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University dietitian wins Governor’s Award for Excellence Weston Suggs Staff Writer

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Chairman of the Republican National Comittee Reince Priebus speaks to reporters and students in the Brickyard Thursday. The rally, which came after the appearance of the Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz earlier in the day, also included Rep. Renee Ellmers and U.S. House candidate George Holding.

Early voting, campaigns come to campus Thursday Mark Herring Editor-in-Chief

As early voters f locked to the fourth floor of Talley Student Center Thursday to cast their votes before election day, the chairs of the national Democratic and Republican parties visited the Brickyard to encourage students to vote. Each party leader said North Carolina is not a state to be taken for granted by any candidate. “North Carolina will be won and lost door to door,” said Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman. “We’re doing better than ’08. We called ten times more voters as of today than in 2008, and over 100 times more doors have been knocked today, than in all of 2008.” Paul Mott, the vice-chair of College Republicans at the University, said the student organization has been busy working on campus and at the GOP state office half a mile

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from the University. He said the 40 Former congressman Bob active members of College Republi- Etheridge made an appearance cans have helped register voters and with the Democrats and said make calls to voters statewide. students should turn out like President Barack Obama won they did in 2008 to make this the state by 0.3 percent in 2008, election matter for the college and though many generation. have called North “You better Carolina a swing believe [this state, both parelection is imties have claimed portant to stuthey will win the dents] because state. Romney’s the president campaign is so ha s foug ht confident of winw it h Conning, in fact, it has gress to make Reince Priebus, RNC chairman posted its chief sure they kept campaign spokesstudent loan man to Ohio. rates low last year and doubled The Democratic National Com- the Pell Grants over the last mittee sponsored a bus that came four years,” Etheridge said. “I to the Brickyard Thursday morn- know — I was there fighting ing, which carried politicians such for them.” as Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, According to the News & ObDemocratic National Committee server, the Talley center voting chair, Rep. David Price and gubernatorial candidate Walter Dalton. VOTE continued page 3

“North Carolina will be won and lost door to door. We’re doing better than ‘08.”

N.C. State dietitian Lisa Eberhart has been awarded the 2012 North Carolina Governor’s Award for Excellence. The award is the highest honor a North Carolina state employee can receive. Eberhart is the first person from University Dining to win the award and is also the first ever dietitian to receive the honor. Chancellor Randy Woodson made a surprise visit to Eberhart’s office to present her with the award. “The Chancellor knocked on my office door, which has never happened before,” Eberhart said. “Then he said, ‘I’m here to give you the Governor’s Award for Innovation.’ I was completely shocked.” Every year, each of the 18 divisions and colleges at N.C. State select winners for their respective excellence awards. Eberhart was chosen as the winner for the University Dining division in May. A selection committee then selects five standouts from the 18 winners as recipients of the University Award for Excellence. Eberhart received the university-wide award in June. These five represent N.C. State for the Governor’s Award for Excellence competition. Again, Eberhart left with the award. “Really, this award is for my department because I really couldn’t do anything without the rest of the people supporting me,” Eberhart said. Eberhart is one of only five state employees to receive a 2012 Governor’s Award for Excellence. Last year, N.C. State’s director of program administration in nuclear engineering, Hermine Kabbendjian, took home a Governor’s Award for Excellence. The recipients of the Governor’s Award are nominated on five categories: Outstanding Service, Innovation, Public Service, Safety/ Heroism and Human Relations. There is little question as to why

Eberhart was nominated for the Innovation category. In her 10 years at the University, she has implemented numerous programs such as Fresh Start Mondays and the Monday Mile to encourage good health among students. Eberhart’s efforts have also made the dining halls friendlier to people with food allergies. Online food allergen information stations can be accessed in the dining halls by scanning a bar code. The growing use of technology has played a key factor in the innovative functions of University Dining. Recently, Eberhart has incorporated the use of iPads in the dining halls. “I first used the iPads in the athletic dining hall,” she said. “If they need to gain weight or lose weight or if their blood iron was low… they could click on a tab on an iPad that says ‘to lose weight, this is what you should eat.’” Exact ingredients of the dining hall food can be found online or on posters located throughout the dining facilities. Students can sign up for e-minders, or e-mails that aid people in keeping their eating habits on track for certain goals, such as having a vegetarian diet. N.C. State graduate Alice Raad works as a nutrition initiative/assistant to Eberhart. “She’s the most enthusiastic person to work for and she’s very dedicated to her job,” Raad said. “I don’t think anyone deserves the award more than her.” The fact that Eberhart is a certified diabetes educator and keeps information that is crucial for diabetics in the dining halls also contributed to her winning the award. “It’s not really about awards, it’s really about bringing attention to what we’re doing because I really feel like we have a good dining program and we have of course done good,” Eberhart said. “But we really want to do great. We really want to be a great class dining program.”

