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Talley opening stalled by inspection setbacks
Jason Katz Staff Writer
The only thing standing between N.C. State students and the new dining locations at Talley Student Union is an elevator inspection. Tim Hogan, operations director of University Student Center in Campus Enterprises, said the University will still not give an exact date for the Union’s opening, but once inspectors give administrators the green light, it will not be long before students have access to its dining facilities. “We have been working with the contractors and the inspectors for final occupancy, and specifically, we’re waiting on our elevator cer-
tificate,” Hogan said. Jennifer Gilmore, director of marketing communication with Campus Enterprises, said she had hoped the inspections would be done by this point. “We’ve had a few exciting opportunities to make the announcement that have come and gone, including the [N.C. State Basketball Campout],” Gilmore said. Gilmore said that the current expected date of Talley’s opening has not been released yet because the University wanted to be sure that the given date was accurate. “Through unexpected inspection difficulties, several opportunities to open have been thwarted,” Gilmore said.
Gilmore said that the opening time all depends on the inspectors and getting everything cleared. “I just know that [the inspectors] have an extensive checklist, and every detail must be checked off before they will issue the certificate,” Gilmore said. “The same people who inspect the elevators also inspect the rides at the state fair, so they are very busy this time of year.” Hogan said the next elevator inspection is scheduled for this week and once that certification is in-hand, Campus Enterprises will make an announcement and Talley will open shortly after.
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Oliver Walsh, a freshman intending to go into engineering, draws a picture of a surfer on the graffiti wall in Caldwell Lounge Monday. N.C. Sate supported the National Day of Writing by hosting this event.
Students reveal deep secrets to each other Katherine Kehoe Staff Writer
Students anonymously shared their deepest secrets on sticky notes and spontaneously wrote letters to loved ones Monday at the National Day on Writing celebration in the Caldwell Lounge. The annual event reminded students that writing doesn’t always have to be structured, and that it can sometimes be fun and spontaneous, said Casie Fedukovich, an assistant English professor and associate director of the first year writing program.
“It’s this idea of taking writing outside of the classroom where it can feel like a chore,” Fedukovich said. “[The National Day of Writing] helps us get back to that place where we enjoyed sitting down with crayons and making up a story.” From noon until 3 p.m., event organizers converted the Caldwell lounge into a creative writing workshop with five different stations for students to compose and share their own work with others. Stations included knowledge drop boards, wall of apologies, a wall of graffiti,
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Hillsborough Street vendors offer exclusive deals to campus Rachel Coffman Correspondent JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIAN
Next year, the Hillsborough Street retail center will be demolished and construction on a 135-room Aloft Hotel will begin. The 1.3 acre plot of land sits next to North Residence Hall and across the street from the memorial Bell Tower.
Design announced for NCSU hotel Jacqueline Lee Correspondent
A sleek, modern design is coming to Hillsborough Street. N.C. State is partnering with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to build a 135-room hotel complex across from the Bell Tower. The hotel will feature the ultra-modern sleek design that is the hallmark of the Aloft brand. This will be the third Aloft hotel in the Triangle, and it will occupy the site between Enterprise Street and Maiden Lane. Currently, the location is owned by Schoolkids Records and Sadlack’s Heroes. Both busi-
nesses will relocate to other areas. The hotel ’s style will modernize the look of the current location. “They specialize in boutique hotels that are appropriate for this market,” said Jeff Murison, the executive director of the Hillsborough Street Community Service Corporation, “I think the addition of a hotel is a great new facility and asset on the street. This is a new revenue stream for our merchants, plus a beautiful facility and a great anchor tenant across the street from the University.” Murison said he is excited about the business the ho-
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Students looking for one more way to take advantage of the Wolfpack One Card can benefit from a new program on Hillsborough Street, which offers exclusive restaurant deals to Wolfpack One Debit MasterCard account holders. Howlin’ Good Deals, a program in which Hillsborough Street businesses promote monthly discounts for One Card Debit MasterCard users, launched this month. The Hillsborough Street Community Services Corporation partnered with Campus Enterprises to create the program. A relationship between Hillsborough Street vendors and N.C. State has been a work in progress, according to Jeff Murison, executive direc-
tor of Hillsborough Street Community Service Corporation, who has been working on the program. “It’s a topic that’s been talked about and researched for many years,” Murison said. “Fortunately, the University was able to develop a plan that was both legal and practical.” Private universities, such as Duke, allow students to use meal plan equivalences at off-campus restaurants. By law, N.C. State is prohibited from doing so, because it would require the University to act as a bank during money transfer, which is illegal for a public university. Although students can’t use meal plan equivalences off campus, Howlin’ Good Deals is a compromise because it helps vendors on Hillsborough Street while expanding the
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Friends of the Library reflects on past year’s events at the University Joseph Havey Staff Writer
The Friends of the Library, a group that supports N.C. State libraries, hosted its annual luncheon Monday, celebrating the opening of Hunt Library and other accomplishments of N.C. State Libraries. About 100 people attended the event at the McKimmon Center, and they enjoyed a lecture about using Twitter as a tool in academia. “What I picked up was very interesting,” said Beverly Armstrong, who has been involved with the Friends of the Library for about 30 years. “I was reading this morning
that email is beginning to be a thing of the past – that everyone is turning to phones and iPads and tablets.” The Frank B. Armstrong Memorial Book Sale is named after her late husband, who was a professor of biochemistry at N.C. State Hope Tate, President of the Friends of the Library Board of Directors, welcomed attendees to the luncheon and reviewed the previous year’s events. “It’s been a wonderful, wonderful year,” Tate said. “With the opening of Hunt Library, it has been an epic year.” Susan Nutter, vice provost
and director of libraries at N.C. State, then presented the 2013 NCSU Libraries Faculty Award. This year, for only the second time in 24 years since the award’s inception, there were two recipients: Joseph Hightower, a professor of applied ecology at N.C. State, and Suzanne KennedyStoskopf, a research professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences. “We know that [KennedyStoskopf ’s] students will be the most library-literate at the University because she has them in the Veterinary library from day one,” Nut-
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Blair Kelley, an associate professor of history at N.C. State, spoke about her “approach to being an academic on Twitter” at the Friends of the Library Fall Luncheon in the McKimmon Center Monday.
