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Museum turns to crowd funding Katherine Kehoe Staff Writer
More than 30 students demonstrated against the NSA’s presence on campus Monday at the Bell Tower.
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SDS protests NSA research lab, holds encryption clinic Ravi Chittilla Staff Writer
A group of N.C. State students protested the University’s August announcement that the National Security Agency is open a research lab on Centennial Campus. NCSU Students for Democratic Society led a Cryptoparty Monday to teach
attendees about protecting themselves from governmental surveillance and show their frustration with recent revelations about the NSA’s data collection methods. The event culminated in an artistic demonstration at the Bell Tower. Cryptoparty, a grassroots, global initiative introduces basic Internet techniques to the general public, teaching them how to encrypt their personal tech-
nologies from being read by surveillance. More than 30 people attended the workshop and learned how to encrypt their web browsers, cellphones and hard drives from privacy invasion. Cryptoparty started in 2012 on a Twitter thread between Australian privacy advocate @Asher_Wolf and computer
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The North Carolina Museum of History is raising money through unconventional methods to fund new exhibits. The N.C. Museum of History chose crowd funding instead of traditional fundraising to help raise $25,000 for an upcoming exhibit, which is set to open November of next year. Crowd funding differs from traditional fundraising in that anyone can donate to the project in small increments as opposed to large thousand-dollar chunks. The museum used Indiegogo. com to fund “Starring North Carolina,” which will be a yearlong exhibit celebrating filmmaking in North Carolina. According to Camil le Hunt, the museum’s project manager, the museum chose to use the crowd funding website in an effort to engage donors in a new way. Hunt said that turning to Internet crowd funding was partially inspired by a wildly successful campaign in New York, which raised more than
$1.7 million for a museum dedicated to Nikola Tesla. “After seeing the success of the campaign to fund a Tesla museum, I thought we should definitely give it a try,” Hunt said. Hunt said that most of the funds the museum receives from the state go toward employee salaries, insurance costs and building expenses. Hunt also said Funding for new exhibits must come from private contributions. As an incentive to give to the project, the museum offers perks to crowd funding donors based on the amount contributed. For example, a donor who gives $36 gets a “Starring North Carolina!” T-Shirt as a reward for contributing. Hunt said one of the strengths of this kind of campaign is that it creates a sense of belonging among contributors, and it gets them excited about donating in a new and trendy way. “Not everyone can afford to be a high-level sponsor and crowd funding gives us all a chance to pitch in,” Hunt said. “Trends in giving
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Albright: U.S.-China relations key for solving global issues Joseph Havey Deputy News Editor
Several students and scholars discussed China’s role in the world Monday, considering whether the country is moving toward a bilateral partnership with the United States. This new relationship would mean both countries will stand on equal international footing.
The National Committee on United States – China Relations hosted a China Town Hall in conjunction with 66 other locations worldwide. N.C. State live streamed the event to students and faculty. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave audiences a lecture about how current Americans and Chinese officials see the relationship between the two coun-
tries. Albright lectured about almost every hot topic, from the Middle East to cyber spying to air pollution in Beijing. “This relationship is the most important bilateral relationship in this century,” Albright said. “A lot of people are wondering if the United States and China work together to solve world problems.” Albright said her relation-
ship with China began in mid-1970s, in Washington, where she served on President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Staff. She then referenced President Nixon’s attempts to strengthen the ties between the two countries in his 1972 visit, which was, at the time, the first visit of an American president to the foreign country in more than 25 years.
“Since then, all administrations since Nixon have sought to maintain stable relationships with China,” Albright said. “Five Chinese regimes have done the same. Our relationship must continue to endure. Washington doesn’t want to manage all the world’s burdens.” Albright also talked about the increasing importance China should have in man-
aging these burdens. “The United States is indispensable, but indispensable doesn’t mean alone,” Albright said. The major world issues include terrorism, nuclear proliferation and global pandemics. These require us to have partners, and I believe the Chinese have interest in the same issues.”
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Seminar highlights water safety problems in first event this year Mona Bazzaz Correspondent
The Office of International Affairs and the Global Health Initiative at N.C. State held the first Global Issues Seminar of the year Monday. These seminars have been around since 2009 and serve as an environment for students and other members of the University to listen to an informative discussion regarding pressing global issues, according to the event’s website. The topic of Monday’s 90-minute discussion was water security on a global scale. N.C. State students, faculty and Triangle residents interested in global affairs heavily populated the auditorium in Withers Hall. Four panelists each took a turn lecturing the audience about a variety of issues regarding water security. Marian G. McCord, a profe s s or of te x t i le e ng i ne e ring, chemistry and science and the director of Global Health Initiatives, said the goal of these global issues seminars is to expose students to very important issues in health world-wide. “We hope students make connections between things they are studying here at N.C. State and global needs and solutions for these issues at hand,” McCord said.
McCord said she is a strong believer that these seminars are important and informative. “I think it is just really important to put these big global health challenges out in front of students,” McCord said. “Students are very creative and will be the people who solve some of the greatest challenges the world is facing today and will face in the future.” According to Water.org, 780 million humans don’t have any means of acquiring clean water and 3.4 million people die each year due to improper water sanitation and water born disease. Velvet Gaston, a senior in environmental engineering and president of the N.C. State chapter of Engineers without Boarders, spoke first. She recapped her summer in Sierra Leone as a volunteer for the Lemon Aid Fund. While there, she worked on fixing a pipeline in order to bring clean water to that region, she said. Detlef Knappe, a professor in civil, construction and environmental engineering, spoke next. Knappe lectured the audience about what’s called the water footprint, which is the amount of fresh water used for production to create goods. The third speaker was Damian
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Reverend C. T. Vivian, a civil rights leader and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom speaks with Dr. Sheila Smith McKoy Monday Oct. 28, 2013 in the Washington Sankofa Room of Witherspoon.
