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Course pack sales on the decline Jason Katz

Deputy News Editor

N.C. State recently acquired fully functioning printing center, allowing N.C. State Bookstores to print course packs on campus and sell them directly to students. Until recently, students were only able to purchase course packs, the inexpensive spiral bound course information supplements that instructors sometimes assign, at printing organizations, such as Sir Speedy, that were not part of N.C. State bookstores.

Anthony Sanders, the associate director of N.C. State Bookstores, said the University acquired what used to be University Graphics Copy Center. This allowed the University to make course packs of a high enough quality to compete with places like Sir Speedy. Philip Nye, the owner of Sir Speedy, said that the competition definitely affected sales, but instructors may still choose to purchase their course packs through his establishment. “It’s really up to the teacher if they want to print at the bookstore or

come here,” Nye said. Sanders said that N.C. State had no intention of taking any business away from other organizations, but it did want to keep money flowing into the University and, in turn, help save money for students. Sanders said selling course packs in the bookstore benefits students through low prices and scholarship funds created by N.C. State Bookstore profits. He also said that the University benefits by keeping students’ money on campus. Nye said there are many instructors who have been purchasing

course packs from Sir Speedy for years who continue to use the store. “We are still here and we are still getting orders,” Nye said. Although N.C. State and Sir Speedy are competitors, course pack sales are declining at both organizations. There may be a third party to blame—technology. “Over the past decade, the number of physical-print course packs that are produced has dramatically decreased as a lot of those materials have gone online or to digital versions,” Sanders said. Sanders said this semester 6,600

course pack units have been sold, down from 6,900 last fall. N.C. State now produces a maximum of 100 to 150 titles—about 50 percent less than what he saw at the beginning of his career at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “At that time, over there, we were producing maybe 350 [course pack titles] per semester,” Sanders said. Sanders said the accessibility of technology is probably causing the decline in course pack sales. He said that many instructors are

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Triangle Water Festival raises $22,100 for cancer research

N.C. State on track to meet graduate retention goal

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Jacqueline Lee

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Swim Across America, a Boston-based non-profit, hosted the Triangle Indoor Water Festival to Fight Cancer Saturday at Carmichael Gy mnasium. The event raised $22,100 to fund research for the prevention and treatment of cancer. Money raised at the event supports the cancer research of John Cavanagh, Professor of Biochemistry at N.C. State’s Cavanagh Lab. “We’re working on new chemotherapy drugs,” Cavanagh said. “Money raised at the event is going towards some very much needed funding for the future.” Event participation was open to anyone in the public who swims recreationally. Cavanagh swam for the event with several of his students to support the cause and get involved with the Swim Across America event. The N.C. State swim, dive, water polo and club swim-

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Triangle residents took part in the Swim Across America Indoor Water Fesitval Saturday to raise money for cancer research.

ming teams all volunteered at the event. Members of the UNC women’s water polo team and Raleigh Swim Association were also present. The YMCA of the Triangle Area had a team swim at the event with a wide age group range. “We have had this event every year,” said senior Kait-

lin Mills, a psychology major on the swim team. “It is very important to us to help raise money to help people with cancer.” Olympians Susan Walsh, Ray Carey, Dane Velez and Craig Beardsley were also present because of their involvement with Swim Across America.

Former Olympian Craig Beardsley came from his home in New Jersey to attend. He has been involved with Swim Across America for 26 years. Beardsley held the world record for the 200 meter butterfly from 19801983.

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N.C. State plans to reach its goal of graduating 80 percent of its students within four to six years by 2020. Vice Provost for Enrollment Management and Services at N.C. State Louis Hunt said he is pushing for students to graduate in a timely manner. “We are spending a lot of time and effort to make sure you graduate within four– sometimes six years–so you don’t spend as much money for schooling and you get a job that pays money in the workforce,” Hunt said. According to N.C. State’s website, of the incoming freshmen in 2006, 71 percent of students graduated within six years. This number rose since 1994, during which the University graduated only 60 percent of its students within six years. According to N.C. State’s 2013 First Year Facts report

for the fall semester, the University received more than 21,000 undergraduate applications. Of these, 4,216 were accepted. Additionally, the average high school GPA for accepted students in 2013 was 4.43—a number that rose from 4.19 in 2009. In 2009 the average SAT score, combining critical reading and math for accepted students was 1,187— in 2013 the average score increased to 1,244. Hunt said the profile of the incoming class in indicative of the University’s graduation and retention rates. The number of students applying to N.C. State also rose since 2011—from 19,239 applicants to 20,269 in 2012. Hunt said that each year the number grows, and the selection becomes more competitive, which leads to better students in each incoming freshman class.

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Financial pressure makes switching majors tougher

Professor discusses Lost Notebooks at Math Colloquium

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Taylor Grace O’Quinn

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Recent budget cuts and financial restrictions are contributing to the difficulty some students have when trying to transfer between colleges. N.C. State is composed of 10 large academic units, each called colleges. Within the colleges are departments, between which students can easily change majors. However, changing majors into another college can be more difficult. Some colleges can only accept a limited number of students, and many require a GPA of 3.0 or higher to apply. A report by Greek Life at N.C. State found that in the spring semester of 2013, the average N.C. State student GPA was a 3.045. This is up from 2.977 in the fall semester of 2009. Despite the GPA increase, many students still face challenges when trying to transfer between

colleges. Associate Dean K. Shannon Davis from the Poole College of Management explained why the GPA requirement was so restrictive. “The GPA is a 3.0 to be competitive to apply,” Davis said. “I can’t take everyone who has a 3.0 GPA. I can only take 250 students a year. There could be 450 students with a 3.0 GPA that want to get in and try to get in, but I can only accept 250.” According to Davis, Poole College of Management accepts only 750 people a year with the target numbers at 350 new freshmen, 250 on-campus transfers, and 150 off-campus transfers. Davis said that in the fall semester of 2013, a total owwwwf 2,446 newfreshmen applied to Poole and only 358

