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The case of Howard Dudley, imprisoned for 23 years as part of a life sentence for allegedly sexually assaulting his then 9-year-old daughter, Amy Moore, will go back to court on Thursday for the first time since 2005. There was no physical evidence of abuse. The only evidence against Dudley was the testimony of his daughter, Amy Moore. Just months after the trial, Moore told babysitters she lied about her father. She went on to file sworn affidavits and testify in court that her father never molested her. Moore said she was angry at his strict discipline and jealous of his new wife and their two small children. She said she got the idea of the molestation from the Sally Jessy Raphael show. She has written governors and prison superintendents asking them to free her father. Amy Moore’s mental disabilities are at the heart of Dudley’s bid for freedom, according to his lawyer, Theresa Newman of the Wrongful Convictions Clinic at the Duke University School of Law. SOURCE: The News & Observer
DMV Offers Online License Renewal
The Department of Motor Vehicles this week launched an online driver’s license renewal program that allows most people to update their license and pay by credit card at the agency’s website. Drivers can use the service only if they have no restrictions on their license other than needing glasses or contacts — drivers also must attest that they have no vision problems that would hinder their driving skills. Commercial licenses cannot be renewed online, and people with expired, suspended or revoked licenses must go to a DMV for a new one. The new license will be mailed in seven to 14 business days and will be valid for five or eight years, depending on the driver’s age. In its first three days of operation, more than 7,000 people statewide renewed or requested a replacement for a lost license online, and DMV officials estimated the online option will save North Carolina residents 125,000 hours this year and an estimated 188,000 hours in 2016. SOURCE: WRAL.com
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The N.C. Republican Party has elected Hasan Harnett as its new chairman Saturday, naming a successor to Claude Pope. Harnett, a businessman and author from Concord, served as campaign manager for GOP congressional candidate Vince Coakley last year who lost to his Democratic challenger. Harnett, who will be the state party’s first black chairman, says he can expand the GOP’s appeal to minorities. “If you can raise money in that district, you can raise money anywhere,” Harnett said. “We need a bold, reinvigorated Republican Party who listens to the grass roots. Together we will win in 2016 because teamwork makes the dream work.” Harnett’s challenger, Craig Collins, had the endorsement of nearly all major Republican state leaders: Gov. Pat McCrory, U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore and was nominated by the House Rules chairman, David Lewis of Dunn. SOURCE: The News & Observer
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Seth Hollar, associate director of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NC State and co-visionary behind the EcoPRT rail system, envisions that automated fiberglass cars will be used to transport people between Centennial and Main Campus in the future. “It will solve the problem of focusing on extremely small and lightweight vehicles, so if you need to build infrastructure, for example bridges, its lightweight and small form factor make it much less expensive than traditional solutions to move people around,” Hollar said.
Interconnecting campus Professors break ground on rail system that will connect Centennial Campus to Main Campus Thiago De Souza Correspondent
Two NC State professors are on track to create a rail system, EcoPRT, which will offer efficient transportation around campus. Seth Hollar, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Marshall Brain, director of the NC State Engineering Entrepreneurs Program have been working for years now on EcoPRT. A prototype car was recently made, and construction for the test track begins this week.
These cars run on elevated tracks funded by whoever is requesting to build the track. The car will cost $10,000 per vehicle and the track will cost $1 million per mile, both fractions of what subways and buses cost. “The bus system on campus costs maybe $5 million, $6 million,” Hollar said. Subway tracks can cost more than $100 million. “It’s free for NC State students within campus, but maybe if they want to go somewhere else, they pay,” Hollar said. Off-campus travel will cost 50 cents per mile, but their first big on-campus goal is connecting D.H. Hill and Hunt Library to each other. “Right now if you try to get between the two libraries on the bus, and you don’t include the wait time, it’s like an 18-minute-average ride,” Brain said. “We’d like to get that down to three or four minutes with no wait time ever.”
The foundation for bridging this gap had been laid out decades prior. “There’s actually a master plan that has a transit route on it that’s been preserved since the 1990s,” Hollar said. “The original intent was a monorail solution, but because of cost, that never became a reality.” There are two main differences between EcoPRT and other rail systems: its cost and its efficiency. The future plan is to extend the rail system to off-campus locations such as Cameron Village and Glenwood South. Heavily populated areas such as airports and shopping malls will be key targets of business due to their already large parking decks and lots. “It makes a lot of sense to leverage existing parking structures to have stations in some areas,” Hollar said. “There you offload the burden of actually having to build stations
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College of Sciences selects new dean Ian Grice Staff Writer
Beginning Sept. 1, NC State’s College of Sciences will be receiv ing a new dean f rom the University of Hawaii at Manoa. William Ditto will be replacing Daniel Solomon, who served as dean since the formation of the college in 2013. “Dr. Ditto is a highly cited physicist and over the course of his career has been a leader in discovery and innovation,” said Provost Warwick Arden. “We are looking forward to his leadership of the College of Sciences as it continues on a trajectory toward worldwide prominence.” Ditto is recognized internationally for the development of a new type of computer based on non-
linear dynamics and chaos, and his findings having been used to study new ways of controlling heart arrhythmias, seizures and epilepsy. Ditto is also looking at how technology can be used to innovate and enhance the student experience using virtual cohorts of students to connect freshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, graduate students, alumni, members of the business community and the general public to create a larger mentoring community. “NC State is one of a handful of institutions around the country that has the potential to really recreate public education that’s both a combination of the old school personal interaction that has a huge technology boost, but not at the expense of mentorship and personal interaction,” Ditto
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William Ditto from the University of Hawaii at Manoa is the new dean of the College of Sciences. His research interests include nonlinear dynamics, chaos systems and neuroscience.
