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The NCSU Rocketry team will be going to Alabama to debut their original rocket design. Zach Green & Shawn Thompson Staff Writers
N.C. State’s own Rocketry Team, the Tacho Lycos, has been invited to participate in NASA’s University Student Launch Initiative this April. Tacho Lycos, which means “speedy wolf ” in Greek, is a student-run organization that started in 2009. They have competed in NASA’s USLI program for three years. All but a few members this year are new to the team and many of them are freshmen and sophomores. “This team has transformed into a hard competitive group of motivated engineering students,” Garrett Abbott-Frey, senior in mechanical engineering and the team’s design lead, said. “If we keep this momentum going we will be unstoppable.” The project gives university-level students the chance to design, create and launch a reusable rocket one mile above ground level. The rocket must also include a scientific or engineering-oriented payload designed by the team. The program gives students the opportunity to work through real-world engineering processes and scientific research. The annual launch event is held at Bragg Farms in Toney, Ala., and is sponsored by ATK Aerospace Systems. Tacho Lycos began working on their design in August and submitted their proposal to NASA. They were notified of their acceptance and immediately began working on a sub-scale model of their rocket. Some of the other universities accepted are MIT, Florida State, Penn State and Virginia Tech. The design team is composed of 10 members, who also make up the competition team that will be traveling to Alabama this spring. After drawing up and revising several designs, the team built a sub-scale rocket over winter break that was 50 percent of the size of the competition rocket. “We recently launched our sub-scale rocket in Orangeburg, S.C. It was very successful--we reached an altitude of 5,900 feet,” Abbott-Frey said. The competition rocket itself will be 110 inches long and 5.5 inches in diameter. It is hand made by the team out of carbon fiber and weighs 47.4 lbs including the motors and payloads.
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Students and faculty break a sweat for cancer As the second annual Miles 4 Kay fundraiser commences, University Rec wants students to rack up miles for cancer research.
logged onto the pink treadmills over the next month, Cybex will donate 10 cents to the Yow Fund. While Kay Yow was a well-loved coach, her commitment to University athletics is not just her legacy, but one continued by her sister, Debbie Yow, our current athletic director. Jessie Halpern “Any initiative that generates awareDeputy News Editor ness or funds for cancer research is an While Carmichael is home to important one,” Yow said. Fitness director at the Carmichael many who are interested in maintaining their own health, this year Gym, Alex Stubbs, is excited to be a will mark the second time students part of the event for the first time. “This year, we’re hoping to log 3,000 and faculty are invited to work out miles and beat last year’s 2,300,” to keep others healthy. University Recreation’s second Stubbs said. While the main goal of the fundannual Miles 4 Kay fundraiser will raiser is to log as many begin today at 11:30 miles as possible, the a.m., when Thomas event also seeks to Stafford and Lisa shed light on breast Zapata of the office cancer awareness and of student conduct prevention, according join Carmichael to Stubbs. Gy m’s d i rec tor, “There will be a moEric Hawkes, to log bile mammography bus the first miles on the parked outside the gym pink treadmills set Wednesday from 9 a.m. aside for the fundAlex Stubbs, Carmichael to 3 p.m. for women raiser. fitness director who meet the requireThe Miles 4 Kay ments,” Stubbs said. fundraiser began In addition to events la st yea r, when University Recreation decided to that will help in breast cancer educacommemorate N.C. State’s for- tion, the fundraiser is paired with mer Women’s Basketball coach, some fun-spirited special events in Kay Yow, by raising money for honor of Yow throughout the month. breast cancer research. Cybex, There will be a “Hoops for Hope” an international workout equip- women’s basketball game in her honor ment company, donated three pink Feb. 12 where everything will be pink treadmills to the Carmichael Gym, for breast cancer awareness. which are set aside specifically for this fundraiser. For every mile CANCER continued page 3
“This year, we’re hoping to log 3,000 miles and beat last year’s 2,300.”
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Kristen Parrott, senior in nutrition science, goes for a run on the Miles 4 Kay treadmill at Carmichael Gymnasium Tuesday.
Performance gives perspective on revolution Poetic Portraits of a Revolution spoke about their inspiration and findings at Stewart Theater last night. Emily Collis Staff Writer
While most students have heard about the uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia through various media outlets, four students went straight to the source to gain perspective on the events. Last night in Stewart Theater, the group Poetic Portraits of a Revolution presented its first public performance of their discoveries while in Egypt and Tunisia. The group includes four young men with a strong purpose to display through art. They spent last summer traveling through Egypt and Tunisia to observe the revolutions and created art based off the experience. Among those who took the journey were University students Mohammad Moussa, who served as translator, and Sameer Abdelkhalek, who served as photog-
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Mohammed Moussa, senior in electrical and computer engineering, performs spoken word poetry about his experience in Egypt and Tunisia for Poetic Portraits of a Revolution in Stewart Theatre, Tuesday.
rapher. Will McInerney and Kane Smego are part of the group as well. The group compiled many forms of media during their trip in hopes of sharing what they saw and felt while in a country experiencing a lot of change. The goal of the project was simple: inform the world about the events
and revolutions occurring in Egypt and Tunisia in a way that would truly capture what the citizens of the countries were experiencing. Unlike the average early morning news reports, Poetic Portraits of a Revolution spoke to average people and presented their findings in a way that is not sensation-
alized. “On one hand you want to make sure that you captured the stories in the right way and on the other hand you want to give the stories justice and portray them in a light that the people who were telling these stories would appreciate and approve of,” Moussa said. Sharing and teaching the audience about their experiences is one of the main goals of the group. They aim to encourage others to change as well, according to Moussa. “The performance is a challenge to the audience, to continue this work. It’s an idea that stories are powerful and human stories can rely understanding and we can use art to help us creatively express that, but at the end of the day it all boils down to human stories,” McInerney said. Josie Miller, freshman in international studies, came to the performance after hearing about its strong message. “I think it’s good to make college kids aware of the outside world because we don’t really travel outside of
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Alum takes reigns of Research Triangle Park Turtle Island follows jazz inspiration
Turtle Island Quartet’s performance celebrates Coltrane and the meaning of music. See page 5.
