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Hofmann sold for $150 million ENDOWMENT FUND AGREES TO SELL FOREST TO HOFMANN FOREST LLC
Sam DeGrave Editor-in-Chief
Last spring, College of Natural Resources Dean Mary Watzin announced the Natural Resources Foundation had found a prospective buyer for the Hofmann Forest. Almost exactly seven months later the same buyer Watzin alluded to in April signed an agreement to purchase the forest for $150 million.
The board of trustees of the University’s Endowment Fund announced Wednesday that Jerry Walker, manager of the newly formed Hofmann Forest LLC, has agreed to buy the forest. Walker, who is also currently the manager of Walker Ag Group, a farming operation based in Danville, Ill., signed the contract with the Endowment Fund on Friday. The proceeds of the sale, about $33 million, will be
added to the University’s endowment in addition to the $117 million estimated value of the forest, which is already a part of the Endowment Fund. Watzin said that all additional money generated by the sale, an estimated $6 million per year, will go to the CNR. However, Watzin said that in addition to money, one important part of the sale was ensuring that Hofmann
Forest LLC will “continue to support the legacy of Doc Hofmann.” “This is a sale that protects the land going forward,” Watzin said. Walker echoed this sentiment in a press release. “Hofmann Forest is a wonderful property with a long and storied connection to the communities of Eastern North Carolina, and we are committed to preserving that legacy going forward,”
Walker said. However, despite Watzin and Walker’s reassuring words, relatively little is known about Hofmann Forest LLC or the company’s intentions for the land.
HOW THE LAND WILL BE USED The contract restricts the company from developing the land, however it doesn’t address specif ically how Walker will use the 79,000 acres—a fact Watzin also
made clear. “His plans for the acreage in the future are not something we’ve gone into in detail,” Watzin said. Watzin said the company may sell easements to the Department of Defense, allowing military helicopters to train over land, and that it may use the land for agricultural purposes, but students will be able to continue to use
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The midway at the N.C. State Fair is filled with multiple rides and games, but many disabled fairgoers couldn’t access them.
Fair proves difficult to navigate for disabled people Holden Broyhill Staff Writer
Every year, The State Fair brings fatty food and thrills to West Raleigh, but despite its all-inclusive title it isn’t an event suited for all North Carolinians. Some disabled citizens simply can’t access the annual event in the way most can. Katharine Paulhamus, a healthcare services coordinator for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and Jonathan Greeson, a N.C. State alumnus with spinal muscular dystrophy who started
a wheelchair hockey league, provided some insight into the challenges disabled citizens face at the fair. “Any time there is a public event, the fire marshal has to be a part of setting up the code and inspecting how an event is laid out,” Paulhamus said. According to Paulhamus, there are certain standards and regulations the state must adhere to for a public event to make it handicapped accessible, however the fair is different. “For a public event like this it is more challenging because it is a temporary
event in a very large outdoor space,” Paulhamus said. Paulhamus said the main things that need to be done for an event is for the fire marshal to measure the walkways to ensure that they are wide enough to accommodate the various forms of durable medical equipment used by disabled citizens. “They also take into account the population that is being expected to attend the event.” Paulhamus said. “An event that
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The Graduation Success Rate for student athletes at N.C. State surpassed the national average for Division I schools in 2012, according to a report released by the NCAA on Thursday. At 82 percent, N.C. State’s GSR is 1 percent above the national average and increased by 5 percent from the 2011 assessment. “It starts at day one,” said Lisa Zapata, interim director of Academic Support and vice provost of Student Development, Health and Wellness. According to Zapata, the entire Academic Support organization is committed to creating academic success. Katie Sheridan, associate director of Academic Support, said that strict enforcement of an attendance policy has aided in the academic success of student athletes. According to Sheridan, if an athlete is absent from class, he or she may be penalized by not being allowed to participate in his or her next sporting event. Though the University
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Educators are criticizing a conservative think tank’s report that called general education courses a pervasive national problem. The John W. Pope Center for Higher Education released a report last week criticizing the general education curriculum at UNC-Chapel Hill. The report suggests reducing the number of general education courses from 4,000 to 700 and cutting the amount of required foreign language credits. Educators have criticized the report for ignoring global ideals and, instead, exclusively promoting western classical thought. According to Jenna Ashley Robinson, one of the report’s authors, certain classes at UNC-CH, such as “History of Hip-Hop Culture,” “First Year Seminar in Kung Fu” and “The Concept of Heroism in Chinese Culture” don’t belong in the general education curriculum. “The point of general education is to build a foundation, so when [students] choose a major they will have building blocks to put information into context,” Robinson said. “[The aforementioned classes] are very isolated. You might learn interesting things, but you won’t have a cohesive foundation for the future.” Robinson said the lack of breadth in general education courses is a national problem,
NEWS RPD, ALE to crack down on Halloween weekend See page 2.
the differential between the FGR and the student body graduation rate. Sheridan said that because N.C. State’s FGR is only 9 percent different than the overall graduation rate, student athletes are indicative of the student body. “The issues that impact the student body are the same issues that impact student athletes,” Sheridan said. The GSR excludes students that withdraw from the University, according to Sheridan. “Students who choose to
pursue careers as professional athletes and students who transfer to other schools are not calculated into the Graduation Success Rate,” Sheridan said. “The GSR truly evaluates students that stay on campus.” For students who chose to pursue a professional athletic career, the University offers the Reconnect Program, which allows former student athletes to complete their degree in exchange for volunteer and community service hours.
