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IN BRIEF On-campus parking gets upgrades Chancellor issues statement calling university to embrace diversity In a letter addressed to the NC State community, Chancellor Randy Woodson mentioned recent events in the news that have divided the nation in discussions about race relations, noting that the events have sparked discussions and protests on campus as well as across the country. “As members of the university community, we are fortunate to have a campus climate that encourages and supports the expression of differing thoughts and opinions between individuals and groups,” Woodson stated in his statement. “At NC State, we support and encourage these discussions in a respectful and safe environment. As a university dedicated to educating our future leaders, we have a responsibility to foster dialogue and lead change that will help ensure a just and civil society.” SOURCE: CHANCELLOR RANDY WOODSON’S SPRING LETTER
Registration open for 2015 Krispy Kreme challenge The Krispy Kreme Challenge fundraiser for the North Carolina Children’s Hospital will return to Raleigh for its 11th year in a row on Feb 14. Participants can now register on the challenge’s website. There is a $35 registration fee for NC State students and a $42 fee for non-students. A t-shirt is included with registration. Runners in the five-mile long race will begin at the Belltower, run 2.5 miles to the Person Street Krispy Kreme, eat one dozen doughnuts and run 2.5 miles back to the Belltower to complete the challenge. Last year, the challenge hosted more than 8,000 people and raised $200,000 for the North Carolina Children’s Hospital. SOURCE: THE KIRSPY KREME CHALLENGE
Facebook aims to help find missing children through Amber Alerts Facebook is currently working with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to begin sending users in the U.S. Amber Alerts in an effort to help find missing children who may be located nearby. The website will send alerts to users’ cell phones if their location says they are in the search area for a missing child. Facebook claims that several children have been found as a result of users sharing information on the site, as many people are already using Facebook to share information and encourage friends to help find missing children. The alerts sent by Facebook will include a photo of the missing child along with any other relevant information that could help find the missing child as quickly as possible.
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Pay-by-Space, the future of parking at NC State, is a new system that is now in three on-campus parking decks and has plans
to expand to several other locations over the next two years. The system, which hopes to eliminate paper stubs and surcharges, will help students who do not have a parking pass on campus, according to Christine Klein, public communication specialist for transporta-
tion. The parking machines are similar to the ones used by the City of Raleigh on Hillsborough Street, according to an NCSU Transportation press release. To use the Pay-by-Space parking, users must enter their space number
into the machine and the amount of time needed. The cost is $2 for the first hour and $1 for each additional 30 minutes. “From my own perspective, I was a transfer student who was only taking a couple credits, and I didn’t want to pay for an entire
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Course evals response rates increase for Fall 2014
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Harrison Allen Staff Writer
Though the number of completed class evaluations has increased since last semester, students are only filling out about half of the total evaluations. Out of more than 154,000 course evaluation surveys, students filled out about 75,000. The response rate for course evaluations for the fall semester was 49.25 percent, an increase from around 47 percent from the spring 2014 semester, according to the NC State Class Eval Dashboard. While the amount of completed course evaluations increased from last semester, the university saw a large drop in overall response rate for course evaluations when the system switched from paper to electronic six years ago, according to Jeff Joines, chair of the evaluation of teaching committee. Additionally, when NC State went to an online course evaluation system, it created its system rather than outsourcing. In order to try and increase response rates, the evaluation of teaching committee created strategies for teachers who want students to fill more course evaluations. Though the quantity of responses dropped with the new system, the quality seemed to improve, according to Joines. “When students filled out the evaluations in-class with one another, peer pressure caused many evaluations to be filled out incorrectly,” Joines said.
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Sophomore forward T.J. Warren drives to the basket during the game against North Carolina in PNC Arena Feb. 26, 2014. The Wolfpack fell to the Tar Heels in overtime, 85-84.
Talley construction to be completed by this Spring Deirdre An Correspondent
Seniors should get a chance to see a completed Talley Student Union before they graduate this spring, as the university announced that construction is finally nearing completion and is set to fully open near the end of this semester. Tim Hogan, the director of the University Student Centers, said
construction deals and material deliveries could cause delays, so an exact date has not been set for the spring opening just yet. “Most of the interior work still needs to be done,” Hogan said. “The majority of the exterior facility still needs to be completed, so working on the interior finishes like the floors, ceilings and walls. The heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems for the
Talley Student Union are currently being tested. In addition, the fire suppressant system is in the process of installation and testing, Hogan said. In the past month, temporary walls have been put in place in the building to divide the open parts of the building to the active construction sites. The temporary walls have caused students to hear more construction inside of Talley
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Winter weather causes first delay of 2015 Staff Report
The university announced late Tuesday afternoon that classes would be canceled before 11 a.m. Wednesday morning due to adverse weather conditions. According to Mick Kulikowski, assistant director for news and national media at NC State, the decision to delay or cancel classes involves administrators from the Office of Environmental Health and Safety, Campus Police, Charles
Leffler, vice chancellor for finance and business, while the final decision is made by either Provost Warwick Arden or Chancellor Randy Woodson. The Wolfline ended its service at 10 p.m. Tuesday and will regular activity at 10 a.m Wednesday. According to Christine Klein, public communication specialist for NCSU Transportation, the Wolfline begins operation one hour prior to the delayed class start time to get students to class on time. According to Klein, if weather conditions de-
teriorate during regular activity and classes are cancelled, the Wolfline will attempt to stay in service for two hours after class is officially canceled, depending on road conditions. Wolfline’s priority routes are Rt. 1 Avent Ferry, Rt. 7 Wolflink Shuttle, Rt. 8 SE Loop, Rt. 11 Village Link and Rt. 11 and Rt. 6 Carter Finley, and Transportation aims to have at least one bus per route as long as the university remains open and classes are in session.
