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School administrators of Wake County want to raise the high school graduation rate from 82.9 percent to 95 percent by 2020 in a new strategic planned named Vision 2020. The school board will vote for the plan on Jan. 20, but it has received backlash with one administrator calling it unrealistic. In order to reach that goal, some strategies would include providing resources to schools based on their needs, creating a more effective learning environment, and offering counseling to support the needs of the child. Wake’s 2014 graduation rate is lower than the state graduation rate of 83.9 percent. Jim Martin, a chemistry professor, said graduation rates are meaningless if given the number of students who need remediation when they come to college. SOURCE: News & Observer
Flu season peaks early this year in NC
The flu season hit North Carolina earlier for the past two years, a trend continuing on this season. Usually flu activity peaks in January or February, but this year it peaked late November and early January. 17 people died due to flu complications through Christmas week, according to the Division of Public Health. The CDC warns that the vaccination for the H3N2 strain is not as effective because of mutations in the strain but public health officials still encourage people to get vaccinated. Hospitals in the Triangle area have taken precautionary steps to avoid the spread of the disease, like restricting visitors under the age of 12, limiting the amount of visitors per patient to 2 adults at a time and asking visitors with flulike symptoms to leave. SOURCE: News & Observer
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Public colleges receive more revenue from students than state funds
College tuition now surpasses the funds that public colleges receive from state governments due to a 55 percent median increase in tuition and 12 percent average decrease in state funding, according to a Government Accountability Office report. Howwever, the main source of revenue to public colleges from 2003-2012 came from private sources such as private gifts, contracts and grants. The GAO reported that college affordability is on the decline, with college tuition rising over 70 percent in the past five years in several states. In order to fix the imbalance between college tuition and state funding, experts suggest that federal funds should match state funds or to create incentives for students to graduate on time. SOURCE: NPR
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The NC State Student Senate swore in a new president Tuesday evening after former Student Senate President Alex Grindstaff was forced to step down due to a university rule that students found responsible for a student conduct violation are not eligible to participate in Student Government. The new president, Cody Long, the former president pro tempore and a sophomore studying history, reluctantly took office after the Office of Student Conduct found late last semester that Grindstaff was responsible for lying on a medical form submitted to allow him to retake an exam. “It says a lot about a leader if his successor doesn’t want to succeed him,” Long said. Grindstaff said he feels the university has treated him unfairly by vacating his position on the grounds of cheating, citing that he used false documentation to get an academic advantage. “I followed every procedure, and I got every signature to try and prove my case,” Grindstaff said. “I didn’t have any reason to
lie, but I was still found responsible in the end.” While he is excited about taking on his role this semester, Long said Grindstaff did great work during his time on Student Senate, and his absence will be harmful to the university, as Grindstaff was one of the most active and dedicated senators during his combined total of three and a half years on Student Senate. Long, who was a first-year senator last year, said he is excited to take on the position, but it is nerve-racking to have received such an inf luential position so early on into his senate career. “There is a lot to learn,” Long said. “In these kinds of situations where the ball is just dropped in your court, there is only so much preparation you can do.” Grindstaff said he thinks Long will do good work in the senate, but he is concerned about his lack of experience. “I know Cody would do a great job, but he’s a sophomore,” Grindstaff said. “He has a huge potential.” Regardless of his opinions of the situation, Long was obligated to fulfill the role of Student Senate President once the office was vacated due to statutes sur-
Beginning in the spring of 2016, students will not only have more options for 75-minute class periods, but Centennial and Main Campuses will operate on a unified timetable, eliminating differences between class start-times. The faculty senate, the associate deans and records calendar committee green-lit Registration and Records to institute a unified university timetable, according to Jim Hunt, vice provost of the office of enrollment and management services and university registrar. The new timetable will allow the university to schedule more 75 minute class-
“This simplifies the heck out of it. It’s kind of amazing.” Jim Hunt, vice provost of the office of enrollment and management services and university registrar
rounding his role as president pro tempore. “It’s a very sticky situation,” Long said. Grindstaff never officially submitted his resignation due to his disagreement with the conduct ruling. Long said if the Student Senate would have been allowed to vote on whether or not it wanted to accept Grindstaff ’s resignation, he would have stood by Grindstaff’s position as Student Senate President. The university’s decision, which was decided based on a conduct policy that states a conduct hearing board must find the student “more likely than not” to have committed the offense in question, eliminated his ability to participate in student government and automatically vacated the Office of Student Senate President. Grindstaff has been arguing his case to the university for months through the conduct process. He said the discrepancy in the medical form’s contents was the result of an unintended misprint from the hospital who wrote the medical note, and he did not intentionally submit an inaccurate medical form.
es throughout the week and will eliminate the 5-minute time differential for classes on Centennial campus. In 2005, a time differential, was added between Centennial campus and Main Campus classes to allow for travel time. However, according to Hunt, the time differential doesn’t actually work. Hunt said students don’t currently have enough time to wait for a bus, travel to main campus and get to another class during the allotted break time. The new schedule will eliminate the 8:05 a.m. start time, making the earliest offered classes start at 8:30 a.m. every day of the week. The schedule changes will have several advantages, as data suggests most faculty and students prefer the 8:30 start to the 8:05 start time, Hunt said. The new timetable also has the potential to alleviate traffic congestion in the mornings. “On the current schedule, many faculty and staff members arrive at 8 a.m. If students were to arrive later, there may be a staggering effect,” Hunt said. Certain subjects, such as foreign languages, mathematics or statistics might prefer the 50 minute class three or four days a week, whereas many of other disciplines prefer the 75 minutes two days a week, Hunt said. Hunt said that data collected by the Office of Registration and Records sug-
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early Monday morning at the 7700 block of Crocker Drive, according to the News & Observer. Henderson is a transfer student from West Virginia and is unable play in the 2014-2015 season in accordance with NCAA transfer rules, but he is expected to be an asset to the Wolfpack next year. Henderson averaged 11.7 points per game last season at West Virginia University.
