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Local businesses are warning students to steer clear of the parking lot on the corner of Chamberlain and Hillsborough streets if they don’t plan on immediately visiting the adjacent businesses. The lot, which is shared by Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, GoPaks Bazaar, I Love New York Pizza and Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins, provides free parking to all customers and employees of the businesses in the building. Carolina Auto Recovery Specialists tows all other vehicles from the lot. The Raleigh Police Department’s towing logs indicate that at least 650 cars have been towed from the lot by Carolina Auto, which operated under the name Atlantic Coast Towing and Recovery from February 2008 until November 2009. By comparison, the other hot spots on the logs, the parking lots of Zaxby’s and Sylvia’s Pizza, had around 464 and 118 cars towed, respectively, in the same time period. However, Chandan Kumar, manager of GoPaks Bazaar, said the reason for towing has morphed into a chance to turn a profit rather than to keep the lot clear for customers. “If somebody comes in our store, or any of these businesses, they don’t get their car towed,” Kumar said. “But if they leave the property or go somewhere else, across the street even, the towing company will tow your
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car right away. They don’t even come inside and ask me anything about it. They have their own people sitting in the parking lot watching people to see where they are going after they park their car.” Travis Denton, president of Carolina Auto Recovery Specialists, said Jimmy John’s franchise owner Dan Mall contracted with him about a year ago to tow in the lot, but he denies hiring those “spotters,” claiming that they are “a rumor stirred up by the WRAL article last year.” Although Denton said the business owners call in the towing company, Mall said he hired the towing company to control the lot independently. But aside from Kumar, others who live and work along Hillsborough Street, including Eddie Johnson, one of Mall’s employees, told the Technician they have seen spotters watching for illegally parked cars. Johnson, who has been a driver for this particular Jimmy John’s for less than two years, said he likes the towing policy because it ensures there are enough spaces for delivery drivers. “The spotters watch everyone. They even tow our own people if they come back and park after their shift is done,” Johnson said. “They know when people work and what they drive. For everyone else, the signs are out there and they’re clear. If you can’t read when you are coming in to park, then that’s not our problem.” Mall also said the policy is clear. “We need to tow cars that aren’t supposed to be there to make room for our customers,” Mall said. “If you leave the property for any reason, you will be towed.” Other business owners in the area are not
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Small explosion stirs College of Veterinary Medicine A tiny blast at the Vet School caused one building evacuation Wednesday morning. Chelsey Francis Deputy News Editor
A beaker not venting properly caused the Small Animal Hospital at the College of Veterinary Medicine to be evacuated for a brief time Wednesday morning. According to Keith Nichols, the director of news and communications for the University, the Small Animal Hospital was evacuated for about 15 minutes after the beaker exploded, at about 10 a.m. The building was evacuated only as a precaution. According to David Green, the director of college communications for CVM, there was no fire and no contamination. “Two people were working in a lab,” Green said. “One is a student and one is a lab technician. They were heating a beaker that is supposed to vent automatically. For some reason, the beaker wasn’t venting properly. Because of this, the beaker, for lack of a better word, exploded. When it did, smoke was generated, causing the fire alarm to go off and the building to be evacuated.” As is standard procedure, a hazardous materials team was called in to inspect the facility. “A HazMat team is called in anytime there is an alarm for a laboratory,” Green said. “The HazMat team did inspect the room and did not find any contamination issues.”
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New Senate officers installed Lots of seats re-elected and freshmen senators were taken in amidst senate advisors fighting.
Students will vote next week on which gift to work towards. Joanna Banegas Senior Staff Writer
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The 90th session on the University’s Student Senate saw as many as four Senate officer posts being contested, along with appointments of the recently elected freshmen senators and other student government officials. Nevin Kessler, vice chancellor of University advancement, started the proceedings by speaking on the importance of having a strong alumni association and the University’s ongoing efforts to bring alumni back to campus in ever greater numbers. The University currently receives $500 million in endowments, which works out to roughly $14,000 per student. Kessler spoke of the alumni’s importance in growing this resource and urged freshmen senators to engage more actively in campus life. N.C. State has 177,000 living alumni, a largely untapped resource. Kessler said he emphasized the seriousness of this issue and reiterated the fact that endowment for the University was considerably less when compared to other land-grant institutions. “A long-lasting relationship with your alma mater can be an enriching experience,” Kessler said. This was followed by an election for the appointment of Matthew Tucker for the College of Natural Resources seat. Because of Tucker’s absence, the seat remains empty. This was followed by the Senate
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Parliamentarian Jonathon Smith, a sophomore in agricultural education, challenges the issues that were brought before the Student Senate Wednesday night.
