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IN BRIEF Crocodilian ancestor discovered in NC Fabien Cousteau to speak about ocean exploration through the generations

Ocean explorer and environmentalist Fabien Cousteau will speak in Talley Student Union Ballroom today for this year’s 2015 Harrelson Lecture. Cousteau is the grandson of the legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau and the star of the PBS series “Ocean Adventures.” The theme for his speech is “Oasis in Space: The Great Ocean Adventure.” In part, Cousteau will cover the origins of modern ocean exploration and share stories about his father’s legacy and adventures. This lecture will begin at 2:30 p.m. and will be free and open to the public.

An open reception will follow the lecture.

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“Spare Parts” inspiration to visit NC State Wednesday

On Wednesday, the Goodnight Scholars Program will host Fredi Lajvardi, the 2005 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers National Outstanding Educator award winner and the inspiration for the 2015 major motion picture “Spare Parts” starring George Lopez and Marisa Tomei, for a guest lecture in the Talley Student Union Ballroom. Lajvardi’s presentation which is named “Improbable to Unstoppable,” will include a firsthand account of Lajvardi and his students’ work, which has brought national attention to the importance of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education in the United States. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. and doors open at 6:45 p.m.

It is free and open to the public.

Seating is first come, first serve.

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Two killed in Durham train crash

Two people were killed in a passenger train accident Sunday morning in Durham near the 3400 block of Hillsborough Road. The Amtrak train hit a male and female standing on the tracks. The couple was later identified as Derek Lowe, 38, and his wife Tina Lowe, 33.

Durham police reported that none of the 166 passengers on the train were injured, and the accident is currently under investigation.

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Before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, a crocodilian ancestor recently discovered in part by NC State paleontologists was likely to be one of the top predators in North America.

The paleontologists from NC State and the North Carolina Museum of Natural History found the Carnufex Carolinensis specimen in Chatham County, about an hour southwest of Raleigh.

The team recovered parts of the Carnufex’s skull, spine and upper forelimb, but did not have a full skeleton to adequately determine how the species looked. To better gauge

the skull, the researchers used imaging technology to create a 3-D model of what the skull might have looked like, filling in the unknown pieces with the morecomplete skulls of other known relatives.

Lindsay Zanno, an assistant research professor at NC State who is the lead author on a paper for the new species, said the Carnufex, which roamed the earth in the Triassic period nearly 31 million years ago, had an upright stance, unlike the sprawling stance crocodiles have today.

The earliest crocodiles were land-dwelling animals and later evolved to become the semiARCHIVE/TECHNICIAN aquatic creatures people know Lindsay Zanno, a research assistant professor in biology, works at the Paleontology and Geology Research Lab in the Nature Research Center of the Museum of Natural today.

Zanno said the newly discov- Sciences in downtown Raleigh. Zanno was part of a team that found the bones of a crocodilian ancestor in Chatham County.

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The NC State baseball team exits the dugout to celebrate its fourth home run of the game, as the Wolfpack defeated the Florida State Seminoles, 11-7, in the series closer on Saturday. State dropped its first two games of the series in close sontests, but rebounded to top the No. 8 Seminoles thanks to an offensive scoring surge from the team’s power hitters.

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Police are still searching for one suspect involved in the on-campus assault of a student that occurred Thursday night.

A male student received minor injuries after he was assaulted by two males in an attempted robbery Thursday night on Fraternity Court at about 9 p.m.

The two males attempted to take the student’s cell phone, according to University Police Chief Jack Moorman.

Moorman said University Police arrived at the scene and apprehended one

man, but the other suspect fled arrest.

University Police is not releasing the identity of the apprehended male because he is a juvenile.

University Police is also looking for the second suspect described as a Hispanic male wearing a hoodie, athletic shorts, tennis shoes, and was last seen heading toward Varsity Drive on foot from Fraternity Court.

The two suspects implied that they had a weapon, but no weapon was seen nor was one recovered.

Please contact University Police at 919515-3000 with any tips.

France A. Córdova, the director of the National Science Foundation, will deliver NC State’s spring commencement address, the university announced Thursday.

Córdova was named the NSF’s 14th director in March of 2014 after she received a successful presidential nomination and SOURCE: NEWS.NCSU.EDU France A. Cordova is the direcSenate confirmation.

As president emeritus tor of the National Science Foundation. of Purdue University and chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, Córdova has an extensive educational background. She served as a distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside as well as the chancellor for research and professor of physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, according to a university press release.

Córdova has also spent some time as NASA’s chief scientist, the chair of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution and as a member of the board of trustees for the Mayo Clinic.

Betsy Bennett, former director of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, and retired U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Clara L. Adams-Ender, executive director of a nonprofit dedicated to helping pay for financially burdened students complete college, will also receive honorary degrees from NC State during the ceremony.

Bennett served as the director of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences for more than 20 years and saw the museum through its transition into the world-class research museum that it is today. She served as president of the Association of Science Museum Directors and was named Tar Heel of the

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Prosecutors look to build case for death penalty Pretrial for accused killer of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill to begin Monday Staff Report

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Prosecutors in the case against Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, will begin to provide details of the case

in front of a Durham County Superior Court judge Monday who will decide whether or not Hicks could potentially face the death penalty.