Passion Pit plays DJ set for Obama support Young Lee Associate Features Editor

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Thursday marked the beginning of early voting on campus, and according to Alex Parker, sophomore in international studies and president of Students for Obama, “every day until Nov. 6 is a very important election day.” To celebrate the occasion, several student groups and organizations held rallies and celebrations. Among the politicallycharged events Thursday was “Wolfpack for Obama present: Passion Pit.” Attracting students who support either President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign or Passion Pit’s music, or both, the free concert drew more than 500 spectators to Harris Field Thursday afternoon. Sponsored by Students for Obama, the event brought students together to celebrate the opening of early voting and was set up to educate them about where to vote and how to register. For many, it was also a demonstration of the amount of support some students have for the Obama reelection campaign. “This isn’t just saying, ‘Hey, we like Obama.’ it’s saying,

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Nate Donmoyer, Passion Pit’s drummer, sets up for his DJ set as a crowd of about 200 students raises its “Forward” posters to show support of President Barack Obama on Harris Field Thursday. The performance, coordinated by Young Americans for Obama, concluded with a march to Talley Student Center to participate in early voting.

‘Hey, we like Obama but we need to make sure we vote and we need to make sure people understand how to vote,’” Aaron Burkurt, a senior in environmental technology, said. “It’s a chance to give back to the school and it’s a chance to say, ‘Thank you for the support,’” Parker said.

According to many organizers and attendees, student involvement is important and the youth vote may be a deciding factor in the 2012 Presidential Race. “We are very committed to working with young people all across the state and definitely across N.C. State’s campus,” said Cameron

French, North Carolina press secretary for Obama for America. “Young people are a very important part of the presidential coalition here in North Carolina. In 2008, young Americans were very supportive and we see an incredible amount of

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N.C. State gets a flash of “Gangnam Style” VOTE Jake Moser Staff Writer

Improv at N.C. State will lead hundreds of students in a “Gangnam Style” flash mob on campus Friday. The event is based on the pop-culture phenomenon “Psy’s Gangnam Style” and will include the now famous dance moves from its music video. The video has over 480 million views on YouTube, making it one of the most watched videos in the site’s history. The event starts at 1:20 p.m. and was moved from the Brickyard to Wolf Plaza next to the Free Expression Tunnel due to noise regulations. Participators are required to show up ten to 15 minutes early in order be assigned to their specific dance group. Those not familiar with the dance are encouraged to come to practice sessions before the event, and there are a few mandatory meetings prior to Friday. Over 600 guests have been confirmed on the event’s Facebook page, and there is pressure to surpass UNC Chapel Hill’s “Gangnam Style” f lash mob in September, which included 700 people, according to event information on the page. “[We want to] put a smile on the faces of the people who watch and to show that life doesn’t have to be all about segmented schedules,” Improv at N.C. State founder and junior in biological sciences Michael Ramos said. “We get caught up so much in our daily lives we forget to go out and do unique things

and staff advocated for an early voting site close to continued from page 1 campus because it is not always convenient to find a site location is one of the busi- downtown or to go home to est in Wake County, with vote. nearly double the personThe success of the location nel comwas proven pared to before voting other sites star ted, as across the students and county. community The Unimembers versity’s lined up in one-stop front of TalReince Priebus, RNC chairman center le y b e fore wa s one voting startof more than 350 sites ed at 11 a.m. across North Carolina Nationwide, 24 percent of to open Thursday, as the youth vote, the vote many well as one of 15 Wake say carried Obama into the County early voting sites. White House, came from Many students, faculty early voting.

“We called ten times more voters as of today...”

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Participants of N.C. State’s Dance Marathon perfom in the PNC Arena after much preparation and rehearsal.

that we can look back on and also inspired by the New York remember and share for the City prank group Improv Evrest of our lives.” erywhere that attracts milImprov at N.C. State was lions of online viewers by orfounded by Ramos in May ganizing flash mobs, freezes 2012 and was made an official and other public events. The group on campus this month. group is making a documenThe purpose of the group is to tary about how their famous create more f re e z e at spontaneGrand Cenous and fun tral Station events on inspired campus, like recreations the “campus in over freeze” they 200 cities, organized in including August. Over Improv at Michael ramos, Improve N.C. 400 students N.C. State’s State Founder showed up f ree z e i n a nd stood August. still for minutes as others Ramos and three officers not participating in the event coordinate the events for walked by. Ramos mentioned the growing group, which on the video he created for now has over 160 members. August’s freeze that the Uni- Improv at N.C. State doesn’t versity had not an organized have a membership fee and an event like this since 2009. everyone is free to particiImprov at N.C. State was pate, according to Ra-

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mos. Friday’s event will start out with a few “experts,” including Ramos, beginning the dance before more students join in based on what group they’re in. Ramos expects over a hundred people dancing to “Gangnam Style” during the flash mob, while hundreds more attend the event to watch. The dance for the event was choreographed by Ramos and a few other students and will be similar to Psy’s video, including some of his well-known moves. Improv at N.C. State performed a similar reenactment on Friday, Oct. 12, at Primetime with the Pack. More information on the event and how to get involved can be found on Improv at N.C. State’s Facebook page.

