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Senior on scholarship short list

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One $6,000 scholarship to be awarded to student receiving highest number of votes.

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Vinnie Feucht wants to change the world.

Feucht, a senior in English, is a finalist for the 2011 Innovation Institute Scholarship, which would provide him the opportunity to work in Manyeleti, South Africa and Kayafungo, Kenya this summer. The Innovation Institute is a part of the nonprofit organization ThinkImpact, which seeks to inform American students in social entrepreneurship through immersion programs.

Selected students work in rural African communities and help the African people discover their respective assets and resources, thereby empowering them to self-generate entrepreneurial ideas that help to alleviate rampant poverty, according to Feucht.

Feucht said while his career plans are mostly uncertain, he is currently considering pursuing career combinPHOTO COURTESY OF VINNIE FEUCHT ing nonprofit work and his favorite If he nabs a scholarship from the Innovation Institute, Vinnie Feucht plans on hopping the pond and heading to hobby – cooking.

“I’m considering opening a restau- Africa to do charitable work in Kenya and South Africa. pated in the program last year, Tyler “I’ve been playing the red and rant that serves as a halfway house for proach to philanthropy.”

Feucht said the program would al- Maloney, a sophomore in biological white song on my trumpet since the homeless, providing them work fifth grade.” and a skill while helping them get low him to experience a new culture engineering.

Over his college career, Feucht The first part of the scholarship and lend a helping hand in the lives through school,” Feucht said.

Although he said he has no idea how of others, and he hopes this program process was an application that asked has studied abroad in Guatemala will foster his inter- background questions, according to and Ecuador. He has also been in he would accomplish est in service, which Feucht. There was then an interview the marching band, pep band and such a task, he beis in the “forefront” via Skype that the committee used to Chorale, and was the Mr. Wuf lieves the Innovation mascot for a year. select the finalists. of his career plans.

Institute is a great “Everyone loves you [while “There was an interview question According to place to start beFeucht, ThinkIm- that asked what I would do with a you’re the mascot], but then you cause it would allow pact helps spur social cardboard box, some duct tape, and change clothes and no one looks at him to learn how to innovation by bridg- a couple of tennis balls,” Feucht said. you anymore,” Feucht said. help others and work Students can vote by visiting ing the gap between “I said I’d make a mini soccer field and to change the world. the ThinkImpact website – www. potential and actual entertain kids.” “[The Innovation Hailing from rural southeastern thinkimpact.org and clicking his financial success by Institute] would be Vinnie Feucht, senior in English focusing on the as- Virginia, Feucht has had a special love “muddy face.” Voting closes at 5:00 the first time I’ve exPM on Jan. 31, 2011. sets that rural com- for the University from a young age. perienced the cliché When asked why students should “My sister came here and she inidea of changing the world,” Feucht munities already posses.

Feucht heard about the program grained in me at an early age a certain said. “This nonprofit makes real differences by fostering a sustainable ap- from a fellow student who partici- love for the Wolfpack,” Feucht said. senior continued page 3

“I love being thrown into new cultures, new places and new challenges.”

N.C. State pursuing the perfect puck Students using their research skills to assist visually impaired hockey players.

Brooke Wallig Deputy News Editor

With the NHL All-Star hockey game approaching fast, N.C. State took a moment to be sure everyone could appreciate the thrill of playing the game.

Partnering with Mark DeMontis, founder of Courage Canada, an organization designed to help people of all ages with visual impairments enjoy learning about and playing hockey, Campus Recreation co-sponsored a three-day series of events to raise awareness for the N.C. State Blind Hockey Puck Project. The events also sought to gather support for Courage Carolina, the state’s version of Courage Canada.

DeMontis’ website, markdemontis. com, explains why he started Courage Canada just a few years after he was told he would never be able to pursue his dream of playing hockey professionally due to a rare condition that left him legally blind at age 17.

But according to DeMontis, this visual impairment did not diminish his passion for hockey, and for life.

“I may have lost my sight, but I will never lose my vision,” DeMontis said.

