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Email popularity wanes, students and faculty face communication barrier Jacqueline Lee Correspondent

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Several people, including professors, recently filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop the sale of the Hofmann forest.

Sale of Hofmann Forest leads to legal battle Sasha Afanasieva Staff Writer

The sale of the Hofmann forest has been a source of discussion, conflict and protest at N.C. State since the sale was announced last spring. Recently however, people who are unhappy about the sale found a new venue in which to make their discontent known—the courtroom N.C. State’s Board of Trustees is in the process of selling the Hofmann Forest, which is the largest single piece of land owned by the University, and in an attempt to stop the board, several people, including N.C. State professors, recently filed a lawsuit. Frederick W. Cubbage, professor of the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at N.C. State, is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. “The lawsuit itself basically states that the Hofmann Forest is state land that belongs to North Carolina State University, so therefore

it should follow state rules and regulation,” Cubbage said. The lawsuit was filed on the grounds that the University did not follow the State Environmental Protection Act. “SEPA requires looking and analyzing alternatives and the second part of SEPA that we contested is that it requires public agency and citizen input in the decision on the alternatives,” Cubbage said. According to Cubbage, there were at least four alternatives that weren’t properly analyzed: conservation easement that would block development, leasing the forest, selling a smaller part of the forest or keeping the forest. “There are large amounts of biodiversity in the forest,” Cubbage said. “Water and wildlife would also be negatively affected if the forest is sold and developed. There will be huge adverse environmental impacts.” Mary Watzin, dean of the College of Natu-

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N.C. State professors use email as a primary means of communication with their students. According to a recent column from The New York Times, some students around the country don’t like to check emails, but prefer social media and texting. “Email has never really been a fun thing to use,” Morgan Judge, a sophomore at Fordham University in New York, told The New York Times. “It’s always like, ‘This is something you have to do.’ School is a boring thing. Email is a boring thing. It goes together.” Director of Enrollment Management in the College of Natural Resources, Tiffany McLean, emphasized the importance of getting students in the habit of using their email. “If we don’t start setting expectations with students and teaching them proper email etiquette and the importance of checking emails, then we’re not setting them up for success in the business world,” McLean said. “The business world is not going to adjust to the students.” McLean said in her first meetings with classes or student organizations, she

makes it clear that students are expected to communicate by email and respond within 72 hours. She said that when these rules are set, she doesn’t have any problems. “I check my emails because it goes to my phone,” said Hayden Black, junior majoring in Sport Management. “If I did not get notifications to my phone, I probably would not check it. I don’t use it too often because only one of my teachers emails me and I haven’t had the need to contact others.” Dara Leeder, director of Student Recruitment and Retention at the College of Humanities and Social Science, often uses email to communicate with students. She said students tell her that the emails they receive are very helpful, though there are still many students that request not to receive them. “I think that faculty and staff should continue to set the expectation from the beginning of our students’ time here that they must check their email on a regular basis, or they will miss out on crucial messages or interesting opportunities,” Leeder said. Leeder said it is very important to get students accustomed to email communication as a precursor to the communication they will do

in the future as part of internships and full-time jobs. “Texting and social media are fine for some purposes, but tend to be very informal, without proper greetings, spelling and sentence structure,” Leeder said. “Students should be exposed to more professional forms of communication that convey their messages with respect, intelligence and courtesy.” Leeder said she thinks communication between students and faculty as a whole is good. The faculty tries to treat students as adults and hope they will take responsibility to fulfill their end of the communication partnership. “I feel like I can communicate really well through email with teachers and most of them respond real quickly,” said Kirby Haigler, a freshman in engineering. “I’d rather try to do office hours because they highly advertise. Through my experience, I’ve been mostly able to reach most of my teachers well.” Leeder said that she hears students regularly do not go to their teachers’ office hours to talk about their classes, research, career or academic goals. “In-person interaction is the best way of forging a connection with instructors

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University markets to out-of-state Triangle unemployment rates show improvement students despite national trend Katherine Kehoe Correspondent

