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NCSU lands $60 million NSA grant UNIVERSITY DELAYS ANNOUNCEMENT IN WAKE OF PRISM CONTROVERSY, ADMINISTRATION SAYS FACILITY WILL NOT CONDUCT “OPERATIONAL INTELLIGENCE”
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The Harvard Business Review, last October, wrote that data scientists had “the sexiest job[s] of the 21st century.” In recent weeks, however, the field of data analytics has lost at least some of its public appeal with the controversy surrounding leaks of classified information by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. So last week when the NSA and N.C. State announced
that the two institutions had collaborated to establish the $60.75 million Laboratory for Analytic Sciences on the University’s Centennial Campus, the news made national headlines. The grant is the biggest ever awarded to N.C. State, three times more than the any previous award, according to the News & Observer. Originally scheduled to be announced in June, Randy Avent, a professor of computer science, and principal investigator of the labora-
tory, said the controversy surrounding the Snowden incident caused N.C. State and the NSA to reconsider the timing of their joint announcement. “It was delayed as one might expect,” Avent said. “When the Snowden thing came out was about the time we were expecting to make an announcement. For a large part, the NSA decided that they didn’t want to announce then, but it was not an unreasonable thing to want to wait. Everyone agreed that it was
best to delay the announcement.” Those worried N.C. State will become a hub of surveillance operations can rest easy, according to Avent who said, “It’s a research lab. There are no operational problems being worked on at all. It’s a research lab conducting basic research concerning questions like ‘What are the fundamental techniques?’ and ‘What’s the fundamental math behind the problem?’” While a press release announcing the partnership
said the laboratory would bring 100 new jobs to the Triangle during the next five years, Avent said that was probably a fairly conservative estimate. He predicted that the Triangle would see much more growth than projected over the next few years in this area. Avent said a driving factor behind the choice of N.C. State was Centennial Campus. “When Centennial Campus was created 30-some years ago, it was quite out
of the ordinary to have a vision that we’re going to bring together industry, academia and government,” Avent said. Avent said another major reason N.C. State was an ideal choice was because of the interdisciplinary nature of the laboratory and the interdisciplinary nature of the work currently being conducted at the University. The project will bring together researchers not only from the colleges of science and engineering,
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A Wolf Creek resident shot and killed an intruder Aug. 10. No arrests or charges have been made.
Wolf Creek residents move past fears regarding fatal shooting Jason Katz Correspondent
After a recent shooting at an apartment complex near campus, many students living there had more on their minds than the cost of rent or their security deposit as the semester approached. Wolf Creek, an apartment complex located off Hillsborough Street, is home to many N.C. State students during the academic year. In the wake of the deadly shooting just days before the start of classes, both the management of the complex and residents are in the process of getting back to business as usual. “According to the News & Observer, 23-year-old Wolf Creek resident Vincent Reed Bellamy shot and killed Trevor Anders Herne, 35, early Saturday, Aug. 10. Investigators say Herne broke
into Bellamy’s apartment and moved in as of yet.” Wolf Creek when the incident held a gun to his face, and McElwee said her team’s ef- occurred. that Bellamy, who owned a forts have gone beyond just “When I first heard it, I was gun of his own, shot Herne notifying residents. really surprised, you know?” in self defense. Police have “We have increased our Edwards said. “I really didn’t filed no charges in the case, on-site courtesy service and expect the shooting to hapthough the investigation is patrols in an effort to deter pen, and it was kind of alarmstill open.” would-be criminals from tar- ing for it to happen so close Misti McElwee is the re- geting our community, but to move-in.” gional manultimately it Despite his concerns, he ager of The takes a com- moved in on Wednesday, Woodlark munity,” Aug. 14, adding that he was Companies, McElwee impressed with the property the real essaid. “That owners’ response. tate g roup is why when “At first, I was a little unthat manages an incident easy about it [moving in], Trey Edwards, junior in Wolf Creek. does occur, but the apartment complex’s agricultural business “It is a very we feel no- reaction has definitely reass ad e vent, tifying our sured me,” Edwards said. “I and our hearts and thoughts residents is the responsible was really happy with Wolf go out to all of the parties in- thing to do. This allows peo- Creek ’s response in that volved,” McElwee said. “Our ple to take measures to limit they’ve increased the security management team was called their vulnerability. Informa- patrols.” to the community by the tion is empowering.” Edwards said he has seen police and began diligently Trey Edwards, a junior in on-duty police officers every working with them to notify agricultural business at N.C. night since he’s moved in. residents in the community State, was one of the residents Student Special NC State 1 7/29/2013 5:09:55page PM 2 and the ones that had not getting ready to move inTC072013.pdf to WOLF continued
“I think everybody feels pretty safe.”