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surpassed the national average for GSR, the University didn’t surpass the Federal Graduation Rate, which is 65 percent. The University fell 2 percent below the FGR rate to 63 percent. The FGR is the only available rate comparable to the overall student body graduation rate, according to Zapata. The University’s overall student body graduation rate is 72 percent. According to Sheridan, though the University’s FGR is lower than the national average, what is important is
and the Pope Center chose to analyze UNC-CH as a case study due to its wide range of liberal arts options. Robinson defended her claim that broad literature and philosophy classes are more practical for students long term than courses such as “The Jewish Experience in the American South.” According to Robinson, philosophy is essential for future learning because it teaches students reasoning skills and how to spot fallacies. Literature is important because it helps people “come to an understanding of the culture around us.” “We want to promote excellence and draw attention to problems that affect student learning,” Robinson said. “We want to focus on areas that could be seen as problematic.” This isn’t the first time the Pope Center has criticized liberal arts, according to David Zonderman, a professor of history and Senate faculty president at N.C. State, who said the think-tank’s suggestions have been consistent throughout the years. “This report frankly didn’t surprise me all that much,” Zonderman said. “The core criticism isn’t new.” Zonderman said the report didn’t suggest taking only practical courses, but rather that general education should only include a small amount of courses based on classical western ideals.
BIENVENIDOS Noticias con acento, el puente entre las dos See page 5.
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his year’s Homecoming speaker, First Sergeant Matt Eversmann, spoke about his 20 years of service in the army at the McKimmon Center, Tuesday. Hundreds of N.C. State students came to listen to the man made famous by the movie Black Hawk Down and co-author of the 2004 book “The Battle of Mogadishu.” Sergeant Eversmann explained in detail the personal events that happened in Somalia in October 1993 and what his years in the service taught him. According to Sgt. Eversmann, “the three values that everyone must have embedded in their DNA in order to succeed are selfless service, courage and duty.”
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After reading the report, Zonderman said he was especially surprised with the Pope Center’s attempts to decrease foreign language requirements. “I thought it was curious that [The Pope Center] thought Chapel Hill requires too much language, which is
surprising considering the skillset many job recruiters are looking for in today’s job market.” Zonderman said a deeper language requirement is something he and many other faculty members have long argued for at the University, going as far as to say that each student should have a minimal fluency in a language by the time they graduate. Cutting the number of
general education courses hasn’t become a pressing issue at N.C. State either, but Zonderman said it has happened before. “A few years ago there was a faculty debate about whether or not to trim the number of general-ed courses at N.C. State,” Zonderman said. “It was a pretty long fight, but eventually the list did see some trimming.” Zonderman also said the
Pope Center doesn’t have the power to change any of the curriculum at UNC-CH or any of the other UNC-System schools. Instead, the faculty must agree to make a change and also meet the federal accreditation standards. The chancellor and the Board of Trustees make all final decisions.
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The Raleigh Police Department and Alcohol Law Enforcement will increase their presence at downtown bars and clubs for Halloween on Thursday. According to Lew Nuckles, chief law enforcement officer for Wake County Alcohol Beverage Control, ABC agents will be present in bars and clubs looking for underage drinking and other offences. “We will allocate our resources to whatever area is deemed necessary,” Nuckles
said. ALE will implement various tactics to catch certain alcohol-related crimes. Plain-clothed agents will be inside and outside of various locations downtown in order to monitor the use of fake ID cards and overservice, according to Nuckles. Some of the offenses ALE and RPD will be looking for are driving under the influence, public intoxication, underage drinking and any and all other violations of the law. Although Jim Sughrue, director of public affairs for RPD, does not know the amount of officers that will
be present downtown, he said they would maintain a “sufficient” presence. He said that RPD would be prepared and alert, not only during Halloween but during the weekend as well. “We know that people are going to go out and drink, but we just want to encourage everyone to be safe,” Sughrue said. “We are always looking for law-breakers, but during events like this our officers will be particularly alert,” he added. Both RPD and ALE want to emphasize safety during events like these, Sughrue said.
“The object is to ensure that people celebrate lawfully,” Sughrue said. However, law enforcement won’t just be increasing its presence downtown. With events like the “Hillsborough Hike”, officers will be preparing for everything from underage drinking to driving under the influence. “It’s not only downtown,” Sughrue said. “We will be focusing on any area that has a lot of potential for underage drinking. House parties and other gatherings are also common targets for law enforcement officials.”
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the land regardless. Though less than 2 percent of university-sponsored forestry research is conducted in the Hofmann forest, according to a press release, Associate Vice Chancellor of University Communications Brad Bohlander confirmed that students will have access to the land after the sale. “The contract indicates the buyer’s intent to maintain access for students and faculty to conduct research, preserving the legacy by keeping the Hofmann name, and maintaining a working forest on the property,” Bohlander said. According to the contract, the purchaser must “allow the continuance of existing and future research activities by the University on the portions of the property which are designated and shown as research plots.”