The opening day of the 57th Annual Big Rock Tournament on Monday was big with four blue marlins brought in to be weighed. But the tournament is not all about sport. In addition to raising money for charity, each fish caught at the event handed over to NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine to provide valuable data about the fish population. Jeff Buckel, a professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at NC State, said that the latter’s Center for Marine Sciences and Technology, known as CMAST, is providing the National Marine Fisheries Service with anal fin
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Fund chosen to handle Hofmann Inez Nicholson News Editor
The Conservation Fund has been chosen to handle land-use negotiations for the 79,000-acre Hofmann Forest. The primary goal of The Conservation Fund is to conserve as much of the forest as possible, while still being able to generate profits that will go back into the College of Natural Resources to help fund research, scholarships and other opportunities that will increase or stabilize the CNR’s budget, according to David Ashcraft, executive director of external relations and development of CNR. NC State announced in a press release that it wants to ensure conser vation of as much as 70,000 acres of the land. However, conser vationists worr y about the fate of the remaining 9,000 acres. “When it comes to our public land, it is not an acceptable compromise to only sell off small acreages and conserve the rest,” said Ron Sutherland, a conservation scientist at Wildlands Network. “Would we be happy if they announced they were going to sell off ‘just a small percentage’ of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for example?” Despite concerns, President of the Conservation Fund Larry
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reg Carter, a professor in art and design, helps 8-year-old Ella W. work on the hair of her “weird person” puppet in the assembly room of the D.H. Hill Library Saturday afternoon. Carter was the instructor of the workshop. “[Fragola] and I were friends from some projects before, so when I heard she needed puppets, I jumped at the chance,” Carter said. “When I teach, I teach illustration, and when I make my art, I make puppets. This is the first time I’ve combined the teaching and the puppets.” Marian Fragola, the director of program planning and outreach, said the Wake County Alumni Network and the NCSU Libraries helped sponsor the workshop.
City considers gas station restrictions Deirdre An Staff Writer
A text change development case is currently awaiting review by the Raleigh City Council that could limit the future of the construction of gas stations within residential neighborhoods. According to the city of Raleigh’s public records, the text change recommendation, TC-2(B)-15, would limit the placement, size, hours and construction guidelines of any gas station that is built after the ordinance is passed. According to Eric Braun, member of the Raleigh planning commission and chair of the text change subcommittee of the planning commission, the text change was a result of a zoning case that occurred at the intersection of Buffaloe Road and New Hope Church Road where neighborhood residents filed a petition against the building of a Sheetz
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said. “I’m very excited about NC State. It’s a fantastic institution at exactly the right time in the evolution of public higher education. I could not be more thrilled. I just almost can’t wait to get there.” Ditto said he hopes to develop a one-stop center that can handle advising students in a more holistic way, rather than referring them to the registrar or the financial aid office. A “concierge” would be able to advise a student throughout his or her college experience. The program is in the preliminary stage of development. “Everybody talks about science
gas station. The current text change proposal is available on the city council website. According to the current ordinance, if passed by the city council, newly developed gas stations within residential districts will have their hours limited from 6 a.m.–11 p.m. and will have to be located at least 200 feet from residential use or zone. “As it exists today, there are no restrictions on the neighborhood mixed use and the community mixed used zoning district as it relates to gas stations,” Braun said. “Essentially, this text change addresses the situation where someone proposes to locate a gas station or service station within the new neighborhood mixed use zoning district.” According to Braun, this text change took four to five months of meetings with the Text Change Committee, people who represented the industries and concerned
citizens to develop a draft text change. Thomas Worth Jr., an attorney who represented small gas stations, said that the proposal is a compromise between some local convenience gas owners and nearby residential neighborhoods. Gas stations will also have to be no more than one story tall for any convenience store, and the size cannot exceed a maximum of 1,000 to 1,200 feet and eight total gas pumps. Backlighting of fuel canopies will also be prohibited and vacuuming and compression devices will also have restrictions on placement. Car washes will only be allowed if it is a fully automatic car wash. However, according to Braun, “This change will not be held against gas stations that are already developed in residential neighborhoods and do not meet these guidelines as long as the gas station does not make any signifi-
cant changes to property.” Tanya Rice, a resident of the city of Raleigh, agrees that gas stations should be held separate from residential neighborhoods. “I couldn’t imagine living next to a gas station,” Rice said. “It would be very noisy, and I would think it could decrease property value if it was too distracting.” Apartment areas such as the communities on Tr yon Road would not have to worry about this ordinance. “The residential district does not mean multi-family zoning district,” Braun said. “It does not apply to apartments, so you can still locate a convenience store gas station next to an apartment complex as long as it is not within 200 feet of a residential zone.” The city council has yet to vote to adopt or abandon this case.
and research, connecting the dots; we’d like to be able to connect the people together,” Ditto said. “We need to become much more people-centric in how we approach advising for the total student environment.” Ditto has also been a professor at Georgia Tech and led The Applied Chaos Labs, which has generated recent discoveries in reconfigurable computing, chaotic computing and astrophysics. He hopes to bring this science to NC State and continue doing research with it. “I am an active researcher in addition to being an educator and an administrator,” Ditto said. “But I always put the needs of the college first.” Ditto decided to study education after his first week at the University of California at Los Angeles,
where he earned his bachelor’s degree in physics. “I just wanted to find out how the world worked, but then suddenly there was this whole community of people who wanted to learn things, and that’s something,” Ditto said. “I thought, what a great thing to do, is to both learn new things and discover new things but also to be able to share that. Where else in the world do 30,000 people show up every day to try and learn something new or to be educated?” Ditto has been involved with building new programs, such as the College of Sciences, from the ground up. Before his tenure as dean at the University of Hawaii, Ditto served as founding director of Arizona State University’s School of Biological and Health
Systems Engineering and was the Olin Chair of Biomedical Engineering. He served as founding chair for the University of Florida’s biomedical engineering department too. Further, he served as a founding faculty member of the joint Emory/Georgia Tech biomedical engineering department, and served as a physics professor at both Georgia Tech and the College of Wooster. Once his transition is complete, Ditto plans to teach astronomy and physics classes occasionally. “What I really like is to teach freshmen and sophomore classes — I think getting the hearts and minds and getting the excitement of what college is all about right at the beginning,” Ditto said.
yourself and further reducing the costs.” Both being professors of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program, they also get help from their students on the project. “We’ve got over 50 [students] throughout the years to work on it,” Hollar said. “Over the summer we have maybe six or seven.” Students have been working on the project by designing the test track and getting the GPS to work on the cars. All students will also be able to test out the EcoPRT themselves soon. In addition to being on-rails, it will be able to drive itself freely on the ground to designated stations marked by tape at the three engineering buildings, the library and the residence halls. “Getting it running out on that Oval area is going to be kind of the first public demonstration,” Brain said. “We hope to have a little app that goes with that, and a person can stand in front of the library and push a button, and the car will come around and pick them up and then take them. We sort of make an assumption that everybody who’s riding it will have a smartphone.” Brain believes the EcoPRT will make Raleigh “the city of the future.” It will be the centerpiece that will set NC State and the city of Raleigh apart from the rest. Due to this and the rise of driverless cars, he says, “In 10 years, 20 at the most, human beings won’t be driving cars anymore.” Brain says the best support for now is simply being aware of the project. They are deciding not to turn to funding services such as Kickstarter. More information can be found on ecoprt.com.