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are educational platforms with a large number of students and interactive programs. The courses are flexible, and they usually don’t offer course credit. However, several universities, including Georgia Tech, are beginning to allow students to earn full degrees via MOOCs. While MOOCs may be available to N.C. State students as early as January, members of the faculty and staff haven’t exactly clamored aboard the MOOC bandwagon. According to Thomas Miller, senior vice provost for academic outreach and entrepreneurship, UNC System officials want an online course in global economics for the upcoming spring semester in at least one of the system’s schools. While N.C. State’s deans have been notified about the opportunity, Miller said no one at N.C. State has ex-
pressed an interest thus far. He said the deadline to apply for the course is Oct. 1, which means anyone accepting the challenge would have to design up for the course very quickly. “They plan to have the course offered Jan. 1,” Miller said. “I’m not sure, honestly, if that’s a realistic time frame.” Even if N.C. State implemented a MOOC program, it is still uncertain whether the University’s MOOC offerings would resemble those of Georgia Tech. Miller said UNC System administrators have not been clear about the process, and N.C. State would have to invest significant–and increasingly scarce–funds to participate in a MOOC system. Rebecca Swanson, associate vice provost of Distance and Distributed Education, said MOOCs could be in N.C. State’s future. “I cer ta in ly t hin k [MOOC’s] have wonderful potential,” Swanson said. “It’s
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Quilt display at Crafts Center opens Aug. 21 Staff Report
“I Did It My Way!,” an exhibition of work by the Triangle Art Quilters, will open to the public at the Crafts Center on Wednesday, Aug. 21. In this exhibit, art quilts combine traditional quilting techniques with imagery and ideas to create art objects that may be hung or worn. A reception for the artists will be held Friday, Aug. 23, from 5-7 p.m. in the Crafts
Center. The reception is free and open to the public. Otherwise, the exhibition may be viewed any time the Crafts Center is open. The exhibit will remain on display through Nov. 3. For more information on this event, contact Jo Westmoreland at (919) 515-2457 or jo_westmoreland@ncsu. edu. For more information on the Crafts Center, visit www. ncsu.edu/crafts SOURCE: N.C. STATE UNIVERSITY CALENDAR
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but also from CHASS and the Poole College of Management. “When [NSA staffers] were coming here and visiting the faculty, what they were impressed by was the willingness of all of the faculty to work together on the hard problems,” Avent said. Avent defined “hard problems” as ones that were “like finding a needle in the haystack.” “We’ve got lots and lots of data–healthcare, business and national security,” Avent said. “All the math behind those are the same problem. We’ve gotten massive sources of data. It’s multi-variate and multi- scale. It’s spatially rich.” In an NSA press release announcing the partnership, the agency’s director of research, Michael Wertheimer, said N.C. State is the ideal location for the new lab. “We have chosen the Research Triangle area for its vibrant academic and industry interest in large data analytics, and N.C. State for having the nation’s first, and preeminent, advanced degree program in data analytics,” Wertheimer’s statement said. “By immersing intelligence analysts with N.C. State’s diverse group of scientists, we hope to discover new and powerful ways to meet our foreign signals intelligence
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and information assurance missions – giving us an edge to better protect the nation.” Chancellor Randy Woodson said the NSA partnership would put the University on the forefront of data analysis and a leader in analytics. Prior to being named chancellor of N.C. State, Woodson served as provost at Purdue University. He said the collaboration with a federal agency there played a role in the growth of that institution. “At Purdue, NASA had a big presence on campus, and if you look at research that has been done at Purdue over the years relative to aeronautical engineering and spaceflight in particular, it’s had a huge impact on the space industry,” Woodson said. “With N.C. State having such strong applied math, computer science and statistics programs, it has the potential [as Purdue with aeronautics] to have the same kind of impact on how data is managed and analyzed to promote economic growth in the country.” Both Avent and Woodson dismissed any notion that the University will evolve into a hub of surveillance for the NSA. “I think it’s important to understand that we’re a public university,” said Woodson. “So we’re not in the business of operational intelligence, which is one part of what the National Security Agency does, but that’s not what N.C. State will be involved in or what will go on at Centennial Campus.”
