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Shoes for TOMorrow inspires students Company donates shoes for every pair purchased Heidi Klumpe Staff Writer

Blake Mycoskie, the founder and chief shoe giver for TOMS Shoes, spoke in Stewart Theatre Monday about the success of his company, which has delivered more than 140,000 shoes to needy children across the world. The business is built on the motto “one for one,”–the idea of giving away one pair of shoes for every pair purchased. Mycoskie got the idea after a chance meeting in Argentina. “The truth is, when I had the idea, it was just a concept, something to try out,” Mycoskie said. “I didn’t decide on shoes. Shoes decided on me.” Other unpredictable factors came together to make TOMS Shoes a success. “When I look back at how things happened, why things happened– someone was definitely looking out for me,” he said. According to Mycoskie, his first contacts with businesses seemed ineffective. “After a week, not a single person had called me or e-mailed me back,” he said. “But, in life, sometimes you just have to show up.” His doggedness paid off, especially when a feature in The Los Angeles Times netted 2,200 orders in a single day. “I had the Web site set up so that every time I got an order, I got an e-

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Chief Shoe Giver and Founder of TOMS Shoes Blake Mycoskie spoke in Stewart Theatre on the movement he started just off of selling and then giving away shoes. Mycoskie conveyed how passion is what markets his shoes and what has made his business into what it is today.

mail,” he said. “My BlackBerry screen froze, and it vibrated so much, it died.” To further complicate matters, Mycoskie only had 150 pairs of shoes at the time. However, according to him, the nature of his venture made success inevitable. “The idea of giving is an incredible business strategy,” he said.

By not being a non-profit organization, his work is more sustainable and less subject to the whims of the economy or investors. Also, people are naturally attracted the idea of making a difference. “Customers become your marketers,” he said. “You don’t even have to worry about advertising.” “When you’re doing something re-

ally good, and the purpose is higher than yourself, you’re going to attract amazing talent,” he said. Mycoskie’s work now spreads across two continents, creates jobs in other countries, gives children the chance to go to school and helps prevent many foot-related diseases. Matt Woodward, a sophomore in applied sociology, chairs the Union

Activities Board’s Issues and Ideas Committee, which invited Mycoskie to campus. “We heard it from a lot of students about who Blake was, what his business was,” Woodward said. The committee thought the event would be a great way to raise awareness about social entrepreneurship, according to Woodward. “Social entrepreneurship is when you have a business and use the revenue to give back,” he said. Woodward applied this philosophy to the event itself. For the first time, the committee sold tickets, an idea they took from Mycoskie’s own business plan, the idea of “selling a product to give back,” Woodward said. Attendees bought more than 350 tickets, with 100 percent of the proceeds benefitting Stop Hunger Now, a movement that, like TOMS, Woodward hopes proves contagious. “I hope more students find a way to connect their passions to help others,” he said. “At least one person left inspired to make a positive change.” Students can get involved with Mycoskie’s work through the TOMS Shoes Club, which formed at the beginning of this semester. Ashley Chorda, a senior in communications, was part of the effort to start the group and to spread the TOMS story. “It would be cool if everybody knew about TOMS,” she said, “and you could see people wearing them all over campus. Right now, we’re getting kickstarted with Blake being here.”

Going ‘green’ slated to pay dividends Investments in sustainability expected to reduce costs and return dividends in the long run Nick Tran Staff Writer

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The Howling Cow brand of N.C. State ice cream began is being sold at the Bragaw C-Store for $4.50 a pint beginning this week.

Howling Cow cream ‘moo’ves to C-Store Bragaw C-Store sells pints of Howling Cow ice cream to benefit research Amber Kenney Deputy News Editor

Howling Cow, which produces dairy products directly on campus, is now selling ice cream by the pint in the Bragaw C-Store. Howling Cow is the brand of ice cream served in the Emporium CStore and the Creamery in D.H. Hill Library. Carl Hollifield, the business manager for the department of food, bioprocessing and nutrition science, said the sale of ice cream in pints came in response to a high demand. “There was a demand for a consumer-friendly package,” he said. “Before now, we have only had the cases of four-ounce containers and then the three gallon.” Many students, including Charles Jennings, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, are excited to have the ice cream in the C-store. “I [will] purchase ice cream from the C-store,” he said. “I like ice cream, and I’d like to support the University.” The price tag of a pint of ice cream is set at $4.50, but Ryan Taylor, a fresh-

man in biological sciences, said that will not stop him from purchasing the product. “I will absolutely buy the ice cream,” he said. “It is really good ice cream, and the price is competitive.” According to Hollifield, the ice cream sales will go directly to research and academics. “We have one of the foremost dairy processing centers in the United States,” he said. “We use the profits to keep updated machinery in our dairy so the students have access to the best equipment and equipment they will see in the real world.” Hollifield said the ice cream, which was recently a popular treat at the N.C. State Fair, is a way to get the Howling Cow brand name out to the public. “Students don’t realize that the milk in the dining halls comes from the same place [as the ice cream], right here on N.C. State’s campus,” he said. “We are trying to up brand recognition through shops, just like we do with State Fair activities. We need to get the word out about the fresh, local nature of the products.” The Bragaw C-store is the only Cstore selling the ice cream in five flavors. Hollifield said, if sales grow as planned, sales will expand to other C-stores and up to 16 flavors will become available.

