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Construction for a new practice facility near Carter-Finley stadium will cause tailgaters in the Southeast lot to relocate. The university is planning to add even more parking when construction is finished.
Indoor sports complex to displace Red-lot tailgaters Assistant News Editor
Due to the construction of a new $14 million indoor practice facility, about 700 parking spaces in the Stadium Southeast Red Lot at CarterFinley Stadium will be unavailable for use during the 2014 N.C. State football season. N.C. State Athletics has offset the loss of spots caused by the new facility by identifying additional parking inventory around the stadium complex to accommodate the displaced tailgaters, according to Michael Lipitz, senior associate athletics director at N.C. State, though they might not be as close to the stadium. “It’s a net-zero loss with respect to parking,” Lipitz said. “There are no short-term or long-term impacts to parking. It’s just different locations where folks are going to have
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to park.” The indoor practice facility will begin this June and be completed in March 2015. Funded by private donors to the Wolfpack Club, the complex will include a full-length indoor football field, training and conditioning space beyond both end zones, four 120-yard sprint lanes, an in-ground pit and above-ground pad for track disciplines. The facility will be located in what is now the Southeast Lot at the corner of Westchase Boulevard and the outer loop road next to CarterFinley Stadium. The Stadium Southeast Red Lot is a parking lot for Wolfpack Club members and season-ticket holders. The parking locations are assigned in priority order according to Wolfpack Club donor ranking and are also based on the specific requests of individual donors, Lipitz said.
However, donors who park in the Southeast Red Lot are not the only people whose parking locations will be affected. All lots around the stadium complex are expected to be affected in some way by the construction of the Indoor Facility, according to N.C. State Athletics. People with lower donor rankings who originally parked in the Southeast Lot will be moved to different lots. However, the donors whose rankings qualify them for other lots will placed there, causing people who park in these lots to be displaced in a similar way. Zac Tart, an N.C. State alum and seasons ticket holder since 2011, said he attended every home football game with a group of 10 or 12 cars full of people who all park and tailgate together in the Trinity Lot.
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NCSU Libraries to drop more than 700 journal subscriptions Staff Report
Due to a $750,000 budget reduction, NCSU Libraries will be forced to discontinue hundreds of academic journals, some of which are viewed 200-300 times annually, according to Greg Raschke, associate director for Collections and Scholarly Communication. So far, the department has compiled a list of 709 journal subscriptions that could be cancelled after receiving input from students, faculty members and staff. The cuts will go into effect January 2015, according to Raschke. “The biggest impact is on research and learning,” Raschke said. “Faculty and students can’t access the journals they’re used to using. We have a high usage and demand, and we’re not going to be able to fulfill all that. It’s really going to slow down research and learning. Once they’re gone, they’re going to
be hard to get back.” The journals included in NCSU Libraries list have been used 40-50 times during the past year, while others have an annual usage of about 200-300 times. The cuts are similar in scope to those made in 2008-2009, when NCSU Libraries did a large-scale journal review, Raschke said. The system also considered overall usage to determine the list of proposed titles that could be cut. Projected budget reductions from the University are combined with expected inflation for journals and databases of $550,000 and necessitate preparations for steep reductions to the collection, according to the NCSU Libraries webpage. NCSU Libraries was forced to reduce its budget this year by almost 5 percent, or $1.3 million, due to state-appropriated cuts handed down by the state legislature.
Prof discusses collective animal, insect behavior Casey Oldham Correspondent
A researcher from Princeton University spoke about the behavior of organisms as individual units and as groups Monday in SAS Auditorium. Iain Couzin, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, spoke at the third annual Kwangil Koh lecture. Koh was a professor of mathematics at N.C. State from 1968 until 2009. In the lecture, Couzin discussed behavioral characteristics of animals that primarily move in groups
including birds, ants, other insects and fish. In recent years, Couzin said his research has led him through the subconscious aspect of social behavior in animals. Couzin said he studied locusts while traveling in West Africa and analyzed their migratory patterns in lab settings. Couzin said he did this from both the perspective of the single organism and from the perspective of the entire group of traveling organisms, which he called the “collective mind.” Couzin said his research conclud-
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CHASS Fest introduces students to majors, programs Sasha Afanasyeva Staff Writer
Faculty members and students from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences gathered in front of the 1911 building Monday afternoon for CHASS Fest to play games, learn about majors offered by the college and connect with its faculty. “It’s about bringing more faculty and students together and to enjoy time together before final exams, and to have fun learning through games,” said Vicki Gallagher, associate dean of Academic Affairs of CHASS. Other event attendees saw the CHASS Fest as an opportunity to introduce other people to their major.
“CHASS Fest is designed to introduce students at N.C. State to the possibility of becoming one of the various majors in CHASS and for students in CHASS to show what possibilities there are,” said Jonathan Ocko, department head of history, who operated one of the activity tables. Each department had its own table at the event, featuring a game or activity designed to introduce people to CHASS. The event was very positively received, both by students and faculty members alike. “We have a great turnout from students and faculty who have worked together to develop these games,” Gallagher said. “We have the DJ from campus radio station, and I am enjoying seeing the stu-
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Students at CHASS fest had the opportunity to learn about different majors offered by the college and play educational games.
dents and faculty learn and have fun together.”