Raleigh releases budget Staff Report
The city of Raleigh released its 2016 fiscal year operating budget in late May. The budget will be adopted no later than July 1. The presentation addressed the general fund, community growth pressures, capital investments as well as introduced the new $832.5 million budget, which includes a fee increase for solid waste disposal, a pay increase for city employees, adjustments to the benefits packages of employees and customer services enhancements. The budget addresses new challenges caused by the rapid population growth featured throughout the city of Raleigh. According to the Raleigh Public Record, city manager Ruffin Hall said challenges include infrastructure upgrades and social equity. Funds for eight new public safety employees, expanded facilities for city services — including a central communication center — and an average pay increase of 2.9 percent for city employees will all be contained within the budget. Parking fares in city-owned pa rk i ng ga rages w i l l a lso change under the new budget. A new f lat rate fee of $5 will be charged for nights and weekends. Additionally, there will be a $7 charge for special events. These changes are proposed to take effect on Dec. 31and are projected to bring in $950,000 in revenue, according to the Raleigh Public Record. For more information about the 2016 fiscal year budget, visit the Raleigh Public Records website at raleighpublicrecord.org.
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Selzer said The Conservation Fund’s contract with the university is ultimately about conservation. “[The Hofmann Forest] is a piece of land that the university has owned for many years,” Selzer said. “The Conservation Fund is the only organization in the country that is chartered for both conservation and economic development. As a nonprofit, we are uniquely positioned to help the university balance the need for financial return and conservation.” According to a press release from The Conservation Fund, it will speak to interested parties regarding the following potential opportunities at Hofmann Forest: Negotiating a restricted use agreement on up to 70,000 acres that would allow military presence on the land for training purposes Negotiating a multi-decade timber deed on approximately 56,000 acres with requirements for certified sustainable practices Negotiating conservation easements for the approximate 18,000-acre Big Open Pocosin Potential sale of the current 1,600 acre agricultural land with an agreement to continued agricultural use Potential sale of the two mitigation banks Developi ng a longt e r m s t r at e g y f or t h e around-4,000 acres south of State Highway 17 near
Jacksonville, k now n as Block 10, that considers its highest and best use. E x plor i ng add it iona l conservation prospects A g roup of f a c u lt y members and staff from NC State traveled to Hofmann Forest on Monday to explore the land and generate ideas in relation to the research they plan on conducting in the area. “We’re planning on having a brainstorm session on ideas,” Ashcraft said. “Some research may be within the College of Natural Resources, and some may be between other colleges on campus. We are looking at as many opportunities as we have for the forest, water, animals, carbon, oxygen, et cetera.” Within the next decade, Ashcraft hopes to see as many different groups as possible collaborate to use the land at the Hofmann Forest. “It offers the perfect opportunity for us to demonstrate a nd showcase susta inable prac t ices,” Ashcraft said. “How do we use that property to en ha nce mi l ita r y preparedness, income for the college, jobs for the local com mu nit y a nd ma ny other things?” Clint Sieber, a senior studying soil sciences, also agrees that the Hofmann Forest has a lot to offer. “I think it’s great they’re conserving a lot of the land while still producing profit to go back to the university,” Seiber said. “I look forward to seeing what all will come out of that neck of the woods.”
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spine samples from blue marlins caught at the Big Rock Tournament. “We send out an email and say, ‘W hat do you guys need?’” Buckel said. The Department of Applied Ecology is primarily interested in studying the feeding ecology of the fish brought to the dock such as the blue marlin, dolphin fish—better known as mahi-mahi—yellowfin tuna and wahoo. However, the researchers collect a variety of fish parts for research including the scales, ear bones and anal fin spines. The anal f in spines, Buckel said, have been the most widely used because they allow researchers to estimate a fish’s age. “We take a cross-section of [the anal fin spines], and they are just like tree rings,” Buckel said. “The fish has high growth and low growth periods, and from those low grow th periods you can see how many winters or seasons a fish has been through. You count up the number of rings and that gives you the estimate of the age.” CM AST col lects f ish samples from many fishi ng tou r na ment s a nd charter-boat trips along t he E a s ter n s e a b oa rd which contribute to research being done in other parts of the world. In addition to the anal f in spine samples, t he center is currently collecting muscle samples from
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Jeff Buckel, a professor at NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine, takes a tissue sample from a dolphin fish that was caught on the first day of the Big Rock Tournament on Monday. The dolphin tissue will be sent off to the University of Southern Mississippi as part of a study on the genetic links between fish populations across the Atlantic and the Mediterranean.
blue marlins to be tested for mercury levels as part of a data collecting project with the National Marine Fisheries Service. Buckel sa id t hat even though the study has yet to be finalized, the data show that mercury levels in the water have decreased since the 1970s as a result of more stringent regulations on mercury emissions in North America. “Blue marlins are really nice handlers of the env ironment because t hey have a large-scale migration range so they roam throughout the oceans and they’re also a top predator that builds up the mercury to a measureable level [as they eat prey], so that’s really been an interesting finding coming out to Big Rock,” Buckel said. CMAST is also sending samples of tissue and ear
bones from dolphin f ish to the University of Southern Mississippi as part of a study on the genetic links between fish populations in the Gulf of Mexico, the Eastern and Western regions of the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. “If you saw genetic differences, that would suggest that over evolutionary time there hasn’t been much mixing which would tell us that the population stays relatively loca l,” Buckel said. A l s o work i ng out of CMAST is Kyle Farmer, a second-year student in NC State’s veterinary medicine program with a focus in zoological medicine. “We’re looking at the different species of fish and assessing what their environment is like, basically what they’re eating, daily stressors like being caught,
all of that inf luences their environment,” Farmer said. “We’re trying to get a broad range of samples so that we can get a baseline of what normal is [for the fish] so that if something happens, we can find out what caused it easier and try to fix it quicker.” Farmer said he volunteered to be a part of the project because much of his curriculum as a veterinary medicine student is focused on the clinical side rather than the research side. Monday was Farmer’s first day of doing research. “It benefits me a lot to get in and experience the research because I’ve never tried it,” Farmer said. “It may be something that I fall in love with but I don’t know that until I get in and try it so that’s what this is for me.”