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enthusiasm again in 2012.” According to Burkurt the support he saw from his fellow classmates was encouraging. “It was nice to see the different support from different people,” Burkurt said. “If you looked around, it was a diverse section of the student body. It wasn’t just one group of people that came out; it was everybody coming together. It was really fantastic.” However, Burkurt and other attendees also got a chance to hear and see the support from the electropop band Passion Pit, who talked with students in addition to playing a DJ set. “It was awesome to see

such a big name come out and give support and actually just on a campus in the middle of the day in the middle of nowhere,” Burkurt said. “You’d think that a big-name band is really mysterious and you’d never get to see them but they came out with all the students and they were talking about how much they also support Obama.” After Passion Pit finished its set, an organizer from Students for Obama led attendees to Tally Student Center to register en masse. “Getting everyone active is probably the most important stage,” Abby Gingrich, a junior environmental technology, said. “A lot of people don’t know where to go, don’t know when, but they handed out schedules. They got everyone on their feet to go vote which was really cool.”

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There is a detour map on the University’s transportation website. Wolf line users are encouraged to look at the tranWolf line bus stops and routes have sit visualization system to better gauge been changed to accommodate State their time. Fair traffic. “Everybody has got to plan extra time Wolf line route 6, the Carter Finley into their schedule, because whether route, has been detoured. All Hillsbor- you’re in car or a bus, unless you can fly, ough Street stops on route 6 west of Fair- you’re going to be caught in traffic with cloth Street are not in service through the the State Fair,” Klein said. “So you just duration of the fair. Normal bus routes got to plan and give yourself extra time, will return on Oct. 22. and plan your departures too.” Christine Klein, public communicaTravis Cummings, a junior in agritions specialist for University Transpor- cultural education, is a commuter who tation, said Wolf line services are doing drives over an hour from Wilson to the all they can to prepare for Fair traffic. Park & Ride lot every weekday to catch “You know how it is with the fair,” the Carter Finely bus. Klein said. “It impacts everybody all over “I think [transportation] has done a the general area.” great job,” Cummings said. “They put Instead of traveling all the way down detour signs up and listed them online. Hillsborough Street to the Carter Finley The bus ride actually seems shorter now Stadium, bus route 6 now turns right on because they’re doing fewer stops. But Faircloth Street and takes Wade Avenue traffic in and out of the Park & Ride lot to Westchase Boulevard, finishing in the is taking a little more time.” back of the Park & Ride lot. The stop for According to Klein, there are pros and the Park & Ride lot cons to the State Fair’s has been temporareffect on the bus sysily relocated to the tem. An advantage is northwest corner of that students are able the lot, at the bottom to take the route 6 bus of the stairs on Westas a means of transchase. portation to the Fair. T h e C e nt e n n i a l “A lot of our stuBiomedical Campus dents have driven to bus stop on William the Park & Ride lot. Christine Klein, University Moore Drive is one of Just cross the street Transportation the stops that are out and you’re at the fair,” of service throughout Klein said. the duration of the fair. The closest bus Students should know that if they do stop is about a quarter mile away at the take the Carter Finley bus to the Fair, it Park & Ride lot on Westchase Boulevard. stops running at 10 p.m. There is also a stop on Hillsborough Klein says that there have been miniStreet in front of the gates at Meredith mal issues regarding the temporary route College that is bypassed by route 6 dur- detours. Transportation strives to assure ing the fair. that buses arrive to their destination on “We have contacts at Meredith and we time. They are trying to make improvelet them know what’s going on,” Klein ments by implementing new on-time said. “We now pick their students up at contracts and performance requirements the rear of Meredith College near Wade that hold buses accountable for lateness. Avenue and the Whole Foods area.” “I have not heard of any complaints Bus route 4, the Westgrove route, still about this year at all,” Klein said. “I think runs to the stop in front of Meredith Col- it’s coming along as well as it can.” lege on Hillsborough Street. Staff Writer

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Flash rallies and political mobs A lot is happening at N.C. State these days. Thursday, there were three flash mobs, and today, there’s a rally. A flash mob, for those who do not know, is a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a predetermined public place, perform a dance, protest or an unusual and seemingly pointless act and then disperse. Flash mobs started to become prominent about a decade ago and wouldn’t have been possible without advances in communication technology which allowed the large-scale, non-public planning and coordination of such events. Thursday, with early voting beginning, we had two political events on campus. Hardly any (or at least not as many as possible) students knew about these. The first, in the morning, featured big-name Democrats on the Brickyard, including party chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In the afternoon, the