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“Almost a century after his death, his work is starting to be appreciated and studied more in depth,” Andrews said. “People are finally recognizing his genius.” According to Andrews, many mathematicians who lived during the twentieth century didn’t appreciate Ramanujan’s work. The Indian mathematician, who was kicked out of college twice, sent letters about his ideas to wellknown English mathematicians such as Ernest William Hobson and Alan Baker. Many of these letters were ignored. Ramanujan continued to mail various mathematicians until he reached Hardy, who invited him to England to collaborate with him. “Hardy had never seen any-

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George Andrews, a professor at Pennsylvania State University, spoke to students and faculty Friday about the Lost Notebooks of Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician who lived during the early twentieth century. Ramanujan, who died in 1920 at the age of 32, made large contributions to mathematical analysis and was considered a genius by G. H. Hardy, a British mathematician with whom Ramanujan worked. After decades of studying Ramanujan’s formulas, some physicists are putting his equations to use in calculating black holes, which Andrews said could lead to the re-writing of science textbooks.

thing like Ramanujan’s work before,” Andrews said. “He knew Ramanujan was onto to something ground-breaking.” Ramanujan spent about three years in England, from 1915-1918, but fell ill with what Andrews said is believed to be tuberculosis. He spent a year in England recovering until he was fit to return to his home country in India in 1919, where he became a national hero. His face appeared on a postage stamp in 1920. “Ramanujan is what we would call a child prodigy,” Andrews said. Three months before his death, Ramanujan wrote a final letter to Hardy about recent findings involving mock theta theory. How-

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hile filing impurities off her lense, Emma Wallace, plant pathology graduate, continues to work on her pinhole camera in the Crafts Center on Friday, Sept. 20. The Crafts Center held it’s 5th annual pinhole camera challenge this year. George Thomas, director of crafts center, helped students design their own cameras and taught them how to develop the photographic paper independently.

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enrolled, although 976 were accepted. He also said that in that same semester, 717 students applied for off-campus transfers to Poole, 233 were accepted and 172 enrolled. During the 2012-2013 academic year of N.C. State, 484 on-campus students applied to Poole and 296 got accepted, which is about a 61 percent acceptance rate for that year, according to Davis. Davis said his department

looks at what program a transfer student is interested in versus what he or she is currently studying. “If a student did worse in one program but did significantly better in classes in our program, they will have a higher chance to get in Poole,” Davis said. Davis said another factor in the low acceptance rate is a lack of resources. “If we had more facilities, more instructors and more advisors, we could accept more students,” Davis said. “Until then, I am limited to

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bring in 750 students a year, even if there are some really good students out there that I have room for.” David Parish, assistant dean at the College of Engineering, said that it’s not just the overall GPA that matters when transferring. “From a student’s perspective, they think that if they make that target GPA, they should be allowed into that college,” Parish said. “However, is the student’s GPA indicative of the student’s success in that program, or are they only taking classes

to improve their GPA?” Like Davis, Parish attributed restrictions in acceptance rates to a limited budget. “One problem in popular programs is that there are only so many resources available so there are only so many spaces for students,” Parish said. “Many times they will have more students apply than they have space.” To help with the transfer process, colleges at N.C. State recently implemented a new program called CODA, which stands for Change of Degree Application.

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Prior to CODA, students had to apply to colleges individually, and each college had its own specific application process and deadline. “What CODA has done is allow students to apply using standard dates for consideration and the process of application across all colleges,” Davis said. “If your application is accepted by that college, you get notified by the system.” However, despite CODA, constrained resources and budgets can still prevent some students from com-

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pleting the transfer process. Even so, Davis said his most important job was to help students succeed after they transfer to the Poole College of management. “My job as academic dean is to make sure that [students] complete their degree in time,” Davis said. “Part of that is making sure they have enough seats, faculty, and resources...so they are successful, make progress towards their degree, and graduate on time.”

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Hunt also said that N.C State provides many resources that help students graduate on time, such as the tutorial center, living and learning villages and the library. Trey Standish, assistant director of University Planning and Analysis at N.C. State, said that incoming freshmen are now more prepared for college and therefore graduation rates improve. “Incoming freshman cohorts are more selective and prepared,” said Standish. “Freshman GPAs go up and SAT [scores] goes up with each new freshman class.”

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tive vice president for NSCS, said this semester’s group contains about 50 more inductees than the last ceremony. “Last year, they had a lot of technical difficulties,” LaCorte said. “So this year, we tried really hard to make it our best ceremony yet.” NSCS is invitation-only, and inductees must either have a 3.4 GPA or be in the top 10 percent of their class.

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The 10th annual Chocolate Festival sponsored by the N.C. State Women’s Center will be Friday, Sept. 27 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on the basketball courts at Carmichael Gymnasium. While sampling gourmet chocolate from vendors, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about preventing, testing and treating breast cancer with information provided by several Ra-

leigh resources. The festival will also feature a silent auction. More information on specific vendors can be found on the festival website: http://oied.ncsu. edu/chocolate. Tickets are available for $10 for students and $15 for nonstudents. They can be purchased through Ticket Central in the lobby of Thompson Hall. SOURCE: HTTP://BULLETIN.NCSU.EDU

