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Student Government campaigning begins today Starting today, Student Government candidates may begin campaigning.

Student body president and vice president run on a joint ticket and the candidates include Chris Becker, a senior studying philosophy, and Kelly Elder, a junior studying political science; Khari Cyrus, a senior studying biological sciences, and Nate Bridgers, a sophomore studying accounting; Gavin Harrison, a senior studying biological engineering, and Meredith Mason, a junior studying elementary education. Cody Long, a junior studying history, and Zack King, a junior studying political science, are both running for student senate president. More information about the other Student Government positions and candidates can be found on the Student Government website.

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Grand jury indicts Hicks in Chapel Hill shooting

A grand jury in Durham indicted Craig Hicks, 46, on three counts of murder in the shootings of Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19. The three Muslim students were all found dead their Chapel Hill condominium on Feb. 10.

Although police have said the shooting was motivated by a parking dispute, families of the victims have called for the shooting to be investigated as a hate crime, a possibility that has yet to be ruled out by police. Dr. Mohammad Abu-Salha said his daughters had felt threatened by Hicks prior to the shooting, and families said the students were killed execution-style.

Hicks described himself as a “gun-toting” atheist on his Facebook page, and he has posted content condemning all religions. Police searched Hicks’ home and found an arsenal of firearms. The FBI is also investigating the shooting.

SOURCE: The Guardian

Raleigh may implement nightly parking fees

The Raleigh City Council is considering charging a flat fee for evening parking due to increased amounts of trash, bodily fluids and vandalism in downtown parking garages over the weekends. Several of the city’s parking garages are filled to capacity during the weekends and the Raleigh parking administrator, Gordan Dash, said his maintenance crews have been picking up twice as much trash from the parking decks compared to 2012. The revenue from the nightly parking fees would expand the maintenance staff of nine and possibly add security cameras to the elevators. The Raleigh City Council will vote on the change within the next several months.

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Honoring ‘Our Three Winners’ NCSU ESTABLISHES SCHOLARSHIP IN MEMORY OF SLAIN STUDENTS Rachel Smith Staff Writer

Alongside members of both the Barakat and Abu-Salha families at the Park Alumni Center Friday morning, Chancellor Randy Woodson announced a plan to create a scholarship endowment at NC State to honor and memorialize the three students killed in Chapel Hill last week.

Deah Barakat, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha and her sister Razan Abu-Salha were shot and killed on Feb. 10 in their home one mile away from the campus of UNC-Chapel Hill where Barakat was a second-year dental student and where Yusor Abu-Salha was set to begin her studies in August.

Barakat completed his undergraduate work at NC State in 2013 and Yusor Abu-Salha had just graduated in December. Razan Abu-Salha was a sophomore studying architecture at NC State.

The endowment, created with insights from the two families, will provide annual support to students in the three colleges Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha studied at during their time at NC State: the Poole College of Management, the College of Sciences and the College of Design.

The university will award the scholarships to students based on their leadership, creativity and service to their communities.

“Our hope is that this scholarship fund will forever honor the memories of three avid — and they were avid — members of the Wolfpack fam-

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Surrounded by the family members of slain students Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha, Chancellor Randy Woodson announces the university’s establishment of the “Our Three Winners” scholarship endowment fund Friday morning at the Roy Park Alumni Center. The endowment will provide annual financial support to NC State students studying in the Poole College of Management, College of Sciences, and College of Design.

ily, while also serving as a beacon to the campus community of the importance of diversity, acceptance, support and inclusion,” Woodson said.

NC State has committed $60,000 to the scholarship fund, but is asking the community to help

build the endowment into something that will continue to aid students for years to come.

“As long as there is an NC State University — and I know that is going to be a long time — we want these scholarships to be available for stu-

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SG hopes to expedite student club funding Marcus Blyden Correspondent

story idea. You lay out the most important moments in single drawing form, creating almost a comic book of your ideas,” Minervino said.

This is the earliest version of a filmmaker’s short. From here, the filmmakers choose an animation program and then begin the process of creating moving pictures.

The process differs for creating 3D animations.

“The part that becomes different is translating [storyboards] into a 3D program rather than hand drawing everything out,” Jordan said. “The very first thing that I did was started to create the character that was in my film. I modeled her from scratch and that was the bane of my existence for probably three-fourths of the whole semester.

The last portion was just locking down the animatic so that it would follow through with the motions I wanted it to make.”

Minervino also said that creating his

Student organizations may be able to apply for appropriation funding for use during the same semester they apply if the Appropriations Reform Act is passed by the Student Senate.

Appropriations is a committee within the Senate that hands out funds to all the registered student organizations each year. The process starts at the beginning of each semester and lasts for about two months.

“The big complaint we hear is that there aren’t any funds for same semester funding available,” said Zack King, the head of Appropriations and a junior studying political science.