With scientific reports saying the environment is deteriorating every day, environmental sustainability has become a high priority. The government, as well as independent corporations, are quickly spending millions of dollars to design cleaner sources of energy, take advantage of renewable resources and produce eco-friendly products. The obvious benefits are improved health and global conditions, but the question from a business perspective is whether all the money being invested in “going green” is a wise financial decision. Crystal Tsang, a freshman in biological science, said the investment is absolutely worth it. “If we’re paying so much money now to maintain landfills and dumps, it will only go up in the future,” Tsang said. “By increasing efforts in recycling and more efficient products, it will cut future costs before they are too great to manage.” Erin McMurtrie, a junior in chemistry, said she felt similarly on the long term monetary benefits of recycling. “Reusing is obviously something everyone can do to get more for their money,” she said. “Recycling may not be very financially effective in the short run, but will save money on land and property required for landfills later on.” “In the future, once landfills are

full and we have no place to put trash, Did you know? it will cost a lot more money to figure out what to do with all of it,” McMurBragaw is the largest fully LED-lit residence hall in the country. trie said. Students have identified other means of saving money and even source: David Dean, outreach turning a profit by increasing suscoordinator for University Sustainability Office tainability. Daniel Farrell, a junior in biological engineering and computer science and which going green can pay you back. “The University is paid by recycling a member of the Quad Area Council sustainability committee, said cutting utilities based on how much recycosts is as feasible as simple as turning clables are collected,” he said. “Right now it is not enough to pay for the off your lights. “Energy efficient light bulbs pay for University recycling program and the themselves within two years and last extra costs have to be covered by state for even longer,” he said. “As the cost appropriations, but as the cost of maof technology goes down, the ability terials goes up, the amount the Unito pay off the investment increases.” versity is paid for recyclables should also go up.” “As for trash, now As for energ y, that we’re fined for Dean said despite throwing away trash, the large costs for it is smarter to recythe changeover to cle. Landfills are an more efficient LED incredible cost; you lighting, the new need to buy proplights should pay erty, equipment and for themselves in labor, and a lot of six years. these small costs can NCSU is the first be cut by recycling,” university to use Farrell said. “Having LED lighting and to rebuild the enviDaniel Farrell, junior in Bragaw Residence ronment will incur biological engineering Hall is the largest an even larger cost.” fully LED-lit resiNathan Dahlberg, a freshman in philosophy, identified dence hall in the country. “We have 66 percent savings on our solar energy as a great way to collect dividends through increasing sustain- monthly electric bill compared to traditional lighting, Additionally, they ability. “Installing solar panels costs a lot, are guaranteed to last longer and emit but in the long run they more than pay less heat, which allows us to save on for themselves,” he said. “If individu- our electricity bill for cooling. They als do it, they can even start selling also require less maintenance, reducing costs further and allowing those power back to utilities for profits.” David Dean, outreach coordina- resources to be devoted elsewhere,” tor for the University Sustainability Dean said. Office and Office of Energy Management, said there are many ways in

“As the cost of technology goes down, the ability to pay off the investment increases.”

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photo By Kimberly Rochester olfgang A Cappella performs “Under The Sea” at the Raleigh Wide Open Festival Saturday. Ben Lord, a freshman in engineering, sang the lead. “It’s a crowd favorite because a lot of people know it,” Lord said. “It’s good to show off our choreography and energy.” Wolfgang A Cappella has a concert Dec. 4 in Thompson Hall.

World & Nation

Baghdad bombing casts doubt on Iraqi security, elections Suicide bombers in cars packed with explosives killed at least 132 people and wounded 600 more outside

Iraqi government buildings Sunday morning in nearly simultaneous blasts that were powerful even by Baghdad’s grim standards. The bombings made Sunday the deadliest day in Iraq since April 2007, according to casualty figures released by Iraqi authorities, and they drew particular outrage because they struck at cabinet ministries and city government offices that are supposed to be especially secure source: mctdirect.com

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SG Fall Color Explosion continues tonight A beautification effort led by Student Government’s Community Service Commission will culminate tonight at 8 p.m. with a candlelight vigil at the outdoor plaza near the NCSU Bookstore to honor victims and survivors of breast cancer. In case of rain, the vigil will be held in Talley Student Center room 3118. Source: De’Ericka Aiken, chair of Community Service Commission

Student Government on the Brickyard Wednesday on the Brickyard students will have an opportunity to dunk various members of Student Government, including Student Body President Jim Ceresnak, in a dunking booth from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Five canned goods or other non-perishable food items is the cost to participate

with proceeds going to Raleigh Urban Ministries. Source: De’Ericka Aiken, chair of Community Service Commission

University hosts Columbia faculty member, lecturer The English Department Speakers Committee is sponsoring “Anxious Affection: Parental Feeling in 19th Century Middle-Class Britain,” a lecture by Eileen Gillooly, Tuesday, Nov. 10 in Winston 001. Gillooly, a faculty member at Columbia University and associate director of the Heymen Center for the Humanities and the Society of Fellows, has had essays and reviews appear in The New York Times Book Review, Victorian Studies, ELH and Feminist Studies. For more information, contact Elaine Orr at elaine@gw.ncsu.edu. Source: Lauren Kirkpatrick, CHASS director of communication

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The changing face of news media In a society driven by technological advancement, where will traditional print media fit in? Story By Jessica Neville | graphics By Susannah brinkley, Matt Moore & Biko Tushinde

he news media industry has come to a critical point in its quest to meet the demands of a changing technological society. While a morning newspaper with coffee remains an American ritual, a growing number of people are finding ways to receive news through other sources. The Internet, blogs, TV, radio talk shows and social networking all offer quick ways to exchange information.

