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COR Museum has changed operations following new ownership. See page 4.

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Technology is a fixture of everyday life, and digital and media literacy have gained importance in recent years, especially at research universities like N.C. State. Hiller Spires and her colleagues at the Friday Institute have been working with teachers around the world to increase the emphasis on technology in the classroom. The goal is to help both the teachers and the students they teach. The institute is currently targeting two main areas of digital literacy. First, because the Internet offers an endless stream of information– some of it sound, and

some of it dubious, at best both teachers and students must be able to determine a given source’s credibility Spires said. Second, teachers must help students develop “a critical perspective for online research,” which Spires called the biggest challenge teachers face in the classroom today. To build these skills in future generations of students, Spires said the institute prioritizes teaching education majors what it means to be literate in today’s technological society. She and her colleagues also teach them how to provide a more globally oriented learning environment. The Friday Institute’s New Literacies Collaborative has worked with other institutes nationally and worldwide— including ones in Massachu-

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setts and Beijing, China—to increase digital literacy and technological efficiency in classrooms on a larger scale. In Beijing, at the Beijing Royal School, the goal of

the partnership has been to develop a more innovative teaching strategy, Spires said. The program at the Beijing Royal School is conducted primarily in English and of-

fers an eye-opening, technologically focused exchange opportunity for College of Education graduate students.

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Bionic insects were once the stuff of science fiction movies–but no more. Alper Bozkurt, an assistant professor in computer and electrical engineering at N.C. State, has developed a way to remotely control insects similarly to an RC car. Currently, his main research subject is the Madagascar hissing cockroach, which can be kept as a pet and can reach a length of up to 3 inches. When equipped with electronics, it becomes a biobot. “We implant electrodes in the muscles and the sensory organs of the insects,” Bozkurt said. “We then send very tiny electrical pulses, depending on where the implant is, if it

is in the muscle, it creates an actuation of the insect.” Bozkurt went on to explain how the project researchers could tell the cockroaches where to go. “If the implant is in the sensor organ, it sort of simulates environmental signals and makes the insect think it’s sensing something,” Bozkurt said. “A cockroach navigates by using the antenna to understand the physical environment–like a blind person using fingers to understand the surroundings to get a feel of the 3D environment around them. The implant simulates that.” The biobots research project also recently expanded to include hawk moths in a partnership with Tyson L. Hedrick of the UNC Chapel Hill biology department. Bozkurt said the biobots research with hawk moths was

coming along relatively well. “We were able to initiate the flight and stop flight,” Bozkurt said. “We were also able to make it go right or left. We basically override the natural movement of the insect. Our ultimate aim is to have them controlled like an RC plane.” In addition to working with biobots, Bozkurt also served as a consultant for the 2009 “spy-fi” movie G-Force and contributed to the creation of the Agent Mooch character, a housefly with surveillance equipment. “They invited me to Hollywood while they were shooting the movie,” Bozkurt said. “I saw them while they were recording the pictures, and I have a couple of pictures from the movie set.” The biobot cockroaches may ultimately be used for search and rescue missions. One of the researchers’ goals

is to leave the insects with some degree of autonomy so they can navigate through more difficult environments. “We want to benefit from their natural instincts to find their way under such unknown and dynamic conditions,” Bozkurt said. “Like, if it gets trapped in a hole, the insect can find its way out. If it’s under your control all the time, then you need to know the environment well.” The insects have tiny electronic backpacks that send and receive signals as well as control it. Currently, the researchers use radios with tiny microphones attached. One of the research group’s ultimate goals is to incorporate so-called “swarm dynamics.” “There is this concept of sensor networks where they can form a chain of information from one insect to an-

other,” Bozkurt said. “You can build that link with a group of insects, sending it from one to another rather than the direct transmission to the first responder. This actually helps us miniaturize our backpacks, since otherwise we would need really strong radios to transmit under the rubble all the way to the responder outside. Last year, Bozkurt and his team received a million-dollar grant from the National Science Foundation for the project. The two other people at N.C. State working on this are Edgar Lobaton and Mihail Sichitiu. Lobaton is working on search-and-rescue algorithms and Mihail works on establishing sensor networks using tiny radios. There are plans to expand the use of the biobots beyond search and rescue.

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N.C. State has been a victim of budget cuts in recent years, making fundraising important. The University has lost $87 million to budget cuts in the last two years and expects more cuts this year. In the face of this grim budgetary future, however, N.C. State broke a fundraising record for the 2012-2013 fiscal year thanks to gifts from private donors, and the University hopes the extra funds will help soften the blow of the recent cuts. Colleges like the College of Natural Resources and the College of Textiles a re re por t i ng t r iple digit percent changes in gifts and commitments. According to a press release by the CN R, donations increased by 263 percent, totaling $9