Although national trends show little change in the number of students traveling to attend college close to home, N.C. State appears to be attracting more national and international students than in previous years. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, during the last 40 years, the average distance undergraduates travel for college have shifted minimally. The Chronicle’s data showed that in both 1971 and 2012, 53 percent of freshmen chose a school within 100 miles of home. According to collegeboard.org, 81 percent of students were enrolled in their state of residence in 2010. Nationally, students are consistently staying close to home to go to school. But, according to Louis Hunt, vice provost and university registrar, N.C. State has been experiencing something different. “Basically, our out of state numbers have increased,” Hunt said. “In 2007 it was about 8.5 percent of our

incoming freshmen, and now it’s about a little over 16 percent. The number of international undergraduates have tripled in the last three to four years.” Hunt said that the University has been deliberately promoting N.C. State to students in other areas of the country, and are accepting a higher percentage of out-of-state students and international students than they did in the past. “It was an effort to kind of balance it,” Hunt said. “We wanted more international students so we had a more global feel on the campus. We wanted more out-of-state just to diversify the enrollment.” According to Hunt, the University has no problem attracting students from in-state, and that both the number of in-state and out-ofstate applications to N.C. State have gone up. “Historically, we’ve had real strength in North Carolina in terms of attracting kids,” Hunt said. According to a survey conducted this year by The Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 percent of the respondents of full-time, four-year degree

students said that being close to home was a very important factor in their college choice. Nick Hackett, a freshman in natural resources, said that this is probably because of financial reasons. “I am from Raleigh. I was the oldest of six, so it would be really expensive if all of us went out-of-state, so I had to stay in-state,” Hackett said. Angela Curtin, from Raleigh, is a freshmen in animal science. She said she chose N.C. State because it made sense for her major—not for the proximity to home. “I am pre-vet and they have a really good vet program here,” Curtin said. “I wanted the vet program, so that was the main reason I went here. I don’t go home that much.” Some students, such as Jenna Neely from Greensboro, who is a junior in English, and Melora Trowell from Raleigh, who is a freshman in the First Year College, said some distance between themselves and the family can be good—but not too much.

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Tutor involved in UNC scandal indicted Staff Report

Former tutor of UNC-Chapel Hill, allegedly involved in the football program scandal, was charged with four felony counts in an Orange County courthouse Thursday, WRAL reported. Jennifer Lauren Wiley Thompson is the fifth person this week in relation to the scandal to appear in court. Thursday afternoon was Wiley’s first appearance in the Orange county District Court. Wiley is one of 10 people the

NCAA has investigated to have provided UNC football players with inappropriate academic and financial benefits. Wiley has been charged with violating the North Carolina Uniform Athlete Agents Act, a state law regarding interaction between sports agents and athletes. According to The News & Observer, Wiley’s indictment states that in May 2010, she obtained a $579 round-trip airline ticket to Florida for UNC football player Greg Little, and later that year delivered little

packages of cash totaling $2,150. Investigators link her actions to efforts to get him to sign a contract with Terry Watson of the Watson Sports Agency. Each of Wiley’s felonies carry a maximum jail time of 15 months— her bond was set at $15,000.Wiley is expected to appear back in the Orange County Superior Court Oct. 15. More arrests related to the scandal are expected in the coming days.

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More people in the Triangle are getting jobs as unemployment dropped significantly in August to its lowest point in about five years, The News & Observer reported Wednesday. In July, the jobless rate was 7.2 percent, but has now fell to 6.6 percent in August—dropping to its lowest since November 2008, according to the N.C. Department of Commerce. Michael Walden, professor of agricultural economics, said although the Triangle suffered because of the recession, unemployment has continued to improve since 2010. “The triangle has the exact kind of economy that will do well in the future,” Walden said. “It is primarily an economy based on higher education. There’s a constant flow of graduates, and businesses love that. There’s a perfect marriage between the kinds of businesses that’ll thrive in this kind of economy and the type of workforce available.”

