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Horowitz visits UNC, says MSA is connected to terrorist organizations David Horowitz, founder and president of the Horowitz Freedom Center, a conservative think tank, spoke at UNC-Chapel Hill on Monday. Horowitz said student organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Students’ Association are connected to terrorist organizations. “The goal of SJP, the MSA and the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Fatah, and Iran and Hezbollah is to kill the Jews, to push them into the sea,” Horowitz said. “Arabs are racist,” he added, arguing that activists who claim to be defending the human rights of Palestinians are actually attempting to detract support for Israel. Horowitz received criticism after the talk, especially from Muslim students. UNC-CH freshman and Muslim student Soumaya Lansari called Horowitz’s claims about the MSA “extremely absurd.” Source: The Daily Tar Heel

Salaries of hourly workers in higher education increase by 2 percent A survey of 781 public and private colleges shows that the median base salaries of hourly staff members on college campuses increased by 2 percent in 2014. The results of the survey were released Monday by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources. Of the 145 job categories surveyed, electrician supervisors and police chiefs had the highest median salaries. Associate-degree institutions saw a slightly higher increase, at 2.3 percent. Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Students rally for $15 minimum wage Katherine Kehoe News Editor

Hundreds of protestors braced the rain to rally in support of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour Wednesday, returning to the place where the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was founded for a similar cause more than 50 years ago. St udent s , profe s s or s a nd minimum-wage workers alike gathered in the Shaw University Quad in support of a higher minimum wage, union rights for workers and increased wages and job security for university adjunct faculty members, among other causes. After a rally in the quad, which included speeches from minimum-wage workers, students, adjunct faculty members and the president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP Rev. William Barber III, demonstrators marched around the block next to Shaw, pausing at the McDonald’s on E. South Street to chant at the restaurant chain. “McDona ld ’s McDona ld ’s, you’re no good, pay your workers like you should,” protesters urged. For student demonstrators like Chantel Wright, a sophomore

at Shaw University with history working at minimum-wage jobs, the cause hits close to home. Wright’s mother lost her job when she was growing up in Atlanta and had to pick up a minimum-wage job to pay the bills, but it wasn’t enough. “I had to try and pick up a job but it didn’t work out,” Wright said. “Bills kept stacking up.” To this day, Wright’s mother is still making minimum wage, even though inf lation continues to raise the cost of living each year. “There is no reason why my mother is 41 years old and should still be making $7.25 at a bank,” Wright said. “If you are going to raise housing and food and everything, you need to raise minimum wage.” The federa l minimum wage peaked in 1968, when it was worth about $8.56 adjusted for inf lation in 2012. The current $7.25 an hour minimum wage has lost 5.8 percent of its purchasing power due to the inf lated cost of living, according to the Pew Research Center. Breyonna Beatty, a sophomore at Shaw, said it isn’t fair to expect people to work three jobs to stay alive. “A Chick-fil-A combo, if you upsize your drink, is $7.49,” Beatty said. “You have to work over an

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Protesters display their banner from a bridge at the Fight for $15 rally at Shaw University Wednesday afternoon. Rally participants protested for a higher minimum wage of $15 and union rights. Fast-food workers, childcare providers and educators were among those represented at the rally.

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Faculty salaries not cause of tuition hikes

Faculty salaries are not the primary cause of increased tuition and fees, according to the Annual Report on the Economic Status of the Profession. The report, published by the American Association of University Professors, says state budget cuts and a decrease in university endowments are to blame for tuition hikes. Professors received an average salary increase of 1.4 percent during the 2014-15 school year—the first raise of more than 1 percent since the recession ended, according to John Barnshaw, senior higher education researcher at the AAUP. Source: The Daily Tar Heel

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Bethany Faulkner, a junior studying graphic design, works on one of the pieces for the Art2wear fashion show, an annual event held by the College of Design and College of Textiles. The theme for this year is “Tell me a story.” Faulkner’s collection is named “Athenaeum,” and is meant to show the visual journey of reading a book. She said she uses a lot of typography with leather and metal material using laser and plasma cutters.

Holocaust survivor and the author of “Chosen for Destruction,” Morris Glass, spoke to more than 500 students and guests in SAS Hall Wednesday night. In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, NC State’s Department of History invited Glass to share his story of survival. “Morris Glass was 11 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland,” said Aaron Sugar, the nephew of Glass and a senior studying environmental technology. After spending four-and-a-half years in ghettos, Glass spent two months in Auschwitz and eight months in five camps that were a part of the Dachau camp system, according to Sugar. “During those years, he lost his youth, his father, his mother and his two sisters,” Sugar said. “Out of 42 close family members, only he, his brother and his cousin survived.” Glass described his life before the war as a happy childhood, spent playing soccer and enjoying the company of his loving family. “All of this came to an end on the September in 1939 when the Second World War broke out,” Glass said. “I was 11.” The Nazis occupied Morris’ hometown within a week of the outbreak. They burned the city’s synagogue to the ground, and

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Wednesday marked NC State Libraries’ inaugural Code+Art Student Visualization Contest sponsored by Christie Digital systems. Finalists competed for a $500 grand prize and an opportunity to have their project featured on the art wall in Hunt Library. Anthony Smith, a senior studying computer science, won first prize for his Fractal Forest piece. The Fractal Forest piece is an interactive projection that changes as students enter Hunt Library. The visualization shows a planet that grows various types of plants in conjunction with the people entering the library. It also features a sun and moon simulation as well as accurate time and weather data. As people add to the work

and interact with the visualization, it develops and changes. Smith said he learned about the competition from one of his professors. “And the day after I learned about the competition, in a separate lecture, I learned about tree expansion algorithms which gave me the tools and the inspiration to make my project,” Smith said. The second place winners were a team from NC State’s radio station WKNC 88.1. Their visualization was a projection which interacted with the radio station. The team consists of group leader Cameren Dolecheck, a senior studying computer science; lead designer Harrison Wideman, a junior studying design studies; and group members Neal Grantham, a graduate student studying statistics; Dylan Stein, a junior studying computer science and Colin Kee-

see, a sophomore studying industrial design. The competition began with a proposal process last semester in which students submitted proposals of projects for a data-drive generative projection. This projection would have to cover the 20-foot art wall above the ask desk in Hunt Library. The proposals received a budget, and students had from January until April 1 to build their projects. The data visualization medium of art is a relatively new way of combining technology and art, which is part of what made this competition unique. “The data visualization format is really cool because of how new it is with big companies putting big walls up that they then want to put beautiful things on,” Dolecheck said. “Our visualizer works by taking our radio stream over the Internet and visualizing it by having the buildings light up to the different frequencies, and having a bird flying

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