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In October 21’s story, “Camp out in PNC,” Technician incorrectly reported that the Campout was for Carolina tickets. Actually, students received six loyalty points that count toward all basketball season tickets. The Campout will continue to exist at the PNC Arena for at least the next three years.
Oct. 20 1:30 A.M. | DRUG VIOLATION Avent Ferry Complex Report of possible drug violation. One student was cited and referred for simple possession of marijuana and underage consumption. Seven students were referred for underage consumption.
In October 21’s story, “Camp out in PNC,” Technician incorrectly reported that the dance team performed at Campout. It was the Dance Marathon Morale team.
10:14 A.M. | FIRE ALARM Tower Hall Officer responded to alarm caused by cooking. 12:48 A.M. | HIT & RUN Trinity Lot Non-student reported vehicle had been struck while parked at this location. 2:47 A.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIOR Wood Hall Officer responded to student in emotional distress. Student was issued welfare referral. Housing and on-call counselor notified 3:10 A.M. | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Dan Allen Deck Report that three subjects had shattered rear window of vehicle. Officers were unable to locate suspects. 7:30 A.M. | SPECIAL EVENT Carter Finley Stadium NCSU PD provided police presence at NC State Fair.
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letter-writing café and a wall of secrets. Fedukovich said that the idea for the knowledge-drop station was borrowed from SPARKCon, an annual innovation festival in downtown Raleigh. At this station, writers shared whatever advice
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Wednesday, October 23, 12-1pm African American Cultural Center, Room 356, Witherspoon The Gregg Museum of Art & Design screens Welcome to Nollywood, a documentary that explores the Nigerian film industry, second only to India’s Bollywood in terms of the sheer number of films produced. Bag lunches welcomed! FREE
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Friday, October 25 at 7pm • Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Dr. Nathan Leaf conducts Vox Accalia, the Singing Statesmen, and the NC State Chorale in a variety of great choral works from around the world. Selections include Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb, Rachmoninoff 's Bogoroditse Devo, and Ēriks Ešenvalds' Northern Lights, as well as Scottish, Spanish, English and American folk songs.
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they had to offer on a public board. They also were able to read tips about different topics posted by other students. Hundreds of colleges and universities across the country observed the event. A projector in the Caldwell Lounge featured a stream of tweets from all over the country with the hashtag #write2connect. “It’s everyone’s opportunity to share a bit of expertise about something,” Fedukovich said. Students grabbed a cup of coffee and wrote letters at the letter-writing café, and N.C. State professors mailed the letters after the event. Participants used The Wall of Secrets to anonymously post their secrets. Kristie Ellison, a graduate student in English, said the secrets wall was her favorite part of the event. “It gives people a chance to say something they really want to say that they might not otherwise be willing to,” Ellison said. Maggie Zargo, a freshman
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Students share their secrets on sticky notes during the National Writing Day in Caldwell Lounge. Many students shared similar secrets and grouped their secrets together on the wall on Monday.
in international studies, said she often reads similar secret posting boards online from all over the world. “It’s cool to see what people have to say here in my own community,” Zargo said. Outside of the Caldwell Lounge, students contributed to the day by drawing chalk art on the Brickyard and vis-
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“Fingers crossed, we’re ready, hopefully within the next week or so, to open up,” Hogan said. According to the University Dining website, Talley is already partially open. “While renovations are ongoing through late 2014, several new dining options are now available,” is stated on the website. Hogan said that this was just an error that was made in the hustle to get everything ready for opening. “They pulled the trigger a little bit early on that,” Hogan said. Gilmore took the blame for that error, but said that the opening was so close that she didn’t see enough of a reason to take it down. She said she wanted students to be able to go ahead and see
iting a writing station at D.H. Hill Library. “Watching students create artistically is always fun,” Fedukovich said. “I think sometimes we get the sense that college classes can take the creativity and imagination out of us, like we can’t just create anymore because it has to follow a pattern.”
the dining and menu options available. “When we’re ready, the notice will come quickly and students will not have to wait very long — it could be hours,” Gilmore said. Gilmore said that Talley is a huge undertaking for N.C. State, and there are a lot of different pieces that must work together. “Everybody has the different role that they play,” Gilmore said. “It’s almost like playing in an orchestra if you think about it.” During the summer, Campus Enterprises and Capital Project Management, a group within the Facilities Division of N.C. State, agreed upon a mid-October opening date for the dining area of Talley. The goal was to reduce the workload of other dining facilities on campus, according to Hogan. “Technically, we’re opening the building early, not late,” Hogan said.
Ellison said celebrating writing is important because people use it throughout their lives. “[Writing] can be used to help you learn and think through your own thoughts, and it can be used across disciplines,” Ellison said. “Writing really is a part of everything.”
Hogan said that this is a very exciting time for the University. “We’re really looking forward to getting ourselves open and letting the students experience what we’ve seen in the making for a couple of years,” Hogan said. For this reason, the furniture is already in the building, the website is set up, and it could be just a matter of hours before Talley is open, according to Gilmore. “Once [the inspectors] tell us, and we get everything set, we’re not going to make anybody wait any longer than they have to,” Gilmore said. Gilmore said that although she is excited to get it open, the delays haven’t been all bad. “It’s been advantageous to have a little time to train and fine-tune the restaurants,” Gilmore said.