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participate in games, they did not get in the way of the event. “It is a great opportunity for people to come in and get a quick glimpse of what CHASS has to offer, and I hope some people change their mind about their ideas of what CHASS is,” said Raven Lauer, a sophomore in history and aerospace engineering who hosted a game at the history table. Winning a game at any table allowed attendees to enter into a raffle for a $50 book-store gift certificate. Lauer’s and Ocko’s game at the history department table was one of the most popular. “We had three games,” Ocko said. “You could put eight U.S. presidents in the right order, you could put
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ed locusts have 12 centimeter radii where they react with one another on a small scale. Another conclusion drawn from his studies was insects, such as Mormon crickets, have cannibalistic tendencies while in swarm formation. Couzin said this was determined by accident when there were numerous counting errors between the number of locusts going into an experiment chamber and the number coming out after each eight-hour period in the swarming chambers simulated by Couzin and one of his graduate students. Researchers determined after this “error” occurred several times that the locusts were eating each other. This launched a new set of experi-
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Tart said if he or any of his group had to change lots, they would all be disappointed. He said he and his friends prefer the Trinity Lot because it’s near the stadium, it’s a grass lot and it is across from the student lot, so it is always filled with people his age. “It’s where we’ve always gone,” Tart said. “If I have to move somewhere else, I’m probably going to be upset.” However, Tart said he can’t fault N.C. State for wanting to build a new facility to help the team train and get better. “In the end that’s why we’re
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Iain Couzin, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton University, speaks in SAS Hall Monday afternoon.
ments that revealed several other conclusions. By conducting separate experiments in which the locusts were strategically blinded or a specific nerve was severed that controlled
whether or not the locusts felt the biting of other locusts, Couzin concluded that without these two abilities that contributed to cannibalistic tendencies, locusts could not swarm or migrate in proper
or efficient form. Another experiment that Couzin executed was to test what content of salinity in water the Mormon crickets preferred. In this, Couzin discovered that the crickets
there,” Tart said. Lipitz said additional spots are going to be added around the complex, so the parking spots lost due to the construction of the Indoor Facility will be fully offset. Details about switched spots will be finalized and communicated to Wolfpack Club members and football season ticket holders in the coming weeks during the normal ticket renewal and parking assignment process, according to Lipitz. The new Indoor Facility has been in the works for a long time and is necessary in order to protect the safety of student athletes and minimize the amount of practice time
lost due to inclement weather, Lipitz said. “If you look around within the ACC as well as nationally, both with respect to football as well as track and field and other field sports, these types of facilities have become the norm with respect to studentathlete welfare, player safety and maximizing the practice times that are allowed,” Lipitz said. The number of incidents of inclement weather North Carolina saw this year and the cancelled practices and workouts that resulted from them is an example of how the facility will benefit athletics programs, according to Lipitz.
“This kind of facility really allows the student athletes to maximize their time preparing for competition,” Lipitz said. All athletic teams, not only football, will be able to use the facility on an as-needed basis, according to Liptiz. “All 23 teams will be able to get in there and use it for everything related to strength and conditioning, such as general workouts, when needed,” Lipitz said. “It’s is going to be a tremendous benefit to the entire department, all 550 student athletes.”
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were most attracted to water with the same salinity level as their blood. This further confirmed his discovery of cannibalistic tendencies of insects that swarm. This discovery is being called “The Forced March,” which implies that the insects must constantly move forward in the direction of the swarm and also have aggressive behavior in order to avoid being the victim of cannibalistic insect swarm tendencies. Another group that Couzin largely studied in his lecture were fish. Couzin said he would put fish into tanks and stimulate through light projection other entities in the tank such as predators or prey of the particular fish so that he could observe how the patterns changed in real life situations. Not only did he look at the
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American wars in the right order or you could put revolutions from different parts of the world in the right order.” The game that people struggled with the most was the one about the revolutions, according to Ocko. The table from the Foreign Language department had a game that required participants to identify a language from a flashcard. Guessing three out of about 10 correctly would count as a win. A table from the English department featured a mad-
schools of fish as a whole, but he also mapped the directions of which each fish was travelling and compiled this data to form the first ever interactive network of the “collective mind.” As a result of his research, Couzin said he has developed conclusions about how groups of organisms make decisions concerning factors such as leadership and the power dynamic in these groups. .. Couzin discerned that if the minority of an informed section of a group of organisms has stronger instincts than that of the majority and the uninformed population of the sample, then the minority actually wins out in a decision. However, this becomes increasingly difficult as the number of uninformed subjects is increased.
libs game and information about the English major and minor. The table representing interdisciplinary studies required participants to add a cutout magazine picture to a collage that represented their thoughts of what Interdisciplinary Studies was. “Students are creative with the images and putting some of the titles on the images, which speaks to their creativity,” said Helga Braunbeck, assistant dean of Interdisciplinary Studies. “We have Arts Studies in our unit and it’s what they are creating here is representing the relationship between different fields.”