Dean Phillips, communications lecturer and former TV newscaster, has seen the news media industry change throughout his time working with stations including ABC, NBC and CBS. “Print newspapers will have to incorporate technology into their businesses to survive,” Phillips said. “There will always be newspapers in print because many people like tangible objects, but the Internet is

increasingly becoming less costly, more practical and more profitable.” Phillips said as newspapers move towards online publication there would be more sharing of stories within the industry. “Newspapers won’t own stories and staffs will not be as large,” Phillips said. “Readers will see, and are already seeing, more international and national articles that come from outside their

hometowns.” Charles Duncan Pardo, editor of the Raleigh Public Record, an independent news source, is working to prevent the loss of city-based reporting. “The big news media corporations, such as CNN and The New York Times, will always be there,” Duncan said. “What will suffer as news media changes is coverage of city government and the day-to-day lives of people.” The Raleigh Public Record is a completely online publication that started less than a year ago. “Most of our staff have day jobs apart from our business,” Duncan said. “We sell ads but we don’t make much money at all right now. The continuation of our pub-

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Dim outlook doesn’t indicate failure T he Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism publishes an annual report on the direction of American journalism called “The State of the News Media.” It didn’t have a very positive appraisal for any form of American journalism from 2008 and predicted an abysmal 2009. While the report noted the rapid increase in Web-based news — second only to television as a news destination — it presented a troubling outlook

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for the entire structure. Newspaper advertising revenue fell 23 percent between 2006 and 2008 and hasn’t shown any signs of recovery this year as circulation figures continue to fall at close to 5 percent per year. Newspaper staffs are shrinking and the traditional-style of news production doesn’t seem viable. The nation’s local television stations revenues fell by 7 percent over the last year. This

We’re on the road of evolution

Bob Ashley Editor, The Herald-Sun

et me share some provocative words from Michael Crichton, the author of, among other books, “Jurassic Park,” who notes that he knows something about dinosaurs: “But today, I want to discuss another dinosaur, one that may be on the road to extinction. I am referring to the American media. And I use the term extinction literally. To my mind, it is likely that what we now understand as the mass media will be gone within 10 years. Vanished, without a trace.” When did Crichton make that ominous prediction? Well, in 1993, 16 years ago. And we’re not extinct yet, not The New York Times, not The Herald-Sun, not Technician or hundreds of other national, local

number is particularly troubling considering 2008 was an election year — a traditionally prosperous time for local news. The only sections of the media that showed significant growth were the Internet and cable news. And while Internet news showed a 19-percent expansion during the last year, the amount of advertising revenue it brought in decreased. What it adds up to is an American populous that wants

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he news media are in financial trouble and newspapers are suffering most. Every urban reporter is worried about what appears to be the death of the press. Were the newspaper industry an ordinary business, like Montgomery Ward or American Motors, perhaps few people would care. But in the United States, the press occupies a unique status, granted by the Constitution. It has been the guardian of the democracy we have known. “If the press dies, democracy dies!” alarmists holler today. I don’t think the press is anywhere near dying, and I believe the Chicken Littles have read the problem in reverse: if democracy dies, the press — as we like to think of it, anyway — will

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Diversification and evolution is vital

Tyler Dukes Web producer, News 14 Carolina

or at least the last three decades, people have predicted the demise of newspapers. That proclamation has become more fashionable as newspapers slash the size of their newsrooms or stop their printing presses altogether. The national bad news has certainly hit home. Two weeks ago, The News & Observer announced a new round of voluntary layoffs, despite posted profits by its parent company McClatchy. There are certainly plenty of theories for what’s killing the news. There’s Google, for one. Some fault free online content or bloggers; others point to stupid people who don’t want to be informed. The unifying element here is to blame the competition

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The future of news has political ties

news more than ever and a journalistic system that isn’t set up to provide it. A decade ago, when the print newspaper giants and local television stations were bought up into conglomerates like Samuel Zell’s Tribune Company and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, the focus shifted toward shareholders and away from innovation. Newspaper staffs were severely cut to make a buck here and there while the Internet bounded past the industry.

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Traditional media must adapt

Fred Eaker systems administrator, Student Media

eople born in the 1990s make up the most technologicallysavvy generation of all time. They have grown up in a world where they are constantly connected, always communicating and sharing information freely. These aspects of our world are strikingly different from the environment in which newspapers, television and radio evolved. As a result, open source culture is undermining the effectiveness and financial stability of the traditional media industry. The Internet originally began as a U.S. military project in the late 1960s. Starting with e-mail, Web technology was quickly adopted by public and private institutions. Although a degree of open source culture was present in the scientific and academic fields,

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lication will depend entirely on the support of the community and the desire of the people of Raleigh to have coverage of the workings of their city.” While the Internet takeover has not been favorable to print and TV media, it has brought positive change for the advertising industry, according to Mitzi Montoya, professor of marketing and innovation management. “Newspapers limit the ability of advertising companies to track the amount of readers actually looking at their ads,” Montoya said. “But on the Internet, companies have a record of what pages viewers have looked at and can even link their Web site to an ad on the newspaper Web site.” Montoya said that the key for news media to move forward economically is to focus on an

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and campus newspapers. We are, indeed, changing and the landscape has never been more in flux. If we’re not on the road to extinction, we’re certainly on the express lane to some very rapid and transforming evolution. For most commercial newspapers, the dilemma is profoundly simple. As many users — what we used to call readers — turn increasingly to Web sites for news, the audience for our news product is actually growing. But the audience for our printed edition is declining, and advertisers, sensing that and fearing being left behind on the next new thing in media, are increasingly departing to Web sites. But they aren’t necessarily migrating to traditional news Web sites. So our ability to recoup the

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or the consumer. Then there’s the insistence that society can’t let newspapers die. “We’re the foundation for democracy!” news executives yell. “We inform the electorate! We hold the powerful accountable!” “In theory, yes you do,” responds the consumer. “But what have you done for me lately?” It’s a valid question. Sure, The N&O does a fantastic job on in-depth stories — the vacant offices in Holladay Hall attest to that. But stories revealing the mishandling of the Duke lacrosse case and the missteps in the hiring of former first lady Mary Easley are few and far between. The truth is, most news stories suck, and news organizations — not just newspapers — are drowning in mediocrity. In The N&O Oct. 20 for example, 14 of the 34 bylined news stories were unique to the paper. That means more than half of North Carolina’s newspaper of record consists of information from the Associated Press and The New York Times — content you can get anywhere.