reading legislations and referring them to their respective committee. The Tuition and Fee Recommendation Act was referred to the Tuition Committee. The Tuition Committee will be hosting a meeting with the chancellor Wednesday. An important bill discussed was the Surplus Bill, in which the Student Government proposed to disburse the 2009-2010 budget surplus, amounting to $39,884, to the Appropriations Committee. It was proposed that 60 percent of the surplus would be used for the fall semester and the remaining 40 percent in the spring. The 13 recently elected freshmen
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senators were installed into office. The Senate meeting also consisted of the election of four Senate officers. Elections were held included the Senate President Pro Tempore, Senate Secretary, Legislative Secretary and the Sergeant-at-Arms. Election for the Senate President Pro Tempore seat saw both contestants, John Tucker and Ethan Harrelson, being thoroughly questioned by the Senate. This was followed by intense discussion after they left the room. Eventually, Ethan Harrelson was elected
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The class of 2011 Senior Class Committee has decided on the top five options for this year’s class gift. Kristy Craig, senior class president and a senior in political science, said the Senior Class Committee selected five options for the class gift. “We started off with about 20 options altogether,” Craig said. “When we took it to the council, we had 15 options and from there we voted on their top five options.” The senior class gif t options are: granite stairs leading to the Memorial Tower; purchase of a Jim Valvano bust and landscaping upgrades for the Coaches’ Corner Memorial Garden; an entryway renovation for Dan Allen Drive at Hillsborough Street; an artwork or statue in the plaza next to D.H. Hill Library; or a “You Choose” option. “It’s up to the senior class at large as to what gift we will be working toward,” said Craig. Craig said her main goal was for se-
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niors to have great options to choose from. “I am really happy with the five options that we have, especially seeing how I got to work with seniors as well as the administration to trying to find things that would fit the need of students while also being beneficial to the university,” Craig said. Walid Nazari, a senior in biochemistry, said he wants to vote for the Jimmy V bust. “We did such a big thing for Kay Yow,” Craig said. “I think that would be the best gift for our senior class because he also had cancer and should have some kind of memory from our senior class.” Mario Mirando, a senior in microbiology, said he would want to renovate the entryway for Dan Allen Drive at Hillsborough Street and fix the University’s sign. “It’s the first thing people see who are not on campus all the time and when they are driving on Hillsborough Street,” Mirando said. “It’s so dull, plain and small.” Mirando said N. C. State needs a new sign for the betterment and re-
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12:29 A.M. | ASSAULT Avent Ferry Complex Student reported being assaulted by another student. Subject was arrested for Assault on a Female.
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proceeds from these sales are donated to local non-profit organizations to promote horticulture. Lists of available plants for sale will be updated on their website, but there will not be a finalized version until the day before the sale. Previous plant lists give an idea of what might be available. Cash and checks are acceptable forms of payment at the sale. Credit cards are not allowed.Week, will go from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m. Little Brother, a North Carolina-based hip-hop group, will open for Boyz II Men, along with Who’s Bad, a Michael Jackson tribute band. Tickets are $25 for the general public ($30 for the day of the show), $10 for University faculty and staff, and free for students with a current ID.
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the new Senate President Pro Tempore Lauren Irwin and Rebekah Jewell ran for the Senate Secretary. The Senate questioned them on everything ranging from the number of credit hours they were taking to the number of other organizations on which they held important, official posts. The discussion that followed saw similar lobbying by various groups in the senate as for the Senate President Pro Tempore election. In the end, Irwin retained her position as the Senate Secretary. The Legislative Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms elections
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Green said the explosion was small and did not damage the facility. “It wasn’t really an explosion,” Green said. “The beaker shattered while it was being heated. The student suffered non-life threatening injuries but was taken to the hospital for care.” Capt. Jon Barnwell, patrol division commander with Campus Police, said the lab was the only area affected by the explosion of the beaker. “No other area outside of the lab was affected by the incident,” Barnwell said. Barnwell said the female graduate student was heating
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organization of the University. “My class gift to the University will be fixing the Dan Allen entryway, and I think that is a more visible option then the other class gift options,” Mirando said. Craig said, “Voting is a huge thing for us because we want as many seniors as we can get. I feel like all five options that we have is a way for the senior class to give back in a meaningful way and still have something we can come back to after we graduated and be proud of.” Seniors are going to vote Monday and Tuesday to decide which gift they will work toward.
were decided almost immediately with Caroline Yopp and Teresa Heath retaining their current positions. Senate President Stephen Kouba agreed to hear the general arguments and comments of Senate members after the elections. Yopp said she suggested the Senate elections might have been inf luenced on belonging to a fraternity or sorority. “Let me bring the elephant in the room out into the open. The elections should not be decided on whether you are a Greek or not, and whether you share fraternities with the Senate members or not,” Yopp said.
the beaker when it shattered. “Shards of glass cut the student’s face,” Barnwell said. “The injuries were not life- threatening, but she was transported to the hospital for treatment.” Green said there was no disruption to business at the Vet School, and it is not an unusual occurrence for smoke detectors to go off at the Vet School. “This happens quite a bit,” Green said. “Anytime there is any smoke, the fire alarms go off to evacuate the building. I didn’t even realize anything was going on until the building had been evacuated, and even then, it wasn’t a big thing.”
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pleased with the policy. Mike Ritchey is the owner of Global Village Organic Coffee, which sits a block away in another parking lot. Ritchey said towing on Hillsborough Street at all is simply a hassle, and one of the biggest issues with the towing practices of these businesses is they tow their own patrons. “If the spotters see people walk in any other direction than into either the convenience store or one of the other shops, they automatically call the tow trucks on them,” Ritchey said. “But on more than one instance somebody has, for example, gone to the bookstore to get a book and then gone to New York Pizza to buy lunch, and then come out to find that their car has been towed because they did not go immediately into New York Pizza.” However, towing companies aren’t solely targeting students, which is why Raleigh Mayor Charles Meeker said he suggests it may be time to put the issue of predatory towing before the City Council. It wouldn’t be the first time. The Council last revised its “improper towing” ordinance in 2008. It said a towing company cannot legally tow away a car if the owner returns to their vehicle while the tow truck is still in the lot, with the understanding that the owner will move the vehicle in question. The ordinance also states a
POSSIBLE SENIOR CLASS GIFTS: Stairs leading to the Memorial Tower: The class would fund a granite staircase leading to the University landmark on Hillsborough Street.