His work is inspiring others with visual impairments to step out on the ice. One of the events sponsored in part by Campus Recreation and DeMontis’ charity, a “learn-to-skate” program for the visually impaired, helped students at the Governor Morehead School for the Blind get on the ice.

Michael Scaringelli, a physical education teacher at the Governor Morehead School for the Blind, said this

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Mark DeMontis, blind hockey player and founder of Courage Canada, speaks to guests in the Playzone room of Carmichael about his experiences as a blind hockey player and how his condition has inspired him to do anything he puts his mind to. After skating across Canada to raise money for blind hockey, DeMontis founded Courage Canada with the goal to enable blind hockey to be accessible to blind youth across Canada.

program was very beneficial to his students.

“This was a great collaboration between all parties involved,” said Scar-

ingelli. “I had six students attend Mark’s program, and they all enjoyed it.”

According to Scaringelli, the op-

portunity for his students to learn to skate is not solely beneficial in terms of staying physically fit.

“This is a very important opportunity for these kids because it gives them a chance to experience things they may not normally be able to,” Scaringelli said. “It is also important for the word to get out about these programs because they prove to people that with the right adaptations, opportunities like participation in athletics are just as available to students with visual impairments as they are to anyone else.”

Another among the series of events during NHL All-Star week included an information session and fundraiser to raise public awareness and funds for N.C. State’s Blind Hockey Puck Project.

According to Russell Gorga, associate professor and program director for textile engineering chemistry and science, this project is the work of eight of his senior textile engineering majors to create a better hockey puck for Blind Hockey leagues.

“Last semester, these students worked in two teams of four and surveyed a lot of blind hockey players in Canada, asking them what they liked about the current pucks as what as what they need,” Gorga said. “This semester, they are actually turning those concepts into engineering designs and justifications that they can evaluate and then make prototypes.”

Gorga said currently there are three different types of “pucks” used throughout the various Blind Hockey leagues, none of which are specifically engineered for use in

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Using public transportation in the Triangle just got much easier for N.C. State students, thanks to a new partnership with Google Transit.

GoTriangle heads up all of the public transportation in the Triangle area, including the Wolfline. It decided to partner with Google after seeing the growing popularity of their services, according to Lauren Parker, GoTriangle’s marketing coordinator.

According to the Google Transit Partner Program website, Google Transit is “a public transportation planning tool that combines the latest agency data with the power of Google Maps. It integrates transit stop, route, schedule, and fare information to make trip planning quick and easy.”

“The project came about after receiving several requests from Triangle area riders [and] visitors who wanted the service, as well as seeing the growing popularity of Google Transit around the world,” Parker said.

According to John Feasel, a sophomore in history, these new tools will benefit students who like to travel off campus.

“It will be significantly easier to figure out times and places where you can get buses in a mainstream way.

Everyone uses Google, so it makes sense to use that for GoTriangle. With parking the way it is, lots of people take buses and this will definitely make things easier for those people,” Feasel said.

To get the idea rolling, GoTriangle got in touch with Google to see how it could take advantage of the Transit program.

“They lay out specific instructions for how to add your transit agencies routes, schedules and stops to Google. Google has a specific team for transit and we were in touch with them during the initial implementation steps,” Parker said.

There are several public transportation outlets that will be included in the schedule, including the Wolfline, Triangle Transit and Capital Area Transit.

According to Parker, the partnership with GoTriangle and Google has been in the works for about a year.

“We have been planning to get all GoTriangle partner agencies into Google Transit since early 2009. The Google Transit implementation was just part of a larger vision to provide

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Today Chancellor’s Forum 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.

Talley Ballroom Ethical Theory Lecture: “Two Cheers for Virtue” 4:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.

331 Withers Hall CALS Students: Outshine the Competition 6 p.m. – 7 p.m.

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ivil engineers Kelly Johnson, a junior, and David Roberts, a senior, walk together to Talley Student Center for lunch Wednesday. One of the few engineering diciplines still left on main campus, civil engineering is based in Mann Hall. “I like main campus, it’s convienient,” Johnson said. “Not being around engineers all the time is a plus.”