“integrated digital strategy.” “The news industry has almost been bypassed by people that have taken advantage of technology faster than they have, such as bloggers and social networking sites,” Montoya said. “In the future print news will have to look into valueadded services online and focus on multiple channels of reporting.” Montoya added that the technological changes of the past century have been a result of entrepreneurship and innovation that will change the work of reporters. “I believe we will see an increase in free-lance, outcome-oriented journalists,” Montoya said. Students on campus prefer multiple options for news and information. Although often deemed a technological generation, many students, such as Hannah Hedgecock, senior in elementary education, prefer to read news in print.

“I usually read the newspaper when I don’t have a computer with me, such as on the way to class,” Hedgecock said. Li kew ise, Stephanie Renn, freshman in food science, reads the paper in print because “the computer screen gives me a headache.” But Alan Bohn, freshman in microbiology, likes online media because he can “search for specific topics” and doesn’t have to worry about throwing away the paper. John Drescher, executive editor of The News & Observer, is optimistic about the future of his business and the news industry as a whole. The N&O has had to let people go and make pay cuts for the entire

substantial costs of reporting, verifying, and disseminating news, whether on paper or on your computer (or iPhone or netbook or Blackberry) screen has been challenged. It’s probably not an exaggeration to say virtually every newspaper in the United States is struggling to f ind the formula that will bring in the revenue to support our news gathering. At The Herald-Sun, we’ve recently redesigned our Web site to streamline the presentation of news, make it easier for us to add multimedia content and, perhaps most important, to open the site to our community of readers and users to become active participants. We want users to come to our

site for the traditional news, gathered and vetted by our professional journalists. And we want to differentiate that material because we think we have a strong brand. But we also want the site to be a forum for community discussion, a place where readers can share information and experiences with each other. We’ve even pro vided a site on our front page for anyone to post an SMS text message, often linking to other material that might be of interest. We’re encouraging our editors, reporters and others at the paper to use that vehicle to alert site visitors to upcoming stories or to intriguing information. The take-off has been slower

But newspapers aren’t the only ones devaluing the news. The top stories on the Web sites of both WRAL and my employer, News 14 Carolina, Oct. 20 were about an apartment fire — not exactly essential to selfgovernance. News organizations are telling the same stories with little differentiation, duplicating each other’s work with their own resources. The resulting product is costly for the producer and worthless to the consumer. The press as a whole can no longer operate under the assumption that individual news outlets are the audience’s only source of news. Data from a 2008 Pew Research Center report show that at least 36 percent of the public consumes news from multiple sources, whether online, on TV or otherwise. A majority of Americans also check on the news multiple times a day. Those numbers are only poised for growth. That means there’s no longer any need for the news echo chamber. Technology has given readers the tools to share information, and whether through Facebook, Twitter or e-mail, readers now expect important stories to find them. It’s time for local news organizations to try something different.

Let’s star t w it h what we know. Most major news organizations face shrinking or stagnant staffs, so our resources are low. We must become better multimedia storytellers, so there’s a need for increased competition. We have to engage our audience to earn back their trust, so we must diversify and expand our coverage. In each newsroom, we need to begin treating the coverage of our competitors as complementary to our own. When The N&O investigates a story, WRAL should go after something else. When ABC 11 sees a WRAL van at the scene of an accident, they should drive the other way. And when News 14 Carolina spots an ABC 11 reporter at the courthouse, they should dig deeper to find another local story nobody else is covering. The result is different news on every channel, on every newspaper page. Without the

“... virtually every newspaper in the United States is struggling to find the formula ...”

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die. When people no longer believe an informed citizenry can take command of the nation’s life, they’ll have less reason to read what is today called “the news,” which is mainly a record of governance. Democracy, as textbooks pictured it, is indeed ailing. A decline in voter turnout, in attendance at ParentTeacher Association and union meetings, and even in the number of people who belong to bowling teams was documented in a 2000 best-seller, “Bowling Alone.” Nothing has reverted its conclusions. Newspaper readership has declined in tandem with participation in public life. The problem isn’t

so much technological — the Net, as most press diagnosticians think — as it is political. Every day, fewer people think they can influence government. Those who insist on keeping public debate alive are dividing into two warring camps, Fox News versus MSNBC, at the expense of CNN and the major news networks. The polarizing trend is evident in print media in the relative prosperity of two of the nation’s top three dailies, the Republican Wall Street Journal and the Democratic New York Times. Journalistic “objectivity”— a sort of one-size-fits-all version of the news — no longer passes tests of trust. The future of American “news” seems to be the present of newspapers elsewhere: tell me what newspaper you read and I’ll tell you what your political views are. Partisanship will foster shifts in our

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staff, but Drescher says the business is moving in the right direction. “We are in a transition period,” Drescher said. “Most of our revenue still comes from print, but each month we are setting records for our Web-viewing. The demand for news is actually greater than ever before; we just have to find new ways to meet that need.”