Walden said there is still room for improvement, but plenty to be optimistic for. “At one point in the 1990s, the unemployment rate was below two percent,” Walden said. “So we’re in the six’s, which is still high by our standards, but we are rapidly going in the right direction. The triangle will likely add around 30,000 jobs, the unemployment rate will continue to go down, and I think we could easily be in the low five percent rate sometime next year.” David Zonderman, professor and associate department head of history, said while the Triangle and other metropolitan areas in the state continue to improve, other areas in the state continue to suffer from stagnant growth and high unemployment. “We’re not immune to the national economy,” Zonderman said. “As the national economy is slowly recovering, North Carolina’s will slowly improve too. What I’m more

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ral Resources, said in an earlier interview why the forest should be sold. “As you know, it’s not just my decision,” Watzin said. “The Natural Resources Foundation Board of Directors made a unanimous decision to recommend the sale of the forest. The sale is for the benefit of the College of Natural Resources,” According to Robert. D.

Brown, former dean of the College of Natural Resources, The Hofmann Forest raised about $3.5 million per year for the College of Natural Resources, however it now provides $1.5 Million per year. Brown said that the funds would be used for underg r adu at e s c hol a r s h ip s , equipment, faculty salaries, matching funds for grants, support of student clubs and Study Abroad programs and research activities. However, not everyone agrees with how the funds

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Quoi de neuf à SKEMA?: French students elect president Sylvain Gibey William Demmelbauer is the new president of Student Club SKEMA Raleigh. Former president Yoann Tarantini was defeated in the election one month ago by Demmelbauer, who obtained 57 percent of the votes. SKEMA is a French business school founded in 2009 and has three campuses in France. In 2011, a new location was set up on Centennial Campus, the only SKEMA location in the United States. Each year, more than 200 hundred people come for the fall semester and even more for the spring semester. After a month of leading the organization, the new president gave his impression of the life in the U.S. and SKEMA. “The partnership between SKEMA and N.C. State is very

interesting.” Demmelbauer said. “All the students are considered as N.C. State students so they can be part of all the events of the campus, and all the French students are very happy to be here.” Demmelbauer decided to become the president of the organization for several reasons. “I was a member of the student club last year in France, and I would like to continue in the U.S. to represent my school,” Demmelbauer said. He said that being president will allow him to meet new people from the United States. “We plan a lot of activities for the students” Demmelbauer said. “But we have already done some events. We organized some parties [in] downtown Raleigh as we did on Tuesday, with the Oktoberfest. To organize such events like that we work

with the French Club and the International Business Club.” Demmelbauer said that the organization will not organize any trips during the semester.

“Most of the students in SKEMA have already planned to travel all around the U.S. as they just stay here for one

from the sale will be used. “The sale proponents say that they want funds for students and faculty,” Cubbage said. “However, only a fraction of our current funds is given directly to our students in forms like scholarships.” According to Brown, The Hofmann Forest is not a natural forest but instead a pine plantation on a 25-year rotation with about 1/25 of the forest is harvested each year. The forest is composed of about 55,000 acres of planted trees and about 20,000 acres

of pocosin swamp. Brown said that the forest was not making as much money, falling by about 60 percent. Currently, there are about 1,800 students in the College of Natural Resources. According to Watzin, not many of the students use the forest. “Only a very small number of students go down to Hoffman Forest,” Watzin said. “We have about seven to nine out of 80 graduate students who have done something in the Hoffman forest. The

vast of the college’s students and faculty are not using the forest.” Both Watzin and Brown said the Hofmann Forest should be sold. “I think it is time that t he Hof ma nn Forest is sold,” Brown said. “It served its purpose many years ago as a teaching forest, and little research is done there now,” The plaintiffs who filed the suit said that the sale of the Hofmann Forest violated Article 14 Section 5 of North Carolina Constitution. That

section mandates protection of public land and water for the benefit of the public. “There is some reasonable chance that it will be considered or the court would not have accepted the complaint,” Cubbage said. “The University is trying to say that the forest is not state land but university land and so SEPA does not apply, and we aren’t in the right county to bring the case. The University also believes that we don’t have enough standing to be involved in the decision.”