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Although the response rate for the fall semester was about 50 percent, some professors feel many students still fail to take the evaluations seriously. “I think that about 30 percent of students in my classes take them seriously,” Brady said. Beckman said she encourages constructive criticism throughout the semester and thinks waiting until the end of the semester to fill out a course evaluations is a loss to the student. “If a student gets to the end of the semester and hasn’t spoken to me about what isn’t working for them, it’s their loss,” Beckman said. Many students have overlooked course evaluations, which denies their professors the feedback that they need to improve their teaching, according to Brady. “You want to know what you’re doing good, as well as what you’re doing bad, and then put it together to make a better class,” Brady said. Joines said many students don’t realize that professors do use the feedback from these evaluations to make decisions about their future courses. Patrick McLain, a senior studying marketing, said he doesn’t bother filling out course evaluations out because of their length. “Per semester, that would generally
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However, some professors disagree with this statement and have criticisms for the online system. Diane Beckman, a teaching assistant professor of foreign language and literature, said when class time was given for written evaluations, students seemed to take them more seriously. “I have a hard time taking anything seriously that’s done online, under pressure at the last moment,” Beckman said. Deborah Brown, a senior lecturer in the Poole College of Management, looks for trends in the responses she gets from course evaluations. “If I have a critical mass that says something similar, a lot of times I’ll change what they’re criticizing,” Brown said. Renee Brady, a graduate teaching assistant in mathematics, said she uses course evaluations as a personal evaluation to help alter her teaching style. “A student could say they didn’t like the way I was writing on the board, or the way I spoke, and I would use that to help me teach my next class,” Brady said.
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be five course evaluations that I would have to do that are really long,” McLain said. Other students only bother to complete them if it is for a teacher that they enjoyed. Brady said this is one of the problems that arises when dealing with course evaluations, as sometimes, when a student gets a good grade, they give an evaluation about their great experience in the class, but don’t give any feedback. Josh Tatum, a senior studying political science, said he takes his course evaluations seriously and fills them out if it’s for a good teacher. Beckman said it is the important for students to reflect upon what they have learned rather than if they liked the professor or not. “Some students who get a low grade in the class automatically put the teacher at fault and give them a bad evaluation,” Brady said. Beckman said submitting a form through the “Thank a Teacher Program” through the Office of Faculty Development would give the teacher more recognition than a good course evaluation.
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parking pass,” Klein said. “I wish we had something like this back then.” Pay-by-Space parking is not meant to replace student parking permits or bus transportation, according to Greg Caine, assistant director of parking. Pay-by-Space utilizes a smartphone app, Passport Parking, which allows drivers to extend their parking time from a remote location without hav-
ing to return to the parking meter. Through the Passport Parking app drivers also receive a notification reminding them if their time is close to expiring, which NCSU Transportation hopes will cut down on citations. Pay-by-Space parking will make parking more eco-friendly by eliminating the paper needed to print parking tickets. “It’s greener. It’s more efficient. It’s more customer friendly,” Caine said. “It definitely takes us to another place.”
NCSU Transportation plans to expand Pay-by-Space parking over the next two years across campus. Currently, there are Pay-by-Space parking at 40 spots in West Lot, 72 spots in South Capability Lot and 86 spaces in Poulton Deck. “We plan to begin rolling these out every six months,” said Caine. “We have a need for them at the College of Natural Resources, the Student Health Center and Centennial Campus. But, it’s a work in progress.” The funding to bring in the new
parking technology comes from NCSU’s transportation budget. “We use our budget mainly to replace other equipment that is aged out or something that will take us to a better place,” Klein said.
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Sustainability Fund now accepting applications Colleen Kenan-Ferguson Staff Writer
The NC State Sustainability Fund Advisory Board is now accepting applications for sustainability project proposals. With a $120,000 budget, a $35,000 increase from last year, the board is looking to expand and fund more projects, according to Nathan Pedder, chairman of the sustainability fund advisory board.