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a very exciting approach toward education.” Swanson said N.C. State has a number of master’s programs that could be taught online in the future, but administrators would have to develop the underlying infrastructure first. Administrators would also have to figure out how to manage the most rigorous courses on that platform. Georgia Tech is one of the nation’s top computer science schools and is offering the same degree a student would get on campus online for a fraction of the cost. According to The New
York Times, Georgia Tech may change the future of how education is provided if their program is successful. The program is supposed to lower cost for the institution and provide the same educational content for less than attending the same course in person. The computer science master’s program on Georgia Tech’s campus would cost a student $45,000, and the online version of this degree would cost $6,600, according to The New York Times. After years of budget cuts, it would seem MOOCs would allow the University to save money. But Miller said online courses’ role as a moneysaver hasn’t been proved yet. “Whether [MOOCs] reduce the cost of education, that is yet to be seen,” Miller said. N.C. State already offers a significant number of distance education courses and some online programs, but they are funded the same way as on-site instruction. Swanson said these classes
are designed to help students graduate on time by providing flexible courses that help students earn credit hours toward their degree in the most efficient way possible; bottom-line cost savings are not the most important consideration. Even so, the University is dipping its toe into the proverbial waters when it comes to MOOCs. N.C. State started a preliminary “Open Online Course” program this summer, which drew more than 700 students. Miller said 5 percent of the enrolled students finished, which is typical for a MOOC program. The course used open enrollment and has helped Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications learn about what it would take to host a full-blown MOOC program. While the summer class wasn’t a massive online program, Miller said it was a way for the Distance Education department to determine enrollment rates and plan for the future if the University
eventually decides to offer programs as large as Georgia Tech’s. Swanson said it will take a lot of planning and resources to start MOOCs, and student input will definitely be a major driver of the University’s overall strategy moving forward. Lacey Shankle, a junior in social work who has taken distance education courses, and said that distance education provides more flexibility than traditional classes. “Distance education is awesome for summer session,” Shankle said. “You may need the flexibility to drop everything and go to work or go to the beach.” However, Shankle also said MOOCs might harm the University’s reputation if they come to be seen as just a cheap online alternative to traditional courses. “If the University offered a huge, completely-online degree program, I feel like we would become just like Devry or Phoenix,” Shankle said. “We wouldn’t be a university, we would be just a continuing adult education program.”
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Emily Van Schagen, a junior in human biology at N.C. State, was also moving in on Aug. 14. She initially heard about the incident through her father, who sent her a link to a news article outlining the event. Like Edwards, she said that she was also a little worried about the incident at first, but that she and her roommates have settled in. “We all feel pretty safe,” Van Schagen said. Van Schagen said that she knows that events, like the Aug. 10 shooting, could occur anywhere. McElwee said her management team is always trying to educate their residents on safe practices to prevent these kinds of incidents. Some of the tips she mentioned included calling 911 at the first sign of trouble, locking doors, reporting light outages, staying in well-lit areas and getting to know your neighbors. Meanwhile, Edwards said life seems to be returning to normal at Wolf Creek. “I’ve talked with a lot of my neighbors, and none of them have brought [the shooting] up when they are talking about the apartment and how they like it, so I think everybody feels pretty safe,” said Edwards.
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.C. State recently received a $60.75 million grant and has formed a partnership that is expected to bring at least 100 new jobs to the Triangle area over the next five years. Normally, this would be good news—if it weren’t for the fact that our partner, in this case, is the National Security Agency. The NSA’s investment, which is three times larger than any previous grant according to an article published in the News & Observer, yielded a self-congratulatory press release from the University. But the partnership, which Chancellor Randy Woodson called “a big deal,” has not been entirely well-received by students and others affiliated with N.C. State. After all, since leaks about the NSA came to light this June, it is now known as an organization that collects phone and Internet data about people both within and outside the United States. Even with all the recent publicity, we don’t know how deep that surveillance goes—and given the NSA’s mission, we may
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never know. The staff of the Technician believes that at least some of the wariness about the N.C. State/NSA partnership is warranted. Consider some of the rhetoric we’re hearing in connection with the partnership: “I think it’s important to understand that we’re a public university, so we’re not in the business of operational intelligence, which is one part of what the NSA does, but that’s not what N.C. State will be involved in or what will go on at Centennial Campus,” Woodson said. In contrast, the NSA’s Director of Research, Dr. Michael Wertheimer, explained in the agency’s press release that it “hope[s] to discover new and powerful ways to meet [its]
foreign signals intelligence and information assurance missions” which will “[give it] an edge to better protect the nation.” Those two statements may appear contradictory, but if one looks at them through a doublespeak-filter, everything is perfectly consistent. While it may be true that actual surveillance will not take place at the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences on Centennial Campus— and we have no reason to doubt the administration’s statements on that front—is this a substantive distinction or just a semantic one? We cannot pretend there is no connection between the development of intelligence-gathering techniques and intelligence gathering itself. Nothing the NSA does is unrelated to
“Nothing the NSA does is unrelated to intelligence.”
intelligence. In that sense, everything the NSA does is applied science. So, sure, we ourselves won’t be involved in operational intelligence, as Chancellor Woodson said, but we will be enabling it. That much is clear from reading between the lines of what these authorities say and connecting the dots, but the reading could go one level deeper, and therein lies the root of our strongest reservations: If the Chancellor and other officials aren’t being open about our operations being related to some intelligence work—even if they don’t say what the work itself is—there probably is something genuinely “spooky” about it. That’s what recent revelations have told us, at least, and the rhetoric of Woodson and Wertheimer only affirms this. That is why we at the Technician have strong misgivings about such an organization being associated with the University, regardless of the possible benefits the presence of the NSA may bring us.