Police have charged Hicks with three counts of first-degree murder after he turned himself into police the day after one NC State student and two alumni were shot and killed in their Chapel Hill

apartment on Feb. 10.

The victims were Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, a firstyear environmental architecture student at NC State; her sister Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, a December 2014 graduate; and Yusor’s husband, Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, who was a May 2013 NC State graduate and second-year student at the UNC-Chapel Hill

School of Dentistry.

On Monday, Durham County District Attorney Roger Echols will provide some details of the case to Judge Orlando Hudson, who will determine if Hicks could face capital punishment if he is successfully convicted of firstdegree murder, according to The News & Observer.

Monday’s hearing is a pretrial

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ered species also had shorter arms and longer legs than the crocodiles humans are familiar with.

Although the specimen the researchers found was not yet fully grown, they fused its skeleton together and were able to estimate that the specimen would have likely been about 10 feet long, according to Zanno.

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Bennett currently serves on the boards of the Kenan Institute for Science & Engineering, the NC Botanical Garden, Triangle Land Conservancy and Kidzu Children’s Museum, among others. She now works as strategic counsel at Capital Development Services.

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hearing required by law for capital cases under Rule 24 of the General Rules of Practice for the Superior and District Courts. Although the pretrial stage of capital cases are generally similar to the pretrial stages of other felony cases, Rule 24 requires a pretrial conference in every first degree murder case.

During the conference, t he st ate mu st decla re whether it is seeking the death penalty and offer sufficient evidence of at least

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“He kind of looked like a crocodile, but walked up right,” Zanno said.

Susan Drymala, a graduate student at NC State and coauthor of the paper on this new species, said Carnufex was a big animal even for its time and definitely larger than any animal that walks the Earth today.

Even so, Drymala said, the species still didn’t measure up to the dinosaurs that came after it.

Zanno said the researchers

do not have any direct evidence of what the species may have eaten, such as stomach content or bite marks. However, researchers are confident there were animals living in the area that Carnufex could have preyed on, such as some mammals and other crocodile relatives and armored reptiles.

Because Carnufex was a top predator and the largest animal that was found in that ecosystem, researchers assume it would have eaten just about anything that was around.

Zanno said these findings help teach people how ecosystems change after mass extinctions.

Before the Carnufex evolved, a mass extinction wiped out most of the animals and plants living on the planet.

During the recovery after the extinction, the planet saw an explosive evolution of different types of vertebrates. Mammals, turtles, crocodiles and dinosaurs all evolved during this time period.

During the time in which

Carnufex would have lived, a wide variety of predators were competing for the same resources, Drymala said.

Drymala said this time was already known to have far too many predators than what is considered normal for an ecosystem, and the discovery of this animal adds yet another top predator to the list.

“We see a lot of different types of predators in the Triassic when this thing lived, all sort of showing different top predator niches,” Zanno said.

Zanno said it wasn’t until Carnufex and many other predator species went extinct after another mass extinction event that dinosaurs were able to take over those niches and become the dominant predator on land.

“It’s a new species unknown to science, and it’s important that we figure out what lived when on the planet if we want to understand how life evolved and the relationship between animals and their environment,” Zanno said.

Wake County native Adams-Ender is the executive director of the nonprofit Caring About People with Enthusiasm Legacy Fund, which raises money to send needy students to college.

According to the press release, Adams-Ender became chief executive officer for the Army Surgeon General after beginning her career as a nurse years earlier. She served as vice president for nursing at the largest health care facility in the Department of

Defense, Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

She was awarded the Expert Field Medical Badge in 1967, becoming the first woman in the Army to receive the award. She commanded an Army base, and was the first Army nurse in history to command as a general officer. Adams-Ender published her memoir, “My Rise to the Stars,” in 2011.

The spring commencement ceremony will take place May 9 at 9 a.m. in PNC Arena.

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I nve st igators contend the murder was the result of a long-standing parking dispute between the neighbors, but news of the violent killings of the three collegeaged Muslims sparked global outrage and led to questions about whether or not religious bias played a role in Hicks’ motive.

According to The N&O, several Durham prosecutors have pushed for the death penalty as an option in the past, but few juries have been asked to consider capital punishment in the county in recent years, as

prosecutors will often negotiate pleas with the possibility of capital punishment in order to save time and money on trial.

None of the 149 North C a rol i na i n m ate s c u rrently on death row were convicted in Durham, The N&O reported.

In addition to the state charges, federal investigators are currently searching for evidence that supports federal hate-crime charges against Hicks, which must prove the religion of the victims was the predominant motivating factor for the crimes in order for the prosecution to be successful.

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State law needs to protect religious freedom, too

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he state of Indiana seemed to catch the right moment to spark a national debate on protection of religious freedom as Easter and Passover approached. On Thursday, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence signed an amendment to the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act, or the RFRA, emphasizing that the law is not a license to discriminate but meant to protect citizens’ right Ziyi Mai to believe.

Staff Columnist Many were confused as to why states need additional laws to protect religious freedom when the First Amendment already protects that. Mainstream media outlets immediately seized the chance of demonizing Indianapolis as the new Selma.