Each project is expected to be completed one year after its starting date of July 1. The application process includes a short grant application, which is available on the Sustainability Fund website. The application requests a faculty or staff advisor, as well as a project timeline and budget be submitted. The fund is seeking projects that would either have large immediate impacts or projects that have potential for high impact over a longer period of time, according to
Pedder. Projects can be centered on education, outreach, infrastructure or any other component of campus sustainability. Examples of projects include workshop development and sponsorship, symposium development, pilot projects, large-scale infrastructure improvements or other projects that involve creative uses of funds, according to the fund’s website. Recipients are expected to complete a mid-year report on their project’s status, as
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next to Carmichael gym. “We wanted to keep it small for the opening year,” Pedder said. The four other projects that were given funding by the Sustainability Fund were the expansion of the Quad bikesharing program to Wolf Village, a solar sculpting charting station on Centennial campus, a solar community garden and apiary near the School of Veterinary Medicine and start-up funds for an NC State chapter of the Food Recovery Network. The fund started last year after a student-led campaign rallied to impose a campuswide student fee to help pay for a Sustainability Fund. At the current fee rate, the fund is estimated to produce about $85,000 per year to be used to fund student-led sustainability projects. “There seemed to be a lot of desire from students for a more sustainable campus,” Pedder said. “We had a petition with a couple thousand student signatures requesting a student fee that would go towards a sustainability fund and it succeeded.” The board hopes to raise the student fee to $4 per student after this year to raise even more money for sustainable projects, according to Pedder. The fund was started to provide an opportunity for faculty and students to pro-
mote sustainability, according to Brian Iezzi, vice-chair of the Sustainability Fund Advisory Board. “A lot of people look to our generation to be the movement of change,” Iezzi said. “We’re one of the first to have a sustainable mindset. And universities are a great catalyst for change.” The idea for a sustainability fund was adopted from other university models such as UNC-Chapel Hill and Appalachian State University. “Sustainability is an important concept for students to start focusing on,” Pedder said. “Giving students the opportunity to combat issues such as greenhouse gases and global warming through the fund is really important.” W hen look ing at this year’s project proposals, the advisory board will be taking future implications into consideration. “We really want them to focus on the outcome and impact,” Iezzi said. “Has it worked at other places? Would it work at NC State?” However, the board is open to almost anything, according to Iezzi.“Let your imagination run wild.” There will be an interest meeting about the application Friday at Talley at 4:30 pm.
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than they could in the past, according to Hogan. Phase two also will create gathering places for nine student-centered departments as well as 600 student organizations. “The student involvement center, student government, UAB, Greek Life, all of those offices move in Phase two, so that’s really going to invigorate student engagement on campus with all of those areas,” Hogan said. Many seniors and juniors who have experienced the construction of the Talley Student Union throughout their university career are excited to see the unveiling. Although the construction prohibited many students from enjoying the student union fully, Khari Cyrus, a junior studying biological sciences, is not at all bitter. “I did have the privilege of being able to experience old Talley and with Talley construction, there were other options where students could go and hang out, whether that was Bragaw activity room or places around campus,” Cyrus said. Cyrus said he is glad the construction came during the time it did because it allowed him to get to experience both old and new Talley. “Particularly for me and my class, the class of 2016, it’s great because we get to experience the greatness of old Talley as well as a semester or two of the renovated Talley, so I think it would be worth it,” Cyrus said. Neel Mandavilli, a senior studying political sciences, said that the university is always in a constant state of construction or improvement to its facilities. “I think any given year, no matter whose year, they’re going to find
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A construction worker works during on finishing Phase I of Talley Student Union. Construction should be finished by the end of this semester.
themselves in the midst of some construction project that’s going on,” Mandavilli said. “I’m optimistic that it will finish on time.” Freshman first-year engineer, Jacob Alfieri said he is most looking forward to the new eating establishments out of everything else opening in the student union. “It will be somewhere else to eat besides the same four restaurants at Talley all the time,” Alfieri said. “It’s supposed to be a nicer restaurant from what I’ve heard, so I’m looking forward to that. I’m not really a big Starbucks person.” University dining on campus has been partnering with Talley to create a couple of more restaurants, which will open, in the final phase of the process. “Starbucks will be located on the first floor in the south side of the building near Cates and Morill,”
Hogan said. “On the third floor directly above the Starbucks will be the 1887 Bistro developed by University dining which is a sit down, full-service restaurant.” Mandavilli said Talley should be a place where students can come together to have conversations. “I think that it is more than important to have a place where students around campus can discuss important issues and talk to each other,” Mandavilli said. “I hope that new Talley when it’s fully ready to go, will be a place where students can come together and collaborate and basically think critically in a space that encourages conversation and dialog.” The project, which began in 2010, was originally divided into two phases. The completion of the second phase will bring new eating establishments, ballrooms, com-
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Chancellor Woodson has decided that he would like for the new section of Talley Student Union to open before commencement this year. This would allow seniors, who have been paying for the renovation with their fees, to enjoy the new phase before they graduate.
mon areas and student involvement offices. The second phase began July 2013, and since then, has been divided to include a final phase, which includes
the completion of the entire construction process.
