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Fred Cubbage, a professor of natural resource policy and economics, speaks at an organized gathering on the Brickyard to protest the University’s announced sale of the Hofmann Forest.

Students organize protest of Hofmann Forest sale Staff Report

About 30 people gathered in the Brickyard Tuesday afternoon for a student-organized rally to protest the sale of the Hofmann Forest and make sure the 79,000-acre tract is preserved.

A group of students, including Claudio Kriegel, a senior in psychology, Ezekiel Overbaugh, a senior in plant biology and Caroline Hansley, a senior in interdisciplinary studies, organized the event to share ideas and concerns among the student body, according to Overbaugh.

“No single person is responsible for the protest to-

day, although Claudio and I discussed a Brickyard meeting previously. If it were not for the organizing efforts of Caroline the event would not have taken place the way it did,” Overbaugh said.

“It was intended as a way to voice our opinion on [the Hofmann sale] and show solidarity with the foresters leading the cause.”

Currently, the contractual agreement between the N.C. State endowment board and the forest’s buyer, Hofmann Forest LLC., doesn’t guarantee the land won’t be developed into commercial or residential property.

Protestors were concerned

after a 2009 prospectus was released last week, which included detailed strategies for developing the forest. Though Hofmann Forest LLC. said it won’t follow through with these plans, the protestors demanded a clause be written into the Hofmann contract.

Ernie Averett, an N.C. State alumnus and owner of Flatwood Farms in Oxford, N.C., attened the rally and said he is pessimistic about trusting the buyer’s plans to preserve the land.

“When this sale is over, this buyer will do whatever he chooses with the land,”

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State-appropriated budget cuts are limiting the Office of Information Technology’s ability to become a more effective resource for students, faculty members and staff.

OIT absorbed $1.1 million in recurring budget cuts this year due to the state’s 20132014 budget reduction, according to a University announcement.

As a result, the department eliminated almost 11 positions and now has to prioritize and realign its resources.

“This budget reduction and accompanying loss of positions will have a lasting impact on the organization’s ability to provide timely responses to requests for various campus services,” according to the announcement.

Though the department was required to cut 10.75 positions, only one employee was laid off, because 9.75 positions recently became vacant. However, Marc Hoit, the vice chancellor for the Office of Information Technology at N.C. State, said these unfilled positions will

limit the University’s ability to assist the N.C. State community. “[We’re losing] needed services, and these cuts are reducing our capacity to do work,” Hoit said.

According to Hoit, the employee was laid off because losing his or her service would be less detrimental than cutting other programs.

OIT’s budget has been cut four of the past five years, and this year will result in an additional 5 percent cut, according to Hoit.

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Student login information stolen by ‘phishing’ hackers Jacqueline Lee Staff Writer

Hackers gained access to several student accounts this month by sending out 5,000 deceptive emails, according to the Office of Information.

OIT reported 20 students had their accounts compromised this month from emails containing a link to a fake Google Drive or Google Doc login site where students’ login account names and passwords were stolen.

The fake emails are often titled “Important

Document” or the familiar Google doc link title “I’ve shared an item with you.” Students can look at the URL address to tell whether a link is a phishing attack by seeing if the link starts with https://drive.google.com or https://docs.google.com. If the URL is different, then it is a hacking attempt, according to Tim Gurganus, an IT security officer at N.C. State.

This technique is known as phishing, a social engineering attack in which a victim

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Women’s interest in computer science plummets, panel says Brittany Bynum Staff Writer

Panel members from Women in Computer Science and NCSU Libraries discussed the declining number of first-year female undergraduate students in computer science majors, which they fear may lead to a lack of innovation and diversity in the field on Tuesday.

First-year female undergraduate are not showing much interest in computer science majors, as the number of female students decreased by 79 percent between 2000 and 2011, according to a panel discussion Tuesday.

The event began with a documentary, She ++, which was created by two female undergraduate students from Stanford University. It featured women who were involved in organizations such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and Pinterest.

According to the documentary, American businesses need 1.4 million workers in computer science, but only 30 percent if those positions will be filled.

The women who appeared in the documentary said that the course, “Intro to Computer Science,” is known as a “weeder” class because it intimidates women. They said that

the difference between men and women who take this course is that women blame themselves for not understanding the material while men will blame the course.

At N.C. State, only 12 percent of female undergraduate students are majoring in computer science, according to Lina Battestilli, a teaching assistant professor in computer science-engineering.

A panel, consisting of Sarah Heckman, teaching assistant professor at NCSU, Tiffany Barnes, associate professor in computer scienceengineering, Melanie Donny-Clark, senior software engineer at Google, and Andrea Villanes, a recent graduate and former WiCS officer, discussed the film’s concepts.

Villanes said women bring a different perspective to computer science because they think about their community when it comes to developing new products. She noted the importance of targeting girls early to get them interested in the computer science field.

Battestilli has held summer camps at N.C. State for younger girls and boys to create apps. She said she noticed that the boys are more likely to create apps pertaining to games, but the girls wanted to create educational apps.

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Ayna Agarwal, pictured above, along with Ellora Israni wrote and directed a documentary about women involvement in computer science, and how interest in the subject has dropped by 79 percent since 2000.

“You need diverse people for different perspectives,” Barnes said.

Another reason the panel members suggested that women were not interested in computer science is that people in the industry are stereotyped as anti-social.

However, Donny-Clark said women shouldn’t be deterred from

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the field because there’s no way to generalize everyone interested in computer science.

“It’s fun,” Donny-Clark said.

“Women shouldn’t miss out on it because it’s not a ‘girl thing.’”

Heckman said the stereotype would change if pop culture would embrace computer science as a ca-

reer for everyone.

They also described it as a very creative field and anyone at any age can start in it.

“There is a need for images that show computer science as a great field to be in.” Heckman said.

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The headline of the article “SGA plans vote to join fight against Hofmann Sale” might have caused confusion. No one person represents the views of everybody in Student Government, and the process of SGA “joining the fight against the sale” is more complicated than a single vote.

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Internships are a valuable yet underused asset for students Jason Katz Deputy News Editor

Getting real-world work experience is important for students, but many who are studying humanities and social sciences are not taking advantage of the internship opportunities offered through the University.

Susan Katz, an internship coordinator and associate professor of English, said that she has been attempting

to advertise and market her internship class to get more students to join, as most students enrolled within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences are not required to have an internship during their undergraduate career.

“There are probably 1,000 students that [the internship class] is available to, and I get 20 students [a semester].”

Katz said that this semester she had 20 employers contact

her about student internship positions, but she only had enough interested students to fill six of those positions.