The backlash and fury pointing to RFRA were greatly amplified when a TV reporter asked a family-owned pizza shop how it would respond to requests of catering a gay wedding. The owner, Kevin O’Connor, who is a Christian, said his family would prefer to not participate in a same-sex couple’s ceremony.

All of a sudden, O’Connor was receiving an outpouring of hatred toward him, his family and his pizza restaurant.

The media has tried to navigate the public opinion by describing Christians as hateful and anti-gay while describing the LGBT community as one that has been oppressed and its rights trampled on. A high school basketball coach even tweeted, “Who’s going to Walkerton, IN to burn down #memoriespizza w me? ” The pressure mounted to a point that O’Connor had to shut down his restaurant and has no idea when he will open it again.

Incidents such as this have dramatically increased in the past few years across the country. This is exactly why a state law to protect religious freedom is needed. The Constitution does not specifically state how the right to exercise religions should be protected and define what religious freedom is. Indiana has set a precedent of what states can do to protect religious freedom.

In fact, the RFRA is more than a law protecting religious freedom; it’s an action that will restore people’s common sense of how to

Erin Holloway, senior studying anthropology and English

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ast Wednesday’s edition of the Technician included a very alarming column about general education classes, written by Kevin Kronk. In the column, Kronk says the general education requirements should be Daniel Root abolished due to opportunity Guest Columnist cost and lack of interest. This sentiment should be alarming and disturbing because it goes entirely against the idea of university education.

Opportunity cost refers to the costs associated with pursuing one endeavor whilst another could be pursued, or as Kronk says, “Wasted time means wasting opportunities.” According to Kronk, “Required courses detract from students’ ability to focus on what matters to them.”

Here he was referring to extracurricular activities in which students engage, of which it is true that many students feel pressure to maintain a life outside of the classroom. However, in the university setting, one’s studies must take precedence. This is not truly an argument against GEP courses, but rather against high-course loads in general.

In regard to Kronk’s claim of lack of interest, the general education requirements are very broad. For example, some students are required to take six hours of social sciences. Social sciences run the gamut from political science to archaeology to economics. Another example is the interdisciplinary perspectives requirement, which includes courses as diverse as STS 301 (Science and Civilization) and HI 482 (Darwinism in Science and Society). Surely students can find something to pique their interest. Or, if not, they may gain a new interest in a field they had never considered.

Unfortunately, despite being an indefensible position, there is a definite push to eliminate the liberal arts from university education. In 2013, Gov. Pat McCrory startled many people when he said, “If you want to take gender studies that’s fine. Go to a private school, and take it, but I don’t want to subsidize that if that’s not going to get someone a job.” People who make asinine comments such as this seem to be missing the purpose of a university education.

Students do not go to college simply to get a job. That is the purpose of a technical school.

The goal of a university is to broaden minds and create educated members of the human race.

Education is not an a la carte smattering of interests. In fact, liberal education comprises a long and glorious tradition. The goal of liberal education is quite literally to liberate people from the bonds of ignorance, from Plato’s cave.

Kronk says, “There is nothing more that GEPs can offer us that high school, books and the Internet don’t already provide.” The truth is that high schools fail to cover many things.

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hese words echoed from the TED Talk stage last month, where Monica Lewinsky spoke publicly for the first time in a decade. There arguably isn’t any speaker better equipped to talk about the freedom of speech and where it can Allison Press all go wrong, when at 24, Guest Columnist Lewinsky became the Internet’s first case of cyber bullying (though there was no name for it at the time). This private-made-public affair was the first major news story to break on the Internet. As such, this new online playground became a hot bed for media outlets, comedians, and everyone else who wanted to fancy a try at slinging this shiny toy around, and dangling the life of a human being in the process. The Internet’s newfound power erupted an incessant slew of hate, shaming and vilification, all the while dodging the question: At what point have we dehumanized a life, and destroyed it beyond repair?

A majority of us at NC State probably think of Lewinsky as a cultural icon or the end rhyme to a rap lyric, rather than the scapegoat of a ‘90s White House scandal.

Now 10 years later, we’re all grown up. Now, we’re old enough to be held accountable for the lesson of her story: Our freedom of speech is a responsibility, not just a right.

The Internet inserts distance, anonymity and speed into our social interactions.

For many, this makes it acceptable to dehumanize another person online, to yell at, threaten, and shame them. This makes opinions toward others online harsher, and reactions stronger. But the Internet does not remove the person at the receiving end of your interaction. The person sitting in front of the screen, reading your words, is still very much real.

An apt and relatable example of this is

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Essential elements of what it means to be a human are ignored, such as philosophy, race relations, gender studies and anthropology.

These fields likely will not generate many jobs, but there is far more to life than work. Ignoring these key aspects of the human condition will not fully prepare people to grasp their place in the world.

People like Kronk and McCrory would like to see every student only take classes in their major and for everyone to major in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM fields. Although STEM fields are certainly important, the world also needs writers and humanities scholars. These people seem to misunderstand the concept of “major.” A major is not what one studies exclusively, but rather what one focuses on whilst learning about other subjects, as well. To quote the historian C. V. Wedgwood, “An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.”