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N.C. State students travel to protest in Pittsburgh Joseph Havey Staff Writer
Twenty-four N.C. State students protested dirty energy this weekend, along with about 7,000 other college students from across the United States. The protest was only a small part of Power Shift 2013, an environmental conference, which took place in Pittsburgh. The four-day conference i ncluded pa nel d iscussions, political organizing training and concerts. Various speakers presented about the dangers of fracking and environmentally detrimental coal mining practices. Jason Endries, a junior in meteorology, said he went to Power Shift because he wanted to be around other people that thought the same way he did. “The weekend was really open-ended,” Endries said. “It was basically a makeyour-own weekend. There were breakout sessions and panels that you could go to — three each day — and they were on different topics.” This is the first year that Power Shift has not taken place in Washington, D.C. Endries said the organizers moved the event to Pittsburgh to highlight fracking practices in Pennsylvania. Claudio Kriegel, a senior in psychology, said he attended
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ter said. Lauren Kirkpatrick, director of communication for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, introduced the speaker for the event: Blair Kelley, an associate professor of history. Kirkpatrick said that Kelley, who has close to 16,000 followers, uses Twitter to challenge people to think critically and to understand history. “Professors are often accused of living in an ivory tower,” Kirkpatrick said. “Well, the only tower you’ll find Dr. Kelley near is a cell tower.” Kelley, who joined Twitter four years ago to prove to a friend the social network had nothing to offer, said Twitter is shaping news and shaping political campaigns, but it’s often dismissed in academia. She talked about her own experience writing and marketing a book through the social network. She said that it was a place for collaboration and engagement and not a billboard. “It’s forced me to have to explain my scholarship across lines I didn’t expect,” Kelley said. “It’s been an amazing process. It’s allowed me to learn how to communicate better with my students and
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tel will bring to Hillsborough Street. The project is moving smoothly. “It is another step forward for the street as we continue to see it being redeveloped and becoming a real destination in Raleigh,” Murison said. According to Murison, the building will feature modern, glass contemporary design combined with traditional brick to link the Hillsborough Street brand with that
Power Shift so he could be in a place with other active agents in the environmental movement. “It was a really great opportunity to get into contact with people that … have a lot of information and skills to transfer to people like us who are learning about how we can influence the way we user energy and the way that we structure our institutions,” Kriegel said. Jason Hull, a senior in agricultural business management, said the protest began with speeches from various activists who attempted to motivate the crowd. The group then marched across one of the major bridges in downtown Pittsburgh, before running into a separate protest. “One of the cool and interesting things is they had an anti-protest in the water as well as on the bridge,” Hull aid. “It was really interesting to hear their perspective on the environmental movement.” Hull said this “anti-protest” highlighted the benefits of the coal industry. These anti-protesters said coal was a major part of their livelihoods and the Pittsburgh job economy. Ryan Kilgore, a sophomore in first year engineering, said he most enjoyed the exposure to the people who live in the communities affected by
given me a chance to mentor people I otherwise wouldn’t be able to.” Kelley said Twitter users in academia should share the articles they are reading, books they are working on, and photos. Twitter content should be rich, she said, before updating her browser for the audience to demonstrate the fast nature of Twitter feeds. “The tweets are always moving, which is why I like it,” Kelley said. Kelley said she’s been able to maintain connections with students after they finish her class through Twitter, and some students have even signed up to take her class after following her online. “I see more and more professors who are joining Twitter,” Kelley said. “I think they realize it’s a great way to connect with one another, a great way to reach out to students. I see a breakthrough happening.” Leia Droll, director of Friends of the Library, said her group approached Kelley because of the innovative way she uses social media to reach students. “The library is a spot on campus where every student has access to new technology, and we always want to be on the cutting-edge of what’s happening,” Droll said. “We were so excited to find Dr. Kelley because she’s using
of the University. Ralph Recchie, the N.C. State Director of Real Estate, said the hotel’s second floor will feature a lobby with a bar and balcony that overlooks the Bell Tower. Demolition of the building may start as soon as February or March, according to Recchie. Starwood plans to open the hotel no later than August 2015. “Having a boutique hotel on Hillsborough sounds really exciting and will definitely draw a lot of attention to our town,” said Andrea O’Connell, a freshman in el-
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Jason Hull, a senior in agriculture business management, and Jaclyn Mills, a junior in plant and soil science, walked the streets of downtown Pittsburgh, Monday to protest dirty energy practices. The protest ended the 2013 Power Shift conference, which included presentations, panels and concerts. Twenty-four students from N.C. State attended this year.
fracking practices. At one of the panels, Kilgore said a presenter talked about his time living in Houston. Every day, the man commuted work, and he was forced to turn off his air conditioning because the outside pollution made him physically sick. “He went into the community … and he worked in that community to improve air quality,” Kilgore said. “That was really inspiring for me to hear.”
these new technologies in an inspiring way and we think that gels really well with the lib rary’s mission.” Much of Kelley’s audience consisted of retired faculty or other older members that had never used Twitter or even seen a Twitter homepage. Kelley said it made her nervous speaking to such a crowd. “Most times I talk about history, so I don’t really talk about anything that’s happened in recent times,” Kelley said. “It was a fun exercise. I talk about Twitter with my students and with my friends all the time, so it was good to formalize my thoughts and figure out what I’ve learned from social media.” Armstrong said that even though she’d never used Twitter, she enjoyed the talk. “I try to get in the 21st century, but sometimes I find me back in the 19th,” Armstrong said. “It’s a challenge, and I can see why my age group — that they don’t want to be bothered.” Armstrong said she does use email and Facebook, mostly to keep up with family events. “Sometimes when everybody’s sitting in the same room, they’re all sitting with a laptop or a tablet,” Armstrong said. “I don’t know if they’re talking to each other or to someone else.”