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million. The College of Textiles saw a 390 percent increase in gifts and commitments from the previous year totaling $4.4 million, the press release stated. Collectively, the University landed gifts and pledges totaling $198.2 million, which is a 78 percent increase from last year. According to Lau r ie Reinhardt-Plotnik, associate vice chancellor of University Development, the main goals of the University are philanthropy and getting more alumni to become part of the N.C. State “family.” “Students, faculty and ad m i n ist rators need to be able to engage with f r iends a nd develop ongoing opportunities and relationships for everyone who cares about N.C. State,” Reinhardt-Plotnik said. “It’s a great way to get involved. We consider our donors like family.” Historically, Reinhardt-

Plotnik said efforts to develop That approach paid off a strong alumni donor network handsomely for the college in have been uneven, at best. at least one case. The college “We have serious work received $7 million of its $9 to do to catch up to private million from a “committed institutions wildlife a n d m a ny enthusiast” peer public who has no institutions connection t hat have to the school. been raising Alumni private have been dollars for contributing generations,” a lot more Laurie Reinhardt-Plotnik, Reinhardtto the associate vice chancellor of Plotnik said. University, University Development N.C. State’s 2012 “Philanthropy is relatively f i n a n c i a l r e p o r t s a id , new to our culture at N.C. and the universit y saw State.” a 34.5 percent overall University officials are also increase in alumni giving. working hard to raise money According to The Chronicle to help combat decreasing of Higher Education, N.C. replace dwindling state State ranked in the top 50 for funds, according to a CNR “Colleges That Raised the news release. In doing so, Most in Private Donations” they’ve taken a more personal in the fiscal year of 2012. approach, one emphasizing Accord i ng to a n Aug. face-to-face meetings with 16 memorandum to vice potential donors. chancellors and deans from

Vice Chancellor for Finance a n d Bu si n e s s C h a rle s D. Leff ler, N.C. State is expecting a 5 percent cut in state funding this year, which is a budget reduction of $21,066,528 for fiscal year 2013-2014. State funding will account for 47 percent of t he University’s revenue this year, while gifts– even given the recent increases–are expected to be only 4 percent. The U n i v e r s i t y ’s endowment fund, which is a savings account that the university can use to provide money for new technologies, merit and need-based student scholarships, or any support prog rams that en hance student experience, has seen an inf lux of nearly $130 million from fundraising efforts. N.C. State’s Endowment in 2012 totaled $635 million. expected to grow this year.

Among other changes, Spires recommended “a more participatory learning environment.” However, one of the main challenges Spires and her colleagues face in that mission is determining what makes someone truly “literate.” As the Internet increasingly connects the entire world, social media has become a powerful tool that should be harnessed in the classroom, Spires said. “Social media is a natural

extensions of face-to-face communication,” Spires said, adding that her students use Twitter to broadcast classrelated information and collaborate on projects. Tomer Shvueli, a senior majoring in computer science, said he did not find N.C. State’s curriculum very informative as far as digital literacy goes. Shvueli worked in the technical department of the Friday Institute maintaining websites and building projects to test web applications.

effective. He cited examples like Raspberry Pi, the startup based at the University of Cambridge responsible for creating a computer priced at about $35. With this affordable computer, Raspberry Pi provides a way for underprivileged children to master basic computer skills. “They teach students how to write [computer] code and network in an online environment,” Shvueli said.

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E115: Introduction to Computing Environments, or some other equivalent, is a requirement for all majors, but the course isn’t structured in a very appealing way, Shvueli said. Although the course offers preparation for the coming computer science courses, he said much of the course amounted to busy-work. “E115 is the most NC State has done as far as digital literacy in my coursework,” Shvueli said. Shvueli said global efforts in the digital literacy field are

