs daily. Vitamin D is metabolized very slowly, so giving your body about six months of taking supplements every day will start to show a difference. Wienhold said she has some favorite supplement brands in particular that she finds most beneficial. “Nature Made has options for every kind of vitamin, including vitamin D,” Wienhold said. “The gummies are a good option as well; they provide more than just vitamin D. They have a variety of vitamins, such as, folic acid, biotin, vitamins C and E, etc.”

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win over Wake Forest. Barber has seven 30-point games this season, five within the last month. Monday against Virginia, Barber has a quiet 14 points against a Wahoo scoring defense that ranks third in points allowed per game. Clemson doesn’t fall far behind Virginia, as it allows 63.5 points per game to opponents, good for 17th in the country. While the Pack won’t see a scoring outburst like it did against Wake Forest, it should score more than it did against the Cavaliers. Including Saturday’s game against the Tigers, the Pack only has five regular-season games left before it heads to Washington, DC for the annual ACC Tournament. While the Pack can’t finish with a winning conference record, there is still hope for the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament by way of winning the conference tournament. Although a longshot, stranger things have happened in college basketball, especially in a win-or-go-home tournament. After the Pack takes on the Tigers, it resumes action Wednesday at PNC Arena to take on the arch-rival Tar Heels.

team. In addition to Dunand, the player to watch for NC State will be redshirt junior pitcher Johnny Piedmonte. The season will be Piedmonte’s second full season with the team after missing 2013 due to Tommy John surgery and 2014 because of back surgery. In 2015, Piedmonte started 12 games posting a 1-2 record and a 3.26 ER A, along with 40 strikeouts in his first season playing for the Pack. The toughest test for the Pack in this opening weekend will be Coastal Carolina. The two teams faced each other last season, but the Wolfpack was overwhelmed. It fell to the Chanticleers 12-3 after giving up 10 runs in the first two innings. The Chanticleers are currently heav y favorites to win the Big

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South Conference and will be returning David Parrett, who led the team with 10 home runs and had 38 RBIs last season. The Wolf pack will conclude the weekend against the Golden Flashes. Kent State posted a decent 31-22 record in 2015 but went 18-9 in the Mid-American Conference. Despite the spectacular conference record, Kent State lost its opening games in the MAC tournament and was not invited to any further postseason baseball. Kent State will have depth to improve its season from a year ago, returning Conner Simonetti, who hit 11 home runs and drove in 41 runs, both of which led the team. The Wolfpack will get the weekend action started with Old Dominion Friday, with 88.1 WKNC providing radio coverage for the game.

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14 RBIs after one weekend of play. On the mound, the Cornhuskers feature three different starters who could make an appearance this weekend. The Huskers are led by 5-foot-7 right-hander junior Cassie McClure, and the Wolfpack could also see senior right-hander Emily Lockman or sophomore Taylor Kadavy. The Wisconsin Badgers enter the weekend sitting at 4-1 after a successful Kajikawa Classic in Tempe, Arizona. The lone loss for the Badgers came against the BYU Cougars, who bested them by a score of 5-4 before the Badgers rebounded to defeat the University of Nevada, Portland State and UC Riverside to close out the weekend. The Badgers pitching staff is anchored by junior left-hander Kirsten Stevens, who holds a 1.68 ERA on the season. Both Nebraska and Oklahoma were eliminated in the Baton Rouge Regional of the College World Series last season, while NC State was eliminated in the Eugene Regional and Louisville in the Los Angeles Regional. It’s evident all four are talented teams that will take the field this weekend. State will need to address its late inning woes to earn victories this weekend, as its Big Ten opponents will have the offensive firepower to make it pay if the Wolfpack can’t put them away.

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Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Swimming Women’s ACC Championships / Men’s Diving 10 AM (Prelims) 4 PM (Finals)

Men’s tennis at Northwestern 7:00 PM

Men’s basketball vs Clemson 3 PM

Baseball vs Old Dominion 4:30 PM

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As Wednesday’s matchup with the No. 5 North Carolina Tar Heels looms, the NC State men’s basketball team faces the Clemson Tigers Saturday as it looks for some sort of momentum heading into the rivalry matchup. The Wolfpack (13-13, 3-10 ACC) is coming off its worst loss of the season in a 73-53 blowout to Virginia. The Tigers (15-10, 8-5 ACC) are one of the surprise teams in the ACC this season. Clemson started conference play with a 5-1 record

including wins over Duke, Louisville and Miami (FL), who were all ranked at the time. The last time these two teams met at PNC Arena, the Tigers dominated the Pack. Clemson left Raleigh with a 68-57 victory on Jan. 28, 2015. Since their hot start to ACC play, the Tigers have cooled off mightily. Posting a 3-4 record over their next seven games following their incredible start, the rest of the ACC’s seemed to figure out how to contain this Clemson team. Junior Jaron Blossomgame leads the way for the Tigers on the offensive side of the ball as his 17.3 points per