THE COMPANIES INVOLVED The North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State filed the Articles of Organization Limited Liability of Hofmann Forest LLC (then called Hoffman Forest LLC) on Jan. 30, 2013, thus officially recognizing the company’s existence. Since then, the company has filed two amendments, correcting its articles. The first was on April 1, two months after the com-
Three suspects attempted to rob a male student Tuesday at 11 p.m, according to Campus Police. The student was leaving Carmichael Gym on Cates Avenue when one of the suspects asked for “help” and lured the student to an area between Owen Hall and Turlington Hall. There they joined the other two suspects, who demanded the student’s bag. The suspects forced the bag from the student’s hands, but they dropped it while fleeing the scene. The suspects travelled toward the Free Expression Tunnel. They implied they had a weapon, but the victim didn’t see it. The suspects are described as one black male, light skinned, 6 foot 1 inches, 2630 years old, wearing a navy hoodie and blue jeans, one black male wearing a black hoodie and khaki pants and one black male with an unknown description.
pany’s official creation, and corrected the company’s name by fixing its spelling from Hoffman Forest LLC to Hofmann Forest LLC. The second was on April 29, and changed the registered agent of the company from Brandon Turlington to Samuel Johnson, a lawyer with Rocky Mount law firm Poyenr & Spruill LLP, according to the Rocky Mount Area Chamber of Commerce’s website. Neither the creation filing nor any of the amendments that followed, however, listed any of the company’s officers other than Walker. Watzin declined to name anyone working with Walker at Hofmann Forest LLC. Walker Ag Group declined to comment regarding the sale of the Hofmann Forest, requesting that all questions be directed to Tom Percival, a licensed real estate broker and the owner of Percival Land & Timber Consultants Inc. Percival, an alumnus of N.C. State and the CNR who graduated with a degree in forestry in 1978, declined comment as well, directing all questions to the University’s press release. Percival served as an advisor to the buyer during the sale, according to Bohlander. Percival later confirmed this, saying that he worked with all parties involved but said “I think we’re going to stop short of anything else for now.”
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The College of Design’s Halloween bash this year was loud enough to break a few windows. The annual event, hosted on campus at the Pit, featured the Roaring 20’s as its theme and welcomed more than 400 attendees dressed in Gatsbyesque attire. Christin King, a sophomore in design studies and design council president, said police approached the group halfway through the night with complaints of broken windows. “There were reports of windows being cracked in Syme [Residence Hall] because that’s how intense the sound was,” King said. “Our sound guy only had his equipment up to about 50 or 75 percent, and he was getting text messages from Bragaw [Residence Hall] about noise complaints.” King said she didn’t complain, though, because it meant she and the event planners were doing their jobs right. “Our sound guy was pretty happy about that too,” King said. This year’s Halloween party, called the “Simply Smashing Bash,” featured costumes ranging from Mr. Peanut to a
group of six students dressed as characters from Mario Kart. Attendees competed in singleand group-sized costume contests. The crowd voted on the winners, which were two students dressed in ‘20s attire with dinosaur heads known as “The Roaring 20’s.” “The college of design in general gets really excited about the event because students make their own costumes,” King said. “The costumes alone make up half of the event and decorations because they are just such an interesting sight to look at.” King said that each year, the event planning committee tries to top the previous Halloween party. To accomplish this, King said she and design event coordinator Allison Menius, a junior in environmental design, started planning in the summer. “We knew that it had to be really awesome, and it had to be really great,” King said. “One of the things we really encourage in the college of design is fostering community. We really wanted the event that got everybody out of their studios and was a reflection of creativity in the College of Design.” Dash, a Raleigh-based band, served as the disc jockeys for the first half of the night. David
Garcia, Dash’s lead singer and song writer, said he had fun at the event. “I really didn’t know what to expect,” said Garcia, a senior in biochemistry at N.C. State. “I’d never been before, but it was a really great event.” King said many people agreed with Garcia, including the fire marshal, police officers and N.C. State administration. “They all said that in all of their years, this was the most well run and well executed event,” King said. Aside from the costumes, a big hit of the night was the sound system. Hayes Twisdale, a sophomore in business administration, brought equipment from his company, Production Edge. King said the sound system was enough to power two IMAX theaters. “It was an incredible sound system,” Garcia said. “It was really good quality sound.” King said many people also came out to see Dash perform, even though members were only DJing for the night. “We were just so thankful to have them,” King said. “They are definitely a quickly fast growing band and brought a lot of people out who weren’t from the College of Design.”
has thirty people is going to have different dimensions than an event with 30,000 people.” According to Paulhamus, there are formulas for calculating the exact specifications that are supposed to be followed. “In my opinion, the dining areas at the State Fair are the worst for providing accessibility,” Paulhamus said. “A lot of the time the individual vendors will set them up, and we cannot fit a power-wheelchair in there. So that leaves a huge issue for our fair visitors that rely on a power-wheelchair or a scooter for mobility.” Greeson mentioned a similar frustration. “I wouldn’t go alone as all of the vendor trucks are impossible to reach from a wheelchair, so I couldn’t reach food without help,” Greeson said. Paulhamus said the fair struggles to accommodate disabled persons largely because it is out in the open. “Something that is very challenging for an outdoor space, such as the Fair, is the walkways,” Paulhamus said. “Portions of them are paved and very wide, they tend to be at the entrances but there are portions that are uneven,
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unpaved and have gravel on them.” According to Paulhamus these factors make it very difficult to navigate a piece of power equipment. “This has nothing to do with the specifications, but with all of those people it is hard to get a piece of power equipment from one place to another,” Paulhamus said. “It is very unfortunate most people don’t understand or consider making space for a person in a wheelchair.” Interior walkways are mostly accessible but getting inside proves difficult, Paulhamus said. Greeson said that depending on the person’s level of disability, they may or may not be able to enjoy the rides and going with a group mainly interested in the rides leave disabled citizens sitting alone a lot. “If you are in a group who is just interested in looking at exhibits, animals, grabbing a bite to eat, etc., then a disabled student can enjoy the fair,” Greeson said. According to Greeson, most fair employees can transfer disabled citizens into rides depending on the severity of their disabilities. However, most fair workers don’t have medical training, so citizens should be cautious. “We know what we can and can’t do and a 30-second
thrill is not worth a serious injury,” Greeson said. Paulhamus said events, such as the fair usually, have issues with the restrooms being too small to navigate a piece of power equipment through, even more so when the event features a large crowd. “With 30,000 people at an event just waiting to get in line for the restroom when there is only one or two accessible stalls, it is often a long waiting period.” Parking is another difficulty. “The parking is very far away from the actual fairgrounds if you’re parking on site. The shuttles are not the most handicapped accessible. Getting from the parking spot to fairgrounds is a challenge,” Paulhamus said. According to Paulhamus there are handicapped accessible parking spaces but there are not enough of them. Paulhamus detailed that the majority of the parking was on grass lots and depending on in climate weather those lots could be a very difficult terrain to navigate a piece of power equipment on. “People are pushy, and that’s not anyone’s fault but when you get that many people it’s just the nature of the crowd,” Paulhamus said.