“In addition, I have a list of 14 employers who always want an intern, and I only placed students in five of them,” Katz said.

Katz said internships are important for everybody, but especially students in CHASS because careers are not usually as defined as in other fields of study. In the

humanities, students often times don’t know exactly what they want to do when they graduate.

The actual field experience that internships provide would better help students understand whether or not a certain career would be a good fit, Katz said.

Katz said she keeps a variety of employers on her email list to try to help every student’s needs.

“I do maintain a list of employers who have had an intern in the past, or who have expressed interest in an intern or who have been contacted about possibly hosting an intern, and there are over 300 names on that list,” Katz said.

Dick Reavis, an associate professor in English who teaches journalism classes at N.C. State, said real world experience also allows students to perform better in the classroom, as they seem to have a better sense of their priorities.

“If students have practical experience, it makes them better,” Reavis said.

Reavis said the current model of education doesn’t do enough to help students; they cannot simply absolve

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Averett said at the protest.

“Mary Watzin and [Chancellor] Randy Woodson don’t care [about preserving the forest] now and they damn sure won’t care then.”

Overbaugh said he wrote a letter to Chancellor Woodson Monday afternoon, urging him to re-think the Hofmann Forest sale.

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knowledge from sitting in class, listening to professors and reading textbooks.

“In journalism, experience is the most important thing,” Reavis said. “The way you get a job is ‘show me your clips,’ not ‘show me your degree.’”

Reavis said he can only speak to his field, but the importance of real-world experience is most likely similar in other fields as well.

“I suspect if I were teaching archaeology and I had a student that had been on a dig, they would be a better student,” Reavis said.

On Jan. 29, Gov. Pat McCrory appeared on a national radio show and said he was going to develop legislation that would put less emphasis on enrollment, and more on developing careers. He said the plan wouldn’t be “based on butts in seats but on how many of those butts can get jobs.”

But during this interview, McCrory seemed to question the importance of even having a liberal arts education.

“If you want to take gender studies, that’s fine, go to a private school and take it,” McCrory told the radio host Bill Bennett, who is a former

U.S. Secretary of Education.

“But I don’t want to subsidize that if that’s not going to get someone a job.”

Katz said that when people hear the word humanities, they often just think of literature and history and don’t understand all that the field has to offer. But she said that she agrees that we need to create opportunities for students to be able to get jobs.

“We don’t want N.C. State to become a vocational school,” Katz said. “We want students to get a rounded education.”

The skills taught in humanities courses are exactly what jobs are looking for, Katz said, referencing data collected from employers who responded to Job Outlook 2013, a survey prepared by the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

Many of the top-10 skills and qualities they look for in a job candidate are taught in humanities fields, such as the ability to verbally communicate with those inside and outside of the organization, which the survey listed as the most sought-after skill by employers.

Overbaugh also said the protest and continued efforts from the N.C. State community will result in an amended contract.

“I am proud of the cooperation students, faculty and the media are showing over this issue,” Overbaugh said.

“I would like to see our efforts results in legally binding restrictions on the uses of Hofmann Forest.”

Fred Cubbage, professor in the College of Natural Re-

sources, spoke at the protest and said selling the Hofmann forest seems contradictory because the sale would repudiate the principles of stewardship, sustainability and environmental protection taught by the College of Natural Resources.

“We should teach what we believe,” Cubbage said. “If we don’t believe in these things, we should give up and pursue other careers.”

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The panel members said they believed that computer science wasn’t taught in schools early enough.

However, N.C. State has a program called Students and Technology in Academics, Research and Service, a nationally funded program, that tutors and mentors students in computer science programs.

Battestilli said a problem pertaining to computer science is that it requires logical thinking, which can be frustrating at times and said 80 percent of her students in Intro to Computer Science were worried about not understanding the concepts.

At the end of the event, members offered participants ways of getting involved and suggested joining WiCS, STARS, and helping high school summer camps to help spark interest in the field.

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Tristan Wilkerson, a representative from Young Invincibles, a youth advocacy group that hopes to partner with the NAACP speaks Tuesday in Riddick Hall. Wilkerson spoke on the rising tuition costs in North Carolina and how students can help lower them.

N.C. State NAACP partners with nonprofit to solve education problems Jess Thomas Correspondent

An organization called the Young Invincibles said it wants to partner with the N.C. State NAACP chapter in order to help students understand the education policies in their area.

The Young Invincibles are a nonprofit group based out of Washington, D.C. that educates young adults about issues such as employment, healthcare and higher education.

The group members started a project called the Student Impact Project, which works with students in North Carolina to impact educational policies.

The group discussed issues affecting N.C. State campus, specifically general education courses that delay students from graduating and how student government funding for minority groups on campus is insufficient.

Lauryn Collier, interim president of the N.C. State NAACP chapter, said the NAACP chapter received no funding from the student government.

Justin Yeater and Tristan Wilkerson from the Young Invincibles spoke on Monday about how the state budget cuts have affected the student’s abilities to afford

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Hoit said the cuts will affect other departments as well, because OIT deals with networking, the wireless help desk, student registration, the financial aid system, human resources for hiring and other services.

“By cutting these things it’s not like we’d stop doing those services, but what’s already happened is we’re not as nimble as we could be so when people ask for help or a service,” Hoit said. “You might need to wait a couple more minutes on the phone because we’ll be understaffed, or creating a new system for HR might take four months instead of two. The cuts will slow down our ability to help the University do all the new things we wants to do. As we look at the new changes that we want to make in order to keep improving, it will be harder to do because we have to work harder to maintain existing systems.”

Hoit said the cuts will affect students directly in at least two ways.

The first involves the development of a program that

college education.

The group members collected data that displayed that nearly 65 percent of jobs will require a post-secondary education by the year 2020.

The Young Invincibles forecasted that only 46 percent of the population in North Carolina will have a degree from a higher education institution.

The group members addressed concerns regarding how increasing tuition rates are leading to many students graduating with substantial loans.

Since 2007, the UNC-System has experienced budget cuts, causing the average tuition cost to rise by about 44 percent in the last five years.

The average debt of undergraduate students in North Carolina is 20,800 dollars, according to the group members’ presentation.

Additionally, the group pointed to specific trends in North Carolina where enrollment of students has nearly doubled from 2007-2012, and funding that aids students in attending school has been cut by approximately 65 million dollars.

The Young Invincibles proposed that meetings about college affordability be held at the N.C. State campus where many different student groups attend.

Students are also advised to attend Student Government meetings and meet with school administrators to discuss rising tuition costs.

According to Wilkerson, the goal of the Student Impact Project is to help students in understanding the financial policies of higher education.