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Student Body President Kelly Hook posed the question “If you had a magic wand and could change one thing about NCSU what would it be?” on Facebook and Twitter.

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Facebook responses: Response 1: I will agree with the Chancellor on the elimination of majors.

Eliminating majors and under-utilized programs offered with good programs at other universities within UNC system is a good idea.

Like any business model if you spread out too thin you lose site of what you are known for and where your money comes from.

Response 2: 1. Smokers actually stayed 25 feet from buildings.

2. There was one entrance in which I could use my Student ID to get in at the gym (sometimes I forget it and can’t go). Why not have one entrance where we can use our #s?

3. There were WolfTrac (like at DH Hill) at the gym so you could know where the buses are.

4. Seniors should ALWAYS get tickets to the last home game of any sporting event. (ex.

If they have supported the football team for 4 years, they shouldn’t miss their last home game.)

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Demand runs high for race bibs Some latecomers looking to Craigslist for race slots.

seems completely logical.”

Brian Szews, a participant in the 2009 Challenge, registered too late this year. He is Alexander Woods still hopeful he can land a spot Staff Writer in this year’s Challenge, even Though formal registration though he suffered a spot of for the Krispy Kreme Chal- embarrassment the last time lenge is over, some hopefuls he participated.

“When I got [doughnut] that missed the deadline and are now scrambling to find a number 11 down the hatch, I spot in the race by any means suffered what we in the competitive eating industry like to necessary.

The Challenge expanded its call ‘a reversal,’” Szews said. participant capacity by 25 per- “That was not pleasant, especent this year to 7,500; last year, cially since there were five photographers the race had a standing cap of 6,000 around me runners. ta k ing picEven with the tures. Someexpanded cahow one of pacity, some t ho s e picpotential tures ended doughnut up being runners are on the outside John Yanik, senior in biomedical forwarded to engineering a vice presi- and still trydent in my ing to get in.

Some hopefuls that didn’t company.”

The Challenge organizers register in time have turned to Craigslist for a chance to said they know people may be race, like Durham’s Ed Hub- selling their tickets for a higher bell, who said he doesn’t want price online, but that they have to miss out on the fun. Hubbell no control over it.

John Yanik, a co-chair for the said he loves the race because it is a rare opportunity to be both event and senior in biomedicompetitive and ridiculous at cal engineering, said up until a few days ago people were able the same time.

“I want a registration so I can to transfer their registration.

“We were doing transfers,” run with my son or daughter,” Hubbell said. “Tell most adults Yanik said. “But now we have you are running 2 miles, eating to freeze our data because we a dozen doughnuts and run- have to begin printing race bibs ning back, and they’ll think and ordering T-shirts.”

Sudeep Sunthankar, Chalyou’re nuts. To children, it

lenge co-chair and a senior in biomedical engineering, said people have e-mailed the Challenge asking for registration help, but the current number of registrants is all the Challenge can handle because of road capacity and the amount of doughnuts the race requires.

“We went down to talk to the guy at Krispy Kreme and told him 7,500. He said, ‘We can do it but it’s going to be a bit of a challenge,’” Sunthankar said.

Both Sunthankar and Yanik said they don’t like keeping potential participants out of the race, but it is necessary for safety and proper planning. Based on last year’s race, the course has been changed to avoid high congestion areas, which should help the race run more smoothly.

Yanik said they want the race to be as big as possible to benefit the N.C. Children’s Hospital, and they will do everything they can to make that happen.

“We’re really glad that there is a lot of support out there for the race. Our hope is, in years to come, that we can continue to grow the number of people allowed in the race,” Yanik said. “If we can redesign the course to let more [runners] in, we will.”

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be used as a Paralympics sport.”

According to Gorga, this project is one of many projects seniors in textile engineering are working on to help those with physical limitations.