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report published by the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy said the goal of general education requirements is to promote “educational breadth.” In pursuit of this, it recommended that UNC-Chapel Hill cut nearly 4,000 courses. The Pope Center, a conservative think tank that frequently criticizes UNC-CH, published the report Friday. The general education curriculum at UNC-CH is “incoherent” due to the “smorgasbord” of courses offered, according to the report. In pursuit of a diverse higher education, the editorial board of the Technician would rather have an all-encompassing smorgasbord of courses than a limited and biased selection. The Pope Center used six criteria to propose its modified curriculum, one of which eliminates courses that are “based on limited time periods and geographical regions.” But it doesn’t eliminate all time- or region-specific courses — the Pope Center deems topics such
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. as the American Revolution, Shakespeare and the Protestant tradition important enough to have their own courses. In other words, the Pope Center suggests that the educational curriculum of a top-ranked university further emphasize the importance of white males in history. “Not all history is equally valuable — the study of Western civilization is richer and more pertinent to U.S. students than other branches,” according to the report. But students who attend K-12 public schools in North Carolina already spend their social studies classes learning about history from a Western perspective. If college isn’t the time to diversify our education, when is? The report also suggests that UNC-CH reduce the number of required foreign language courses from three to two. Three courses aren’t enough to become fluent in any lan-
guage, the report said. But students should take two because “one of the major reasons for taking a foreign language is to improve a student’s facility with and understanding of the English language.” The fact that the report underscores the importance of English even when talking about foreign languages reveals the Pope Center’s anti-diversity agenda. The Pope Center’s modified curriculum maintains and perpetuates American ethnocentrism. David Zonderman, senate faculty president and history professor at N.C. State, called the suggested foreign language cuts “curious.” Zonderman argued that students should graduate with minimal fluency in a foreign language. “The idea really is that a college-educated person should be able to be a leader,” said Jane S. Shaw, president of the Pope Center. “So a student should be expected to go through
some rigor.” Shaw assumes that courses removed from the modified course list, including “American Environmental Policy” and “Sex and Gender in Society,” are not rigorous — a judgment that is unfair without having attended the classes. The Pope Center has made these criticisms of higher education in the past, and Zonderman said the Pope Center doesn’t have the power to implement any of its recommendations. UNC-CH Provost Jim Dean said the problem is not that the Pope Center is making curriculum recommendations, but that the report implies that some courses are better than others. No course is inherently better than another — people value courses differently. “I would just label [the modified curriculum] as being more consistent with their values,” Dean said.
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.C. State is increasingly rely ing on pr ivate f u nd i ng for research due to the state government budget cuts and the federal sequester, as the Technician reported la st week . Whether we should accept more financial Ziyi Mai resources Staff Columnist from private institutions has stirred a debate. As a traditional public university, the federal or state government fund more than 75 percent of research. No wonder the plummet of the public funding and the invasion of private money are worrisome to some people. In fact, funding part of the research projects in public universities with private money is nothing new, even at N.C. State. The partnership between the SAS Institute and N.C. State’s Department of Statistics has long been well-known around the nation. SAS Institute is not the only company that is engaging in cooperation with the statistics department. Montserrat Fuentes, the statistics department head, said there are 14 active Graduate Industrial Trainee programs (GITs) in the department and nine companies are currently supporting GITs financially, such as GlaxoSmithKline and BD Technologies. “Our department has had a long tradition of partnership with corporations since the day it was founded,” Fuentes said. “The funding that comes from corporation accounts for slightly less than 50 percent in last year’s budget.” The bond between the SAS Institute and N.C. State lends a tremendous amount of financial support to the Statistic Department. The
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department uses these resources to reward researchers, fund competitive projects and students and add necessary high-tech equipment. For years, these interactions between the two parties have made N.C. State’s statistics department one of greatest in the nation, in line with Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill’s counterparts. The academic achievement of the statistic department comes less likely without the contribution of SAS. Why does the SAS Institute help the statistics department be successful? The core idea is that sufficient funding from SAS gives enough incentives to researchers and students to climb to the top of the field. Given the stable funding, researchers and students have no concern about the financial issues. It enables the department to recruit the most brilliant and qualified graduate students around the world, even if students are not able to pay the out-of-states tuition, whereas other departments without support are less likely to fund out-ofstate students. Some might argue that the government provides more stable financial resources to public colleges. True. But the most important thing that separates private funding from public funding is that private funding is always sensitive to market signals and steers research to the right directions, whereas government is usually slower than the companies to find out market signals. The main motive of companies is to look for investments that give them the highest return. Driven by this nature, private funding is usually used more efficiently and effectively. Furthermore, the line between public universities and private colleges has become blurred when it comes to source of research funding.