Police said either Dunn or Henderson knew the victim who was in the vehicle involved in the shooting. Fred Demarest, the associated athletics director for communication and marketing at NC State, said in a press release that the university will wait until forthcoming court proceedings before making further comments about the incident.
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gests some students prefer the 75 minute meeting pattern and would like to see more options available in that format. Hamlet Valladares, a junior studying electrical engineering, said that he would prefer longer classes. “I feel like if it’s a longer class then I can focus and get more work done rather than waiting for the time to run out right
Though Grindstaff lost his appeal to Provost Warwick Arden, he said he is currently looking to find new ways to challenge the outcome and stay involved with student government going forward. Grindstaff said without his presence in the Senate he is afraid no one else will have his amount of experience and knowledge to speak up for minority stu-
after getting to class,” Valladares said. Hunt hopes the new schedule will help spread courses throughout the day to make scheduling easier for students, improve classroom utilization and improve exam scheduling. “This simplifies the heck out of it, it’s kind of amazing,” Hunt said. The common grid will get rid of non-standard times, where people are scheduling classes that don’t fit on the normal timetable. Non-standard times
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dents and be a driving force for legislative action to benefit minority students. Grindstaff was the first member of the LGBTQ community to be elected as NC State’s Student Senate President. Last semester, the Student Senate passed a bill, drafted by Grindstaff, called the Inclusive Admissions Act. The bill called for the university to include an option on admissions applications for prospective students to disclose their sexual orientation and gender identity. The addition of the sexual
orientation option on admissions applications was meant to help the university identify LGBTQ students at NC State to help provide feedback about potential improvements that can be made to the campus environment. “If someone isn’t going to speak up, minority students will be hurt,” Grindstaff said. Long said the Student Senate is in a phase of transition right now and is currently working to revisit several new ideas that were introduced last semester. One of the ideas Long hopes
make it difficult for students to build a schedule, Hunt said. “Right now you hardly know when classes start, it used to be for years you just knew,” Hunt said. “It’s different every day of the week, it’s different on each campus.” Hunt said that the biggest difference may be more of the 75 minute two-day class schedule over the traditional 50 minute three-day class schedule. Hunt said the need for the timetable switch also stems
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to spend more time working on during his time in office is the “It’s On Us” campaign to bring awareness to and prevent sexual assault on campus. He said he wants to ensure the campaign receives full senate backing to move forward this semester. “I want to make sure all students feel included in this university, especially with the national events that have been going on in Ferguson, St. Louis and all across the nation,” Long said. “It seems like there is a lot of exclusion going on.”
from changing class formats and teaching structures, such as in hybrid courses and classes taught with recitation portions and problem sessions. “What we‘re trying to do is build a timetable that allows for innovation,” Hunt said. The new scheduling minimizes conf licts between the class lengths, allowing faculty members to choose class formats that work best for their teaching methods, Hunt said.
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Hemp Society enlists aid of SBP Gavin Stone Staff Writer
Student Body President Rusty Mau is advocating for The Raleigh Hemp Society to gain support from administration at NC State to initiate graduate research on the benefits of growing hemp. Bringing hemp research to NC State would fit into the university’s values as an institution, according to Student Body President Rusty Mau. “I think that’s something we value at NC State—looking at interdisciplinary research that touches people on a personal level and can improve our day to day lives,” Mau said. The president of the Raleigh Hemp Society Andrew Klein, a senior studying natural resources policy and administration, said if the programs can be created, NC State’s reputation as a leader in the agricultural field could help spread awareness about the plant’s benefits. Klein said NC State legislators have been open to hearing what the RHS has had to say in the past, but have been noncommittal on whether they would openly support hemp research. Hemp is beginning to make its way into university research, and NC State could follow in the footsteps of other university pilot-programs supporting hemp research, according to Klein. In 2014, the state of Kentucky drafted regulations to
“I think that’s something we value at NC State - looking at interdisciplinary research that ... can improve our day to day lives” Rusty Mau, Student Body President
administer seven pilot programs at Kentucky universities to cultivate hemp, which will be funded by private money and land as well as their agriculture department, according to Louisville Business First. Mau said he hopes that NC State can follow Kentucky’s lead in pursuing hemp research. “The interdisciplinary nature of hemp and the hemp movement, when you talk about hemp as a construction material, as a textiles, and its [benefits to the soil] as a crop, makes it have so many impacts on our lives,” Mau said. Hemp research has begun to pick up steam since President Barack Obama signed the Farm Bill in February 2014, which authorizes universities and state agriculture departments to conduct pilot programs for academic and agriculture research. Howev-
er, states still have the power to forbid the growth of hemp. There are currently 13 states that have legalized industrial hemp with several others on the way to legalization, and hemp is widely produced in 33 other industrial countries including France, China and the U.K. Klein said hemp’s benefits are being ignored by American society due to the fundamental mischaracterization that the hemp plant is the same as recreational marijuana. “You can smoke a field of hemp, and you would die of CO2 poisoning before you got high,” Klein said. Some of these benefits include using hemp to create greener, more effective alternatives to common products, such as hemp cooking oil, which has more omega-3 than traditional oil; hemp paper, which can be produced four times more efficiently than paper from trees; hemp fibers used in clothing, which can be produced with less water than cotton; and raw hemp, which can be made into a concrete substitute. One of the goals for the RHS this semester is to increase membership through an educational campaign about the benefits of hemp and allow students to hear from both sides of the discussion. More student support could help influence the university to actively support hemp research, Klein said.
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Hemp can be distinguished from “smoker’s” marijuana physically by the stalks which grow much taller than those of marijuana plants. Biologically, hemp contains only 0.3 percent THC, the psychoactive component of Cannabis, whereas marijuana plants can contain up to 40 percent THC. Hemp has thousands of potential uses ranging from clothing to pharmaceuticals and produces a three times higher yield per acre than cotton while using less water and requires no extra chemicals, among its many advantages.