Having the Appropriations Committee open to student organizations only once a semester is not enough, King said. He hopes to change the current appropriations system by making it easier for student organizations to receive their funds.

“Currently for appropriations, you apply in one semester for events that will take place the following semester,” said Deborah Felder, assistant director of Student Involvement.

The proposed bill has three main points, King said. The main goal of the bill is to change the twice-a-year process to a monthly process to allow student organizations to receive funds in the same semester. Student organizations will still only be able to apply once a semester, but they will have more options as to when they can apply.

It takes a lot of planning ahead for student groups to ask for funding, according to Felder. It’s also hard for student organizations to predict what their expenses are going to be, or what their events are going to be a semester in advance, Felder said.

“Student organizations are constantly switching their officers each semester, and with those changes in leadership, there may come changes in that organization’s planned events,” Felder said.

The second point of the bill is to increase the minimum amount of funds that Appropriations receives from Student Government. The current minimum of funds that Appropriations must receive from Student Government is 30 percent, which is split within the two semesters. The bill hopes to raise the minimum amount of funding received to 35 percent.

This past year, $98,000 was appropriated for each semester.

“Next semester we only have $61,000 to spend,” King said.

The university has cut the amount of funds Appropriations received from Student Government even though Appropriations funds other campus events and offerings

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Raising money for the Special Olympics

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ed by Katie Tetterton, representatives of the Youth Activation Council of Special Olympics North Carolina run into the frigid water of Lake Raleigh Saturday morning at the 2015 Polar Plunge. Dozens of “plungers” braved the nearly freezing water during the annual event hosted to raise funds for Special Olympics North Carolina. This year’s groups raised more than $14,000 for the cause.

Students produce variety of short films for fifth annual showcase Rachel Smith Staff Writer

The fifth annual Student Short Film Showcase drew dozens of attendees to the film showings in Talley Student Union and Hunt Library Feb. 11 and 19.

The short films, which were produced

by NC State students and graduates of the College of Design and the Department of Communication, ranged in length from 30 seconds to three minutes and were either computer-animated or filmed in real time, digitally or on 16mm film.

Each of the students was also given the opportunity to share a little about the production and inspiration behind their films.

Stephen Minervino and Margo Jordan, recent graduates from the College of Design, explained the processes that went into creating each of their films, Progression and The Generative Edge.

“With a 2D short, you start off with your

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short film was also painstakingly long.

“As for time, it takes forever,” said Minervino. “I think Progression was probably between 1,500 and 1,700 hours of work. I was doing 20-hour days for about a month and a half. But it looks pretty good at the end.”

Kyle P ysher, a recent graduate from the Department of Communication, explained what it was like producing a short film using a 16mm film camera.

“The actually filming was a little different for this because you can’t actually see what you are filming when you use a 16mm camera,” Pysher said. “So we have to make sure we know exactly how the lighting is going to look, and exactly how out framing is without seeing before the film is returned to us.

Pysher, who produced a horror-short titled “Blind Date,” described the entire experience as nervewracking.

“You have to have everything to a T before you turn the camera on, and from there it’s just about praying that all of your calculations

have turned out right. And I believe mine did,” Pysher said.

All of the students who participated in the f ilm showcase agreed that filmmaking is a collaborative medium.

“In the NC State the film program, there isn’t a lot of us,” said Jenn Stilley, a recent graduate. “It’s still relatively small, and the classes we take are only made up of 11 or 12 people, so you become friends with these people. I met my best friends through NC State film production, and I wouldn’t trade that for anything.”

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such as Wolfpack Pickup, Homecoming and Pack-aPalooza.

“It’s going to hurt student organizations, especially since there has been a consistent increase in the number of student organizations being created,” King said.

The third point of the Appropriations Reform Bill will allow registered student organizations to apply for funding from either the

appropriations or finance committees. Under current regulations, registered student organizations can only apply to Appropriations and unregistered organizations can only apply to Finance.

The intent is to ensure that registered student organizations and unregistered organizations do not double dip by applying to both Appropriations and Finance committees.

However, the third point of the bill will monitor any double dipping and will give registered and non-

registered organizations the freedom to choose whether they want to apply to the Finance or Appropriations committee.

King believes this is a smarter process and will solve most of the problems that student organizations face when applying for appropriations.

“It’s my role to fight for student organizations, especially the money they get,” King said.

If the Appropriations Reform Act is passed, it will take effect next semester.

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How Will We Stop Iran?

Iran’s global jihad seizes new ground, fortified by an obsessive quest for nuclear arms. Negotiations are failing.

Do we need tougher sanctions?

Iran’s Islamic fundamentalist leaders are sworn by their nation’s constitution to pursue world conquest through jihad. Through global terror campaigns, Iran has already achieved dominance in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen. It openly threatens to destroy Israel. Despite decades of Western-imposed trade embargos and sanctions, as well as recent U.S.-led negotiations, Iran’s drive to amass nuclear arms continues unabated, and its leaders vow not to give up their quest. What more must the U.S. and the world do to stop Iran’s apocalyptic nuclear threat?