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An unauthorized and illegally parked vehicles sign in the parking lot behind the building where Jimmy John’s, I Love New York Pizza, GoPaks Bazaar and Dunkin Dounts/Baskin Robbins are located. Several business owners warn students to be careful parking in this lot if they are not going to any of these businesses.
towing company can charge a maximum of $100 for towing a car. “[Towing] is a very marginal business and predatory towing is a very bad practice. I know that businesses are concerned but there has to be another way to regulate their parking lots,” Meeker said. “They shouldn’t use these types of companies.” According to the Better Business Bureau, an organization that rates business quality, Carolina Auto Recovery Specialists holds an “F” rating. These ratings are based on various factors, including longevity of the business and the number of complaints. Carolina Auto Recovery Specialists’ rating stems from their lack of cooperation
with the Better Business Bureau to furnish basic company information, which would be available online to the public. By comparison, Ace Towing and Recovery, the company used by many other businesses on Hillsborough Street, like Zaxby’s, has an “A” rating. Mall said he worked with the police department to find a “reputable business” with “reputable business practices.” Although Raleigh Police spokesperson Jim Sughrue said it is unusual for the Raleigh Police Department to provide referrals, but it may have provided Mall with a list of local towing companies. Several business owners and managers on Hillsborough
Street said they agree this is not the way to deal with the abuse of the lot by drivers. At the very least, they said they’d like for the tow company to wait 15 to 20 minutes to see if the drivers come back before towing their cars, since the excessive towing is scaring away customers. “There is plenty of parking if you are patient, but when people have a bad experience with the parking on Hillsborough Street, they will go tell 100 people,” Ritchey said. “People don’t necessarily tell anyone if they have a good experience. And yes, we’ve seen a decrease in business.” News Editor Nathan Hardin contributed to this story.
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Purchase of a Jim Valvano bust and landscaping upgrades for the Coaches’ Corner Memorial Garden: The class would purchase the Jim Valvano sculpture and fund the needed landscape upgrades for the garden’s expansion.
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Entryway renovation for Dan Allen Drive at Hillsborough Street: The class would work with the University to help fund the new gateway at Dan Allen Drive and Hillsborough Street. The gateway will look similar to the new gateways near Memorial Tower and the entrances to Centennial Campus. Artwork or statue in the plaza next to D.H. Hill Library: Class would collaborate with N.C. State architects to design artwork or a statue to be displayed next to D.H. Hill, in the area between Hillsborough Street and the Brickyard’s main entrance. You Choose: Seniors could opt to give a cash gift to support their favorite college or program. All gifts from the senior class would be counted toward the Senior Class Gift.
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Dan Mall, the owner of Jimmy John’s on Hillsborough Street, has an agreement with Carolina Auto Recovery Specialists to tow illegally parked cars in the parking lot behind the building Jimmy John’s is in. Witnesses say they have seen spotters and cars being towed within minutes of being parked.
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Mall should be concerned with how his practices will effect his and other Hillsborough businesses. Students and other visitors will be less likely to bring their business there if they are at risk of being towed in such a manor.
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arking on Hillsborough Street has always been difficult to maneuver, but with the repaving and beautification project, businesses are counting on business to pick up. However, Dan Mall, the owner of Jimmy John’s on Hillsborough Street, seems to be out to benefit his own pocket by strictly monitoring his lot and towing noncustomer’s cars soon after they are parked “to make room” for his customers. Mall should be working to increase business on Hillsborough and manage his parking lot problems differently. Just because visitors are not immediately going into the businesses in the building managed by Mall, does not mean they should be immediately towed. This is unreason-
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able and this is not solving any of the problems business has faced. This scares away customers and, according to other owners nearby, hurts the other businesses around the building. If Mall is having problems with visitors abusing his parking lot, he needs to bring in other means to handle the issue. Hall should be concerned that Carolina Auto Recovery Specialists, the towing company he has an agreement with, is rated “F” by the Better Business Bureau, while there is another towing company, Ace Towing and Recovery, that other businesses on Hillsborough use and has a rating of “A.” Mall
should not make excuses and put this on the Raleigh Police Department. The BBB has most towing businesses rated on their website. Another concern Mall should have is the impound lot of Carolina Auto Recovery Specialists is about 15 to 20 minutes away. Visitors who have had their cars towed would have trouble traveling this far, especially since the lot is not serviced by the TTA bus system. The area is poorly lit and leaves students and other citizens at risk. There have also been claims the manager of the lot is hard to reach, which makes it difficult for people to get their cars back. This company has a legal
obligation to be available to people seeking to get their cars back. Ultimately, these concerns could lead to legal action by either individuals or the city council. Mall should be concerned with the ultimate effect all of this can have on his business. Students and visitors may interpret his choice of a poorlyrated towing business with poorly-managed facilities as how much Mall does not care about their business, and that should be something he cares about as a business man. With reasonable policies in place and open business practices, Mall can successfully manage his parking problem, while still serving his customers.
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Library lending service enhances students’ studies Over 100,000 loans of technological devices are made at the library each year, completely free.