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Ben Droz, Vote Hemp lobbyist and hemp entrepreneur, Andrew Klein, senior in natural resource policy and founder and president of the Raleigh Hemp Society, name unknown, Emmett Reistroffer, a hemp advocate from South Dakota, Thomas Massie, Kentucky Rep. and Hemp Champion, Jason Amatucci and Chase Milner who are both from the Virginia Industrial Hemp Coalition, in Washington D.C. lobbying for a bill that would protect research pilot program hemp seeds from the DEA. “I talked mostly with staffers, but most agriculture reps said that [the politicians they represent] are anti-marijuana,” Klein said. “This shows that, for many politicians, the fear of politically associating with marijuana keeps them from seeing the benefits of hemp.”
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or many, a year is best remembered by its headlines. Entering a new year, we wonder what sort of progress our university will make. Here is a list of some of the possible strides we want out of the next 12 months.
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Adopt the “Yes means yes” policy Update admissions to include GLBTQ options Although members of the Student Senate passed the “Inclusive Admissions Act” in March 2014, the university has yet to add an option for NC State applicants to disclose their sexual orientation and gender identity. NC State could have joined Duke University in becoming one of the first universities in the country to include sexual orientation on its admissions application. This option on the application would allow students to express sexual and possibly alternate gender orientations and help the administration identify what it can do to create a more inclusive university for the GLBTQ community. This small addition to the NC State application would create huge changes for the GLBTQ community at NC State and needs to be added for the class of 2020. By including this, administrators can better keep track of larger trends that affect the GLBTQ community in the classroom. It is not only in NC State’s interest to create a more diverse and inclusive student body, but is the administration’s obligation to do so.
Shortly after California passed legislation legally confirming that “yes means yes” in terms of sexual consent, UNC-Chapel Hill adopted a similar policy. In both cases, consent is now defined as an affirmative agreement between both parties. The policy is a response to the “no means no” mentality, in which people assume that the absence of “no” equates to consent, which is not always the case. Further, it is a response to the growing concern about and recognition of sexual assault on campuses. It is, at this point, ridiculous that NC State has yet to adopt this policy. Student Government was so kind as to orchestrate an “It’s On Us” video, in which representatives from numerous campus organizations vowed to help address sexual assault on campus. However, university leaders have done virtually nothing to take real action against assault. It’s as though our “think and do” motto only applies to what occurs in the classroom. University administrators are waiting to make a decision regarding the policy until they have “feedback from all facets of campus,” according to Vice Provost Lisa Zapata, as the Technician reported last fall. Josh McIntyre, who wrote a letter regarding
the issue, sums up the Technician’s viewpoint aptly, begging the question, “Shall we have a campus referendum, then, about whether the campus should remain integrated? What else do we need to put to the test of public opinion? How does the campus feel about hijab? How does the campus feel about transgendered folks? And, what about those funny looking people with the yellow stars sewn on their shirts?” Lasting protection of the Hofmann Forest Eco-activists rejoiced Dec. 5, as Chancellor Randy Woodson announced that NC State would not be selling Hofmann Forest, as the purchasers could not come up with the money in time for the deal to close. The proposed sale of the 79,000-acre forest was the subject of protests and court hearings for roughly two years. After its final price negotiation, the sale would have earned the university upward of $131 million. But what does the future hold for Hofmann Forest? What we at the Technician would like to see all parties with a stake in the forest come up with an agreement to protect the land. Likewise, many of the opponents to the forest sale were part of the forestry program, so
selling it came as a slap to the face of the entire program — indicating that money is more important to the university than, say, a handson education. Moving forward, we hope to see administrators, students, faculty members and all those with a stake in the forest come to an agreement to ensure the protection of the largest research and educational forest in the world. Results of the new drop period Last semester was the first in recent memory to operate on a 10-day period before students may no longer drop classes in which they are enrolled. Before the UNC Board of Governors moved to shorten the period, students had eight weeks — plenty of time to fail a test — before the drop date. The most common criticism of the shortened drop period was that students could not accurately determine how well they would perform in any given class, and, thereby, academic success would diminish. We will want to compare how students fared before and after the new drop date policy. A year of that data should be available at the conclusion of this semester. Though it will only be two semesters of information and hardly telling of academic trends, it will be worth seeing if the shortened drop period has, as people feared, harmed academic performance. If it does, we must also look to see if the Board of Governors acts on that information.
Facebook, necessity and targeted advertising T
here are many times I log into Facebook and think, “Why do I even use this anymore?” When it seemed more popular and in a fad stage while in high school, I enjoyed using the social media site for the most part. At that time, it felt like the essential social networking site for connecting with my friends, posting witty Jacqueline statuses and updating people about news in Lee my life. It still works Assistant Opinion Editor for all these things, but today it feels very different. Now when I go on Facebook or start to post something, it’s almost always only to keep up with relatives I don’t see frequently. I’m starting to resent how necessary it seems to have a Facebook. If I didn’t have one, I would almost definitely feel less connected with distant family members and friends. Seeing their pictures and keeping updated on news they might have is the only way I keep up with these people in my life. The main reason I’m becoming less fond of the site is due to its downright
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creepy targeted advertising. Recently I was searching online for a dress for a formal occasion. Because of this search, specific dresses I had clicked on from many different sites all started showing up constantly in my news feed. Also, dresses that looked very similar from sites I didn’t even browse started to appear. Anyone who uses Facebook, which seems to be just about everyone, can probably think of having something similar happen. When businesses start advertising on Facebook, they select which demographics they want their ads to target. Businesses use information collected from the site and through third-party sites to gain information about a person’s “relationship status, religion, ethnicity, yearly income, education, the type of phone you use, what type of political causes you donate to and when your auto insurance is set to expire.” It seems like every move you make online is being tracked and analyzed now. Isn’t it rather unsettling that advertising on Facebook has come to this? And we eat it up and encourage it every time we click on suggested posts and ads that pop up.