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Why you won’t see The Daily Tar Hell on stands this year Before I receive dozens of letters criticizing this paper for not running The Daily Tar Hell, there is one thing you should be aware of. The decision not to run the spoof paper was mine and mine Ravi K. alone. So if you will, please Chittilla target any and all criticism of Editor-in-Chief this decision toward me and not members of my staff. For those wondering why I have declined to
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publish the spoof paper this year, this is your opportunity to get some answers. Like other newspapers, the role of the Technician is to educate and inform its readers, which in this case is you, the student body. By that standard, The Daily Tar Hell does nothing to fulfill that responsibility. I simply have no intention of using the limited resources we have here at the Technician to distract from our goal. Have we always been a bastion of the most important and relevant news for students?
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No, we haven’t. But the Technician is, at its core, a teaching and learning experience not only for its staff members, but for its readers as well. As for the students who work for the Technician, there’s an opportunity for them to learn new skills and valuable lessons each day. The Technician should always be a forum for student dialogue and can and should be a serious tool for debate and discussion on a variety of matters, not a punch line for the university down Tobacco Road. For those of you looking for the latter, I’m
sure there are plenty of blogs, websites and Facebook groups among other forums where you can find plenty of people willing to trash UNC-Chapel Hill and its fans. We aren’t humorless (see Monday’s headline), but we know we aren’t humorists, and we aren’t going to try. If after reading this note, you’re still not satisfied with my reasoning for not running The Daily Tar Hell, feel free send me a letter at technician-editor@ncsu.edu.
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What is your prediction for the UNC game? BY SOPHIA DAVIES
“I’m going to say we’ll win 67-57.” Shakira Shipman sophomore, biological sciences
“Oh we’re going to win. I know we’ll win. We’ll win by around seven points. I saw Carolina play the other day, and they’re not good.” Jamel Stroud, freshman, management
“Here at NC State we work hard for our achievements, so we’ll definitely beat UNC.” Cody Davidson, junior, communication
James Knight, sophomore studying art and design
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It’s time for a new drug treatment paradigm In late Oct. 2013, my parents received a phone call that no parent wants to receive. My youngest brother, then 18, had been taken to the hospital for an apparent drug overdose. When he was found, his hear t had stopped beating and h e w a s n’t breathing. Paramedics performed C.R. Denning CPR and deStaff Columnist fibrillation, and then rushed him to the emergency department of a local hospital. No one knew how long he’d been without a heartbeat. The main concern, the doctor told us, was oxygen deprivation because it might result in irreversible brain damage. All we could do was wait for him to wake up. Af ter f ive days—three of those spent in intensive care—my brother walked out of the hospital with no scars, neither physical nor mental. The doctors and paramedics who worked on him said it was nothing short of a miracle he survived, let alone without lasting damage. I wish I could say his brush with the reaper left him a changed person, but less than a month after his near-fatal overdose, around Thanksgiving, he relapsed. Then, after New Years, he stole ADHD medication prescribed to me and pain medication prescribed to my other brother, who had recently been in a car accident. In a period of two days, he took a handful of opioid painkillers and almost as many amphetamines as I take in a week. This time, he spent a night in the hospital for observa-
tion. But we knew more drastic action must be taken. We tried having him admitted to a local psychiatric hospital. My parents recall being told he couldn’t be admitted on such short notice because he wasn’t suicidal— and beds were limited. Two days later, my brother entered a treatment center in Wilmington, where he was supposed to spend a month in an intensive inpatient rehabi litat ion prog ra m. Halfway through, my parents’ insurance company informed them their coverage would only pay for 21 days of treatment, more than a week shy of the recommended 30 days. The treatment center, advocating on my brother’s behalf, convinced the insurance company to extend coverage to 28 days. Through great determination and work on his part, on Jan. 2, my brother celebrated one year clean and sober. As thrilled as I am with his progress, I’m left with the sobering thought that many who struggle with addiction are not privy to the strong family support like my brother had—and the means to get the help that come along with it. Before addiction sunk its teeth into my brother, a close friend of mine also succumbed to drug dependency. This friend (I’ll call him “John”) became addicted to heroin, and his downward spiral spit him out in a jail cell for a year and a half on burglary charges. John couldn’t get a job because of his using, and without a job to pay for his habit, he resorted to burglarizing churches in the middle of the night to survive—and stay high. He had no health insurance and was too old to be on his parents’, so the month
I’ve never been very good at keeping a tight schedule. My friends might tell me we are leaving for dinner at 6:00 p.m. in hopes that I will be ready to go at 7:00 p.m. I don’t like to say I am habitually late, as I’m not usually late to classes or important meetings, but I will admit that if I sense any wiggle room in a schedule, I am tempted to set my own Estefania standards of time. CastroVazquez I’ve heard everything that Assistant has to be said about my habOpinion Editor its. It’s because I’m Latina, because I don’t value other people’s time, because I don’t manage my time well, because I’m a girl; all in all, it seems to be my fault for being so darn selfish and not keeping up with the time. But it’s really not that. I have a desk calendar, a synchronized agenda on my phone and laptop, a weekly calendar as my screensaver, and a watch I wear all the time. I am well aware of what time it is. My excuse is that I am making the choice not to be run by the tick-tock of a watch. Sundials, pocket watches, clocks and now our iPhones all constantly remind us of what time it is, bordering on imposition. Our phones and watches not only tell us the time, but where we should be and what we should be doing. The internal clocks that once told us how much time had elapsed to save us the embarrassment of keeping eye contact for too long or not recognizing when we’ve missed a turn while driving, have been set to a new, socially constructed standard. This new standard dictates just about every part of our lives. It tells us when it is lunchtime and dinnertime, forming us since childhood when we waited on the lunch bell. It tells us when we should avoid a major highway, as 8-5 workers will surely be stuck in traffic. It tells us when it’s time to engage in thoughtful process, during our class times, at work or at a place of worship. It tells us when it is appropriate to unwind. It tells us what time we should wake and sleep, so we don’t miss out on other scheduled rituals. While most of these serve a purpose, there are times when strict timelines hinder us from living a life full of casual happiness. Casual happiness, for lack of a better phrase, is what I would call the instances of joy that come from small day-to-day occurrences. These are things such as sharing a laugh with a stranger because you are both