Bob Geolas, ’87 graduate, returns to North Carolina as CEO of Research Triangle Park. Mark Herring Features Editor
Crew dances Just Cuz it can
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Bob Geolas did not know exactly what he wanted to do when he entered N.C. State in the 1980s. Like many undecided students, he changed his major and graduated with a political science degree. He is now the CEO of Research Triangle Park. Geolas started a new chapter of his career in research parks when he started at RTP in Nov. 28. After graduating in 1987, Geolas worked in politics and was the youngest
chief of staff of the speaker of house of North Carolina. He spearheaded the Clinton campaign in the state, but after getting married, he left politics to return to the University. Centennial Campus was the first project outside traditional politics that Geolas helped spearhead. Before changing his degree to political science, Geolas was a design student and became friends with the college’s then-dean, Claude McKinney, the mastermind of the research-park campus. “Claude was a very open dean, and I would stop by his office and talk with him a lot, and he would talk about this place he imaged called Centennial Campus,” Geolas said. “He would show me sketches of what he thought, but no one else really got it. But Claude made sure to get this campus built.”
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With the political support of Gov. Jim Hunt, Chancellor Bruce Poulton launched Centennial Campus, and in 1989 the first building on the campus was occupied. “Claude and Governor Hunt really coalesced at a perfect time,” Geolas said. “Claude was a great visionary, but he was enormously patient … I learned a lot from him.” Geolas worked on Centennial Campus in 1995 and worked as the coordinator of partnership development. Michael Harwood, associate vice chancellor of Centennial Campus Development, worked with Geolas on expanding the campus. “I was a project manager for many of the early projects on campus,” Harwood said. “Bob was working with the
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Bob Geolas, an N.C. State alum and a man of humble origins, was recently elected CEO of Research Triangle Park.
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7:10 a.m. | Suspicious Vehicle Centennial Utilities Plant Report of suspicious vehicle. It was determined vehicle belonged to employee.
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University Courses & Curricula Committee Meeting 12:30-2:30 p.m. Talley Student Center
Agri-Life Council Meeting 7-8:30 p.m. 105 Schaub Hall Agri-Life Student organization representatives from the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences will meet to discuss issues in the college. If you are an Agri-Life representative, please attend. Dinner will be served at 7:00 p.m. and the meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. Meetings are open to all NCSU students. Come join us.
Crafting-C Chinese Brush Painting 4-7 p.m. 131 Crafts Center For NCSU students only. $5 supply fee.
Dancing with the Wolves Newcomer Lessons 8-10 p.m. Dance Studio, Carmichael Gymnasium Thursday Kick the Winter Blues with Blueberry Fever All Day Campus Dining Halls Try various menu items crafted with fresh blueberries.
Short Student Films Screening 7-8:30 p.m. D.H. Hill Library Auditorium Experience the talent of NC State students as they screen their best short films. Ranging from computer animation to experimental pieces, all films are under four minutes long. During the program, students will talk about the process of creating their work.
An Evening With Ben Owen 7-9 p.m. 100/127 Crafts Center In conjunction with a weekend workshop presented by Triangle Potters Guild, the public is invited to an evening presentation by noted potter Ben Owen III. Owen will present a slide lecture covering the history of the Owen family in clay as well as the process at Ben Owen Pottery. If time allows, some pottery may be made after the lecture.
5:53 p.m. | Drug Violation Lee Hall Report of possible drug violation. Student was referred to the University for possession of controlled substance after being found to be in possession of marijuana.
Jan. 29 3:38 a.m. | Breaking & Entering - Larceny Owen Hall Student reported room had been entered and took laptop, watch and iPhone. 2:02 p.m. | Larceny Syme Hall Student reported bicycle stolen over holiday break. 5:10 p.m. | Damage to Property Bragaw Hall Student reported tire had been slashed. Concerned Behavior report completed on nonstudents. 6:24 p.m. | Larceny Harris Lot Student reported wallet stolen. Unauthorized purchases were made with card.
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Jan. 30 1:26 a.m. | Larceny D.H. Hill Library Student reported bicycle stolen.
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Chinese business course gives students international perspective A new Chinese business course gives students the tools to compete in an international market.
fer several guest lecturers who have experience in Chinese business practices. Students who take the course will learn about Chinese culture and how to handle busiWill Brooks ness situations with the ChiDeputy News Editor nese, goals Lamm says intersect International business people directly with that of the Conhave been adapting themselves fucius Institute. “Our mission here at Confuto American culture for thousands of years, but recently cius Institute is to teach Chithere have been other cultures nese business and culture,” Lamm said. to accommodate. Marie Claire Ribeill, lanThe Confucius Institute of N.C. State, which aims to guage coordinator for the spread Chinese culture around University, has also taken part campus, is currently offering in constructing the Chinese Chinese business classes to business course. According to Ribeill, the course will espesome students. Anna Lamm of the Confu- cially help students of SKEMA. “F o r t h e cius Institute, moment and the Chi[the course na program is] just for director, said the SKEMA she is anticistudents,” pat i ng t he Ribeill said, course to be “Ou r st ua success. dents are “We have a business stubig group for dents, so they the course. will definitely It is an elecbe de a l i ng tive course with Chinese but next seAnna Lamm, China business peomester we program director ple.” hope to offer Ribeill said it for credit,” one of the main reasons the Lamm said. Lamm said members of SKE- course is especially beneficial MA Business School, a French to SKEMA students is because exchange program, would the business school has a cammainly inhabit the current pus in China. She also said the course. She hopes to see the course’s conception is largely due to the recent rise in China’s course expand next semester. The Chinese business course economy. “There are more and more will aim at several aspects of business, including Chinese business transactions with business etiquette and tech- China,” Ribeill said. In the course, students will niques, vocabulary, politics and economics of the country. learn how to speak with ChiThe course, taught primarily nese people in English, as well by Chen Xiaoke, will also of- as how develop relationships
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The motor is the L1420R-P high performance aerospace motor. They are projecting the rocket will fly as high as 5,225 feet at a maximum velocity of 615 feet per second, roughly 0.55 mach. “We have not only accepted the challenge but we are adding to it. We are doing two experiments where we are only required to do one,” Abbott-
Frey said. The competition requires each team to include one payload in their rocket, but Tacho Lycos is taking on two. The first payload is a CO2 scrubber, the design of which is based around a soda lime material used in re-breathers. The team has managed to absorb and scrub the same amount of CO2 that the rocket motor produces. This has created a CO2 emission neutral rocket.