As much as I’m coming to dislike Facebook more and more, at the same time I feel like I can’t get rid of it. When applying for jobs, many companies look at prospective applicants’ profiles. When you meet a new person, often you become friends on Facebook to keep in touch and get to know each other. I’d feel very out of the loop if I got rid of my profile. Also, a quiet stigma surrounds people who don’t use Facebook, as people generally think something odd about them. That sounds stupid, but think, for example, about when you got randomly assigned a roommate freshman year. When you found out the name of your new roommate, the first way of seeing who he or she was and what he or she likes was by searching for them on Facebook. If they were nowhere to be found, that seems worrisome and raised many questions. It’s crazy and unsettling to think about how this social networking site plays into our lives and the purchases we make. Every time I log in, I think about how I wish it didn’t feel like such a necessity to have.
The Eric Garner case reveals over-criminalization R
acial tension clouded the holiday atmosphere across the country, with the New York City grand jury’s refusal to indict Daniel Pantaleo, the police officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner. Many cities in the United States witnessed protests and uprisings, with people rallying with Ziyi Mai Garner’s last words Staff Columnist “I can’t breathe,” reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. Both the media and those who watched Garner’s death, captured in detail on video, formulated the idea that Garner was treated in a racist manner. The media latched onto the image of a white police officer assaulting a black man, with presumable sympathy to Garner.
But few investigated further into the context leading up to the confrontation. Keep in mind that the crime Eric Garner was alleged to have committed, selling individual cigarettes on street, which is illegal according to New York state laws. As long as selling individual cigarettes on the street is in violation of state laws, police officers confronting alleged law breakers is perfectly normal. However, Pantaleo’s actions may have exceeded necessary means, because the use of chokeholds is, in fact, illegal for New York City police officers. But as Yale Law professor Stephen L. Carter pointed out, “the police go armed to enforce the will of the state, and if you resist, they might kill you.” Thus, one should not expect armed police to act gently in any resisting confrontation.
What is more evident in the Garner case than racial implications, however, is the concept of over-criminalization in the United States today. In America’s formative years, only a few acts were criminalized, such as murder, theft and treason. Today, federal law alone includes more than 3,000 felonies, fewer than half of which are Federal Criminal Code, according to legal scholar Douglas Husak, author of Overcriminalization: The Limits of Criminal Law. The speed of passing new laws in both federal and state level legislature exceeds that of repealing outdated laws, so America’s criminal system has been expanding dramatically for decades and continues to grow. With new laws enacted, excessive punishments follow suit. Husak showed some astonishing statistics of criminal punishments: 1 in 138
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Professor continues story of The Great Gatsby Kevin Schaefer Associate Features Editor
After teaching literature courses at NC State for 47 years, Allen Stein self-published his first novel in August 2014, which he describes as a sequel to the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, The Great Gatsby. Stein came to NC State in September 1968 after acquiring his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at New York University and his doctorate at Duke University. Since then, he’s taught primarily American literature and written a number of academic books and articles. Over the last six years, however, he said he has gravitated toward writing fiction and poetry, which he said he had reservations about attempting. “I didn’t think I could do it,” Stein said. “I thought I was a better interpreter of literature than I was a creator of it.” Yet since starting his creative writing, he has had four short stories published and a dozen poems either published or in the process of publication. One of his poems received a nomination for the 2015 Pushcart award. Stein’s interest in literature began at an early age when he started exploring his late father’s book collection. “Literature had something to say to me about the people around me, and it fascinated me, and I knew from then on I’d like to have a career talking about literature,” he said. Stein describes his book, Gatsby’s Daughters: A Romance of the Last Century, as a “story within a story.” Its main character is the fictional illegitimate daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who ends up writing a book which her father had left behind notes for before he died. He said The Great Gatsby left a tremendous impression on him and he wanted to know what happened next. “I knew that Gatsby was gone of course, but I thought that somehow, his dream ought to have some resonance,” he said. “And I decided I would do something of a sequel.” While he originally had the idea to do a story about a son of Jay Gatsby, Stein thought he might violate copyright laws by actually using a character from Fitzgerald’s novel. He also knew he couldn’t mimic Fitzgerald’s writing
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Allen Stein, an English professor at NC State, is the author of Gatsby’s Daughters: A Romance of the Last Century. The novel details the life of Constance Dunbarton after she discovers she is the illegitimate daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and the model for Daisy in The Great Gatsby.
style. He then asked the question “what if Fitzgerald had an illegitimate daughter with the woman who was the model for Daisy (Jay Gatsby’s love interest)?” “I thought that would be interesting,” he said. “I could do something that would keep the spirit of Fitzgerald’s romantic vision of things, the desire for the kind of grandeur that romance can bring us. I could keep that alive but not have to match my writing skills with Fitzgerald’s.” Tom Lisk, an English professor and a colleague of Stein, said he believes the novel is an interesting take on both a well-known author and a classic piece of literature.
“In some ways, Gatsby’s Daughters might be classified as speculative fiction,” Lisk said. “What if something had happened in the past that didn’t actually happen? What if F. Scott Fitzgerald had had a daughter nobody knew about and she herself, having grown up with her mother and stepfather, finds out belatedly who her biological father was?” Stein said the book takes place in both the 1920s, when his main character is born, and in the 1940s, when she discovers her true identity and writes her novel. He also said he incorporated jazz music, the real life character whom Fitzgerald based Nick Carraway on, along with many other jests to The Great Gatsby. “Any fan of Fitzgerald will find the book
enjoyable and enlightening,” Lisk said. Despite his attempts to get an established company to publish the book, Stein said publishers weren’t as interested in it right now. He said this was partly due to the most recent film adaptation with Leonardo DiCaprio in 2013, which received some negative reviews and caused mainstream audiences to have what he called “Gatsby fatigue.” He said his hope is that it’ll sell well enough that he can go back to publishers, which would lead to mass distribution. Profits, however, are of little interest to him at this point. “I’m not interested in the money; I’m interested in the readers,” he said.