What are the facts?

Bashar Assad, roiled in a bloody civil war, has essentially become a proxy for Iran, and the Houthis, Iran is by far the world’s most aggressive perpetrator who just violently took control of former U.S. ally of terrorist acts. It provides direct funding and Yemen, are also on Iran’s payroll. While the U.S. has leadership to Islamic terror groups Hizbollah, Hamas, designated Iran a state sponsor of terrorism and Houthi rebels in Yemen, and Shiite militias in Iraq, as instituted a trade embargo in 1995, the Islamic well as the ruthless Assad regime in Syria. The Islamic republic’s warlike acts against the U.S., Israel and republic also has been tied to bloody attacks on many other nations have only increased. To halt Iran’s civilians in nations as far flung as India, Thailand, nuclear weapons development, the West imposed Saudi Arabia and Bulgaria, as well as an attempted sanctions in 2006, but Iran’s centrifuges continue to assassination of the Saudi Ambassador in Washington, spin defiantly.

DC. Iran was recently Despite intense recent implicated in the 1994 “Of course we bypass the sanctions, negotiations between the bombing of a Jewish center U.S and Iran to reach a in Argentina and a and we take pride in it.” peaceful resolution, several murderous cover-up Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani deadlines for settlement attempt. But Iran’s most have passed, and Iran still belligerent threats have been refuses to cease nuclear weapons development. Indeed, directed at Israel, which Supreme Leader Ayatollah recent investigations indicate that Iran has already Khamenei vows to “annihilate.” violated existing agreements by establishing secret Iran’s terrorist tactics are motivated by its drive to nuclear supply networks. Iran’s President Hassan become the dominant power in the Middle East. The Rouhani boasts, “Of course we bypass the sanctions, Shiite ideology of Iran’s leaders commands Muslims to and we take pride in it.” No wonder a majority of the wage global jihad, and their constitution commits U.S. Congress urgently supports harsh new sanctions them to “the establishment of a universal holy on Iran unless it immediately agrees to give up government and the downfall of all others.” So far weapons-grade nuclear enrichment and ballistic Iran’s strategy has been successful, as its controlling missile programs. President Obama, however, influence now spreads over Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and promises to veto any such measure, arguing that most recently Yemen. More critically, Iran has an increased sanction threats will frighten the Iranians effective chokehold over the Gulf of Hormuz, through from further negotiations. which much of the world’s oil travels.

What is the solution? Most Americans share the No wonder most of the world’s nations, especially President’s hopes that Iran can be persuaded to set Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, are horrified at the aside its nuclear ambitions—and its vendetta against prospect of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. In fact, a Israel—through diplomacy. But one thing is certain: nuclear Iran threatens the worldwide balance of power, Iran is our enemy. Appeasement will not work. It is particularly in the inflammable Middle East. For Israel, only crippling Western economic sanctions, backed by a nuclear-armed Iran poses an imminent threat to its the threat of force, that have driven Iran to the very existence. negotiating table.

Unfortunately, the West, and particularly the United Above all, Iran must decommission its nuclear States, must share the blame for allowing Iran to weapons infrastructure now. To this end, Senators increase its hegemony and acquire nuclear weapons Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) capability. The U.S. pulled out of Lebanon in 1983 after have introduced the Nuclear Weapons Free Iran Act of an Iranian-engineered bomb killed 241 Marines, 2015, which toughens sanctions if Iran refuses to facilitating the rise of Shiite Hizbollah terrorists. When comply, thus strengthening the U.S. hand in forging an the U.S. pulled out of Iraq in 2011, Iran stepped in, agreement that peacefully eliminates the Iranian seizing control of Shiite militias and exerting decisive nuclear threat. influence on the Iraqi government. Syria’s President Since sanctions brought the Iranians to the table, sanctions are the most powerful, peaceful means for convincing them to abandon plans to acquire nuclear weapons. But because the Iranians continue to declare themselves implacably committed to nuclear development, it’s time to ratchet up economic pressure. The Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act should be passed now. The survival of the world is at stake.

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Announcing the John Hope Franklin Student Documentary Awards Funding for summer-long documentary fieldwork projects in: oral history, photography, film/video, nonfiction or creative writing, audio, or related to community-service programs.

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dents here,” Woodson said.

Mohammad Abu-Salha, Yusor and Razan’s father, expressed gratitude toward the university and Wolfpack community for honoring his daughters and son-in-law with the scholarship.

“We are so humbled, we are so proud and we are so honored,” Abu-Salha said. “Nothing is more awesome than supporting scholars so that they can come here and study even if they couldn’t afford it. It is a beautiful thing, and we are proud to be a part of it.”

Suzanne Barakat, Deah Barakat’s older sister, said education means everything to her family.