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Remembering Gandhi

ohandas Karamcha nd Ga nd h i was born on Oct. 2, 1869. By the time he was assassinated in 1948, he had successfully overcame an empi re he considered to be the best civilization, invented a weapon of civ il revolution and Naman empowered Muley Staff Columnist a nation of a billion people to build their own future. Moreover, he had experimented and explored the depths of truth like never before. His was the philosophy of Swaraj — self-rule. Personified by a billion people, it became an independence movement. Acted out as a personal ritual, it became the symbol of a frail old man with piercing glasses, walking fast with a stick. Swaraj is the idea of total control of one’s decision-making capacities. One embodies all forms of a body — human and civic. Total control means freedom from external influences and being driven by one’s moral directives. Let me first explain the civic context of the term. This particular term — total control — has eluded men for more than a century now. A whole nation failed to grasp the term in its entirety. India now grapples with urban goals for a rural population. Gandhi’s stance against the Industrial Revolution and the materialistic benefits it brought with it is often misunderstood to be that of an old man arguing against change. No other misunderstanding can personify ignorance this well. His fight was never against machines but the lack of resilience of mankind against them. The enslavement of humans by materialistic needs does not call for living a minimalist life. Rather it means to not allow the latter to override the moral directives of the former which were formed before the existence of the latter and hence are independent of it. Allow me to cite Gandhi’s thoughts about railways as an example. Gandhi saw distance as a paradox. Before the invention of the railways, people had to walk by foot or ride on horses to distant places. The time it took to scale distances allowed Gandhi to learn the culture and the lan-

guages along his path. The interactions with native people on his travels shaped his thoughts. It allowed the traveler to reach his destination, not as an outsider without context of the land but as a newborn child who is beginning to blend in the new world in front of his eyes, slowly but surely. This primes a person to imbibe a global personality in its true sense. This, in the Indian context, was most relevant as every few hundred miles brought a different culture. The railways killed the sense of time that distance forced upon people. The spontaneity of the physical transition robbed the mental faculties of the transition time they required to respect the beliefs and traditions of the destination land. This lack of respect leads to eventual invasion which, incidentally, is also catalyzed by machines. Gandhi was not against railways — he feared the railways might expose people’s lack of respect for anything that was different from their own beliefs. Sociologist Shiv Visvanathan recently remarked, Gandhi made a debate club out of the Indian independence struggle. The Indian Congress, at the beginning of the 20th century, was divided into extremists and conservationists. Extremists believed force and violence, if necessary, must be used to gain independence. The conservationists, on the other hand, believed violence would self-destruct a country of a billion people. Gandhi, championing the conservationists, believed if independence was reduced to a goal of driving out the British, it would lead to the wealthy taking their place while the rural majority population remained enslaved. His articles, editorials, letters and comments to fellow revolutionaries showcased a philosopher at work. Gandhi, through his understanding of Swaraj, invented the satyagraha. The word Satyagraha is a conjunction of two words — satya, meaning truth and agraha, meaning insistence. Satyagraha, in its true form, means to insist, relentlessly and at all costs, about what one believed to be true. It is independent of the oppressor and does not involve harming the oppressor in a direct fashion. The oppressor depends