than we might have hoped for these new tools, but we’re optimistic that usage will grow. At the same time, we’re continuing, again like our counterparts at other newspapers and in the broadcast media (the Web is eroding rapidly the distinction between print and broadcast outlets) to seek new ways to grow our audience. We also realize that the once widely held belief that advertising would pay the freight on the Web, just as it has paid three-quarters of the freight in print, is almost certainly wrong. So the next big question facing our industry: Will users pay? How much? What will they pay for? Expect considerable experimentation in that arena in the months and years ahead.

duplication, the community gets better coverage. With the increased competition and extra content, the best stories bubble to the top. We live in the most well documented age in human history. Inexpensive tools for news gathering and sharing have allowed normal citizens to participate in the coverage of their own neighborhoods. News organizations can use these drastic changes to the media landscape to their advantage if they show a willingness to accept what’s happening around them. The answer seems obvious. Faced with extinction, news organizations have only one option for survival. They must evolve.

idea of the press, but I don’t think it betokens any looming death. More words and images are published today than ever before, thanks to the accessibility of the Net. W h i le blogs, sports, music, celebrit y and special-interest pages are often carelessly written, all of them s at i s f y w h at seems to be a universal human craving — albeit for gossip — and that lust underwrites the survival of a press. Before the birth of the sensationalist “penny press” in 1835, newspapers were mostly political and not wildly profitable, but thousands of them

The Internet is beginning to dominate the market and the old regime still hasn’t caught up. None of the models it has tried have worked: pay walls aren’t the solution because too many services such as Google News aggregate information free of cost; traditional advertisements don’t pay as well on the Internet; and micropayments, essentially pay-as-yougo for news, haven’t proved successful. Newspapers and local television media should have embraced the Web a decade ago and are behind the curve — still, there is hope. Some Web sites such as WRAL.com have been successful in gaining public interest and usher-

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it began to grow and flourish among users and developers of Web technology. Rather than claiming software code as their own property, developers contributed to projects that solved complex problems. Apache, PHP, MySQL and WordPress were collaboratively developed and made available for free. Together these packages are enough to begin distributing your own content online. Add Shoutcast and you have an Internet radio station c apa ble of being heard around the globe. A s a re sult of open source culture, traditional media companies, previously shaped by an environment of scarce information and expensive production and distribution methods, now find themselves in a new landscape where content is virtually unlimited and automatically disseminated. Explosive growth in user-generated content has put the media in direct competition with its consumers. “Professionally produced” has succumbed to “good enough” as consumers flock to Facebook to interact with their peers, post pictures of their homemade meals to Tumblr, upload incriminating videos from their phone to YouTube or coordinate protests on Twitter. These online activities represent the crux of what traditional media companies must ad-

dress: consumers of media are not just consumers, they are also producers. They are experts on their own circumstances and willing to share what they learn for the benefit of their community — just as software developers continue to innovate the very platform that has usurped traditional media models and empowered the average citizen. Adapting to this new cultural context requires a revamping of the traditional media business model. If news and information are no longer scarce and have less value in the eyes on the consumer, where can value now be found? Consumer demographics have more value than the content they consume. Advertisers can use this data to target ads more effectively and me d i a c a n get a clearer view of their customers. In addition, redefining the relative importance of privacy, objectivity and intellectual property are important parts of adaptation. The media can look to many examples of how other industries are embracing the culture: OpenCourseWare in academia, FutureMelbourne in government and Creative Commons licensing amongst artists and musicians. I expect open source culture to continue to spread. Traditional media companies will struggle, and perhaps fail, if they expect to operate as they have in the past. Regardless of the outcome, now is an exciting time to be involved in the media industry.

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circulated anyway. Even in dictatorships, where nobody believes the news, sports and entertainment newspapers thrive. Nor is the future of the news the future of the news industr y. Image and word production will probably continue to rise, thanks to fans and fanatics, words that have the same root. And if any principle underlies practical American life, it is that if people do something, anything, somebody will find a way to make money from it. Profits may be smaller, but livelihoods won’t disappear; newspapers, both electronic and print, may for

“Newspaper readership has declined in tandem with participation in public life.”

ing in a new way of presenting the news, as shown by its recent Edward R. Murrow award for Web excellence. The public still craves traditional forms of journalism and information gathering, including in-depth pieces, but is unwilling to pay for them in their existing form. As a result, many traditional daily newspapers have already shut their doors this year. The only clear solution is to embrace the Web and press onward. Traditional outlets such as local news stations and newspapers must put aside past failures and place an emphasis on developing Web-based models that present news in a way consumers seek it while preserving their reporters.

awhile become cottage industries, but artisans — wordwrights and picturewrights in this case—will prosper as much as employees did — or will. The rebirth of the press will not be an undertaking of aging inksters like me. But that is not a problem for today’s students, and they have already said so: enrollment in journalism courses is booming everywhere. While we graying professors stress the fundamentals of “news as it has always been,” our students view the press as a parts car, a source for salvage to build a communications vehicle that’s still in the daydreaming stage. With the blessing of gossip and greed — the forces to which the mainstream press owed its triumph — they are likely to accomplish something that their seniors can’t foresee.