with Chinese people and speak very basic Chinese. “We teach how to act during a banquet, how to give your business card, how to say hello, how to say goodbye,” Ribeill said. Although the course does not teach conversational Chinese, Ribeill said the course will train students to treat Chinese business people the way they are accustomed to. Marshall Crawley, sophomore in English, saw the benefit in a Chinese business course, but didn’t see it as particularly beneficial to himself. “It isn’t a course I would take,” Crawley said. Crawley said the course does seem appropriate, given China’s increasingly relevant role in international business. Arthur Freeman, sophomore in sport management, said the course could be good for some students. “I could see it being beneficial,” Freeman said. Both Freeman and Crawley expressed the course seems very relevant to business majors, such as SKEMA students. “If you are in a business field I can see why someone would want to take that course,” Freeman said. The course, though basic, seeks to provide business people with the tools necessary to conduct business positively. “There are a lot of things that you should do, or not do, that you may not know about,” Ribeill said.
The second payload is testing the ability of a meteorological fluid, called Magnito Rheological Fluid, to dampen the damage done by high acceleration forces to sensitive equipment found on rockets. The team designed the circuitry used to test this and the LORD Company donated the fluid. Sean Maroni, a junior in mechanical engineering, will be taking part in the second payload. Maroni’s environment-
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Will McInerny, a spoken word and youth educator, tells about his travels to Egypt and Tunisia during the Arab Spring revolutions. In the background are photos taken during the events of the revolutions.
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spoken prose and personal testimonies. Miller said she was especially interested in the project because people who are in college or recently graduated created it. “When people are that passionate about something, it’s hard not to be affected by it. It’s so powerful especially when you see some people my age doing that,” Miller said. The performance concluded with a question and answer session that allowed students and others in attendance to learn even more about the project. The speakers carefully addressed all questions to give
everyone a full understanding and presented a charge to the audience. “Don’t let the inspiration stop after the show ends; take it and make it your own,” Moussa said. The photographs of their journey are still on display in the Craft Center until March 2. If you missed the event and would like to see it, the group will present it again at N.C. State for University Scholars in late February. This will be followed by a more theatrical performance at The Arts Center in Carrboro.
Though Hawkes has only been the director at Carmichael for three months, he said he is excited to take part in the fundraiser and hopes it will be a success. As director, he will be one of the three University employees to track the first miles of the
month. “I’m going to try and go three miles on Wednesday, just as long as the line isn’t too long,” Hawkes said. While three miles is his goal for Wednesday, he plans to “go hard” and log up to six per week. Hoping to get students in a competitive spirit, Stubbs said prizes will be offered for those who log the most miles during
the month. “Hopefully that will encourage students to compete with each other and add more mileage to our total,” Stubbs said. “It would be cool to even form teams and make it a real competition.” The treadmills will be open for use beginning at 11:30 a.m. this morning. Personal mileage progress can be charted using a form provided at the gym.
friendly design of a rocket will incorporate the same technology used by U.S. Navy Seals, the first of its kind. This particular rocket will help with CO2 emissions in the atmosphere by converting the emissions into other non-threatening resources that could be used in the environment. “I personally think experiments like this are really important to help tackle that issue, which is one of the greatest issues of our time. Global warming is a very low funded area of research. Every experiment will help with that issue. It’s a good place to start”, Maroni said. “I believe that our experi-
ment will open the door for more intensive research in using MR f luid as a damper in rocket application,” Josef Khalil, senior in mechanical engineering and team president, said. This year, the team looked to incoming freshmen and sophomores for recruitment to give younger engineers a chance to get real-world experience outside the classroom. The team made presentations to many of the E101 classes and were able to recruit members, many of whom are on the design team. “I’m honestly proud by how dedicated those freshmen members are and how much they contribute to the design
and construction of the project,” Khalil said. The team also does outreach work traveling out to elementary, middle and high schools giving presentations and demonstrations to educate and encourage potential aerospace engineers. “Normally, everything we do is for the kids,” Taylor Garrison, former outreach coordinator, said. “Kids always love the presentations and watching the rocket demonstrations.” Though all the current members of the team are engineering majors, anyone with an interest in rocketry is encouraged to come to their weekly meetings.
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our campus,” Miller said. The theater performance complied their findings into a moving masterpiece, filled with poetry, interviews, photographs and video footage. The performance began with a story to introduce the American stereotype of Egypt and Tunisia and then followed a script that included inter v iews of Egyptians and Tunisians,
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Adopting electric
The Facts:
Electric cars, while not a new concept, are being produced on a large scale for the first time in recent memory. Currently, there are seven full-sized models of electric cars in production and many more in development.
Our Opinion:
Electric cars promise to fill a need in the auto industry few other technologies can. The electric car may not be ready to dominate the auto market tomorrow, but it is a future we can all look toward.
The future envisioned by Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, is here. While we may not yet be traveling to distant galaxies, we are widely adopting some of the technologies he envisioned in the 1960s. We have cell phones, are harnessing solar power on a large scale, are connected through a global information network and now we have electric cars. There was a great buzz four to five years ago about the electric car. The common consensus was hybrids were going to be a stopgap measure until we started massproducing electric cars; however, this was not the case.