Civil rights activist lectures audiences about racial tensions, time with MLK Brittany Bynum Staff Writer
Rev. C. T. Vivian discussed social justice movements of the past and present for students and faculty at N.C. State Monday. African American Cultural Center hosted the lecture. This is the third year the Living Legends event has taken place. Vivian is a minister, author, lieutenant of the Reverend Martin Luther King
Jr., and revolutionist of the Civil Rights Movement. Vivian, who likes to refer to himself as “90 years young,” said he has been a part of the civil rights movement for more than 70 years. He has held several racial awareness workshops at N.C. State, which seek to eliminate the racism on campus and in the way faculty members approach each other. Uninhibited Praise NCSU Gospel Choir performed the song God
is Great by Ricky Dillard. Then, Dr. Shelia Smith Mckoy, Director of AACC, led the discussion with Dr. Vivian. “Dr. Vivian made N.C. State a diverse space and changed the face of N.C. State.” McKoy said. Vivian’s lecture started with a review of non-violent strategy. He said he used direct action in his first years as an activist but that non-vi-
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lying between the low and high bar, Casey Sarles, a senior in mathematics education, reaches out to grab the high bar during Club Gymnastics practice Oct. 27. The Club Gymnastics team practices every Thursday at Superior Gymnastics and Sunday at Carmichael Gym and will host its only home meet Feb. 9. With competition starting after Christmas and ending with Nationals in Chattanooga, Tenn., in April, the team prepares for the upcoming season. “I enjoy being able to share my love for gymnastics while representing N.C. State,” said president of the club Kari Creech, a junior in biological sciences.
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security experts, according to Ryan Thomson, a graduate student in sociology. Since then, the event has become a global phenomenon to protest governmental surveillance. After the workshop, attendees gathered at the Bell Tower to hold the first overpass light brigade in Raleigh, which read “NSA OFF CAMPUS” in protest of N.C. State’s August announcement of the NSA’s plan to build a new research lab on Centennial Campus An overpass light brigade is
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a form of public artistic protest, originally created in 2011 when demonstrators sought to raise awareness about the campaign to recall Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Thomson said the overpass light brigade was a creative way to promote public protest. Thomson said he was let down when the University announced that the NSA had awarded N.C. State with a $60 million grant to build a research lab on Centennial Campus in August. “Why would the NSA fund basic science research with no intention of doing any governmental surveillance? ” Thomson said.
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are always changing. It is important to embrace new ideas.” In addition to the filmmaking exhibit in the N.C. Museum of History, Hunt said the $25,000 goal will fund opportunities to learn about North Carolina celebrities, filming locations and a film festival. According to Marshall Brain, a leader of the N.C. state Engineering Entrepreneurs Program, websites such as Indiegogo.com and Kickstarter.com have created a completely new way to gather donations for projects ever since they began gaining popularity in 2009. Brain said that, for places like museums, this is a new way to raise funds.
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Thomson also said he had been disappointed with the secrecy surrounding the lab announcement. He said that even though many questions had been fielded toward Chancellor Randy Woodson and administration, the lack of university oversight gave the NSA free range to do as it wished. Since the Edward Snowden controversy in May, the NSA has taken criticism from Democrats, Republicans and several major world leaders. Steve Baker, a citizen of Raleigh, said that even though the NSA lab would bring jobs to the Triangle, he questioned the agency’s motives for coming to N.C. State.
Baker said one’s control of his or her own privacy is increasingly important. “These events may start small, but as myself and other attendees spread the word, more and more people will learn about their privacy and begin to take it more seriously,” Baker said. In August, Randy Avent, a professor of computer science, and principal investigator of the laboratory, told Technician that those worried that N.C. State will become a hub of surveillance operations could rest easy. “It’s a research lab,” Avent said. “There are no operational problems being worked on at all. It’s a research lab
conducting basic research concerning questions like ‘What are the fundamental techniques?’ and ‘What’s the fundamental math behind the problem?’” Both Avent and Woodson then dismissed any notion that the University will evolve into a hub of surveillance for the NSA. “I think it’s important to understand that we’re a public university,” Woodson said. “So we’re not in the business of operational intelligence, which is one part of what the National Security Agency does, but that’s not what N.C. State will be involved in or what will go on at Centennial Campus.”’
“The big advantage is that the museum can reach a much wider audience of potential donors,” Brain said. However, Brain said that crowd funding has some potential pitfalls that anyone should be aware of before starting or donating to an Internet campaign. “From a donor’s perspective, there is nothing to guarantee that the project’s creator actually does the project as promised,” Brain said. “There have been a few high visibility flameouts like that where the project creator took the money and ran.” Hunt said that the history museum has been verified by Indiegogo.com as a nonprofit organization, which allows donors to contribute money securely. According to Brain, Internet crowd funding has provided people with one more avenue for people looking to raise
Oct. 27 1:08 A.M. | DRUG VIOLATION King Village Beaufort Hall Officers responded to King Village Beaufort Hall for a prealert smoke head activation. Upon arrival to the room, the officer knocked and no one answered. For safety concerns the officer made entry to the room. The officer observed smoke in the room which smelled like incense and burnt marijuana. While attempting to locate the cause of the smoke the officer located a marijuana cigarette in the bathroom that had been extinguished in a cup of water. The student was referred to the University for possession of marijuana. University Housing was notified. 1:37 A.M. | MEDICAL ASSIST Tucker Hall A student suffered a lower arm injury in her dorm room after slipping on her wet floor. Wake EMS and NCSU Police responded she was transported to Rex Hospital. 1:45 P.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT/PD Dan Allen Dr/Faucette Dr A vehicle driven by a student struck a vehicle driven by a student. No injuries were reported. 3:25 P.M. | ASSIST POLICE Off-Campus Raleigh PD notified University Police that a student was found deceased by his roommate. An NCSU CIT officer contacted the roommate to ensure he was aware of resources he may need in reference to this incident. Raleigh PD made notifications to next of kin.