The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and is the responsibility of the editor-in-chief. Republican Party chairman, Reince Priebus, highlighted the GOP event. The third was an “concert” (and we do use the term loosely) featuring the band Passion Pit from Cambridge, Mass., hosted by Wolfpack for Obama. Considering the scope, relevance and people in these three events, one would expect that both would have been publicized much more than they were. But instead, the events were more like flash mobs: The organizers and the people showed up at the time and place they had planned, other students no-

ticed and joined in, the event occurred and once it was over, everybody left. Today, there is an event organized by the group Improv at N.C. State in which people will be gathering between 1:20 p.m. and 1:25 p.m. and dancing to “Gangnam Style” at Wolf Plaza outside the Free Expression Tunnel. There has been an event created on Facebook for this, and Technician is also covering it. Everything about this event, from its organization, to its practices, to the actual dance today, has been promoted

“Politcal parties and dance parties should ‘party’ the way they were meant to do.”

extensively via social media, almost rallying students to take part in the event … which, indeed, now gives off the feel of a rally. This apparent flipping around of politics and entertainment is ironic, but it’s a reflection of our times. Out of an entire presidential debate full of non-gaffes and substantial issues, all people take out of it is binders full of women. Lawyers and Paris Hilton have higher approval ratings than Congress. The fluff of our society is now the stuff of our society. Politics is a pastime for most, a source of entertainment, while the original entertainment is taken more seriously. But it shouldn’t be like this. Political parties and dance parties should “party” the way they were meant to. Let’s have rallies that are like true rallies and flash mobs that are like true flash mobs.

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Anonymous asks, “I was sitting in the Atrium, minding my own business, when a random freshman (I’m a senior) male sat down with me and introduced himself. At first I didn’t think much of it, but he tried hitting on me and things kind of got awkward. What’s your advice for letting people down gently, or avoiding this awkwardness altogether?” Tough one. I focused on this in my PS 411 class and there was a lot of disagreement. But, it’s “ask a professor,” not “ask a random assortment of senior Political Science majors,” so here’s what I think: In this situation, the thing to do is let the guy know that some notparticularly-important use of your time is more important than talking to him. “I’m sorry, I’ve got some texts I need to read,” “Excuse me, but I’ve got to read for tomorrow’s class,” etc. should do the trick for someone with reasonable social skills who can take a hint. If a girl likes a guy, she’ll let him know he’s worth her time. You are letting him know in a gentle, non-confrontational way he’s

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not worth your time. Then if it escalates, you can (and may need to) be more direct. But I think this is a good first approach. Especially when it is true, i.e., you really would rather spend your time reading texts or checking out online news headlines than talking to this random guy. And if that fails and it’s time to be direct, well, there’s just nothing gentle about direct, but that doesn’t mean it’s not the necessary approach.

Anonymous asks, “I’m an undecided freshman. My parents want me to choose a ‘practical major’ like engineering, but I think I would be more passionate about a sociology major. Should I study what my parents want me to study, or should I do what I want?” Hmmm. You should choose sociology! Or any CHASS major! (Just kidding, sort of, I need to make up for last time.) Honestly, in this current job and economic climate I think it would be foolish to not at least strongly consider the employment prospects of one’s chosen major. That said, employment means doing something at least 40 hours/ week for many, many years. The last thing you want to do is choose an area which will be drudgery instead of fulfillment. While engineering is particularly practical for the current job market, that does not mean sociology (or any other major) is impractical. As I mentioned in an earlier column, social sciences are great for developing criti-

cal thinking skills and good writing skills. These are most definitely highly-valued skills by many employers. That said, if you choose a more passion-based major, you really need to invest your passion in it because it probably will not be as easy to find a job as if you had a mechanical engineering degree. Don’t take classes because you were told they were easy. Take them because they have a great professor who will challenge you to think and learn in new ways. Don’t shy away from the classes with 20 page papers — take them and hone your writing skills. Be proactive in working with faculty, researching with faculty, and in building relationships. Work with a local non-profit or government agency that fills your passion and build your job-market skills. For the average student, sociology may not be as practical as a degree with a more obvious and direct pipeline to employment, but if you put your heart into it, develop your skills, abilities and maturity, you will come out just as employable — if not more so — than if you chose a practical major to which you found you could not truly dedicate yourself.

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“The media has not because people in the area are rightfully excited.” Kelly Bachman junior, communication

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“I think for the most part it’ s not a problem. It does not affect me.” Erin Jones sophomore, criminology

“It could be considered overhyped but Gottfried is a new coach, and it gets us out there.” Carmen Cubilla senior, biological science