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“We’re real excited to be here for N.C. State and be a part of this group here,” Beardsley said. “I think we’ve got a good base here that we’ll really build on. We swim, donate, volunteer and use our love for the water to raise money for cancer research.” Susan Walsh, who qualified for the 1980 Olympics and won two medals at the 1982 World Aquatics Championships, also attended the event. Walsh is the former American record holder for the 100 yard, 100 meter backstroke. “My first event was last year and I’ve been hooked ever since,” Walsh said. “I felt it is really important for me to do what I could as far as participating in Olympian clinics or raising money for cancer research. I feel good about the organization and what it’s doing.” Un iversit y Recreat ion turned the Willis R. Casey Aquatic Center into a mock

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Swimmers from around the triangle took part in the Triangle Indoor Water Festival Saturday, to raise money for cancer research. More than $22,000 was raised by for the non-profit group, Swim Across America.

open water course at the indoor pool with buoys placed at each corner of the pool. Swimmers competed in individual swims, relays and aqua-aerobics. There was also kayaking and water polo. According to Mary Demilia, who coordinated the event,

Saturday’s water festival hosted Swim Across America’s first well-organized, largescale game of water polo. “N.C. State was a wonderful host for the event,” Craig Beardsley said. “We want to be engaged with the community and have this be an

annual event. We are looking forward to having it again next year.” Anyone interested in learning more about the Swim Across America organization can visit its website swimacrossamerica.org.

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Recreational swimmers gather around the pool in the Carmichael Aquatic Center on Saturday. Swim Across America, which plans swimming events to raise money for cancer research, hosted the Triangle Indoor Water Festival.

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likely creating and digitally distributing their own custom materials. Nye said he knew that competing with technology was inevitable. “That’s one of the things that’s happening,” Nye said. “I think we knew that, sooner or later, [a decrease course pack sales] was coming.” Moving forward, N.C. State Bookstores is trying to accommodate students by anticipating the future needs of students. Sanders said the Bookstore hopes to offer both a printed copy of course material and a digital version as well — even for textbooks. “So the students have a choice if they want both, or one or the other — and again offering those at pretty low cost,” Sanders said. Sanders said that providing

ever, Ramanujan did not send all of his work to Hardy out of the fear that Hardy would steal his ideas. “These are his private notes,” Andrews said. “He may have wanted to keep something from the British, but he couldn’t keep anything from himself.” For more than 50 years, 140 pages of Ramanujan’s work were hidden. That is, until 1976, when Andrews found the missing notebooks in a box donated to the Trinity Library at Cambridge University. Andrews was trying to prove Ramanujan’s previously published theories when he made the discovery. He had already spent several years studying Ramanujan, and he told the audience he instantly recognized Ramanujan’s handwriting. “How in the world did I get involved in this is what I kept asking myself,” Andrews said. “But I knew I had just discovered a very important document in the history of

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Students will have to find a new means of printing course packs now that Sir Speedy is no longer offering their discounted printing deals. Sir Speedy is located at 2526 Hillsborough St.

digital copies of textbooks, along with the printed versions that are currently available, will be the next step for the textbook publishing industry. According to Sanders,

course packs contribute to about 4 to 5 percent of the Bookstore’s course material sales. Other items in that category include new books, used books, and e-books. Course packs do not make

up a large part of Sir Speedy’s profits either, according to Nye. “Not a large part, but of course [course packs] help,” Nye said.

mathematics.” Since his discovery, Andrews has become the world’s leading expert on Ramanujan’s work. He has worked to prove Ramanujan’s theories, spending months or years on just one equation at a time. Today, apart from one formula, all of Ramanunjan’s formulas in the “Lost Notebook” have been proven. “There are certain formulas that you wrestle into the ground and beat it to death, only to discover that it’s a useless formula,” Andrews said. “Ramanujan’s formulas are not so.” Cagatay Karan, a Ph. D candidate from Turkey, said it was fascinating that Andrews devoted so much time to someone who accomplished a “great deal” as someone so young. Karan said he enjoyed hearing about Ramanujan’s personal story of perseverance and determination. Michael Singer, a professor of mathematics at the University, said Andrews’ lecture on Ramunjan’s work shows “beautiful math” as well as an interesting human story that everyone can understand.

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Students work on their shack for Shack-A-Thon in The Brickyard Sept. 22.

Shack-A-Thon returns to N.C. State Staff Report

Habitat for Humanity’s annual Shack-A-Thon began today and will be held on the Brickyard throughout the week. During Shack-A-Thon, members of university organizations construct and take turns living in shacks on the

Brickyard that measure no larger than 12 feet-by -12 feet. The Habitat for Humanity club at N.C. State holds the KATHERINE KEHOE/TECHNICIAN event every year to increase Students from the Sustainability Club build a shack made out awareness of poverty housof bottles recycled from Carter-Finley Stadium. ing and raise funds to help build houses in impover- simultaneously promoting State Shack-A-Thon, donate ished areas. The event also the charity. via the club’s website clubs. provides organizations with If you want to donate to ncsu.edu/habitat/ a way to gain publicity while Habitat for Humanity’s N.C. SOURCE: CLUBS.NCSU.EDU/HABITAT/

The Technician staff is always looking for new members to write, design or take photos. Visit www. ncsu.edu/sma for more information.

Three of University Housing’s learning and living villages have partnered to host President of the Malawi Children’s Village Tom Vitaglione on Sept. 24 as a guest speaker for the on-going Life Connection Series. Vitaglione’s talk titled Failed Forward to Succeed is a personal account of overcoming life’s obstacles and failures to succeed. N.C. State’s Impact Leadership Village, Engineering Village and Global Village are sponsoring the talk, but students from all villages are invited

to attend. Vitaglione served as a volunteer for the Peace Corps in Malawi with his wife from 1965 to 1967. Since retiring from his position as the head of child health for the N.C. Division of Public Health, Vitaglione has been serving as a child advocate as well as co-chair of a legislative committee to study and help prevent child death. The event begins at 6:45 p.m. in room 117 of the Witherspoon Student Center. Light refreshments will be served. SOURCE: UNIVERSITY HOUSING

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Professors, print your course packs at the bookstore 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.

espite the bookstores ability to produce course packs, many professors have continued to do business with Sir Speedy, a printing and marketing business, simply because that is how they have always done it. If you are one of these professors, the staff of the Technician urges you to give your business (which is really our business as your students) to the bookstore instead.