in rehab that helped my brother get clean, at a rough cost of $15,000, wasn’t an option for John. In 2012 (the last year for which data is available), 42,130 people were arrested in North Carolina for drug offenses. Today there are 5,043 inmates in NC prisons for drug crimes. The average annual cost to incarcerate one inmate in North Carolina is around $30,000, according to a study by the Vera Institute of Justice, a nonpartisan, nonprofit center for justice policy and practice. By those numbers, North Carolina spends $150 million per year imprisoning people for drug crimes. A nd that doesn’t even count the cost of law enforcement and courts for those arrested but not incarcerated. Neither does that include people who, lacking resources to address their drug problems and stigmatized by society, resort to property crimes and end up in prison. People like John. It’s time for a new approach to t he d r ug problem. It’s time to decrimina lize drugs and de-stigmatize addiction. With the money spent on incarcerating drug offenders, North Carolina could send 10,000 addicts to treatment every year. Add to that the savings in enforcement and court costs, and we could provide rehabilitation and community support to every drug addict who wants to kick the habit. That would be something to celebrate.
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Francis de los Reyes, a civil engineering professor and sanitation activist, stands next to a test set-up of “The Excrevator,” the screw augur used to empty pit latrines in developing countries in the Environmental Engineering laboratory in Broughton Hall. “The worldwide sanitation problem is complex and involves not just technological challenges but also considers cultural, social, political and business/finance issues” de los Reyes said.
Professor pushes for global sanitation Sam Roberson Staff Writer
When most people f lush the toilet, they do not think or worry about what happens next. But for an engineering professor at NC State, the process is just beginning. Francis de los Reyes is a professor of civil, construction and environmental engineering who teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses and works with modern sewage treatment. However, he is most known for his work and research on sanitation in developing countries, made famous by his TED talk on the subject.
“A lot of people in environmental engineering are looking at first world problems,” de los Reyes said. “The problems of developing countries are often more basic.” Much of the developing world uses pit-latrines in the ground for defecation because there isn’t any modern infrastructure, according to de los Reyes. He said as many as 2.5 billion people lack access to basic sanitation needs. His goal is to solve this problem, not with modern sewage and plumbing, which is not economically feasible for a developing nation, but with decentralized systems where bodily waste is dis-
posed of, removed from the pit and then reused in an environmentally conscious manner. “The key is to figure out the most sustainable option,” de los Reyes said. “By sustainable, we mean making sense economically, environmentally sound, protecting public health and also socially equitable.” De los Reyes attributed some of his unique perspective in the environmental engineering field to his upbringing in the Philippines. “Growing up in the Philippines, we were not poor, but you could see the effect of poverty all around you,”
he said. He said he began his undergraduate education at the University of the Philippines with a BS in agricultural engineering. He then came to the United States to complete his master’s at Iowa State and doctorate at the University of Illinois in environmental engineering. “In the back of my mind, I always had the problems of the developing world,” he said. With these problems in mind, de los Reyes came to NC State in 2000. Since arriving, he has worked with faculty and students alike to develop solutions for pit-
latrine sanitation problems. Traditionally, the degrading and dangerous task of pit emptying by bucket is performed by individuals of low social status with no protective clothing. As an undergraduate, Tate Rogers worked with de los Reyes and designed a low cost machine to remove pit waste. Dubbed “The Excrevator,” the machine is an auger which sucks waste from the pit in a manner much more sanitary and less degrading for the operator. “If they have a machine and a uniform, it is looked at as a professional business,” de los Reyes said. “The profes-
sionalism brings a level of dignity.” The problem of sanitation in the third world is not just the social issue for the pitemptiers, but also a multifold problem with environmental consequences, such as pit overflow into the water sources and other health concerns. This led to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to call for a reinvention of the toilet. De los Reyes’ and Roger’s project with “The Excrevator” received funding in 2011 and continues with monetary support from the foundation today. They have worked in India, South Africa
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Fighting cancer from Baltimore to San Francisco Taylor Quinn Associate Features Editor
Siobhan Cahill, a freshman studying sustainable materials and technology, will be riding from Baltimore to San Francisco on a bicycle this summer in honor of her late stepmother, if she raises enough money to do so. According to Cahill, her parents divorced when she was about five years old, and her stepmom Linda helped raise her and her sister from a young age. When Cahill was a freshman in high school, though, her dad and Linda got divorced. She found out her senior year that Linda had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was dying. “I just feel like I needed to do something to honor her,” Cahill said. “Especially because within the last few years of her life, I didn’t get to say thank you or tell her that I love her because communication was just cut off, and it really hurt when I went back and thought about it.” Cahill said her stepmother’s death was “shattering,” prompting her to actively begin searching for programs and places she could honor people with cancer and cope with her sadness simultaneously. During her search, she stumbled upon a post about the program 4k for Cancer on her Tumblr dashboard and knew that she had found
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Siobhan Cahill, a freshman studying sustainable materials & technology was accepted to participate in the 4K for Cancer, a program run by the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults.