funds that has been proven to work. “Crowd funding is one of those great ‘who would have predicted this?’ success stories on the Internet,” Brain said. “It is especially nice because just about anyone can try it with their idea. It is a very level playing field.” Hunt said that the museum isn’t sure if they are going to do any more Indiegogo. com fundraisers after this one ends. “I think the chance of us using it in the future depends on the success of this campaign,” Hunt said. The N.C. Museum of History hopes to raise $25,000 from private contributions on Indiegogo.com by Nov. 29. As of Monday, the campaign has raised $1,683 toward that goal.
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Turtle Island Quartet with Nellie McKay Tues, Oct 29, 8pm, Fletcher Theater Nellie McKay – a witty singersongwriter, pianist, comedienne and ukulele player – joins forces with the two-time Grammy Award-winning Turtle Island Quartet to present an evening of the music of Billie Holiday, Billy Strayhorn, and the Weimar cabaret of the 1920s. Pre-show talk, 7pm. Tickets available at the door. $5 NCSU students
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The NC Museum of History is trying to crowd fund for next year’s movie exhibit showing “Starring North Carolina!”
Technician was there. You can be too. The Technician staff is always looking for new members to write, design or take photos. Visit www. ncsu.edu/sma for more information.
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Students have until today at noon to vote for this year’s Leader of the Pack. The award will award one winner a $2,000 scholarship, and the winner will be announced at the Homecoming football game. The Leader of the Pack Program seeks to recognize students stand out in various areas, including leadership, scholarship and community service. Grade point average, personal interviews, an essay and the student-body vote all contribute to the decision for a winner. The finalist with the highest GPA will receive a $250 gift certificate from the N.C. State Bookstores. Before 2012, Leader of the Pack was awarded to two students, one man and one
woman. Last year was the first year that only one student received the scholarship. However, the number of finalists has remained the same. This year’s six candidates are Molly Basdeo, junior in middle grades language arts and social students education, Austin Bath, junior in human biology, Katherine Freeman, senior in materials science engineering and mathematics, Kelsey Mills, senior in electrical and computer engineering, Charan Mohan, junior in biochemistry, and Ryan O’Donnell, junior in business administration and international studies. Voting started Monday at noon and will end today at noon. To vote, go to https:// ncsu.votenet.com.
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Shea, a professor of environmental toxicology, who lectured audiences about issues in international waters. Shea said his work is based mostly in Asia, and he previously traveled to other nations to trying to resolve conflicts between countries regarding water supply. Matt Polizzotto, an assistant professor in soil science, finished the evening with a lecture about water use and resources such as groundwater. He said contamination in the water supply, such as the inevitable
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olent strategies were needed to create a change. Nonviolent strategies entailed not fighting back, regardless of what happened, according to Vivian. “The greatness of civil rights is in strategy,” Vivian said. However, Vivian said that passivity will not change anything. “It was a moral and spiritual movement, not political,” Vivian said. Vivian spoke about his experience as Martin Luther King Jr.’s lieutenant. He said that King didn’t mind sharing leadership, and he would always ask questions before a movement. Vivian said people chose King as their leader because of his intellect. Vivan also lectured about the importance of working with students to make social activists, noting that he led
poison of arsenic, continues to be a problem. Michael Dunning, a senior in foreign relations, said he attended the event for his International Studies 200 course. “This seminar proved to me that this is a lot deeper of an issue than I gave it credit.” Dunning said. Dunning said that his class had touched briefly about topics, such as water quality, but had never gone into detail. “It was nice to hear from people who are working to solve this issue on a bigger and international scale that will have a lasting effect on the problem,” Dunning said.
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a charge in Nashville, Tenn, with students. Brayndon Stafford, a sophomore in computer engineering, said he enjoyed the event. “This is a once in a lifetime experience to be in the same room with someone who has done so much for N.C. State,” Stafford said. “Thank you for your spirit and the planting seeds you left behind.” Darryl Lester, AACC assistant director said. Vivian said that during his workshops, he would make faculty remain in the room when arguments arouse about the pain of segregation. Ideas at the workshops were encouraged to be used and open questions were allowed, he said. Vivian’s workshops have been taught nationally and worldwide. Special presentations were made by Tejuan Manners, President of Phi Lambda Chapter Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, and Toni Thorpe, AACC Program Coordinator.