“Ultimately, the goal is to have students be wellinformed and well-spoken about the fiscal climate of their higher education,” Wilkerson said.

Wilkerson said the project has been an engaging experience where many students wanted to know more and did not understand the severity of their debt.

“There are students who have an enormous amount of debt now and have no idea how they got there, and they feel it’s important to know before you get there” Wilkerson said.

Collier said that learning about the data from the Young Invincibles was interesting because it showed how universities across North Carolina were affected.

“I think that the NC government cutting funding is ridiculous because nothing can be done if people remain ignorant about problems.”

Collier said.

allows executive officers and deans to send mass emails to faculty members, students and staff. Currently, university administrators have to go through a long process in which they must have all messages approved before being sent out.

OIT is developing a website where executive officers and deans could send out these emails by simply logging into a website. However, the project has been delayed due to the state-appropriated budget cuts.

“Instead of doing all that work to send out a mass message you’d be able to just click send with the new system. We were 85 percent done with the new program, but by losing the people we lost, the site isn’t operational even though we should have been done a few months ago,” Hoit said.

Another project that has been delayed due to budget cuts is a new calendar system that would be a practical resource for students and faculty members to find events around campus, according to Hoit.

“Now, most groups use Google calendars for events but they’re all separate,” Hoit said. “We are developing a

program to link all the calendars for different groups and departments and make it so you can access them centrally. That was part of our internal communication plan, but again, budget cuts have slowed us down.”

Hoit said OIT’s staff decreased since his arrival at N.C. State, and budget cuts are a university-wide problem.

“When I started five years ago, I had 320 staff, and the current count is about 230.

Maybe 320 was too many, but 230 is not enough to do what the University would like to get done,” Hoit said. “The dilemma is there are a lot of priorities; we need advisors and we need more teachers. These cuts are everywhere, and I’m not the only one who’s feeling the effects and struggling to get stuff done.”

However, Hoit said OIT will still remain a valuable resource for students and faculty members.

“We’re doing everything we can do to be innovative and we’re going to do everything we can to do a good job and work with what we have to be an effective resource for the University,” Hoit said.

trusts the sender and responds by providing their login username and password. This allows hackers to access their accounts and obtain personal information, Gurganus said.

“In the past, the attacks were very simplistic,” OIT Systems Programmer Tim Lowman said. “Of ten they contained a link to a simple form hosted off-site that was easy to recognize.

Now, however, the attacks are more sophisticated.”

Lowman said he has seen hackers use phishing to steal documents and download material from the N.C. State libraries and several academic departments.

“What hackers gain, is control. You would be surprised what these people do with accounts,” Lowman said. “What I see currently is the hackers are downloading the account contents to their sites. They, then, mine that information for documents, bills, et cetera, that would allow them to compromise the student’s identity.”

According to Gurganus, once hackers log into an account after obtaining a password, they send a mass email from that address to the account holder’s contacts. This makes recipients more prone to click the link because they are receiving it from someone they know.

Gurganus said OIT finds these suspicious emails

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due to the massive amount of recipients getting the same message.

“Most victims don’t look at the whole URL they are clicking on, because they trust it since they received the email from a friend. Phishing exploits this trust relationship people have with friends and websites that they are familiar with,” Gurganus said.

Lowman said phishing incidents are more common after upgrades to websites and resources, such as the OIT website, Sysnews.

For example, Lowman said if OIT announces an upgrade, hackers will send emails to students, staff and faculty members promoting new features that they can access if they login to their account.

According to Lowman, OIT has partnered with Google to prevent corrupted message from getting to students and faculty. OIT also has phishing and spam prevention and monitoring services in place to help identify compromised accounts so they can be shut off quickly.

“We consulted with Google for settings to promote the best security perimeter for our campus mail service. We try to filter out phishing messages before they get to our campus mail system,” Lowman said.

Lowman said OIT sent several emails alerting people about phishing and held presentations and special events about the topic. They also publish large-scale warnings to Sysnews and various online billboards.

“There continue to be on-

going attacks and I find 100 new websites made daily that are used in these messages,” Gurganus said. “Some get taken down, but then new ones are always made. This new method of using Google Docs to access accounts is going to be a problem for a while.”

According to Gurganus, hackers have mimicked sites such as Google, Paypal and the N.C. State portal account for phishing.

Lowman said OIT is planning more online training materials to help people learn more about various types of attacks such as phishing to prevent them from happening.

“Above all, we would like to get everyone’s ear for a moment and say ‘the internet isn’t always a friendly place’. In this day and age, be careful when you receive an email; especially one with a link or attachment,” Lowman said.

Lowman said students should know that N.C. State will never ask students to reveal personal information, such as passwords or other restricted data, by e-mail, phone, text or other means of communication. Also, students should have up-todate antivirus software and to be suspicious of off-campus links.

Students are advised by OIT to be aware of such emails and if one is received, it should be forwarded to abuse@ncsu.edu or call the N.C. State Help Desk at 5154357.

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Woodson talks Hofmann Forest with the Technician

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n Tuesday evening Chancellor Randy Woodson met with the editorial board of the Technician, per his request, to discuss the sale of the Hofmann Forest or rather the editorial we had written about it the night before. We were grateful for the opportunity.

“I’m going to walk through with you some of the issues, and portraying in the editorial this morning that there has been deceit and lies is completely inaccurate,” Woodson said, wasting no time to explain the purpose of his visit.

After speaking with Woodson, the editorial board of the Technician would like to apologize to the chancellor for the staff editorial titled “The Hofmann Forest fiasco: Administration, make this right.”

In our editorial, we stated that we felt as though we had been lied to by the administration. However, Woodson made it clear to us that he has, in fact, remained honest and

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. unwavering in his position regarding the sale of the forest.

We said that Woodson said the land would be preserved, and we made it seem as though he was concerned about the conservation of the forest. We were wrong, and for that we are sorry.

“We are not the Department of Conservation,” Woodson told The News & Observer on July 10, in response to a demonstration during which protesters gathered outside of a board of trustees meeting in opposition to the sale.

This was more than four months before the true motives of Hofmann Forest LLC came into question with the release of the prospectus; however, true to previous statement, Woodson expressed his indifference regarding the future of the forest in our meeting.

“I’m going to be real honest with you here. I

always am,” Woodson said. “We can’t control everything that happens to the land after we sell it, but we could control the way it was sold, and finding a buyer that had the intent to manage it in a way consistent with the way it’s managed now ... Twenty years down the road, I can’t predict what will be happening there and, candidly, if we restrict with covenants the way a person used it in perpetuity, no one would buy it.”