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hristian church congregations vary in how they respond to sanctions made by the government or by their church’s larger body. In some cases, they Mary Anna push for the Rice separation of Opinion Editor church and state and support the individual freedoms of smaller branches of the church. If a faction of the government dictates that gay marriage is legal and right under its respective constitution, some churches under its jurisdiction throw up crossed fingers and hastily draw up
rules of their own in order to deny homosexuals the right to wed under their roofs. However, when such churches continue to witness the blatant perpetuation of Christian privilege within the government, they openly advocate for it. It’s important to note that what these habitual prayers primarily encourage is a narrow definition of Christianity. These practices harken back to the spring of 1789, during which the tradition of utilizing taxpayer money to sustain chaplains in the House and Senate began, according to David Hawkings of Roll Call. The Christianity that these prayers recall is that of our forefathers — a fact
that Fox News broadcasters are eager to emphasize. This Christianity is very white, very traditional and very patriarchal. Our forefathers owned slaves. Our forefathers barred minorities from voting. Perhaps their antiquated practices are not to which we should aspire. Though perhaps these prayers have evolved past that. Myriad people would assert that a prayer before a Senate meeting would serve to unite those in the courtroom under an umbrella of shared security, that it creates intimacy in a room of strangers. Others who seek to protect the traditional courtroom prayer claim that it rightly invokes Christian
values. The prayer acts as a reminder of the ideals we all, presumably, share. However, as we live in a nation that systematically privileges those who profess Christian faith, I would reject these notions. The promise of union through prayer falls apart in the presence of those who do not fall into the perceived majority. Perhaps the prayer brings together many persons with a Christian background, but it merely operates to isolate those who do not belong to this overwhelming majority — overwhelming, because candidates typically must broadcast their dedication to the Lord before being seriously considered for office.
In the United States, the ideal of white, masculine Christianity incessantly inf luences whom we look to for leadership. We cast this archetype as the default, rather than as circumstantial. If candidates are not men, why not? If they are not white, why not? Do they have ties to a church? Have they lived outside of the country? Does their skin burn if they handle a crucifix? Though outwardly, these prayers may seem innocuous, they serve as ties to a past that many continue to deny as wrong. On the U.S. Senate’s website, the chaplain’s page states, “During the past 207 years, all sessions of the Senate have been opened with
prayer, strongly affirming the Senate’s faith in God as Sovereign Lord of our Nation.” This statement palpably champions Christianity as a given in the U.S. Other belief systems aren’t simply ignored — here they don’t exist at all. In a time when we are begrudgingly moving toward social change, tradition that favors the traditional anchors us to the past, pulling us backward. We cannot expect to foster acceptance as a society if we continue to treat people unequally. Yet we continue to force people to stand and bow their heads, despite that they might disagree with what they’re being held to. We don’t give them an option.
How safe is safe enough? Half-measures and half-lives M
ore than 120 million Americans live within 50 miles of a nuclear power pl a nt . NC Daniel Root State itself Guest Columnist sits less than 30 miles from the Shearon Harris plant in Holly Springs. At first glance, nuclear energy seems ideal, as it generates a significant amount of energy without emitting harmful greenhouse gases. However, this energy source has a major drawback. In addition to energy, nuclear power plants also generate radioactive waste, which can remain hazardous for millions of years. As of now (in the aftermath of the political defeat of the Yucca Mountain project), no permanent storage facility for nuclear waste exists. This means that tens of thousands of metric tons of waste are being stored on-site at the various nuclear power plants of the United States. The first power plants built in the U.S. in the middle of the 20th century were built under the assumption that the plants would reprocess waste. This means that plants would eventually reuse spent fuel, thus eliminating the need for bulk storage of waste. According to Walter Rosenbaum, a political scientist who specializes in environmental politics, these plants “were designed to store temporarily no more than three years of accumulated spent fuel rods.” Eventually, it became clear that reprocessing spent fuel would be far too expensive and would not eliminate all of the waste. The power plants needed a permanent geologic storage facility, and Yucca Mountain, Nevada was that site. Spent nuclear fuel would be stored in this sealed mountain for millions of years for decomposition. However, this site failed to be realized due to inadequate planning and research and too much public disapproval from the citizens of Nevada. The two main ways that nuclear waste can be stored at a plant are cooling pools and dry cask storage. Cooling pool storage is basically nothing more complex than putting the waste in a large pool of water and leaving it to cool for thousands of years.
Approximately 78 percent of spent fuel is stored in cooling pools. The pools are heavily reliant on electricity to maintain the requisite water level. Without electricity, the water in the pools would boil away, causing the waste to burn, thereby releasing radioactive smoke into the air over an area of hundreds of miles. However, there are now alternative ways to cool the spent fuel pool using temporary equipment. Fuel rod fires, due to a loss of coolant, caused both the disasters at Fukushima in 2011 and Chernobyl in 1986. According to the National Academy of Sciences, cooling pools are ticking time bombs vulnerable to both natural disasters and terrorist attacks. As if that were not frightening enough, the environmental interest group NC WARN states that the Shearon Harris plant is perhaps the most dangerous nuclear power plant in the U.S. This plant stores 10 times the waste that was released in the Chernobyl disaster. The Shearon Harris plant stores waste in four large, overcrowded cooling pools. If anything went severely wrong at this plant, thereby causing a catastrophic meltdown, radioactive smoke could spread as far as Washington, D.C. Fortunately, we do have an alternative to cooling pools: dry cask storage. Fuel that has already cooled for one to five years can be removed from the pools and encased in steel cylinders that are filled with inert gas and then welded shut. Dry casks are not reliant on electricity, and the waste can be safely stored in them for at least 50 years. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists, about 80 percent of the spent fuel that is currently being kept in cooling pools could be moved to dry casks. However, without a government mandate or the attention of public opinion, plant managers have little reason to go through the trouble and expense of transferring the nuclear waste to dry casks. Data from a 2012 Gallup poll show that 57 percent of Americans favor nuclear power. However, it is unclear how many of these people realize the dangers associated
with this form of power. It is also unclear whether they realize that nuclear energy accounts for only 8 percent of the U.S. power supply. It seems that the American public is taking a large risk and getting little in return. It is apparent that we will not solve the issue of nuclear waste disposal easily. We are still living through the early days of the Atomic Age. We have much to learn before we can accurately assess the benefits and consequences of nuclear power. The problems of nuclear energy must reach a broader public awareness so that the American citizens can make informed decisions on this issue of vital importance to national security. Clearly, we need an alternative to fossil fuels. But it is unlikely that nuclear power is the way of future, as many believed in the 1950s. In fact, the world would probably be a lot safer without this technological capacity. It was, frankly, quite foolish for so many plants to be created without any permanent solution for bulk storage. But pining for the golden days of yore and placing blame on our forebears will achieve nothing — what we need now is action. The best option at this point is to move as much waste as possible into dry cask storage while scientists work to find a site for more permanent storage. In addition, the United States should also work to phase out nuclear power. The U.S. still uses commercial plants that were built during the 1970s, and many of the current plants are scheduled for retirement in the near future. The entire history of atomic power in the U.S. consists of a series of half-measures. Never was a permanent solution for waste disposal adequately pursued. All the solutions — reprocessing, cooling pools, dry cask storage — were nothing more than short-term bandages on a deep wound. Nuclear energy is not an issue that we can suppress forever with half-measures. The time has come for a decisive and deliberate solution that does not simply leave the problem for the next generation.