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Albright said changing trends in the Middle East shouldn’t affect the role of the United States, however. “Even though the United States is getting less dependent on Middle Eastern oil and China is getting more dependent, the United States is not interested in abandoning the Middle East only to have Russia or China take over,” Albright said. Albright said that even though cyber spying is a problem, countries have spied on each other for hundreds of years. What’s causing concern is economic spying, which
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Darryl Lester, assistant director of the African American Cultural Center speaks as part of the Living Legends event in the Washington Sankofa Room in Witherspoon Monday. The event featured Reverend C. T. Vivian, a prominent civil rights leader.
happens when a country spies on businesses. “We need to establish a new set of rules for this cyber age,” Albright said. “Currently, there are no rules. We are most worried about espionage in industrial areas.” Albright said talks such as these are necessary to re-evaluate diplomatic procedures. “If I’ve learned one thing from my years of diplomacy, it’s that nothing is inevitable. A nation’s path through history must be constantly reassessed,” Albright said. After Albright’s lecture finished, Anne-Marie Brady, an associate professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, lectured audiences
about Chinese political messaging tactics. Brady said that although many people don’t like the word propaganda, it’s a genuine task of the government in China. She compared it to American mass communication or public information. “China’s modern day propaganda is now mostly market-friendly, scientific, high tech and politics lite,” Brady said. “China has deliberately absorbed the modern methods of mass persuasion commonly utilized in Western democratic societies.” Brady said that the Chinese government is extremely mindful of public opinion and very responsive to it.
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omehow it has become culturally acceptable to spend one day of the year dressed up as someone you’re not and knock on the doors of strangers asking for candy. Halloween has been westernized into the seventh biggest consumer holiday for spending, according to CNBC, but how did it start, and is it safe? Though the Gaelic and the Welsh had an inf luence on the spooky holiday, today’s Tyler Gobin traditions are mainly influStaff Columnist enced by Christian history. Halloween, or All Hallow’s Eve, is the first day of Hallowmas, a three-day religious holiday. Hallowmas includes All Hallow’s Eve, All Hallow’s Day on Nov. 1 and All Souls’ Day on Nov. 2. It serves as a time to pray for the recently departed souls who have yet to reach heaven and was introduced in the year 609, according to Britannica Encyclopedia. The tradition of adorning costumes during
Hallowmas stemmed from an old tradition when people would wear costumes to avoid being recognized by the departing souls. It was thought that souls wandered the earth seeking vengeance before moving on to the next world, so people would conceal their identities with costumes and masks, according to Britannica. The origins of trick-or-treating stretch back to the 15th century when children and the poor would honor and pray for the souls in limbo by walking door to door requesting soul cakes. Soul cakes were often filled with sweet spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and allspice and made with raisins or currants. The first acts of trick-or-treating, often referred to as guising, were not reported in North America until 1911, according to an Ontario newspaper. You would think children would be the last to protest free candy, but in 1948 the Madison Square Boys’ Club in New York City marched in a parade carrying a banner that said “Amer-
ican Boys Don’t Beg,” according to Britannica. Around the world and even around the United States, there are variances in trick-ortreating procedures. Several cities in the U.S. ban children older than the age of 12 from participating, according to CBS. In St. Louis, Mo., children are expected to perform a Halloween-themed riddle, joke or pun to earn their “treat.” In Des Moines, Iowa, trick-or-treating is performed the night before Halloween and referred to as “Beggars’ Night.” In parts of Canada, kids say “Halloween Apples” instead of “trick-or-treat” because of the popularity of candy apples. Nowadays, Halloween has a tendency to bring out the overprotective side of people. For many parents, the idea of allowing their children to ask strangers for candy is downright terrifying. But is this a legitimate concern? It turns out that sex crime rates on Halloween are no higher than on any other days, according to a University of Oklahoma study.
The study looked at national crime rates from 1997 to 2005 and found no distinction. Police in communities across the U.S. perform random visits to sex offenders on Halloween night to make sure the criminals are not opening their doors. Sex offenders in Georgia are banned from opening their doors to anybody but law enforcement on Halloween, and police advise sex offenders in Los Angeles to post signs saying they’re not giving out candy. Another precaution parents often take is checking their children’s candy before allowing them to eat it. Studies show that the fear of poisoned candy is unnecessary. A recent study reported that from 2000 to 2011 there were only six potentially harmful incidents none of which yielded injuries. Despite these widespread concerns, Halloween has held up as a strange but exciting holiday. Send your thoughts to technician-viewpoint@ ncsu.edu.