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Like every emerging technology, the promise is always given long before it can be flawlessly delivered. Dan Neil, Pulitzer prize winning automotive critic for The Wall Street Journal, in his talk Monday underscored that electric cars, to be adopted, had to overcome two hurdles: technology and public consciousness. Slowly but steadily electric cars are beginning to overcome both obstacles. There are currently seven full-sized models of electric cars being produced around the world. The most
notable in the U.S. are perhaps Nissan’s Leaf and the Chevy Volt. The Leaf and Volt are the first large scale attempts from major auto companies into electric cars. Combined, there have been more than 30,000 sold worldwide. And while the sales figures just barely fall short of sales targets, they do show there is a growing consumer base for electric cars. We’re also beginning to see that electric and speed are not mutually exclusive terms. Until Tesla developed the concept of an elec-
tric car, it was implied to be underpowered. The stereotype was often cited as a reason for not adopting the new technology. However, with a 0-60 mph time of 3.7 seconds, as fast as a Porsche 911, there is no doubt an electric car can hold its own against its gas counterpart. At the University, we are preparing for the growing use of electric cars. There is currently an electric car power station at our visitor center. It is open to anyone who wishes to use it. More importantly, it is symbolic of our Uni-
Style, grammar, and the oxford comma
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hen it comes to grammar, I am by no means an expert and I am an even further cry from a so-called “Grammar Nazi.” If you want to end your sentence with a preposition, I won’t care when I’m down below. If you join two independent clauses together with a comma, no skin off my back. If you choose to not use a semicolon appropriately because either you don’t know how to use it or you realize it’s a rather silly punctuation mark surpassed only in formal uselessness as its half brother t he colon ; I Jon won’t hunt you Lewis down or cringe Staff columnist when I read your writing. If you, the reader, don’t understand the difference between a subordinate and major clause, I won’t be the one to call you an imbecile. You see, all those problems and a myriad of other rules do little more than allow English majors to be pejorative when you write a paper and mess something up. None of them actually interfere with the clarity or understanding of your message. Following the ridiculous number of rules that E.B. White and William Strunk Jr. propose in their Elements of Style will let readers of your work know you are “well read” and can adhere to a mostly arbitrary set of rules, which could be a good thing depending on the situation. But when you get right down to it, who actually cares if you ask someone, “What did you step on?” instead of the correct (and incredibly prudish) “On what did you step?” It doesn’t make a lick of difference. However, not all elements of grammar are as supercilious as the aforementioned elements of what I have a hard time calling “style.” Other points are actually critical in clearly communicating your point. These important grammar rules include things like spelling, understanding parts of speech, how to properly use suffixes to change the part of speech of a word and things like the Oxford comma. The Oxford comma lords over all other clarifying grammar rules that actually matter. Usually if someone misspells something or makes up a word, a reader with more than a non-
existent brain capacity can use context clues and their knowledge of colloquial speech to figure out what the intended message is. However, if the Oxford comma is omitted from a list of any sort there is no way for you to tell if the last two objects in the list are related or not. Lynne Truss wrote a book called Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. The title of this book is really its only redeeming quality. It comes from a joke in which a panda enters a restaurant, eats a sandwich, then pulls out a gun and murders everyone in the restaurant. Before the panda leaves, a surviving patron asks why the panda did it. The panda throws a field guide to pandas at the man and tells him to look it up. The man turns to the entry for pandas and reads: “Panda. Large blackand-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.” You’re not laughing? I’ll explain. Without the omnipotent Oxford comma, “shoots and leaves” are connected as part of one thing and the only way they can be tied together is if you read “shoots” as a verb instead of as a noun meaning stalks of bamboo. So why did I bother writing this entire column about using correct grammar? As it turns out, the prescribed style when writing for the paper does not allow for the use of Oxford commas. This means if I ever want to make a list, I won’t be able to because I never know how someone is going to interpret the end! If I ever want to make a point with various pieces of support, I won’t be able to list them without massive confusion. My entire way of writing is going to burn away in a giant ball of fire! So tell me, does the panda shoot after he eats? Did I dip my toast in orange juice when I had cereal, toast and orange juice? I just don’t know and I guess I never will. Send Jon Lewis your thoughts on the oxford comma to letters@technicianonline.com.
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versity getting on the electric car bandwagon. Electric cars and all similar “renewable” technologies have had their benefits regurgitated so often and for so long they’ve become trite; however, the benefits are quite real. Decreased emissions, decreased fuel consumption and increased fuel economy are all great needs in the current auto market. While the electric car may not abolish all the problems with the auto industry, it is a good start. But, in the end, it is just that: a start. So, let’s treat it as such, embrace it as it comes and don’t expect instant gratification because of the hype.
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or those of you who don’t know, the MRS degree is a euphemism for a woman attending college for the sole purpose of obtaining a husband. They want one who will fully provide for her and allow her to be a stay-at-home wife/mother. Up north, this type of woman is synonymous with the term Kate “gold-digger.” Leonik I understand Staff columnist the traditional Southern way is for men to tend to be the breadwinners and women to tend to be the homemakers. But, ladies and gentlemen, the women going for the MRS degree are far different. The MRS degree women are a different breed. They want to drive a brand new MercedesBenz , live in a lav ish house in the richest part of town and to be showered w it h g i f t s f rom Tiffany’s. They certainly don’t leave their rooms until they have a full face of makeup and their hair done. Their walk to Tompkins is less of a walk and more of a sashay down the runway. They never leave the house with just jeans and a T-shirt — unless of course, they are Lucky Brand jeans and the T-shirt from their latest social event.