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Halloween costumes With the poor economy, students strive to become creative with the material they already own

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Due to the poor economy, college students are making their outfits or putting their costumes together in order to save money. Vaishali Rathee, a freshman biological sciences, said she is putting together a ladybug, the easiest and cheapest thing to create. “It’s not worth buying a special costume for one night that you can only use once,” Rathee said. “It’s not like you can repeat it the next year. It’s like $50 for a little skimpy piece of cloth.” Rathee said by wearing her black dress and shoes that she already owns and then adding an $8 ladybug set she bought, she’s saving money. “It’s better if you can buy a bunch of things that you can actually use for the rest of the year like the black dress I bought,” Rathee said. “I went to the mall and I was looking for the cheapest deal I could find. So I found a ladybug costume and decided to be that.” Rathee said her goal for Halloween this year was for her and her friends to have a good time with the costumes they put together. “We’re just trying to be minimal and get by with whatever we can make cheaply,” she said. “We’re in college and we already don’t have money. College is expensive.” Daysi Hurtado, a freshman in fashion and textile management, said if the costume is made versus bought, you are being original and not many people will have the same outfit you do. “I will be the only person with that costume. I know it’s very cliché to be a cat, but it’s like my own cat costume,” Hurtado said. Hurtado said she is going to wear a dress with heels, ears and a tail. “Because I’m making my costume, it’s going to be very simple to put together,” Hurtado said. “All I have to do is buy the ears and the tail. I already have the dress that I’m going to wear.”

Spice Girls: Grab platform sneakers and a spice girl’s signature colors or patterns leopard for Scary, black for Posh, light pink for Baby, etc. Serena or Blair from ‘Gossip Girl’: Take the ideas from College Fashion articles & find pieces in wardrobe that work. Check vintage stores and buy new pieces only if necessary. Daphne from Scooby Doo: Both of these costumes are available to buy online, which makes things really easy. Buy a Daphne Costume for $32.99, and the Velma Costume is also available for $32.95. Rainbow Brite: Can buy a Rainbow Brite costume online Mia Wallace from Pulp Fiction: There are 3 essential parts to Mia’s look: the black capris, the button-down white shirt, and the hair. If doing this costume, get a wig because the hair makes the costume. Holly Golightly: Breakfast at Tiffany’s- A little black dress, a pair of oversized black sunglasses, a huge pearl necklace, white gloves, and an air of effortless chicness. Source: collegefasion.net

She said by the time she decided to make her own costume she wouldn’t have time put it together. “Sewing takes a lot of time and I don’t have the proper things to do it and I would have to come home every weekend to make it,” Hurtado said. Hurtado said this is her first time actually celebrating Halloween. “Hopefully Raleigh won’t disappoint me,” Hurtado said. “It’s going to be a fun outfit, so it should be a fun night.” Photo illustration by luis zapata

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the breast. “A lot of women choose to have a total removal of the breast,” Poe-Jones said. Several women have followed this method for many years after congress passed the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 2005. The act allows breast cancer patients to have an extensive health coverage, which in most cases results in women getting false implants to replace of the removed tissue. Sarah Lightman, the director of communications for Pennsylvania Breast Cancer Coalition, holds fundraisers, fashion shows and a variety of charitable events to raise money for breast cancer. Lightman said women should do self breast exams until the age of 40 and then get mammograms after the of age 40. “Mammograms are extremely vital in detecting a potential tumor,” Lightman said. “Treatments have improved because researchers are constantly working to find new cures.”

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Know edge with feeling Self-examination may help women survive breast cancer through early detection Story By Jasmine Willis | photo illustration By Luis Zapata

o increase the awareness of breast cancer, medical facilities recognize October as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is found in one of every eight females, and 90 percent of cases are curable if women detect the symptoms by having a routine check up.

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Spokesperson of the Breast Cancer Site in good health. Poe-Jones said it is imporRosemary Jones helps assist facilities with tant for women to get mammograms and obtaining free mammograms to provide to perform self-checkups. “Any women over the age of 40 should women with low or no medical coverage. get an annual mammogram and do a self The BCS was launched in October 2000. “The BCS provides funding for free breast exam often,” said Poe-Jones. In Rex mammograms for women in need, breast Hospital Radiology Diagnostic Center, cancer research and support for women needle or stereotactic biopsy ultrasounds are given. struggling with the dis“If we see something ease,” Jones said. Orga“Any women over the abnormal or suspicious nizations as National Breast Cancer Founage of 40 should get an in the mammogram we call the patient in dation, Mayo Clinic annual mammogram will for further examina(for research), Making and do a self breast tion,” Poe-Jones said. Memories, Patient Access The testing following Network Foundation and exam often the mammogram can others.” determine the tumor Visitors to the site can Kelli Poe-Jones, to be either positive find breast cancer news, manager of Rex Hospital (malignant) or negative real life stories and events Mammography Services (benign.) If the tumor can be found at the BCS. is found to be maligKelli Poe-Jones, manager of Rex Hospital Mammography Ser- nant the patient is referred to a doctor or vices, said the hospital celebrates NBCM a hospital. Other than just removing the cancerthrough several activities. “At Rex Hospital, we have Employee ous breast tissue, most women have the Mammography Day, where we set aside entire breast or both removed. TRAM flap the day to take care of employees in the is a common procedure for women to unhospital because we often take care of ev- dergo immediately after the breast cancer surgery. TRAM flap is when physicians eryone but ourselves,” Poe-Jones said. For women to properly be aware of what take abdominal tissue and transfer it to is going on with their bodies they must take all precautions to ensure that they stay CANCER continued page 5

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Coaches, administrators plunge to fight hunger Student Athletic Advisory Committee’s allows students to submerge N.C. State Athletics personnel, help feed homeless Kate Shefte Sports Editor