commons librarian, “we are always looking to add new items for the Technology Lending Service.” The latest iPod touch is one example of a newly added item to the TLS. “We are really excited about the potential of Zach Diezel the new iPod touch to help students shoot HD Staff Writer video for class assignments,” Woodbury said. Students have a broad range of services avail- “These iPod touches are also FaceTime enabled, able to them at the University and one service which will allow students to communicate frequently used by students is the Technology through video chat.” While there are only three available iPod Lending Service, offered by the D.H. Hill Library, which gives students access to a plethora of touches now, the library is planning to add technologies. From laptops and iPads to graphics more soon. “There are three iPod touches currently availtablets and GPS units, if a student needs it the able for students to check out at the main desk in library probably has it. Trip Reade, a media resources librarian, has D.H. Hill for four hours. We will be adding 20 been involved with the Technology Lending Ser- additional new iPod touches to be available to vice for nearly a decade. According to Reade, the check out for a week at a time,” Woodbury said. One of the newer additions to the TechnolTechnology Lending Service has evolved over the years, in keeping with the rapid development of ogy Lending Service is the online waiting list. Students can get on a waiting list for any piece technology. In 2000, the Technology Lending Service of- of technology the library offers, and will be confered only laptops from a desk located in the tacted via e-mail or text message when the device west wing of D.H. Hill. As the service expanded, is ready for pickup. “[The online system] is still it was relocated to the east a step away from reserving wing’s learning commons in [a device]. It’s like a queue,” March 2007. The Technology Reade said. Lending Service (TLS) is now According to Woodbury, based at the main circulation video will continue to be an desk, and has been since the expanding area for the Techfall semester of 2009. nology Lending Service. DigiTechnology has changed a tal SLRs, digital cameras and lot since 2000. At that time, Carly Sutter, sophomore in math camcorders are presently Reade said not as many education available. students had laptops. Even “In addition, we have prothough most students today have their own personal computers, Reade said quality software and tools available in our Digthe most commonly requested item are laptops. ital Media Lab, including a green screen and “More students have their own laptop today audio recording equipment,” Woodbury said. Other new additions are in the pipeline, [than in 2000], but don’t want to carry it,” Reade Woodbury said. said, “so they think, ‘I’ll just check one out.’” “We are also keeping an eye on the latest develCarly Sutter, a sophomore in math education, said she just started using the Technology Lend- opments in multi-touch tablets like the iPad. We ing Service this year. “It’s convenient. I don’t see a lot of use of the iPads that we loan,” Woodneed to carry my laptop around or wait for an bury said. “We expect we’ll see new models from Apple and other manufacturers to be coming out open computer,” Sutter said. Brett Banford, a senior in microbiology, said in the next six to nine months and would like he uses the service a lot, but mainly for laptops. to be able to provide N.C. State students access “They always have what I want. There’s never to this equipment.” There is a tremendous use of the Technology a long wait,” Banford said. In Reade’s time with the University, the Tech- Lending Service by students, Woodbury said. “Our most popular items, such as laptops and nology Lending Service has evolved to include headphones, are checked out by thousands of much more than just laptops. According to David Woodbury, a learning students every week,” Woodbury said. “We check
“I don’t need to carry my laptop around or wait for an open computer.”
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Kim Dennis, a freshman in First Year College, gets help with a laptop she checked out in D.H. Hill Library. “I checked out a movie I have to watch for class. For some reason, PC’s don’t play the foreign movies,” Dennis said as she switched it out for a Mac. “The people here are really helpful. I think this is a good [resource] for students.”
out hundreds of iPads, cameras, iPods and calculators too.” According to David Hiscoe, director of communications for the library, “the Tech[nology] Lending Service has averaged loaning out almost 100,000 devices a year for the past several years.” Funding for the devices in the Technology Lending Service comes from the Education and Technology Fee (ETF), according to Reade. According to the 2008/2009 ETF Expenditure Report, “$239,400.12 was expended on computers, equipment, software and related maintenance to provide or refresh workstations in library study seating areas, including the Learning Commons and the Assistive Technology Center at the D. H. Hill Library, and to add or upgrade devices available through the Technology Lending Service.”� Woodbury said there are plans for continued development of the TLS. “We’ve built the [Technology Lending] Service with suggestions from students,” Woodbury said. “We make sure we have the technology that will help N.C. State students get their school work and research done.”
Devices Offered by Technology Lending Service:
4-hour loan: • iPads • Laptops (Mac and PC) • Portable DVD players • Graphing calculators • Headphones • Video games – Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii 7-day loan: • Digital SLRs • Kindles and Sony Readers • iPods • Cameras and camcorders • Digital voice recorders • Scanners • Graphics tablets • Flash drives • Projectors 2-week loan: • GPS Units—Handheld and Car Navigation
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You say autumn, I say fall (the weather says summer) High temperatures continue despite the season change, showing how the transition to fall is not always a smooth one. John Boyer Weather Columnist
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You could be forgiven for scoffing at the fact today is the first full day of the fall season. With temperatures peaking in the low-to-mid-90s this past week, one can still get away with pool attire. The weather pattern is expected to shift to cooler temperatures and become more seasonable after Sunday. Regardless, the seasons don’t always conform to our definitions or expectations. The record-breaking hot summer should be proof of that. Astronomical fall — what began last night — does have significance, but not in a way that describes our weather patterns. Fall begins with the autumnal equinox, when the axis of the Earth is perfectly upright, so the sun’s rays fall directly on the equator. Fall ends on the winter solstice, when the Northern Hemisphere is tilted away from the sun and nights are at their longest. This year, the winter solstice — and first day of winter — will take place Dec. 21. The autumnal equinox and the winter solstice do have an effect on the weather. The longest day of the year is in June, so we might expect that the hottest days should also be in June. We know from experience that it tends to come in late July and early August, even as the days are getting shorter. One of the earth’s most precious resources accounts for the lag. Most of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. Anyone who has experience with a stove knows water takes much longer to heat up than the burner (or your hand).