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ear Grammar Police, Anyone who has spent more than an hour on the Internet has definitely encountered a member of your ranks. Together, you are an army of selfGabe DeCaro professed, Staff Columnist sanctimonious crusaders bent on stamping out the vices of ignorance and grammatical incorrectness from message boards, social media sites and product reviews. With a tab of dictionary. com open in your browser, you publically and extravagantly shame anyone for even the most minor infractions against your view of the pure English language. You might think you are doing this world a favor with your browbeating and your bully pulpit banging, but in reality, your ideological sins pervert language in three disturbing ways. Firstly, especially in the volatile arguments/debates that pepper the uncountable discussion threads of the Internet, you use language as an ad hominem to undermine an argument. Rather than judging the value of the counterargument based on its rational merits, you isolate one particular “mistake” — whether it be a misplaced comma or a dangling participle — and hold it up like a head on a pike, thereby rendering your opponent rhe-
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torically inferior. You may think that this gives you the moral highground and the victor’s laurels. However, after having done debate and Model UN, if you had tried this tactic from anywhere other than from behind your veil of anonymity, you would have been laughed right out of the room for lacking even a shred of civility. Besides undermining the effectiveness of a dialectical discussion to achieve greater levels of truth and understanding, your protestant, prescriptivist preaching perverts our beloved language for the sake of perpetuating your dogma. The purpose of language, above all else, is to relay information based on a commonly agreed-upon set of patterns. It is that simple. Prescriptivists, like dictators, argue that this “commonly agreed upon set of patterns” is a set of central principles that must be enforced by the legal school teachers and the extrajudicial vigilantes. For example, France has the “French Academy,” which is composed of 40 immortals, (yes, they actually call themselves that) who establish linguistic rules and standards and make decisions regarding which words are allowed to enter and exit the French language. What is the problem with this paradigm — besides its propensity to bring about an Orwellian Newspeak? Take the express lane of the su-
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permarket for example. You squirm upon the sight of “15 items or less” supposedly because the determiner “fewer” ought to be used with count able nouns while “less” is better suited for the uncountable ones. However, this “gospel truth” has its origins not in some divine context, but rather a generalization of a personal preference of a grammarian who has been dead for more than two hundred years. Besides the fact that the English language and its speakers have evolved considerably in this time, whose understanding of the grocer’s message is significantly impeded by this trivium? The point of language is not to adhere to a long list of precise regulations, but rather to be understood by your conversational partner; a message only needs to be transferred with clarity for the mechanics of language to be successful. Lastly, and most offensively, your prescriptivist proselytizing and public chastising makes people afraid to experiment with their language. Out of fear from embarrassment or receiving a subpar grade on an English paper, people are less likely to take chances, make mistakes and get messy with their writing. Don’t be afraid to let people play with their words. Yours Truly, Gabe DeCaro
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Ramifications of the NC ag-gag bill Sam Roberson Co-Features Editor
L a st week, t he Nor t h Carolina General Assembly voted to override Gov. Pat McCrory’s veto of House Bill 405 — the Property Protection Act — better known by the public as the NC Ag-Gag bill. The bill seeks to protect the privacy of businesses by giving employers the right to take legal action against those who steal company secrets or covertly record alleged illegal activity. The bill has been labeled an aggag and anti-whistleblower by activist groups such as the ASPCA due to the in-
criminating of those exposing malpractice on farms and factories. “This bill is intended to address a valid concern of our state’s businesses — how to discourage those bad actors who seek employment with the intent to engage in corporate espionage or act as an undercover investigator,” McCrory said in a statement released after he vetoed the bill. “This practice is unethical and unfair to employers, and is a particular problem for our agricultural industry. It needs to be stopped.” The bill will go into effect January 2016 and will not only apply to agricul-
ture, but all industries. On NC State’s campus, many in the agriculture department have followed the bill closely and with differing views. “I am very disappointed that the transparency and integrity so vital to the longterm good health of our state’s agricultural industry is so difficult to achieve,” sa id Bob Pat terson, a n alumni distinguished professor of crop science at NC State. The state continues to struggle to be transparent as it tries to find a balance between giving North Carolina industries a right to privacy without infringing on the right to report mal-
practice. Todd See, the head of the Department of Animal Science, said he thinks the bill could protect farms and businesses from those who lie on applications in order to gain access to facilities. “Most people in agriculture want to be open and fair and be willing to have people come in,” See said. “But they know that, especially some aspects of livestock production, have a target on their backs.” See conducts his research and teaching primarily on swine, an industry for which North Carolina is the second-largest producer in the nation. The swine industry
has come under fire for animal abuse violations from secretly recorded videos surfacing from undercover journalists. “I t hin k t he intent is not to have an impact on a n employee r ig ht f u l ly reporting something improper or illegal,” See said. Although, with House Bill 405 in effect, people publishing videos from inside a company, even if the footage contains some sort of violation, could face legal action and reparation fines if they did not have access to the area. McCrory has expressed concern that potential penalties for employees could
create an environment that discourages the reporting of illegal activities for fear of legal trouble. Now that the bill has passed, North Carolina’s already-scrutinized agriculture industry will have more protection against possible violations in factory farms. “All who genuinely care about the long-term sustainability, including continuing access to viable local and international markets, of our state’s food producers should work diligently to create and sustain a production env ironment of which both producers and consumers can be proud,” Patterson said.