Jana Angel, a junior on the volleyball team and president of the Student Athletic Advisory Committee, stood at a line marked “throw” with a softball in each hand. Angel wound up, all 6’4 of her frame tensed for the next toss. The first one went so far wide it almost hit Fowler in the head. The next two crunched safely against the fabric toward the top of the frame and out of harm’s way. “I’m a volleyball player,” Angel said. “I don’t have that throwing coordination.” Students spilling onto the Brickyard in between classes from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. handed over $5 or watched as others took their shots at some of N.C. State’s Athletics personnel at a dunking booth sponsored by the SAAC. All profits went toward a group called Imagine No Hun-

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the competitive aspect instead of goofing around with friends. “In the elite league, more other teams have been playing together and know each other’s abilities. In the open teams, it’s

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Thomas Spearman, senior in construction engineering and management, aims for the bull’s-eye as he tries to dunk Lee Fowler.

ger. The group meets in downtown Raleigh and puts together 65 to 75 lunches per week for the homeless, according to Frideric Prandecki, a senior on the men’s tennis team. “It’s a good cause because you don’t realize how many homeless people there are in your backyard,” Prandecki said. “You always hear about people donating money to Sudan, but there are a lot of problems at home too.” SAAC sent out feelers in the athletic department and had swimming and diving coach Brooks Teal, men’s tennis coach

John Choboy, g ymnastics coach Todd Henry, volleyball coach Charita Stubbs, baseball coach Elliott Avent and Athletic Director Lee Fowler volunteer their time. Prandecki estimated the event raised $500 to $600, though said it probably would have received more attention if the cold weather didn’t scare students away. “This should keep us going for a few weeks, though,” Prandecki said. “It’s the little things that count.” Avent was one of the coaches who volunteered to take the

pretty much whoever can get a team together plays.” Schillaci agreed with Moog in that the calling of games could stand to be improved. Patrick Meiburg, a junior in sports management, plays for the elite league soccer team Oak City FC. Meiburg played rec league soccer and ran cross

country in high school and enjoys the benefits a few dollars has earned him and his teammates. “The competition is a lot better and a lot of the guys are more focused,” Meiburg said. “There’s a lot more experience playing in the elite.”

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plunge. “The first two or three times were a lot colder than you’d think,” Avent. “After that, it wasn’t so bad.” The wind causes problems for Avent during his team’s regular season, and he said it was not his friend sitting on the dunking booth either. When the wind whipped around Harrelson Hall, it added an extra chill for the drenched coach.

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“I wish more people would have come out because it’s obviously for a good cause – otherwise I wouldn’t have done it,” Avent said. However, it was Fowler who garnered top billing. Students and athletes gathered to see State’s Athletics Director of the last 11 years sitting above a pool of cold water in a t-shirt instead of his usual suit and tie. “It means a lot that our Ath-

letic Director was willing to come out here and do this for our charity,” Angel said. The next event the SAAC will hold will take place in the spring. “This is our fall fundraiser. In the spring we’ll have the athlete talent show, which should be a lot of fun. Especially with the swim team – you never know how much clothing they’re going to take off,” Angel said.

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Senior, coach participate in women’s basketball media day in Greensboro Senior guard Nikitta Gartrell and first-year head coach Kellie Harper met with the media yesterday at the Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Basketball Media Day event in Greensboro Coliseum. State is picked to finish ninth in the league and no players were chosen to the Preseason All-ACC team. Source: N.C. State Athletics

Men’s tennis finishes at UNCW Invitational The men’s tennis team concluded play Sunday in Wilmington with one win in the singles consolation matches. Sophomore Akash Gujarati won his match 6-4, 6-0. State’s next match will be Jan. 17 at home versus Gardner-Webb. Source: N.C. State Athletics

athletic schedule October 2009 Su

Today Men’s Soccer vs. Centenary Dail Soccer Stadium, 7 p.m. Thursday *Women’s Soccer vs. Francis Marion Dail Soccer Stadium, 7 p.m. Friday Volleyball vs. Clemson Reynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m. Saturday Women’s Swimming and Diving vs. Richmond Carmichael Gym, 11 a.m. Women’s Swimming and Diving vs. Campbell Carmichael Gym, 11 a.m. Football at Florida State Tallahassee, Fla., Noon Volleyball vs. Georgia Tech Reynolds Coliseum, 6 p.m. Women’s Cross Country at ACC Championship Wake Med Soccer Park, Cary, N.C., TBA Men’s Cross Country at ACC Championship Wake Med Soccer Park, Cary, N.C., TBA *Student Wolfpack Club event

Quote of the day “I can’t give you a particular score, but I have a good feeling about our football game.” Men’s soccer coach George Tarantini

“It’s not perfect,” Moog said. Dan Schillaci, a sophomore in accounting, plays with Moog on Kibbles and Vicks, was relieved to find half his season wouldn’t be canceled due to rain-outs. “With my men’s open team, we only played two games and went 1-1, so we didn’t make the playoffs,” Schillaci said. “With the elite games, you’re guaranteed to play all four games.” Schillaci said the elite league attracted teams who had been together longer and were more focused on

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Technician: What’s made this team so successful this year? Tarantini: The defense and the amount of work we’ve put in. The different approach we have, the commitment of the players and the assistant coaches. Technician: You guys have a couple of games left before the start of the ACC tournament Nov. 10; what improvements do you guys need to make before then? Tarantini: We’ve talked about different formations. Just seeing how we can grow and keep improving. We need to score more. In other words, we need everyone to participate more, be involved more to become more successful. We need to keep preparing for the next challenge.