Surveillance, totalitarianism and botched up causality
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o the National Security Agency is going to be part of the N.C. State family. With a $60.75 million grant from the NSA, t he la rgest research contract in the universit y ’s h i story, the two Ishan Raval will partner Viewpoint to establish Editor the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences on Centennial Campus. The NSA couldn’t have chosen more dramatic timing — right before the start of semester, at the end of a summer in which it has gained more notoriety than ever. The PRISM leaks in early June exposed the NSA for its indiscriminate spying on U.S. and foreign citizens alike. (The major revelation of the leaks was that the NSA has direct access to the servers of major Internet companies, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft.) These leaks prompted a good amount of discourse about expanding state power, privacy, free speech, etc. The saga to track down Edward Snowden, the whistleblower responsible for the leaks, became an international political Hollywoodesque drama. Behind a ll the f renzy though, a certain assumption about how the world works is guiding much of the discourse and action regarding the PRISM leaks and the NSA. This is the belief that surveillance leads to state tyranny and paves the way
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“Since it’s a research lab, I mean, I imagine they’re doing something that’s going to help N.C. State, help people, help the world.” Zachary Pressley junior, sports management
for totalitarianism. But does it really? No. The causality actually goes the other way around. The prevalent thesis — advanced by civil libertarians and many hackers and adopted by the public — is that if entities of power know things about us, i.e., if our privacy is eroded, then the control of our ideas also takes place and our free speech is lost, and with that, the foundation for totalitarianism is laid. But let’s think about this. What is happening is that the state now has the power to know more, to “see” more. But the state’s power to control matters besides being able to know things has not necessarily increased as a result of this increased knowledge (as compared to co-occuring with or leading to increased knowledge). It is this jump from the power to know more to an overall increase in power, from the power to surveil to the power in general to do more, that is unsound. Even if the state can know more about areas of people’s lives that existed before there were means for the state to know about them, conditions have not changed such that the state is allowed to do more things regarding these areas. In fact, if it does do so, if the state uses what it now knows to act in domains where its jurisdiction has in fact not increased, then what this means is not that increased knowledge has led to the state becoming tyrannical — rather, the correct analysis would suggest that the state
How do you feel about the NSA’s partnership with N.C. State?
“I feel like funding research centers on campuses isn’t something the NSA does so I’m wondering what kind of research they want to do. So I’m kind of suspicious I guess.” Mackenzie Anthony junior, zoology
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“I think they do need to be kept more accountable than they are so I don’t know I guess I don’t have a particular opinion on whether they’re at N.C. State or not. It could be a good thing or a bad thing.” Jonathan Page junior, mathematics
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On healthy diet: not to avoid but to balance
n June, the American Medical Association announced that it would officially recognize obesity as a disease. While many still dispute this label, no one can deny obesity’s link to a variety Ziyi Mai of serious Staff Columnist medical conditions, from diabetes to heart disease, nor can they deny the connection between obesity and diet. In the f ight against obesity, diet is the battleground. The average American’s daily diet consists of high levels of fat, sugar and other unhealthy chemicals derived from unhealthy cooking methods like deep frying. Americans now live three years longer than they did three decades ago, as the average life expectancy for both men and women increased to 78.2 years. But that isn’t necessarily good news. Researchers say the average amount of time spent liv ing w ith disabling health conditions increased from 9.4 years to 10.1 years, which shows that although Americans are living longer, they are spending more time fighting illness. Many Americans have long recognized there is a problem with the American diet. Those who are very concerned about their health work hard to break the cycle by decreas-
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was already tyrannical in nature. Surveillance, then, is only a contrivance that enables a state’s pre-existing tyrannical nature to manifest itself. After all, only if a state were already such that it would control and impede upon the free exchange of ideas would it use its powers of surveillance for such a purpose. Thus, the “surveillance leads to totalitarianism” notion has the logic the wrong way around. In these conditions, attacking surveillance is akin to making a fuss about the police car when a policeman goes rogue and becomes depraved. Of course, the policeman wouldn’t be able to do horrible things without the contrivance of the police car, but wouldn’t it be wiser to do something about the policeman rather than protest the police car? A nuanced understanding of reality, rather than being guided by clichéd beliefs, is necessary for well-directed and effective action. If we want to do something about state tyranny and surveillance, we need to stop and think about which the fundamental problem is and recognize the value of addressing it rather than its symptoms. And though the critical process itself may be complex, the conclusion here is simple — what we are afraid of coming to life is already alive, and if our fears are valid, we need, radically need, to rethink our very fight, let alone how to fight it.