game is fifth best in the ACC. Blossomgame trails only Syracuse’s Michael Gbinije, Virginia’s Malcolm Brogdon, Duke’s Grayson Allen and NC State’s Cat Barber in scoring in the conference. The Alpharetta, Georgia native’s 7.0 rebounds per game is also tops for Clemson this season. Senior Jordan Roper complements Blossomgame’s offense as he averages 10.1 points per game and leads the team in assists per game with 3.9. Sophomore Donte Grantham rounds out the Tigers’ scoring trio averaging 10.5 points per game. Aside from Blossomgame’s

rebounding ability, the Tigers lack a low-post scorer. Sophomore Abdul-Malik Abu and juniors BeeJay Anya and Lennard Freeman need to expose this weakness if they want to have a chance against the Tigers. Barber’s play continues to skyrocket with each and every game he plays. He’s the ACC’s current scoring leader at 23.7 points per game and is fourth in assists, averaging 4.5 per game. Over his last eight games, Barber’s averaging 28.1 points per game. He also scored a careerhigh 38 points in Saturday’s

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Pack baseball heads to Myrtle for season opener Joseph Ochoa Staff Writer

This weekend, the NC State baseball team will get the 2016 season underway with the Baseball at the Beach series against the Old Dominion Monarchs, the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers and the Kent State Golden Flashes. Last season, NC State finished with a 3623 record and as the runner up to Florida State in the ACC Tournament. Despite the solid record and strong surge at the end of the season — 12-4 in the month of May — the season came to a heartbreaking end when the Wolfpack lost to the TCU Horned Frogs in extra innings of the NCAA regional game, 9-8. The Wolfpack will get the first opportunity of the season to prove it is deserving of the preseason No. 10 ranking bestowed upon it by D1Baseball.com. The Pack is also

ranked No. 19 by the USA Today Coaches Poll. The Monarchs are looking to improve off of a season that was mired with inconsistency. Despite sweeping the 2014 ACC champion Virginia Cavaliers, the Monarchs finished 27-29 on the year and lost five starters from last season’s team. One of the key players returning for the Monarchs is left-handed pitcher Adam Bainbridge, who posted a record of 4-2 with a solid ERA of 2.39 and 33 strikeouts, all in 67.2 innings. The pitcher will have his hands full against NC State. One of the major players returning for the Wolfpack, and a potential replacement at shortstop for Logan Ratledge, is sophomore Joe Dunand. While only hitting .219 last season, Dunand made the most of each hit, notching 13 extra base hits, and his seven home runs ranked tied for second on the

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Senior shortstop Joel McKeithan fields a ball during the final game of a triple header against UNC-Chapel Hill. McKeithan had one hit, one run and one runner batted in during the 6-3 win April 12 in Boshamer Stadium.

Softball hosts Big Ten foes in home opener at Dail Christian Candeloro Staff Writer

After enduring a weekend in which it blew two late inning leads against UNC-Greensboro and Jacksonville, the NC State softball team returns to Dail Softball Stadium for its home opener. The team finished the weekend 3-2, defeating Coastal Carolina twice by scores of 5-1 and 7-5, and Kansas in a 3-1 victory. The Wolfpack lost to UNCG despite leading 9-5 heading into the bottom of the seventh inning and 10-9 heading into the bottom of the eighth. In the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader, State led 3-1 heading into the bottom of the seventh and 7-3 heading into the bottom of the eighth but blew both leads again.

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Senior pitcher Emily Weiman sends a fastball toward the waiting batter. The Wolfpack beat Pitt Community College 3-1 in the first game of a doubleheader Oct. 25, 2014.

Senior first baseman Maggie Hawkins and junior outfielder Tyler Ross led the way for the Wolfpack, with Hawkins delivering eight hits in 16 at-bats and Ross contributing eight RBIs. In total, the duo combined for 15 hits, five home runs, 13 RBIs and 12 runs. The rest of the team combined for 19 hits, two home runs, 18 RBIs and 20 runs, showing that Hawkins and Ross were dominant over the competition. The effort earned Ross the ACC Player of the Week Honors, her third career nomination. The Cameron, North Carolina native was a SecondTeam All-ACC selection last season after starting 60 games for the Wolfpack. Junior pitcher Courtney Mirabella threw two complete games and carries a 2-0 record with a 3.5 ERA into

this weekend. Sophomore pitcher Harli Hubbard took the loss in both of the Pack’s defeats but bounced back to pitch a complete game in the Pack’s 7-5 win over Coastal Carolina on Sunday. The coming weekend will feature the Wolfpack squaring off in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge versus Nebraska and Wisconsin. The tournament will also feature both Big Ten teams playing Louisville at Dail Softball Stadium. Nebraska enters the tournament at 5-0 after sweeping the UNI Dome Classic. The Cornhuskers are led by junior infielder MJ Knighten, who was a First-Team All-Big Ten selection in 2015 and is currently hitting .632 with five home runs and

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