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Left to Right: Michael Mears, Stephen Luster, Bryan Mears, TJ Louis and Ryan Collinsworth make up the band Love and War. Three of the five are either NC State students or alumni. The group plans on releasing their first album later this year.
Students overcome differences to form Love and War Sam Roberson Staff Writer
Members of Love & War have been busy in their studio for five consecutive days recording their debut full-length album. After taking a hiatus from performing to write and record, the Raleigh band is planning to release a 16-track album later this year. The members of Love & War met at NC State in 2012. The group is made up of several members of the NC State community: Ryan Collinsworth, a senior studying psychology and Spanish, TJ Louie who studied film, Bryan Mears who studied English and graduated in 2012, along with Michael Mears, Bryan’s younger brother. All members of the group are singers and songwriters with different tastes in music. Their playing ref lects that as it combines strong vocals and a blending of blues and folk styles. The vocals are influenced by clas-
sic hymns. “We are all vocalists, and harmony is our most important writing concept,” Collinsworth said. “We love the harmony in how hymns are built and try to emulate that.” After meeting as members of the Beta Upsilon Chi fraternity while at State, the band began to practice together. With everyone in the group being a songwriter, there was disagreement in the style of the music. “All of our music either fit one or the other,” Collinsworth said. “We were frustrated not being able to find the in-between.” Both of the Mears brothers had already been playing a roots-folk style, while Collinsworth favored more modern blues. In August 2013, the group took a trip to a rural mountain house in western North Carolina to focus on combining their musical styles. “We went to the mountains to escape the hustle of Raleigh and really connected as a group there,” Collinsworth said. At this point, they were still nameless and
did not have any recorded material. The name Love & War was formulated on the trip. “We were trying to write a record on the concept of love, but kept experiencing tension with each other,” Collinsworth said. “The name Love & War is from embracing different sides of this process.” The band said the mountain retreat helped them learn to blend each other’s own personal styles and preferences together to create a coherent sound with everyone’s styles complementing each other. “It took a while to understand, but with working together and using our differences, I think we get better music,” Bryan Mears said. After returning from the mountains, Love & War recorded their Sorrow like Sea EP. With original material, they began to play more shows in the triangle area. They were averaging a gig a week while some members were working or still in school. “We were burned out after playing so many shows,” Louie said. “We enjoy playing, but I’d
say we all lean more towards introverted and needed a break.” Since spring 2014, Love & War has taken a hiatus from live shows to focus on writing and recording. “Typically the way we’ll write is someone will bring something they’ve written, we’ll all play it over and over for two hours, after a while, if it’s good enough, a song will emerge,” Bryan Mears said. On their upcoming album, the group wants to explore the subject of Love. While the subject matter is abstract, Love & War seeks to tackle it in a practical and pragmatic way. “We want our music to be palatable to a wide range of people,” Collinsworth said. “We like to use stories and narratives to put these high concepts in human flesh for anyone to connect to.” Love & War continues to work on their debut album with plans to release it later this year.
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WKNC fundraiser celebrates 11th anniversary Alex Goodfred Correspondent
On Feb. 7 and 14 NC State’s student-run radio station WKNC will host its 11th annual Double Barrel Benefit concert series. The concert series will feature eight different bands, including their headliners Spider Bags, who are back for their third year, and Eternal Summers. Spider Bags will be playing on the first night at the Lincoln Theatre, while Eternal Summers will play the second night at Cat’s Cradle. WKNC will release the full line up in the coming weeks on their website. The fundraiser spans two Saturday nights and takes place at two different venues. The Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh will host the benefit Feb. 7, while Carrboro’s Cat’s Cradle will host Feb. 14. “This is the first time in a while we’ve had a not necessarily local band. Like, Spider Bags is a big tent-pole triangle band, but Eternal Summers is from Virginia, but they still have sort of ties to the area,” said Program Director Walt Lilly, a senior studying communication with a media concentration. Established in 2004, the benefit welcomes people of all ages to come support the station, which reaches the entire triangle in its broadcast range. The concert gives back to the community by providing music and showcasing both Raleigh-based and national acts. John Kovalchik, a senior studying biological sciences and the WKNC general manager, said the foundation for the fundraiser remains prominent today. “[Double Barrel] originally started for the exact same reason it exists [today], which is to raise money for the radio station in a concert format, which is kind of different than how a lot of other public radio stations raise their money,” Kovalchik said. “Most do the phone drive kind of thing, but WKNC opted for trying to do something a little more unique and fun, and something that we thought would appeal to our listeners.” According to members of WKNC, the concert benefits more than just the performers and listeners. “A majority of our budget comes from this event, which is going towards what little com-
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Spider Bags headlines night two of WKNC’s Double Barrel Benefit on Feb. 4, 2012 at The Pour House Music Hall in Raleigh.
pensation that the people who are in charge here get for spending 10, 15, 20 hours a week here, for equipment that breaks, to pay for bands coming to play on campus, that kind of thing,” said Yvonne Chazal, the WKNC promotions director and a sophomore studying math and computer science. Over the years, Double Barrel has evolved and is growing in importance for the station, according to Lilly. Last year Double Barrel raised more than $11,000 but when the benefit first started, it was hosted in a small venue and expected to raise fewer funds. “Back then, we were probably thinking in hundreds of dollars, and now we’re thinking in thousands of dollars,” Kovalchik said. The cost of attending is $12 each night if tickets are ordered in advance, $22 for both nights in advance, and $15 at the door for each night. Tickets can be found at the WKNC website. Doors open for each show at 8 p.m. and the concerts begin at 9 p.m.