Endries attended a similar panel called “Real Stories of Coal in Appalachia.” “It was real people just telling their stories – awful stories about top removal,” Endries said. Top removal is short for mountaintop removal mining, a form of surface mining that involves the mining of the summit or summit ridge of a mountain. A study from the University of South Carolina, published in 2008, found
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versatility of the Wolfpack One Card for students, according to N.C. State Campus Enterprises’ marketing communication director Jennifer Gilmore. “It’s important that we have a strong Hillsborough Street,” Gilmore said. “With the new program, students have an incentive to eat on Hillsborough and receive a discount, making the One Card more valuable to students, parents and faculty.” Murison said that merchants on Hillsborough Street are excited to engage with the faculty and students at N.C. State. “It’s a great opportunity to build a relationship and connect with the faculty and students,” Murison said. “In
that MTR has serious environmental impacts. Water resources are filled with dirt and pollutant air becomes severely contaminated by coal dust, according to the study. Reagan Howard, a junior in chemical engineering, said the group of N.C. State students was feeling inspired after the trip back to North Carolina. “We’ve been exposed to different ideas regarding different causes,” Howard said.
the near future, as the program develops and matures, additional businesses are expected to join in.” So far, six businesses on Hillsborough have committed to offering discounts through the program: Two Guys Pizza, The Alley, Pita Pit, Freshberry, Coffee Haven and Jersey Mike’s. “We look forward to serving customers for years to come, and the new student card will help us reach more people,” Matt Domanski, manager at Jersey Mike’s, said in a press release about the program. “In addition, we will be able to share specials to the great folks at N.C. State.” Restaurants participating in the program could offer a monthly special deal for One Card users. Students and faculty can learn more from the Live it
“If we work together we can make a bigger impact at N.C. State and in our communities across the country.” Endires said N.C. State should get ready for some beneficial changes. “All of the 24 students that went got really inspired, and we’re coming back with a lot of energy to put some changes into our campus,” Endries said.
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Up Hillsborough Street Facebook page, the Wolfpack One Card Facebook page or the One Card we bsite. Students who don’t have their One Card registered with Debit MasterCard but wish to take advantage of the Howlin’ Good Deals program can register their cards on the One Card website at onecard. ncsu.edu/mastercard.
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ementary education. The hotel will feature art from Thomas Sayre, creator of the Shimmer Wall at the Raleigh Convention Center. Murison said Sayre was chosen because his work is wellregarded in Raleigh. “I think it would be a very cool option for students from other colleges to stay at when they visit friends at State,” said Erin Jones, a junior in criminology. “I question whether adults would want to stay right next to a college campus, but the new shopping sounds like a great idea.”
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s an institution that prides itself in its research, which is often expensive, N.C. State relies heavily on funding from the state and the federal government. The University receives 77 percent of all its research funding from the federal government. However, due to the sequester and recent budget cuts, N.C. State researchers, like those at many other universities, are becoming increasingly dependent on corporate funding and grants from less than reputable sources. This doesn’t sit well with the editorial board of the Technician. The news of the National Security Agency’s $60.75 million research grant to N.C. State may have come as welcome news to some people as it arrived on the heels of the $138 million cut to the UNC-System, approved by the state legislature in July, but this grant doesn’t come free of consequence. Our university is now associated with the NSA, the agency Edward Snowden revealed to be unjustly spying on American civilians. But does the fact that the NSA’s grant is three times larger than any previous N.C.
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. State research grant make our association with the agency acceptable? This is not the first time N.C. State has partnered with a not-so-benevolent company. In 2011, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences accepted a $500,000 grant from Monsanto Company “to train the next generation of plant breeding professionals,” according to a CALS press release. But do we really want a company, whose pesticides have been linked to health problems and whose patented seeds have caused problems for farmers, training our students? N.C. State has had an even stronger relationship with Big Tobacco. Our $2.3 million Reynolds Coliseum was named for William Neal Reynolds, one of the five brothers who helped establish the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in Winston-Salem. The University has also accepted grants from Liggett, Philip Morris, Brown & Williamson, Vector Tobacco, BT Tobacco and
Alternative Cigarettes, Inc. Chancellor Randy Woodson has made it evident that his main priority is increasing the University’s endowment. But where do we draw the line between making ethical decisions and making budget-conscious ones? In other words, what companies have such poor reputations that we would refuse to accept their money? Though we would like to trust that the administration of N.C. State will make decisions regarding which corporations or organizations it takes money from based on its ethical responsibility to the scientific community and its students, there are no clear lines that clarify what amount of money is enough to make compromising the integrity of the University a fiscally responsible decision. More than just affecting the reputation of the University, privately funded research may also impact the validity of the research. When companies fund independent research, they
are highly unlikely to publish results that do anything to defame the company. And if they do publish the study, its data might be manipulated — Philip Morris manipulated a study of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in 2001 to create the impression that smoking around children does not increase the risk for SIDS. Our reliance on outside funding is a necessary evil, but it’s an evil nonetheless. Ideally, we wouldn’t have to rely on private companies for any funding. This, unfortunately, isn’t the case, and for that reason, we must remain wary of which companies to associate ourselves with. And because we — the students — don’t contribute to these decisions, we must monitor who our school aligns itself with and hold our administration accountable. The interests at stake here are ultimately those of the students — even if that means passing up a chance to grow the endowment. As the cliché goes, beggars can’t be choosers. But is it not a sign that our priorities are in the wrong place when that the nation’s leading institutions of scientific research are forced into this position?