The N.C. State Bookstore is owned and operated by Campus Enterprises. This nonprofit organization uses the profits from the bookstore to help give financial aid and scholarships to students as well as adequately maintain the facilitates that students and faculty use. Although the sale of course packs is not the main source of money for financial aid, the UNC-System has taken

drastic cuts to its budget in recent years, so any amount of money taken out of the hands of students who need it will be sorely missed. That being said, we feel that professors should give back to the students they work for by allowing the University Bookstore to sell their course packs, rather than outsourcing them to a for-profit company.

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In response to ‘Studentathletes or athletestudents?’ I am surprised by the judgments that Megan Ellisor wrote regarding student athletes. First, I want to explain that I am probably the oldest undergrad at N.C. State and have some classes with athletes who, in my opinion, are good students in addition to their rigorous athletic schedules. Ellisor’s first offensive comment states “Most college athletes who participate in either football or basketball are doing so simply as a stepping stone to earn a bid to join professional leagues.” Wow! Who says? The football players I know are smarter than that—they are committed to attending class, participating and adding valuable perspectives to academics. Then to reinforce her biased opinion she quotes Mark Emmert with the draconian NCAA who has let college athletics sink into a cesspool of exploitation of the very students who are condemned by she

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and Emmert. Neither have much credibility, in my book. She further states her prejudices with this hateful diatribe—”But many athletes already have scholarships, and if they value their education, they should appreciate that they are even getting that much.” Good lord—what a mean and ugly thought because unbeknownst to Ellisor, athletes spend a lot of time in the sports for which they are awarded scholarships. I’m not the dumbest person on the planet and personally, I would have extreme difficulty balancing a course load of 12 semester hours with the arduous and time-consuming schedule that athletes bear. Then to further dig into her argument, she communicates her view about how wonderful universities are to offer athletes the crumbs they give athletes. Her justifications smack of the same archaic rhetoric of the NFL regarding the health care of retired players. I have seen college sports

evolve from being truly amateurish to becoming the minor leagues for professional sports and becoming a part of the entertainment industry. The NCAA is evil by continuing to broadcast its deceitful platitudes while sleeping with big money in the entertainment industry. They, and other blind forces, have vapor-locked your brains into believing the same lies and hatred that non-critical thinkers, who haven’t a clue, think about people whom I have the utmost respect for—student athletes. It is high time they be paid a stipend in addition to their scholarships. Lastly, I would much rather have a football player work for me instead of a rabid, extremist person who does no research before she writes a narrative that is so offensive and insulting. Christopher David senior, parks, recreation and tourism management

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took the crown. @JAyres15’s argument, such as the aforementioned arguments, is f lawed—the fact that this is the United States should only encourage this diversity. We are a melting pot, right? Well, maybe we’re not. The racism shown after the Miss America Pageant makes American culture seem more consistent with the salad bowl concept. We are mixed but not blended. The components remain distinct rather than assimilated. People of various cultures may neighbor one another in this country, but we have not combined into one homogenous culture, as the melting pot concept assumes. Maintaining cultural traditions is important, but it is also important that we do not let our own beliefs or bias lead to stereotyping. Ou r stereotypes, which used to most ly stay in our brains, have become more public. This is due in part to the ubiquity of social media websites. The fact that all of these racist statements were posted on Twitter raises another question: Is Twitter the angriest site on the Internet? Todd Leopold posed this question in an article for CNN. CNN and BuzzFeed published screenshots of these offensive tweets on their websites, giving the racist tweeters national attention. Many of the victims changed their Twitter handles, making their accounts private or even apologizing. “I am so sorry. I didn’t think before I tweeted what I did. I absolutely did not mean to hurt or offend anyone.

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Again I am SO very sorry!!!” tweeted @JAyres15. David Reiss, a San Diegobased psychiatrist, said the impulsiveness of Twitter can get the best of people, as @JAyres15 claimed it did. “It’s very easy to jot something off and hit send, and you can impulsively say something without thinking it through … And if there is feedback or push back, you don’t necessarily even see it,” Reiss said. Leopold added that Twitter leads people to post illogical and controversial statements because of “anonymity, a perceived lack of consequences and a troll-ish desire to stir the pot.” Twitter perpetuates impulsive racism more than Facebook because it makes people less accountable for their actions according to Tammy Vigil, a professor at Boston University’s S c ho o l of Communication. “Most people’s Facebook accounts have multiple pictures of them, they’ve got connections to ‘these are my friends.’ There is a lot less of the anonymity, so there’s a little less of the disinhibition that occurs,” Vigil said. Thirty years ago, Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America. Last week, Davuluri became the first Indian-American Miss America. We may not have become a more racist nation since then, but the belligerent thoughts that were mostly well-hidden at the time of Williams’ crowning are now public, making Americans appear regressive.

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Volunteers help victims of relationship violence Nicky Vaught Deputy Features Editor

Victims of relationship or sexual violence may often feel alone and without a clear sense of what to do. But each year, the N.C. State Women’s Center takes in new volunteers to operate the sexual violence phone line as a means of helping these victims find their footing. The Women’s Center keeps the Relationship and Sexual Violence Phone Line open 24/7 year-round to help victims of sexual violence to take the next logical step, whether it be to seek counseling, campus police, student health or otherwise. “The hotline is in place for those moments when resources are unavailable,” Jenn Scott, assistant director of interpersonal violence services, said. “It’s really just a starting place.”