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Thank God for the crazy ones

n The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell talks about three different kinds of people. The first ones are those who will try out everything that is new and hip. These are the people who start fashion trends and do crazy things for t he sa ke Naman of doing Muley them. SecStaff Columnist on d a r e those who are a bit conservative and do their research before trying out new things, and let other people try it out. The third kind hates change and anything out of their comfort zone. Felix Baumgartner is an Austrian daredevil who jumped from the edge of outer space Oct. 14. Equipped just with a spacesuit, a parachute and plain guts, he jumped 24 miles from above the New Mexico desert in a fourminute 20-second free fall during which he reached supersonic speed of 833 mph, or 1.4 Mach. Baumgartner is a prime example of Gladwell’s first type. Every once in a while these characters pop out, amazing us with their audacity. Nelson Mandela, Marilyn Monroe, Steve Jobs are all the same breed. To quote Apple’s famous advertisement, “These are the round pegs in the square holes.” These are the crazy ones. Felix Baumgartner reminds one of Muhammad Ali: reck-

less, a daredevil and a general disregard for normalcy. Before attempting his recordbreaking feat, he had jumped from the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and skydived across the English Channel. He holds world records for both of these stunts. A five-storied balloon took him to the edge of the stratosphere in about two hours. It was only fitting that the last voice he heard before his jump was that of 84-yearold Joe Kittinger, a retired Colonel in the United States Air Force. Kittinger held the previous record for highest skydive for his 1960 stunt. Just before Baumgartner unstrapped himself and stood on the edge of the capsule, Kittinger told him, “There it is. The world is out there. Our guardian angel will take care of you.” More than the mind-boggling figures, I want to shed light on the poignancy of the moment — when Baumgartner stands on the edge of the balloon. In all the darkness of space, he sees the earth below in its full glow. He takes the dive, with full knowledge of the fact he is going to attain speeds that might just burn him to thin smoke in a micro-fraction of a second. The margin of error is huge and factors are unaccountable — all for the crazy desire to jump. In moments like these we

find the courage that pushes mankind ahead. All the years that Felix spent training for this stunt, all the years Muhammad Ali spent breaking his spine in practice, all the years the Beatles spent making music before they became famous, beg the question — surely, aren’t there better ways to make a living? These individuals choose craziness over normalcy, and that has made all the difference. They choose to pursue their interests and chalk out a career of their interests, and not the other way round. This is not to undermine the routine jobs, which are gears in the machine that build a foundation for ot her things. Yet it is this stubbornness to push limits, to reach the end that carves a path out of thick forests. Baumgartner’s jump was endorsed by Red Bull. All the data collected from the jump can now help space programs improve emergency escape procedures for space pilots on actual space missions. As time passes, records will be broken and new records will be set in all fields of human endeavor. Space diving might become an Olympic sport. Everything that seemed record breaking may become mundane. And as long as craziness exists, this cycle will go on.

“These individual choose craziness over normalcy, and that has made all the difference.”

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A rampage through nostalgia Retro City Rampage

Jordan Alsaqa Associate Features Editor

Nostalgia can be a tricky feeling to work with. When gamers remember what they played as kids, pixelated images of Link, Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog can fill them with joy, just as much for the fun times they had with those titles as for their moments of utter frustration. Retro City Rampage is a game built entirely around the idea of capitalizing on the player’s nostalgic sentiments. From the classic 8-bit graphics to the reference-perminute nature of its humor, this indie title will make just about anyone who played on the NES or Genesis smile earto-ear. Unfortunately, for all of the good memories, there are a few gaming moments that would’ve been better off forgotten in this charming litt le title. Retro City Rampage opens with the main character Player taking part in a bank robbery masterminded by the villainous Jester. After escaping the bank on a school bus, Player

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 discovers a time-traveling phone booth that sends him into the future of Theftropolis. With the help of Doc Choc, he must find the parts needed to fix his time machine and return to the past. The plot in Retro City Rampage is downright silly from beginning to end, but that’s the point. At no time throughout the game’s 62 missions are you expected to do anything other than laugh at the myriad of references to a slew of video games, movies and television shows from the past thirty years. Surprisingly enough, the game actually manages to pull off the rather lofty goal of being a genuinely humorous experience. Creator Brian Provinciano’s love for pop culture translates beautifully throughout the experience, w it h entire subpl ot s a n d levels being structured after classic NES games and modern indie hits alike. One mission will have you

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escaping from a supervillain contraption in the same manner as Adam West’s Batman, while the next tasks you with sneaking out of a prison like Metal Gear Solid’s Snake. The variety on display, as well as the tongue-in-cheek humor that accompanies it all, makes for an experience that works well most of the time. The regrettable thing is that in trying so hard to emulate the classic titles of the 1980s and early 1990s, Retro City Rampage is also plagued by issues that had been buried in the past for good reason.