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Bombadil’s James Philips sings and plays the drumset during WKNC’s Double Barrel Benefit Feb. 14, 2014 at Lincoln Theatre.
Student organization bridges Arabic community Taylor Quinn Associate Features Editor
When NC State student Yasmeen Mansour discovered that the university did not have a forum for Arabic students to socialize, she decided to take action. Mansour, a graduate student studying physiology, founded the NCSU Arabic Student Organization (ASO) in October 2014 with a simple purpose in mind. “We aim to provide a platform and space where different people can come together
and socialize,” Mansour said. “To realize that we are all human.” According to her, the organization has had two coffee talks so far and plans to contact singers and dancers to perform at future events. Mansour said that ASO is essential not just for NC State but the entire nation because there needs to be a safe space for Arabs and non-Arabs to network and get to know each other. “I believe that ASO fulfills that need for the safe space,” she said. “I am really happy
with what we have accomplished so far.” According to Mansour, the organization is also a place for attendees to talk about struggles, especially those dealing with being an ethnic minority. “We want everyone to learn about each other’s cultures,” she said. “We want to savor our heritage; it’s easy to hide our heritage or feel like we have to.” The organization currently has 25 members on the roster, but Mansour said the group is open to alumni and whoever
would like to attend. Among those 25 members, she said there is a “wonderful range of ethnicities.” The ethnicities in the group include African American, Arabic, Caucasian and Hispanic. Mansour also explained that there is vast diversity within Arab culture too. Anyone who speaks Arabic or has ancestors who spoke it is considered Arabic, so she hopes that the organization will represent how diverse Arabic culture is. As for the future of ASO, Mansour hopes to expand
the group and collaborate with other organizations that represent minorities because she said all ethnic minorities deal with similar problems. Briana Roulhac-Wilson, also a graduate student studying physiology, got involved with ASO right away. “I joined because, as an African American, I understand what it’s like to be marginalized,” Roulhac-Wilson said, “I was curious to find out their experiences.” According to RoulhacWilson, the organization is a great platform for minorities
and people in general to come together and learn about each other. She said that learning about other minorities is an important part of being a well-rounded person. She described the first meeting as informal and laid back. She said there were a handful of people in attendance and they talked about the different countries everyone’s family was from as well as the Arabic language courses offered at NC State.
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young team a signature win in 2014. 6. Jarvis Byrd’s comeback Even one ACL injury can force an athlete to call it quits. Most would part ways with their sport after sustaining two. Quitting after three ACL tears is a no-brainer for anyone with a pulse, but graduate student safety Jarvis Byrd is a rare outlier. The Pahokee, Florida native returned to the gridiron in 2014, demonstrating a feat of true determination and love for the game after suffering three ACL tears in his career at NC State. 7. T.J. Warren puts up 41 at Pittsburgh In March, Pack superstar, ACC Player of the Year and NBA first-round draft pick T.J. Warren dropped 41 points away at Pitt, a career high and the most points a Wolfpack player has scored in a game since Rodney Monroe went for 48 against Georgia Tech in 1991. The Pack won the game 74-67, avenging a home loss to the Panthers two months earlier. Warren finished 16-for-22 from the field, setting the Petersen Events Center record for points and made field goals in the process. 8. Women’s Basketball makes top 10 In late January, the No. 18 NC State women’s basketball team faced its toughest challenge yet when taking on the No. 8 Maryland Terrapins. After trailing by five in the second half, the Wolfpack
organized a 28-10 run in the final 12 minutes of the game to attain the upset victory by a score of 72-63. The Pack soared up the rankings after the win, reaching No. 10 in the nation. 9. Dempster and Mudge duo wins doubles tourney In October, the No. 9 ranked pair of senior Robbie Mudge and sophomore Ian Dempster won the ITA Regionals doubles tournament, placing first out of a field of 64 teams. In the final, the dynamic duo faced Clemson’s third-seeded tandem of senior Alejandro Augusto and senior Hunter Harrington. Augusto and Harrington won the first set, 6-3. Mudge and Dempster aggressively captured the second, 6-3. Clemson took a 9-7 lead in the tiebreaker and had match point twice, which were both saved by the Mudge and Dempster to extend the tiebreak to 9-9. After which, a forehand to the net by Clemson clinched the victory for the Wolfpack. 10. Women’s golf caps historic season With a 10th place finish at the 2014 NCAA Women’s Golf Championship, the NC State women’s golf team recorded its best season in program history. Led by junior Augusta James, who finished 13th at the tournament individually, NC State climbed from 23rd of 24 teams after the first round into 10th position, also a school-best finish. Multiple top-10 finishes over the course of the season and strong individual play cemented the 2014 women’s golf team in our top-10.