Scott spearheads the RSVP Line and helps train volunteers and handles follow-up calls. Scott and other members of the Women’s Center train volunteers to assist in nonjudgmental ways that offer support and guidance to those who call the hotline. Phone line operators, according to Scott, have two goals: to be a supporter and to offer resources to victims of sexual or relationship violence. The difference between sexual and relationship violence, according to Scott, is that sexual violence may come as just a facet of relationship violence. “We define relationship violence as a pattern of behavior that’s designed to exert control over your partner,” Scott said. “There are a variety of behaviors that can fall into that, whether it’s physi-

cal, verbal, sexual, emotional, et cetera.” The phone line is a confidential resource, meaning callers can share as much or as little as they choose, and the operators won’t repeat anything a caller says. Training for volunteers incorporates three 18-hour trainings. Volunteers need only attend one training session each before they begin operating the phone line. The trainings cover three major issues: rape and sexual assault, dating violence and stalking. Also covered in the training are myths and facts and other considerations for helping victims of relationship violence. “Folks get a lot of work with communication skills and we do role-plays and practice [operating the lines],” Scott said. According to Scott, volunteers often worry they’ll for-

get what to say or how to treat a situation. “I tell my volunteers, ‘If you can do three things, you’ve set someone on their way,’” Scott said. “‘Make sure that it’s clear that someone knows they’re believed, that it’s not their fault and that someone cares about them.’” Many of the volunteers help, according to Scott, because they have a relevant major or want to pursue a relevant career. Some students, Scott said, volunteer because they experienced some form of sexual or relationship violence and feel they can help others going through similar experiences. N.C. State is not unlike other colleges or universities insofar as the prevalence of rape and sexual assault. According to Scott, women have about a one-in-five chance of being assaulted before gradu-

ating from most universities. According to Scott, it’s difficult to gauge prevalence of sexual abuse among college males, because they are typically reluctant to report anything. Scott said one out of 33 men fall victim to sexual or relationship violence at some point in their life. Scott said one of the Women’s Centers’ goals this year is to have more people using the phone line and to get the word out as much as possible about the RSVP Line. “We’d really like to see more folks take advantage of

it,” Scott said. “There totally are folks out there who need it, who maybe aren’t aware that it’s a resource or might be hesitant to call for some reason.” The 24-Hour RSVP Line can be reached at 919-6187273. If you’re interested in volunteering as a phone line advocate, email womenscenter@ncsu.edu.

Rodeo club wrangles national competition Katie Sanders Deputy Features Editor

The N.C. State Rodeo Club will participate in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association competition this year, making N.C. State the first school on the East Coast to do so. The team plans to travel to 10 intercollegiate competitions throughout the school year to try its skills at a variety of traditional rodeo events. Olivia Wedegaertner, a sophomore in statistics and animal science who represents the AgriLife Council, said the club practices for events such as barrel racing, steer roping, calf roping, bull riding, saddle bronc riding, team roping and goat tying. “The girls are mainly barrel racers right now—we’ve got one girl that does the goat tying, and I think she also does some roping,” said Gracie Lester, a junior in agricultural business management and the president of the rodeo club. “We’ve got some very talented ropers in our club—very, very talented ropers—and some bull riders as well.” Lester and Wedegaertner both specialize in barrel racing, a horse race around barrels in a pre-set cloverleaf pattern. If the rider knocks over one of the barrels, she gains five seconds onto her time. “When you’re running 16to 18-second times, five seconds is a pretty big deal, so you don’t want to knock over barrels,” Wedegaertner said. However, both women said they were interested in participating in other events as well. “Everybody is pretty much going to learn what everybody else knows,” Lester said. Hunter Nelson, a senior in ornamentals and landscape technology, is the club’s bullriding specialist. Nelson said he was 12 or 13 years old when he rode his first steer and 16 when he rode his first bull, which he did just to try something crazy. “It’s just that adrenaline rush,” Nelson said. “Eight seconds of pure hell.” The bull riders are judged on how many turns they can get the bull to hit, how high the bull jumps, how much the bull’s back legs come up and how much the bull’s front legs

twist. The riders also cannot touch the bull with their right hands. “You compete in eight seconds, and your score is based on your performance and the bull’s performance and how well you perform as a team,” Nelson said. The school bull riders do take precautions, as they make sure they are wearing safety vests and “run like hell,” as Nelson put it, when they fall off. There are also bullfighters in the arena who cover injured riders. Lester said about half the club participants had grown up practicing rodeo events, and some members of the club even hope to become professionals. Two of the members are fifth-generation cowboys. “We have kids that have grown up doing it,” Lester said. “Their parents did it, and then they came knowing they want to do it for the rest of their lives, and being able to do it in college is a huge thing for them, so we’re really fortunate we’re able to get this up and running this year.” About half of the club members, on the other hand, are completely new to the sport. “There’s a lot of people who have never been up close to any type of rodeo stock or horses or anything, and we’re welcoming, and we want to teach them anything they want to know, and we’ll even get them up on a horse if they come over,” Lester said. The team has some “deadbroke” horses, according to Lester, that everybody shares and newcomers may use. If a participant really wishes to compete, however, he or she should bring his or her own horse. The club meets every other Monday and will meet today at 7:30 p.m. in Riddick 450. There is free food and roping practice afterward, to which anyone is welcome to attend. The club travels to a couple of different arenas to practice basic skills, and the guys of the club go to Goldston to ride bulls and rope on Tuesday nights. “Our goal this year is just to get our name out there, and then in the next years to come get better and get more competitive with other schools,” Wedegaertner said.