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DESPITE STRIDES TAKEN TO IMPROVE RACE RELATIONS AND LABOR LAWS, NORTH CAROLINA STILL HAS A LONG WAY TO GO STORY BY RAVI CHITTILLA GRAPHICS BY EMILY PRINS | PHOTOS FROM THE TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE Martin Luther King Jr. laid his vision out to America exactly 50 years ago at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was the first time in history that approximately 250,000 Americans from civil rights, labor and religious organizations had gathered together in one place. The march is widely credited as a major catalyst in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and the Voting Rights African American students and employees Act of 1965, but the march’s themes of jobs, freedom and marched to Chancellor Caldwell’s home economic liberty for people of all colors and classes is in opposition to the suspension of African often overlooked. American workers in April 1969. Fifty years ago, Bayard Rustin, an organizer of the March, read off a list of 10 demands concerning social, political and economic issues compiled by the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Today, much of what was demanded in that manifesto has bled into North Carolina’s 21st century political climate. Although many people today remember the event solely in the context of civil rights for black Americans, the March placed labor laws front and center, featuring speakers like A. Phillip Randolph, a leader of the American Labor Movement who spoke prior to King that day. David Zonderman, a professor of history at N.C. State and an expert on labor history, said although the labor force has grown in the United States, labor laws have barely changed at all since the 1960s. “Since the 1960s, it has become much harder to organize unions,” Zonderman said. “That’s not because the laws officially changed, but because companies have gone to the edge of breaking laws, if not actually breaking laws, but the penalties are so low there’s no real great harm in breaking those laws.” Instead, in so-called “right-to-work” states like North Carolina, state laws are so stringent that forming a union for any group of working people is difficult if not impossible, Zonderman said. Right-to-work laws allow the government to regulate contractual agreements between employers and About 200 students marched to the Chancellor labor unions to prevent those agreements from exBruce Poulton’s office on March 17, 1988, cluding non-union workers or requiring employees stating that the chancellor had ignored campus to pay dues to unions that negotiated their labor racial issues. contract, which greatly weakens the union. “People will say it’s for economic freedom and for no forced unionization,” Zonderman said. “The end result is it’s kind of a poison pill. It’s a way for the state of North Carolina to say ‘We don’t want you here, and if you come here, we’ll make it really, really hard for you to operate, and you’ll lose money in the deal.’” Zonderman said the increase in inequality related to labor laws has much to do with the tax policies enacted by state and federal governments for the past 30 years. “There’s no doubt the gap between wealthier and poor people has grown since the 1980s,” Zonderman said. “If you look at this country from the ‘30s to the ‘70s, the gap actually narrowed. Starting in the ‘80s, it’s widened again, and we’re back really where we were in the 1920s, if not the Gilded Age of the 1880s.” “That’s due less to the labor law than to tax policy,” Zonderman said. “People have always complained about our taxes being high, but compared to where they were 50 years ago, the taxes on wealthy people are excessively low.” After one of the most controversial sessions in the history of the North CaroStudents gathered on Jan. 19, 1987, to urge the Board lina General Assembly, history professor Katherine Mellon Charron said much of Trustees to divest the University’s holdings in South Africa, due to the country’s policy of apartheid. of what the Civil Rights activists of the 1960s fought for has been rolled back in a single six-month session.

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“We had a call for voting rights in 1963,” Charron said. “Now voting rights is an issue in North Carolina. We had a call for a minimum wage in 1963. We have a call for nationally raising the minimum wage now. We had a call for integrated schools in 1963; our schools have become more segregated. We had a call for decent housing in 1963; we still need decent housing in North Carolina. Hunger in North Carolina has gone up 56 percent. We don’t only need decent housing, we need food security. You can’t say that things haven’t changed, because they have changed. However the struggles for security, quality and justice have been rolled back in 2013 in North Carolina.” Charron took particular issue with the new Voter ID passed by the legislature in the last session. “Voter ID is one thing, but a 67-page bill that introduces the most repressive voter suppression legislation in the country is not just about voter fraud,” Charron said. “You’re more likely to have voter fraud in absentee ballots, but they didn’t touch that. Instead they went after students, the elderly, people in rural areas, the poor, and African-Americans and other people of color.” Zonderman also compared the peaceful protest movements of the 1960s to the recent ‘Moral Mondays’ protests in response to much of the legislation passed by the General Assembly and signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory. “Some of the techniques and ideas are linked, [particularly] the idea of publicly protesting against what people feel are injustices,” said Zonderman. “Some of the sit-ins are similar to those conducted in the ‘60s.” Like King, the Rev. William J. Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP leader of the ‘Moral Monday’ movement, has been able to use elements of religion to promote social justice. Zonderman said that while it is important to remember the March on Washington as a civil rights landmark in terms of race relations, it was also very much aimed at combating economic inequality in general. “We remember it today as civil rights and Dr. King’s ‘I have a Dream,’ but it’s like reading one page out of an entire book,” Zonderman said. “If you read the whole book on the March on Washington, Dr. King didn’t just say ‘I have a dream,’ there was a lot more to his speech.There were a lot of other speakers besides Dr. King. He was the final [speaker], but before there were many. The march was about freedom and jobs and economics as well as civil rights.”

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Moral Monday on July 29, 2013 had its largest turnout since the weekly protests began. Teachers were among the majority as recent budget cuts have eliminated pay raises.

About 200 students gathered in the Brickyard on Thursday, Sept. 24, 1992, to protest a column which blasted the Black Awareness Council at UNCChapel HIll.

N.C. State’s “First AfricanAmerican Newspaper,” The Nubian Message, published it’s first edition on Nov. 30, 1992, after controversy surrounding a column published in the Technician criticizing the Black Awareness Council at UNCChapel Hill.

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Museum continues to archive city’s past

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Exhibits at the City of Raleigh Museum display artifacts from different time periods in Raleigh’s history. As a result of the recession, City of Raleigh Museum switched from being a non-profit to being owned by the City of Raleigh in 2012.