Research intensive public and private universities increasingly have far more similarities than differences in mission, structure and even f inancial resources. The federal government, despite tensions, remains an indispensable partner of research projects to universities. According to a study conducted by former President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Charles Vest, two-thirds of every dollar spent on the MIT campus in the 1960s came from the federal government, primarily from sponsored researched. In 2004, only 36 percent of our campus operating budget came from sponsored research, of which about 60 percent was from the federal government. This partnership between government and universities has become a norm in today’s research work. In the foreseeable future, corporate funding for public colleges will not take over public money as the major financial resource. On one hand, it’s the state’s constitutional obligation to keep public universities in operations, with most liberal arts programs needed to be funded by taxpayers’ money. On the other hand, corporate funding is more likely to go to areas associated with industries, such as engineering, statistics and sciences in which N.C. State has strengths. If many private universities are accepting public funding to the research, there is no need to worry about the role that private funding plays in colleges. Both history and school performance show that diverse schools, both private and public and their interactions have made higher education in the United States stand out from the rest of the world.
{ LETTER TO THE EDITOR } In response to ‘Why the ASG needs N.C. State’ “A bad idea” is the only part of Stephen Leonard’s letter (“Why the ASG needs N.C. State”) that we can agree on. Opening with the question about “not what ASG can do for N.C. State, but what N.C. State can do for ASG” sets this article up for certain doom by suggesting that N.C. State is somehow subordinate or indebted to the ASG. He then tries to debunk the idea “that the ASG is some kind of special interest group or lobbying organization that has failed to do its job.” Mr. Leonard may want to visit the ASG’s website. It clearly states one of the ASG’s purposes as “advocating for student interests.” “Advocating” is a synonym for “lobbying.” Later on the about page, it says that the ASG “looks to address the pressing issues facing students today.” This is a pretty clear indication as to whom the ASG is supposed to be lobbying for.
Perhaps Mr. Leonard has forgotten that the funds for his salary, and the salaries of his peers, and the student governments for the 17 UNC campuses, and (by extension) the ASG comes from both the taxpayers of North Carolina, and the students paying tuition at these institutions. As long as the ASG is taking moneys paid by North Carolina taxpayers and UNC-System students, there is every reasonable right to question “what ASG can do for N.C. State.” What are these services rendered for the moneys paid? The ASG website is woefully devoid of information. The lonely link on the “press” page points to a single article about some politicking (lobbying) done by the ASG president. Ostensibly, the group is meant to represent students to the UNC Board of Governors. One would be entirely within their rights to question the value of the UNC Board of Governors, much less a student-run lobby group paid to “speak for” students. The message will
hardly ever change; tuition costs need to be kept as low as possible, and education needs to remain as accessible to as many people as can be afforded. And therein lies the real problem. These layers upon layers of “governance” aren’t saying anything new. Having a “voice at the table” is important only when there are ears willing to listen, and worthwhile items being discussed that can be actionably affected. Otherwise, the group is little more than a (costly) mutual adoration society. That goes for the N.C. State Student Government and the UNC Board of Governors, and especially for the ASG. Perhaps there’s more to the ASG than that, but the burden is on them to demonstrate that value. N.C. State brings $35,000 in value to the ASG annually. It’s time for them to demonstrate accountability for that money. Michael Helms, junior in history
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Ex Marine de NC ha sido liberado de las FARC
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Después de más de cuatro meses de secuestro en zonas rurales de Colombia, ciudadano estadounidense y ex marine de Carolina del Norte ha sido liberado. Kevin Scott Sutay, en sus últimos 20 años, fue entregado a las autoridades cubanas y noruegos, junto con el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja en el Guaviare, un estado en la parte sureste de Colombia. Sutay había estado viajando por toda América latina y América
del Sur como un turista, e ignoró las advertencias de las autoridades colombianas para evitar los viajes en una región conocida por ser controlada por las FARC. Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, o FARC, había dicho que abandonaría el secuestro como una condición para las conversaciones de paz, facilitados por Cuba y Noruega, entre el grupo rebelde y el gobierno colombiano que comenzó hace once meses para terminar el conflicto interno. Las FARC había demostrado su voluntad de liberar Sutay en julio, pero endureció su posición, acusán-
dolo de ser un mercenario, poco después que el presidente Juan Manuel Santos se negó a que un alto perfil político para supervisar la liberación. En un comunicado de prensa, la secretaria de Estado John Kerry, agradeció inmediatamente el gobierno de Colombia en sus “incansables esfuerzos” en la obtención de la liberación de Sutay. Reverendo Jesse Jackson, se reunió con los líderes rebeldes en Cuba a finales de septiembre y presionó en nombre del veterano de la guerra de Afganistán. El domingo, un médico del Comité Interna-
cional de la Cruz Roja dijo que Sutay estaba en buenas condiciones físicas para viajar. Según su sitio web, el CICR ha facilitado la liberación de 19 personas en poder de grupos armados en Colombia hasta la fecha en 2013, y desde 1994, ha servido como intermediario neutral en la liberación de más de 1,500 personas en el país. No estaba claro si Sutay ya había volado a Estados Unidos. Según WRAL, los intentos de la AP para identificar familiares de Sutay después de su captura no tuvieron éxito. Su hoja de servicios enumera su ciudad natal como Willow Spring, Carolina del Norte.