on the oppressed and not vice versa. His experiences in London as a lawyer and debates with English political philosophers gave him an unparalleled understanding of the British governance. He realized the dependence of the British on the Indian population for trade and gold. The Satyagraha movement saw millions of Indians on the streets standing still in non-cooperation — doing nothing. If the worker class, the greater majority, hundreds of millions in number, refused to work, there would be no trade, no gold for the British to loot. Governing a nation of a billion people that produced nothing is a lousy investment for an empire involved in world wars. Gandhi hit hard where it hurt, all by the simple act of non-cooperation. Gandhi was an impossible man, in all senses of the word. His life was a relentless pursuit of satya. He made his wife, Kasturba, and his son, Harilal, live a torturous life. His chase for self-improvement and constant struggle to live a life personifying the ideals he strived for in a nation often brought him in conf lict with his responsibilities as a husband and as a father. He chose to honor the former. Today, Gandhi is shrouded in banality. He is the father of a nation of a billion people, a handful of whom remember him for the man he was or the life he lived. Ironically, his face is embalmed on the Indian currency notes, the notes which enslave the very civic body he tried to keep free from slavery of all kinds. Gandhi never denied the fact that his thoughts were hardly his own. He merely stood on the shoulders of great men before him such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Gandhi was a sociologist. Gandhi was a researcher. Gandhi was an engineer. He understood the requirements, modeled solutions and acted upon them with immaculate precision and relentless perseverance. Most of all, Gandhi was an experimenter. His life was one big social experiment. Maybe it is time that India, Gandhi’s own land, experiment with its development model as Gandhi experimented with its revolution model. Then, in its true sense, Gandhi would become the “Father of the nation.”

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With regard to your editorial ‘North Carolina’s declining popularity,’ I would like to point out one thing. The statement, “the Republicans of the North Carolina state legislature have helped our state to fit in better with the rest of the ignorant South by passing laws that demonstrate intolerance, little value for education and high value for wealth,” is a grave over-generalization of the Republican Party of North Carolina. Yes, there are a ton of “knuckleheads” with

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rom what I have observed lately, Americans have quite a way with words – especially regarding topics they don’t know much about. Social meTaylor Quinn dia sites are Staff Columnist flooded with opinions about the Affordable Care Act that are simultaneously uninformed and adamant. The expression of uninformed plus adamant never equates to a favorable situation. This tug-of-war mentality shared between both sides of the political spectrum needs a little revamping. If one knows what he or she is talking about, go ahead and feel free to blab until the cows come home – but please (for your own sake) know what it is you are blabbing about. Last week, Jimmy Kimmel, a late night talk show host, conducted a survey along Hollywood Boulevard asking random passerby’s opinions about which proposed health care program they agree with: Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act. The results were evenly divided according to the specific people they chose to feature in the video, but one common trait between all of

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the interviewees was that they were definitely against the title of the program they didn’t prefer. Though one lady’s reasoning was “I just don’t agree with it” –a strong point if I may add –every single person who answered the question did not encompass any traces of indifference in their answers toward the subject. It was so funny. It was f unny because Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act are the same thing. These people were getting hot and bothered about their opinion being right against a side that was the exact same as theirs. That is like a football player tackling his own player in the red zone or a cat person sporting a dog shirt– it’s just stupid. Aside from laughing, I couldn’t help but cringe in embarrassment and pure awkwardness as they forcefully made their uninformed opinions known. Not one person even slightly mentioned the fact that they did not know much – or anything as they so clearly displayed – about the topic. “So do you think that Affordable Care Act is better?” “Better, but I’m still not

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happy with that one either.” Though the survey was supposed to be done in a joking matter, it is sad that those Americans thought that way, and only represent a minuscule part of the population. I can only imagine how many people would answer the same way as the Hollywood Boulevard victims if this survey was done all across the country. Personally, I am no better at understanding all that is occurring in the government now –do not think that my comments are that of an elitist. But notice I have not formulated an opinion in this column about the Affordable Care Act and that is simply because I do not know enough about it. I feel as though nothing that I type into a search bar will fully inform me because sadly most of the results will probably be an uninformed opinion. So my mouth is staying shut about this topic – but if I had to make a choice, after much internal deliberation, I would most definitely think that the Affordable Care Act is a much better choice than Obamacare.