Typically, conservatives are the ones who want to restructure the curriculum so as to remove humanities and social sciences. This is ironic because this desire cuts against a millennium of tradition. Perhaps it is best that conservatives do not like change if this is the change that they suggest. The first universities, founded in the Middle Ages, gave students an education in the Classical thinkers. These universities were founded around the seven liberal arts: grammar, rhetoric, dialectic, arithmetic, music, geometry and astronomy. The goal of this education was not to prepare people for jobs, but to broaden their minds and allow them to better understand their place in the world. In fact, the majority of the graduates became either doctors, scholars or they joined the clergy.

I do agree with Kronk when he says “students need room to breathe and grow.”

However, taking away the general education requirements will only serve to increase the overall ignorance of the population. A world full of engineers and scientists would certainly include great works of architecture and new discoveries.

But there would be something missing without the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley, the philosophy of Plato and the political thought of John Stuart Mill. There would be little independent thought and less creativity. And a people such as this would be very easy to control. It would be a dystopia. Certainly it would not be an invidious, totalitarian state as in George Orwell’s “1984.” Rather it would be a seemingly nice place like Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World,” where everyone is happy only because they do not see their own bonds.

“On-campus housing, more apartments and cheaper food options. Also, a grocery store would be very convenient.”

Taylor Berry junior, accounting

“I would like to see more variety of bars. There’s Mitch’s and McDaids, but a couple more would be great.

There are not many popular hangout spots, so more of that.”

Andrew Edwards sophomore, paper science engineering

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Wolfpack Students, an NC State Facebook group that has garnered a reputation for online harassment and bullying. Many people who engage in trolling behavior on WPS justify their actions by claiming their First Amendment right, the freedom of speech.

We all know what these rebuttals look like: “The First Amendment lets me say whatever I want.” Or, “Don’t tell me what I can’t say, since when did I lose my freedom of speech?”

Of course these people aren’t completely wrong. A basic right of any government should be allowing its citizens to speak honestly without fear of persecution. But if you think the First Amendment is the only power you need to hold yourself accountable to when speaking to others, you have misunderstood what it means to be human.

The First Amendment exists to allow all of our voices to be heard, not to grant one voice the right to drown out all others. The First Amendment is not there to be used as an excuse for a poorly formulated opinion, an offhand sexist slur, or a rude retaliation.

The First Amendment does not excuse you from basic respect, from critical thought, from kindness. Your First Amendment right should not be held higher than your sense of humanity.

Monica Lewinsky had a great line in her talk that speaks well to the trolls on WPS and beyond who attempt to use the First Amendment as a scapegoat for their behavior: “We all want to be heard, but let’s acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.”

Our Freedom of Speech exists so that we are able to hear all of those speaking with intention. It does not exist to serve the needs of those seeking attention. Let’s use our right to free speech intentionally, by speaking responsibly.

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respect others’ beliefs and how to interact with people with different faiths.

It reminds us of the common sense that exchange in a market economy is a conditional activity. Any business transactions are not based only on buyers’ and sellers’ consensus on prices but also plenty of hidden conditions that most of us ignore. The first principle of doing business is that it is mutually voluntary. A person with mental sanity would not force a seller to sell items at a price that is beyond the seller’s request.

The same concept applies to the O’Connor case.

Price is one of the conditions that makes a deal, but not the sufficient one. In O’Connor’s case, he felt that catering a party for a gay couple is in direct conflict of his Christian faith. Thus he was not obligated to proceed in the transaction and had no liability to the other party.

The RFRA also reminds us that Christians are usually the targets in the name of protecting civil rights, marriage equality or anti-discrimination. But why don’t those who bullied O’Connor walk into a Muslim or Jewish bakery and ask them to bake a gay wedding cake?

Comedian Steven Crowder posted a video of him asking a number of Muslim bakeries in Dearborn, Michigan, to bake a wedding cake with two men holding hands on top of it. His experiment clearly showed that many of the bakeries refused to serve him. Following the logic of those who stand against the law, these bakeries would be all discriminatory. As he concluded, the RFRA is not about discrimination against people, but rather to preserve the rights for private businesses to determine the level of engaging in particular activities.

It would be mistaken to have the perception that the RFRA legalizes discrimination against people based on sexual orientation or race. As O’Connor explained to the media, he would not refuse to service members of the LGBT community. If they walk into their store and order pizza, they are absolutely treated the same as others.

It is illegal to screen people’s race, gender and sexual orientation as conditions to service them.

Thus the RFRA has no relation to discrimination and civil rights.

My advice of how to interact with people whose faith is radically different from you: Leave them alone peacefully, rather than aggressively forcing them to agree with your view.

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Upcoming shows in the Triangle theater scene

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Kevin Schaefer Associate Features Editor

From the razzle-dazzle of “Jersey Boys” to the heartw renching drama “Miss Saigon,” theatergoers here in the Triangle have a string of exciting shows to look forward to this week.

With NC State’s production of “The Burial at Thebes” still running for a couple more weeks, there are a number of other plays going on in the Raleigh-Durham area that contribute to the Tria ng le t heater scene’s diversity. Here is a look at some of those shows.