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dad is crying today, and it is because he realizes that out of this horrendous tragedy, these incredible scholarships have been established to continue to provide education for so many people, and for so many years to come,” Suzanne Barakat said. “You have made a dream come true, and as Abu-Salha said, this has been the most beautiful moment since that event occurred over a week ago. We are so honored to be here today.”

Deah’s older brother, Farris Barakat, also spoke about how NC State has played such a huge role in the lives of his family.

“My mom was a student here for 13 years, and I graduated from NC State as well, and we are here to show our immense gratitude to everyone who is a part of this campus,” Farris Barakat said. “We, as a family, are committed to diversity on

campus, and we as a family are committed to making everyone feel safe and welcomed on campus. Anything we can do to further that legacy, and anything we can do to demonstrate that as a family, we are here to help. I hope these scholarships solidify that.”

Gifts to the “Our Three Winners” Scholarship Fund can be made through the NC State website or by check with “Our Three Winners” in the memo line c/o Our Three Winners, Campus Box 7474, Raleigh, NC 27695-7474.

“Deah, Yusor and Razan exemplified the best of NC State, and will forever serve as role models for our student body,” Woodson said. “Each was not only an outstanding student, but each individually lived there lives dedicated to helping those in need and making the world a better place.”

Avi Aggarwal, a junior studying chemical engineering, prays to the Hindu god, Shiva, on the occasion of Maha Shivaratri in Withers Hall on Sunday. Maha Shivaratri is a Hindu festival celebrated annually in reverence of the god Shiva. It is the day Shiva gets married to the goddess Parvati.

Left: Hindus around the world traditionally celebrate the festival by offering Bael leaves to Shiva, all-day fasting period and an allnight vigil called jagaran.

Throughout the day, followers traditionally chant the sacred mantra of Shiva, “Om Namah Shivaya.”

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‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ glorifies domestic abuse D

isappointment is the best word I can use to describe my feelings toward the opening weekend success of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

And success is an understatement.

The erotic novelbased film produced $81.7 million in just three days, setting a Annie Grant new record for the Staff Columnist highest-grossing President’s Day holiday opener. There are many different opinions on the fanfictioninspired film, but hopefully everyone can agree that certain thematic elements are undeniably disturbing and certainly should not be ignored.

Erotic films are one thing. If that is where a person’s interests lie, then by all means, watch them. Even the interests at the heart of “Fifty Shades,” BDSM, do not have to be questioned. The real problem is that this particular film encourages and parades domestic abuse while labeling it as erotic and exciting. It makes light of a real issue and twists it. The result is that many people believe the events and relationship portrayed are desirable.

Perhaps the most disturbing factor of “Fifty Shades” is that there is extreme denial that the relationship portrayed qualifies as abusive.

Those involved in the film have done an excellent job of masking what is actually happening and presenting

it as an ideal relationship. They have tricked many into thinking that what takes place is OK. And it isn’t. The leading male character of the film is controlling, manipulative and undeniably a stalker. Yet he has real women swooning at his “romance” and hoping to one day experience the same thing. When did mind-games and extreme masochism become attractive?

It is unfortunate that “Fifty Shades of Grey” presents a dysfunctional, abusive relationship, yet there are people out there who see the film and wish they had a similar relationship.

They have been fooled into thinking that the abuse portrayed is romantic and erotic when really it is sick and saddening.

There are still people who refuse to acknowledge that “Fifty Shades of Grey” depicts domestic abuse.

An argument used against this is that the female lead is willing and does not desire to leave the relationship. Willingness is quite the stretch.

It is not that she is willing, but rather is submissive to a man who greatly desires to dominate her financially, physically and emotionally. This domination is taken to extreme degrees and exploited in ways that are undoubtedly abusive.

The film’s success goes to show that there is a long way to go in changing the way people think about domestic abuse. It shows that too many people are willing to make excuses and not accept when abuse is portrayed and

even glorified. Painting an abusive relationship in a way that is supposed to be desirable and acceptable does an injustice to those who have experienced domestic abuse. Excuses should no longer be made for this film when there are real victims out there who may very well have experienced a similar situation. The story is not sexy, it is sick.

It is a scary thing to think that so many people are unaware of the abuse that takes place in this film and see no problem with the things that take place. Many are blindly supporting it without awareness of the message it is sending. It’s time to label “Fifty Shades of Grey” for what it really is—glorified, sexualized, domestic abuse.

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Why the future of dating depends on breaking gender roles R

omantic relationships come with a number of traditions and rituals that both parties involved are expected to fulfill. In a heterosexual relationship it is expected that the guy will pick the girl up, take her to coffee, dinner or a movie, and he will pay for everything.

The tradition of the man pay i ng on t he Estefania first date is more Castrooutd at e d t h a n Vazquez VCRs and is just Staff Columnist about as useful.

Something happens in that exchange of cash. Intentional or not, the act of having a guy cover the cost of going out with a girl carries more weight than can be counted in dollars.