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More than 10 million viewers tuned in to the much-anticipated finale of Breaking Bad last Sunday night, according to CBS News. As the epic Walter White saga came to a close, fans said goodbye to what is quite possibly the greatest show ever to air on television. Since its premiere in 2008, creator Vince Gilligan has captivated audiences with a string of unique and complex characters and an abundance of suspense in each episode. Gilligan and his team of writers have redefined the nature of the medium in a manner that is nearly impossible to duplicate or surpass. Not surprisingly, the finale is as good as one could hope for. Coming into this episode, there were many unanswered questions and unresolved conflicts, so it begged the question: would this be an open-ended conclusion or a resolute one? Gilligan’s decision to tie all the loose ends of the story together was not merely a good decision, but a perfect one as the result is flawless. When we last saw Walt (Bryan Cranston),

he had taken the last name Mr. Lambert, which was his wife’s maiden name, and was living in isolation in New Hampshire. Desperate to get his hard-earned drug money to his wife Skylar (Anna Gunn) and son Walt Jr. (RJ Mitte), an idea came to mind after Walt saw his old colleagues being interviewed on Charlie Rose. Yet in addition to making amends with his broken family, the chemistry-teacherturned-meth-kingpin must also avenge the death of his brother-in-law Hank Schrader (Dean Norris). With his former partner and student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) now being held captive by these Neo-Nazis, nothing stood between them and the machine gun in the back of Walt’s car. Looking back at how the series evolved during the course of its five-season run, its most definitive aspect has always been the development of Walt’s character. Gilligan himself has described it as a “Mr. Chip to Scarface” transformation. Now that the actions of this

antihero have destroyed his friends and family, his inevitable demise was the most appropriate way to conclude his story. When the show first aired, no one could tell where it was going to go—all that was certain among viewers was that it was like nothing they had ever seen before. Then, as characters such as Gus Fring (Giancarlo Esposito) and Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) became increasingly popular in seasons three and four, it was clear that the show had become the next Sopranos. Felina, the finale’s title, signifies the outcome of one man’s obsession and how his relentlessness brought about his downfall. While his entrance into the world of crime and drugs began with a single batch of methamphetamine, it ended with Walt being consumed by his inner demons. Both written and directed by Gilligan, this episode ranks among episodes such as Face-Off and Dead Freight. Watching Cranston’s unforgettable character go from Walter

White to Heisenberg to Mr. Lambert, viewers are left mesmerized by the undeniable cleverness of this show in its purest form. Some fans complained that Jesse’s story was given less closure than expected but to me, Gilligan ended it perfectly. The closing shot of Walt is what defines this episode, and will go down as one of the most pivotal moments in the entire series. For Jesse, we can guess that he goes free and finally has a chance to start over and seek a decent life. Killing Todd (Jesse Plemmons) was clearly depicted as his final act as a criminal. Describing the significance of this show upon our culture is like trying to assess the impact of figures such as Abraham Lincoln in American history. Breaking Bad is nothing short of greatness, and it has maintained that status from beginning to end. For a popculture guru such as myself, I’m eager to see its legacy live on.

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Carrboro music label moves to Raleigh Taylor Quinn Staff Writer

Downtown Raleigh’s music scene will add a new member this month by way of Sorry State Records. The up-andcoming punk label plans to open a record store and move its headquarters from Carrboro to Raleigh by the end of October. Daniel Lupton, owner of Sorry State Records and a lecturer in English at UNCChapel Hill, is no stranger to the music business. “I started the label in, I believe 2004, so it’s been almost 10 years and we have been distributing records and stuff all over the world,” Lupton said. Originally, Lupton was able to go into the record business because of the help of leftover grant money he was given for grad school. “I’ve always been a big music fan and it’s always been in the back of my mind,” Lupton said. “When I started grad school there was one semester where they gave me like more grant money then I actually needed so I just stuck it in the bank with the idea that I would put out a record sometime.” Instead of using it for his own record, Lupton used his money to put out his friends’ band’s record. “A couple of my friends had a really good band that I liked called Direct Control and they had like five left