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was driving home from work the other day, maybe going a little faster than I should have been, but I started thinking about speed limits. What purpose do they really serve in our society? This column may be a bit out t here, Travis Toth but I’m goContributing ing to argue Columnist that we don’t necessarily need them. How often do people regularly drive faster than the speed limit? If speed limits were effective at regulating traffic, drivers on the highway wouldn’t feel the need to slam on the brakes every time a cop drove by. They’d already be going the speed limit. United States driving regulations are fairly excessive and cause a great deal of overlap. The rules of the road include both preventative measures, such as speed limit signs, and punishments, such as speeding tickets. If speed limit signs are supposed to dissuade drivers from speeding, they aren’t really doing their job. According to a 2011 survey by Allstate, 89 percent of Americans said they have driven over the speed limit before, and 40 percent said they’ve gone more than 20 miles faster. What exactly does this mean? Are 89 percent of Americans criminals? Surely that’s not the case. So why are we treated as such? It turns out, speeding tickets are a pretty good source of revenue. According to a 2013 report by the U.S. Highway Patrol, Americans pay about $6.2 billion in speeding tickets alone each year. This goes without mentioning the litany of other regulations surrounding driving. Parking fines and the accompanying towing expenses, registration card and sticker fees, fines for not having said sticker on your car, moving violations, acceleration regu-
lations… shall I go on? So let me ask you again, why do we need speeding tickets? If we’re primarily using speeding tickets to raise revenue for the police department, why don’t we just downsize the police force and call it a day? Besides, that would cut costs on the number of highway patrol cars, so the added revenue would no longer be needed, and we wouldn’t all be outlaws. Instead of levying steep fines on drivers when they’re late for work or in a bad mood and just trying to get home, we should concentrate on educating drivers and developing an easily understandable set of rules. Our current system of regulations emphasizes relying on signs to inform drivers of what they
“Instead of levying steep fines on drivers ... we should concentrate on educating drivers ... ” should already know how to do. Not only does this distract from the road, but it also encourages drivers to think less. If a driver making a U-turn is supposed to yield to cars turning right onto the road, why don’t we stop putting that information at every intersection and just teach it through driver’s ed? The amount of signs on the side of the road is simply ridiculous and almost entirely unnecessary. Do people really need to be told “yield to oncoming traffic” every time they merge or turn into traffic? Do we need signs to mark the roundabout when the roundabout is clearly in front of us? What about “WRONG WAY” signs? Those are probably my least favorite. I can say with a fair amount of confidence that I’m not the only
one who these signs have freaked out. That moment of terror when you’ve turned onto the on ramp and see “WRONG WAY” on your left and pray that you’re not about to run headlong into oncoming traffic. Then there are the infamous “No Parking” zones. I’d wager their associated violations bring in a hefty chunk of change, too. Why not just put a different colored line down the side of the road to indicate various parking zones? In 2006, the European Union removed the traffic signs from seven cities, according to Matthias Schulz, writer for Spiegel magazine. “The many rules strip us of one important thing: the ability to be considerate. We’re losing our capacity for socially responsible behavior,” said Hans Moderman, one of the project’s co-founders. The number of accidents decreased dramatically after the traffic signs were removed, according to Schulz. Now, let’s talk about what regulations of this nature are really trying to do, which is prevent automotive-related injury and death. Is instilling fear in drivers by having police cars constantly patrol the roads and roar off with their sirens screaming every time somebody messes up the best way to keep drivers safe? Police cars are pretty intimidating on the road. When one flies by you, it completely disrupts the flow of traffic and puts everyone on edge. If we put more emphasis into educating drivers, they would still know it’s a pretty bad idea to fly down Hillsborough Street at 80 miles an hour, but people wouldn’t have to risk becoming a criminal for putting the pedal to the medal when they’re a couple minutes late for work, so long as nobody gets hurt. Send your thoughts to Travis at technician-viewpoint@ ncsu.edu.