Typical temperatures: Time
Typical highs
typical lows
Late September
Upper-70s
Upper-50s
Early October
Mid-70s
Lower-50s
Mid October
Lower-70s
Upper-40s
Late October
Upper-60s
Mid-40s
Early November
Mid-60s
Lower-40s
Mid November
Lower-60s
Upper-30s
Late November
Upper-50s
Mid-30s
Source: north carolina state climate office
The oceans take longer to absorb and release heat from the sun. This inertia also takes place in the winter, when the coldest temperatures typically happen several weeks after the longest night. Meteorologists have another, better way of dividing the year. Meteorological fall is probably what you have in mind when you say “fall.” By definition, it includes the entire months of September, October and November. The journey to fall weather is never a smooth descent, but rather a spirited battle between warm and cold air masses. Like innocent victims, we watch the two duke it out through alternating “Indian summers” and frosty cold snaps. Like spring, fall is a sea-
son of transition and surprises. Hurricanes can spin up well into November, as can tornados. This area’s strongest and most damaging tornado happened shortly after Thanksgiving in 1988. Other times, like in 2007, we languish in extended droughts. The table shows what we expect for daytime highs and nighttime lows over the coming months. Obviously, the weather can be warmer or cooler than average and lead to different results. The decision about when to get the sweaters and mittens out is entirely up to you. My good friend from Franklin County begins wearing a fleece once we hit the 80s, whereas I keep some shorts in the drawer throughout the year.
“The journey to fall weather is never a smooth descent...”
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Outer Banks experience problem of shifting sand The inevitable erosion of the Outer Banks poses a problem for engineers and policymakers who discuss its future.
Other beaches have used jetties and terminal groins with some success; these structures work like speed bumps for the sand. Each extends perpendicular to the beach and collects sand before the alongshore current rushes it off to Florida. But the sand budget is still a problem. Heidi Klumpe “If we put something in, we affect sand on eiStaff Writer ther side,” Edge said, meaning jetties amass sand Stories of devastation in South Nags Head and on one side but allow it to erode on the other side Rodanthe or the breach Hurricane Isabel created disproportionally. This solution could hurt tourism as much as on Hatteras Island can oversimplify the issues of Outer Banks erosion, according to Billy Edge, a erosion, according to Lineberger. “We lose that commercial aspect through erocivil engineering professor and head of the Sustainable Engineering in Coastal Environments sion,” Lineberger said, and added that terminal program for the UNC Coastal Studies Institute. groins can be eyesores. “People aren’t going to like that. It won’t preserve the natural integrity, “The Banks are not all eroding,” Edge said. and it’s not as original or The real issue is the dynice a place to go. That’s namic nature of the shorewhat people love about the line, which grows or shrinks Banks — they’re kind of changeably. wild.” “[The shoreline] changes “The only things people daily, monthly, seasonally, are allowed to use are sandwith storms and in the longbags,” Edge said. “If a house term,” Margery Overton, a Erin Lineberger, sophomore in natural is threatened but not 50 percivil engineering professor, resources cent damaged, you are alsaid. lowed to put sandbags out Erin Lineberger, a sophomore in natural resources, said trying to estab- until the beach recovers.” The ban on structures came about as part of lish a community in such an environment is what the defense of the environmental integrity of the makes the shoreline change such an issue. “The erosion of the Banks is not our fault,” Banks, something that means a lot to inhabitants Lineberger said. “The problem is that we built on and vacationers. “Our banks are unique in their geomorpholthat. Building on the Banks is not sustainable.” In a high energy system like the Outer Banks, ogy,” Overton said. At the time of the ban, she waves refract, reflect and diffract, and currents described the legislators felt the Banks, “needed remove the sand. Alongshore currents carry it to be preserved in as natural a state as possible down the coast, while cross-shore currents take while allowing for development.” The real trouble is finding a balance between it back out to sea. That sand is not being replaced. “If any [sand] goes down towards Miami, there the unrelenting push to develop and a piece of are no rivers bringing sand back to the Banks land that refuses to stay permanent. “Barrier islands are, in their natural form, anymore,” Edge said. This sand exodus is accelerated and made more shifting islands,” Lineberger said. “Allowing dangerous by the large storms which often sweep them to shift is first priority to me. We humans through the area, taking ocean-side sand land- can work around that.” The biggest contention is construction on the ward, according to Edge. Under these conditions, legislators and locals coast, where yearly subtractions can accumulate into a big enough loss to remove a house. have worked to find coping mechanisms. “They use erosion rates to create setbacks for “North Carolina is one of a handful that bans the use of shoreline stabilization structures,” coast construction,” Overton said. “That’s where Overton said. “That limits your options on how any of the science of engineering techniques for understanding rate of change plays out in the to deal with shoreline erosion.” Shoreline stabilization structures encompass public sector and impacts an individual who’s an array of constructions. These include off- developing on the coast.” The kinds of solutions that will bring balance shore breakwaters, where rocks off the coast force waves to break and expend their energy to development will come from a combination before reaching the shore. Revetments — energy- of individual and public policy decisions, acabsorbing structures on the slope of the shore cording to Overton. “There are a lot of people in discussion on — are also an option, as well as perched sills — a structure underneath the water line which [what to do next],” Overton said. “It’s not simacts almost like a shelf, holding the sand up at a ply the engineer, the personal property owner or one person in a state agency. It’s a policy decision higher and less eroded level.