what she was looking for. 4K for Cancer is a program under the nonprofit Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults. The organization is “dedicated to enhancing lives by supporting, educating and connecting young adults, and their loved ones, affected by cancer,” according to the website. Cahill said the program spoke to
her because it helps young adults, a demographic not usually paired with cancer. “You think cancer only happens to older people who have already had kids and lives, but it’s everywhere,” she said. “If something were to happen to me like that I would want help from an organization like Ulman.”
The 4K for Cancer takes 70 days, with Cahill’s group going from Baltimore to San Francisco. Her trip will begin on May 31 and end on Aug. 8.The participants ride anywhere from 50 to 150 miles a day, taking a day or two off every few weeks to complete some type of service. However, according to Cahill, to
do this, she needs to raise $4500. “It’s a little daunting right now,” she said. So far, she has raised $800 but said she needs as much help as she can get. Her 4K mentor Stephanie Cario, a graduate student at James Madison University, raised the money and completed the ride this past summer and is offering moral support and tips to Cahill. Though she did not have any personal ties to cancer, Cario was athletic, much like Cahill who is on the club Rugby team, and wanted to make a difference. “If anyone has any extra money, from twenty five cents to fifty dollars, donate it,” Cario said. “And if you don’t, share Cahill’s information with someone who does.” As for how you can donate, Cahill said on her 4K profile found at 4kforcancer.org/profiles/siobhancahill. She said there is a “big glaring donate button” and wanted to emphasize that she is thankful for any amount. Also, she said if someone donates in honor of someone, she will dedicate a day of her ride to that person. “Even though I know it’s going to be long and take up my whole summer, I couldn’t imagine doing anything better,” Cahill said.
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Cold winter temperatures threaten the well-being of companion pets if owners do not take extra measures to protect them. Animal science lecturer, Kimberly Ange suggests owners, especially first-timers, take precautions specific to their pets’ needs in order to ensure they remain healthy in harsh weather.
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As the winter months wear on and temperatures drop, pets and animals can face harsh conditions during the colder weather. Many first-time pet owners forget that as they adapt to their daily routines for the winter months by wearing heavier clothing and eating heartier foods, companion animals also have different needs during the winter that should be accommodated.
The winter comes with snow, ice, freezing temperatures and long nights. If left outside during inhospitable conditions, an animal’s immune system can become compromised, and it becomes harder for them to combat viruses, making them more susceptible to coughing or wheezing, according to animal science lecturer Kimberly Ange. Ange said younger and older animals alike are particularly at risk for freezing when outside. A young ani-
mal won’t be able to warm itself enough to survive a winter out in the snow and an older animal will endure worsening arthritic pain and will have trouble scavenging for food. She said a dog house should be equipped with either straw, a blanket or a warming pad to keep pets warm, and outdoor cats need a decent shelter in which to hide away throughout a wintery night. It is preferable to bring all animals indoors when the weather becomes harsh. If it’s
unbearably cold and windy outside to the owner, it probably is as well for the pet. Jackets, vests and booties for dogs and cats are not just fashionable, but functional when it’s cold outside. Certain dogs are in greater need of outerwear than others, said Ange. If you have a smaller dog, older dog, arthritic dog— something like a greyhound that doesn’t have a lot of body fat on it— you might want to think about a jacket or something along those lines,” she said. “If you’ve got this tiny, little dog who really doesn’t do anything but maybe run outside and pee for a second and then come back in, he isn’t really used to the cold weather. The booties are a good idea for larger dogs that are a little heavier and kind of sink in [the snow] because the ice and snow can get in-
between their paws. Ange said it’s best to use common sense when assessing whether or not an animal actually needs a vest or booties when going outdoors as clothing can sometimes be more of a hindrance than a help to animals. It depends on the dog, said Amanda Scott, a sophomore studying animal science. “Booties are fine as long as they serve their purpose. A husky isn’t going to need any extra protection apart from maybe booties. You’ll end up overheating them [with a vest] since they’re essentially built for winter. Ange said that when animals venture outside, it’s important to keep in mind that snow and ice can crack or cut the pads of their paws and cause cuts and gashes on their legs and feet. If an animal self-grooms or licks
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and Malawi helping to develop and test this decentralized toilet system. Using methods from his background in microbiology, de los Reyes takes samples from a pit to determine which microorganisms are present. By tracking the DNA of the microorganisms, it can be determined if a pathogen is in a pit-latrine. “Nobody had mapped out the environment of a pit-latrine before,” he said. With this information, it can be determined how to combat and eliminate these pathogens in the waste, according to de los Reyes. He also said he intends to utilize methods of reusing the extracted waste as products like manure for farms. The addition of an eco-
its fur frequently, the chances of it ingesting harmful substances is greater during the winter if the animal’s feet are exposed when outside. “If they’re walking after icy roads have been salted and chemicals have been put down, they’re also being exposed to those while they groom themselves and you don’t want them to eat those types of things,” Ange said. For smaller pets like rabbits and guinea pigs, if one has an outdoor enclosure for them, Ange suggests making sure it has a hut to protect them from the elements and have hay to keep them warm. Moving cages and enclosures of indoor pets away from drafty windows is also suggested to prevent exposing them to fluctuating temperatures throughout the day.