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Denham de California apoya reforma migratoria H.R. 15
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Fusion TV, el “ahijado corporativo de ABC y Univision,” celebró su día de lanzamiento el lunes, 28 de octubre. El canal empezó a partir de “A Secret Special Surprise” a las 6:57 p.m., hora del este, y culminando con “No, You shut up,” que es al estilo del famoso Daily Show –a las 3:30 a.m. hora del este. Aunque el canal ha estado en el aire por un corto tiempo, tuvo un comienzo colorido, abriendo con un entretenido número musical seguido por “América con Jorge Ramos,” en el que el ancla veterano presentó el canal y su show como el puente entre la percepción de las dos Américas: Los Estados Unidos y todo el continente americano, describiendo Fusion como “noticias con acento.” Con anclajes de televisión como Yannis Pappas, comediante Griego-Americano; Mariana Atencio, aclamada periodista Venezolana, actualmente la más joven corresponsal del Noticiero Univision; Pedro Andrade, periodista / modelo Brasileño; León Krauze, ancla principal para KMEX-34 en Los Angeles, y por supuesto Jorge Ramos del Noticiero Univision, así como varios otros miembros del reparto a cargo de los diferentes segmentos durante todo el día, el canal reunió a lo mejor de Univision y añadió un impresionante grupo de jóvenes periodistas y artistas. Mezclando serias noticias con comentarios satíricos y reportaje de cultura popular, los corresponsales de Fusion lograron llamar la atención de millenials tanto de latinos como de americanos, recaudando espectadores y valoraciones. Sin embargo el canal se limitó a unos pocos proveedores: AT&T U-verse, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, y
El congresista de California, Jeff Denham, es el primer republicano en anunciar su apoyo al proyecto de reforma migratoria con vía a la ciudadanía H.R. 15 presentado por los demócratas de la Cámara de Representantes. Lo hizo durante una entrevista en el programa Al Punto, que conduce el periodista Jorge Ramos en la cadena Univisión. Denham conoce el tema migratorio de primera mano. Su esposa por 20 años es hispana y siempre
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Anclaje de Univision Jorge Ramos, hablando en un evento a el National Press Club en Washington, presentó su show en Fusion, el nuevo canal desarollado por ABC y Univision.
Google Fiber. Estos proveedores sirven sólo un quinto de los espectadores del país, dejando así losinteresados sólo con la esperanza y la opción de solicitar que Timewarner Cable, DirecTV o DishNetwork adopten el programa. La cadena de televisión decidió no transmitir su contenido en línea. Fusion, no solo introdujo un nuevo tipo de cobertura al periodismo profesional, sino que también rompió barreras. Ancla de DNA, sección de discusión interactiva, Derrick N. Ashong, nacido en Ghana, fue el primer hombre de patrimonio Africano en tener un programa en la televisión de mayor audiencia en los Estados Unidos. “En nuestro programa, parte de lo que estamos tratando de hacer es discutir ciertos temas que los medios comunicativos no pintan justamente o que no son cubiertos correctamente,“ dijo Ashong en su entrevista con Jorge Ramos, en el episodio de ‘Al Punto’ en Univision el domingo pasado . Alejandra Campoverdi, ex empleada de la Casa Blanca, también se unió a Ashong. En su explicación de la visión de Fusión, dijo, “Para mí no significa necesariamente que usted tiene que ser hispano, creo que es una experiencia multicultural. Al hablar con
algunos jóvenes atreves de todo el país sobre esta red, no dejaba de oír, ‘me encuentro en un acto de equilibrio vi-cultural.’” Desaliento la idea de que el canal se puso en marcha para atender a las necesidades e intereses de un grupo singular, en contraposición a la de la juventud americana en su conjunto. Para aquellos que no tienen acceso al canal de televisión, el sitio web www.fusion.net, había subido una miríada de cortos clips, además de artículos que cubren un gran cantidad de temas, desde las tendencias del internet hasta noticias de política internacional. Los artículos ofrecen una vista aunque levemente satírica, intelectual en temas de actualidad por lo que la lectura de un artículo en línea se convirtió a una experiencia más agradable para el joven público. Mediante la combinación de la cultura popular con las noticias internacionales y discusiones interactivas, el CEO de Fusion Isaac Lee, se había propuesto a borrar la línea que separaba las culturas de los jóvenes hispanoestadounidenses. El canal de noticias era un paso hacia la diversificación de los medios de comunicación estadounidenses, la introducción de una asociación creada y unida por una lengua común.
hace referencia a cómo ayudó a su suegro mexicano en el proceso de convertirse en ciudadano. Y su distrito, agrícola y más de 40 por ciento hispano, refleja los cambios demográficos que hacen que incluso republicanos en escaños seguros reconsideren sus posturas migratorias. El problema es que no lo manifiestan. “Soy el primer republicano (en coauspiciar el H.R. 15) y espero que otros me sigan,” declaró Denham. El liderazgo de la mayoría republicana de la Cámara de Representantes sigue permitiendo, para su perjuicio, que los extremistas controlen su
mensaje. Lo hicieron en el debate presupuestario que culminó en el cierre gubernamental, y amenazan con repetirlo con el tema migratorio. Con menos de 20 días de acción legislativa en el calendario, la ventana de oportunidad sigue cerrándose para aprobar la reforma antes de que finalice el año. Sin embargo, todo es posible. Se buscan más republicanos que, como Denham, apelen al bipartidismo por un bien común y enfrenten a su liderazgo por el bien de su propio partido.