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on how to use that [scientific data] to manage development.” Current policy takes the calculated annual rate of erosion, multiplies it by 30 and uses that distance as a marker for where developers can begin to build. But even this policy does not contain all the nuances of shoreline fluctuation. “Most shorelines do not march back at a consistent rate. It has to do with sediment supply. It has to do with storms, human manipulation or construction,” Overton said. “There is a lot of variability in shoreline data, and we see more today given the advances in geospacial techniques and remote sensing, than we could have seen 30 years ago.” In reality, the translation of the data is as complex as accumulating the figures. “The issue is not our ability to describe a process as a scientist or an engineer,” Overton said. “Sometimes the issue is the need to balance multiple constituencies and points of view. How can you introduce the variability of shoreline position into policy?” In particular, the power struggle between property rights and public domain issues can be a stalemate. Introducing further restrictions is difficult, particularly when a previously purchased lot becomes undevelopable under new laws, according to Overton. However, for the average property owner the gradual effects of the erosion are not the greatest concern. Storms, like Hurricane Earl, produce the most devastating effects. “Many of us thought [Earl] was going to be a very significant event,” Overton said. “It turned out that it downgraded fairly quickly.” Still, for a community like the Banks, come high or low water, they are prepared. “I think that they do see storms as part of their way of life,” Overton said. “People have lived out there for a long time, and there’s a sense of resilience in those communities. They know there are some things they’re not going to prevent.” Most homeowners, whether on the mainland or the Banks, realize their homes are not permanent. “The houses aren’t going to last 200 or 300 years. Your wood and screen door and toaster aren’t going to last that long,” Edge said. “[All the houses] will go away some time.” Ultimately, sea level rise and gradual erosion may come into play in the future of policy. “Earlier this year, the Division of Coastal Management adopted a one-meter rise in water level by 2100 as a planning number for the coast of North Carolina,” Overton said. “A one-meter rise would be a lot. There are some places that aren’t more than a couple of meters high.” Lineberger predicts realizations like this will mean a lot more in the future. “We’ve been taking a kind of hands-
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Sand erosion in the North Carolina Outer Banks is a problem for legislators and builders who are working toward maintaining a sustainable environment.
off approach, but it’s getting to the point where we can’t,” she said. “Short of hardened structures, the beach will move. 50 years is where you’re going to see the big effects.” Edge hopes carefully-planned engineering solutions may be the key to keeping the Banks habitable. “We have to plan and design so that we will have a sustainable environment, sustaining as much of the natural environment as we can while protecting the livelihood and enjoyment of those people [who live and vacation there],” Edge said. Edge’s “Long-term Ocean Energy Program” incorporates a structure a couple of miles offshore, which would extract energy from the ocean and connect it to the electrical grid. “If we can design these so they’re out in front of the Nags Head area,” Edge said, “we can generate electricity and reduce waves before they get to shore.”
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TECHNICIAN teams. Howell said Geiger’s meticulous attention to detail and long-term concern for his runners over the course of the continued from page 8 season and their careers made his time at State unforgettable. “All I had to do was show up and program. While being recruited, Howell informed and run hard,” Howell said. Geiger that he could not pass “Geiger works just as hard, if up the academic opportunity not harder than the runners he to go to school at Princeton trains to make sure they have University. Geiger respected the opportunity to be successthat decision, wished him well ful.” Geiger said he makes an efand began calling coaches at Princeton to give Howell a fort to adapt his plans from chance to run for their school. year to year. “I spend a lot of time writing Howell later jumped at a secprograms,” ond chance to Geiger said. run for Geiger, “When I sit transferring dow n a nd after his sophmake up omore year. the game “He was a plan it’s a runner’s coach different and a real peoga me pla n ple person,” each yea r. Howell said. You have to One of the change as a most imporcoach a nd tant and eftry to make fective aspects cross country coach Rollie the program of the program Geiger better.” is the focus The key to placed on the athletes to be students. 15 of success, however, is not in the the athletes coached by Geiger mechanics of the program. “Those athletes have to bite have received NCAA postgraduate scholarships and 14 have into it,” Geiger said. “Trust is received the James-Weaver- huge. If the athletes in your Corrigan Postgraduate Schol- program feel that you care about them as individuals, the arship. “We stress academics in the rest of it takes care of itself.” The athletes coached by program,” Geiger said. “We find that if you are committed Rollie Geiger learn more than to putting in the work for this how to perform in the arena of program, then you are going to sport, Geiger said he hopes. “Hard work doesn’t guaranbe committed to your academics too because it is important tee success, it guarantees you to you. They go hand in hand.” the opportunity to be successWhen it comes to the tech- ful” Geiger said. These lessons, coupled with nical aspects of coaching, the record shows Geiger’s tal- the demand of the program, ent in the area of training his create successful individuals
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on and off the field. Not only are the members of Wolfpack Go Early All-ACC athletes, AllAmericans and ACC Champions, many become teachers, coaches, architects, lawyers, accountants, engineers and military officers. Those men also become fathers, husbands and contributing members of society. And most importantly, they become more than teammates – they grow to become like brothers to one another. “At the end of a championship, I cherish the interaction I see between the athletes and their families and their team, them up on the podium,” Geiger said. “For me, I don’t want to be up on the podium, I want to sit back and take it in, because I know 10 years from now they’ll still remember it. They’ll be brothers for life, and that’s what coaching is about. It is about relationships. I want them to have that opportunity and to be successful. That’s what coaches do, because I know later on in life they will be successful. And hopefully this program will help them do that.” Rollie Geiger began coaching men’s and women’s crosscountry in 1979. He continues to coach men’s cross-country, but turned the women’s team over to Laurie Henes in 2006. In his time as men’s and women’s head coach he led those teams to a combined 33 ACC Championships, two women’s NCAA National Championships, 19 individual ACC Championships, 161 All-ACC honors, 47 All-American honors and 21 top-10 national finishes. Geiger began coaching Track and Field in 1985. In that sport, his teams won six ACC Championships.
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Freshman defender Sonny Mukungu struggles for position with Presbyterian redshirt junior midfielder Stephen Glover during the first half of the Pack’s game. State beat Presbyterian, 5-1.