{ LETTER TO THE EDITOR } Naked and Hungry: Where would you be without Agriculture? On Wednesday, Nov. 13 Collegiate FFA at N.C. State will host the return of Naked and Hungry Day, informing students of hunger issues and collecting cans for the N.C. State Food Bank, Feed the Pack. The Food Bank at N.C. State is a community-based choice food pantry that combats food insecurity experienced by N.C. State faculty, staff and students. The food bank is run by students and an advisory board. Located in 379 Harrelson Hall, its hours of operation are posted online at csleps.dasa.ncsu.edu/pantry. The North Carolina Department of Agriculture’s “Got to Be NC” Shopping
Cart will be on the Brickyard for this great cause as well. Hunger is an issue that people face on an everyday basis. The purpose of Naked and Hungry Day will be twofold: informing students of the hunger issues that people like them face and give them away to give back to the Wolfpack. Everyone is encouraged to attend this event and donate at least one non-perishable food item. Collegiate FFA Naked and Hungry T-shirts will be available for $15 on the day of the event. If you have any questions please contact Sabra Bryant (sebryan3@ncsu.edu) or Jacob Scott (jlscott4@ncsu.edu). Ethan Garner sophomore, general horticulture concentration
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{ LETTER TO THE EDITOR } Obamacare (The Non-Affordable Care Act) A lot of American citizens are excited and worried about the new healthcare law that is currently set to take full effect in January 2014 — namely, Obamacare (otherwise known as the Affordable Healthcare Act). However, is it really affordable? It seems that Obamacare is mainly focused on giving everyone health coverage rather than considering how much it actually costs to both businesses and taxpayers. Yes, Obamacare does give everyone a chance to have healthcare. You actually have three choices: Stay on your current healthcare plan and watch your healthcare premiums DOUBLE or TRIPLE as some people’s coverage already has in order for proper Obamacare funding to be provided. Two, you can take Obamacare and still experience higher rates and a heavily taxpayer funded, govern-
ment controlled healthcare. Lastly, you are not required to have any health insurance. Either way, Obamacare is being shoved down our throats because if you opt out with no health insurance, you are forced to pay a hefty fine. Businesses with more than 50 full-time employees will have to provide health coverage under this law. This has caused many businesses to cut hours dramatically. Lastly, taxes will have to be increased greatly because covering everyone will require an intense tax increase. So you can be excited about Obamacare but be prepared when your costs go up whether you have healthcare or not. What Americans can do now is just become wellinformed of the bill and become aware of how terrible Obamacare really is. Philip Jones junior, computer and electrical engineering
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interest. It is a participant in a conversation that is meant to produce thoughtful and robust advice to those who are accountable for a public good. A shared governance body has a “seat at the table.” The metaphor is especially apt. An invitation to a seat at the table means your partners hope you will bring a useful perspective to the conversation. It also means that they trust you will be judicious in your participation, and that you will maintain a steadfast dedication to the work, even — and perhaps especially — when the conversation is difficult, contentious and frustrating. This is the work for which the ASG — and the Staff Assembly, Faculty Assembly, and committees of chancellors and provosts from across the system — exist. And the reason that ASG, like every other shared governance body, needs the participation of N.C. State — and every institution in the system — is because each school has
a unique and distinctive mission in North Carolina public higher education. Understanding these responsibilities is why campus staff, faculty and administrators don’t threaten (let alone act) to withdraw from their system-wide shared governance bodies. They know that to shirk this work would be reckless, negligent and narrow-minded. What is baffling is that student governments are the only participants in shared governance who don’t grasp this fact. So step up, N.C. State, and tell your representatives that the Wolfpack doesn’t shirk! It is time to finally put to rest this bad idea whose time should never come, and for N.C. State to help ASG be everything its shared governance partners hope it can be.
“I remember going with my younger family members my junior year of high school. I went as Alice in Wonderland, and it was really cool because I made my own costume.”
“I went with my siblings last year because my younger brother still goes every year and I really like dressing up.”
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When was the last time you went trick-ortreating? BY HUNTER JOHNSON
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t’s a bad idea whose time should never come. Student governments at N.C. State and other UNCSystem schools have repeatedly threatened or acted to withdraw Stephen f rom t he Leonard Guest Columnist Association of Student Governments because they said “we don’t need ASG.” This is a bad argument for a bad idea because it’s predicated on the wrong question. The question is not what ASG can do for N.C. State, but what N.C. State can do for ASG. The tired refrain that ASG is “ineffective” or “a waste of money” assumes that the ASG is some kind of special interest group or lobbying organization that has failed to do its job. That is not what the ASG is. It is a constituent body in the system of shared governance of public higher education in North Carolina. A shared governance body doesn’t represent a special
“I wanna say I went my freshman year of high school, and I was a pirate. No shame.”
“When I was a sophomore in high school, I took my 10-yearold brother.”
“It has been so long since I last went trick-or-treating, I don’t even remember it.”
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TUESDAY, OCT. 29, 2013 • PAGE 5
Favorite monsters find origins in food Holden Broyhill Staff Writer
With Halloween fast approaching, horror movies featuring vampires, zombies and reanimated creatures will grace the screens of most major television networks. But where did the holiday legends get their start? Roland Kays, a research associate professor at N.C. State, has studied a few mythological origins and how they relate to food sciences. Kays said he had been doing research and a number of outreach events about the evolution of food in various cultures when he discovered the correlation between food and stories. “It started on the food side of things,” Kays said. “Then I was looking for interesting food ingredients that had interesting evolutionary and cultural stories. Looking at particular ingredients that had these cultural and scientific connections and when I started looking into these different situations I ran into a couple that had these Halloween connections.” It was at that point that Kays turned his interests toward myths. “The one that got me started was the idea that the vampire myth has connections with Eastern Europeans suffering from pellagra,” Kays said. Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency caused by not getting
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Many favorite Halloween monsters find their beginnings in folklore and food. Vampires, zombies and witches all resulted from evolutionary food science and malnutrition.