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ing their intake of sodium, animal fat and sugar while increasing their intake of protein and fiber. But looking at the nutrition table to determine healthy food is not enough. To eat healthier, we need a bit of common knowledge about how our digestive system works. Some Americans control their caloric intake by completely avoiding starch, but that demonstrates a huge misunderstanding of how the human body consumes calories. The major component of starch is glucose, which is the easiest and most important source of energy for the human body. The digestion of starch begins in the mouth with the enzyme ptyalin. Glucose makes it quickly enough to the intestine to escape the process of fermentation by bacterial action where toxic chemicals are generated, thus leaving the burden of dissolving it to the liver. Thanks to misleading diet advertisements, many Americans are more concerned about the calories in food than the food itself. Almost all foods in grocery stores contain a nutrition label that clearly shows customers the percentage and absolute amount of carbohydrate, sugar, fat, sodium, protein, etc. for a serving of the food. But some of this information may be misleading. For example, a low-fat cupcake has approximately 131 calories. This is a relatively small amount of calories, but the cupcake may digest slowly because it contains too much sugar that might stay in your body for a long time. Sugar
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may ultimately convert to fat and stay in your stomach. Though converting sugar to fat is a relatively complex process, it’s more likely that you deposit fat to your stomach than sugar if you eat a jelly doughnut as snack every day. Conversely, if you take in 131 calories by eating starch, the risk of gaining weight is smaller because starch is easy to digest and thus becomes glucose that provides energy directly to our bodies. Our digestive system is able to identify which foods will provide immediate energy and which will be stored as a secondary energy source. Mediterranean cuisine is considered one of the healthiest diets on Earth. Not only does it contain a large amount of antioxidant sources such as olive oil and nuts, but their approach to food is also balanced, with grain and other starchy foods accounting for more than 60 percent of their daily diet. Meat and vegetables are also essential to their meals, but the portion of meat is significantly smaller than what is typically consumed in the United States. In a nutshell, limiting yourself to one category of food is hardly a healthy diet. Balancing every meal wisely is the right way. Starch should always account for the largest portion of a meal, followed by vegetables, then meat and dairy products. Never try to avoid one kind of food or skip a meal. The foods that we should really reduce consuming are anything deep fried such as French fries and fried chicken.
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A lthough John Donne and the cathedral where he preached have been gone for more than 300 years, N.C. State English professor John Wall is bringing Donne and St Paul’s Cathedral back to life, virtually. Wall created a virtual rendition of St. Paul’s Cathedral as it was in 1622 London, and he will present Donne’s Nov. 5 speech of that year in Hunt Library’s Teaching and Visualization Lab on Nov. 5 of this year. Donne was the Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral from 1621 until 1631. The wit and complex language Donne incorporated into his sermons made him a popular subject for history and English students. “So he’s important to histo-
rians, and he’s also important to English lit types, like me,” Wall said. “Contemporaries said that he could move congregations to tears, and I believe it.” Wall said works written for presentation such as Shakespeare’s plays and Donne’s early-modern sermons cannot be appreciated appropriately on a page. “Throughout my career I’ve had the belief that the meaning of a literary text is bound up in the experience of it,” Wall said. Wall has spent his career looking for ways to allow students to experience the performance aspect of works like Donne’s. “And then all of a sudden I discovered all of this stuff,” Wall said in reference to the Hunt’s Library Teaching and Visualization Lab. “The technology caught up with my
ambition.” The Teaching and Visualization Lab has 10 highdefinition projectors that will project one continuous image on three walls of the room, creating a panoramic shot of the churchyard. The fourth wall will be equipped with touchscreens to control the installation. Twenty-one speakers will work together to provide true surround sound. “We are creating an immersive installation,” Wall said. Graduate students from the school of design have created a model of the east-end churchyard, complete with St. Paul’s cross preaching station, St. Paul’s school and the surrounding businesses, which can be projected into the room. The area surrounding St. Paul’s Cathedral thrived as a center of learning; most of the shops surrounding
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Professor John Wall’s recreation of St. Paul’s Cathedral circa 1622 where John Donne spoke.
the church were book stores, and as many as 6,000 people gathered there for events. Students can now virtually explore the area. “It’s a place where govern-
ment policy and religious matters were articulated,” Wall said. “It’s where the issues that came out of the reformation were debated.” The students managed to
fashion an accurate model by using measurements for the foundations of the original cathedral, detailed engrav-
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Kenan Fellows program trains STEM educators to do and teach Nikki Stoudt Deputy Features Editor
As schools around the state prepare to open their doors for the fall, 50 grade-school teachers will return to their campuses prepared to answer a classic student question: When will they use what they’ve learned? N.C. State’s Kenan Fellows, a group comprised of elementary and secondary educators, attend a sum-
mer conference for handson leadership training each year that includes laboratory time and mentoring sessions with professionals from the University and elsewhere in the Triangle. During the program, members of the group engage in an 18-month fellowship with University researchers and industry scientists. Teachers participate in a five-week research “externship” and two-week professional de-
velopment program. The teachers are placed in research labs, manufacturing facilities, hospitals and other workplaces to see how researchers and industry professionals use Science, Technology, Education and Math education on the job. After the completion of these externships, the fellows attend mentoring sessions that help them design classroom curricula that implement what they have learned.