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This year Aboulhosn is looking to help her team reach goals it has been aiming for throughout her career. “We have the goals we always have, to make it to post season play, and also to just do well in the ACC because that’s the most challenging,” Aboulhosn said. “We’ve had times when we’ve done really well but also times where we know that we could have played better than we did. So we try to focus on the things to improve on for the next
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game, the Pack found itself in a corner. Soon after, freshman Mamadou Kansaye and sophmore Micheal Smith scored back-to-back goals in less than 35 seconds to account for the 5-1 final. “Anytime you play a team
that’s starting to get a little momentum and you come out and score a goal to try and kill that off, it was a big relief for me,” Mackvick said. “In the end it comes down to us playing our parts and playing well defensively.”
game and keep moving forward and keep emphasizing the things we need to do. We’re 6-3 so far. We could probably be better, but we’re okay for now and just looking forward.” Looking ahead in her own life, Aboulhosn isn’t sure exactly what her future after graduation holds, but knows it includes soccer. While the civil engineering major does not plan on playing soccer professionally, she hopes to keep playing for as long as possible. “After graduation my life will include soccer, but at a lower level,” Aboulhosn said. “I’ll probably join an indoor league. I love indoor. And I’m looking for a job. There’s a career fair that comes in October. I’m going go to that and hopefully
get something lined up when I graduate.” Af ter graduation, many things will change in Aboulhosn’s life, but one thing that won’t is her bond with her teammates. She tried to recall her favorite moment as a member of the women’s soccer team but had trouble choosing just one because of all the great memories she’s made with her teammates over the years. “Definitely last season when we beat Virginia, that was a big deal,” Aboulhosn said. “I have so many memories with the girls but definitely just the friendships I’ve made because they will last forever.
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Sports PAGE 8 • THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
COUNTDOWN
• 2 days until the football team takes on Georgia Tech in the ACC season opener
INSIDE
• Page 7: A continuation of the feature on women’s soccer player Nadia Aboulhosn
TECHNICIAN COMMENTARY
CROSS COUNTRY
Geiger’s impact indelible
Golfstat has Pack at No. 4 After two tournaments, only three teams in the nation are ranked higher than the men’s golf team. State is coming off a pair of strong performances, finishing first in the The Invitational at The Ocean Course and second at the Golfweek Conference Challenge. The team’s victory in The Invitational was relatively uncontested, as the Pack finished the tournament six strokes better than second-place finisher Notre Dame. The Pack finished second in its most recent tournament on the strength of one of its best showings in years. The team’s final score of -16 was the best performance State has posted in a 54-hole tournament since March of 2008, when it recorded a -26 score for the win at that year’s Hootie at Bulls’ Bay Intercollegiate. SOURCE: NC STATE ATHLETICS
Football sixth nationally in turnover ratio One season removed from finishing 114th in the country in turnover margin, through three games, the Wolfpack is among the nation’s best in that category. In 2009, State committed 25 turnovers and took the ball away from the opposition only 14 times, for a minus-11 ratio. In its undefeated 3-0 start this year, State has already forced seven and only committed two turnovers. That plus-five mark has Tom O’Brien’s team tied for sixth in the land. Russell Wilson has already thrown more than 100 passes, but is yet to be intercepted.
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Veteran coach Rollie Geiger has amassed more than championships in 30 plus years with State
ith a 3-0 start to the season, the football team is sure off to a hot start, actually the hottest start it has had since 2002. The only negative I can see so far is the lack of recruiting class for 2011.
Jon Goodman Staff Writer
It is easy to respect a man with 39 ACC Championships and 32 ACC Coach of the Year Awards. It is easy to admire a coach whose players, years after performing for him, gather to run a 240-mile relay race just to honor the program they credit for making them into men. With a laundry list of accolades and players who still feel close to his program, cross country coach Rollie Geiger meets and exceeds the criteria for success in his field. On Sept. 17 and 18 a team of 11 former N.C. State runners competed in the Reach the Beach Relay. Guys like Gavin Gaynor, Robert Howell, Chris Dugan, Michael Brooks and Jose Gonzalez, who came all the way from Spain for the race, got together with former teammates and even N.C. State alumni who they barely knew to run a relay race from Cannon
COURTESY OF CHRIS COLEMAN/N.C. STATE MEDIA RELATIONS
Cross country coach Rollie Geiger and former runner John Martinez enjoy their first place finish during the awards ceremony following the 2009 ACC cross country championships.
Mountain, N.H. to Hampton Beach, N.H. “Wolfpack Go Early” finished fourth overall and won the Masters Division for men over 30. “The weekend reminded me of the strong brotherhood that is Wolfpack XC. I think of you older guys often and
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Senior midfielder Nadia Aboulhosn chases down the ball against Coastal Carolina at Dail Soccer Field Aug. 22.
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Thursday WOMEN’S SOCCER @ CLEMSON Clemson, SC, 7 p.m. Friday WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. BOSTON COLLEGE Reynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m. MEN’S TENNIS @ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PLUS ONE Charlottesville, VA, All day Saturday FOOTBALL @ GEORGIA TECH Atlanta, GA, noon MEN’S SOCCER VS. VIRGINIA TECH Dail Soccer Field, 7 p.m.
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Men’s soccer pulls away from Presbyterian with three unanswered goals late
Christina Owens
September 2010
ated 13 years apart, but they all shared a common bond created in Rollie Geiger’s program. Robert Howell ran for Wake High School and knew of coach Geiger’s reputation
Pack obliterates Blue Hose, 5-1
O’Brien undefeated against Yellow Jackets, Johnson
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
recall the suffering and celebration we shared together that will bind us forever,” Gaynor said in an email. “It gives me great pride to see that the next generation shares the same bond.” The oldest and youngest members of that team gradu-
MEN’S SOCCER
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Football coach Tom O’Brien has never lost to the coach he will take on Saturday in Atlanta. O’Brien and N.C. State have not played Georgia Tech since he arrived in Raleigh, and the coach has not faced Tech coach Paul Johnson since Johnson was with Navy. But O’Brien-coached Boston College teams defeated Navy twice, in 2002 and 2006, when Johnson was on the sidelines. O’Brien has squared off with Georgia Tech only twice, losing in 1997 before beating the Jackets in Atlanta the following year. Both those games were played while O’Brien was at Boston College.