enough niacin, or vitamin B3. “The disease has symptoms that are similar to sort of the classic vampire traits, such as being sensitive to the sun, blood around the lips and exposed teeth, and going psychotic,” Kays said. “Some people think that this was sort of warped into the original Count Dracula myth.” According to Kays, Eastern Europeans were particularly susceptible to coming down with pellagra. “Interestingly the people in Eastern Europe who were suffering from pellagra were getting it because they were eating too much untreated
corn,” Kays said. “This is where the food connection comes in. Corn had just recently been introduced in the area, it was originally an American crop, and the Native Americans would treat it with lye to release the niacin in the corn, but if you don’t treat it with a base, [the niacin] is not available.” Kays said that while the crop moved to the Old World, the Native Americans’ recipes did not. “The Native Americans had been living with it for a long time and had evolved their cooking recipe to make it a well-rounded food type,”
Kays said. “When it moved to Europe, they didn’t bring those recipes with them.” Most corn was made into porridge and became the main staple in the people’s diets. Because the porridge was a simple corn meal, the consumer wouldn’t get a wellbalanced meal and would eventually develop pellagra. Kays said a vast majority of infected people lived in poverty because they relied too heavily on the corn for their diet. Films like “World War Z” and “Warm Bodies” have stoked the fire under the undead fan base, but Kays
said fans of zombie lore are often surprised to know that the zombie finds its roots in Haitian culture. “The Voodoo religion and the witch doctors associated with that use a poison that comes from puffer fish to basically kill people and bring them into a ‘zombified’ state,” Kays said. Voodoo sorcerers employ a powdered drug cocktail composed of a hodgepodge of nasty ingredients such as human remains, poisoned frogs and puffer fish to trigger zombification. Puffer fish contain tetrodotoxin, one of the most potent
neurotoxins known to man. Kays said the same fish is used in Japan for food, but chefs are trained to carefully cut out the poison glands. “It’s kind of an interesting case where the same food ingredient is used differently by different cultures,” Kays said. “The witch story is related to the rye grain from the European Middle Ages and a fungus that grows on it called ergot,” Kays said. According to Kays, ergot contains psychoactive chemicals that were used to derive LSD. Kays said the people accidently consuming ergot were unaware of its psychoactive effects. “People would start to go crazy and have other health problems,” Kays said. “That sort of led to this mix with small-town politics and ended up with the Salem, Mass., witch trials.” The modern monsters familiar to Halloween culture are products of societal flaws that have been transformed into entertainment as they subsided. “These myths are going to have multiple influences and it’s not going to be one thing that created these myths,” Kays said. “These myths have been evolving in our culture for thousands of years. They warp and change to ref lect each culture and whatever types of experiences those cultures are having.”
Housing goes green with EcoVillage Holden Broyhill Staff Writer
Thirteen Living and Learning Villages spread across campus house 30 percent of N.C. State students. The newest of these is the EcoVillage, which creates an interdisciplinary experience that prepares students for lasting sustainable living. According to the University Housing website, students who live in the village “will go beyond the classroom to lead, serve, create, problemsolve and engage in complex issues facing the national and global energy and environmental challenges of society to advance sustainability.” Home to 65 students, the EcoVillage is the work of a collaboration between University Housing, the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, Environmental Science
Academic Program and all the academic colleges. Meghan Lobsinger, director of the EcoVillage, and Bryan Botts, assistant director of University Housing, have been working closely with the development of the idea of the village. “The idea for the EcoVillage is actually before our time,” Botts said. “I think there was a vision for an opportunity for students to come together in relation to sustainability for a while.” Botts said faculty members came together to ask what they could do to get students interested in the environment, energy and sustainability. “I think it has been a plan in the making for a while and this was the right time to do it,” Botts said. The EcoVillage is located in Bragaw Residence Hall
in a newly renovated suite. Botts said Bragaw was ideal because of its central location and openness to a new Living and Learning Village. “[Bragaw] naturally ties into where the EcoVillage students live,” Botts said. “This way the mentors have the opportunity to connect students as well as opening an office somewhere else on campus that’s not going to be as beneficial to the students.” In the EcoVillage’s first few months there have been several events in which the students can be involved. “We’ve had quite a few big group events and we’ve had several small events,” Lobsinger said. “We had a lunch for freshmen who moved in early and also we had worked with University Recreation for some team building exercises.” According to Botts the Eco-
Village collaborates with the Resident Advisors in Bragaw to create events. “They create sort of a blended social opportunity that has some relation between sustainability and environmental energy but it’s an opportunity for the students to come together and just really talk about whatever their interests are,” Botts said. Lobsinger described several service work project the EcoVillage has been involved in from helping at the InterFaith Food Shuttle farm to helping clean a trail in the mountains. “We’re hoping to do a little more in the way of programming for sustainability, energy and climate once we get our programming developed next semester,” Lobsinger said. “So hopefully there will be some field trips.” According to Botts, all
members of the EcoVillage will live in Bragaw for convenience and for consistency. “The idea of the village is to give students who have similar interests the opportunity to live together and be engaged in a topic that will help them become more active in the University,” Botts said. “We have the opportunity for the EcoVillage to take students from every college on our campus and bring them together to create an inter-disciplinary learning environment. They’re looking at everything through the lens of sustainability.” The EcoVillage will have a booth at the America Recycles fair in the Brickyard in November to answer questions that students may have or discuss what they need to do to join the village. Botts described that the EcoVillage is taking steps to
ensure that the students have a say in their village. “One of the exciting things that Meghan [Lobsinger] is doing is taking the time to reach out to the EcoVillage students to figure out what it is that they might want to do in the future in addition to what we have planned,” Botts said. Botts said it’s this input that keeps the EcoVillage studentdriven and successful in the sustainability mission. “Students came up with ideas to figure out what activities and services that they might want to explore next semester to make sure we’re meeting their goals as well,” Botts said. “We’re giving the students the opportunity to develop what it is they want from this community because ultimately it is their community.”