Regardless of how the date is going, when a guy insists on paying the bill, the girl is probably more inclined to reciprocate in some form.

It may be demonstrated in a willingness to hold hands, an obligation to laugh at crappy jokes or maybe even

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a kiss goodnight. It needs to stop.

No one should have to feel indebted for having been taken out on a date.

Ladies, allowing a guy to pay on the first date sets a precedent. Fulfilling this ritual implies that a guy must impress a girl monetarily and that to show interest, he must be willing to pay the price. And if he pays for the first date, what does that mean for future dates? Has he lost interest because you’ve decided to split the bill after the first date? Did he decide you’re not the one because you start taking turns paying the bill? Is he no longer trying to impress you because he isn’t paying for every single thing? It’s rare these concerns come to fruition, so we as a society shouldn’t be so unwilling to waver on this silly and old-fashioned rule.

Couples who have been together for a significant amount of time often no longer conform to the tradition of having the guy pay for everything.

They are comfortable with each other to the point of understanding that there’s nothing to be afraid of in splitting the cost of going out

together. We should be able to reach this level of comfort from the start.

If a guy pays for dinner just because it’s what he feels like he must do, the thoughtfulness of the experience is obliterated. Girls would be offended if a guy offered them an envelope of cash after a first date to show interest, but in essence, that is what happens when a guy feels he must pay for a date. Girls shouldn’t have to be thankful that guys are interested in them. If things do work out, it would be nice to think both parties benefit from the relationship equally. There’s little upholding the innate value of having a guy foot the bill for taking a girl on a date.

Let’s be honest. Most of us are fulltime college students making meager pocket change. The burden of paying for dates shouldn’t rest entirely on one partner. It is a social norm as old as dust. Girls, you shouldn’t feel entitled to have your meal paid for, and guys, you can’t buy genuine interest. So next time, let us avoid the awkward dance of who is going to pay.

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reece is now on the edge of bankruptcy, yet the newly elected leaders are not willing to admit that the debt crisis is rooted in the country’s generous welfare system. Instead, they have tried to shif t Ziyi the public’s anMai ger toward forStaff Columnist eign borrowers, such as Germany.

It is unbelievable that European leaders have a high degree of tolerance with Greece’s irresponsibility dealing with regard to its own financial situation. The radical left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has promised to the public that his government will end the austerity plan, expand the welfare system and rehire employees in the public sectors who were fired due to the austerity plan after recession.

Those promises are commonly used schemes to court voters, but they will never be fulfilled.

Despite the European finance ministers’ preparing some complicated conditions to negotiate with the Greeks, this debt crisis boils down to a few simple questions. First, will the EU countries continue to bail out Greece without holding tougher terms of reform and pressing Greece’s government to keep the austerity plan? Secondly, in the worst scenario, will EU leaders be ready for a euro zone without Greece?

The first question boils down to how to spend whose money, and on whom do you spend it on.

Milton Friedman once divided spending into four classes: 1. You spend your own money on yourself. In this case, you are motivated by needs to spend and constraint by your budget, thus you always want the best price and value for your spending. 2. You spend your own money on other people. You still want a bargain but certainly are less interested in caring for the recipients. 3.

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Greece’s problem would obviously match options 3 and 4 above. On one hand, the welfare system continues to run relying on high taxation. On the other hand, Greeks are borrowing billions of dollars mainly from Germany and France, the wealthiest countries in Europe, to prevent their chain of cash f low from breaking temporarily. Greeks are no longer ashamed of losing credibility to their borrowers. They have defaulted interest payments of government bonds many times and demanded that the EU forgive their current amount of debts and let them have a fresh start.

What the Greeks want in large part is to restructure its debt. The European Central Bank currently holds 3.2 billion euros of Greece’s government bonds that will mature in July. That suggests that Greece has to pay interest payments until then and pay back the face value of the bonds. But the Greeks intend to make their bonds “perpetual ” — bonds without mature days and need to be interest infinitely. These perpetual bonds are actually one form of Ponzi scheme: You save some money in the bank and receive interest rates each year, yet you never get your money back.

This is apparently unrealistic.

As Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schauble said, “The problem is that Greece has lived beyond its means for a long time and that nobody wants to give Greece money any more without guarantees,” Indeed, without the EU’s rescue plan, Greece has little means to finance its debt. With a stagnant economy, raising taxes or issuing bonds does not work, given that Moody’s Investors Service has rated Greece’s bonds as “Caa1,” commonly called “trash bonds.”

Some EU leaders still have hope that reaching a deal with Greece will bring the radical left to the mainstream politics and have an amplified effect that the populist dogma will not spread to other EU countries similar to Greece. But these hopes might be fragile. Once the Greeks get what they want, other countries might follow the same strategy to force Germany and France to reconcile, potentially adding more risks to the euro zone.

Put it simply, the rule of thumb is: Never mess with a welcher.