Woodson discussed the University’s long history of exploiting the Hofmann Forest in the interest of maximizing profits.

“If you read the history of this property, we’ve had periods where we explored for oil on the property, where we dug for coal, where we just basically did anything that made sense to generate income to support the college,” Woodson said. “This property has always

been about generating resources for the college.”

Woodson dispelled our misguided belief that the forest is indeed a forest and told us about how the land had been nothing more than a swamp when the Natural Resources Foundation (then called the North Carolina Forestry Foundation Inc.) acquired it. He explained how the land was dynamited to drain the swamp and how it was turned into a “tree plantation.”

“If you were thinking about this as a nature conservancy, this nature has been manipulated for a long time,” Woodson said.

Woodson made clear the advantages of maintaining the status quo if it helps to turn a quick profit.

So to you, Chancellor Woodson, we apologize. We apologize for not doing the research we should’ve to realize that the conservation of the Hofmann Forest was never a priority for you.

Life without parole for nonviolent criminals: justice or politics?

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riminals and their deeds are usually seen as evil in a society. Criminals are unloved and abandoned, so very few of them are able to make a new life after being released from prisons. But the Bill of Rights in the Constitution Ziyi Mai still strongly Staff Columnist protects susp e c t s a nd criminals’ rights in the spirit of minimizing the probability that a criminal is abused and treated unjustly.

Since the 1970s, the explosive growth of jail and prison populations due to federal and state governments’ “tough-on-crime” policy has greatly undermined the spirit of the Bill of Rights. Recently, American Civil Liberties Union released a report showing that the United States not only incarcerates the largest number of criminals in the world but also has held the highest rate during the past decade. The report specifically examines one of the most extreme cases in mass incarceration: the imposivwtion of a life sentence without the possibility of parole for people who have committed nonviolent crimes. ACLU found that there are at least 3,278 prisoners serving life without parole for nonviolent crimes such as drug use and shoplifting. Some of the stories, such as serving a life sentence for stealing a $159 jacket, have been widespread through media to garner the public’s attention.

Before the 1970s, judges had the authority to determine the degree of penalty by considering the convicted person’s conditions, such as a

former criminal record, age, family and income. But the mandatory minimum sentencing laws that were passed during the 1970s have immediately tied judges’ hands and eliminated their power to determine cases based on discretions. These laws hamper the independence and judiciary branch and judicial review that are able to check federal and state laws that violate the Constitution. As Judge Andre Davis of Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal put it, “… mandatory minimums are unfair and unjust. These laws, created by an overzealous Congress decades ago, hinder judges from handing out fair and individualized sentences, though prosecutors are given unwarranted power to dictate sentences through charging decisions.”

The cause of today’s injustice on nonviolent crime was deeply rooted in the “War on Drugs.” In October of 1970, Congress passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act to strengthen the police’s power to conduct “no-knock” searches. In the subsequent year, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs and established The Drug Enforcement Administration, widely recognizing the federal government’s role in regulating and fighting drug abuse.

Shortly thereafter, Nixon resigned, but his legacy has remained. Regulations from the administration side are usually less likely to be overseen by the Congress and checked by the judiciary.

The long-run problem of these regulations is that it’s almost impossible to remove them once established. Governments are becoming more bureaucratic and less efficient. Thus, massive regula-

tion is nothing more than politicians’ desire to win the public’s support during a certain period.

Besides 79 percent of inmates serving life without parole due to drug related crimes, habitual offenders can also result in long period sentences or even life.

State legislators intended to punish these kinds of criminals because it was widely believed that people with criminal histories could not be reformed or corrected.

If they are released from prison, it was believed they would continue to commit serious, violent crimes following their release.

The idea of making these laws is unsound. Empirically speaking, the rate of nonviolent habitual crimes, such as shoplifting, increases during economic downturn. People commit these crimes because they might be struggling to find a source of income. Life without parole as a penalty means they are not forgiven for a mistake they made in a desperate situation. For some who are really lazy and make their living out of others’ pockets, life without parole might not be a bad option for them. Once imprisoned, they trade their freedom with basic living standard, which they might not be able to sustain outside prisons.

In a foreseeable future, prisons in the U.S. will be expected to expand to fulfill the need of the increasing number of criminals who commit nonviolent offense in wake of laws of life without parole still in place. They will continue to consume taxpayer’s money but not necessarily keep people safer. Keeping minor criminals in jail forever doesn’t come without imposing costs on the whole society.

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c tober’s go -l ive of the healthcare. gov website should quell any questions about why the government shouldn’t be involved in our nation’s healthcare Mike Helms anymore Guest Columnist than it already is. As one ABC journalist commented, the rollout has been like a “slow-motion train wreck.” A train wreck, indeed, and one that is poised to undermine the Democratic Party’s banner legislation that could make or break the 2014 elections.

Deploying a website to handle the volume of traffic expected on healthcare.gov is nothing new; Amazon, eBay, Google, Microsoft, Wikipedia, Yahoo, CNN, Fox and a myriad of other websites handle far more traffic than healthcare.gov could ever hope to see. If the website hadn’t promised so much to so many people with a legitimate need, it would be comical to watch.

But the problems go much deeper than the website. Like any form of insurance, health insurance draws on wellestablished principles of actuarial science to assess risk.

This is why (on average) it costs more to insure a sports car than it does a family sedan, or why a young driver pays more for insurance than a more experienced driver.

Accordingly, health insurers

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have long assessed higher fees to smokers, for instance, because this behavior has long been understood to cause a myriad of (expensive) illnesses.

Some will argue that health insurance needs to be more affordable and more accessible. This is true, but by flattening the field and eliminating virtually every variable used to assess risk, the actual cost of health insurance will rise for many people. My premiums will almost double in 2014, despite me being young and healthy.

Tort reform would have been the single easiest way to help manage insurance costs. One of the largest costs built into a doctor’s practice is the cost of malpractice insurance. As one healthcare provider told me, “You’re only ever one lawsuit away from financial ruin.” By reining in frivolous lawsuits and implementing caps on the non-economic damages that courts can award, we can bring the cost of malpractice insurance under control.

Mandating that insurance companies provide assistance for obesity is a good first step, but it doesn’t go far enough.

Barring a financial incentive (through lower health insurance premiums), it’s questionable how many patients will actually take advantage of these programs. Those who don’t take advantage of these programs will be at

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higher risk for a myriad of obesity-related illnesses, but will not be paying more for their insurance. That cost will be borne by everyone else in the insurance pool.

My concern with the ACA runs even deeper than this.