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pril 8 was Equal Pay Day, which represents how far women had to work into 2013 to earn what men earned in 2012, according to the National Committee on Pay Equity. Equal Pay Day is a date chosen each year to symbolize the period of time it ta kes for Jacqueline Lee women’s Staff Columnist wages to equal that of men’s from the year before, according to the National Women’s History Museum. The fact that this day even exists is embarrassing for the whole country and should anger women. The very next day, Senate Republicans added insult to this day by filibustering the Paycheck Fairness Act. This act would’ve forced employers to show that the wages they set aren’t based on a person’s sex and ensure that people could openly talk about their wages or ask employers about their pay. Yet, it was struck down. President Barack Obama took the initiative on Equal Pay Day to sign an executive order that sets the mandates in the Paycheck Fairness Act in place with government contractors, which is a good start, but more needs to be done. According to the New York Times, lawmakers who filibustered the act claimed it was redundant because of legislation in place, such as the Equal Pay Act of 1963. However, it is absolutely nec-
essary to pass the act because women still aren’t being paid the same as their fellow male employees. Forbes reported U.S. Census Bureau found that women were paid 77 percent of what men made during this decade. The U.S. Department of Labor also reported the pay gap between men and women is causing “hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost wages.” If a woman has a job in
“I’m ashamed that women are still being wronged in the workplace in 2014.” which she is putting in the same amount of time and effort as her male counterpart, there’s no question that their pay should be equal. There are obviously still loopholes to previous legislation that must be fixed with the passing of the Paycheck Fairness Act to ensure women are paid equally. Of course it’s not surprising it was shot down with this Congress being so unproductive and partisan and also with midterm elections approaching. It’s disappointing and embarrassing that Congress can’t even agree on an issue that should be a nobrainer, politics aside. I’m ashamed that women are still being wronged in the workplace in 2014. Because this has been made
into a political issue, doesn’t it also backfire on Republicans who opposed it by giving them a bad image? With midterm elections approaching, I don’t see why they think it’s smart to block this act with a filibuster when it will most likely deter female voters. According to CBS News, GOP Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers talked in her weekly address about how her party believes it’s wrong if a woman is wrongly being paid less. She then said, “But for women across America, it’s not just about equal pay. It’s about achieving a better life. And the Republicans are acting on solutions to make that happen.” How are they “acting on solutions to make that happen” when they’re filibustering an act that would greatly benefit women? It’s contradictory, and it doesn’t make sense to me. I just don’t understand how a congresswoman would oppose this act. It’s sad to t hink t his couldn’t be passed in today’s modern society because of partisan opposition, especially when statistics show there’s a disparity in pay. The fact that Equal Pay Day exists proves more needs to be done. I expect opposition and debate regarding issues such as the Affordable Care Act, but not for equal pay for women. I’m embarrassed for and disappointed with Congress for being so unproductive and divided on an issue that obviously needs addressing. Send your thoughts to Jacqueline at technician-viewpoint@ncsu.edu.
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Dark Souls II improves original hit Bryce Hart Staff Writer
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Following the surprise success of the first Dark Souls, developers From Software managed not only to recreate what made the first game fun and challenging, but have also brought new ideas to the game and ironed out issues from the first. Dark Souls II mixes challenge with the thrill of discovery to keep players hooked and continuing onward no matter how many times they die. Dark Souls II is set in the same world as the first game but isn’t necessarily related. The game revolves around an undead, the player, searching the land of Drangleic for a cure to the curse the characters are inflicted with. The story of Dark Souls II is not a strong point, but a lot of lore and backstory are hidden in the game if players wish to learn more about the world. Many items when examined have a description that sheds light on the world and the characters in it, creating a rich history just below the surface. The world of Drangleic is incredibly varied and features many different, unique and fun locations. Though not all
the areas feel like they should be in the same world, and there is not a lot of cohesion between the areas. The world is vast and creative. A new addition to Dark Souls II is fast travel from the beginning, which is the ability to travel from bonfire to bonfire a in game. Bonfires serve as checkpoints throughout the game, automatically healing the player and restocking spells and certain items, but also causing enemies to come back to life. Though the ability to travel makes the game flow better and allows players to return to the main city, home to shops and to the character, which allows leveling up, it also adds to the disjointed feel of the areas in the game. Areas start to feel like random levels the player finds, not an entire f luid world, like the previous game. With such an open world, Dark Souls II does a very good job of giving the player choices of where to go next. If a certain boss or area is too hard, the player can easily find another area that is similar or easier to conquer and then return to the harder area. Dark Souls II is just as challenging and punishing as the first game, with a general formula of the player exploring and using death as a learning tool. If the player runs into a room that looks empty but has three enemies hiding and dies, for example, the player
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knows next time how to handle that room. Death in Dark Souls II happens often and normally carries little penalty. If the player dies, he or she loses the souls collected, the game’s currency for items and leveling up, but keeps items that have been found. Souls can be retrieved at the site of death unless the player dies another
time. This low penalty for death worked well in the first game; however, Dark Souls II has added a tweak that becomes more frustrating than challenging. When the player dies now in Dark Souls II a certain percentage of health is lost upon reviving which gets larger every death. The health loss can be re-
versed with a certain item, but this item is very hard to find through the first fourth of the game. The health loss can also be capped at 75 percent with a certain item earlier in the game. Even with these two ways to combat the permanent health loss with this addition, Dark Souls II teeters on the edge of challenge and frustrating enough to stop playing the game. Thankfully the rewards for exploring and persevering through death turn the health loss into a minor annoyance. Dark Souls II rewards the player for continuing on and exploring with an incredibly satisfying amount of treasure and new things to experience. Some of the best items and weapons in the game are found through exploring or challenging new enemies. The boss battles in Dark Souls II are where the challenge really shows itself and are a fun component of the game. Each boss battle works differently, and each boss has different patterns the player must get used to in order to defeat them. One great reward to exploring is finding new covenants to join. Covenants are groups a player can join to get items and affect his or her playerversus-player experience. Player versus player, on a basic level, means that at certain times during the game, a player can summon other players to help fight a boss or
randomly be invaded by an evil spirit (another player) and be forced to fight it off. Covenants modify and add to this experience, and Dark Souls II makes it easier than before to join and keep track of covenants. In the hub city there is a character who will help the players see their covenant and leave it if they so choose. Covenants modify player versus player by doing things such as allowing their members to invade “guilty” players, be helped when invaded and be able to find more players to summon for help. The easier-to-understand covenant system is a welcome addition and can make player versus player, even at an early level, more fun for players. The player versus player system augmented by covenants adds a lot of replay value to an already 60 or more hourlong game. The player-versus-player system is not the only reason to play the game more than once. New game plus is a feature that allows players to return to the game with harder enemies but the same items and levels they had before adding more challenge. Dark Souls II also boasts improved graphics and a better frame rate than the first game. The first game experienced a few slowdowns in some of the more detailed areas, and Dark Souls II shows little to no slowdown throughout the game.
