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TECHNICIAN

monday march

30 2015

Raleigh, North Carolina

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IN BRIEF Student dives into seep research Wake County cuts schools from receiving Title I dollars

Wake County has plans to scale back the number of elementary schools in the district that receive federal funding to help low-income students. In addition, Wake County will cut the amount of money schools receive per child from the same program. Under the change, which will begin this fall, some schools will receive less funding from Title I and some will receive no money at all. The change indicates only schools with at least 45 percent of lowincome students will receive federally subsidized lunches and have access to the more than $20 million Title I funds the district receives from the federal government each year. Fifty-nine schools in Wake County receive Title I funds and use the money for various purposes, including hiring and training extra staff and buying new computers. According to school administrators, the change is a result of the rising number of low-income students in Wake County and a need to reallocate Title I money to schools with the highest amount of need. SOURCE: The News & Observer

Deirdre An Staff Writer

This summer while many students will make a vacation to the beach, Doreen McVeigh will make her vacation in the submarine, Alvin, the deepest-diving manned submersible in the United States. McVeigh is a Ph.D. student studying the connectivity of organisms residing in the methane seeps of deep-sea regions. She described connectivity as the exchange of how organisms move from population A to population B and contribute to the genetic pools of different populations.

“We’re looking at that in the deep sea, and the organisms that we study are sessile which means they can’t move in their adult phase, so it’s only during that early larval stage that they can disperse and leave one population and find a single habitat in one area,” McVeigh said. McVeigh’s research is targeted at methane seep sites in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico area. The bulk of the organisms collected in the area are chemosynthetic, which means that they do not use the sun to make their energy. Instead these organisms use the chemically rich waters that are filled with hydrocarbons, healthy

amounts of methane, and sulfides that seep through the cracks of the earth’s crust. According to McVeigh, research in how these organisms interact is crucial for understanding the ocean system and how to best conserve it. “In regards to the deep sea, there is a lot of activity with deep sea mining and oil and gas expansion which is even happening over our coast,” McVeigh said. “That is the next frontier of energy and extraction, and we don’t know where most of the methane seeps are, but they do tend to be along continental margins, but we haven’t been able to understand fully what is going on.”

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SERVICE RALEIGH RETURNS

First Hillsborough Street Visioning Session tonight

The city of Raleigh will be hosting two Hillsborough Street Visioning Sessions at NC State this week. The first session will take place tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Talley Student Union Mountain Ballroom. Tonight’s workshop will include an interactive work session and consist of group activities to discuss land use and student opinions regarding the future of the street. After this session the Raleigh Urban Design Center at 220 Fayetteville Street, Suite 200 will host open studio hours from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday and 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday. The city will be hosting a final community presentation from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the Talley Student Union Coastal Ballroom. SOURCE: Howl Alert

Carly Fiorina says she is likely running for president

Former Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina said the likelihood she will be running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 are “higher than 90 percent.” While speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” Fiorina said she is very likely to enter the race and will officially announce the decision in late April or early May. The 2010 California gubernatorial candidate said she could appeal to voters with a “deep understanding of how the economy actually works, having started as a secretary and become the chief executive of the largest technology company in the world.” SOURCE: The Washington Post

Faculty trombone recital tonight

The director of Jazz Studies at NC State, Wes Parker will perform tonight in Titmus Theatre with his accompanist, Tom Koch. Parker leads the jazz ensembles and combos, and teaches jazz history and improvisation at NC State. The show begins at 7 p.m. and tickets are $5 for students. The show is presented by the NC State Music Department. SOURCE: University Calendar

Preserving the resources is one of McVeigh’s top priorities. “We need to make sure there are measures in place to protect these extremely valuable and extremely old ecosystems,” McVeigh said. This research, although it centers on the deep sea, has applicability in oceanic areas that are not in the deep sea, and it is especially useful within the fisheries and oceanic wildlife economy. “The beauty of it is that this could easily cross over to more coastal areas, so if you’re looking at commercially valuable shellfish and other types of commercially valuable fish such as red snapper or grouper,

50 years later, NCSU theatre honors first production Rachel Smith Staff Writer

sponsible for bringing the show together and choreographing the modern piece “For a Brief Moment,” Mullins has been described as a teacher and friend to her students. “Tara Mullins deserves a trophy, medal, plaque and spa day after this season because she handled the many twists and turns of this semester in the company with such grace and poise,” said Matthew Wright, a new member to the company and a freshman studying graphic design. “I admire her so much, and I’m grateful she

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, NC State’s University Theatre is performing a rendition of “Antigone,” the first play the theater has produced. “The Burial at Thebes” offers a new-age translation of Sophocles’ “Antigone,” which depicts a timely exploration into the conflict between those who affirm the individual’s human rights and those who must protect the state’s security. “It is a new version of ‘Antigone’,” said John McIlwee, the director of University Theatre. “Everything is not exact because we wanted something that was a bit more accessible to the audience, but the whole story is there.” “The Burial at Thebes” is very much in keeping with “Antigone” in terms of the structure of the play, and the confrontations between the main characters of Antigone and Creon, according to Mia Self, the assistant director of University Theatre. “The story of Antigone is still very relevant today, 400 years later,” Self said. “We listen to the arguments from politicians about why we choose to go to war. We ask why things happen, and we listen to the news and hear about things like Ferguson and the Chapel Hill shootings. We look to put these things into some kind of context, and all of the sudden, the words of Sophocles seem to have a real present feel.” McIlwee said the play’s ongoing relevance has prompted the theater to produce adaptations of “Antigone” before. However, University Theatre chose to perform “The Burial at Thebes” to celebrate its 50th anniversary because the rendition is in direct correlation with the theater’s first-ever performance.

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Volunteers attend the opening ceremony of Service Raleigh at Stafford Commons. NC State has hosted Service Raleigh since 1998. People from all over the city volunteer for this one-day event and take variety of volunteer jobs to help out the local organizations. This year, the Service Raleigh opening ceremony took place at Stafford Commons, right outside the Talley Student Union at 8 a.m.

Panoramic Dance Concert captures human emotion Sarah Keener Staff Writer

NC State’s Panoramic Dance Project presented its annual spring concert in Titmus Theatre this weekend, featuring a variety of diverse dances with seven compositions aiming to illustrate a range of human emotions on stage. Though the company places an emphasis on modern dance, the panoramic concert also incorporated influences from Bhangra, Capoeira, African, jazz and hiphop styles of dance and featured

choreography from NC State faculty members, guest artists and panoramic students. “Being that the name of our company, Panoramic, entails a wide view of styles within one dance company, it was awesome to truly be able to depict this in our spring concert, and to show more of how versatile we can be as a group,” said Rebecca Anderson, a senior member of the company studying psychology. Tara Z. Mullins, Artistic Director of Panoramic Dance Project, encourages her dancers on and off the dance floor. Re-

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