over spots from when they recorded their EP so I was like ‘why don’t you let me do it?’” Lupton said. “That was the first release, and then I put out some more records and it just kind of snowballed from there.” Although Lupton calls Carrboro home, his fascination for Raleigh has been ongoing. “Raleigh has always kind of been my spiritual home, even though I live in Carrboro,” Lupton said. “I just have always felt more of a connection with Raleigh’s music scene, I’ve lived in Chapel Hill and Carrboro the whole time I lived in the triangle, but whenever I go see bands I’m always driving to Raleigh so it just feels more logical I guess.” Lupton said the music in Chapel Hill’s corner of the Triangle simply doesn’t fit Sorry State as well. “The music scene in Chapel Hill is maybe a bit more cerebral and a little more intellectual and I like things that are sort of more like raw bands,” Lupton said. “I think the kind of thing that I want to do will go over better in Raleigh and downtown Raleigh is just awesome.” Lupton said he wants the record store to become a community where people gather and talk music rather than just buy records. “I think it is more of a vibe thing, I’m sure people do hang out in other record stores but I don’t know if

there are places to sit,” Lupton said. “I don’t know, it feels more like than just a store that you buy records in.” Though the record label’s headquarters are moving to the new store at 317 W. Morgan St. in downtown, a recording studio will not be present because of potential sound violations. “The place is pretty small and it’s in a residential building so we can’t have any kind of amplified music,” Lupton said. “There probably won’t be shows there but there are other places that it can happen.” But Lupton said he can record wherever he wants—city ordinance permitting. “I have a mobile recording studio that I use to record some bands and usually I just do that whenever we can,” Lupton said. As for Hillsborough’s record staple, Schoolkids, Lupton said he isn’t interested in a competition. “I’m not really interested in fighting Schoolkids to see who can sell more records,” Lupton said. “We have things that you don’t really see in the other stores like a lot of collectable albums that you won’t see at other stores and have more underground punk and metal music.” Lupton said he feels he is bringing something different to Raleigh. “I would like to think that I’m filling a niche that needs to be filled,” Lupton said.

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State hits the road for clash with Deacs Luke Nadkarni Staff Writer

State men’s soccer takes on Syracuse The N.C. State men’s soccer team is in Syracuse for a Friday night clash with the Orange. The Wolfpack (4-2-2, 1-2-1 ACC) scored a late goal to tie Gardner-Webb 1-1 on Tuesday, while Syracuse (7-3, 1-3 ACC) beat Binghamton 2-1 in double-overtime on Tuesday. Both teams need a win to climb out of the bottom half of the Atlantic Coast Conference standings. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Women’s tennis to compete at Northwestern Invitational Eight members of the Wolfpack women’s tennis team will travel to Evanston, Ill. to compete in the Northwestern Invitational this weekend at the Combe Tennis Center. N.C. State, along with Virginia, will represent the Atlantic Coast Conference at the tournament, State’s second of the fall season. Play is scheduled to begin at 8:30 a.m. on Friday. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

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The N.C. State football team travels to WinstonSalem on Saturday to take on in-state foe Wake Forest. The game will be State’s first away contest of the season. The Wolfpack (3-1, 0-1 ACC) is coming off of a 48-14 victory over Central Michigan last week at Carter-Finley Stadium, its largest margin of victory this season. State has not won in Winston-Salem since 2001, when former quarterback Philip Rivers was a sophomore. The home team has won the last six meetings in the series, which the Pack leads 63-37-6. Last season, State defeated Wake 37-6 in Raleigh. The Demon Deacons (2-3, 0-2) are coming off of a 56-7 loss to Clemson last week. Wake has struggled mightily on offense this season, ranking 93rd in the nation in rushing offense and 107th in passing. Although senior quarterback Tanner Price was benched at halftime of the loss to Clemson, he will return to start against the Wolfpack. Head coach Dave Doeren

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Senior linebacker D.J. Green makes an interception on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013 at Carter-Finley Stadium against Central Michigan. Green returned the interception for a touchdown. The Wolfpack defeated the Chippewas 48-14 after holding them scoreless until the 4th quarter.