Rememory is an album to remember Taylor Quinn Assistant Features Editor
The new album, Rememory, by Clockwork Kids is an enjoyable listen comprised of melodic melodies, punk influences and classical instruments. Though much of what comes out of the Triangle area seems the same, this band stands separate, acting like a breath of fresh air. It’s an adventure to say the least. Clockwork Kids is described as neo- psychedelic rock, and to an extent it is, but the band covers an array of genres on this album without any single element seeming out of place. During the course of 12 songs, listeners can get to know and enjoy the band and its work. Their sound is very ‘90s in the best way, including the vocals by Justin Ellis, who sounds similar to Brandon Boyd from Incubus. Ellis also plays bass, guitar and piano on the album. The rest of the talent in the band is made up by Dylan Abolafia, who
plays drums and percussion, Patrick Carney, who plays guitar, bass and does backing vocals, Jeff DeLuca, who plays the guitar, mandolin and does backing vocals and Chris Petto, who plays guitar, piano and wurlitzer. The album is very dynamic, and the listener gets to experience the songs jump from upbeat sounds to melodically- intrinsic psychedelic sounds. But throughout these jumps in genre, vigor is present throughout the entire album. This is the type of album that feels like the band members cared deeply for it and put all they had into it. The striking difference in the sound of Clockwork Kids compared to other modern bands is exactly how much it sounds like they care. It feels like the band cares about what it’s saying, which is reflected in the sound and quality of the music. Out of the entire album, track six, “I showed you the river” stands out. The song is one of the slower songs
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on the album, and it is very heart-felt and powerful. The lyrics are really poetic and personal, which makes for an intimate listening experi-
ence. Powerful words fill the verses, “My world keeps spinning whether or not you’re on board /And I don’t give a damn if your tears bring
the flood /You cannot sleep on this, the sun never sets on you /You say you’re happy - I lie and I say I love you too.” Those lyrics coupled with
the melody makes a beautiful song. Because of the interpreted anguish behind the words, the listener creates a personal connection with the musicians and his or her own life. Listeners and fans can also appreciate the use of additional musicians on the album who play a diverse number of instruments. The cello, french horn, violin, viola, hammond organ and bowed percussion all make an appearance in this album. It is fun to listen to the instruments mix together to create a rock sound, something that isn’t always present in a lot of newer, modern bands that concentrate on a lot of electronic elements to augment their sound. In addition to the music, fans can enjoy the bands entire persona. Elements from the band name and even this album’s artwork add to the whole experience.
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Mobile game incorporates landmarks Sara Awad Staff Writer
Students may not realize this, but the strolling professor rumored to give students good luck on their first chemistry test is actually a portal to another realm, or at least, that’s what players of the augmented reality game Ingress believe. Anyone can see the players glued to their Android smartphones, stopping in stride in order to hack these portals, secure them for their teams and save the world. Ingress has two teams, the Enlightened and the Resistance. The Enlightened believe the exotic matter, which oozes from these portals and may shape human thought, will start a new age of progress, whereas the Resistance seek to protect humanity from its influence. This cleverly crafted storyline originated from the minds of Google’s Niantic Labs, which released Ingress in the Google Play store last year and plan to make it available to Apple’s iOS user’s before the end of 2014, said Ingress Project Manager Brandon Badger in an interview with AllThingsD. The number of downloads of Ingress range anywhere from 1 million to 5 million installations world-
wide since launching, according to Google Play. Danica Baylon, a sophomore in psychology, said she started playing the game several weeks ago. “I found out about it when I was just searching for a cool game I could commit to when I have spare time, something that will get me off my butt and get me active, so Ingress was just a recommendation for me in the Google Play store, and it looked pretty cool so I just experimented with it,” Baylon said. Baylon said she joined the Resistance faction due to her belief in freedom in place of “furthering mankind” and has persuaded several students to join her cause, whom she calls “converts.” Among her converts are Scott Warren, a senior in paper science engineering and chemical engineering, and Jordan Scaggs, a junior in computer science. “She reminded me of it,” Warren said. “I had actually done a research paper freshman year on parkour and interactive games with the environment.” The interactivity of the game comes from the fact the portals, usually works of art and intellectual hubs, are real places on Earth found across the globe. Players use an in-game map system that
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Ingress is a new interactive social media linked game for Android. Players of Ingress use reallife landmarks to build portals in order to accumulate points. The game will soon be available on iOS.