“Jersey Boys”: The Durham Performing Arts Center’s production of the hit Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” starts Tuesday. Hailed by the Chicago Tribune as “The most exciting musical Broadway has seen in years,” this show premiered at DPAC in 2012, according to the company’s website. Many theatergoers are thrilled to see it return to where it first began.

“Jersey Boys,” which was adapted into a f ilm last summer, tells the story of Rock-and-Roll Hall of Famers Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. This iconic 1960s rock group started out as a gang of blue-collar kids from New Jersey before they rose to the top. Chronicling their trials and tribulations, the show also features their hit songs “Sherr y,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “December

1963 (Oh What a Night),” “Walk Like a Man,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You” and many more.

This show runs Tuesday – Sunday. Tickets are available at (919)-680-2787, Ticketmaster or at the DPAC ticket center.

“Sleeping Beauty”: Raleig h L it t le T he at re i s putting its own spin on the timeless fairytale. Its production of “Sleeping Beauty” opened on Friday and continues through the weekend.

Adapted by John Clark Donahue and Thomas Olson, with original music written by longtime RLT Artistic Director Haskell Fitz-Simons, the show has all the magic and princess lore found within the original tale.

“RLT’s ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ while following the basic plot of the traditional fairy ta le, focuses more on a message of forgiveness and inclusion,” said the show’s director Judy M. Dove in an email. “In addition, we have a fabulous team of designers who are collaborating to bring magic to the show. We will also have actors interacting with puppets to bring a different visual texture to the production.”

The show runs through Sunday. Tickets are available from the box office at 919-821-3111 and through the RLT website.

“Miss Sa igon”: En loe High School is one of three

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high schools in the nation to present “Miss Saigon” as its spring musical, according to an article by The News & Observer that ran on Friday.

With its adult themes and challenging technical components, this is not your typical high school play.

“Miss Saigon” originally premiered in 1989 at the Theatre Royal in London, before opening on Broadway shortly after. Based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera “Madame Butterf ly,” this tragic stor y fol lows t he troubled romance between

a Vietnamese woman and her American lover during the Vietnam War. KoKo T hor nt on , t h e show’s director, said this production has been a challenging but rewarding experience, and she was drawn to the story for multiple reasons.

“I chose ‘Miss Saigon’ because I love it and because I knew we had the students that would be able to handle it,” Thornton said. “They were mature enough to handle the subject matter, and they were skilled enough

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to handle the very rigorous demands that the show presents that other musicals don’t necessarily present.”

Due to the play’s adult content, Enloe and the other schools presenting it had to acquire the rights to an edited version of it, according to The N&O article. Additional material was removed from the script during production so as to make it appropriate for high school audiences.

Thornton also said “Miss Saigon” offers a unique historical perspective that she

and her students were able to explore.

“I really like that it takes place during a time period, during the Vietnam War, that we don’t study enough in school,” Thornton said.

“For the most part, as far as a musical can go, it does a pretty good job of representing a fairly realistic matter.”

T he show w i l l r u n Wednesday – Saturday at Enloe High School in Raleigh. Tickets are available on the Enloe Theatre website.

‘Carrie & Lowell’ explores intimate themes Carrie & Lowell Sufjan Stevens Asthmatic Kitty

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Few artists aspire toward the poeticism which Sufjan Stevens exhibits consistently in his work. If you strip bare the lyrics, separating them from their musical arrangements and Stevens’ vocals, they stand on their own, detailing a story.

The title of Stevens’ newest album, “Carrie & Lowell,” refers to the artist’s mother and stepfather, thus marking the intimate nature of his latest work. He longs for the past, and he is afraid of death. This is indicated eloquently through lines such as, “What’s left is only bittersweet / For the rest of my life, admitting the best is behind me.”

This intimacy is unadulterated, and this, at times, means that the album is difficult to listen to. The album is better for it.

It’s refreshing to see an artist address death without that snippy, nihilistic self-awareness that we commonly see nowadays (see Kesha’s “Die Young,” or Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks”). Instead, when Stevens speaks bluntly about death, he is sad. He has difficulty coming to terms with it, a fact indicated by his refrains of, “We’re all gonna die,” in the track, “Fourth of July.”

He contrasts the bright ideals of the American dream with harsh truths that distract him from enjoying the party. Stevens doesn’t intend to paint broad, moralizing strokes regarding the current condition of the United States. Instead he wants to show his raw wounds and how they are healing.

Stevens has in his more recent albums tended toward objective experimentation, a propensity that summoned a distance between himself and his audience. With “Carrie

& Lowell,” he revisits what he initially became known for—his personal inclinations, elegant lyricism and beautifully simple arrangements.

And what perhaps makes this album his best yet is his perfect, unflinching honesty.

In most of his songs here, Stevens deftly lays out structures, allowing his songs to finish as predicted. At least, until the songs reach their ending, at which point some tracks veer into unexpected, unique territory.

The first song, “Death with Dignity” (a fitting opening track for an album so focused on death), maintains the last words, “You’ll never see us again.” However, with these words, the song is hardly done. They lead into 40 seconds of graceful, almost orchestral instrumentation.

The best song of “Carrie & Lowell” is “John My Beloved,” a wonderful practice in restraint. Stevens’ vocals take priority here, and they are quiet, tense and controlled. Of course, Stevens has always been one to lean away from showy vocals, opting instead to be

a vehicle for his music and lyrics.