Students can restrict contact info in directory Brenden Parsons Correspondent
At NC State, the student directory is initially open to the general public. The directory includes each student’s name, class, email address, home address and major. This is a common directory protocol for all public North Carolina universities; however, NC State gives students the option to restrict some, or all, of their contact information from the general public. “Students always have the option to restrict the information made public,” said Stan Martin, director of outreach, consulting and communications for the Office of Information Technology (OIT). Martin said there are a variety of privacy blocks available that students can
adjust to their preference through MyPack Portal and edit their FERPA/Privacy Settings. The system has a lot of f lexibility in the fact that students can restrict part of their information and leave another part open to the public, such as restricting their home address and leaving their name and email address public. However, the system will also allow full privacy, restricting all of the student’s personal contact information from the public. In contrast, NC State employees cannot block their contact information from the general public because they are state employees. NC State’s “Student Records Statement” and the “campus regulation on the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act” (FERPA)
from the office of general counsel states: “The university may disclose ‘directory information’ without student consent. Directory information consists of a student’s name, preferred email address, campus and home mailing address(es) on file with the Registrar, enrollment status (e.g., full-time or part-time), grade level (freshman, sophomore, etc), preferred telephone number, major field of study, dates of attendance, and honors, degrees and awards received by the student.” Martin said OIT was originally developed as an online directory several years ago, in accordance with the regulations established by the university regarding student directory information. “While it is an extremely
handy tool and serves the university community well, we take students’ privacy very seriously,” Martin said. Martin said the tool to edit what directory information is made public was developed working with the Registration and Records office as well as the Office of General Counsel. Many students, especially underclassmen, are not aware their contact information is open in the public and that they have the option to restrict it. Martin said OIT has a presentation about privacy and the student directory at every freshman orientation. Jesse Tehrani, a sophomore studying human biology, had no idea his contact information was public and he had the option to restrict it.
“I don’t think it’s a safe practice to allow that much personal information to fall into the hands of whoever chooses to seek it out,” Tehrani said. Tehrani also thinks NC State could have done a better job informing new students there is an option to make his information private. “I didn’t know that was an option, whether or not that was made clear to me by NC State, I’m not sure of either. If they did reach out to students to inform them of the privacy settings they should put a more serious effort to ensure no students information is made public without their personal consent.” Callum Sloan, a sophomore in the Poole College of Management, agreed with Tehrani that OIT
should make more of an effort to communicate to students that they can restrict their contact information from the public. “It kind of makes me think why that would be public record in the first place,” Sloan said on his contact information. On the other hand, Mallory Meissner, a sophomore studying industrial engineering, did not mind that her contact information was available to the public but wished she’d known she could alter the information available in the first place. “I’m a little embarrassed I didn’t know you can adjust the information you release,’ Meissner said.
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Looking for new music to add to the soundtrack of your summer? Here’s what the student radio music directors have been listening to in their free time. For more album reviews amd music-related content, visit WKNC’s blog at blog.WKNC.org
The Unknown Mortal Orchestra is a Portland-via-New Zealand psychedelic rock band that was started in 2011 by frontman Ruban Nielson. Their first two albums received a massive amount of success, despite the band’s inception only four years ago. Adding to their previous lo-fi sounds and yet creating something much more expansive, they return with their third album, “Multi-Love.” This album fuses head-bobbing, funky, psychedelic grooves with 1970s-era pop and disco sounds. While these sounds aren’t foreign to Nielson, they are now done with higher fidelity and sound much cleaner. The lyrics in the album are self-deprecating, ones that express feelings of insecurity and also cover Neilson’s romantic liasons with two women at the same time. An innovative and ear-turning album, “Multi-Love” draws listeners from many different genres while preserving its originality — a tough feat, accomplished. Unknown Mortal Orchestra will play at Cats Cradle this Sunday. Tickets are still available for $12. Sounds like: Tame Impala, Ariel Pink, Mac Demarco Source: unknownmortalorchestra.com
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A.L.L.A. A$AP Rocky
Sophomore albums for rappers tend to be the deciding factor of whether an MC is here to stay or a fly-by-night phenom who had a good run. In the case of A$AP Rocky, there has been a lot of debate in the hip-hop community of whether or not A$AP Worldwide’s brand of rap music would stand the test of time. Given Rocky’s forays into the fashion world, mediocre releases from his crew members and the death of Yams, the phrase “fell off” has been thrown around a lot in reference to the Harlem swag rapper. Well, “At. Long. Last. A$AP” dropped last week and nay-sayers be damned! Lord Flacko’s second album is everything that his fans would hope for and even more. Made to be experienced in its entirety, “A.L.L.A.” is a strong album from start to finish. Rocky takes his listeners on a trip through the many layers of emotions and experiences in a rags-to-riches story. The album flows organically from track to track and explores a range of genres with classic folk and rock samples, “Holy Ghost,” smooth pop melodies; “L$D” and traditional rap machismo, “M’$” and “Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye 2,” all the while coming together as an undeniable rap masterpiece. Amazing balance is achieved in the composition of this record which has contributions from the music industry’s top producers: Kanye West, Mark Ronson, Danger Mouse, Jim Jonsin, Emile and Mike Dean. It serves all hip-hop audiences, from the hipster, “I-like-it-because-it’s-different crowd,” to the rap traditionalist looking to rattle his or her trunk. Earlier this year, we witnessed Kendrick Lamar deliver an overly “preachy,” cliche, backpack rap album for his sophomore project. Now he’s doing corny music videos with Taylor Swift and Lena Dunham, completely reversing all of the preaching he did on “To Pimp a Butterfly.” “At. Long. Last. A$AP” serves as a polar opposite and solidifies Rocky’s position in hip-hop culture as the curator of cool. The difference between the two projects is that Kendrick tried too hard, while Rocky just acted like himself. The result is a great album that