Too many times I’ve been forced to listen to their deranged conversations about life and marriage. There was one instance when I had heard quite enough about their fairytale dreams. I decided to ask them what would happen if they fell in love with a guy who was poor. The leader in the trust fund search smiled as if my question had brought her some type of amusement and said in her most proper, futurepolitician’s-wife voice, “I would never date a poor man, so there is absolutely no way I would fall in love with one.” Her ignorance angered me to the point where I wanted to enlighten her with some colorful words, but self-control prevailed and I walked away. Women like this are the people who indebt themselves with the college loans that eventually lead to the increase in tuition for us all. If they’re not going to take their college education seriously, then t hey oug ht to leave the opportunity to someone else. Better yet, skip the middle-man, sign up to be on some Millionaire Matchmaker show. Everyone is at least honest about what they want here. Each person involved benefits — It’s called mutualism. On the contrary, when one person in a relationship uses another in order to obtain their needs in life — it’s called parasitism. Think about
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it. My mother, who is also a product of the North, raised two daughters while maintaining a career. She and my father have always taught my sister and I to be completely independent. They reinforced the idea that we don’t need a man to make us happy or to fully provide for us. Their guidance is the reason I chose to major in engineering. I want to get a little something for myself in life. And I never want to have to feel like I owe somebody something. Women have worked for decades to get equal rights. We are lucky enough to live in a time when women not only have the opportunity to get a college degree but they can also be equal to men in the workforce. I understand there are Southern ideals, but how can someone ever know who they are as a person if they go right from their parent’s house to their husband’s house. It’s an odd progression of events. If you or someone you know is currently pursuing an MRS degree, please enlighten them. Tell them the error of their ways and encourage them to do something with their lives. They might actually be surprised at how rewarding it is. Send Kate Leonik your thoughts on MRS degrees to letters@technicianonline.com.
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Crew dances Just Cuz it can Despite being less than a year old, Just Cuz Crew is quickly establishing a reputation. Young Lee Deputy Features Editor
What began less than a year ago as a small group of students with a simple desire to express themselves is now a 14-member dance crew whose name is mentioned among the best university dance crews in the area. Just Cuz Crew has quickly developed name recognition and a reputation for being strong and passionate about what they do. “Everyone thought we were a joke at first, but look where we’re at now,” Cairyl Alcazar, a junior in nutrition science and a founding member of Just Cuz Crew, said. Whether in their workshops or at their recent performance at the Asian Student Association’s Asia Nite, those who have witnessed Just Cuz Crew in action have seen a new dance crew exhibit a unique energy and quality. Jeff Shu, a senior in textiles, was one such student. “I had never seen them dance
at all before Asia Nite but I was really impressed” Shu said. “I don’t really know how to describe it, but their flow seems entirely different from what I’ve seen every year which is Fusion [dance crew] and Kamikaze [dance crew] … so even though we have a lot of crews, the addition of Just Cuz Crew adds to the diversity of the dance crew scene .” Perhaps this difference in flow can be attributed to the philosophy that spurred the Just Cuz Crew’s formation. “After not being able to express our talents … we were just like ‘You know what? We just want to dance, and no one can hold us back from what we want to do,’” Alcazar said. This emphasis on the freedom of expression carries on in every Just Cuz Crew practice. “[Our practices are] less stressful. It’s not like, ‘You got to do this. You got to do that.’ It’s a more relaxed atmosphere, like friends getting together,” Phang Cha, a freshman in computer science and member of Just Cuz Crew, said. However, this philosophy has led the crew to break away from the traditional organized structure of a dance crew. “We have a lot of talent in our
crew. We have backgrounds in modern dance and ballet dance, and of course we have really great breakdancers so we highlight people a lot,” Corinne Canavarro, a freshman in first year college and member of Just Cuz Crew, said. “We’re like a family and not a hierarchy. We don’t have a captain and a co-captain. We don’t have set choreographers.” However many crew members like Brittny Sanders, a sophomore in international studies and member of Just Cuz Crew, see this aspect as an advantage. “We all have different talents, and we like to highlight those talents,” Sanders said. “The fact that we take the talents that we each have and we incorporate them into the various choreographies sets us apart for other crews.” Regardless of whether this is an advantage, Just Cuz Crew’s diversity was visible for audience members to see at their Asia Nite performance where they allowed each individual member to express his or her individual styles of dance to a music selection that ranged from Lil Wayne to Korean Pop. However, this focus on the individual led Just Cuz Crew
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to face some unique situations such trying to limit the growth of the crew. “We don’t want to be too big of a crew. Working with a big crew limits us to what we can do on stage,” Alcazar said. Shawn Murray, a sophomore in English and another founder of the crew, said she agreed. “With a bigger crew you wouldn’t have the ample amount of spotlight time,” Murray said. “We’re trying to get everyone to be the center of attention and not just one person.”
Still, Just Cuz Crew won over many new fans over the past month and many like Alex Clark, a Sophomore in microbiology, are excited to see what Just Cuz Crew has planned for the future and how things may change. “I’ll still be [in school] for a while, so I look forward to seeing them grow and evolve,” Clark said. According to Murray, the thing that unifies them will always stay constant. “We’re all striving for the same thing. We’re all doing
it for the love. We all love to dance. We all love to express ourselves,” Murray said. Perhaps it is for this passion and love that fans of Just Cuz Crew cheer and not “just because.” JCC will be holding auditions Saturday 1-4 p.m in the Carmichael Rec Center on the /second floor, Room A & B.
Turtle Island follows jazz inspiration Turtle Island Quartet’s performance celebrates Coltrane and the meaning of music. Jordan Baker Staff Writer
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Turtle Island Quartet, sat before a crowd in the Walnut Room. “You don’t inflict your vision on the others,” Balakrishnan said on composing. “You give them something they can find themselves in and then take credit for it.” The crowd laughed, but Balakrishnan was hinting at what Turtle Island is all about.