Assessing individuals a fee (or a tax) for not having health insurance — and receiving nothing in return for that fee — is wrong. If a minimum of coverage was being provided for payment of this tax, it would make more sense. But as it stands, it wedges consumers between insurance offerings that may or may not suit them, and a fee that serves only to pad the coffers of the IRS. I grew up in Canada, a country that has long prided itself on its socialized health insurance. I don’t have a problem with the government regulating insurers and helping to even the playing field. I do, however, have a problem with the government getting involved in an aspect of my life as intimate as my health care, when they can’t even deploy a website that is supposed to help me find an insurer. I have an enormous problem with my healthcare being tied to my income taxes and the IRS (an organization not known for its bedside manners).

Trust must be earned, and this rollout has done nothing to earn my trust.

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MIÉRCOLES, 20 DE NOV. , 2013 • PÁGINA 5

En el camino a los Latin Grammys con La Vida Boheme Kenneth Smith-Lopez Escritor personal

Este jueves se celebran los premios del Latin Grammy por 14ta vez. El evento reúne a lo mejor de la música latina y será llevado en Las Vegas.

Hay muchos a r t i s t a s nominados, incluyendo al grupo venezolano “La Vida Boheme,” nominado en las categorías de mejor álbum de Rock por “Será” y mejor canción Rock por “Hornos de Cal”. Este grupo está integrado por Henry D´Arthenay, Daniel De Sousa, Sebastián Ayala y Rafael Pérez Medina.

La banda empezó ganando el concurso “Nuevas Bandas” en Venezuela en el año 2008 y desde entonces ya tienen dos producciones, 4 nominaciones a los Latin Grammys y una a los Grammy. También quedaron de segundos en el concurso internacional “MTV Iggy” y su canción “Buen Salvaje” apareció en la banda sonora de “FIFA12”, recibiendo el premio a mejor canción en un videojuego de los “MTV Game Awards”.

Bienvenidos tuvo la oportunidad de entrevistar a Henry (cantante, compositor y uno de los guitarristas de la banda). La banda contiene muchos mensajes políticos y sociales en sus letras, a lo que D´Arthenay nos dijo, “Somos una banda de rock dedicada a difundir las bondades del action painting de Pollock al igual que los inconvenientes de la dependencia petrolera.”

“Lo que nos rodea es consecuencia de la situación de Venezuela al igual que la situación de Venezuela es consecuencia de lo que nos rodea,” dijo Henry. “Los temas que tratan nuestras canciones están profundamente ar-

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En su inicio, los conciertos de La Vida Boheme consistían en una fiesta a la música en donde el público y banda coreaban las canciones mientras se bañaban unos a otros con pintura. ­­­

raigados en lo que vivimos día a día como jóvenes en un país donde vivir pareciera ser más difícil que en otras sociedades.”

Con sus letras, el grupo busca abrir los ojos a la gente.

“Decir las cosas en alto en esperanzas de que alguien—sea dentro o fuera de nuestras fronteras—responda y nos haga sentir menos solos en el desasosiego,” dijo el cantante.

Así mismo, los jóvenes saben muy bien que todavía tienen mucho por delante y que son un ejemplo. Aun así ven sus nuevas nominaciones como una nueva apuesta de

jóvenes apostando por Latinoamérica. “Nuestra generación pocas veces tiene voz en eventos consolidados como Los Grammys, y que nos den el derecho de palabra, por así decirlo, con un disco tal conceptual como «Será» nos hace querer ir a la ceremonia y hablar sin tomar nuestras palabras por sentado.”

Al ser preguntados sobre qué personalidad están más ansiosos por ver en la premiación, no dudó en admitir que ansía reunirse con cantante Natalia Lafourcade, también nominada a los Latin Grammy. “Tuvimos el honor

de compartir tarima con ella en NYC y es un ser humano, no sólo genial, sino brillante.

Ella y su crew son gente hermosa, es bonito saber que llegaremos a Las Vegas a reencontrarnos con amigos.”

Además de ser una banda de Rock, La Vida Boheme tiene un alcance muy cercano con sus fanáticos. En sus inicios, los conciertos consistían en una fiesta a la música, en donde el público y banda coreaban las canciones mientras se bañaban unos a otros con pintura, algo que identificó a la banda por todo su ciclo de “Nuestra”, su

primera producción.

Ahora con “Será”, la banda toma un tono un poco más oscuro en sus letras, pero con un sonido único, mezclando el Rock, el Indie y géneros latinos, para darle un toque especial y totalmente diferente. Ahora la pintura y sus trajes llenos de ella, fueron remplazados por “liqui liqui”, una vestimenta de los llanos de Venezuela, dando un toque venezolano a cada una de sus presentaciones.

Para terminar, Henry solo tenía una palabra que decirle todos quienes escuchan la música de la banda “Gracias,

gracias, gracias” dijo repetidamente. “No hay palabras para agradecerles el tiempo que nos han dedicado y por los oídos atentos con los que nos han escuchado.” Para saber más de la banda seguirlos en http://discoscaracas.com/ artista/lavidaboheme/.

No se lo pierdan los Latin Grammys este jueves, 21 de noviembre, que se puede ver en Univisión o el sitio web www.latingrammy.com/es.

Calle 13 y Julian Assange lanza Calle 13 and Julian Assange una colaboración Multi Viral launch Multi Viral collaboration Natalie Bohorquez Corresponsal

El controversial grupo puertorriqueño, Calle 13, estrenó su nuevo sencillo ‘Multi Viral’ el 13 de Noviembre, la semana pasada.

René Pérez, conocido como Residente, obtuvo la colaboración de artistas como Tom Morello, ex guitarrista de la banda Rage Against the Machine, y la compositora y cantante Palestina, Kamilya Jubran. Pero el integrante más interesante aun, fue el perseguido CEO y fundador de WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, con quien colaboró en la embajada Ecuatoriana en Inglaterra, adonde se encuentra el australiano después de que alegaciones por abuso sexual lo forzaran salir de Suiza.

La idea surgió el mes de junio, cuando Pérez y Assange propusieron a sus seguidores por Twitter que compusieran una canción en conjunto.

Después de miles de correos electrónicos, el dúo escogió las mejoras piezas y empezaron a armar el rompecabezas.

Como muchos de sus sencillos más recientes, Multi Viral es un llamado a conciencia para muchos ciudadanos que se sienten reprimidos

por el estado, al igual que una crítica contra la prensa sesgada. Inspirado por activistas como los Españoles 15-M y el grupo Mexicano #Soy132, el artista y sus colaboradores recuerdan al oyente del poder y el derecho que tiene para derribar a un sistema político injusto.