“I have about 40 students, and each of them is involved in textile engineering design projects to help people with personal disabilities—and not just in sports,” said Gorga. “One team is working with an organization called Life Rolls On, an organization that helps people with spinal injuries learn to surf by providing adaptive surfboards they can lay on, to create a mat that could be used to hold up the board instead of the life preservers now attached to them.”

“We’re really glad that there is a lot of support out there for the race.”

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the game.

“There is no ‘standard puck’ that all of the leagues use, so what we are trying to do differently is make a better puck.

Right now, one puck is literally an aluminum can, another is similar to a children’s wagon wheel, and the third is a steel disc with ball bearings,” Gorga said. “None of these are engineered for Blind Hockey.”

Instead, Gorga said the new designs for the puck will focus on making the puck similar to standard-issue pucks, with certain modifications.

“The key to this is it will emit a sound so players can locate it audibly,” Gorga said. “Also,

what the players want are pucks shaped like regular pucks, but they want them to be about one-and-a-half times bigger.”

Gorga said the project began in August 2010, and will hopefully produce working prototypes by the beginning of April or May. Once these pucks are accepted by the Blind Hockey leagues in Canada, Gorga said the sport is likely to take off in other countries.

“The vision here is not just to solve the problem in Canada. This week, we are raising awareness that visually impaired people are interested in sports, but the grand vision is that the students’ design will be accepted among the three leagues so it could be used across the world,” Gorga said.

“Then there could be an international blind hockey sport.

Once they do that, it could

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Matthew De Smeth, a senior in civil engineering, plays cricket in the rain with friends from Alexander hall Wednesday. When asked why he was playing in the rain, De Smeth said “because it’s Australia day, and it’s a tradition.”

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vote for him, Feucht had a few reasons.

“I believe they should vote for me because I believe in myself,” Feucht said. “I have faith that if I am fortunate enough to have the opportunity to go to South Africa I can make real connections with the people there.”

Feucht has always been interested in learning about other

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improved information technologies, including real-time bus arrival information, which is coming this June, and an information warehouse for developers who want to create their own applications,” Parker said.

GoTriangle began its initial preparation of our data for Google in early September.

“It took approximately four months to get the entire data ready, approved by Google and live on their site,” Parker said.

The GoTriangle and Google partnership is in place to make traveling around Raleigh easier and more sustainable for students, according to Parker.

Schedules and routes will be

“I believe they should vote for me because I believe in myself ” Vinnie Feucht, senior in English

cultures, which he says is another reason people should vote for him.

“The exchange of ideas, of personality and the human concept of what it is to be alive is an incredible experience,” Feucht said. “I love being thrown into new cultures, new

places and new challenges.”

Staying true to his joking demeanor, Feucht offered one final reason that he should be able to participate in the program.

“Foreign women have such mysterious charm,” Feucht said with a smile.

available for students to view online at any time.

“With Google being the main place where people get their information and directions, being on Google Maps will allow students to see the other options that they have for traveling around the Triangle and getting off campus in a more sustainable way,” Parker said.

The new partnership with Google marks the beginning of the new regional technology program called GoLive, which is going to include an opensource data warehouse and a regional real-time system along with other tools for riders. According to Parker, GoLive is meant to make every aspect of traveling more accessible. GoLive will be fully up and running

by May 2011.

“GoLive is the name for all

new customer-facing real-time information that will be available in May 2011. It will include regional real-time digital signs, text messaging for bus location, a new web interface and a data warehouse for mobile developers. All of these tools will benefit travelers in their pre-planning of their transit trips and in route planning,” Parker said.

The new technology will allow public transit riders to customize their travel routes, Parker said. “Knowing where your bus is or when it’s going to arrive is extremely helpful for travelers. With the opensource data being available, travelers will be able to create route plans that are personal to them, which is a huge benefit,” Parker said.

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The Facts:

Student Government sponsored the Think outside the Brick competition to promote environmental awareness.

The team that presented a project for a “solarpowered gazebo” won the competition.

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Our Opinion:

If the project has already been approved and funding has been given to the team, the University Architect, Lisa Johnson, should help the students get in the right direction to get the solar gazebo built on campus.