Beside Balakrishnan sat the cellist Mark Summer, who has been described as a cellist, bassist and drummer all rolled into one style. Both men hail from Los Angeles, and “both did the classical training,” Summer said. “…I’m still recovering from it … I hated being in orchestra.” Summer, however, found his musical calling when he
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Throughout the perforteamed up with Balakrishnan some 25 years ago to create mance, Summer utilized his something that wasn’t quite instrument to the maximum. classical, wasn’t quite jazz or With his cello hooked up to rock, but somewhere in the an amp and a microphone, Summer used a foot pedal to middle. Turtle Island’s performance switch back and forth between was an ode to John Coltrane, the two forms of amplification. Throughout featuring t he performusic comm a nc e t he posed by and virtuosic celinspired by list not only him, with the masterfully second half strummed of the perfort he st r i ngs mance dediof his instrucated to the Balakrishnan ment, but jazz legend’s also plucked magnum them in oropus, “A Love der to mimic the sound of Supreme”. Coltrane drew a lot of in- an upright bass (a standard fluence from fellow jazz icon among jazz groups), and would Miles Davis, as well as Sitar gracefully slap the front of his legend Ravi Shankar. In “Love instrument to produce the Supreme”, Coltrane drew from sounds of a drum kit. From the eastern musical practice of beginning to end, Summer’s one simple bass line running hands never stopped moving. Along with Summer and below the higher melodies, like a chant. This facet of the piece, Balakrishnan, Turtle Island which repeats the words “a love Quartet features two other supreme” like a mantra, “was a well-known musicians in their prayer to God,” Balakrishnan own right. The second violinist, Mads Tolling, hails from said.
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Coppenhagen, Denmark, and is well adept at the jazz-style music the group performed Saturday evening. Tolling has won multiple accolades for his musicianship and regularly tours with jazz star Stanley Clark. The other member of the group is Jeremy Kittel on viola. Kittel has won national recognition for his Celtic music stylings, as well as his jazz and improvisational talents. Together, these four men performed one of the most powerful pieces in the corpus of jazz. And as they left stage after the conclusion of their encore, the crowd erupted into applause, giving the group a standing ovation. “The quartet is a symbol of the genius of that era,” said Balakrishnan on the 19th century origins of the quartet. With this genius form, the members of Turtle Island attempted to best express the vision of Coltrane, a man they compare with the great minds of European composition.
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University’s departments and companies coming into the buildings I was developing. Bob handled the partnership side. When Dean McKinney retired and Bob took over, we continued to work together to plot the future of the campus.” Leah Burton, Centennial Campus director of partnership development, worked with Geolas before he left in 2004 and said he left a culture of collaboration. “When Bob left Centennial Campus, he left in place a network of strong relations between the various people who comprise the campus,” Burton said. “It was easy for us to carry on with the trail he had paved.” Geolas left Centennial Campus to direct the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research and served as Clemson’s associate vice president for economic development. After the RTP’s former CEO Rick Weddle left North Carolina, Geolas’ application rose to the top of the global search. Geolas said he couldn’t wait to return home. “I am excited to run Research Triangle Park and be involved in this place I’ve admired for so long.” Overseeing the development of the park, Geolas said his main goal is to maintain the reputation of RTP and continue its growth. “We have to market the park, position its brand, and we have to make sure all the businesses have the resources to continue to grow,” Geolas said. “We help locate companies in the park. We’re constantly held up as one of the top three innovation spots in the nation. We’re constantly looking at ways to leverage this park to make this state and country a better place. I want to keep that going and
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Bob Geolas is an alum of N.C. State and recently assumed the position of CEO at Research Triangle Park. “My goal is to maintain the reputation of RTP.”
“Silicon Valley of the East,” and President Obama has referenced RTP as a model to follow. The park wasn’t immune to the effects of the down economy, with an 18.39 percent office vacancy rate in 2009, the worst in 20 years, according to the Triangle Business Journal. However, Geolas said he’s initiating policies for a more robust business environment to fortify current companies and to attract new ones. “This year, we’re looking to launch a new master plan that’s going to change how RTP looks and feels,” Geolas said. “It’s going to be much more collaborative; it’s going to be a place
make it even better.” Geolas said the park transformed the local economy from an agrarian one into a secure, modern, innovationbased system. He joked that the Southern adage, “Thank God for Mississippi,” no longer applied to North Carolina once Gov. Luther Hodges and university leaders created the park to modernize the state’s economy in 1959. The park has remained financially healthy, and during the height of the recession Site Selection magazine named RTP the top business climate in the country. Business developers have called the park the
isolated from others.” Calling himself the champion of North Carolina, Geolas said besides partnership, inspiring industry and community growth will be his top concerns. “This park has to keep being inspirational,” Geolas said. “It’s what inspired us with Centennial Campus. We need facilities and spaces that inspire people. But it needs to be accessible, so we need to keep it open so people who want to create and grow can flourish here. I want RTP to be the most innovative research park in the world. Bar none.” With those words, Geolas
that brings people together. It will be authentic in that it represents the best for North Carolina. We’re not trying to be Abu Dhabi or Beijing. We’re going to be who we are.” For Harwood, this plan isn’t anything new. “While developing Centennial Campus, we made sure to emphasize collaboration,” Harwood said. “The campus is predicated on proximity, which McKinney envisioned.” Knowledge transfer is a contact sport. Taking ideas from the lab to the business to consumers. I hope Bob can achieve something like this at RTP, which has some companies
may be envisioning his RTP just as his inspiration, Dean McKinney, envisioned Centennial Campus. In several ways, things have come full circle for Geolas. In the beginning for RTP, even the New York Times seemed incredulous that the nation’s largest research park at the time would open in North Carolina. As McKinney designed Centennial Campus, the local News and Observer was skeptical. That was then. This is now. “We’re only going to keep building,” Geolas said.
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Nights,” Lee said. While Tuesday night was Lee’s second College Night experience, some State students were ready for their first go around. Ryan Whittling, a freshman in political science, came with eight friends to take advantage of the $30 lower bowl seats. “I worked with them at a summer camp and we all decided to get together and come to a Canes game,” Whittling said. Arriving to watch hockey in the same venue her beloved Wolfpack play basketball, Whittling said being able to arrive right at game time is a nice perk to coming to ‘Canes games. “I go to all the home basketball games, but this atmosphere is different because I’m used to getting here early and rushing to find good sideline seats,” Whittling said. “This is much more relaxed because I know where I am going to sit already, so it’s very different from going two hours early for basketball. We just get here right on time.” The next College Night game is Feb. 20 against Alexander Ovechkin and the division rival Washington Capitals. Tickets will be available for sale online Feb. 1.