Of the game’s many missions, the majority provide a fun and fair challenge. Every once in a while, though, the difficulty will spike to brutal levels, making for a gauntlet of pain that can take more than thirty attempts to complete (with the game being kind enough to keep count of all of your deaths throughout the game). Pixel-perfect platforming, an unfair number of enemies who are likely to kill you in one hit and instant death pits appear so frequently toward the end of the game that it

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Warming up to tea drinking Nicky Vaught Staff Writer

Many workers and students have long relied on heated, caffeinated beverages to provide the energy needed to get them through the day. While the general consensus may suggest coffee to be the leading energy beverage, a look into the cups of many people may show tea to be nearly as popular, especially on campus. “I think the main reason it’s gotten more popular is the health benefits and the marketing that goes along with the health benefits,” said Summer Hunt, a tea consultant at Tin Roof Teas, a tea shop in Cameron Village. Hunt, an avid tea drinker, claims tea boosts an individual’s overall sense of wellbeing as well as energy. “Tea lifts not only mine, but, I think, ever yone’s mood,” said Hunt. One myth regarding the origin of tea states a monk fell asleep while meditating beneath a tree and awoke with leaves in his cup according to Hunt. He drank from the cup and found himself energized yet serene. Keith Harris, an assistant professor of food science, attributes the boost of energy to the mixing of caffeine with LTheanine, or just Theanine, which is unique to teas. Theanine slightly inhibits the effects of caffeine to affect both

energy and relaxation, hence the myth. Harris said there are two major types of teas. “True teas,” referring to green, black, white and oolong teas, come from a plant known as Camellia Sinensis. “The stronger evidence, in regard to these true teas, green tea or black tea and those, is they do appear to have some potential benefits,” said Harris. “There’s a general effect on metabolism … also they may have an effect on digestion, they may reduce slightly the ability to absorb fat out of the diet.” “They may sometimes stain teeth,” Harris also said, “but they’ll prevent cavities.” As for the second type of teas, often referred to as “herbal infusions,” far less research has been conducted. Herbal teas refer to chamomile, mint and various other types. The main problem, according to Harris, is a lack of reliability as studies involving herbal teas are varied and very few have been replicated. Tested health benefits include anti-malarial effects, improvement of sleep patterns, help maintaining blood glucose for diabetics and help with psoriasis. Harris also noted the possible presence of anti-asthmatic compounds within teas. “The bottom line for me is really that the jury is still

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out over whether these herbal teas have potential health effects,” Harris said. According to Harris, the best way to determine the effects is running multiple double-blind studies in which participants are given capsules rather than liquid tea and effects are then measured. These types of studies, he says, have not yet been done. General studies have been conducted, however, in countries where teas are widely consumed. These studies found that the population in

those countries was at a much lower risk of heart disease than others. Harris expressed concern in determining whether the improved cardiovascular health was due to the tea or another lifestyle factor. Some infusions have actually done harm, according to Harris. “It’s either because an individual was not aware of what was in it or sometimes these teas are consumed intentionally and they can have some negative effects,” Harris said. Some noted non-beneficial

effects include reports of mixing hallucinogens into the teas, as well as damage to enamel and dental health due to the tea’s acidity. As opposed to coffee, Harris sees tea as better in terms of two things. For one, he said there is a lower dose of caffeine in tea rather than coffee. Secondly, the inclusion of Theanine keeps those who consume tea energized, but not jittery. “Certainly thousands of years don’t suggest [tea] to be harmful,” Harris said. Next to water, tea is con-

sumed more than any other beverage in the world, according to Hunt. “Tea culture,” Hunt said, “is very much like wine culture when it comes to being a connoisseur. When it comes to wine, it has to do with … where it was grown, the soil, what it’s grown next to, how they pick it. The same goes for tea.” With Starbucks having recently opened its first tea shop on the west coast, Hunt hopes tea culture will catch on more.

Vibrant beekeeping culture feeds sweet tooth Andrew Branch Staff Writer

Right off Capital Boulevard in Raleigh, Rick Bordeaux, a fourth-year beekeeper and 1977 N.C. State alum, harvested about 95 pounds of honey this year with his three hives. “I did not get cucumbers anymore. I knew it was a lack of bees [pollinating],” he said. “I was searching on the Internet and it mentioned that people keep bees in the city. I thought … ‘I need to look into this.’” More than 400 beekeepers are registered in the Triangle, and some of that honey is even sold at C-stores. Taking advantage of honeybees’ important role as pollinators, North Carolina has a lot of that sweet syrup of the hive. The world’s most important pollinators, honeybees, account for about $154 million in annual crop productivity in North Carolina, according to a 2005 estimate. “Bees are the spark plugs of agriculture,” Lewis Cauble, treasurer of the Durham

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people are starting to click together.” The defense will not have an easy day against Maryland freshman quarterback Perry Hills, who has thrown for 1,177 yards and eight touchdowns thus far this season, but he has also thrown six picks. The Pack defense can take advantage of this shortcoming. Junior cornerback David Amerson leads the team in in-

County Beekeepers, said. “Mount Olive cucumberland can’t happen without honeybees.” All of that produces a lot of honey. Many estimates place the state’s honey industry at $6 million. North Carolina boasts some of the most popular honeys in the eastern United States, such as sourwood, black locust and tulip poplar. Honey is classified based on the plants from which the nectar comes. The variety most often seen in stores, clover honey, is actually one of the blandest. Most beekeepers in North Carolina are hobbyists with fewer than 10 hives – and many of those beekeepers are right here in the city. The Wake County Beekeepers Association has about 200 duepaying members. Franklin, Durham, Orange and Wake counties are heavily represented in the 215 competition winners on display in the Exhibition Center at the N.C. State Fair. Bordeaux and Cauble helped run the exhibition. Competitions included everything from various forms of honey to foods cooked with honey to even mead, a honey-based alcoholic beverage.