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Through her first three seasons, Kissell has compiled 50 dual-match singles victories, which is good for third in school history behind Julia Roach and Jenny Sell. She is only nine wins behind Sell’s school record. Last season,
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she rose to a career-high ITA ranking of No. 19. Kissell comes from a family of tennis players and is not the only one to play in the ACC. Her older sister, Michaela, played at Miami from 2007-2009 before finishing her college career at Marshall. Michaela is now the head coach at Western Carolina. “My mom was my coach,
and my sister was very into tennis and paved the way for me,” Kissell said. “I decided that I wanted to be just like my older sister.” Kissell and the Wolfpack’s next tournament is the College of Charleston Invitational, which runs from Friday to Sunday in Charleston, S.C.
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The Wolfpack will look to claim success during the 2013-2014 season. The squad lost goaltender Ray Distefano, due to graduation. He was a two-time SELC Honorable Mention.
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everyone and how they play.” Marsland is a newcomer to the team this season, but he has adjusted to the system nicely. “All of the freshmen have been buying into the program and giving it all they have,” Poulos said. “You can’t build a team when people aren’t buying in.” One big setback for the Pack has been the loss of its goalkeeper Ray Distefano, who graduated earlier this year. Distefano was a two-time SELC Honorable Mention All-Conference goalie and posted a .704 save percentage.
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“[Distefano] was a big loss for us,” Dunaway said. “We have two [new goalies, freshman Nicholas Marcellino and sophomore Brady Edwards,] who have done a really good job handling the pressure. It’s good to have two guys out there. It breeds competi-
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ing run from midfield, outran the defense and coolly chipped the ball into the net to give the Pack a lead it would never surrender. “It was a great ball by Benga [Makinde],” Albadawi said. “He saw it perfectly, and I’m pretty confident in situations where I’m one on one with the goalie. I hit it on target and you’re always happy to see the ball go in.” Simonin added a volley in the 22nd minute to double State’s lead. The Wolfpack went into halftime holding a comfortable 2-0 lead. A flurry of chances in the 48th minute resulted in three goals in a three-minute period, two of them for the Wolfpack. Jackson-Atogi kicked off the frenzy, giving the Pack a 3-0 lead in the 48th minute. The Mountaineers pulled one back via a 30-yard free kick that found its way into the net through a crowd of bodies, but Albadawi picked out Surkamp on the ensu-
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Pack downs Mountaineers on senior night Andrew Schuett
Carlos Rodon earns USA Baseball’s Player of the Year award N.C. State’s Carlos Rodon earned USA Baseball’s Richard W. Dick Case Player of the Year Award, given annually to USA Baseball’s top player while honoring the memory of the organization’s founding executive director and CEO. Rodon led the Wolfpack to the College World Series as a sophomore in 2013, and returned for a second stint with the Collegiate National Team to compose a brilliant summer ending with the first Richard W. “Dick” Case Award in N.C. State baseball history. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Men’s golf finishes fall season
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N.C. State’s offense was in sync on Tuesday night, thumping Appalachian State 4-1 on senior night at the Dail Soccer Field in Raleigh. State’s four goals against the Mountaineers are the most it has scored this season in a match. Coming off a massive ACC win over Virginia Tech on Friday, the Wolfpack (74-4) scored twice on either side of halftime to dispatch the Mountaineers (3-6-6). N.C. State head coach Kelly Findley said he was pleased with his team’s performance in the Pack’s last home match of the season. “We got off to a great start to score in the first two minutes, and obviously to go into halftime with a 2-0 lead was tremendous,” Findley said. “I’m very pleased that we got a lot of guys in and had a great senior night. Everyone got to play, which is huge. That’s not something you always get the chance to do.” Senior midfielder Nazmi Albadawi put the Wolfpack in front after just three minutes. Junior defenders Clement Simonin and Moss Jackson-Atogi also fired home for the Wolfpack, scoring on either side of halftime. Junior
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Redshirt junior forward Nick Surkamp celebrates with junior defender Moss Jackson-Atogi after Atogi scored his first goal of the season on the Appalachian State goalie. The Wolfpack beat the Mountaineers 4-1 on Tuesday.
striker Nick Surkamp, the Pack’s leading scorer, notched his seventh goal of the season to round out State’s scoring. Albadawi, who also notched an assist on Surkamp’s goal, quickly reclaimed his role as State’s attacking maestro since returning from a foot injury last week. The Raleigh native has tallied three goals and two assists in the last two games but said he’s not entirely pleased with his
performance. “To be honest, I don’t think I’m playing that well right now,” Albadawi said. “I’m scoring goals and everything, but I’m not satisfied with just scoring because there’s other things I could be doing. But it’s been good getting back into things, and it always feels good to score.” Surkamp said that Albadawi has been missed on the field by his teammates.