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ex t week, t he amount of trash talking that normally ensues between N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill students will increase tenfold. Students participate in trash talking because they feel the need to protect their “goodness.” A person’s goodness is anything that has meaning in one’s l i fe , Tyler Gobin according to Staff Columnist Soren Palmer, an English professor at N.C. State. This university means something to the students who attend it, but the University can’t stand up for itself. For this reason, students instinctually protect the University and anything else that they consider to be their goodness. Well, it’s time I straighten out some of the myths about CrossFit, a part of my goodness. The goal of CrossFit is to forge all-inclusive fitness through a combination of gymnastics, Olympic lifting, aerobic exercise and bodyweight exercises, according to CrossFit, Inc. By aiming to increase cardio-respiratory endurance, flexibility and muscular strength any two days in a CrossFit gym are different. “In sum, our specialty is not specializing,” CrossFit
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said on its website. CrossFit is referred to as a fitness trend, but it’s about time it loses the trend title because it hasn’t lost any momentum since entering the market for exercising options. The number of CrossFit affiliated gyms grew 43 percent from 2011 to 2012 according to KSL, a Utah news broadcasting agency. There were only 18 CrossFit affiliated gyms in the United States in 2005, and it has grown to more than 7,000, according to CrossFit, Inc. Granted, 43 percent growth is hard to sustain. But here we are, eight years later, and its popularity is still growing. CrossFit is here to stay and will continue to attract a unique breed of members. It has incredible benefits, but it only seems to make it in the news for its risks and costs. In the past month, Consumer Reports, Huffington Post, CNN and ABC have all featured articles regarding the risks. Most recently, KFVS, a Missouribased news broadcasting company, featured CrossFit in a story on Oct.14. The condition more stories refer to is Rhabdomyolysis. It occurs when skeletal muscle breaks down and sends products of damaged muscle cells into the bloodstream, which leads to kidney failure. Though it has occurred with CrossFit members, the condition is not unique to CrossFit. Marathon
and ultra-marathon runners are commonly diagnosed with cases of Rhabdomyolysis, along with other athletes returning to fall conditioning training. Another misconception is the public’s association of CrossFit with injury. There is a learning curve with every fitness routine and nothing about CrossFit makes it unique to abuse. If someone begins CrossFit too quickly, injury will likely ensue, but this is true with starting any exercise regimen too fast. And though there are a great number of benefits associated with CrossFit, we commonly emphasize the bad things before ever arriving at the good things. Its benefits clearly exceed its costs, but to reap them people have to jump in and stop sitting on the sidelines. It may be hard to view what makes the exercise lifestyle so beneficial from the outside, but take a leap and you’ll soon find out. Each CrossFit gym is unique, but all gyms encou rage c a ma rader ie amongst their members and teach discipline and perseverance. No one exercising regimen is perfect for everyone, and don’t assume CrossFit is all bad based solely on its repeated bad publicity. People just have a tendency to emphasize the costs of something new before noticing the benefits.
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he Roma are a people often ridiculed and referenced in legend. Most people have little-to-no experience with these people beyond knowing them as g y psie s or Justine travelers. In Schnitzler realit y, the Guest Columnist Roma are a people who have faced hundreds of years of persecution from nearly every government in Europe and the Middle East. Most recently, a Roma settlement in Greece is under fire for the supposed kidnapping of a young girl named Maria. However, the case isn’t clear cut. BBC News reported that Maria was discovered during a raid on the settlement. The Greek government was searching for illegal weapons and drugs. During a search of a personal home, an investigator noticed a blond-haired child among other children with brown hair. This alone prompted the investigator to accuse the parents of the home of kidnapping, arguing the child looked nothing like them or their other chil-
dren. This indeed proved to be true. DNA testing revealed that the girl was not biologically related to the parents raising her. How did she arrive in a Roma settlement? The parents claimed that the little girl, named Maria, was given to them by a poor mother who could not afford to raise her. From birth until now, Maria has been raised in the Roma community. Other members of the community have stepped up in defense of the adoptive parents, claiming she was cared for as one of their own. Following Maria’s removal from the camp, there has been much debate as to what the appropriate course of action is. The parents’ story may very well be correct — and there may be no way to find the girl’s birth mother. Furthermore, DNA testing on other children living in the settlement has revealed other children are not biologically related to the parents with whom they make their home. This has revealed serious cracks in Greece’s system of child registration,
which allows anyone to register a child as his or her own, granted they are backed by two witnesses. All of the legal jargon doesn’t account for the fact that Maria is now separated from the only parents she has ever known. While human trafficking is always a concern, it doesn’t seem to be at play in this investigation. Ultimately, this case brings to light questions about the Roma community that most do not have answers to — and demonstrates the plight of the Roma people in Europe. Almost 80 percent of the 300,000 Roma people who live outside of Athens, Greece are illiterate. Putting such an impoverished and traditionally shunned group of people at the center of a massive legal investigation is forcing Europe to re-evaluate the deep cultural divide between the Roma and the rest of the continent. For now, it may very well be wiser to allow Maria to go home to her parents, at least until we learn more information.