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Kevin Schaefer Staff Writer
The Southeast Climate Science Center and the University Sustainability Office sponsored a screening of Chasing Ice, a documentary about climate change, Wednesday at the Campus Cinema in Witherspoon Student Center. The film detailed the expeditions and discoveries of National Geographic photographer James Balog and sparked a provocative discussion among faculty and students who were present. Independent filmmaker Jeff Orlowski’s most recent creation, Chasing Ice, follows Balog and his crew as they seek to provide a detailed record of the world’s changing glaciers. The film, primarily composed of interviews of crewmembers and footage of the journey, makes a concerted effort to look at the different perspectives regarding global warming and how it affects the world’s population. Kenneth Zagacki, professor and head of the N.C. State communication department, said he found the film fascinating. During the panel, Zagacki talked about the significance of climate change in today’s society. “To me, the evidence for climate change is overwhelming,” Zagacki said. “In view of the predictions about the devastating effects of climate change, my biggest concerns, obviously shared by the filmmaker and by the other panelists, are, first, persuading public audiences that climate change is happening at a
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The University Sustainability Office sponsored a screening of Chasing Ice, a documentary detailing the crippling effects of climate change, and a subsequent discussion panel Wednesday, Oct. 23, at Witherspoon Student Center.
rapid rate and that its impact could dramatically alter our planet. And second, to motivate ordinary people — not just their political representatives — to take action. In short, the challenge is to demonstrate how global climate change is the most pressing environmental issue of the 21st century.” Walt Robinson, a professor and department head of marine, earth and atmospheric sciences, also commended the film for its accuracy and innovation. “The movie was excellent and entirely accurate in its presentation of the science,” Robinson said. “The information was presented very well. I especially appreciated, as a scientist, the discussion
and graphic showing that almost all glaciers are retreating, not only the ones being monitored. This is important for ‘scaling up’ the local and particular to a global phenomenon.” During the discussion panel, one student asked how to get people to listen to the scientific side regarding climate change, rather than be turned off by the mythic connotations often associated with it. Both Zagacki and Robinson were eager to comment on this and explain its relevancy to college students. “It will take strong, creative political leadership — like the effort put forth by the filmmaker — to envision and get implemented the policies necessary to reduce, for ex-
ample, global carbon emissions,” Zagacki said. “And, as I mentioned above, ordinary citizens will have to become involved in grassroots efforts to combat and/or adapt to climate change.” Robinson said personal choices made by the public, such as using less energy and voting for political leaders who will enact climatefriendly policies, will help slow the effects of climate change. “Students also have the opportunity to learn about climate change now — inside and outside of the classroom — and to take that knowledge with them to change their future workplaces,” Robinson said. Zagacki also outlined a de-
tailed description of why this issue is relevant to college students in particular. “The issue is relevant to college students for three reasons: First, they are likely to be most affected by global warming,” Zagacki said. “Second, it could very well be left to them to exercise the sort of leadership I mentioned above. And third, even if most of our students do not hold political office, there is plenty they can do to become citizen activists, such as forming digital climate change protest networks, organizing grassroots civic associations, enacting lifestyle changes, writing editorials, making YouTube films about the local effects of climate change, and so on.”
Zagacki and Robinson said they see climate change documentaries as a medium for change and encouraged students to take advantage of the information afforded to them. “My hope is that films such as Chasing Ice will inspire those students who see it,” Zagacki said. “The film is a kind of quest story — the effort of one person to do whatever is in his power, and in the face of severe hardships, to bring the issue of climate change to public attention. It will be interesting to learn if students follow his model, beginning their own long and difficult quest to battle global warming.”
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wasn’t about themselves and that you had to put the team before yourself,” Shak said. “If you do that and do what’s right for the team, then individuals will have success as a result.” This attitude meshes perfectly with the mentality N.C. State head coach Kelly Findley wants his program to adopt. “He’s a quality, quality human being,” Findley said. “He’s got a great leadership style, he really wants to make people around him better and he’s got a great knowledge of the game.” “We have a great staff overall from top to bottom, but Steve has expertise in a position [central defense] that none of our coaching staff played. He can give little insights to central defenders that I can’t give.” Shak chose to join the Wolfpack primarily for the opportunity to work under Findley. The two were previously acquainted through the Charlotte Eagles organization.
“I called him asking about his experience as a college coach because it’s an area I’m interested in moving into,” Shak said. “I reached out to several coaches that I know, and he was one of the top guys on my list to call. He’s been very successful and I know there’s a lot I can learn from him.” Shak, who works primarily with the Wolfpack’s defensive unit, said he always wanted to be a coach once his playing days came to an end. “I love the teaching aspect of coaching and also the mentoring aspect,” Shak said. “You get to help players who are away from home for the first time learn how to make decisions. I love the idea of sport shaping the character of a person.” “Coaching isn’t just a way for me to feel good about myself. I really, truly want to invest in the lives of the players that I coach. I want to prepare them so that after they’re not with the team I’m coaching anymore, they can go on and become successful men in life.”
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have easily left his starters in and continued to light up the scoreboard. But he didn’t, and for that he deserves a tip of the hat. As for the Wolfpack, it’s on to the next one—UNCChapel Hill. I have no doubt that the Pack will come out fired up for next Saturday’s rivalry game with the debacle in Tallahassee completely in the rearview mirror. There’s still an entire month left in the season, and State has five chances to get three wins to become bowl-eligible.
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week, there’s a goal to get better as a football team, and that’s what we need to do.” Doeren said he’s excited for the matchup against the rival Tar Heels. Northern Illinois defeated its rival—Toledo— in both seasons with Doeren at the helm. “I have been in a lot of great rivalries, and all of them are really special,” Doeren said.
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#PACKTWEETS JCat Barbour @catbarbour1994 Ihop about to be my next move after this game HONENT!!!