Now in its 12th year, the Kenan Fellows program has brought 250 teachers from 50 counties across North Carolina to participate in the seminar. Ruben Carbonell, director of the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science, said he has seen the benefits of the program firsthand. “It’s shocking, but approximately 50 percent of all teachers leave the profession after the first five years,” Carbonell
said. “That being said, 92 percent of teachers who have gone through the Fellowship program are still teaching in their respective fields.” After completing the program, the Kenan Fellows take what they have learned from their summer work experience back to the classroom where they create STEM lessons that involve students with relevant and practical applications. “During their time with
the program, the teachers are taught how to write proposals for STEM grants,” Carbonell said. “Ultimately they learn how to be leaders and advocates for student success.” The other part of the participants’ duty is to pass their knowledge to fellow educators. Carbonell said the renewed excitement about educating students drives participants to supplement
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ings by Wenceslaus Hollar, and a scale drawing by Christopher Wren, the architect who would eventually redesign and rebuild the cathedral after the original burned down in 1666. The students created a stripped-down version of the model, and Wall sent it to acoustic engineers who used the model to determine how sound would behave in the space. This is the same process used by engineers working on buildings where sound is important, like auditoriums or theaters. “I figured if you can do this with a building that doesn’t exist yet, you can do it with a building that used to exist but doesn’t exist anymore,” Wall said. Wall and volunteers then added ambient noises to the presentation that would have existed in the period, such as
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their communities with opportunities to increase outside excitement as well. Kenan Fellows lead interestspecific workshops and study groups with other teachers, and they also present papers at various STEM education conferences. Efforts are left to participants to ensure teachers’ time as Kenan Fellows is prosperous. Due to recent state-level budget cuts, the program has shifted most of its funding to
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dogs barking, horses passing by, pigeons and bells. They also created the sound of a crowd of listeners murmuring and shuffling. Including Donne himself was the final step. Wall hired an actor to read a manuscript of his sermon in the dialect of the time. The actor spoke slowly and clearly as Donne would have in the 17th century in front of a large crowd. To our ears, which are accustomed to presenters aided by microphones, it may sound artificially measured. The actor recorded this in an anechoic chamber, an acoustically “dead” round room covered with jagged foam pieces to absorb sound. This recording will then be put in the acoustic model of the churchyard, meaning that you can hear how he would sound in that space. “Lots of people are building visual models of old places,” Wall said. “Adding the sound dimension is new.” Mo r e s e r m o n s w e r e
preached at St. Paul’s, and a large body of music was composed specifically for the cathedral’s organists and choir. “You will be able to hear music composed for performance inside Saint Paul’s cathedral in the space for which it was composed for the first time in 400 years,” Wall said. The project can also be shared with any university with the technology to present it to its students. “[The project] really takes people to an era that we can’t personally experience,” said Thomas Birkland, associate dean for research in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, which helped fund the project. “It’s a really important thing to understand our history and heritage, and this really brings it alive in a way that’s not just looking at pictures and reading about it.” The project can be seen online at http://vpcp.chass. ncsu.edu/ but can be fully experienced in the Hunt library Nov. 5.
individual and corporate donations and sponsorships. “Though our funding now comes from largely privatesector sources, we’re still feeling the effects of the cuts, much like the rest of the University,” Carbonell said. The Kenan Fellows program’s corporate partners include Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, Cisco Systems, Duke Energy Progress, Lenovo, NASCAR, SAS, and WakeMed Health and Hospitals. Educational partners include Appalachian State University, Meredith College, Duke University, N.C. State
and UNC-Chapel Hill. Governmental partners include NASA and the National Science Foundation. Regardless of the potential financial hardships, Carbonell said he is optimistic about the future of the program and the ultimate mission of the Kenan Fellowship. “Our main goal is to keep teachers teaching,” Carbonell said. “Of course we can’t reach every teacher in the state, but having the participants go back with their own ideas ensures educators will transfer their enthusiasm to the students.”
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son, who played here from 2008 until 2012, had his share of snaps on defense and responded with six tackles in the preseason. Buffalo Bills eighth-year linebacker Manny Lawson (2002-2005) and Detroit Lions eighth-year linebacker Stephen Tulloch (2003-2005) have proved their seniority with five tackles each, but rookie defensive backs David Amerson (2010-2012) and Earl Wolff (2008-2012), of the Washington Redskins and Philadelphia Eagles, respectively, have also made five tackles, as has Detroit Lions defensive end Willie Young. Bills defensive end Mario
Williams and Green Bay Packers linebacker Terrell Manning have had limited playing time this preseason. Williams, who played with the Pack from 2003 to 2005 and was the 2006 No. 1 draft pick, has only recorded one sack, and Manning, who played for State from 2008 to 2011, has recorded three tackles. The oldest of the Pack alumni, the Patriots 13-year safety Adrian Wilson, has recorded two tackles in the preseason. Wilson played under former head coach Mike O’Cain from 1997 to 1999 as well as O’Cain successor, Chuck Amato, during the 2000 season. Offensively, the State stars have not been as productive. Pittsburgh Steelers 10th-year
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wide receiver Jericho Cotchery (2000-2003) and Bills wide out T.J. Graham (20082011) have only caught one pass each for five and nine yards respectively. Jacksonville Jaguars rookie receiver Tobais Palmer (20092012) has been limited to special teams but leads the team in punt returns with five for an average of 6.8 yards per return. New York Giants running back Andre Brown (20052008) leads the Pack alumni with eight rushing attempts for 59 yards, as well as two catches for 13 yards. The NFL’s regular season will begin on Sept. 5 when the reigning Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens take on Irving and the Denver Broncos.