nomic side makes it feasible for operation of the machine with a source of revenue, turning a sanitation problem into a small business. Students are eager to assist de los Reyes in his research. In his lab, he employs both graduate and undergraduate students. “He gave me an opportunity, even though I did not have the same lab experience being an undergraduate, to help with my skill set,” said Risa Sayre, a junior studying environmental sciences. Using his own background and skills as well as those of the NC State community, de los Reyes and his team have presented a possible solution to a global problem. “I’ve been seeing over the past years, students at NC State and elsewhere have been really interested in going abroad and solving these problems in the developing world,” de los Reyes said.
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The event began with an overview of the team, as each athlete introduced himself on a microphone while adding a joke, story or poking fun at his teammates. The Wolfpack players then began a king-of-thehill-style doubles exhibition on one of the courts. Doubles teams lined up on the left side of the court to play a half-minute match against the doubles team that had won the previous point. The No. 19 ranked dynamic duo of senior Robbie Mudge and sophomore Ian Dempster dominated the competition, eliminating team after team. The only duo that stood in their way was Bond and sophomore Nick Horton. The pair put up a strong fight against the MudgeDempster tandem, even earning king of the hill status for a few rounds. “ We ’v e [B o n d a n d Mudge] had a long rivalry,” Bond said. “This rivalry goes back no matter what we do, and it makes us better on the court because we always like to beat each other down. It’s just like playing an opponent. It’s fun.” Post-doubles exhibition,
the Pack team handed tennis rackets to nearly all members of the 100-person crowd for a pair of challenges. Participating attendees lined up on the right side of two courts and participated in a target-hitting challenge and a fast serve contest. “My favorite part of the event was when all of the people out here were doing the fast serve contest,” Mudge said. They were all chanting, ‘Go Pack!’” During the serve conte st, c rowd members would serve a tennis ball one by one while a player stood on the other side with a radar gun to gauge the speed of the shot. Participants with the strongest serves won t-shirts. The adjacent court hosted a giant crowd of young tennis players who aimed their tennis shots at several spots across the net where t-shirts were laid on the ground. If they were able to hit the shirt, they won it as a souvenir. The team now looks to kick off its season Friday, when the Northwestern Wildcats visit Raleigh to face off at 4 p.m. “The team is pretty experienced; we have a lot of juniors and seniors in our lineup,” Choboy said. “We don’t have an easy schedule, but we’re a good team, and good teams don’t have
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Several athletes have posted premier marks. For the women, redshirt junior All-American Nicole Chavis set the NCAA’s fourth-best mark of the season in the weight throw event with a toss of 20.26 meters at the 6-Way Meet in Greensboro Dec. 1. Redshirt senior Lacey Shuman also set a top mark in Greensboro at the high jump where she recorded a leap of 1.80 meters, good for the NCAA’s fourth-best jump in the event this season. Junior Alexis Perry entered the season ranked 20th in the long jump event but has found early success in the 60-meter hurdles. Perry claimed first place in the event’s preliminary heat and in the final race at Chapel Hill with finishes of 8.39 and 8.42 respectively. Similarly, on the men’s side, junior Jonathan Addison en-
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Senior Beck Bond serves to Duke player Cole Hammon as he plays in the Duke Fab Four invitational on September 13, 2014. Four of the Wolfpack players would compete against about a dozen other schools. Bond was a finalist of his bracket.