identifies the closest portals in their area and can only make progress in the game if they physically travel to the portal. Scaggs said he likes the game because it makes him aware of places in the area he didn’t know about before, because he is not from the area. He also said it makes him feel productive. “It has taught us to look around the world differently,” Baylon said. Portals on campus include D.H. Hill Library, the Court
of Carolina, the globe in Poe Hall and Witherspoon Student Center among others, according to Baylon. Once at a portal, players are able to hack it, which allows them to perform a range of tasks such as powering up, defending and securing portals and gaining access points to advance to the next level and acquire exotic matter. Due to the convenient locations of the portals, Scaggs said he can easily hack portals in between classes, while Baylon said she can even hack
portals while in class. “Just riding the bus you can hack like ten portals,” Baylon said. Each faction competes for control of the portals, with blue portals on the map indicating those that belong to the Resistance and green portals indicating those that belong to the Enlightened. “Our goal is to flip the campus blue,” Baylon said. This takes dedication, though, since most of N.C. State belongs to the Enlightened faction, according to
Baylon. “It’s fun to go against the grain,” Scaggs said. Warren said he reached level four his first day playing, but Baylon, still at level three after weeks of play, said Warren has an advantage because he has a bike. Still, Baylon said she does sometimes drive to portals instead of walking and said she and her boyfriend went out at midnight one time in order to drive around and hack portals. An upcoming road trip with her family to Florida will also give rise to another great opportunity to hack portals, according to Baylon. Though some might see this as borderline obsessive, Baylon said she sees it as a tool to ease boredom and keep her “out and about.” “I see nothing wrong with it,” Baylon said. “It enhances your daily life and layers upon my community. Maybe Ingress is not your thing, but it is for me.” If students would like to join the world of Ingress, they can download the game from the Google Play store and find players through in-game chats, Ingress Google Hangout groups and fan clubs.
Study shows online gaming makes players more social Dane Hall Staff Writer
As the popularity of video games becomes a progressively more widespread phenomenon, more research is devoted to them in an effort to better understand the social tendencies of players. One such study was conducted recently by Nicholas Taylor, an assistant professor of communication. Taylor concentrated on players of online role-playing games. Players of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, such as World of Warcraft, have long been stereotyped as social outcasts or antisocial hermits. Taylor found that not only is this not true, but these players use the game to expand their social lives. “It’s a common stereotype that we deal with, that if a player spends a lot of time in game, somehow that detracts from their ability to socialize in real life and detracts from their ability to have
healthy relationships which, of course, isn’t true,” Taylor said. “It might be true for some outliers, but we really saw that playing online games brought people to meet others with similar interests.” Taylor observed and interviewed players both in controlled settings and in naturalistic settings, such as internet cafes, conventions and massive, weekend long LAN (local area network) parties. “These big convention center locations would be taken over by anywhere from 1,000 to 2,500 gamers for a weekend, all bringing their own computers,” Taylor said. “It really felt like a gaming cultural festival.” Rather than being the sole reason for coming together, Taylor said he found that gaming was the setting in which to do so. The participants took part in a multitude of different social activities interspersed between play sessions, ranging
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Chase Andries, a freshman in computer engineering, plays FIFA 14 on an Xbox One with friends. Students can increase their social activity when they play video games together. This interaction among people can make, and break, friendships.
from taking walks, drinking together or simply sitting
around and talking. In addition to this, Taylor found these players meet many people through these games whom they will likely never meet in person, but treat them no differently than any of their “real-life” friends. Taylor recounts one of his own experiences of this. “When I got engaged to my wife five years ago, the first person to send us a wedding gift was somebody I was in a guild with in Guild Wars,” Taylor said. “This was a guy who I had spent a lot of time with online but had never met in real life, and here he was sending us a wedding gift.” Taylor also mentioned that these games can be tools used for keeping in touch with friends that have moved away. They give friends a place to be together and interact with each other in a meaningful way, even when they cannot physically be together. Another misconception
“These big conventioncenters locations would be taken over by anywhere from 1,000 to 2,500 gamers ... ” Nicholas Taylor, assistant professor of communication
surrounding gaming is that it is simply something that one does, but most of the gamers Taylor interviewed revealed that they watch other people play games almost as much as they play themselves. “Increasingly we’ve found from doing this field work, people get as much pleasure from watching each other play and cheering on their favorite players, as often they do just playing themselves,” Taylor said. “They view both
as really integral parts of their involvement with the online culture.” Websites like YouTube and Twitch.tv, which is a website that allows players to stream their gameplay in real time, have largely contributed to this. In fact, for many players, this is replacing the function that television, radio and music have served in the past. They will often have gameplay on simply as background noise while they go about doing other things. In a technology-centered society, where putting a barrier between online and offline interactions makes less and less sense, multiplayer games have found a place in the day-to-day routines of many people. They have become a way to meet people from across the globe who have something in common. So the next time a certain episode of South Park comes on, take what you see with a grain of salt.