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Student design raises asthma awareness Taylor Quinn and Nikki Stoudt Staff Writer & Deputy Features Editor
In the United States, about 25 million people have asthma, or one out of every 12 people. The disease affects infants, school children, young adults and seniors, and the rate of diagnosis is rapidly growing. So when James Dieffenderfer, a graduate student in biomedica l engineering, Mike Brown, a graduate student in industrial design, and Leigh Johnson, a corporate digital strategy coordinator for Quintiles and an N.C. State alumna, learned about NASA Tech Briefs magazine’s “Create the Future” design contest, they knew they had their work cut out for them. The trio developed VitalFlo, a wireless asthmamonitoring device, which offers those suffering from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease an easy and cost-effective way to test their breathing patterns. “VitalFlo is a low-cost peak f low meter and spirometer that can be used for respiratory therapy in general,” Dieffenderfer said. “It’s wireless, so users can connect it with their smartphones or iPhones really easily.” The team first met last fall in a product innovation lab, which allows students from various disciplines to come together to solve day-to-day problems. “The product innovation lab pulled together engi-
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James Dieffenderfer, a graduate student in biomedical engineering, designed the inner workings of VitalFlo, an asthma-monitoring device that can be used in cooperation with smartphones and iPhones.
neering students, MBA students and industrial design students, and we were put in random groups together,” Johnson said. “We were given a general problem [to solve] and we came up with [VitalFlo] after a semester of working on it.” T he idea for Vita lFlo stemmed from a combination of the class assignment and the perceived need — fixing an everyday problem — and the group’s f low of potential solutions began. “We had a choice of which problem we wanted to tackle and asthma is something that affects a huge portion of people,” Dieffenderfer said. “So having something that makes a physician’s life easier or a patient’s life easier would affect a huge range of people.”
While the contest is completely independent of the University, the team has been able to keep close contact with and receive support from N.C. State. “We’re sponsored through ASSIST, the engineering research center at N.C. State,” Brown said. “That’s really helped because we have been able to apply for a lot of contests through there.” Though the product is still being finalized, the team spent a semester getting VitalFlo into contest-ready condition. “The class was one semester, which included going through the problems and picking one and figuring out the solution we wanted to go with,” Johnson said.
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PhysTEC encourages students to explore physics education Hassan DuRant Staff Writer
Despite federal legislation mandating highly qualified teachers in every classroom, United States school districts confirm that there is a considerable shortage of physics teachers every year — a much larger deficit than any other science discipline. “We have a shortage of teachers — and it’s a little worse of a problem for North Carolina,” David Haase, a professor of physics, said. “A lower percentage of students here take high school physics than compared with other states. We know there are a lot of high schools here that don’t even teach physics — rural schools especially.” New physics teachers are entering school systems at a staggeringly slow rate. According to Haase, N.C. State produces one qualified physics teacher every two years on average. “We’d be just delighted if we got up to two per year,” Haase said. In 2001, an organization of physicists called the American Physical Society (APS) created a program called PhysTEC to try and correct this fast-growing problem. PhysTEC, which stands for the Physics Teacher Education Coalition, is a project dedicated to improving and promoting the education of future physicists and physical science teachers. This past summer, PhysTEC gave the physics department a grant to create a program to get university students interested in pursuing a career in physics education. “The point of the program is to make sure students know
about high school teaching as a career,” Haase said. “We want to encourage them — and to break barriers between physics and education departments while we’re at it.” The program, which unites the physics department with the STEM education department, will take undergraduate students and give them a crash-course in physics education. This semester, five undergraduate students were selected to join the program as “learning assistants.” There are two main components in the program. First is a PY 205 recitation class. Each learning assistant is paired with a graduate student, and together they co-lead the recitation class.
These learning assistants must also take a course titled Introduction to Physics Teaching. The course is taught by Haase and Mary Louise Bellamy of the University’s STEM education program. The class talks about a variety of topics that intersect physics and education. Every Tuesday afternoon, the students learn how to work out physics problems so they’re easier to understand, how to accommodate different learning styles, and how to conduct physics demonstrations among other subjects. “We know that not everyone will become a physics teacher,” Haase said. “But we think if we introduce enough of them to the idea, some of them will.”
Adrienne Cage, a senior in physics, never wanted to teach. She hadn’t even considered the idea until last year, when she worked in the physics demonstration room in the Physics Department. Cage set up demonstrations for professors during lectures, but she would also teach younger students about physics concepts through demonstration. “I got to teach physics on a really elementary level — and part of that really appealed to me,” Cage said. “I love seeing the light bulbs turn on when I teach someone something new.” Cage is one of the five undergraduate students currently enrolled in the Learning Assistant program, and so
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far she said she enjoys it. “I’ve even started noticing things that only professors seem to care about,” Cage said. “Like people talking in the back of the room? It gets really distracting sometimes. I feel like I respect professors a whole lot more now.” Cage isn’t quite certain what path she’ll choose to follow after graduation, but after becoming a learning assistant, she says a career in physics education is definitely an option. “If you know you want to be a teacher, this is a great opportunity,” Cage said. “If you don’t know, it’s still a great experience.” You don’t have to be a physics major to apply to the program — in fact, Cage is
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Mipso’s sophomore album reflects maturity heagline heagline heagline Dark Holler Pop Mipso Robust Records
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There’s no doubting the rich history of North Carolina’s music scene, but one of the joys of following the Raleigh scene is most certainly watching how t he music, and t hose t hat a re making it, evolve throughou t t h e years. Chapel Hill’s M ipso is a perfect example of t h i s — they began as a ragtag group of students f rom t he University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill making loosely folkoriented music. However, with the release of their second fulllength album, “Dark Hol ler Pop,” the band seems to have found its voice — crafting an a lbum t hat stands comfort-
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“At the end, we had a proposal for final products — a plan we wanted to use with the product.” According to Johnson, each team member played a vital role in the production and outcome of the design and execution process. “I’m an MBA, so I headed our customer research and worked on our business, f inancial and marketing
ably between contemporary folk and their traditional bluegrass roots. The band enlists in the help of some of North Carolina’s finest musicians on “Dark Holler Pop,” with Mandolin Orange’s A ndrew Marlin serving as the album’s producer. The Raleigh bluegrass standout also lends his talents on the mandolin, along with artists including Megafaun’s Phil Cook, Chat ham County Line and Town Mountain. While these artists have an influence on t he a lbu m’s sound, t he core of these songs display the refined acoustic brilliance of Mipso’s songwriting team. Each track has its own clear voice, displaying one of the group’s three songwriters’ powerful senses of self. Whether it is Joseph Terrell’s vivid storytelling on tracks such as “Louise,” or bassist Wood Robinson’s jazz background showing through the dynamic song structures, every member of the band provides a key aspect to this promising act. Poignant lyricism and add ic t ive melod ies may drive these songs, but there are plenty of subtle nuances that make “Dark Holler Pop” t h e brilliant piece of work it is.