Technician: A lot of people have talked about the program being down for a number of years; did you have any thoughts about walking away from coaching before this season’s success? Tarantini: I’ve always been honest. I’ve been here for a long time. I just want to take it one year at a time. I want to keep seeing the program improve. Right now, we need to concentrate [on getting] a win [today]. It is a huge game, so we need to focus on what we need to do. Technician: You’ve been at State for 26 years, three years as an assistant, 23 years as a head coach; what’s been your favorite moment from other State sports? Tarantini: From people like former men’s basketball coach Jimmy Valvano, former women’s basketball

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Men’s soccer coach George Tarantini pleads with his team during the first round of the ACC tournament against UVA in 2007.

coach Kay Yow and former baseball coach Sam Esposito. So many people who’ve touched me. So many people have made me a better person, helped me to become a better coach. So many people who’ve been a part of my life for so many years. I cannot think of one particular moment. There’ve been so many great moments and opportunities with these people. Technician: With this being coach Steve Springthorpe’s first year with the women’s soccer team, what were your first thoughts when you first met him and what is your relationship with him now? Tarantini: That’s a really good question. He’s very knowledgeable. He’s very excited about the program. I like the vision he brings to the table. We are really excited [about] women’s soccer. We are really excited for the fu-

ture. He will bring many things to the program, his personality, his excitement. We are very excited for women’s soccer. A lot of positive things are going on. Technician: Last question, the football game Saturday is going to be big; can you give me an idea of who’s going to win and a final score? Tarantini: I can’t give you a particular score, but I have a good feeling about our football game. We have a great quarterback and we are going to score a lot of points. I think we are going to be successful. I want every sport to win, particularly football and basketball, it will really help us, in every way. I really want them to be successful, it’s what we need.

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Mixed reviews for Elite Leagues Intramural option earns praise from some, neutral reaction from others Kate Shefte Sports Editor

Campus Recreation unveiled a new option for students who wanted to take their intramural play to the next level before the 2009 flag football season began – Elite leagues, in which team pays $75, consists of about ten people and receives priority scheduling. After a season of elite league play, some found the

“I guess it is for the winning extra money to be well worth it and some believe there are still team because they get their trip paid for to nationals, but kinks to be worked out. for the rest Forrest of the teams, Moog, a junot rea lly,” nior in sports Moog sa id. management “A bunch of who plays the teams that on the topididn’t make it cally-named in the men’s elite tea m open are in Kibbles and a league, so Vicks, said he Patrick Meiburg it’s not necesdoesn’t see a sarily better dramatic diffootball.” ference in the Moog said the refereeing level of competition. He said the skill level is approximately is still hit-or-miss, but likes the same as in open play, but that teams get to play twice as thinks the playoffs might be much as rain dates are always rescheduled. better.

“The competition is a lot better and a lot of the guys are more focused.”

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ith more than 30,000 students at N.C. State, there are not enough varsity or club teams to meet t he needs of students who wish to play some type of sport. Luc k i ly, t he school has an excellent group Taylor of intramural sports that ofBarbour fers a wide vaDeputy riety of sports Sports Editor including f lag football, volleyball, basketball, soccer, softball and many others. The campus recreation staff does a great job organizing the sports and allowing the most teams possible to include as many students that want to play as possible. However, the intramural process has a few flaws to it. For many people, including myself, intramural sports are kind of a big deal. Students have played a sport or two in high school, but we either did not have the ability or did not want to try to play at a higher level. So, playing intramural sports is the closest we get to an actual game environment, and most people that play look forward to that one hour a week in which they get to play their game. But hopes for outdoor games quickly diminish if rain or even heavy dew is in the forecast. Do not get me wrong, the Miller Intramural Fields are great and give the students an excellent place to go out and play, but when a rain comes the fields are shut down for days. I know Mother Nature has her own agenda and we cannot fight when it rains, but we can limit the damage the rain does to the fields. The problem is the fact that the fields do not drain well and many spots on the fields get only a couple of hours of sunlight due to the shade from trees. This makes the fields only really dry up in a drought. Thus, the fields get shut down, and games get cancelled and players can only hope that they get made up. With rain also comes slippery conditions on the fields, which increases the chances for injury. Because of the increase in risk, the IM staff closes the field. I agree with them that they should, but the amount of time the field stays closed could be decreased with one simple fix. The fix would be that we opted to have the intramural fields changed from grass fields to field turf. By doing this, the fields would be safer in the rain and would also dry quicker. Also, field turf would need less maintenance. Because the field would be turf and not grass, it would not need to be mowed, tilled, seeded and kept up. Instead, just put it down and tend it to every once in a while. Field turf does everything that grass fields do but without the maintenance. 21 of 32 NFL teams use field turf in their stadiums and the Super Bowl and BCS National Championship games have both been played on it. Having field turf on the intramural fields would also help to keep the field even and limit the number of dirt spots on the field where the grass has been

Ranked No. 13 and holding a 10-3-1 record going into tonight’s matchup vs. Centenary, coach George Tarantini’s men’s soccer team is off to one of the best starts of his 23-year coaching tenure. Technician Senior Staff Writer Fidelis Lusompa caught up with the Pack soccer coach and asked him about what’s made this season so successful, the highlights of his career in Raleigh and the football team’s upcoming trip to Tallahassee.

Technician: What does Ronnie Bouemboue’s nomination for the Lowe’s Senior Class Award mean to you and to the program? Tarantini: To me, we not only want to have a good soccer player, we want a great person. We’ve been working very hard to bring to the program people who understand us that way. I think Ronnie is doing that. Not only Ronnie, but a lot of people in this program, everyone on our team, [are] doing an exceptional job. For me and the team, we are excited.

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