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Brandon Roper and Josh Lasher rope a fake bull on Ag Awareness Day in the Brickyard to represent the Rodeo Club.

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One store’s trash is a diver’s dinner Kaitlin Montgomery Staff Writer

The first rule of dumpster diving is to take only what you need, never more. The second rule is to use your senses. The third is to wash everything you find. Tara Beck, an alumna who graduated with a degree in anthropology, said those are the three big rules when dumpster diving. “Most people get a bit squeamish about food diving,” Beck said “I think that’s because we have a rather negative view about dumpster diving. You have to get over this negative idea. We’ve been trained to think that vegetables need to look a certain way; if there’s a spot on it then it’s automatically terrible. Most of the time what you’re going to find diving is the same as what you’ll find in the store.” Diving can be done for one of two things: food or stuff. It takes a bit of luck, according to Beck, but several grocery stores and other types of stores surrounding N.C. State keep their dumpsters unlocked. It’s really only a matter of what a diver wants. “People usually go diving for stuff but I’m not a huge stuff person,” Beck said. “I dumpster dive more for food. There’s a store close to State that separates their food out by produce and then everything else, this is the only place I go to dumpster dive. You can basically get eighty bucks worth of vegetables in one go.” Following many store policies, anything that’s been in a store for more than a week has to be thrown out. If something is likely to spoil within three days, it’s to be dumped. Non-food items are far less likely to be dumped, as they don’t typically spoil, according to Beck. “The first time everyone goes dumpster diving, especially when they dive for food, they tend to stare awestruck at the amount of waste before them,” Beck said. “It’s not unusual to find a full dumpster.” Beck has retrieved all sorts of foods, ranging from an entire box of bananas to 15 pounds of potatoes. On a Sunday dive, Beck can almost always find what she said are her standards: a bag of potatoes, greens such as kale, baby carrots and apples. Beck said her food never comes in contact with the actual dumpsters, with everything usually being tossed out in boxes or bags. “You have to remember that when you’re dumpster diving for food there are some things that are going to be bad, that’s just the way it is,” Beck said. “You’re going to wind up with lettuce that’s going over with a slimy touch to it or fruit that’s squishy.

You’ll pretty much have a half-and-half dumpster, half good food, half bad food.” Beck said if someone wants to give dumpster diving a go that person should travel with a buddy. Not everyone climbs into the dumpster but for those who want to, a buddy is essential when trying to get items out. It can become a difficult balancing act trying to climb out with spoils in hand. “Dumpster diving isn’t fine art. We might not know it but we already know what to do,” Beck said. “It’s just like judging things from your fridge. If you look at it and it looks bad then it probably is. That, of course, means you shouldn’t eat.” Jacob Rutz, a senior in plant and soil sciences, is another member of the dumpster diving community. Having dived for about a year, Rutz mainly dives for food. “I started going to a couple of grocery stores, just trying it out with some friends,” Rutz said. “The first couple of times I went I saw that there was a lot of food in these dumpsters that was either completely packaged still in plastic or in the cardboard containers that fruits and vegetables are usually shipped in. They basically just place these packages in the dumpster where you can easily just pull it out.” Rutz now dives about once or twice a week, finding everything from coconuts to organic brownie mix. Rutz said he has never gotten sick from his dumpster finds, sticking to a plan of cooking almost all of his finds—other than fruits, which he always washes well. “The few times I’ve gone diving for products I’ve gotten lawn furniture, toys such as electronic helicopters, schools supplies such as paper, pencils and binders,” Rutz said. “I’ve found random things too like roller blades and baseball bats.” Dumpster diving is a culture all of its own, according to Rutz. With the practice being something people tend to not understand, divers find a sense of community in their weekly outings. “I’ve found that it’s a community building type of activity,” Beck said. “Once you find out someone dives it’s something that links you together. Diving is a relationship builder.” What can be seen as Beck’s untold fourth rule is the elated feeling and adrenaline rush dumpster diving gives. “It’s common sense mixed with kick-ass adventure,” Beck said. “There’s nothing like going on a dive.”

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Aerial Robotics Club sets sights on sky, victory Joseph Cabaniss Staff Writer

Tucked beside the stairs of Engineering Building III on Centennial campus is a small lab which is home to NCSU’s Aerial Robotics Club. Behind the locked doors of that lab, students construct and design a small, automated airplane, which resembles a military drone. The Aerial Robotics Club members build this drone from the ground up. The club purchases the parts and assembles the machine. Members design, wire and fit the machine as well. These aerial robots, the product of the club’s hard work, must act autonomously. Members may not direct them by remote control. The machines must operate by autopilot, which club members design and program. Club members are not of a specifc major, or even required to work on a certain schedule. “People are welcome to work when they have time,” R.J. Gritter, president of the Aerial Robotics club and senior in aerospace engineering, said. “Some of us are in here all day when we don’t have class.” According to Gritter, members choose how much time

and effort they want to contribute to the club. One of the members, Michael Yenik, spent the past week working a formula that will assist the autopilot’s flight plan. Members of the Aerial Robotics Club spend most of the year preparing for the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International’s Student Unmanned Aerial Systems Competition, otherwise known as AUSVI’s Student UAS Competition. At the competition, students write a journal paper on the design of their aircraft and the reasoning behind it. They then present their design with a short f light as proof of concept. From there, competitors move on to the main event of the competition: Students f ly their unmanned aerial vehicles in search of targets, capture the image of a target via camera and then land their planes safely. The goal is to do all of the above completely through autopilot. NCSU’s Aerial Robotics Club has attended this competition every year since its inception in 2003. AUSVI is a non-profit organization working to benefit the unmanned systems and robotics community. The Seafarer Chapter of the

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Aerial Robotics Club creates autonomous airplanes that compete in international unmanned aerial system competitions year round. R.J. Gritter, junior in aerospace engineering and president of the club, helps to write software from scratch that has the ability recognize specific targets without the help of humans.

organization hosts the competition. Both the students and the competition count on companies in the field of aerial robotics to provide the funds and the resources to make these competitions happen. Next year, the student club

is set to compete in a new international competition, the Outback Challenge, which will take place in Australia. In the competition aerial vehicles are required to not only find their target, a hiker, autonomously, but to deliver a bottle of water while in flight

without colliding with the target. This will be a new challenge that the Aerial Robotics Club has never attempted before, as they compete and represent N.C. State in a global arena of competition. The Aerial Robotics Club

meets every Thursday in Engineering Building III 2003 at 6:45 p.m. After meetings, members usually unwind at Mitch’s Tavern, according to Gritter.