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COR Museum seeks to “preserve Raleigh’s past for the future.” COR also collects When Raleigh celebrated its and cares for artifacts, cubicentennial in 1992, a plan rates exhibits and puts on was set in motion to establish programs to educate others a museum dedicated to the about Raleigh’s history. North Carolina State Capitol. Dollar said the last year has The City of Raleigh Muse- been a year of rebranding and um became the pet-project of reconfiguration and hopes local historian Beth Crabtree the museum will find its place and Mary Cates and opened among the other museums in its first exhibit in 1993. The the area. museum was housed in the In the last year, Dollar and Borden Building, a former his team have uncovered orphanage, until 1998 when it a collection of 300,000 to moved to its current location 500,000 locally created phoin the historic Briggs Build- tographs, which include eving on Fayetteville Street. erything from prom pictures The COR Museum oper- to political candidates giving ated as non-profit until July speeches. The museum wants 2012, when, due to the effects to digitize the collection to of the economic downturn, maximize distribution of the City of Raleigh assumed these stories, according to responsibility for the mu- Dollar. seum’s operations. “Our job right now is to “It was then that we over- show the public that history hauled the entire museum,” is still with us,” Dollar said. said Ernest Dollar, director “Once that happens, they’ll of the COR Museum. “There see the role history plays in was a new name, a new staff our daily lives and will get and a new logo. We had no- them asking ‘what role does where to go but up.” the past play in the future?’ Dollar, who received his It’s our job to make people see master’s in public history our relevance through these from N.C. State in 2009, said programs and projects.” that while the museum is One such project is what tasked with uncovering and Dollar calls an “augmented presenting Raleigh’s past, reality” phone application there is another side of mu- that allows users to use a seum work that is often ig- smartphone to uncover the nored. past. “Raleigh is The apsuch an upplication and-comer,” would Dollar said. allow “You can’t visitors really miss to see the the fact that history this is a city that surof innovarounds t ion. T h i s t hem at cit y conpoints Ernest Dollar, Director of COR stantly looks around Museum a he ad, we t he cit y need to be a by overplace where our current and lapping historic images over future innovations can be modern street scenes to reveal showcased.” what Raleigh once looked According to its website, like. Deputy Features Editor

“Raleigh has invested and has allowed us freedom to put more into our public programs.”

The COR Museum is not the first to bring this technology to the museum-front. According to the COR Museum’s blog, the Museum of London began using the technology several years ago and has seen a significant increase in visitation. “Everyone has a smartphone in their back pocket,” Dollar said. “This tech-savvy culture is allowing museums to do newer, more exciting things than ever before. The potential for this app grows every day. It will be so easy and fun to use.” Dollar said it was the City of Raleigh’s decision to “take a chance” on the museum that has given way to the increase in productivity and enthusiasm. “When I was working as the director of Preservation Society of Chapel Hill, we went through same process of hemorrhaging money and when we asked the city for help, we were denied,” Dollar said. “Unfortunately, that museum closed. Here, we’ve been really fortunate. Raleigh has invested and has allowed us freedom to put more into our public programs.” Last summer’s turnaround and restructuring provided the basis for the museum’s main project, an exhibit set to open on Sept. 28 titled “Raleigh Then, Raleigh Now, Raleigh Next.” The permanent exhibit will feature images from local photographers and artists. “‘Raleigh Then, Raleigh Now, Raleigh Next,’ will use touchscreen technology to take visitors on a photographic ride through Raleigh’s history,” Dollar said. Another exhibit opening in the next few weeks observes the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass event to be held downtown from Sept. 24-28. “It’s a really little-known

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fact, and a real stroke of dumb luck, that Raleigh radio played a pretty big role in formation of bluegrass music as a flourishing genre,” Dollar said. According to Dollar, WPTF radio station broadcast a new sound to audiences in 1924 and the banjo-filled airwaves were a huge success. “Musicians like Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe made circuits to different towns and we were one of them,” Dollar said. “Raleigh helped broadcast the new sound and played a critical but tragically little known role in the creation of bluegrass.” This new exhibit, Dollar said, will pay homage to those radio shows and will feature a rare collection of songbooks and sound bytes from the performances. “By tapping into some really obvious interests that the residents of Raleigh and of North Carolina have and showing them their foundations in the past, we’re able to give them a great museum experience,” Dollar said. “It can be hard to get crowds to come into the same old place, so we want to be different. It’s much easier to get out of this building and show the people history in our everyday lives than it is trying to bring public in.”

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Quad Bikes provides new way for students to share the road Holden Broyhill

all bikes are free of charged if checked in and out properly, but students must fill out the A new bike share program necessary paperwork and atat N.C. State that aims to be tend a workshop for eligibilmore convenient for students ity. The workshop will train launches today in the Quad. basic bike safety to ensure Quad Bikes, an initiative students aren’t a danger to in association with NCSU’s themselves and others on Wolf Wheels, will hold a rib- the road. After completing bon-cutting ceremony for at the workshop, students will 6 p.m. today in the Honors be given a card that they can Village. Students are welcome show to the 24-hour help desk and encouraged to attend the to rent a bike. launch, according to Carlos Vega entered the Think Vega, a senior in civil engi- Outside the Brick competineering and tion and was co-founder awa rded a of Quad $500 grant Bikes. for second Quad place. Vega’s Bi ke s w i l l capital was enable stuused to buy dents in the helmets and Honors Vilrepair equipCarlos Vega, co-founder of lage to rent ment. T he Quad Bikes a s ele c te d actual bikes bike for any were dofive hour period. Students nated by David Crye, who is will check bikes in and out in charge of the current bike through the 24-hour help rental program on campus desk. Wolf Wheels. No deposit is needed, and “There is already a bike Staff Writer