“Dark Holler Pop” contains heav y subject matter, but it’s conveyed in an earnest light that makes it all a bit more palatable. Any other artist tackling a song like “When I’m Gone,” which delves into the emotional highs and lows of life and death, would struggle to produce anything other t han a hear t w renching tear jerker. However, Mipso turns it into a bright folk ballad that bounces along with a sincere desire for loved ones to find the joy in the world after the narrator’s passing. But for all the dark ly tinged acoustic pop songs on this album, there are equal counterparts that feel like headstrong anthems of redemption, young love and coming of age. “Louise” tells the tale of a young farming couple that sets out with nothing but a tank of gas and a dream after their fa r m goes sout h, whi le “Rocking Chair Blues” takes a contemplative look at life from the front porch of a Southern home. “Dark Holler Pop” is strongly rooted in Southern tradition, but it’s also an album that treads upon exc it i ng new f ront iers. Mipso used to be a bit of a genre-less act and was more aptly described as acoustic pop than anything else. But after years of honing their craft, the trio has become an empowered string band that combines traditional Southern music with popdriven folk that makes for an infectious new sound. Ultimately the album feels like a refreshing addition to not only the Triangle music scene, but also for the
plans,” Johnson said. Brown took the lead on the body design portion of the project, using his artistic ability to create a competitive product. “I headed the competitor research and product design standpoint,” Brown said. “I made charts of all the similar products and figured out where our product would fall in relation to them.” Dieffenderfer said he was put in charge of VitalFlo’s internal design, a role he has continued since the contest concluded.
“I did the guts of the device,” Dieffenderfer said. “I was in charge of designing the program, the hardware and the circuits that bring everything together. As we continue to develop the device, I’m still trying to figure out how it can be better.” Johnson said VitalFlo’s upward momentum has continued since the announcement of the contest winners. “We ended up doing an independent study and got a provisional patent, so we
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national scene that they’re sure to make a dent in after the release of this excellent album. The group’s music has already taken them to Japan and China to showcase their fantastic brand of bluegrass and, as more and more ears are exposed to the sweet sounds of Mipso, the public is sure to fall in love. Mipso has gone from your standard group of college students with a wide-eyed desire to make it in music to a fully committed and fully realized group of excellent musicians with a knack for powerful storytelling.
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could have a better idea of if our device was accurate and how it compared to other products in the same market,” Johnson said. “We’re still working on it — it has been more than a year since we started.” According to Brown, what started as a class project has gained more attention and potential than the team could have hoped. “We’ve kind of gotten further than any of us expected us to go,” Brown said. “This competition opened up a lot of doors for us. Right
now, we’re really looking for someone to pick us up financially and help us continue [our research].” Johnson said the team is working on partnering with larger, more recognizable healthcare companies, and wants to utilize the bigger names to get VitalFlo into a more competitive market. According to Dieffenderfer, he hopes the future will bring more improvements to the product, including a self-sustaining device that will eliminate the need for a battery, decreasing con-
sumer costs. “We found this out after the fact that blowing into the device creates a lot of energy that you could store in some capacit y in the device for another time,” Dieffenderfer said. “Our device is really low power — we designed it so it had a long battery life. Potentially we’re looking at having a device that has no battery and runs itself, but still connects to your phone and makes an asthmatic’s life a lot easier.”
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No. 2 Seminoles and No. 7 Canes lead ACC STORY BY ZACK TANNER ATLANTIC Florida State (6-0, 4-0) – If there was any question about who was the best team in the ACC, the Seminoles answered the doubt with a statement win at Clemson. Freshman quarterback Jameis Winston solidified himself as a top Heisman Trophy candidate, as Florida State leaped to second in the BCS standings. Clemson (6-1, 4-1) – The Tigers were shocked at home Saturday night with a 5114 loss to division rival Florida State. Clemson fumbled the ball on two of its first three drives, which gave the Seminoles a 21-0 lead in the first, and the lead only grew from there. Despite the loss, the Tigers only fell to No. 9 in the BCS rankings and will look to rebound against Maryland on Saturday. Boston College (3-3, 1-2) – Coming off a bye week, the Eagles look to bring their conference record back to .500 against UNC-Chapel Hill. Close losses to Florida State and Clemson can be forgiven, but Boston College will be truly tested against No. 14 Virginia Tech on Nov. 2. Wake Forest (4-3, 2-2) – The Demon Deacons opened eyes with an impressive win against conference foe Maryland on Satur-
day. No. 7 Miami will test the Deacons on Saturday in Miami. Maryland (5-2, 1-2) – After being excused for a blowout loss to Florida State and a onepoint win against Virginia, the Terrapins proved that the hype was not real with a 24-point loss to Wake Forest. The road ahead doesn’t look any easier for Maryland, as they travel to Clemson on Saturday. Syracuse (3-4, 1-2) – After a dominant rushing performance at N.C. State, the Orange was held to 75 yards rushing and zero points against a revitalized Georgia Tech team. Syracuse has a bye ahead to reflect on what went wrong before hosting Wake Forest on Nov. 2, which will be a big game for both teams in terms of bowl eligibility. N.C. State (3-3, 0-3) – This week’s bye will likely do wonders for the injury-plagued Wolfpack. Head football coach Dave Doeren named graduate student quarterback Brandon Mitchell as the starter for Saturday’s game, and others are likely to be eligible to suit up as well. Unfortunately for NCSU, its next matchup is against the second ranked team in the nation: Florida State.