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frame at 210 pounds, but his athleticism and aggressiveness makes up for any lack of power. Despite the close records of the Wolfpack and Tar Heels, UNC Chapel-Hill is clearly a better team than NC State on paper. However, stats do not by any means tell the whole story. This game will likely come down
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Burleson to speak at Raleigh Sports Club meeting Former NC State men’s basketball player Tommy Burleson will guest speak at the next meeting of the Raleigh Sports Club, scheduled for Jan. 14, the RSC announced yesterday. Burleson, a 7-foot-2-inch center who played for the University’s 1974 NCAA national championship team, played four seasons for the Wolfpack from 1971-1974, earning MVP status at both the 1973 and 1974 ACC Tournaments. The Raleigh Sports Club recognizes the achievements of local athletes on all levels, in addition to providing opportunities for athlete guest speakers. The club meets in Bradley Hall in Highland UMC, 1901 Ridge Road at 11:30 a.m. The guest attendance fee is $25. SOURCE: RALEIGH SPORTS CLUB
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Pack prepares to hunt Heels Daniel Lacy Staff Writer
Three days after taking down then No. 2 Duke and handing the Blue Devils their first loss of the season, NC State looks to take its momentum into the third game of a trio of formidable ranked ACC opponents in its biggest rival: No. 15 UNC-Chapel Hill. This game is crucial on many levels. One, the Pack needs to prove that beating one of the top teams in the country was not a fluke. Two, after getting swept by the Tar Heels last season, NC State needs to prove that it can stand up to the team that has dominated the rivalry in recent years, as UNC has won the last 10 of 11 matchups. With last season’s leading scorer TJ Warren leaving NC State to go pro, the team needed a new scorer to fill the void. Redshirt junior guard Trevor Lacey has done exactly that, averaging 16.9 points per game, including 21 against Duke. Redshirt senior guard Ralston Turner and sophomore guard Anthony “Cat” Barber have also stepped up, averaging 13.3 and 11.4 points per game respectively. Both are up three points from their last season averages. State has relied heavily on the backcourt presences of Lacey, Turner and Barber to put points on the board this season. However, in addition to scoring, the Pack backcourt will need to play
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Redshirt junior guard Trevor Lacey shoots a three pointer during the game against No. 2 Duke Sunday. Lacey had 21 points in the Wolfpack’s 87-75 win over the Blue Devils at PNC Arena.
exceptional defense against junior guard Marcus Paige and junior forward J.P. Tokoto. Paige and Tokoto do not shoot the ball at a particularly high level, yet Paige anchors the team in scoring with 13.3 points per game, while the team ranks 17th in the nation in points per game. This can be partly explained by Carolina’s exceptional ability to take what defenses give them. The Heels rank eighth in the nation in assists per game with 17.8, 4.1 from Tokoto and 3.6 from Paige. The Tar Heels also rebound the
ball exceptionally well, as they rank second in the NCAA in offensive rebounds and 16th in defensive rebounds. NC State will need its big men to continue their stellar play and win the rebound battles against a North Carolina team that has created matchup problems against opponents all season. Sophomore forward Kennedy Meeks leads the team with 8.6 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game. Meeks has a big, powerful, frame that is similar to NC State sophomore forward Beejay Anya. While
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Red Shirt Ryanna Henderson sprints for the finish of the women’s 200 meter dash. Ryanna finished in ninth place with a time of 2 minutes and 13.97 seconds. The 2014 Raleigh Relays were held at Dale Soccer Field Friday and Saturday.
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The NC State men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams are set to battle this Friday and Saturday as the Wolfpack travel to Blacksburg, Virginia for the Virginia Tech Invitational. This weekend’s meet will be the Pack’s first of five appearances at Virginia Tech’s impressive Rector Field House, which doubles as the Hokies’ practice facility for football. Rector Field House is unique in that it provides its competitors with the opportunity to set faster
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times as a result of its banked track. For those involved in the growing community of sport science, the faster times on the banked track make perfect sense. It all goes back to Newton’s first law of motion which states, “an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.” In other words, a sprinter running 20 mph on a straightaway can continue to run 20 mph on the straightaway, but the sprinter cannot maintain the speed of 20 mph around a turn unless aided by an unbalanced force. The slight eleva-
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Trevor makes big shots, timely shots. I don’t think its something that’ll go away, that’s just who he is.”
Anya out blocks Meeks with 3.1 per game, Meeks has a more polished post game, and puts up 12.8 points per game compared to Anya’s 5.1. The two behemoths weigh in at 580 pounds combined, which should make for a rare and entertaining matchup. Another Tar Heel player to watch will be junior forward Brice Johnson, who averages 11.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game. Unlike Meeks, Johnson has a much slimmer
tion on the outside of the banked track acts as the unbalanced force which allows runners to slingshot around the bends. The difference in times between flat tracks and banked tracks has been significant enough that the NCAA has deemed it necessary to provide a conversion between the courses. This system allows times recorded on flat tracks to be more accurately compared to times recorded on banked tracks. Physics aside, State has performed formidably in each of its first four meets of the season.
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The NC State men’s tennis team hosted its fifth annual Pack Prowl event Monday night in the Isenhour indoor tennis facility. The event brought NC State students, local youth players and members of the Wolfpack men’s tennis team together for a relaxed evening of games and contests meant to familiarize attendees with the 2015 squad. “It was pretty fun,” senior Beck Bond said. “I feel like we interacted pretty well with the crowd, and they just had a great time.” Head coach Jon Choboy said he was especially happy with the interaction between the attendees and his players. “They come out and get to personally know the players from the people’s perspective, and then they can identify with the guys when they come out to watch,” Choboy said.
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