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N.C. State continues to fall in latest power rankings Luke Nadkarni Assistant Sports Editor
Atlantic Division: 1. Florida State: The Seminoles lost three straight games last week before avoiding being swept by Georgia Tech with a 5-4 win Sunday. As a result, the Seminoles dropped to No. 4 in Baseball America’s Top 25. Next up for FSU is a trip to Wake Forest. 2. Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons are still ahead of Clemson in the Atlantic standings by a half game, despite dropping two of three to UNC-Chapel Hill during the weekend. It’s going to be tough, but sweeping FSU this weekend will put them at the top of the Atlantic. 3. Clemson: The Tigers offense decided to show up for only one of three weekend games at Virginia, as Clemson dropped its second straight series to the nation’s top team. Clemson also fell to Georgia Tuesday to make three of four losses this week. They’ll look to redeem themselves at Pittsburgh this weekend. 4. Maryland: Since completing a sweep of N.C. State on March 23, the Terrapins have won just two of their last nine conference games to drop to 7-10 in the ACC. Maryland hosts Georgia Tech this weekend in a series it has to have to stay in the postseason hunt. 5. N.C. State: A difficult season
continued this weekend in Durham for the Wolfpack, as it gave up seven runs in the final two innings Sunday to drop two out of three to Duke. Next up is a return trip to Durham Bulls Athletic Park Tuesday to face North Carolina, a game that will not count toward its conference record, before a home series with lowly Boston College. 6. Notre Dame: The Irish picked up their first conference series win of the season, taking two of three from Boston College in Chicago. The level of competition ramps up next weekend when Notre Dame takes its 3-15 conference record to Miami to face off with the Hurricanes. 7. Boston College: The Eagles have the same ugly conference mark as Notre Dame, but earn the Atlantic cellar due to dropping the series to the Irish. BC goes on the road again this weekend to N.C. State, which could be just what the doctor ordered for the Pack. Coastal Division 1. Virginia: The Cavaliers reclaimed Baseball America’s No. 1 ranking after taking two of three from Clemson in Charlottesville, Va. The series set a school record for attendance for a three-game set as 13,947 fans showed up. Sophomore lefty Nathan Kirby might be the best pitcher in the ACC. 2. Miami: At 14-4 in the conference, the Hurricanes are actually
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•N.C. State’s baseball team (20-15, 6-12 ACC) will play North Carolina (21-15, 9-9 ACC) in a non-conference clash at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park Tuesday at 7 p.m.
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Ryan Tice @RyanTice 5 stars from today’s spring game: 1. WR Bo Hines 2. QB Jacoby Brissett 3. DE Mike Rose 4. WR Bryan Underwood 5. LB Jerod Fernandez
Erin Summers @ErinESummers Final from the NC State spring game: Red 34, White 0... ya’ll can guess what side Jacoby Brissett played for
Star-News ACC @starnewsacc Three-star point guard prospect Devonte Graham has scheduled an official visit to #NCState
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Gatling, Burke selected by Chicago, Washington in WNBA Draft Former Wolfpack center Markeisha Gatling was drafted by the Chicago Sky with the 10th overall pick in the 2014 WNBA draft Monday night. Gatling’s top-10 selection was the highest ever pick for a member of the Wolfpack, and only two others – Chasity Melvin in 1999 and Summer Erb in 2000 – have been selected in the first round. Former forward Kody Burke was taken by the Washington Mystics with the No. 32 pick, marking the first time since 2007 that more than one N.C. State player has been taken in the same draft. SOURCE: WNBA, N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
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About 7,000 student-athletes and 307 teams converged on Daytona Beach, Fla. last week to compete in the Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship, hosted by the National Cheerleaders Association. N.C. State’s cheerleaders put in a strong performance, sending five groups to the final rounds of their respective events (group stunt, small coed, large coed, cheer division and mascot). The most impressive performance came from the Pack’s group stunt team, which placed second in the event. The four Wolfpack student athletes had no point deductions – virtually a perfect performance – finishing behind eventual winner Oklahoma State University by a mere 0.63 points. A fourth-place finish by the small coed squad was a bittersweet victory, as the squad has finished in second place the last two years. “Unfortunately this year’s judges weren’t in our favor for small coed,” said senior small coed captain Meredith Hamlet. “But we actually did a phenomenal job performing. It wasn’t really anything in our control.” Head coach Harold Trammel said he shared similar opinions about the performance. “I think they [the small coed team] were more talented than they were in the past,” Trammel said. “Unfortunately when you have a mistake, and the other teams don’t, they advance in front of you. I don’t think there is any particular reason why this year’s placement wasn’t as good, because they were definitely talented. “It’s a judge sport. You can have the same skills as the other teams, but the judging panel can just like the look of what one team does over
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N.C. State’s large coed cheerleading team forms a pyramid at the Collegiate Cheer and Dance Championship Saturday.