“Vivimos en un mundo creado por su propaganda/ Pero adonde creen que son fuertes son débiles/ Sus mentiras nos dicen la verdad que utilizaremos contra ustedes/ Sus secretos nos dirigen hacia donde golpearemos/ Sus armas revelan sus miedos para que todos vean/ Desde Quito a Cairo un nuevo mundo se forma/ El poder de las gentes armadas de la verdad.” Es la estrofa dictada por Assange, y es una de las que más directamente se dirige hacia el estado.

Aunque más de la mitad del tema está en español el escenario es compartido por otros lenguajes, entre ellos inglés y árabe. Al incluir a varios idiomas Pérez buscaba tener un impacto viral con su tema. Su objetivo principal era hacer que su obra recorriera la web y distintos medios de comunicación con la velocidad de un virus y que de esa manera impactara formas de pensar, por que como dice

en su sencillo, “con solo una persona que lo lea ya empieza a cambiar el mundo.”

Aunque la idea de utilizar el arte para comunicar sentimientos no es insólita, al haber lanzado tantas ideas anti políticas especialmente en colaboración con el notorio ciberpirata Assange, quien fue culpado de haber publicado información secreta en colaboración con militares estadounidenses en el 2010, Calle 13 se ha convertido en tiro al blanco para aún más críticos.

Por ahora el tema permanece dentro de la comunidad hispana y europea pero mientras que coge ventaja en los Estados Unidos no se verá el impacto de este trabajo entre inocuos compañeros.

Aparte de su mensaje, al contar con uno de los mejores guitarristas de la historia, según Rolling Stone, el tema en si es un contraste entre el rap y el rock combinado con un poco de tecno. Más que todo es una combinación de recortes puestos en orden de forma poco convencional, pero sorprendentemente infecciosa. Definitivamente vale la pena escuchar este tema, si no por verdadero interés en sus ideas de reforma social, entonces por curiosidad artística.

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Natalie Bohorquez Correspondent

The controversial Puerto Rican group, Calle 13, premiered its new single ‘Multi Viral’ last week on Wednesday.

René Pérez, known as Residente, collaborated with artists such as Tom Morello, former guitarist for the band Rage Against the Machine, and Pa lestinian singersongwriter Kamilya Jubran .

But the most interesting collaborator yet, was the persecuted CEO and founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, whom he worked with in England. Since June of this year, the Australian has been staying in the Ecuadorian embassy in London after sexual assault allegations forced him to leave Switzerland.

The idea for the record was born in June, when Pérez and Assange proposed their Twitter followers to compose a song together. After thousands of emails, the duo chose the best pieces and began to put together the puzzle.

Like many of their most recent singles, Multi Viral is a call to consciousness for many citizens who feel repressed by the state. It is a criticism of the biased press and corruption in the po-

litical system. Inspired by activists such as the Spanish 15-M and the Mexican group #Soy132, the artist and his collaborators remind the listeners of the power and right they have to knock down an unjust political system.

“We live in a world that your propaganda made / But where you think you are strong, you are weak / Your lies tell us the truth we will use against you / Your secrecy shows us where we will strike / Your weapons reveal your fear for all to see / From Cairo to Quito a new world is forming / the power of people armed with the truth.” is the stanza rendered by Assange, and it is one of the most directly addressed to the state.

Although more than half of the song is in Spanish the stage is shared by other languages, among them English and Arabic. By including several languages, ​​Perez sought a viral impact. His main objective was to make a song that would cross the web and other media with the speed of a virus and have an impact on ways of thinking. As Perez says in his single, “With only one person who reads it, the world begins to change.”

Although the idea of ​​using art to communicate feelings is not novel, having launched

so many anti-political ideas, especially in collaboration with the notorious cybercriminal Assange, who was charged for publishing of classified U.S. information in collaboration with U.S. military in 2010, Calle 13 has become an even bigger target for more critics.

For now, the single remains within the Hispanic and European community, but until it takes off in the United States, we may not see the overarching impact of this work. Aside from his message and featuring a solo from one of the best guitarists of all time, the single itself, according to Rolling Stone, is a contrast between rap and rock combined with techno influences. It is an unconventional yet catchy combination of audio clips. This track is definitely worth listening to, if not for its ideas of social reform, than for pure artistic curiosity.

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Slingshot Coffee Company: One-woman business energizes Raleigh Kaitlin Montgomery Staff Writer

There is just one woman hand-bottling, hand-brewing and hand-labeling everything.

Jenny Bonchak, the owner of Slingshot Coffee Company in Raleigh, works hard to keep her business open.

“It’s a lot of work,” Bonchak said. “It’s a lot, but it’s also a lot of fun.”

Bonchak started tinkering with coffee about six years ago, when she began cold brewing. She said she took her time figuring out different components and different ways to brew.

“I love all things coffee,” Bonchak said. “This is just one of those things where I was never able to find one that was done really well, so I knew that it could be done a lot better than how it was being done. That was kind of the thing, or the emphasis, that made me want to do it.”

Still shocked, Bonchak said the love for her product might be hard to comprehend.

“It makes me so happy to know that something that I’m doing, something I’m crafting with my own two hands, is something that people love,” Bonchak said.

“Obviously I wanted that to happen, but just the incredible amount of love, feedback and support provided has

been phenomenal. It keeps me going.”

Bonchak found inspiration for the company’s name from her husband’s job as a barista.

“One thing that really stuck with me is how he would come home,” Bonchak said. “Being a baristas is an exhausting job. You’re interacting with customers all day, and you’re perfecting espresso all day. I just remember him coming home and saying, ‘Okay, another 10 hours down slinging espresso.’”

Before Slingshot Coffee, Bonchak previously worked at Market Restaurant. According to Bonchak, when the restaurant was closed, she spent all night working to launch the company.

“I would go in at 11 p.m. and then work through the night, basically as long as I could keep my eyes open,” Bonchak said. “I would just work through the night until I got to a stopping point where I felt I could leave for the night. I would go home and then get up to go to my normal regular job.”

Turns out those late nights paid off, because Slingshot Coffee can be found in Whole Foods across the Southeast as well as many different independent shops across the Southeast.

“I also got picked up by Terrain, which is a garden arm of anthropology,” Bonchak said.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JENNY BONCHAK

Two of Slingshot Coffee Company’s classic cold-brewed drinks, the original Ready-to-Drink Coffee and Concentrate Coffee, were brewed soley by Jenny Bonchak, the owner of the company in Raleigh.

“It’s a store in Philadelphia and it should be starting one in Connecticut pretty soon.

I really wanted to have it in great shops that I had learned and heard about.”