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“It’s fun,” said David Tarpy, N.C. State apiculturist and one of the judges. “It’s really amazing how many different products of the hive there are and all the different ways beekeepers over the years have utilized the bounty of the honeybee colony. In that way it is always very creative and very enjoyable.” But to many, honey is more than simply a hobby or a treat. In the homeopathic, holistic community, honey is believed to have many health benefits. Yet many of those purported benefits are false. A widely-circulated blog post claims honey and cinnamon helps users restore hearing, lose weight and cure cancer. Snopes.com, a fact-checking website, identified it as a 1995 tabloid article (a paragraph of which brought 35,000 Google results). That does not mean, however, that honey, especially local honey, is not a healthy part of the diet. “The idea is that there are kind of small quantities of pollen in honey that kind of inoculate your immune system to pollen you might be allergic to in the environment,” Tarpy said. “There are

no really good studies that actually kind of prove that one way or the other. But there’s a lot of anecdotal evidence and testimonials.” Local honey is sold in and around campus. Tarpy and the Department of Entomology sell honey they harvest through their experimental hives near campus at C-Stores. Whole Foods on Wade Avenue, Tin Roof Teas in Cameron Village and the State Farmers’ Market also carry the sweet stuff. Though few and far between, some Farmers Market vendors were known in the past to attempt to pass off corn syrup as honey. Tarpy said the local beekeeping community has helped each other by self-policing itself. “Our state beekeepers association here is the largest in the nation and they’ve actually taken it upon themselves to set up an initiative where they are funding screening of questionable honey,” Tarpy

terceptions this season, pick- offensive threat is freshman ing off the opposing quarter- wide receiver Stefon Diggs. back three times while setting Diggs has 21 catches for 453 t he school y a rd s a nd record for three touchinterception downs, inin a college c lu d i n g a c a reer. He 100-yard is currently kickoff reninth in turn for a ACC history touchdown in this catagainst VirTom O’Brien egor y. The ginia. football head coach team has “ O n o fpicked of f fense, eight cumulative passes this [Maryland is] getting really season. creative on getting the ball to Another major Maryland Diggs,” O’Brien said. “He beat

Virginia last week by himself with the 100-yard touchdown return. He’s a dynamic guy, and they’re finding ways to get him the ball.” Stopping the offense behind the line of scrimmage is not only a minor concern, but also a Pack strength. State averages over eight tackles for loss per game, which ranks first in the ACC and sixth in the nation. Redshirt junior linebacker Rickey Dowdy leads the team with 8.5 tackles behind the line, including 2.5 sacks, another team leading statistic.

“On offense, [Maryland is] getting really creative.”

said. “They have convinced the State Farmers Market run by the NCDA to make sure they only sell authentic honey.” Anyone can get into beekeeping and honey-making for about $350. It continues to be popular as Cary recently saw fit to address beekeeping in a controversial ordinance fight earlier this year. Whether or not honey has amazing health benefits, that sweet maple syrup of the hive continues to hold its ow n i n North Carolina’s agricultural market.

QUICK FACTS: • In the past two decades, diseases and other factors still largely not understood by the beekeeping community have wiped out more than a third of the bee population. • Honey, food for adult bees, is made from digested nectar with enzymes and then dried until its moisture content is no more than 18.6 percent. The high sugar content is naturally antibacterial and honey has been found unspoiled in ancient Egyptian tombs. • N.C. State’s experimental hives are located near Yates Mill on the University farms. If available, harvested honey can be purchased in C-Stores as Wolfpack Honey. SOURCE: DAVID TARPY, N.C. STATE APICULTURE PROGRAM

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Wolfpack to tangle with Terrapins

Men’s soccer to take on Wake

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The Wolfpack will visit No.17 Wake Forest tonight in Winston-Salem. The Pack is coming off a win, 1-0, against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. The Demon Deacons have taken the last seven meetings against N.C. State. They are coming off a 4-1 victory against Virginia. Three players share the team lead in goals for the Deacs, Michael Gamble, Luca Gimenez and Sean Okoli. They lead the ACC in goals scored. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Football injury report vs. Maryland Out for the season: Zach Allen, OG - foot Jacob Kahut, DT - knee Michael Peek, LB - knee Forrest West, DE - ankle Probable: Rob Crisp, OT - lower back Andrew Wallace, OG - foot James Washington, HB - ankle SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Volleyball to host Boston College and Maryland Volleyball will take on Boston College tonight and Maryland on Saturday in Reynolds Coliseum. The matchup tonight will be the Kay Yow Pink Match. Last year N.C. State swept the Eagles in two matches. State is coming off two road ACC wins against Virginia Tech and Virginia. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

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Today VOLLEYBALL V. BOSTON COLLEGE Reynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.