explores a range of topics effortlessly and flips an aloof middle finger at social inequality instead of forcing the issue. Like most naturally cool people, A$AP Rocky makes you feel cool by being around him, and “A.L.L.A.’s” 66-minute trip through Harlem, SOHO and life of luxury make you feel like you’re one of the “homies” taking the trip with him. As stated earlier, this album, as a whole, is solid, but the standout tracks are: “Holy Ghost” featuring Joe Fox, “L$D,” “LPFJ2,” “Wavybone” featuring Juicy J and UGK, “M’$” featuring Lil Wayne and “Back Home” featuring Mos Def, Acyde and A$AP Yams. A lot of the criticism leading up to the release of this album was that there were a lot of guest features on the track list. However, unlike most rap albums where abundant guest appearances are a crutch for weak artists, A$AP Rocky uses them to augment his own abilities and highlight his artistic influences. I give this album five stars and believe it will stand the test of time as a piece of work that establishes A$AP Rocky’s presence as a key player in hip-hop and pop culture. By Charles Morse, WKNC, underground hiphop/urban music director
This Raleigh artist layers samples and beats to create a whirling warp of time and emotion, layering samples and complex beats that keep hitting hard. Maddening, but in a way that makes you want to ball out, keeps you guessing where the dark, twisted subway will go. Tracks such as “Capsule” are real bangers, while “Gum” spins your head ‘round and ‘round until you’re lost in the wash of sound. If you want a grimy, raw album for background music or to be the center of a party, “Reducer” is a go-to. It is no wonder why HANZ has recently signed with Tri Angle Records and has been played in DJ sets by Björk. By Cameron Dolecheck, WKNC, afterhours music director
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results with the 2013 team, riding the left arm of Rodon and the speed of Turner all the way to Omaha. The ride was cut short by eventual champ UCLA, but Avent had made his mark, and Wolfpack Nation was talking about its baseball team once again. Expectations were raised in 2014, as the Wolfpack had several pieces of the College World Series team coming back. However, Avent failed to deliver even one ACC Tournament win. Which led to 2015, the make-orbreak year for Elliott Avent. Before the magical run to the Fort Worth Regional, Avent was saving his job in the offseason. He had built another stellar recruiting class, headlined by Dunand, the nephew of Alex Rodriguez, and Brown, who would become the ace of a stellar pitching staff. For a college coach looking to speed up a rebuild, the transfer market is usually the best option — Avent utilized that option and found success. Avent found South Carolina transfer Curt Britt, the starter for Game 1 of the Fort Worth Regional, Tallahassee Community College transfer Ryne Willard, a mainstay in the Pack’s infield, and Vanderbilt transfer Joel McKeithan, who started 32 games for the Pack, driving in 14 runs. However, the boldest move by Avent this off-season was the move of sophomore A nd rew Knizner from third base to behind home plate. Catcher is by far the hardest position to learn, especially for a player who has never caught before during his playing career. Taking into account the fact
that Knizner was a freshman AllAmerican at third base last season, it was fair to wonder if the position switch would negatively affect not only Knizner’s defensive ability, but his offensive ability as well, as he would be mentally occupied with learning a new position. Yet Knizner performed masterfully at the position, stepping right into the shoes vacated by Austin. There were some lumps along the way, but Knizner threw 22 runners out in 43 stolen base attempts on the basepaths. For comparison, former Wolfpacker Brett Austin, a third-round pick in the 2014 Draft, only threw out 14 batters in 45 attempts. Knizner also produced at the plate, hitting .317 with five home runs and 42 RBI on the season, showing that the switch hadn’t adversely affected his offensive abilities. The move gave the Wolfpack a rock behind the plate and someone to handle to the young pitching staff. Using his recruiting prowess, the transfer market, and a little position shuff ling, Avent had rebuilt his team from the ground up. With any young group of players it takes time to mature, but when this group did, Pack fans saw the benefits. One move that most people overlooked came in the Wolfpack coaching staff. On June 30, 2014, NC State hired Scott Foxhall to become the next pitching coach after former pitching coach Tom Halliday jumped ship. Foxhall had been in the same capacity at Auburn, spearheading the Tigers’ recruiting success. The hire was largely overlooked in the off-season but was perhaps the shrewdest move Avent made in the offseason. If there was ever a man to mold the inexperienced
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“I’m going to be a shooter, but I’m going to try to be more than that,” Henderson said. “I want to guard the other team’s best players. I’ll take on any challenge that Coach gives me.” Though Henderson only averaged 27 minutes per contest during his sophomore season at West Virginia, the guard is used to
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Wolfpack pitching staff into a championship contender, it was Foxhall. Foxhall has mentored 29 pitchers who have been selected in the MLB Draft during his career and improved their draft position by an average of 28 rounds. All seven pitchers he has helped place in the first 10 rounds were undrafted coming out of high school. The numbers show Foxhall did wonders with that group, turning out a 13-11 record with a 3.37
producing for his team even when playing major minutes. During his sophomore season, Henderson averaged 17.4 points in games he played 32 minutes or more — significantly better than his season points per game average of 11.7. While Barber and Henderson will likely be able to handle the heavy load next season, Gottfried realized he may not have the duo for long. With Barber’s emergence late last year, the junior may be headed to NBA
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ER A in 253 innings. Freshman right-hander Tommy DeJuneas also benefited from his tutelage, posting a 1.82 ERA and six saves. Avent had put the pieces together for a winner, now he just needed to let them mesh. If it happened one week later, it would’ve been too late for the Pack to undo the early season slump. Expectations will be understandably high for the Wolfpack next season as Avent returns most of the cast responsible for the Re-
a year early if he continues his high level of play. With that in mind, Gottfried signed his latest transfer: freshman guard Torin Dorn of Charlotte. Dorn averaged 12 points and shot more than 50 percent in his one season with the 49ers, leading him to be named the Conference USA Freshman of the Year. “I’m really excited to have Torin join our program,” Gottfried said in an official statement. “He’s extremely versatile and can play multiple positions on the perim-
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eter. He is going to become an even better player because he has a great work ethic and is a great competitor. Most importantly, he’s a great student and he comes from an athletic background.” Dorn has the ability to play both point and shooting guard and should be a great asset to the Pack in years to come; however, the guard will have to sit out a season before making his debut in red and white.