said in his weekly teleconference that his team will need to concentrate to beat Wake on Saturday in WinstonSalem. “We have to be able to play within ourselves and block out the distraction,” Doeren said. “We need to play exactly the same way we would in our own stadium.” Redshirt junior Pete Thomas will once again start at quarterback for State in place of graduate student Brandon Mitchell, who is still nursing a broken bone in his foot

suffered in the season opener. Thomas threw for 244 yards and his first touchdown pass of the season last week. State used its receivers to great effect in the running game last Saturday, notably junior Bryan Underwood, who Doeren spoke highly of. Underwood also caught an 80-yard touchdown pass in the game. “In the last two weeks he’s had his best two weeks of practice. He’s gotten the ball more because of that,” Doeren said in his weekly tele-

conference. “As long as he keeps doing that, he’s going to be a weapon for us.” The Wolfpack secondary will have to keep an eye on Wake’s senior receiver Michael Campanaro. Campanaro is averaging 13.4 yards per catch this season and has a pair of touchdowns. State did a good job defensively against Central Michigan last Saturday, limiting the Chippewas to 259 total yards and grabbing three interceptions, off of which they scored 17 points.

“Defensively, the takeaways I think are huge,” Doeren said in the teleconference. “It’s remarkable how much better we play on offense because of field position.” Defense is an area where the Deacs have struggled this season. They rank 88th in total defense and are giving up 167.8 rushing yards per game. That plays into the hands of the Wolfpack, who rolled up 239 yards on the ground against Central Michigan. State is expected to have its full complement of running backs for the contest. Sophomore Shadrach Thornton is listed as the starter ahead of junior Tony Creecy. Freshman running back Matt Dayes is listed as probable despite spraining his ankle last time out. While it may seem easy to write off a team that is coming off of a blowout loss and features a home defeat to Louisiana-Monroe this season, Doeren insists that Saturday will not be an easy game for the Wolfpack. “We def initely respect Wake. We definitely have a ton of respect for their coaching staff,” Doeren said. “This will be a game that both sides want to win very badly.”

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Lack of goals bars Wolfpack from greatness Andrew Schuett Deputy Sports Editor

N.C. State’s start to the 2013 season hasn’t gone as expected. The Wolfpack (4-2-2, 1-2-1 ACC) hit the ground running, picking up three straight wins with two coming away from home. Two of its wins also came in overtime, showing that State has character and resilience to deal with adversity. After a narrow loss to Clemson at home, the Pack earned a 3-3 tie at Virginia. State’s draw with the Cavaliers, winners of six national championships and a traditional men’s soccer powerhouse, gave State soccer fans hope. But since the Virginia game, the Pack has struggled to produce consistent results. The Wolfpack won just one of its three games following the match against the Cavaliers. The low point of that stretch came in State’s loss at home against Boston College, where the Pack doomed itself by surrendering a duo of secondhalf goals. Head coach Kelly Findley and his players have

said that this team’s goal is to make the NCAA Tournament. Findley knows as well as anyone that for State to make the NCAA Tournament, home matches against Boston College are must-win games for the Wolfpack. State’s main problem is evident on the scoreboard: an inability to score goals. The Wolfpack has outshot its opponents 157-96 this year, showing State’s offensive dominance. But the Pack has only scored 12 goals in 2013, a dismal return for a team that averages almost 20 shots per game. The Wolfpack’s against Clemson is a perfect encapsulation of State’s inefficiency in front of goal. The Wolfpack outshot the Tigers, the No. 13 team in the nation, by a total of 17-6 and was the dominant side throughout the match. But State couldn’t find the back of the net and lost a game that it could have, and should have, won. There is plenty of optimism surrounding the Pack. It has a dominant offense, a capable defense and a reliable goalkeeper. Wolfpack soccer has the right style about its play too. In full flow, State’s attack is thrilling to watch. But what’s most disappointing is that although

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