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and captains can] teach them the different part of how they operate.” The N.C. State men’s club Senior defender Kevin Dulacrosse team has playoff naway, president and captain aspirations for the 2014 sea- of the club, has been pleased son. After barely missing the with the team’s performance MCLA regional playoffs last this fall. year, the team will look to “This fall, I think the level make a run toward the post- of play has been pretty good,” season in the spring season. Dunaway said. “Where we are The Wolfpack lacrosse club this fall is better than where (5-2) plays in the Northeast we’ve been in years past. division of the Southeastern [Our play this fall] is a good Lacrosse Conference along- building block for the spring. side South Carolina, East I think the spring looks pretty Carolina, Wake Forest and bright for us.” Clemson. The Pack is coming off an Coming off a season where appearance in the ECU Pirate two early division losses Invitational. The tournament doomed the team, the Pack included round-robin play on looks primed to make a play- Saturday, in which State reoff run. corded two wins, including Head coach Chip Thurston one against division opposaid he is confident that the nent ECU. club can finish toward the “Anytime we go into ECU, top of the it’s a rivalry,” division. junior mid“Our fielder Nachances are than Poulos re a l go o d said. “Guys to make the that might playoffs,” not have ever Thurston played before said. “With could be out Chip Thurston, trained dethere, but we men’s lacrosse head coach fensemen, still look forst rong atward to that tack and a game.” returning midfield. We have Dunaway and Poulos, who all the ingredients to be a also serve as team captains, successful program in the are not the only two returnspring.” ing players. The club is nearing the end Several starters from last of its fall season, with only season, such as Bill Nifong, one game left in 2013. The fall return to play for the club this season is the equivalent of a season. Nifong led the team preseason before conference in goals last season. play in the spring. “Before practice we all hang “Fall ball is an opportunity out and talk,” sophomore to teach the new guys coming midfielder Jonah Marsland in,” Thurston said. “It gives said. “The captains really everyone a chance to learn emphasized getting to know the system and develop their skills, and [the coaching staff LACROSSE continued page 7 Correspondent
Thursday WOMEN’S SOCCER VS. WAKE FOREST Raleigh, 7 p.m.
Saturday FOOTBALL VS. NORTH CAROLINA AT HOMECOMING Raleigh, 12:30 p.m.
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Club sports spotlight: men’s lacrosse
Wednesday MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. UNC PEMBROKE Raleigh, 7 p.m.
WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL VS. MIAMI Coral Gables, FL, 7 p.m.
“There’s no doubt in our mind that we can get the win.” Albadawi’s goal at the start of the game halted any upset bid the Mountaineers were hoping to pull off. Senior defender Gbenga Makinde riffled a cross from the left flank to Albadawi at the top of the box. Albadawi, making a surg-
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CROSS COUNTRY AT ACC CHAMPIONSHIPS Winston-Salem, TBA.
“It’s great to have Naz back,” Surkamp said. “Obviously we had a great work rate when he wasn’t in there, but his creativity plus the work rate is unbelievable.” The Pack has put together a three-game win streak and will look to keep it alive against No. 12 Maryland on Friday in College Park, Md. “We don’t play for draws, so we’re going there to win the game,” Albadawi said.
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Senior Joelle Kissell fist pumps after she and her doubles partner, senior Tatiana Illova, score a point against Boston College April 25, 2013. The Wolfpack defeated the Eagles 4-1 in round one of the ACC Tournament at Cary Tennis Center.
Kissell continues success in final year with the Wolfpack Luke Nadkarni Staff Writer
Few student-athletes N.C. State have been as consistent throughout their careers as senior women’s tennis standout Joelle Kissell. A native of Hostetter, Pa., Kissell begins this season looking to add to her already crowded collection of accomplishments. In each of the past two seasons, the senior has been named to the All-ACC team and selected for the NCAA singles championships. She is just the second woman in Wolfpack history to qualify for postseason play several times. For good measure, Kissell is also a two-time All-ACC Academic Team selection. Kissell, the Wolfpack’s No. 1 player and currently ranked No. 45 among Division I players, was one of several Wolfpack women’s tennis players who competed in this past weekend’s Tennessee Invitational in Knoxville, Tenn. “We went in with a good mindset,” Kissell said. “We got a lot of matches in, and I think it was a good weekend for us.” Kissell suffered a few singles losses in Knoxville, but she teamed up with sophomore Rachael James-Baker on the second day of the tournament to come away with an 8-6 victory against Brittany Lindl and Laurence Guevremont of Tennessee.
Junior Nicole Martinez, freshman Liza Fieldsend and senior Christy Sipes picked up singles wins during the weekend for the Pack. Junior Elisha Hande and freshman Natalia Janowicz teamed up on the final day to defeat Stephanie Fox and Kirsten Lewis of Kentucky in doubles play. “We’re very processed-based,” Kissell said. “For every match we’re always thinking about how we can get better and preparing the same way.” Kissell said she finds fall tournaments slightly more challenging than spring dual matches because not all of her teammates are present and cheering her on. “I actually played in a tournament out in California all by myself [a few weeks ago],” Kissell said. “The atmosphere is so different. It’s not quite as fun. I love having my teammates supporting me, so I’m looking forward to the spring.” Kissell said the chemistry the team shares on the court is also present off the court, and that allows them to play at a higher level. “We have a great group of girls on this team,” Kissell said. “I love hanging out with them [off the court]. Bus rides are a lot of fun. Having that good connection with your teammates really helps.”
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“Our chances are real good to make the playoffs.”