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Grad student researches breakdancing Russell Ash Staff Writer

Breakdancing usually isn’t the first thing to come to mind when constructing your doctoral dissertation.

But for Daniel Synk, a teaching assistant and Ph.D. candidate in the communication, rhetoric and digital media program at NC State, his research led him to consider the relationship between media technology and breakdance culture.

During his time in the CRDM program, Synk took a class about communication and network society that required him to gather some kind of empirical data for a paper.

Coming from a background studying English, he said gathering quantitative data was something new, so he decided to take some of the media ideas he was exposed to and apply them to something he had been exposed to in high school.

“I had friends in high school who would break and I would just be hanging out with them either while they were practicing or while they were watching videos of competitions,” Synk said. “I started thinking about the roles that media play in B-Boy culture.”

Synk said that sharing breakdancing VHS tapes was a big part of the culture.

“Tapes would get passed around and they were sort of expensive so people wouldn’t really buy them,” he said. “They were not necessarily hard to get your hands on, but a lot less easy to get your hands on than YouTube is currently.”

Synk said he is looking at how changes in media technologies change how people learn to do different types of embodied performance. In particular, he is looking at how YouTube affects current B-Boy culture.

So far in his research, Synk said older breakers, who are generally between the ages of 27 and 33, have consistently felt that digital streaming has had a detrimental influence on the way breakdancing is perceived by younger generations learning it for the first time.

“They would attribute a causal role to YouTube causing younger breakers to treat the dance more instrumentally instead of being a cultural expression, to think of it as a sport,” he said.

In addition to concerns about how younger breakers were approaching the dance, Synk said there was also concern that YouTube was

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Peter Vu, a senior studying chemical engineering, Alex Olosu, a sophomore studying textile technology, and Samuel Jacobs, a junior studying mechanical engineering, show off some of their dance moves in Talley Student Union on Tuesday. “Breakdancing really takes what hip-hop means, this peace, love, unity, and just having fun to the greatest extent,” Vu said.

having an effect on the dances themselves.

“They also attributed to YouTube the breaking down of regional styles,” Synk said. “So where, previously, different parts of the country had distinctive characteristics of how people would dance, YouTube was homogenizing the dance stylistically across geographic areas.”

Still in the process of gathering data, Synk said he is interested to see if breakers within younger generations perceive themselves the way older generations do.

“What I have not figured out yet and what I’m interested in looking into is whether this negative influence that older breakers are perceiving matches up with younger breakers self-perceptions, if they think about things in the way that older breakers are saying that they think about things,” he said.

Peter Vu, a senior studying chemical engineering and president of the Break-Fast Club, NC State’s only B-Boy club on campus, said he got into breaking as a result of wanting to broaden his horizons.

“I was sitting down at home one day and all of the sudden I thought, ‘I want to learn

something new,’” Vu said. “I looked up tutorial videos to how to do some breaking steps, and from there I practiced on my own for a little bit and tried to just learn off of YouTube until I met a group of people that actually did it and I started practicing with them more.”

Vu said breakdancing is an art and a form of self-expression.

“It gives the people who do it an opportunity to really explore their creativity because you can utilize so many different parts of your body,” he said. “You can basically use everything, and you can use that without being afraid of being judged.”

Alex Olosu, a sophomore studying textile technology and a member of the Break-Fast Club, said that in addition to being among the most physically demanding forms of dancing, breaking is a way of infusing artistic creativity to the fullest extent in a departure from other forms of dancing that rely more on a set choreography.

“With breaking, literally there are no bounds in which you can perform and create your own style and dance,” Olosu said.

Samuel Jacobs, a junior studying mechani-

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cal engineering and also a member of the Break-Fast Club, said that for him breaking is a way to get to know others and understand more about where they come from.

“You can actually tell what a person is like by how they break sometimes,” Jacobs said.

“You also get to see different styles and get to see different techniques and get to learn about different cultures behind these people through breakdancing, so it’s a medium to get to know people.”

Synk said his research into the relation between media and B-Boy culture has been both fun and challenging given that he is looking at the performing breakers do as a type of rhetoric.

“You get to see people moving their bodies in ways that seem impossible and everyone’s just having a good time, so it’s a pretty fun topic to research from that perspective,” he said. “The most difficult thing for me has been figuring out how to position myself as a researcher working in the middle of multiple different disciplines.”

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up senior Joe DeAngelo who was able to come up with an upset victory over the eighthranked Eddie Klimara. DeAngelo was able to use his quick standup game to notch some impressive takedowns and score enough points to come away victorious in his final home match for the Pack.

“Before the match I was very excited,” said DeAngelo. “I knew with this huge crowd that it was going to get me pumped up. At the end, even after they raised my hand, it is still unbelievable to me that this is real, that this all really actually happened. It is an incredible experience.”