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If you were watching the N.C. State-Virginia basketball game Saturday and you thought coach Mark Gottfried and his staff were wearing tennis shoes, your eyes weren’t playing tricks on you. They were. Gottfried and his staff wore Ad id a s G a z e l le sneakers with their suits and slacks for Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers awareness weekend along with thousands of coaches across the country. Virginia, a team endorsed by Nike, came out wearing white Nike Air Jordans. Coaches vs. Cancer weekend ran from Jan. 27-29 this year. The weekend is decided before the start of each college basketball season. In June, an American Cancer Society press release stated Gottfried and about a dozen other basketball coaches participated in the Coaches vs. Cancer Golf Invitational to support the American Cancer Society’s
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Jim Satalin commented on mission. According to the ACS, the the benefits and awareness the idea behind Coaches vs. Cancer weekend brings to the fight came from Norm Stewart, for- against cancer. “The Coaches vs. Cancer mer Missouri head coach from 1967-1999 and National Asso- program is a vital, year-round ciation of Basketball Coaches link between the Society and member. Stewart, a cancer sur- the NABC that empowers basvivor, started a program where, ketball coaches, their teams for every three points the team and communities to join the scored, fans were encouraged to fight against cancer,” Satalin said. “The program draws from give a dollar. the personal In 1993, experiences, t h e AC S community and NABC leadership got behind and the proStewart’s fessional exidea a nd cel lence of promoted coaches nait nationtionwide to a l ly. The increase pubNABC relic awareness ported $70 of the Socimillion has ety’s mission been raised to save lives since the and prevent program’s cancer, and beginning to raise funds and more to fight the than 2,000 d i s e a s e on NABC Jim Satalin, CvC director a variety of coaches are fronts.” involved In the same in the program. The money benefits press release, former Maryland various causes, such as cancer head coach Gary Williams celresearch, supporting cancer ebrated the weekend saying, patients and cancer education. “Suits and Sneakers awareness In another press release from weekend’ provides a trementhe American Cancer Society, dous opportunity for college Coaches vs. Cancer Director basketball coaches nationwide
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Standing on the sidelines during the Virginia game Saturday, Jan. 28, N.C. State coach Mark Gottfried and his coaching staff wear Adidas sneakers to participate in Coaches vs. Cancer Suits and Sneakers awareness weekend.
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Islanders leave ‘Canes stranded State soccer gets new practice facility The N.C. State soccer program is in the process of constructing a new practice facility in the location of the former upper intramural field at Miller Fields. The facility for both the men’s and women’s soccer teams will feature a grass field, a turf field, lights, 50-foot netting behind each goal and a sound system. The natural grass field will be a replica of the Pack’s gameday field at Dail Soccer Field. The project is part of $2.2 million investment into the stadium and practice facility. Source: N.C. State Athletics
Baseball player on NCBWA watch list Junior pitcher Chris Overman was one of the 45 relief pitchers named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award watch list last Wednesday. The award is presented to the top relief pitcher in NCAA Division I baseball annually. Source: N.C. State Athletics
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Today Men’s Basketball at Boston College Boston, Mass., 8 p.m. Thursday Women’s Basketball at Georgia Tech Duluth, Ga., 7 p.m. Friday Track at Armory Collegiate Invitational New York, N.Y., All Day Track at Virginia Tech Elite Blacksburg, Va., All Day Women’s Gymnastics at Missouri Columbia, Mo., 6:30 p.m. Wrestling vs. North Carolina Raleigh, 7 p.m. Saturday Rifle vs. Kentucky Morgantown, W.V., All Day Track at Virginia Tech Elite Blacksburg, Va., All Day Track at Armory Collegiate Invitational New York, N.Y., All Day Track at Kent Taylor Chapel Hill, All Day Women’s Tennis at VCU Richmond, Va., 11 a.m. Swimming & Diving at Virginia Charlottesville, Va., 11 a.m. Men’s Basketball vs. Wake Forest RBC Center, 1 p.m. Sunday Rifle at West Virginia Morgantown, W.V., All Day Men’s Tennis vs. Cornell Raleigh, 10 a.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Virginia Reynolds Coliseum, 2 p.m. Men’s Tennis vs. Charlotte Raleigh, 4 p.m.
Did You know? Today is the 13th time N.C. State men’s basketball has played against Boston College. State has a 1-3 record against the Eagles while away at Conte Forum. One more ACC win would tie the Wolfpack’s total conference wins from last season.
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It hasn’t been a good week for hometown teams to see rallies fall short at the RBC Center. Three days after State dropped a 61-60 heart breaker to Virginia on the hard court, the ‘Canes dropped the first game back from the All-Star weekend to the New York Islanders. The Islanders beat Carolina 5-2 on the strength of a game-winning third period marker from young star John Tavares and added a pair of empty-net goals to salt the victory away in the final seconds. Brandon Sutter (11) and Tim Brent (7) both scored for the Hurricanes. “That was an intense game,” Sutter said. “Two teams on the standings at the bottom and in any given night you want to win. We played all right and we need to build on it.” The ‘Canes, currently dead last in the eastern conference, are 11 points out of a playoff spot with 30 games remaining in the year. “We’re finding ways to win and battle,” head coach Kirk Muller said. “Tonight was a good indicator that if we don’t play 60 [minutes] and we don’t win our
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Losing the puck, Hurricanes forward Riley Nash checks a New York Islanders defenseman against the glass. The Hurricanes fell to the Islanders 2-5 Tuesday, Jan. 31, during a Hurricanes College Night.