Following a bye week after the upset victory over the now No. 14 Florida State, the N.C. State Wolfpack (4-2, 1-1 ACC) will travel to College Park, Md., to take on the Maryland Terrapins (4-2, 2-0 ACC) at Byrd Stadium Saturday. The Terps are coming off a victory over the Virginia Cavaliers, 27-20. Their last encounter resulted in a Wolfpack victory in Raleigh, 56-41. Games following bye weeks have historically proven to work out in the Pack’s favor. Since Head Coach Tom O’Brien took over the top spot prior to the 2007 season, State has been 4-2 in games following a week off. “I think it was good that we had last week off,” O’Brien said. “We’ve handled adversity much better than we’ve handled success. It gives us a week to feel good about ourselves, and certainly it’s over with and [we’re] looking at the challenge that Maryland presents.” The Wolfpack is looking to improve its record on the road. State is 1-2 outside Carter-Finley Stadium this season. The Pack’s offense has had problems with turnovers. The Pack has committed eight more more than the opponent in losses, while the opposing offense turns the ball over six times more in victories. Redshirt sophomore wide receiver Bryan Underwood will hope to continue his streak of six consecutive games with a touchdown. He continued his streak last week with a touchdown tying the matchup against FSU in the closing seconds of the fourth

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Freshman defensive back Josh Sessoms carries the United States flag onto the field at the beginning of the football game against Florida State in Carter-Finley Saturday, Oct. 6. The Wolfpack took down the No. 3 Seminoles in a nail-biting 17-16 victory.

quarter, his seventh touchdown of the season. An issue for the offense is the inconsistency of the rushing game. Redshirt sophomore running back Tony Creecy and freshman running back Shadrach Thornton have been platooning it lately but have not gained a considerable amount of yards, only rushing for a combined 63 yards on 25 carries against

Florida State. Graduate student quarterback Mike Glennon will continue to work his magic by spreading the ball around. Fourteen different receivers have recorded receptions this season, the most prominent of which is redshirt junior wide receiver Quintin Payton, who has 36 receptions for 645 yards for one touchdown. The unity of the receiving corps has

become stronger as the season has progressed. “I believe we’ve started to come together more against any kind of inexperience,” Payton said. “They’re trying to get timing down because some of the receivers haven’t played so much in years past, so I think now halfway through the season, people

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C. State Athletics has officially banned all student athletes from attending The Downtown Sports Bar, one of the most popular nightlife attractions in dow ntow n Raleigh. The a rrest of four players Jonathan from the men’s Stout soccer team was Deputy Sports the final straw. Editor The bar is regarded as a “sketchy” place and I understand why the athletics program wouldn’t want athletes near the premises. But is it right to tell a member of any sports team, who’s over 21, that they can’t go to DTSB? That’s where my question lies — is it legal for the administration to create such a rule?

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According to a bar employee, this hasn’t been the first time athletes have been a problem. What else has happened that we’re not aware of? “In my personal opinion, I don’t think anybody should’ve been arrested at all,” the employee said. “There were no signs of physical injuries.” It was reported that an officer did fall to the ground, which would easily lead to an arrest. I understand the administration wants to protect its players. I get that. But there are other bars in Raleigh. Who says all the athletes won’t flock to a new bar on Glenwood Avenue? This kind of thing happens all the time in bars. College guys drink a little too much, say a few choice words and the next thing you know, there’s a scuffle in the middle of the bar. There must be something else going on, or other instances we’re not

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aware of, if this is going to be the reason for a bar ban. If the bar is, in fact, serving minors alcohol, there should be an investigation. The fact that an employee at the bar witnessed the whole situation unfold and admitted that in his eyes there was no need for an arrest makes the situation juvenile but not to the point of a ban. The four soccer players paid the price — should the rest of the players be affected by their actions? I commend Debbie Yow, the athletics director at N.C. State, for looking out for our players and not sweeping a problem under the carpet. She’s laid down the law. Follow the rules or you’re out. That’s how it should be and I hope she sticks to her guns. But college kids are going to drink, be rowdy and sometimes get themselves in trouble, whether it’s at a bar notorious for trouble or on campus in their dorms.

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If there really is something we don’t know — a string of incidents involving players, the bar serving underage college kids or anything that truly is harming the players at The Downtown Sports Bar, then they should be banned from the premises. Just remember, this was an administrative ban; the bar didn’t have anything to do with the ban, according to an employee. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to hear about any more athletes getting into more shenanigans. I have the utmost respect for our athletics director and the rest of the athletics administration, but maybe they had a knee-jerk reaction before thinking this athletics ban over. Maybe there is perfect reasoning for the ban. But until the athletics department makes a clear statement, we won’t know.

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