Freshmen Kevin Jack and Beau Donahue were the only

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other two members of the Wolfpack to come out with wins on the night. Jack was able to top the 16th-ranked 141-pounder in the country in freshman Dean Heil for the Cowboys. Donahue defeated freshman Davey Dolan in overtime with an impressive double leg shot.

The Pack was able to score 12 team points on the night against a team that many consider to be at the top of the sport.

“Winning four matches off of Oklahoma State, I think, is a pretty big accomplishment for us right now with our young team,” said head coach Pat Popolizio. “Not having their same ty pe of history and going out and competing against that is really impressive for our guys.”

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tallest players in the rotation are 6-foot-1.

This paid dividends for Duke, as the Devils outscored NC State 32-6 in the paint and 21-7 in second chance points.

However, the Pack made up for that by making 12-of-25 from three and scoring 28 points off of 18 Duke turnovers.

“They out-rebounded us by a good margin and they were just pounding it inside on us,” head coach Wes Moore said. “We were fortunate that we shot the ball so well and that we were able to get some turnovers that led to points on our end.”

The Pack had four players in double figures, with Spencer leading the way with 23 points.

Mathurin picked up a double-double with 13 points and a game-high 12 rebounds.

Redshirt sophomore guard Dominique Wilson garnered 18 points, four assists, three rebounds and three steals. Brown-Hoskin also added 12 points and six assists.

The Pack looks to take momentum into an away game on Thursday against No. 9 Florida State at 7 p.m.

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downtown en route to 18 points for the Pack.

“It’s been good to get the shooting rhythm back, I’ve been M.I.A. for a little while,” Turner said. “It’s good to come back to life, and I will continue to work hard and get over that mountain.”

Barber and Lacey each had 10 and 14 respectively for the Pack. Sophomore big man BeeJay Anya put on another block party with three total during the night.

The Pack seems to be getting hot at the right time. Following up a big road

win over Louisville with a win Saturday night helps boost the team’s confidence and morale as it heads into this season’s final stretch.

“We’ve been doing a better job recently, and we won a second consecutive game for the first time since December, so we can’t stop now,” Turner said.

“Next game will be tough, they have great players and a great coach. They beat us last time so we’re definitely going to have to be ready to play.”

State will get two days off before traveling down the road to Chapel Hill to take on the Tar Heels.

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Sunday’s contest was truly a game of runs, as the Blue Devils proceeded to go on a 9-2 run to close the gap. Right after that, the Pack again lengthened the scoring margin by going on a 7-0 run to make it a 55-44 game with 3:40 remaining.

“The way we finished the game on Thursday gave us hope,” redshirt senior guard Len’Nique Brown-Hoskin said. “It helped us play together tonight and when they made their runs, we didn’t hang our heads. We stood in there and fought back.”

From there, NC State didn’t allow Duke to close the gap within seven points. The Blue Devils fouled from then on out to try to get back in the game, but the Pack responded by making 17-of-19 free throws in the last 2:44 to ultimately win the game.

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Softball dominates Eagle Classic

The NC State softball team completed a perfect 4-0 record at the Georgia Southern Eagle Classic in Statesboro, Georgia, this past weekend. The Wolfpack (7-6) defeated Eastern Kentucky by a score of 8-1 and Dayton by a score of 3-1 Friday. On Saturday the Pack faced Dayton a second time and rolled to a 12-3 victory. NC State returned to action Sunday afternoon against Eastern Kentucky, downing the Colonels 5-2.

The Wolfpack heads to Wilmington Wednesday for a matchup with UNCWilmington. First pitch is slated for 5 p.m.

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Koon helps team U.S.A. to cross country gold

NC State cross country freshman Rachel Koon competed with the United States cross country team this weekend at the 2015 APA Pan American Cross Country Cup in Barranquilla, Colombia. Koon took sixth in the junior women’s race Sunday, and the U.S. team took the gold medal overall based on the combined score of the junior men and women and senior men and women’s teams. The Asheville, North Carolina, native placed second among the U.S. team, running the course in 16:45.

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The NC State bench runs onto the court after a buzzer-beater shot at the end of the first half of the Hoops 4 Hope game against No. 10 Duke in Reynolds Coliseum Saturday. The Wolfpack upset the Blue Devils, 72-59. More than $25,000 was raised to support the Kay Yow Cancer Fund.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “I’ve been M.I.A. for a little while. It’s good to come back to life, and I will continue to work hard and get over that mountain.”

Ralston Turner Senior guard

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After staging a dramatic second-half comeback to beat Miami, 68-65, on Thursday, the Wolfpack pulled a huge upset over No. 10 Duke in the 10th annual Hoops for Hope game Sunday, topping the Blue Dev-

ils, 72-59.

NC State quickly jumped out to an 8-4 lead behind two 3-pointers from sophomore guard Miah Spencer, but Duke fired back with a 7-0 run to take an 11-8 lead early in the first half. The Pack was able to stay competitive, forcing four lead changes throughout the half.