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Wolfpack turned it on in the second game. After two scoreless innings, the Wolfpack scored on two consecutive hits. With senior outf ielder Hayley Stowe on base, Davis delivered a timely hit that allowed Stowe to slide to home plate for a score, which put the Wolfpack up 1-0 in the third inning. The next batter, sophomore first baseman Hanna Sommer also delivered a hit that sent Davis home for a score. After a scoreless fourth inning, with two players on base, senior first baseman Leah Jones hit the games

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match with the 30-28 victory. State opened the penultimate set with a 4-1 run, but Colgate rallied with a 5-1 run. Neither team relented for the remainder of the final set as the deficit never exceeded two points. Despite the Pack’s best efforts, the Raiders took the set, 15-13. Junior outside hitter Nikki Glass led the team with 20 kills and 16 digs against Colgate. Senior middle blocker Brie Merriwether added 15 kills followed by 13 from Hopper and 12 from junior middle blocker Alesha Wilson. Aljoe added a careerhigh 59 assists. State rallied behind its home crowd in the final

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only home run, extending the Wolfpack’s lead to 5-0 in the fifth inning. Rychcik said he is happy to start the season 4-0, but he said there is still room for improvement. “I think we were expected to be 4-0 at this point,” Rychcik said. “But I think for us there is room for improvement this early in the year and the season, if you look at the big picture.” The team will participate in the Ray Chandler Memorial Tournament, held at the Walnut Creek Softball Complex in Cary. State will take on Campbell and Pitt Community College on Saturday, and Elon and North Carolina Central on Sunday.

Sophomore pitcher Chelsea Stanfield in the midst of her windup against the Lenoir-Rhyne Bears. The Wolfpack won both parts of the double header at Curtis and Jacqueline Dail Stadium on Sunday.

match of the invitational to edge past VCU: 25-22, 17-25, 25-23 and 27-25. “To come back after not playing so well for two matches and playing a solid match and win the two close sets means a lot,” Bunn said. “It means we have the right kind of energy.” The Pack seemed that it would fold after dropping the last three sets it played, but State staged a late 7-3 run to grab the three-point victory in the opening set. The Rams retaliated against the Pack’s victory in the first set with a strong showing in the second. After State took a 14-12 lead, VCU answered with a 13-3 run as the Rams took the eight-point win. The subsequent set stayed close early. The Pack created separation with a 5-0 run,

but VCU answered with an 11-4 run to take a slim, onepoint lead in the latter part of the set. State stayed resilient and took the two-point win thanks to two late blocks by Wilson and redshirt freshman outside hitter Courtney Reiman. The Pack steadily increased its lead in the fourth set, but the Rams fought back with a 7-0 run to take a two-point lead. State responded with 5-0 run to retake the lead, but VCU took the late lead with a 7-1 run. The Pack rallied back on VCU’s match point to win the set, 27-25. Merriwether and Wilson powered the State attack against the Rams with 15 and 14 kills respectively. Glass and Hopper added seven kills apiece. “We need to be more bal-

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anced when it comes to who is getting our kills,” Bunn said. “We cannot rely on one or two people while others hit in the negatives [in attack percentage].” Aljoe added 42 assists against VCU, leading the team. Junior libero Alston Kearns led defensively with 18 digs. Glass followed with 13. The Pack will open its conference schedule on Wednesday when the team travels to play No. 15 UNC-Chapel Hill for the first game between the two rivals across all varsity sports for the academic year. “They have good players and are well coached, and we need to make sure we are well prepared, or else it will be a very short match,” Bunn said.

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4-6, 7-5, 6-0. The Wolfpack’s other singles win came by a default when Sipes’ opponent was injured just one game into the match. Wol f pack w i n ners i n singles on Sunday included Martinez, who beat Grillo once again, this time in a 10-point tiebreaker after the players split sets, and Nelson, who rolled over Faith Atiso of ODU 6-1, 6-1. In the singles tournament, Kissell fell to Fuller in the first round 10-3. The Pack’s next tournament is the Northwestern Invitational in Evanston, Ill., from Oct. 4-6.

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N.C. State sweeps weekend doubleheader match ups

State sailing wins national championship Heavy rains early followed by light winds did not dampen the spirits and drive of N.C. State sailors at today’s South Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association regatta North Points No. 2, hosted by the University of Tennessee. With a victory today, N.C. State scores its first ever regatta win while also making a strong showing against ten conference teams including the 2012 Gill Coed National Champions, the College of Charleston Cougars, as well as SAISA North perennial challengers Georgia Tech and Clemson. With the win, N.C. State now ranks third in the SAISA North division after the first two regattas of the Fall 2013 season. SOURCE: SAILPACK.ORG

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The N.C. State rifle team opened the 2013-14 campaign with a win at the first South Eastern Air Rifle Conference match of the season, held at VMI on Saturday. The Wolfpack finished with a team score of 2322 in the air rifle competition to finish first, besting the second place team’s total by 48. The Citadel finished second in the team standing with a score of 2274, the University of North Georgia and Wofford claimed third and fourth with scores of 2266 and 2203, respectively. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

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Sophomore setter Tanna Aljoe reacts after the Wolfpack scores a point against the Colgate Badgers. The Wolfpack won one game in the N.C. State Courtyard Midtown Invitational at Reynolds Coliseum.