Currently, Slingshot Coffee Company has a three-part product line: the original ready-to-drink cold brew Slingshot Coffee, concentrate coffee Slingshot Coffee, as well as the newest addition, cold brewed Cascara Tea. “C a s c a r a Te a, I ju s t launched a few months ago,”

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Bonchak said. “Cascara is the dried husk of a coffee cherry.

Coffee beans are actually the seed of a cherry, which a lot of people don’t know. Inside of that cherry is a seed and that seed is a coffee bean.”

Depending on the season, Bonchak ’s coffee supply changes to keep her products fresh.

“Coffee is an agriculture product. It’s a fresh product just like fruits and vegetables,” Bonchak said. “The lid sticker [on the bottle] will tell

you what season the product is and the flavor profiles of this particular coffee.”

With a firm belief in not taking on more than she can handle, Bonchak wants to make sure Slingshot maintains its spot as her top priority.

“I firmly believe that it’s hard to do a lot of things well,” Bonchak said. “This is something that I just want people to realize is different.

I want to work hard to make sure it is always fresh, that

it is always the best. I’m just really committed to making sure that the quality aspect of it never falls to the wayside.

I think that if you have too many irons in the fire it’s hard to manage those things.”

According to Bonchak, the horizon is full of possibilities she couldn’t be happier about.

“Hopefully it will continue to grow and people are going to continue to try it and love it,” Bonchak said. “I’m just so proud of it.”

Yellow Dog Bread Company marks its territory on East Franklin Street Kaitlin Montgomery Staff Writer

Tanya Andrews was dissatisfied working behind a desk, so she decided to take a risk by doing something she loves.

Andrews turned her hobby into a career when she opened Yellow Dog Bakery on East Franklin Street, Raleigh in September.

“On paper, I was doing everything I wanted to do,” Andrews said. “I studied marketing and communication, and I had landed a job at a promotions firm. I really thought this is where I wanted to be and this is what I wanted to be doing. The truth was that I felt very unfulfilled and all the things, basically, I thought I had wanted were there on paper, but not really in my heart.”

With her husband, Matt Andrews, feeling the same way, the two began to explore their options. Both coming from entrepreneurial families, the idea of starting a business was what Andrew’s described as genetic.

“It seemed sort of natural for us to start to head in that direction,” Andrews said.

“About the same time, we started getting very homesteady. We had chickens and were baking our own bread at home and we were really doing all types of homesteady sorts of stuff.”

The Andrews’ sold their first loaf of bread four and a half years ago at the Rock & Shop Market, an event that showcases products of budding designers. Yellow Dog Bread Company is now able to, years later, sponsor the very event that helped get it started.

“It gives folks like us an outlet and a vehicle to meet with your customer and sell stuff,” Andrews said. “This year we’ve had the privilege of being able to sponsor the event. So it’s a way for us to come full circle with us selling our first loaf there to be able to come back and be able to sponsor it. We’re very ex-

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Matthew Andrews, a co-owner of Yellow Dog Bread Company, an artisan bakery, flours a shaping table Tuesday.

cited about that part.”

Andrews and her husband began selling at the farmer’s market where Yellow Dog Bread Company really took off.

“We would consistently, week after week, sell out,” Andrews said. “It was kind of crazy. Matt was set up at one farmer’s market and I was set up at another farmer’s market. We’d call each other and say, ‘how are you doing?’ or ‘I’m out of sticky buns!’ it was kind of very fulfilling to make something that people wanted.”

According to Andrews, her attitude shifted from just wanting to sell bread to an intense desire to make lasting connections with their customers.

“It was like the joy we felt baking magnified by sharing that joy with other people and have them share that joy as well,” Andrews said. “It was one thing to do it every week on Saturdays but a completely different one to be able to connect every day of the week. Families, kids, young and old people; just being able to love on them with good food and good drink that’s where we’ve come.”

Since the opening on Sept.

9, Andrews said the opening

and operation of Yellow Dog Bread Company has been all she dreamt of and more.

“We really feel like Raleigh has needed an artisan bakery for such a long time and that the reception was phenomenal,” Andrews said. “Everything here in the store is baked from scratch here onsite every day. There’s nothing that’s baked a few days in advance or anything like that. Every day we do about 10 to 15 different varieties of breads and then we do about the same number of pastries.”

Andrews said there are many different things on Yellow Dog Bread Company’s horizon. From hopes to continue experimenting with its basics, to the hope of wholesale and distribution avenues, Andrews explained that an entrepreneur’s mind is always thinking to the future.

“I definitely want to see our product line expand,” Andrews said. “I’d love to see our product line become more focused on sourcing as locally as possible with as many things as possible.

We’re constantly evolving our recipe so what we can go for that ideal loaf. So you’re always chasing perfection, and it gives you something to strive for.”

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“Usually, the athletic department will encourage players and teams to reach out to those less fortunate to show how appreciative they are and to learn how other people live,” Mangum said.

“They always get blessed in return after they do something like that. They get more out of giving than anything else.”

At the end of the day, the family, the community and State all benefit from the endeavor.

“I think it’s huge for women’s basketball to let people see that they are average, ordinary kids,” Mangum said.

“They appreciate the gifts they have been given, and it’s a way to bring the community in. Hopefully, they can come to the game.”

“It works both ways for student-athletes to be able to reach out to the community and hopefully bring the community in to see us.”

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Rifle loses match to Midshipmen The N.C. State rifle team could not overcome some hot shooting by the 16th-ranked Navy Midshipmen as the squad fell, 4627-4596, Saturday afternoon at the Bancroft Rifle Range.

Freshman Lucas Kozeniesky led the squad in the air rifle competition, as he fired the third-best score in the event with a 588 clip. Sophomore Alex Martin shot a personal-best score of 582, while classmate Daniel Cliff finished with a 580 tally. Senior Madeline Pike charted a 575, while redshirt senior Amy Roderer recorded a 572. As a team, the Wolfpack posted a score of 2325.

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Schiellerup claims second Danish National Title Freshman Andreas Schiellerup captured his second Danish National title in as many days on Friday at the Denmark National Short Course Meter Championships.

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Soren Dahl, an incoming freshman to the class of 2014, claimed bronze in the 100 butterfly, tapping the wall in 52.73.

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Zack Tanner Staff Writer

The N.C. State women’s basketball team finished its fall schedule Nov. 10 with a quarterfinal finish in the East Coast Women’s Club Basketball Regional Tournament in Maryland.

The Wolfpack plays in the East Coast Women’s Club Basketball League, which includes 32 teams along the Atlantic coast, such as Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and Maryland.

While some teams play regular inter-league games, the club members decided to participate in occasional scrimmages to emphasize tournament play.