After 31 starts, 18 total points and six goals in 53 games over three seasons, senior Nadia Aboulhosn has reached her final season as a North Carolina State women’s soccer player. “I can’t believe it’s here,” senior midfielder Aboulhosn said. “It came so fast. I look at everything that happens this season a little differently because it might be the last time this happens or it might be the last time that happens. It just means a little bit more.” And with the start of ACC play not even underway, the senior from Raleigh’s Millbrook High School is already in the midst of easily the most productive season of her tenure with the Pack. Before this season, Aboulhosn had never notched more than seven points, three assists or three goals
Not all about the stars
in a year. Barring injury, she will shatter each of those marks in 2010, as she has already tied her previous season-bests of seven points and three goals, with 10 of 19 games still left on the schedule. Aboulhosn is one of three captains this year and is one of the most popular players on the team because of her talent and character. “Nadia has great leadership skill,” women’s soccer head coach Steve Springthorpe said. “She brings her leadership qualities for us. She’s a captain and a good player too. We’ve got three captains on the team but she’s the one that is basically in tune with what is going on with most of the players, and is friends with most of the players. She’s well liked, respected for her work ethic and for her classroom ethic. She’s just fantastic.” Aboulhosn made an immediate impact when she arrived on the NC State campus in 2007. Her freshman year she scored three goals and started nine games. Two seasons later, she almost doubled that number, with 17 starts as a junior.
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ported by senior Tyler Lassiter. Coach George Tarantini said the word “freshman” holds little meaning while everyone is out on the field. “There are no more freshDaniel Ely men,” Tarantini said. “They Correspondent are there the first day but afThe men’s soccer team ter that everyone is the same. defeated the Presbyterian In this league you have to be College Blue Hose Wednes- prepared. Yes, Tyler Lassiter day with an easy 5-1 victory. is a very important player The Pack is now 3-3 with because he has a lot of exthe only losses coming to perience, but the two guys playing in ranked t he back oppoare doing nents. a fantastic Those job.” losses The sehave come niority by a total is spread of four evenly this goals. Coach George Tarantini season, The filling poPack sitions all started in over t he quickly on Presbyterian with a goal field. Each set position within the first three min- within the Pack’s starting utes. Senior Chris Zuerner lineup contains at least one scored off an assist from underclassman and one upsophomore Michael Smith. perclassman. Senior Akail In a display of offensive te- DeFreitas was involved with nacity, the Pack kept the one goal and two assists. “It is very import for us ball on Presbyterian quarters nearly the entire half, to even out the goals during the game,” DeFreitas allowing one shot on goal. “Every one has a share of said. ”It’s a great example the responsibility,” junior for the NCAA tournament. goalkeeper Will Mackvick It’s very important to keep said. “You have to make scoring like that, but it’s sure everyone is marked important for us to not be up and everyone has their scored on also.” The second half of the individual assignments. If everyone does their in- game was a different story dividual role then it just for the Pack. With a 2-0 makes everything easier. lead in the second half, the It is just organization and tides shifted when Presbymaking sure everyone does terian scored a goal in the their job.” 20th minute. The defense Defensively the Pack per- was tested, as Presbyterian formed well, with only four attempted five corner kicks shots allowed on goal. The in the second half, with one backfield holds two fresh- leading to a goal. Mackvmen, Sonny Mukungu and Gbengha Makinde, supSOCCER continued page 7
“The two guys playing in the back are doing a fantastic job.”
As of today, the Pack has a total of seven committed recruits, according to b ot h S c out . Taylor com and Rivals.com. And Barbour Deputy Sports out of these seven recruits Editor on Scout.com, none are ranked above a twostar prospect, while Rivals.com is slightly more generous, as it has three of the seven players ranked as three stars. And with that in mind, all of the recruiting experts look to this and say that this is a horrendous recruiting class, possibly one of the worst in the NCAA. But I tend to disagree. Actually, I disagree with the entire recruiting process because it is entirely flawed. The star system is a great way to rank people but hardly is effective and rarely ranks people correctly. And to show you this, lets look at a few examples, beginning with the most important player on the football team, quarterback Russell Wilson. On both sites Wilson was ranked as a two-star recruit coming out of Collegiate High School in Richmond Va. And according to Scout.com, he was the 67th ranked quarterback. Now in hindsight, I find it a little hard to believe that there are 66 better quarterbacks in the nation than Russell Wilson. The next example is middle linebacker and star defensive player Nate Irving. Irving was given a two-star ranking from Rivals.com and a threestar ranking from Scout.com. In both cases, Irving was not even ranked as a linebacker. And it is easy to see that he is much, much better than previously thought coming out of high school. And for every single recruit that is undervalued and overlooked, there are countless players who are ranked four and five-star players who turn out to be huge busts, and one of the biggest that comes to mind is our dear old friend, former quarterback Harrison Beck. Coming out of Florida, Beck was one of the most highlyranked and recruited quarterbacks in the 2005 recruiting class. Both sites had Beck ranked as a four-star recruit and Scout had him ranked as the 11th best quarterback in the nation. And that was about as good as it ever got for the former Wolfpack quarterback. He committed to Nebraska and after just one season as a Cornhusker, decided to transfer to State. And once Beck got on campus, he was supposed to be the savior at the quarterback position, finally giving State its first quarterback since Philip Rivers’ graduation left a hole at the position. But everything didn’t go as planned. Beck struggled mightily with the Pack, as he threw for only four touchdowns compared to 16 interceptions. Needless to say, Beck was not the player many thought he would be coming
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