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share program called Wolf Wheels that is run the Rec. Center,” Vega said. “One of the main reasons we started this new program is that we felt that if we moved the bikes to the residence halls [students] would be more willing to use them.” Students currently using Wolf Wheels can only rent bikes from the Campus Recreaction. “If students want to ride a bike to class it wouldn’t make sense for them to walk to the Rec. Center, especially if their dorm isn’t nearby.” Vega said. “We hope that students will like it and that we can expand it to other residence halls” This program will allow the university to become even more “bike friendly” and will provide a great service to students. Bikes will provide a means of travel and exercise but also enjoyment. “This is a step that we as a community should take,” Vega said. Bike share programs allow students to enjoy the fun and

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Quad Bikes will allow students to check out bikes for five hours at a time via the 24-hour desk at the Quad. The program was founded by Carlos Vega, senior in civil engineering and David Crye, the director of N.C. State’s other bike share program, Wolf Wheels. Quad BIkes officially launches Wednesday at 6 p.m.

leisure of biking without the hefty costs of owning a bike. Building and maintaining a good bike can be expensive and students often lack the funds for upkeep. “The reason we started this is because we want N.C. State

students to be able to have access to bikes.” Vega said. “By moving to the residential bike share we hope to increase the number of students who use bikes.” Quad Bikes is not the only innovative biking movement.

Major cities are noticing a rise in bikes as they are becoming more and more accessible to the public. One such program is City Bike, a program now in New York City that allows members of the public to rent a bike for a small fee.

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March on Washington’s goals: Complete?

oday we commemorate the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. To many people, the march is synonymous with the Civil Rights Movement. And while the two do go hand in hand, most people are unaware that the march was originally called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Another lesser-known fact is that that the marchers arrived at the National Mall with 10 demands. But the often-unacknowledged truth is that, even 50 years later and despite the success of the march, not all of its demands have been met. The United States has not even come close to achieving some of the demands. For example, the protestors called for a national minimum wage of $2 an hour, as “anything less than [that] fails to [give all Americans a decent standard of living].” According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $2 in 1963 had the same buying power as $15.27 today, more than twice the current minimum wage of $7.25.

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How do you think race relations could be improved at N.C. State? BY HUNTER JOHNSON AND JOANNAH IRVIN

“I think it could be improved by the community coming together and working through activities such as the different colleges coming together for an event like we had with convocation and Thomas Hager earlier this week.” Danielle Welsh freshman, first year college

“Introducing more clubs that encourage diversity.” Prince Patel freshman, electrical engineering

“I don’t really see a problem with it on campus honestly, I see a lot of interracial relationships and correspondence happening everyday and I really see N.C. State as a place where diversity is embraced and multiculturalism is something to be strived for.” Alex Morrison senior, fisheries, wildlife and conservation biology

“To have more African American events and somehow tie those events in with what everybody else is doing” Briana Williams freshman, chemistry

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. Other demands, such as desegregation of all school districts, have been implemented by law—the government cannot technically segregate the school districts on the basis of race. However, geography can and does segregate people based on where they live. People live in places they can afford. But according to the Economic Policy Institute, 17.3 percent of black North Carolinians were unemployed in the fourth quarter of 2012. This is nearly three times the rate for whites at 6.7 percent. Minorities have a harder time obtaining any job, let alone upper-level positions, meaning they earn less money and live close to those with low incomes. Therefore, people remain segregated geographically, if not legally. Eliminating racism is difficult. All people

2003: Iraq, 2013: Syria?

ne week ago, on Aug. 21, chemical attacks occurred in the Ghouta region of Syria, with fatalities possibly exceeding 1,000. In as little as one day from now, acIshan Raval cording to senior Viewpoint Editor White House officials, American missiles may start striking Syria. The Obama Administration, along with our European allies, believes that “undeniable” evidence exists that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime was responsible for the chemical attacks. So now, for the first time in the two-and-a-halfyear-old civil war in Syria that has taken more than 100,000 lives, American troops are in position and ready to attack Syria. As Secretary of State John Kerry’s address on Monday insinuated, an American attack on Syria is now a matter of “when,” not “whether.” However, no official has provided a hint of this “undeniable” evidence, and the situation existing today is creepily similar to that of 10 years ago, when the Bush Administration lied about Saddam Hussein’s possession of weapons of mass destruction. The greatest benefactors from the strategic and ethical disaster we remember as the Iraq War were the oil companies and defense contractors that lobbied for it … and on Monday, Lockheed Martin, the United States military’s top defense par t ner, traded at an all-time high against the background of warhawks in Washington preparing to launch a military strike that will almost certainly kill more civilians than the chemical attacks. A s for t he chem ical attacks themselves, although our leaders haven’t given us any proof as to how Assad might be behind them, a simple consideration of the facts makes the notion that the