Pack wins one of three in weekend tourney Daniel Wilson Staff Writer

N.C. State hosted its second invitational tournament Friday and Saturday, and the Wolfpack beat Virginia Commonwealth in its final match Saturday night. The team lost its first match against Wisconsin in four sets Friday night at Reynolds Coliseum and fell to Colgate Saturday afternoon in five sets. “We didn’t play really well until [the VCU match],” Head Coach Bryan Bunn said. “Wisconsin is a good team. We came out really

flat.” In the second match of the tournament, the Badgers defeated State making the loss its first home loss of the season: 25-13, 25-19, 20-25 and 25-18. Junior outside hitters Rachel Buckley and Dariyan Hopper led the Pack with 11 kills each. Sophomore setter Tanna Aljoe earned a doubledouble as she led in assists with 33 and digs with 15. After dropping the first set the previous night, the Pack looked for its first win of the weekend Saturday afternoon, but the Rams took control and won three in a row as

State dropped the match: 25-17, 25-18, 17-25, 28-30 and 13-15. After the Pack cruised ahead by two sets, neither team established a commanding lead early. However, Colgate jumped on a 7-0 run, taking the lead and eventually the set by eight. Colgate from the previous set, starting the fourth set with a 7-2 run. State spent the duration of the set clawing back and eventually tied the set at 24 apiece. However, the Raiders would not be sent home early as they tied the VOLLEY continued page 7

“It was nice to come out and protect our house.”

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Wolfpack wraps up Bulldog Classic play Luke Nadkarni Staff Writer

The N.C. State women’s tennis team spent the weekend in Athens, Ga., competing in the 2013 Bulldog Classic, hosted by the University of Georgia. The Wolfpack participated in both singles and doubles play against players from Old Dominion, South Florida and Georgia. Senior Joelle Kissell, who is ranked No. 45 in the nation, had a successful weekend, and she won her singles on Friday and split her doubles matches. The Wolfpack’s No. 1 player defeated Nokol Hristova of Old Dominion 6-2, 6-2 and teamed with freshman Liza Fieldsend to defeat Vera Bessonova and Olga Martinez of South Florida 8-5. In their other doubles match, Kissell and Fieldsend fell to Lauren Herring and Maho Kowase of host

Georgia, 8-1. Fieldsend also defeated Old Dominion’s Ivana Vukovic 6-2, 6-3 to give the Pack its only other singles win of the day. Juniors Elisha Hande and Nicole Martinez struggled in doubles, falling to Georgia’s Kate Fuller and Silvia Garcia, the No. 2 ranked team in the nation, by a score of 8-3. In their second match of the day, they lost in a 9-7 heartbreaker to Kayla Rizzolo and Loreto Alonso of South Florida. Hande also dropped a tight singles match to Marijana Novakovic of Old Dominion 3-6, 6-1, 6-7(4). State’s other participating doubles team consisted of junior Sophie Nelson and senior Christy Sipes. They dropped a pair of matches, 8-1 to South Florida’s Olaya Garrido and Fanny Fricassi and 8-0 to Mia King and Lilly Kimbell of Georgia. On Saturday Kissell and Fieldsend teamed up again

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Junior Joelle Kissell returns the ball during her No. 1 match against North Carolina Friday, April 26. The Wolfpack fell to the Tar Heels 4-0 during round two of the ACC Tournament at Cary Tennis Park.

to defeat ODU’s Novakovic and Ingrid Vojcinakova 8-5. Kissell also held off Rizzolo

5-7, 6-2, 6-3 to give her yet another victory. Martinez rebounded from losing the first

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ship in his first season. “It opens some things up,” Rychcik said. “It’s tougher to N.C. State’s softball team manage than the 14 we had hosted back-to-back dou- last year. There are some reps bleheaders this weekend at getting spread out more, but Longwood University on there are also some things we Saturday and at home against can do that we haven’t been Lenoir-Rhyne on Sunday, able to do. I think at some sweeping both matches. point were still trying to figIn the second game against ure out a line up and who’s Lenoir-Rhyne, senior first going to be our starters evbasemen Leah Jones hit the ery day. So it helps with open game’s only homerun, one competition” of the WolfWith only pack ’s two three graduhits, to put ating seniors the game on last year’s away in the squad, t he fifth inning. pack starts “ We got t he season a bi g h i t with a lot of Junior pitcher from one of experience, Emily Weiman our seniors, including which is supAll ACC seposed to happen,” Rychcik lections junior shortstop Resaid. “And we closed out the nada Davis and senior catcher game with a freshman which Kristy Grant. Junior Emily is kind of nice, so I’m pretty Weiman, the ACC Pitcher of happy about that.” the Year, also returns for the “In the second game our Pack. ace came out and she threw “It was nice to come out well and she did what she was and protect our house and supposed to do, and we got a get four wins this weekend,” few big hits from our upper Weiman said. “We have classmen.” some things to work on, and After coming off an ACC we have next weekend to get championship win last sea- better and we’ll be ready for son, and a run to the NCAA the spring.” regionals, Coach Shawn RyThe Wolfpack went 2-0 chcik and the Wolfpack will against Longwood despite look to build off last year’s a shaky win against Lenoirsuccess. He is the only coach Rhyne. In its first game, the in ACC history to lead a team to the conference championSOFTBALL continued page 7 Correspondent

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