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Bowl win sign of bright future Drew Nantais Staff Writer
What a difference a year makes. The NC State football team showed that difference in its resurgent 2014 season, culminating in a 34-27 victory over UCF in the St. Petersburg Bitcoin Bowl. Many State fans were left dumbfounded and awestruck after the 2013 season. A 3-9 record? No ACC wins? How could a team that made three consecutive bowl trips fail to amass a respectable record? Could it get any worse? The only direction from last season’s dreadful result was up, and up the Wolfpack went. With Florida-transfer Jacoby Brissett at quarterback, a revamped offense and a little bit of defensive magic (albeit late in the season), NC State set a formula for a much-improved football team. Fast-forward to the present: After the Pack’s win in the Bitcoin bowl, the team sits at 8-5, a five-win improvement
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number of minutes shared by the trio may come back to haunt them against the stout defense of Virginia. Post production in a half-
this season over last. Anchored by a much-improved defense, the Pack finished the season winning four of its last five games, including a 35-7 trouncing of the rival Tar Heels in Chapel Hill. The bowl win quelled the doubters of head coach Dave Doeren and gave the proof fans needed to put their trust in Doeren for the foreseeable future. Things didn’t go so well for him last year, and if the team stumbled out of the gate, Doeren’s seat was going to get hot. Now you might as well call him butter because he’s on a roll. He’s recruiting well, he’s coaching well and, most importantly, he’s winning. Starting out the season with four straight wins and playing with then No. 1 Florida State for three quarters showed the improvement in this year’s team and helped many forget the woes of 2013. But what people still don’t understand is what a bowl win means for a program like State. Recruits see what’s transpired over the season. They see the atmosphere at
the Florida State game. They see the wins over UNC and UCF. They see the culture Doeren’s established and begin to consider State as a potential suitor for them. It proves to critics who wrote the Pack off after last season, the beginning of the season, or during the midseason losing streak that this team is resilient and won’t go down without a fight. After all, it’s not about how you start; it’s how you finish. It gives fans hope. After two great quarterback eras of Russell Wilson and Mike Glennon ended, fans wondered whom the gauntlet would be passed to. And after a season where the quarterback position was less of an iron throne and more of a revolving door in Times Square, enter Jacoby Brissett. Although Brissett only has one more year of eligibility, it’s one more year in Raleigh wearing Wolfpack red. Brissett’s shown greatness in his first year as the Pack’s starter, and after a solid performance in the bowl win, he’s got fans swooning head over heels,
while faint chants of “Jacoby Football” ring throughout Wolfpack Nation. I trust Dave Doeren. He’s proved to students, fans and alumni that he’s the right choice to lead the Wolfpack. Helming one of the best turnarounds in the FBS, Doeren’s ability to coach and develop players is evident in the team’s improved play throughout the season. I’ll admit I didn’t have high expectations this season. Winning an ACC game or two would have been nice, maybe crank out four or five total wins. But eight wins?! Eight!? That’s phenomenal in itself, regardless of the non-conference schedule. Consider the position this team was in last season. No certainty at the quarterback position, doubts about a firstyear coach from a small conference and an awful season to boot. That’s a transition year. Sure it’s not pretty, but it’s a season that helps seasons like the one State just had, possible.
court setting will be crucial for the Pack on Wednesday. Sophomore forwards BeeJay Anya and Kyle Washington will have to show up in a big way to take the load off of the State guards. Though Washington is the leading scorer among
the State bigs, he has strugg led in recent contests, and his defense remains in question. Anya will be useful defensively against the Cavs’ 6-foot-11 junior center Mike Tobey, but Anya will need stay out of foul trouble and make use of his
weight advantage over the 253-pound Tobey. Overall, this will be a very difficult game for the Pack, but no matter the outcome, the young State team will return to Raleigh with its first taste of true ACC basketball in the 2015 season.
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Donovan named to U.S. U-20 roster for CONCACAF Championship After being selected for the preliminary team in December, NC State freshman and men’s soccer defender Conor Donovan made the U.S. Under-20 National Team’s final 20-man roster for the upcoming CONCACAF U-20 Championship. He is the only current collegiate player on the roster. Running Jan. 9-24 in Jamaica, the Championship will determine who will represent the region at the 2015 U-20 World Cup. The U.S. will take on Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Aruba, Panama and Guatemala in Group A action. NC State alumnus Tab Ramos will coach the U.S. team. SOURCE: USSOCCER.COM
NC State women’s basketball falls to UNC-CH in ACC opener The NC State women’s basketball squad came up short in the team’s ACC opener against the No. 9 UNC Tar Heels, who outpaced the Pack by a score of 72-56 Sunday afternoon. At one point in the second half, the Pack trailed by 27 points, but resounded in the final 10 minutes by scoring 29 of the final 39 points. The Pack was missing freshman guard Chloe Jackson and senior guard Krystal Barrett to injury,. The team shot a porous .303 from the field. The Pack faces Virginia Tech Thursday, which will be held at Reynolds Coliseum at 7 p.m. SOURCE: GOPACK.COM
Freshman wide receiver Bo Hines to transfer After NC State’s 34-27 victory in the Bitcoin Bowl, the school announced that freshman wide receiver Bo Hines requested and received permission to transfer after the season. As a freshman, Hines led the team with 45 receptions for 616 yards, thriving as the go to receiver for redshirt junior quarterback Jacoby Brissett. Hines accounted for 35 percent of the Pack’s catches and 38 percent of the groups receiving yardage. With his departure, the Pack will look for some of the other wide receivers to step up in his place. Hines plans to transfer to Yale with intentions of pursuing a career path in law and politics. SOURCE: ESPN.GO.COM
QUOTE OF THE DAY “I believe this with my very core: This is a great place to play. Our guys need to understand that.” Mark Gottfried, head men’s basketball coach
ATHLETIC SCHEDULE Today MEN’S BASKETBALL V. VIRGINIA Charlottesville, V.A., 7 P.M. WRESTLING V. DUKE Raleigh, N.C., 7 P.M. Thursday WOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. VIRGINIA TECH Raleigh, N.C., 7 P.M. Friday SWIMMING & DIVING V. PRINCETON Princeton, N.J., 5 P.M. WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS V. DENVER Raleigh, N.C., 2 P.M. TRACK AT GENE ANDERSON INVITE Chapel Hill, N.C., All day Saturday SWIMMING & DIVING V. VILLANOVA Philadelphia, Pa., 11 A.M. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. CLEMSON Raleigh, N.C., 2 P.M. Sunday WRESTLING V. LOCK HAVEN Pittsburgh, Pa., 10 A.M.
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Redshirt sophomore Nick Gwiazdowski celebrates his triumphant match win over top-seeded Tony Nelson of Minnesota in the national championship. After achieving the 4-2 victory, the heavyweight became the sixth NC State wrestler to win a national championship.