This is not to say that anyone could sing these songs. Part of the beauty of the album in its entirety is that it could only be Stevens’, as it relies inherently on his personal narrative.

“Carrie & Lowell” is enhanced by a lingering darkness—the presence of imminent death that Stevens himself can no longer ignore at this point in his life. He touches on the theme, pulls back as though afraid and then lurches headfirst into confrontation, into desperate endeavors to find something to latch onto.

In his anxiety he says, “I’ll drive that stake through the center of my heart / Lonely vampire inhaling its fire / I’m chasing the dragon too far.” Here, Stevens fluidly pulls together the themes of the album: his discomfort with death, his intense desire to escape his circumstances and his longing for a past he cannot revisit.

Sufjan Stevens has constructed an album that explores such ideas with poise and fervor.

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‘It Follows’ delivers unsettling, suspenseful horror It Follows

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 Mary Anna Rice Assistant Opinion Editor

We only see once in the entirety of “It Follows” what happens when the “it” catches up to the victim it has been plaguing. The film is more interested in establishing a sense of lurking terror, a malaise of metastasizing anxiety that permeates the movie’s scenes and infects its characters as well as the audience.

The film follows our protagonist Jay (Maika Monroe) as she copes with the “it” following her. She inherits a curse by having sex with a guy she has been dating, and the affliction causes a mysterious being to stalk her. The being in question can take any form; it cannot speak, and its sole form of travel is walking at a gradual, unstopping pace.

No matter how far away Jay runs, she will permanently be followed, unless she passes the curse on to someone else.

The opening scene of “It Follows” tracks the demise of the person haunted immediately before Jay. A young woman emerges from her home, half-dressed and in heels that throw staccato noises against the sidewalk. She frantically paces about before retrieving her purse

and driving away.

We next see her on the beach, speaking goodbyes into her cell phone as she becomes increasingly distressed. This scene cuts away to reveal her corpse grossly distorted. This event, a precedent for the rest of the movie, establishes the genuine threat our characters encounter in their affiliation with the creature.

“It Follows” takes place in an unspecified time. The main characters watch television on decrepit old sets and traipse through dreamy visions without cell phones. Yet, certain other things hint at modernity, such as a clam-shell e-reader one of the protagonist’s friends totes around so she can orate thematically appropriate poetry when it comes time.

The environment of the film instills a poignant sense of nostalgia, adequately setting the stage for the characters’ punitive confrontation with adulthood.

The ambience contributes to the dreamlike feel of the movie. This dream world is further extended by the grabbing score and the beauty of David Robert Mitchell’s direction. Mitchell ensures that the being’s presence is always felt; half the time it exists in the background, its movements slow but unyielding. It is perhaps more harrowing when the camera cuts away from it.

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Though the cast is filled with relative unknowns, they all prove to be up to the task at hand. They aptly embody characters that are equal parts terror-driven angst and thoughtfulness.

Monroe is especially excellent as Jay, imbuing the character with desperation and quiet strength. She is scared and feels hopeless, but this does not define her. She longs for childhood, a notion that “It Follows” focuses on quite intently.

It is somewhat easy to draw parallels and imagine metaphors regarding the curse and its means of

distribution. One could view Jay’s procurement of her unique disorder as a representation of how women are so frequently marked and plagued by their expressions of sexuality, a fact that follows them no matter what they do to remove themselves from it.

A more layman’s example of this is present in season two of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” in which Buffy’s intimate encounter with Angel causes her boyfriend to literally transform into a demon.

However, “It Follows” is somewhat beyond sexual allegory; its

imagined, ever-present threat is so vaguely horrifying that it at times fails to embody much more than a deep-seated apprehension that we cannot fully grasp.

For a movie to be truly unsettling, its creators must consider what its audience will find unsettling. “It Follows” is as much a coming-of-age story as it is an artful horror film. In preying on the phobia of losing adolescence, it appeals to a universal fear that is as inescapable as the titular “it.”

It follows, whether we like it or not.

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Emily Weiman, senior and pitcher for the Wolfpack softball team pitches against opponent from Florida State during game one of the series that took place on Friday at Dail Softball Stadium. NC State lost 6-5 to Florida State .

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performance on Thursday (seven innings, three hits, one run) and was slated for a win when he left the mound.

Brown supplied a gem on Friday night, allowing only one run over seven and a third innings and at one point, retiring 17 straight Seminoles. His only run allowed came on a blooper single to right f ield that scored a hustling Stewart from first base.

The offense couldn’t take all the blame for the losses, as sophomore right hander Joe O’Donnell could not

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day, respectively.

It was unlucky that senior second baseman Logan Ratledge’s long f ly ball to left field hit the top of the wall in game two, literally one foot away f rom being a home run.

With the offense unable to catch any breaks, the Wolfpack wasted two stellar pitching performances by sophomore Cory Wilder and freshman Brian Brown.

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lock down the Seminoles on Thursday night, allowing more earned runs (two) than batters retired (one).