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• Four days until football takes on No. 2 ranked Florida State in Tallahassee.
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Martinez shines for Pack after transfer Andrew Schuett Deputy Sports Editor
Dereck Whittenburg @DWhittNCstate One thing i will say is i will never stop playing basketball or competing no matter what age i am! #WorkHard #Compete
Jordan Vandenberg @jpv14wolfpack Today’s weather is like chewing five gum... Warm sun with a coolin breeze
TJ Warren @T24Warren Great turnout for Primetime with the #pack! Let the season begin
QUOTE OF THE DAY “I want to leave my mark here ... I want people to remember me.” Alex Martinez Senior midfielder
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Senior midf ielder Alex Martinez led the N.C. State men’s soccer team in goals and assists last season, and he currently leads the team in assists this year. But were it not for a failed fitness test, Martinez might have never played for the Pack. Martinez, who transferred to N.C. State from High Point University, finished his sophomore season as the Panthers’ leading goal scorer. But his inability to pass a routine fitness test after the season led to his dismissal from the program. “That was a pretty hard time for me,” Martinez said. “But when I came to State, the trainers did a bunch of tests on me and found out that I was anemic, and I basically had no iron in my body.” Common symptoms of anemia include rapid energy loss during exercise and fatiguing easily, as well as shortness of breath and headaches. “That’s the big reason why I couldn’t pass the fitness test,” Martinez said. “I would’ve never found that out if I didn’t come to State, so it was kind of a blessing.”
Martinez said he hasn’t looked back since his transfer, becoming the first player under third-year head coach Kelly Findley to earn first team All-ACC honors. College Soccer News also recognized him as a 2013 preseason second team All-American. Martinez, who is an active member of Athletes in Action, uses his faith to keep soccer and his accolades in perspective. “Since I was nine, I’ve always gone to church,” Martinez said. “But I wasn’t a truly faithful person until I came to State. I started getting closer and closer to my faith and through AIA, we started a Bible study with the team.” “I used to think that soccer was everything, but I’ve come to realize that soccer is a big part and also a really small part of my life. My life continues on even without soccer.” Martinez, who lived in Uruguay until he was nine years old, said his favorite player is Barcelona forward Lionel Messi, along with Liverpool forward and fellow Uruguayan Luis Suarez. Like Suarez, Martinez is known for his tenacity on the field, something that his coach says is essential
to success. “He’s a great competitor,” Findley said. “I think Alex has a great desire to win and that comes out in his passion. As a coach, you want all of your players to have the kind of passion that Alex has for the game.” Martinez’s attacking versatility has added another dimension to the Wolfpack’s offense. Before coming to State, Martinez played primarily as a central attacking midfielder, but Findley has played the senior exclusively as a winger since arriving at State. Findley said that Martinez’s skill set allows him to be one of State’s most important attacking pieces. “He’s a great one-on-one player,” Findley said. “Isolating him on the flank and letting him take on guys one-onone really changes what we’re able to do tactically.” Martinez said that he wants N.C. State fans to remember him after his playing days are over. “I want to leave my mark here,” Martinez said. “State is such a big school, and it really supports soccer, so I want people to remember me here.”
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Senior midfielder Alex Martinez drives past a defender toward the goal during the conference-opening soccer match against new ACC member Pittsburgh at Dail Soccer Field Sept. 6. The Wolfpack defeated the Panthers 1-0 in overtime.
NFL Roundup COMPILED BY LUKE NADKARNI
Player of the week
Honorable mentions
Russell Wilson
Philip Rivers
Quarterback, Seattle Seahawks:
Quarterback, San Diego Chargers: 22-of-26 for 285 yards and one TD
23-of-31 for 235 yards and three TDs Wilson led the Seahawks to a 34-22 win against the Arizona Cardinals last Thursday night, completing 18-of-29 passes for 235 yards and three scores. He also rushed eight times for 29 yards and posted a season-high quarterback rating of 122.1.
Rivers completed 22-of-26 passes for 285 yards and a touchdown on Sunday, leading his team to a 24-6 victory over the winless Jacksonville Jaguars. Rivers recorded his 15th touchdown of the season. SOURCE: KEITH ALLISON
SOURCE: MARK RUNYON/PRO FOOTBALL SCHEDULES
The best of the rest MIKE GLENNON: QUARTERBACK, TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS • Glennon made his third NFL start for the Bucs, completing 26-of-44 passes for 256 yards and two touchdowns in a 31-23 loss against the Atlanta Falcons. His quarterback rating of 90.7 was his highest so far this season.
MARIO WILLIAMS: DEFENSIVE END, BUFFALO BILLS • Williams had three tackles, two sacks and forced a fumble in a 23-21 win against division rival Miami Dolphins. He now has 10 sacks on the season, which ranks second in the NFL.
STEPHEN TULLOCH: LINEBACKER, DETROIT LIONS • Tulloch recorded 12 tackles, nine solo, in a loss to the Cincinnati Bengals at home. Tulloch has not missed a game in his eight-year career, and his 119 consecutive games played is second among active linebackers.
Earl Wolff Safety, Philadelphia Eagles: five tackles and one interception Wolff recorded his first career NFL interception on Sunday in a 17-3 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. He also registered five tackles on the afternoon. ARCHIVE/TECHNICIAN