Syrian government committed this atrocity questionable. Assad—and by no means do I consider him (or Hussein, formerly) a respectable leader—already had the upper hand in the conflict with his opposition. Furthermore, if Assad did want to use chemical weapons, it makes no sense that he would do so on women and children rather than on the rebel army fighting him. Finally, the attack took place the same day United Nations inspectors arrived in Syria—invited by the Syrian government—to investigate earlier claims of chemical weapons use. It would be foolish for Assad to attack his own people that very day … although given the inspectors’ availability to confirm the attacks, it would be a convenient opportunity for Assad’s opponents to justify an international offensive against his government. Also, something else the Oba ma Ad mi nist rat ion usually glosses over: A considerable portion of this opposition euphemized as the “rebels” is made up of Al-Qaeda. By aiding Assad’s opposition, the U.S. has directly been providing aid to Al-Qaeda. But at the same time, it has still used its same rhetoric from a decade ago to continue the War on Terror abroad, and as unceasing revelations regarding civil liberties crackdowns show, to apparently expand the War on Terror at home. The similarities between events in 2003 and what is happening today are “undeniable.” They may not be enough to form dogmatic conclusions about anything going on in Syria or what should be done, but a glance at American history shows that they are more than enough to make any reasonable person deeply wary and skeptical of U.S. intentions right now. Luckily, the American people do seem to have learned something from the Iraq War. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows that only 9 percent of the American public favors U.S. military action in Syria. Yet,the Obama Administration says it’s going to attack Syria. To continue reading Ishan’s column, visit TechnicianOnline.com.

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Fifty years on, we are invisibly segregated

ifty years after Mar tin Lut her King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legal segregation is a distant memory. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 forged a new America — a nation that Ziyi Mai Staff Columnist truly fulfills its premise in the Declaration of Independence that all men are born with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Even in the Deep South, where white Americans and black Americans used to be deeply divided, black Americans have made great strides in almost every aspect of life as compared to 50 years ago. For example, data from the Census Bureau show that the voting turnout for black Americans has increased dramatically. In 1965, less than 7 percent of Mississippi’s black citizens were able to vote. In Alabama, it was roughly 19 percent in Alabama. About 32 percent in Louisiana were eligible to vote. In 2012, the share of registered black voters in Mississippi, Louisiana and North Carolina exceeded that of non-Hispanic white voters. Black Americans are also moving forward in other areas, with dramatic increases in their household median incomes and high school graduation rates. But in the past decade, the engine of this progress

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ron said the General Assembly’s Voter ID law “[goes after] students, the elderly, people in rural areas, the poor, and African-Americans and other people of color.” The law will undoubtedly lead to a decrease in voter turnout. In addition to requiring a government-issued ID, the new law also cuts the early voting window by a week and eliminates same-day registration. The March on Washington’s requests were not satisfied just because the Civil Rights Act passed. It was one of the marchers’ many goals. The demands for voting rights, for an increased minimum wage, for desegregated schools and for jobs are still relevant today. “You can’t say that things haven’t changed, because they have changed. However, the struggles for security, quality and justice have been rolled back in 2013 in North Carolina,” Charron said. The March on Washington was certainly not in vain, but its objectives remain incomplete.

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has stalled significantly. The shadow of Jim Crow continues to haunt this nation. Tanner Colby raised an interesting question in his recent CNN column: Why don’t white Americans have black friends? Indeed, an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll indicated that 40 percent of white Americans have zero non-white friends, and only 20 percent of white Americans said they have five or more non-white friends. People might be shocked when they hear these sad numbers. I wasn’t surprised, though. Even though segregation is no longer rooted in law, it is still hidden deep in people’s hearts. People tend to be friends with people of the same race, often because they speak the same language, grew up in similar cultures and environments, and share the same ideology and values. This might explain why most Americans have very few friends who are natives of other countries. But black Americans and white Americans were born in the same country. They speak the same language and share the same spirit of culture. Why has segregation, either explicitly or implicitly, been so deep and so persistent? If people contend that “all men are created equal,” then to treat a race unequally is to say they are not truly “men.” For much of America’s history, the problem black Americans faced was not that some people didn’t like them or thought them inferior. Instead, it was that the people who disliked them and thought them inferior had the power to write laws making them second-class citizens. The Civil Rights

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Movement broke this chain of evil. The door that initiates social mobility was opened for black Americans through affirmative action, which promises equal opportunity of education and employment. On the other hand, black Americans have been fighting for social equality since before the Civil War. But now they are sliding into a dangerous position. The power of the federal government has grown tremendously since 1960 in response to demands of equal rights and equal opportunities. Dr. King’s rhetoric and the voice of the citizens ultimately led the federal government to enforce Civil Rights legislation. At the same time, it has boosted federal bureaucracy as well. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has grown from an agency with fewer than 100 employees and a $2.25 million budget in 1965 to one with 2,346 employees and $360 million budget. Relying heavily on expanding government power to promote social justice and equal opportunity doesn’t change racism on an individual level. Rather, government policies create barriers to deepen the hidden segregation. Affirmative action may help black Americans gain acceptance to schools that they weren’t allowed to attend in the past, but it doesn’t force white Americans to be friends with them. White Americans can still isolate black Americans if they still think black Americans are inferior. Most government policies end up building walls in society by giving too much privilege to a particular group of people.