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Softball earns first top25 finish in program history The NC State softball team finished 19th in the final USA Softball top-25 poll Tuesday, marking the best finish in program history. The Wolfpack made history earlier this season, advancing to the Super Regional round for the first time. Not only was it the first time that an NC State team made the Super Regionals, it was the first time that any team from North Carolina advanced to that level. The Pack toppled regional-host No. 17 James Madison twice en route to a perfect 3-0 record in the opening round of the postseason. State finished with a final record of 38-22, the most wins since 2007. SOURCE: NC STATE ATHLETICS
NC State baseball has five players drafted Five NC State baseball players were selected in the 2015 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Senior shortstop Logan Ratledge was highest selected player from State in this year’s draft, going to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 13th round. Junior pitchers Britt Curt (19th Round by Marlins), Jon Olczak (21st Round by Brewers) and Brad Stone (24th Round by Red Sox) were also selected. Senior outfielder Jake Fincher was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 29th Round, making him the second player from State to be selected by the White Sox in consecutive years. Former pitching standout Carlos Rodon was selected third overall by the White Sox in 2014. SOURCE: MLB.COM
Four Pack wrestlers selected for World Team Trials The Wolfpack wrestling team will send four members to the World Team Trials this weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. Reigning two-time NCAA heavyweight champion Nick Gwiazdowski will be battling for a spot on the Senior-level Team, while all-American freshman Kevin Jack (141), junior Pete Renda (174) and freshman Malik McDonald (197) will be competing on the junior level. Recent graduate Quinton Godley (174) and Pack assistant head coach Adam Hall (157) will also be vying for a spot on the senior squad. The top three contenders in each weight class will earn a spot on the national team. SOURCE: NC STATE ATHLETICS
Conor Donovan added to USMNT U-20 World Cup roster
Avent further cements his legacy Christian Candeloro Staff Writer
Elliott Avent’s tenure at NC State was on life support. It was late April, and his Wolfpack baseball team had just been drubbed by the Virginia Cavaliers. The team’s pitching staff had been torched, surrendering 12 hits and eight runs. It was State’s ninth loss in 12 games, dropping them to a lowly 9-12 in ACC play. With the Pack ’s tournament chances slim and the team playing its worst baseball of the season, it appeared that Avent would not be in the NC State dugout much longer. Avent has been the Wolfpack’s coach since 1997, amassing more than 600 wins and leading the Wolfpack to Omaha in 2013. However, he was the only remaining revenue sport coach not f ired since Debbie Yow took the Athletic Director’s position in 2010. On top of that, his team was not performing. It seemed administration was about to pull the plug. It was, unquestionably, a rebuilding year for the Wolfpack. The team had lost seven players to the MLB Draft the year prior, including first-rounders Carlos Rodon and Trea Turner. In addition, the Wolfpack had lost its entire pitching rotation, with Rodon, Logan Jernigan and the Peterson twins, Eric and Patrick, all departing for the Draft. State was entering the season with only two seniors. The pitching rotation had a combined 30 innings between all three weekend starters. Avent had plenty of excuses for a bad season, but he hadn’t delivered with all the MLB talent in 2014, so he didn’t have the luxury of chalking up a season as a rebuilding year. Yet everything changed when senior outf ielder Bubby Riley hammered an elevated 2-0 fastball with two outs in the ninth inning to walk off Virginia in the second game of the series. Freshman third baseman Joe Dunand followed Riley with a
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Head coach Elliott Avent congratulates his team after a Game 1 win over Stony Brook in the Fort Worth Regional at Lupton Stadium on the TCU campus May 29. The Wolfpack shut out the Seawolves, 3-0.
two-run walk-off home run in the extras in game two of the doubleheader, igniting the Pack on a wild run to finish the season. The Wolfpack proceeded to reel off nine straight wins and earn a bye in the ACC Tournament, a pleasant surprise for State faithful. But Avent and his crew weren’t done there, not by a long shot. NC State shut out No. 20 Notre Dame behind freshman ace Brian Brown, rallied to tie the game against No. 6 Miami in the ninth inning before winning the game in the 12th on sophomore Preston Palmeiro’s inexplicable littleleague home run and then pasted No. 24 Virginia, 10-2. Although the team fell to Florida State in the ACC Championship, 6-2, the Wolfpack was named the 2-seed in the Fort Worth Regional with No. 4 TCU staring down at them. The Wolf pack won two games in the Regional, coming six outs from advancing to a Super Regional for the second time in three years. It was an inspiring run for a
young team that, if not for two bad innings, would almost certainly still be playing. At the head of the Pack was the seasoned Avent, his job safe. One of the only coaches still standing would survive another day because of his actions at the end of his season. However, to say that Avent is here only because of the last two months would be selling short the amazing things he has done at State. Avent proved himself well before the Fort Worth Regional. Here’s how. When Yow took over the athletics department at NC State, she brought with her a high standard for Wolfpack sports. The 10 head coaching changes that came during the next five years were proof. The NC State basketball team finished 15-16 in 2010-11—well outside the top 25. Head coach Sidney Lowe was promptly fired after the season: Yow’s first major casualty. After a 7-6 season, which saw former Pack quarterback Russell Wilson win the Heisman at a dif-
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Former NC State men’s soccer player Conor Donovan was selected to the United States Men’s National Team, replacing an injured player on May 25. Donovan, who was selected by Orlando City SC in the second round, was made eligible on May 30, days before the FIFA U-20 World Cup in New Zealand. He has already traveled to Australia with the national team and has been in the program since the beginning of training camp. SOURCE: GOPACK.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY “We’re going to want to out-do what we did last year, and if everyone is on the same page, the sky is the limit.” Terry Henderson redshirt junior guard
ferent college than NC State in 2012, Yow again brought down the hammer, firing head coach Tom O’Brien after six seasons with the Wolfpack. In total, Yow has fired 10 coaches, from men’s soccer to women’s tennis, all with the commitment of achieving top-25 caliber programs in mind. All the while, Avent was quietly putting together the greatest recruiting class in the history of NC State at a crucial time. His 2012 recruiting class was ranked No. 11 in the nation by Baseball America, and featured names that have been integral in the best four years of NC State baseball history. In addition to Rodon and Jernigan, Avent signed second baseman Logan Ratledge and center fielder Jake Fincher, guys went on play a large part in the maturation of this season’s club. While other coaches shuff led and sputtered, Avent produced
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Redshirt junior Terry Henderson looks to shoot during Throwback with the Pack Oct. 17.
After an unexpected Sweet 16 run, the NC State men’s ba ske tba l l te a m su f fered heavy losses in the offseason, parting ways with three of its four leading scorers during the 2015 season. The Wolfpack suffered the most in the backcourt. With seniors Ralston Turner and Desmond Lee graduating, redshirt junior Trevor Lacey’s early departure left Anthony ‘Cat’ Barber as the Pack’s only rotation guard left on the roster. Even the losses of reserves Staats Battle and Patrick Wallace ended up being detrimental to the Pack’s future. However, head coach Mark Gottfried and his staff have been hard at work gathering the correct pieces to help his 2015-16 Wolfpack squad maintain the level of excellence that State fans have come to expect from the program in recent years. It all begins with Gottfried’s mastery of the transfer market. For the past four years, Gottfried has brought in a highly touted transfer. Turner and Lacey, both Alabama natives, joined the Pack for the
chance to play under Gottfried, who had recruited them both in high school. The success of both Turner and Lacey, as well as the State program as a whole, made Raleigh a more attractive destination for players who were leaving their old programs. In June 2014, former-West Virginia guard Terry Henderson declared he would come back to his hometown to play for the Pack. “I thought it would be a better fit for me academically and basketball-wise to leave,” Henderson said. Like Turner and Lacey before him, Henderson sat out the entirety of the 2015 season but still practiced with the team every day, learning the playbook and how to gel with his new teammates. Henderson will join Barber in what will likely be State’s starting backcourt. However, with Chase Cannon and Chris Corchiani Jr. as the only other guards on the team’s roster, Gottfried will likely get as much mileage of the duo as possible. Henderson said he is ready to accept his role as a leader on this year’s squad.
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