The Wolfpack turned in its best offensive performance of the series in its 11-7 victory Saturday, as the f loodgates opened and the balls started soaring over the fence and finding holes that seemed nonexistent earlier in the series. Knizner and Ratledge, along with senior center fielder Jake Fincher and junior shortstop Ry ne Wi l lard each homered to break the game open.

hits to defeat the Wolfpack 10-1.

The Wolfpack offense finally came to life Saturday in the series finale.

NC State wasted no time to get going, grabbing an early 1-0 lead in the first inning when Ross hit an RBI single and advanced to second base on a throwing error by the FSU first baseman.

The Seminoles responded in the second inning. With two runners on base, Warren blasted Weiman’s pitch over the left field wall, giving FSU a 3-1 advantage.

Following a third inning leadoff single from NC State freshman second baseman Alyssa Compton, Davis once again stepped up for the Wolfpack in the series, hitting a homer to center field, tying the game at 3-3.

“It feels great to be able to help my team and take some pressure off of our pitching staff,” Davis said. “I’ve been focusing a lot

Fincher, who started in the leadoff spot in the final game after freshman outfielder Brock Deatherage had started there in the first two games of the series, may have earned himself a permanent spot in the top of the order with his performance. The Burlington native notched four hits, while scoring three times and driving in two runs.

If there was anything to take away from this series, it was that the Wolfpack took on one of the best teams of the conference and played them toe to toe. The pitch-

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The Seminoles retook the lead in the fifth inning off of a Powers RBI double down the left field line, scoring the runner from first base.

Down by a run, the Wolfpack battled back in the top of the fifth, as the team was determined to avoid the sweep.

Three straight walks loaded the bases for the Pack with just one out. After a fly out, NC State drew another walk, scoring a run and tying the game once again.

With two outs and the bases still juiced, Burroughs hit a clutch grand slam to left center field, giving the Wolfpack an 8-4 lead.

“It felt awesome,” Burroughs said. “It’s always good to do something to help the team.

I didn’t want to let my team down, so I just tried to put a good swing on the ball.”

The Wolfpack added another run in the sixth inning to get its lone win of the series against FSU, 9-4.

ing staff answered the call, limiting a very dangerous Seminole lineup.

Stewart, the 2014 ACC Player of the Year and an All-American, entered the series tied for fourth in the NCAA in home runs. He did not sniff the warning track all series, in fact, the only home run that the pitching staff allowed came in the 8th inning of the final game.

The mettle that the team showed to come back and earn a hard fought win in the final game of the series proves that this team is

playing with cohesion and definitely does not lack confidence.

The table has been set for the Wolfpack to control its own destiny as the season winds down. NC State has very winnable series against UNC-Chapel Hill, Wake Forest and Notre Dame in the near future, with Virginia and Louisville mixed in.

The future is bright for t he Wolf pack but, t hen again, the same was said of last year’s team. It is yet to be seen if the youngsters can write a new and better story.

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Pack earns pair of ACC road wins over Tigers, Jackets The NC State men’s tennis team won both of its matches on the road against conference opponents this weekend. The team traveled to Clemson, South Carolina on Friday and defeated the Tigers, 4-3, led by a team comeback when Clemson had a first set advantage on five of the six courts to start the match. On Saturday, the Pack journeyed further eastbound and down to Atlanta, where they faced Georgia Tech. There, the Wolfpack enjoyed a 6-1 victory, cruising past the Yellow Jackets with dominant singles performances. The Pack awaits another pair of ACC opponents this weekend in Raleigh when Florida State visits on Friday, and Miami leads off NC State’s doubleheader on Sunday.

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Carlos Rodon to start season with Charlotte Knights Former NC State baseball standout Carlos Rodon will begin his second season in the professional ranks with the Charlotte Knights this April.

Rodon had a stellar spring training, compiling a 3.06 ERA with 21 strikeouts.

The Chicago White Sox organization has decided to send Rodon back to its Triple-A minor league affiliate in the Charlotte Knights for the season opener, though, Rodon is expected to make his MLB debut with the White Sox at some point this season. According to MLB.com, Rodon is the fifth best pitching prospect in the major leagues.

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Pack tops ‘Noles to end weekend series Christian Candeloro Staff Writer

David Kehrli Correspondent

The NC State baseball team dropped two of three games this weekend to the No. 8 Florida State Seminoles. The Wolfpack was edged in the first two games by a combined two runs before exploding for 19 hits in a shootout win on Saturday.

The Wolfpack (19-11, 7-7 ACC) could’ve, and probably should’ve won the series against the Seminoles (25-8, 11-4 ACC), but a string of bad breaks prevented that from happening.

The Wolfpack just couldn’t get anything to go its way in the first two games of the series, falling to the ‘Noles 3-2 and 1-0 on Thursday and Fri-

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Senior second baseman Logan Ratledge and senior shortstop Joel McKeithan field a double play in the fifth inning of Saturday’s contest against the Florida State Seminoles. The Wolfpack defeated the Seminoles 11-7 in the game, helped by an offensive showcase from the NC State batting order, which tallied 19 hits and four home runs in the contest.

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State drops two, wins one against FSU Christian Candeloro Staff Writer

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “They did what they set out to do, which was to hit all 24 routines. I commend all of them for finishing off the season on a high note” associate gymnastics head coach Colleen Johnson

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The NC State softball team went one of three against No. 8 Florida State in a three-game series at Dail Softball Stadium this weekend.