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fense ended the 2012 season ranked 16th in the nation under Huxtable’s leadership. “W hen I lef t Wisconsin [after the 2010 season], Dave [Huxtable] replaced me,” Doeren said. “Two of my college teammates were on the defensive staff with me—they were two of my best friends—and so, obviously, I am going to stay in touch with them. All they did was talk about how great he is. Players liked him. To get a guy who knows the ACC and the region, I just thought it was a really good fit.” Heading into his first season as the head coach at State, Doeren said he is confident he has the right lieutenants to help lead the Wolfpack to success. “It was an easy sell,” Doeren said about hiring his two coordinators. “If you don’t coach with passion, you can’t coach for me. It is a sport built on passion, competitiveness and fire. I don’t like being around guys who don’t have it.”

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To those who think that sword fighting is only left to actors in the movies and on television, think again. The sport of fencing is very much alive and active at N.C. State. The Fencing Club at N.C. State teaches the fundamentals of épée and sabre fencing, while the concepts of foil can also be applied. The core difference between these styles is the weapon used and the valid target area, or place on the body a point can be scored. “I’ve been fencing for four years,” said club president Wesley Chen, a junior in computer science, said. “I started when I was in high school. Some of my friends were on the fencing team, and I decided to join them.” Chen competed with East Chapel Hill High School and helped it win the North Carolina High School League team championship in 2011. Since then, he has been with

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rick, a graduate student in industrial engineering, is also a member of the Charlotte Fencing Academy and earned an A rating in épée in 2012. Herrick said he has been fencing for 14 years, six with N.C. State. Fencing is not as wellknown as other sports such as football, basketball and baseball. The only colleges in the state that sanction an

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have a social life without the club,” Sandukas said. “Everyone has made me feel really good since joining.” The Fencing Club is currently holding its practices in Room 1211 inside Carmichael Gymnasium on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8-10:30 p.m. It costs $35 per semester to join, but the first two weeks of practice are free. For more information, email fencing-club@ncsu.edu.

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Santoro looks for improvement in first season Volleyball picked to finish fifth in ACC The N.C. State women’s volleyball team was picked to finish fifth among the Atlantic Coast Conference’s 15 teams this season by the conference’s head coaches, announced Monday by the league office. Last season, the Wolfpack finished in a tie for fourth in the conference along with Clemson with identical 12-8 records in league play. State finished the season 22-10 overall and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Three named to NCHSAA top-100 list A total of three current and former N.C. State female distance runners, Samantha George and Julie and Mary Shea, were named to the third list of the “100 To Remember” series, as part of the centennial celebration of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association honoring its top 100 female athletes of all-time. George, a sophomore for NC State’s track and cross country teams, was cited as one of the top female distance runners from the state of North Carolina after winning six different NCHSAA state championships during her career at Millbrook High School. The Raleigh native went on to earn ACC Freshman of the Year honors after her 13th-place finish at the 2012 ACC Cross Country Championships. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

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Friday WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL @ CANISUS Buffalo, N.Y., 4 p.m. MEN’S SOCCER @ CAMPBELL Buies Creek, N.C., 7 p.m. WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. GEORGIA SOUTHERN Raleigh, N.C., 7 p.m. WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. CLEVELAND STATE Buffalo, N.Y., 8 p.m.