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Sophomore running back Shadrach Thornton runs the ball during the football game against new ACC member Syracuse in Carter-Finley Stadium Oct. 11, 2013. The Orange defeated the Wolfpack 24-10, dropping N.C. State to 0-3 in conference play.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I have been in a lot of great rivalries, and all of them are really special.” Dave Doeren, head football coach
There’s likely not a member of Wolfpack Nation who’s satisfied with N.C. State’s most recent loss, a 49-17 drubbing at the hands of No. 3 Florida State in Tallahassee, dropping the Pack below .500 at 3-4 overall and keeping them winless in the ACC. Saturday’s game marked the much-anticipated return of graduate student quarterback Brandon Mitchell, who saw his first action since injuring his foot in the season opener against Louisiana
Tech on Aug. 31. Much like the rest of the team, Mitchell just didn’t play well. His first pass attempt was intercepted, and it got no better from there. He finished with just 128 yards through the air on 17 completions with two interceptions and no touchdowns. Chalk it up to rust. Chalk it up to playing one of the best teams in the nation. Chalk it up to whatever you want— Mitchell stunk on Saturday. There’s no two ways around it: Junior backup quarterback Pete Thomas had been harshly criticized for his
performance in Mitchell’s absence, but Mitchell was no better against FSU. The game was over after the first quarter. The Seminoles led 35-0, and even a national championship-caliber team would have struggled coming back from that deficit. Forget about a struggling squad like the Pack making up that kind of ground. Even in a game as disastrous as Saturday, one bright spot for State was the play of sophomore running back Shadrach Thornton, who amassed a career-high 173 yards on 23 carries. Thorn-
ton provided the highlight of the day for the Pack when he dashed 72 yards for a touchdown toward the end of the third quarter. When a team is being outclassed and the game is just about decided, it’s easy to go through the motions and not give your very best effort. Thornton deserves credit for continuing to fight until the final whistle. Similarly, the Wolfpack defense played well in the second half, giving up just seven points after the break. Granted, the Seminoles pulled most of their start-
ers after the break, including Heisman Trophy frontrunner quarterback Jameis Winston. The Pack’s defense was so bad that a Pop Warner team could probably have put up a couple touchdowns on them. Moreover, the defense has struggled to stop anyone this season. I commend FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher for putting in his second and thirdstringers with the game well in hand. In the age of the BCS and computer rankings, style points matter. Fisher could
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could snap into what this week was. I was preparing them N.C. State’s head football from the minute they walked coach Dave Doeren held into the locker room whether his weekly press conference we won or lost.” Monday afternoon at the Undeterred by the previous Wendell H. Murphy Center week’s setback, Doeren said to discuss Saturday’s game the team will look toward the against UNC-Chapel Hill. future and concentrate on Coming off of a 49-17 road what could be a strong finish loss to No. despite sit3 Florida ting at 3-4 St ate , t he overall. Wolfpack “With five w ill look games left, to rebound there is a lot for its first to play for AC C w i n our team,” of the seaDoeren said. son. Doeren “ We h a v e Dave Doeren, said that the three wins, head football coach team has aland we have ready put the to focus on prior week behind them. what’s out there for us and “Playing a rival the week what’s attainable. We have after [the Florida State loss] academic goals and off-thehelps [remedy the sting of field goals, and we have talked defeat] pretty quick,” Do- about our in-state goals and eren said. “I put something postseason play. Within each on every athlete’s locker so that when we got back, we DOEREN continued page 7
“Within each week, there’s a goal to get better as a football team.”
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Former No. 1 pick now a assistant with the Wolfpack Andrew Schuett Deputy Sports Editor
There aren’t many people who can say they were drafted No. 1 overall in any sport. N.C. State volunteer assistant coach Steve Shak is part of this elite fraternity. The New York/New Jersey Metrostars, since renamed the New York Red Bulls, took Shak with the first pick of the 2000 Major League Soccer SuperDraft. Shak said he wasn’t expecting to hear his name called as the No. 1 pick. “It was a little bit of a surprise to me that I was picked first,” Shak said. “But it was a blessing. It was amazing.” Shak spent three years in the MLS, playing for the Metrostars and the Colorado Rapids. He also played in the United Soccer League, including four years with the Charlotte Eagles, before retiring from professional soccer
in 2009. Shak, a central defender, was not highly recruited by collegiate programs out of high school. After being accepted as a student at UCLA, he chose to walk-on to the Bruins’ soccer team. “I got into two other schools with smaller programs that I could have tried out for,” Shak said. “But I’m the kind of person that says ‘Ok, let me go to the best program first and if I don’t make it there, then I’ll look at a smaller program.’ But UCLA was the best program in the area and I wanted to go for that first.” Shak, who grew up 30 minutes from the UCLA campus in Cerritos, Calif., didn’t play during his freshman year. But in his sophomore season, injuries to other players gave Shak an opportunity to step in. He didn’t look back, starting every game in the 1997 season. Shak helped the Bruins de-
fense record 14 shutouts that season, the second most in school history. He was also awarded the team’s Most Improved Player for his performances and played a key role in helping UCLA win its third NCAA National Championship, shutting out Virginia 2-0 in the final. “We had a very good team and a year before that, I never really saw myself playing for UCLA,” Shak said. “All of a sudden, here I am staring in the national championship game a year later.” Shak credits his coach at UCLA, Sigi Schmid, with instilling a team-first mentality into his players. Schmid is currently the head coach of the Seattle Sounders, one of MLS’ most successful franchises. “Our coach [Schmid] was really good at helping our guys understand that this
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