A three-pointer from sophomore forward Jennifer Mathurin gave NC State a 23-21 lead with 6:27 left in the half, and the team was

able to maintain its advantage for the remainder of the half. Spencer drilled a buzzer-beating three to top off a 13-4 run to end the half and take a 31-25 lead.

Spencer was on fire for the Pack, scoring 13 points on 5-of-9 shooting from the field and made all three of her attempts from beyond the arc in the first half. As a team, NC State shot 7-for-13 from distance, while Duke failed to make any of its six three point attempts.

However, the second half did not start the same way the first half ended. Duke went on a 10-3 run to take a 35-34 lead early in the period. After not making a single three in the first half, the Devils started out by making two of their first three from beyond the arc.

Mathurin hit a three to end the dominant Duke run and spark a 12-2 run by NC State that featured four-straight shots from beyond the arc.

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Led by senior guard Ralston Turner’s 18 points, the NC State men’s basketball team dominated the Virginia Tech Hokies, 69-53, Saturday night at PNC Arena for the team’s seventh ACC win of the season.

Winning consecutive games for the first time since early December, the Wolfpack (16-11, 7-7 ACC) took every shot the Hokies (10-17, 2-12 ACC) gave them en route to a blowout.

The Pack got going early, jumping out to a 15-point lead while shooting 56 percent in the first half. Defense was the name of the game for State, as the team held the Hokies to just 10 points and 4-of-15 shooting in the first 15 minutes of the half.

Sophomore guard Anthony “Cat” Barber led the way for the Pack in the first half scoring 10 points while shooting 3-for-4 from the field including two 3-pointers.

Virginia Tech’s leading scorers Justin Bibbs and Adam Smith proved dangerous, reaching double-digits by the end of the opening half.

The duo combined to score the Hokies last 15 points of the half including a buzzer-beating three

by Smith to cut the Pack’s lead to 32-25 heading into the break.

“They made some tough shots at times,” head coach Mark Gott-

fried said. “We could’ve been better defensively, and force them to make tough twos rather than threes. Bibbs and Smith stepped up and played really well and made it tough for us all night.”

Virginia Tech picked up right where it left off at the start of the second half, cutting the Pack’s lead to three, forcing a couple of turnovers in the process.

However, that was as close as the Hokies could get to the Pack all night. A 25-9 Wolfpack run put the Hokies down big in the second half, and State never looked back.

Only five Hokies players scored for the team the entire night.

Bibbs and Smith led the Hokies with 19 and 15, respectively.

“They had a bit of a mismatch because they had a four-guard set,” redshirt junior guard Trevor Lacey said. “We usually used two bigs, and they took advantage of that at points. It gives us stuff to work on, and we’ll be prepared for that next time we see it.”

The Pack defense once again showed its teeth in the second half, rendering 53 points to the Hokies while forcing eight turnovers and blocking five shots.

“Our defense really started to pick up midway through the second half,” Gottfried said. “BeeJay Anya gave us a really good presence inside and that really helped us, and we didn’t let them get going from three in the second half like they did in the first.”

Turner looked rejuvenated after a sluggish stretch over past couple of weeks as he shot 4-for-8 from

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Sophomore Pete Renda (174 lb.) is rolled across the mat by opponent Kyle Crutchmer during No. 20 NC State’s match with No. 6 Oklahoma State Sunday in Reynolds Coliseum. Renda lost the bout by decision 5-3 - 0-3. Despite strong performances by redshirt junior Nick Gwiazdowski and redshirt freshman Joe DeAngelo, the Wolfpack was defeated 20-12.

Cowboys wrangle Pack on senior night Spencer Ellis Staff Writer

The NC State wrestling team (16-6 overall, 3-2 conference) fell to the No. 6 Oklahoma State Cowboys (11-3 overall, 3-0 Big 12) Sunday in Reynolds Coliseum, 20-12.

The Wolfpack came into the match riding a two-game win streak, defeating the Pittsburgh Panthers and Virginia Cavaliers on its way to becoming ranked No. 20 in the nation. The Pack was look ing to continue its impressive streak in front of a packed house for Military Appreciation Day and Senior Night.

The match started slowly for the Pack. NC State dropped its first three matches of the night.

Sophomore Pete Renda, fresh-

man Nicky Hall and freshman Michael Boykin all had tight matches that ended in the Cowboys favor.

The tables turned, as defending national champion heavyweight Nick Gwiazdowski was able to come up with a big win over fifthranked Cowboys heav y weight Austin Marsden. This win provided the Pack with some muchneeded momentum, and Gwiazdowski with a strong test before the NCAA championships.

“I like that win,” Gwiazdowski said. “I feel like I controlled a lot of the match, and that is important, especially come postseason.

That can be the semifinal of the national tournament, so there is a couple of fine tune things I can do, but I am wrestling well and I like where I am at.”

The win by Gwiazdowski fired

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