Luke Nadkarni Staff Writer

Charismatic new head coaches have become the norm for N.C. State in Director of Athletics Debbie Yow’s tenure at the University, and first-year women’s soccer coach Tim Santoro is no exception as he looks to guide the Wolfpack to its first NCAA Tournament bid since 1996. A native of New Jersey, Santoro crossed the Mason-Dixon Line in 1990 to play for Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., which was at that time an NAIA school. He has bounced around the Carolinas ever since, most recently serving as associate head coach for the women’s CONTRIBUTED BY N.C. STATE ATHLETICS team at ACC rival Wake For- Above: First-year women’s soccer head coach Tim Santoro has led the Pack to a 2-0 record through the team’s first two games. est before coming to Raleigh. Below: Sophomore forward Brittany Stanko attempts to steal the ball during the team’s second match of the season, against While at Wake Forest, San- Longwood in Dail Soccer Stadium Sunday Aug. 25, 2013. With the win, the team improved its record to 2-0 on the season. toro helped the Demon Deacons to the 2010 ACC Championship and the 2011 College mark in 2011. Cup, which is college soccer’s Santoro’s off to a great start equivalent of the Final Four. this season. The Wolfpack Having spent many years in opened their schedule with a North Carolina, he jumped pair of 3-2 wins, first at Navy at the chance to coach at one then at home over Longwood. of the premier universities in Santoro acknowledged the the state. effort N.C. “Coming State has from Wake made to imForest, I was prove its envery familtire athletic iar with the department program under Yow, a and the characterisconference,” tic he cited as JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIAN Santoro said. a reason for “Twenty his decision Head coach Tim Santoro yea rs ago, to come here. from 2001-2008. other people.” ing to his first career head when I played at Catawba, “I knew [State] had some “I’ve actually lived [in Santoro is not the only one coaching job, Santoro hasn’t we played against a very good good things going on when North Carolina] longer than of his family with proven lost sight of his objectives as N.C. State team that went to Debbie [Yow] took over as New Jersey,” Santoro said. coaching prowess. His broth- coach of the Wolfpack. the Final Four.” athletic director,” Santoro “But I still consider myself a er Mat is currently the head “We want to be a top 25 Santoro took over a Wolf- said. “There were a lot of up- Yankee.” coach at Division II Southern program, we want to win an pack team that struggled grades and improvements to When he coaches the Wolf- Indiana. ACC championship, [and] we mightily last season. The facilities.” pack, Santoro said he uses Santoro is not married and want to win a national chamPack finished 5-14 and failed Before he coached at Wake, what he learned from other does not have any children, pionship,” Santoro said. “I to win a conference game. Santoro was an assistant coaches as a player and an as- but he does have a girlfriend believe we can do that here. In four years under previous coach at his alma mater af- sistant to augment his coach- of eight years, three dogs and Those goals don’t change.” head coach Steve Springthor- ter graduating in 1994, and ing strategy. 26 Wolfpack players. The Wolfpack’s third game pe, State won a total of just he also directed a youth club “I don’t think anyone has “They’re who I’m respon- of the Tim Santoro era is four conference games and in Charlotte before serving something that’s just theirs,” sible for,” Santoro said of his on Friday against Georgia boasted an overall winning as the associate head coach Santoro said. “Everything players. “They’re my family.” Southern. Kickoff at the Dail record just once, a 10-8-2 at the College of Charleston you learn and do is from In the whirlwind of adjust- Soccer Stadium is at 7 p.m.

“We want to be a top 25 program, we want to win an ACC championship.”

Saturday FOOTBALL VS. LOUISIANA TECH Carter-Finley Stadium, 12:30 p.m.

New assistants to play integral role in this season

WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. HARTFORD Buffalo, N.Y., 4:00 p.m.

Rob McLamb

September 1 WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. EAST TENNESSEE STATE Raleigh, N.C., 1:00 p.m.

There is new blood on the coaching staff at N.C. State. First-year head coach Dave Doeren has assembled a staff he feels will lead the Wolfpack to greater heights in the coming seasons. “The new coaches are the biggest difference in our program coming into the season,” senior redshirt wide receiver Rashard Smith said. “Having a new coaching staff and being able to adjust to them as coaches and as people that is the biggest adjustment we have to make. The coaches are doing a great job so far.” Matt Canada enters his sixth season as an offensive coordinator, his first with N.C. State. The Indiana University graduate has been coaching for 22 years. Last season Canada helped lead Wisconsin—with former N.C. State quarterback Russell Wilson at the helm—to a conference title and a berth in the Rose Bowl. He has helped his running backs, a position N.C. State has struggled at for the past few seasons, earn accolades. Former Badger Montee Ball was a first-team

September 4 WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. GEORGETOWN Raleigh, N.C., 7:00 p.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “The new coaches are the biggest difference in our program coming into the season.” Redshirt senior wide receiver Rashard Smith

Staff Writer

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Strength and Conditioning coach Jason Veltkamp and Graduate Assistant Sterling Lucas ride in a John Deere Gator pulled by players at Lift for Life July 25, 2013.

All-American last season and won the Doak Walker Award as the nation’s top running back. Doeren had Canada on his staff during his first season as coach at Northern Illinois and, like his assistant, spent time coaching at Wisconsin. Doeren, whose background is in defense, gave Canada explicit instructions when he took the job. “Coaching at Wisconsin, I have a great appreciation

for running the ball to be made their offense do everyable to win,” t h i ng t hat Doeren said. a defensive “TCU was coach hates the team we to see and played in the have to deRose Bowl fend. I made the year I a list of evgot that job, er y t h i ng I and defendhate to see ing their ofand gave it to Head football coach fense, you Coach CanDave Doeren c ou ld tel l ada. I said their coach ‘These are 11 was a defensive coach that things all defensive coaches

“If you don’t coach with passion, you can’t coach for me.”

hate to see. Put them in our system.’” On the other side of the ball, the new defensive coordinator is Dave Huxtable, a 31-year veteran, who has experience in both the ACC and the state of North Carolina, with previous stints at East Carolina, Georgia Tech, UNC-Chapel Hill and league newcomer Pittsburgh last season. The Panthers’ de-

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