Top 10 Wolfpack moments of 2014 Jake Lange Associate Sports Editor
Jordan Beck Associate Sports Editor
Before the 2015 sports year kicks into high gear, it’s worth taking a moment to remember 2014, which featured a number of memorable storylines in Wolfpack sports. From a resurgent football team that crushed its blue rivals down the road, to record-setting team performances from women’s golf, to dominant individual showings in men’s basketball, to a national champion in wrestling, 2014 was a building block for 2015 and beyond. 1. Gwiazdowski National Champion In the 2013-2014 season, then-redshirt sophomore Nick Gwiazdowski recorded the best single-season wins percentage in NC State wrestling history at 42-2 before capturing the national championship at 285
pounds. With his 4-2 win over topseed Tony Nelson of Minnesota, Gwiazdowski became the sixth NC State wrestler to win a national championship. 2. 35-7 over UNC After falling to the Tar Heels in its past two meetings, the Pack executed a brilliant game plan to swiftly and brutally dominate Carolina at Kenan Memorial Stadium in Chapel Hill. The game was marked by the crucial playmaking abilities of redshirt junior quarterback Jacoby Brissett and junior running back Shadrach Thornton, paired with a rock solid Wolfpack defense, which limited the Heels to a season-low 207 total yards. Brissett’s running game was unstoppable as he recorded the most rushing yards by an NC State quarterback with 167 yards in 14 carries. The 35-7 rout capped off the much improved season steered by head coach Dave Doeren, whose 7-5 record eclipsed 2013’s underwhelming 3-9 campaign.
3. Men’s basketball beats Syracuse 66-63 in ACC Tournament Anchored by the 28 points from ACC Player of the Year T.J. Warren, the NC State men’s basketball team defeated No. 2 Syracuse to advance to the semifinals of the 2014 ACC Tournament. Junior Ralston Turner drained a three-pointer to give the Wolfpack a 62-59 lead with 2:28 to go, which NC State would not give up for the remainder of the contest. Although the Pack would eventually lose to Duke in the semifinal, the Syracuse victory remained a top moment for Wolfpack sports in 2014. 4. NC State football wins the 2014 Bitcoin St. Petersburg Bowl The NC State football team faced off against the University of Central Florida during the holiday break after receiving a much deserved bowl bid to the Bitcoin bowl in St. Petersburg, Florida. The Pack controlled the game tempo on both sides of the ball for the first three quarters, as
the team boasted a 31-13 lead. UCF led a two touchdown comeback in the fourth quarter, but the Pack managed to fend off the momentum shift by eating up time on the clock to secure the 34-27 bowl victory. 5. Men’s soccer beats No. 5 Louisville On a two-game losing streak and facing the then-No. 5 ranked Louisville Cardinals, the NC State men’s soccer team’s prospects did not look bright. With the Wolfpack pummeled by shots in the first half, it seemed only a matter of time before Louisville took the lead. Fortunately for NC State, the game is not played on paper, and secondhalf goals from sophomore Travis Wannemuehler and junior Reed Norton, plus a 12-save effort from junior goalkeeper Alex McCauley, vaulted the Pack to a 2-1 victory over a top-ranked ACC opponent, earning head coach Kelly Findley and his
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Pack travels to face undefeated Cavs Zach Tanner Senior Staff Writer
Tonight at 7, the NC State men’s basketball team faces its toughest test to date when it travels north to face the Cavaliers. No, not the ones in Cleveland with King James and company— the ones that actually play defense: No. 3 Virginia. The Cavaliers (13-0, 1-0 ACC) are the first of a long stretch of difficult contests ahead of the Wolfpack (11-4, 2-0 ACC). After Virginia, State will host No. 2 Duke and No. 18 UNC-Chapel Hill before heading to the Sunshine State to face off with Florida State and Miami. Despite the tough road ahead, the Pack cannot look past any of these games, especially Wednesday’s matchup with the third-best team in the nation. It is by no accident that Virginia is one of the three remaining undefeated programs; the Cavs have run through their schedule so far with little resistance. UVA has convincing wins over ranked competition, such as Maryland and Virginia Commonwealth, and embarrassed Harvard, a preseason top-25 team, by nearly 50 points. The Cavs had a slight hiccup against Miami Saturday, as the Hurricanes took the No. 3 team in the nation to the wire before eventually falling in double overtime by nine. However, any games against Miami is no cake walk, as the ‘Canes have recorded solid
wins over Florida and Illinois this season. Virginia has been notorious for shutting down high-powered offenses, allowing only 50.8 points per game, second-fewest in the nation. Only one team, Davidson, has only scored over 65 points in regulation against the Cavs, and the Wildcats boast the third-best offense in the country. Unfortunately for State, its team has struggled against top defenses this season. Both of the Pack’s double-digit losses have come at the hands of excellent defensive squads -- Cincinnati ranks seventh in the nation in scoring defense, while West Virginia leads the NCAA in steals per game. However, as head coach Mark Gottfried said throughout the season, the focus of the State team is defense. The sentiment has echoed with his players. “Our offense can come and go,” redshirt junior guard Trevor Lacey said. “But our defense has to remain constant.” The Pack defense will have its hands full Wednesday against an efficient, balanced UVA attack. So far this season, four Cavalier players are shooting over 50 percent from the floor, and all four of those players average over 19 minutes per game. One of Virginia’s sharp shooters is the team’s leading scorer, junior guard Justin Anderson. Anderson is not only pouring in 15.8 points per contest, he is shooting an out-
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Sophomore forward BeeJay Anya dunks the ball during the game against Pittsburgh Saturday. Anya had eight points and three blocks in the Wolfpack’s 68-50 win over the Panthers at PNC Arena.
standing 58.8 percent from beyond the arc. State can respond with stellar play from its backcourt with Lacey, senior Ralston Turner and sopho-
more Anthony ‘Cat’ Barber, all of whom average at least 12 points per game. However, the large
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