battles, we’re no different from any other team - we’re not going to win.” Despite a loss on the ice, Hurricanes’ marketing coordinator Coop Elias said he was very glad with the progress of college night, especially the growing social media aspect. “We’re having people just post a status on Facebook that they’re at Canes College Night,” Elias said. “They can post to our page, tag their friends and just by doing that they get a free T-shirt.” Elias also said to expect more ‘Canes-related activities
and prizes around campus as campus, they could get picked the weather continues to get out to get tickets or a signed ‘Canes item.” warmer. State students using the Col“For next College Night we plan to be out in the brickyard lege Night offer got to witness an exciting a s we at her third period gets nicer in which and we’ll do Carolina a couple of stormed back e ve nt s out Freshman Ryan Whittling with 2 goals in the brickin the first 7 yard again,” m i nutes of E l i a s s a id . “We talked about maybe do- the frame. One of those stuing a spotter program where if dents was avid fan Jordan Lee, people are seen wearing their a freshman in accounting. “My favorite part about Canes College Night T-shirts by one of our ambassadors on coming to Canes games is the
“This is much more relaxed...”
environment and people getting into it,” Lee said. “It’s nice to just kind of socialize with friends, family or whoever is coming with you.” A Hurricanes fan since elementary school, Lee said he hopes to convert several friends into ‘Canes fans who can use the College Night special. “I’ve gotten my roommate to become a ‘Canes fan and it would be nice to see more of my friends and N.C. State students come out to the College
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Persistence, or a lack of it, can either make or break any career. More often than not, the latter occurs. But redshirt senior Emili Tassler has embraced the adversities she’s encountered and made persistence her signature attribute in the Wolfpack program. Tassler has endured five surgeries on her left leg, three involving her knee and two for her calf, since her first injury in 2007. “My senior year of high school I tore my ACL,” Tassler said. “Then, my first year at N.C. State, I had a meniscus repair. They stitched up my meniscus, so I was out for that whole season. Then, my sophomore year, I had ACL reconstruction again and they did a meniscus repair there too. “So then my real junior year I played the whole season,” Tassler said. “Then, over the summer I was having issues with my calf and we couldn’t figure out what was wrong. We figured out I had compartment syndrome. So then I had a compartment release in the summer and that helped for a bit.” According to Tassler, compartment syndrome consists of having a tightened fascia around the calf. “Basically, you have a fascia, which is the band that covers your muscle,” Tassler said. “Apparently, he said that mine was really tight on my muscle and it was causing my calf to cramp and not feel good, so they went in and released it.”
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Redshirt senior guard Emili Tasler passes to a teammate during the game against North Greenville in Reynolds Nov. 6, 2011.
Despite these setbacks, which forced her to sit out her first two years at State and only play 13 games during her redshirt junior year, she has fought back to become a regular starter for the Wolfpack this season, ranking second for the Pack in assists and fourth in steals. Stephanie Aronson, assistant athletic trainer for the women’s basketball program, has been working with Tassler since her arrival on campus on conditioning and strength during her recovery periods. “We’ve done everything,” Aronson said. “When she came to N.C. State, she had torn her ACL in high school so one of the biggest things was taking her through jump training programs and just a lot of lower body strengthening, agility type of stuff that we’ve done with her just to maintain great strength so that we can protect the knee.” According to A ronson,
Tassler has maintained a positive attitude throughout years of injury and rehabilitation, and it’s manifested itself through her play in games. “I think that you can tell by the way Emili plays that she has the same attitude toward her rehab the past several years,” Aronson said. “It’s hard for anybody who’s gone through that much injury, that many surgeries, to continue to keep a good attitude, and that’s what she’s done for her career here.” After going through so many setbacks during her career at State, according to Tassler, her love for the game and the team is what keeps her motivated to keep moving forward. “Just being able to play at all is exciting, so starting is awesome,” Tassler said. “Just being something to help the team is great. I love basketball. I love my teammates. It’s fun to be in practice every day; I love all of the coaches. It’s awesome.”
Coming off the bench may be disappointing for some, but junior center DeShawn Painter, is just happy having the opportunity to play. This season, Painter has definitely taken advantage of his opportunities by providing energy off the bench. This energy can be attributed to the hard work Painter has put in during the off season. In the offseason, Painter has had former professional players help him out on his game. One of these pros – a former Wolfpack star – is none other than Julius Hodge. “Julius and I are like brothers,” Painter said. “I even talk to him now while he’s overseas.” Painter said working with Hodge has elevated his game to new, higher levels. “Julius has really challenged me to be a top competitor,” Painter said. “I’ve always had the ability to shoot the ball pretty well and he’s inspired me to keep doing that and to have confidence.” Like any other athlete at N.C. State, Painter takes pride in the sport that he loves. “I always try and work really hard and try to be the best,” Painter said. “I want to play basketball in the future, so I just go as hard as I can. I am really passionate about this game. It’s something that changed my life, so I take pride in it.” Even though Painter does not play the same number of minutes as the starters on his team, Painter has been
more than capable of coming off the bench, scoring and giving quality minutes. According to Painter, head coach Mark Gottfried wants Painter to do the things he knows he can do, like knock down open shots and be an excellent defender. “[Gottfried] wants me to be a great rebounder, a tenacious defender and to hit the open shots,” Painter said. “Within a team, everybody can be great, but he wants me really to defend well and knock down my shots.” This year Painter has proven he can score just as much as a starter can. Painter has come up as a key player when the Wolfpack needed him. When other players were in foul trouble, Painter would step in and prove not only to be a capable scorer but a great rebounder as well. “I started off in the beginning of the season playing really well,” Painter said. “I have been in the right place at the right time and was able to knock down shots.” Painter’s great play off the bench came full circle when the Wolfpack played Miami on the road. During that particular contest, Painter finished the game with 18 points. Another shining moment for Painter this year was when he knocked down the gamewinning shot against a tough Princeton team. Painter describes how that shot is something that everybody dreams of when they play basketball. “That is a shot that everybody dreams about; it was a great experience,” Painter said. “Most people don’t get the opportunity to do that. I knew that I was going to make that shot.” With Painter showing he has the ability to score and make rebounds, the Wolfpack has an excellent opportunity to compete with the top teams in the ACC.