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er in 15 years. She made 240 career three-point baskets, placing her second in school history and 11th in Atlantic Coast Conference history. Kastanek also set the record for most games played in a Wolfpack uniform with 133. She finished the 2012-13 campaign averaging 12.5 points per game and 69 baskets beyond the arc. After graduating, Kastanek signed with Macklin & Lovett Associates, who helped her attain her primary goal, even after getting slighted out of getting drafted to the WNBA. “My agent, Billy Lovett, has been amazing,” Kas-
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tanek said. “I signed with him shortly after the Final Four, and then he got me a job within a month or two, so he did a really, really good job.” “It’s always been a dream to play professional basketball, so I’ve made it in that regard, but I don’t want to stop and cut myself short,” she said. “If I can get to the WNBA, I will. If not, I can do other great things, so it’s not a deal breaker, but it would be pretty cool to have that experience.” Kastanek earned postgraduate scholarships from both the ACC and the NCAA. She has continued to work hard and still learns more with every experience she undertakes. “I’ve been doing a lot of
workouts along with camps that I’ve been working, and the camps that I’ve worked have just broadened my horizon in putting in new drills,” Kastanek said. “Obviously, I’ve been practicing for a long time, so some stuff gets boring, and some stuff gets old, so just going to these camps and working these camps have given me new drills to work on so I don’t get bored but I still get better.” After proving to be an effective leader in Raleigh, Kastanek will look to progress even further on the professional stage. While the sun has set on her time at State, her future shines bright in the land of the Midnight Sun.
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Johnson selected No. 1 overall in Canada pro draft Alex Johnson, a Toronto, Canada, native, was the No. 1 pick in the NBL Canada draft. Johnson played for N.C. State during the 2011-12 season. Johnson came to Raleigh as a graduate student after spending four seasons at CSU-Bakersfield. He played three seasons there and one redshirt year, averaging 9.3 points per game in 83 career contests. He finished second all-time on the school’s made 3-pointers list, 165, and shot .365 from beyond the arc. In his one season with the Wolfpack, he averaged 4.4 points and played in all 37 games as NC State went 24-13 and advanced to the NCAA Sweet 16. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
QUOTE OF THE DAY “I feel proud to have been part of the Wolfpack.” Former women’s basketball guard Marissa Kastanek
DID YOU KNOW? Marissa Kastanek holds the N.C. State women’s basketball record for most games played, 133, and second in program history with 240 three-point baskets.
Luke Nadkarni Staff Writer
Before we close the books on the 2012-2013 and begin a new “athletic calendar year,” it’s worth taking a look back at N.C. State’s overall athletic performance last year. Despite largely disappointing seasons on the part of the football and basketball teams, N.C. State Athletics as a whole enjoyed one of its most successful years in recent history. All eight of the Wolfpack’s spring sports advanced to postseason play, highlighted by the baseball team’s run to the College World Series in June. It was the first time N.C. State reached Omaha since 1968. In total, 18 of 23 Wolfpack teams participated in the postseason. Bot h Wolf pack tennis teams qualified for the NCAA Tournament. The men, led by All-ACC performers Robbie Mudge and Austin Powell, knocked off Auburn in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, an improvement over a first-round exit in 2012. Powell, now a senior, was also named to the AllACC academic team along with fellow senior Sean Weber. “Both [honors] are nice, but it’s kind of hard to say which one is better,” Powell said. “It’s always nice to be academically awarded, but at the same time there are a lot of really good players in the ACC, and it’s special to be among those guys.”
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The Wolfpack celebrate a point during the second set against Clemson University September 29, 2012. N.C. State celebrated coach Bryan Bunn’s 400th victory with a 3-1 win over the Tigers at Reynolds Coliseum.
In total, the Wolfpack boasted 72 All-ACC performers across all sports; 25 of those student-athletes were named All-Americans. In addition, 61 Wolfpack student-athletes earned All-ACC academic honors, with five Academic All-Americans. Powell said State athletics as a whole is headed in the right direction. He also embraced the camaraderie between players on different teams. “I keep up with all the sports, and I have friends on multiple teams,” Powell said. “Wolfpack athletics have gained some momentum, which is good to see.” Another team that broke new boundaries this past
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season was softball. In its first year under head coach Shawn Rychick, the Wolfpack claimed the ACC championship and won two games in NCAA Regional play, the furthest the team has advanced in program history. A couple of players shattered school records, with junior pitcher Emily Weiman earning 33 wins on her way to being named ACC Pitcher of the Year. Junior shortstop Renada Davis hit 26 home runs and finished with a .768 slugging percentage. “I’m honored,” Weiman said. “I’m really glad to play for Coach Rychick. [The coaching staff] really brought out the best in me. It’s been a really awesome experience to
be able to contribute to this program.” Softball was not the only sport to claim a conference championship. The gymnastics and rifle teams also took the ACC crown in their respective competitions. Volleyball, football, cross country, men’s basketball, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, wrestling, men’s and women’s track and field, and men’s and women’s golf were among the other sports that earned postseason bids or sent individual participants to NCAA competition. As a new year begins, the Wolfpack will continue athletic director Debbie Yow’s mission of refusing to accept the status quo.