The team competed in four tournaments this season: two round-robin style events at Wake Forest and Duke and two tournament-style contests at Virginia Tech and Maryland.

Despite a second-place finish at Virginia Tech, freshman guard Chandler Young said that the Pack’s most impressive tournament result was at Duke.

State finished 2-2 in the Duke tournament on Nov. 2, beating the Blue Devils once.

Though the result was not spectacular record-wise, the Pack sometimes played with six players on the depth chart.

“I feel best about our tournament at Duke,” Young said.

“We played teams that we had played before that were pretty difficult for us to beat, and we found ways to pull through.”

In State’s most recent event, the national tournament in Maryland, the Wolfpack beat its first two teams in blowout

PHOTO COURTESY OF N.C. STATE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CLUB

The N.C. State women’s basketball club team meets at center court prior to the start of a game. The team finished its season on Nov. 10, with a quarterfinal finish in the East Coast Basketball Regional Tournament.

victories, including its first game against Rutgers.

However, William & Mary stopped the Pack in the quarterfinals. Despite being overmatched, Young said that the players gave all they had throughout the whole game.

“We played really well as a team,” Young said. “We’re the type of team that keeps playing until the final buzzer.”

Many of the team’s key players from last season are no longer with the team due to various reasons, such as graduation or study abroad.

Team captain junior Meredith Check said that in spite

of the losses, many players are making the extra effort to fill the roles, especially senior Sabra Bryant and sophomore Alexandria Wood. “[Bryant] is really stepping up,” Check said. “She really cares about the team. [Wood] has also really stepped up; she’s really important to our fundamental offense.”

Team chemistry is a huge part of State’s success in its tournaments this season.

Br yant, who was been on the club team for four years, said that this team was clicking better than any other team on which she had

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Thursday SWIMMING AND DIVING AT NIKE CUP INVITATIONAL Chapel Hill, N.C., all day Friday SWIMMING AND DIVING AT NIKE CUP INVITATIONAL Chapel Hill, N.C., all day Saturday FOOTBALL VS. ECU Carter-Finley Stadium, 12:30 p.m.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Any of us that had the time came out to go grocery shopping.”

Felicia Mangum, women’s basketball executive assistant

for our tournaments.”The spring semester holds more events for the Pack, including the ACIS National Championship, hosted annually by N.C. State. Last season, the team made it to the second round, but the players hope to advance further in the brackets this April.

Tryouts for the team reopen in January, and Check said that she encourages all interested girls to show up.

“We’ll always welcome anyone who wants to try out,” Check said.

Warren, Lewis lead revitalized Wolfpack

Wednesday VOLLEYBALL VS. NORTH CAROLINA Reynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.

Sunday WRESTLING VS. GARDNERWEBB Raleigh, N.C., noon

played.

“This year has been awesome because everyone has clicked right off the bat,” Bryant said. “We have a lot of really good personalities.”

Though Bryant, Check and Young all said that the chemistry mostly comes naturally, the members of the team plan activities together to become ever more familiar with one another.

“We really encourage people before and after practice,” Bryant said. “We go to football and basketball games together, but the biggest bonding time is when we travel

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Members of the N.C. State women’s basketball team check out at Food Lion on Western Boulevard, purchasing groceries for a Raleigh family. The players adopted a family for Thanksgiving and will deliver a meal during the holidays.

Pack lends hand in community Daniel Wilson Staff Writer

As we get close to the holiday season, people around the globe are embracing the spirit of kindness, generosity and goodwill to their families, friends and communities.

This aura of genuine magnanimity is not lost at N.C. State, especially with the women’s basketball team.

The team went to Food Lion located on Western Boulevard Tuesday afternoon to make an impact in one Raleigh family’s life.

“The players have adopted a family for Thanksgiving and

are delivering them a meal,” executive assistant Felicia Mangum said. “It’s a way of showing support and reaching out to those that are less fortunate.”

Mangum joined associate head coach Nikki West, senior guard Breezy Williams, sophomore forward Ashley Eli, sophomore guards Dominique Wilson and Kaley Moser, and senior forwards Julianna Prim and Kody Burke in the excursion to the grocery store and to the family’s house afterward.

“We’ve done this every year, and it’s been implemented through the Student Athlete Advisory Committee,” Burke

said. “Each of the sports have done a similar action in the past. Ashley, Eli and I have spoken with [the woman we are supporting]. She is elderly, and she has been raising a teenage child. It’s a great feeling to help support her.”

“It’s a great community service event. All of us contributed as far as providing money for groceries. Any of us that had the time came out to go grocery shopping.”

The Athletic Department has made strides to encourage the student-athletes and teams to benefit the community.

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T here was somet hi ng missing with last year’s men’s basketball team. Although it had talented players such as former forwards C.J. Leslie, Scott Wood and Richard Howell, along with former g ua rd L oren z o Brow n, N.C. State failed to meet its preseason No. 6 ranking. The Pack lost in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

From a fan’s perspective, it seemed like none of the players genuinely enjoyed playing with each other.

State’s mediocre defense, ranking 129th in field goal defense, made the Pack rely on its high-powered offense far too often.

When the offense was in sync, the Wolfpack looked like world-beaters, using its firepower to take out No. 1 Duke at PNC Arena on Feb. 7. But when it wasn’t, State had no defensive rigidity to fall back on, resulting in head-scratching losses on the road to Wake Forest and Maryland.

Last year’s team also lacked a true leader, depriving it of the chemistry the Pack so desperately needed. Howell a nd Brow n bot h t r ied admirably to become team leaders, but neither could strike the balance needed to bring the team together.

Wit h Howel l, Brow n, Leslie and Wood gone, this

year’s Wolfpack lineup is almost unrecognizable from last season’s crop. The only recognizable faces from last year are sophomore forward T.J. Warren and sophomore guard Tyler Lewis, both of whom will play key roles this season.

This season, the team seems to work well together, which is a welcomed change from last season.

Players, who last year hardly cracked a smile except on the rarest of occasions, are now joking with each other after games and practices. This seemingly insignificant detail shows a complete reversal in philosophy to the tense, uncomfortable atmosphere that hovered over last year’s team like a dark grey storm cloud.

Third-year head coach Mark Gottfried also seems more relaxed than he was last season.

Gottfried, perhaps unfairly in hindsight, had massive amounts of pressure on him last season. Because of the pressure to succeed, Gottfried often resembled an exasperated figure running thin on patience, knowing his team had large strides to make in a short time frame to justify the pre-season praise his team received.

But this year is a very different story. Gottfried now has his recruits in the BASKETBALL continued page 7