After dropping a close opener, 6-5, the Wolfpack’s (22-15, 7-5 ACC) pitching struggled in game two as the Seminoles (33-9, 13-2 ACC) cruised to a 10-1 victory. The Pack rebounded, though, as the NC State batting order caught fire on Sunday to cruise past FSU with a 9-4 victory in the series finale, notching the team’s first win against a top-10 opponent this season.

In game one, Wolfpack senior pitcher Emily Weiman (17-10, 2.67 ERA) got off to her usual strong start, allowing only one hit while striking

out three batters in the first two innings. In the third inning, Weiman began working her way out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam when an error by junior first baseman Maggie Hawkins scored FSU’s first run, followed by a two-RBI single, giving FSU a 3-0 lead.

After the Seminoles added another run in the fourth inning, the Wolfpack began to rally, loading the bases with only one out. Following an RBI walk, senior shortstop Renada Davis stepped up to the plate and hit a grand slam over the left field wall, giving the Wolfpack a 5-4 lead.

FSU would regain the lead in the fifth inning, when Wolfpack sophomore pitcher Courtney Mirabella walked back-to-back batters with the bases loaded, giving the Seminoles a 6-5 lead that the team would not surrender.

Game two started well for the Wolfpack, as sophomore left fielder Tyler Ross cranked an RBI single to center field, driving home junior third baseman Lana Van Dyken for an early 1-0

Wolfpack lead.

Once again, Weiman started off the outing strong, allowing only one hit until the third inning when the Seminole bats began to catch fire.

With a runner on second, FSU freshman third baseman Jessica Warren hit an RBI single to center field, tying the game at one run.

Later in the inning, sophomore first baseman Alex Powers gave the Seminoles the lead when she drove a double down the right field line, scoring two runners to put FSU on top 3-1.

The damage continued in the fourth inning as the Seminoles registered five hits and scored four runs — including a two-run home run — to give them a commanding 7-1 lead.

NC State’s offense was unable to keep up with the ‘Noles, only adding three hits against FSU redshirt sophomore pitcher Jessica Burroughs (12-5, 2.78 ERA).

FSU continued its offensive onslaught in the sixth inning, scoring three more runs on two

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GYMNASTICS

Pack sends two gymnasts to NCAA championships Zack Tanner Assistant Sports Editor

Juniors Brittni Watkins and Michaela Woodford of the NC State gymnastics team placed second and third, respectively, in the all-around competition at the NCAA Regional Championships Saturday in Norman, Oklahoma.

The duo recorded scores of 39.250 and 39.225, marking the first time the Wolfpack will send two gymnasts to the NCAA Championships.

“We’re also so proud of Brittni and Michaela for qualifying in the allaround,” associate head coach Colleen Johnson said. “For them to be right up at the top of the standings with the teams we faced today was impressive. They did a great job and for both of them to have done that together is even better.”

Madeline Gardiner of Oregon State took the allaround competition with a score of 39.350.

The Wolfpack finished fifth overall in the competition with a score of 195.775, the team’s fourth-best per-

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Junior Brittni Watkins does a leaping split during her floor routine during senior night on Feb. 20 in Reynolds Coliseum. Watkins advanced to the NCAA Championships after notching a score of 39.250 on Saturday.

formance of the season.

Top-seeded Oklahoma, the host of the Regional, took the meet with a score of 197.625.

State managed to avoid counting a fall in any event Saturday, something Johnson said the team had been aiming for all season.

“I am really proud of the whole team and how they pulled together the entire meet.” Johnson said. “They did what they set out to do, which was to hit all 24 routines. I commend all

of them for putting their hearts into today and finishing off the season on a high note.”

State had its best performance on the vault, with all six gymnasts earning scores of 9.700 or better. Vault was the only event in which the Pack compiled a top-four team score, 49.075.

Watkins led the team with 9.875, and freshman Chelsea Knight stepped up to add a 9.850.

The Pack also shined on the floor exercise, posting a

score of 49.000.

Watkins and senior Lane Jarred, EAGL co-champions on the floor exercise, continued their dominance on the floor, posting scores of 9.850 and 9.825.

In the final meet of her collegiate career, Jarred competed in all four events for the first time since this year. At the beginning of the season, Jarred said she hoped to perform as an allaround competitor by the end of the season.

The senior made the most

of her opportunity, posting an all-around score of 39.100, good for fifth at the meet. Jarred’s score shattered her previous careerbest by over 1.5 points.

Though they were the Pack’s two lowest scores of the day, the beam and uneven bar routines both tied for the team’s third-best showing of the season in each event.

On bars, Watkins again led the way with a score of 9.825. Woodford and junior Courtney Turner were not far behind, each notching a score of 9.800, marking a career-high for Turner.

On beam, Jarred and Woodford both scored over 9.800 to lead the Pack.

Follow ing Saturday’s meet, the Pack’s 2015 campaign as a team is over.

However, Watkins and Woodford will travel to Fort Worth on April 17-19 to compete in the NCAA Championships.

The duo will join the allaround qualifiers from five other Regional meets for a chance at All-American honors or even a national title.