“We didn’t have any mandatory workouts [over the summer.]” Weiman said. “But we’re working and lifiting and running. The coaches give us workouts they suggest.” Powell and the tennis team scattered over the summer, all the while making sure they played as much as possible to keep in shape. Unlike most sports, tennis spans both semesters of the school year. The fall features mostly individual competition, while the spring is when team competition begins. “Hopefully we can keep our momentum for all sports going into the fall and carry it over into spring,” Powell said.
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Pack in the pros: football alumni ready for NFL regular season Daniel Wilson Staff Writer
With the National Football League’s regular season starting up in 15 days, many N.C. State alumni are preparing for their first games in the 2013 season. Twenty-six former players are currently active across 15 NFL teams, including eight players from last year’s team that reached the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl. Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Mike Glennon, who played from 2008 to 2012 and finished his collegiate career third in school history in completions and touchdowns as well as fourth in passing yards, will compete with fifth-year veteran and former Kansas State quarterback Josh Freeman. The 6-foot-6 pocket passer has completed 23-of-45 passes for 290 yards, two touchdowns, and two interceptions in his first two preseason games. Glennon joins four-year center Ted Larsen, who was a member of the Pack from 2005-2009 and has been with the organization since the New England Patriots waived him after drafting him in the
WOLFPACK NFL PRESEASON STATS: Glennon: 23 of 45, 290 yds, 2 TD, 2 INT Wilson: 10 of 18, 150 yds, 2 TD; 3 rush, 19 yds Rivers: 10 of 15, 95 yds, 1 INT; 1 rush, 5 yds Brown: 12 rushes, 55 yds Graham: 1 rec, 9 yds SOURCE: NFL.COM
sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. Another former Pack quarterback looking to make his mark in 2013 is the Seattle Seahawks’ starter Russell Wilson, who will be looking to avoid a sophomore slump after leading the team to an 11-5 finish. The Richmond, Va. native, who played for State from 2007-2010, has thrown two touchdowns and completed 10-of-18 passes for 150 yards thus far. Wilson will continue to have support from former Pack offensive lineman J.R. Sweezy as he will play in his second season in Seattle after playing for the Pack from 2007 to 2011. Seahawks placekicker Stephen Hauschka, now in his sixth professional season since graduating from State in 2007, has made two of three field goals and four of
five PATs in the preseason. San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, entering his 10th year in the NFL after playing at N.C. State from 2000 to 2003, will attempt to revive a struggling Chargers team that has undergone a coaching change after missing the playoffs for the last three seasons. The 2004 No. 4 draft pick has completed 10-of-15 passes for 95 yards, no touchdowns and one interception in the preseason. One fellow alumnus that Rivers will have to be wary of during the regular season is Denver Broncos linebacker Nate Irving, who leads all former Pack defenders in the preseason with nine tackles and a forced fumble. Irving played in Raleigh from 2006 to 2010. The Minnesota Vikings’ Pack defenders have also made their mark this preseason. Second-year linebacker Audie Cole, who played for the Wolfpack from 2007 until 2011, and undrafted rookie defensive back Brandon Bishop, who played from 2009 until 2012, each have recorded seven tackles. Chicago Bears undrafted rookie cornerback C.J. Wil-
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Former guard Marissa Kastanek takes position to defend the basket during the women’s basketball game against Clemson in Reynolds Coliseum Feb. 10, 2013. The Wolfpack Women defeated the Tigers 79-45.
Former standout women’s basketball guard begins pro career in Sweden Daniel Wilson Staff Writer
College athletes across the country share the same dream—to play the sport they love professionally. After four seasons at N.C. State, former Wolfpack guard Marissa Kastanek has the chance to fulfill her dream. The Lincoln, Neb., native signed with Mark Basket in the Damligan Women’s Basketball League of Sweden in June after graduating with
a 4.0 grade point average in May. “This is one of the final steps that I can take,” Kastanek said. “I’m playing professionally. You can’t get much higher than professional basketball player in this profession.” Kastanek played all four years at State after being recruited by former head coaches Kay Yow and Kellie Harper, the latter of whom coached her for her entire collegiate career.
“I felt really accomplished, and I feel like I’ve grown a lot as a person and as an athlete under Coach Harper and within the system,” Kastanek said. “I feel proud to have been part of the Wolfpack.” The two-time Kay Yow Atlantic Coast Conference Scholar Athlete of the Year finished her collegiate career eighth in school history in points, with 1,655, the most for a women’s basketball play-
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