the other.” The large coed squad, on the other hand, improved its performance from recent seasons. After finishing in seventh place the last two seasons, the squad took fifth in this year’s
event. “Our large coed team definitely made a lot of improvement from years prior,” Trammel said. “We had a fair amount of difficulties these last two years with our pyramid
sequence and that did very well for finals. That was what we were most proud of for them.” The cheer division earned fifth place out of the six teams competing in the finals. Despite having the fourth-best score, the squad had a hefty 2.25 point deduction for errors in its performance. N.C. State’s Ms. Wolf mascot, worn by junior Taylor Wilson, took sixth place among ten rival mascots. Her performance was set to a Wizard of Oz theme, integrating pop music, dancing and pep-rally style cheering for the Wolfpack. Most sports build up to the final contest with lots of regular season games throughout the season. But unlike any other sport, cheerleading teams get just one chance to shine. “Our season comes down to 2 minutes and 15 seconds,” Trammel said. “You have to be mistake free for 2 minutes and 15 seconds, and it’s the only time we compete. You have to be able to handle the stress of your season coming down to that short of a time.” Despite on ly going to t he Cheerleading Nationals once a year, the team stays busy by supporting NCSU athletics and volunteering. Besides cheering for State’s football, basketball and gymnastics teams, among others, the team completes a staggering 700 service hours around the community every year. T h e c e nt r a l r o l e of t h e Wolfpack cheerleaders isn’t to win competitions, but rather to represent N.C. State in a good light. “That’s what we tell kids when they try out for the program: you’re going to be the face of the University and you’re going to be in front of a lot of important people.” Trammel said. “That’s an honor and a privilege and also a big responsibility.”
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “In past seasons I don’t think we could’ve closed out those last ten minutes.” Ryan Metts, senior defender
Stern defending has been a major theme for N.C. State’s men’s soccer team under head coach Kelly Findley, and a key piece in the defensive puzzle is team captain and starting senior right back Ryan Metts. An ESPN Rise All-American and a graduate of Raleigh’s Wakefield High School, Metts spent his first year of college at Wake Forest University, but transferred to N.C. State in 2011. “I wanted to stay in the ACC,” Metts said. “Originally, N.C. State wasn’t one of my top choices until I met with coach Findley, who asked me if I wanted to be a part of something new and change the history of N.C. State soccer. I said, ‘Of course I do.’ Overall it was a very good fit.” Findley concentrates on recruiting players from the Raleigh area. Metts was one of Findley’s first commitments, and the Raleigh native said he enjoys having family and friends in the stands for every game. “Being from Raleigh has motivated me,” Metts said. “It helps when you have people you know in the stands. It’s awesome when you look over and see your parents and people from the tightly knit Raleigh area soccer community you know outside of N.C. State. You know people are supporting you and want you to do well.” Even though Metts is a college senior, he said old high school rivalries are a point of good-natured ribbing between members of the Wolfpack from the Raleigh area. “It’s the Wakefield-Wake Forest rivalry,” Metts said. “I know [sopho-
kind of a running joke.” Four games into the spring season, the former Wakefield star said he is happy with the team’s performance, specifically the team’s shutout of the Charlotte Eagles.
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Senior right back Ryan Metts launches a throw-in against Navy April 5 at the Dail Soccer Stadium.
more defender] Michael Hinkson and [junior defender] Seth Poole, for example. Hinkson and I went to Wakefield and Seth went to Wake Forest High School, so there’s a friendly rivalry. We joke about it because it’s high school sports, so it doesn’t matter much anymore, but it’s still a fun thing to do.” During his time at State, Metts has moved all around the field in a positional sense. A center back in high school, Metts played center midfield in his first season for the Pack before securing his starting spot at outside
right back. “When I first got here, Coach Findley didn’t have his new recruits yet,” Metts said. “I had played center mid for my club team and high school, so I just fit in wherever coach needed me.” Metts’ defensive skill set gives him the ability to play in a variety of positions along the back line. Defenders typically are not prolific goal scorers, and Metts said he is no exception. “I haven’t scored a goal in college yet [laughs],” Metts said, “So it’s
“In past seasons I don’t think we could’ve closed out those last ten minutes [against Charlotte],” Metts said. “It was great not to give up a tying goal when we probably would have last season.” While not having a single favorite professional team, the senior defender is a self-proclaimed band-wagoner and usually enjoys whichever team is playing the best soccer at a particular time. “You can call me a band-wagoner and I won’t get upset,” Metts said. “When I put a game on, I like to see entertaining, attractive soccer. Right now that’s Bayern Munich from Germany and Chelsea from England, and those are the teams I want to meet in the Champions’ League final.” As an accounting major, Metts said he feels the strain of classes as heavily as any other State senior, although he still finds time to relax. “When not playing soccer, I’m doing homework,” Metts said. “But other than that I watch my roommates play FIFA. I get too stressed whenever I play [laughs], and I like to do my stressing on the field.” Now in his last year of college, Metts said he enjoys watching younger players grow and seeing his friends continue their playing careers outside of college. “I like being a leader to the freshmen,” Metts said, “And I hope I can leave my impression on them and they can win a championship.”