Everyone involved is working to enhance the beauty of the campus and provide a service for students, so there should be little debate or delay.

ast year the Think Outside the Brick competition awarded Lauren Morris and Katie McKnight a $1,000 grant to found the SOUL Garden, a community garden project for the N.C. State campus. They presented their proposal to the University Architect’s office and were prompted with the task of finding a place to put it. After months of denials for conspicuous locations, the SOUL Garden finally found a plot of land near Lake Raleigh. Through the woods. Behind the lake.

This should not happen to this year’s winners who have proposed to build a solarpowered gazebo so students and visitors can sit outside and use their laptops without being cooped up inside. With the

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University’s push for a Sustainability Strategic and Tactical Plan, the University architect, Lisa Johnson, should be looking past the possible inconvenience and help these students get their project off paper and onto the campus.

The first winner was left in the dark because of its unconventional use of “green space” on campus, but the gazebo would fit in with the conventional landscape with little interruptions to the green area.

It would provide another gathering space for students along the ‘series of neighborhoods’ on campus, while giving students extra incentives to go

outdoors even when they have to do homework on their laptops.

One of the main goals of the project was to make the gazebo visible, so students could use and learn from it. Johnson, with her passionate vision of the University’s master plan, should see the merits of showcasing the progressive nature of solar power on a simple structure, just as the University likes to tout the Solar House, and see it as being a gathering place for students outdoors. It will accomplish all of the objectives of the master plan and go towards the sustainability tactical plan.

Johnson wants “green space” on campus to be “organized around attractive, lively open places and developed that invite human interaction and communication,” and this project certainly surpasses those expectations. At this point, the students who have developed the project now need her help to get it off the page. Johnson should work with them to help make their vision a reality, because they are all trying to accomplish the same goal.

Responses to “Forum foul play” Editor’s note: Letter written as a Facebook Note on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2011.

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’d love to get your opinion on how Student Government can be a better advocate for students since you r a r t icle said we are not doing enough and not advocating in the right way.

I agree that forum is Kelly scheduled at Hook a bad time for Studemt Body students and President voiced t he s a m e opi nion when the date came out.

However, I really don’t think the University secretary is

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am very glad to see you have taken an interest in my first article here at Technician.I am pleased that you agree with my opinion regarding the date and time of such an important forum. I would like to point out that the purpose Trey of such extreme Ferguson language in an Columnist article such as this is to grab the attention of readers and policy makers, such as yourself, with an opinion to which they can relate. This is with the intention of sparking change in a conflicting process, such as the scheduling of the chancellor’s forums.

Along with this, I believe that many times those in Student Government get wrapped up with good intentions for bettering the life on N.C. State’s campus, that when such a crisis hits they do not have the ability to address such matters. I have been pleased with many of Student Government’s policies and actions this year, but believe that with this kind of topic they have failed to comfort

ask them to use to communicate with us? Tomorrow, at Chancellor’s Liaison we will be asking the chancellor and the provost to do more to communicate with students like regular youtube sessions, radio spots, regular guest columns, etc.

Other suggestions?

N.C. State University could be faced with cutting $80 million, which is a really serious problem N.C. State has to solve. In your article, I couldn’t pick up on any proposed solutions or suggestions to address this problem. If you can think of ways in which I can better communicate and represent students in my role please let me know.

hiding away in her office intentionally planning events so students can’t be there. Either way though, I know we could get the Chancellor to host another forum if we really want.

By that same token, I hesitate to advocate for that because, honestly, students don’t turn out. The tuition forum is a perfect example of that. It was held at 7 p.m. on a Tuesday and SG sent an e-mail to all students and advertised on Centennial and the Brickyard for a week in advance and zero students showed up -- other than SG and Student Media. Do you think we should ask them to host another budget forum at a better time for students? If yes, when?

I have already asked them to stream the forum and post it online for later viewing. Are there other avenues we should

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voicing their opinions. I completely agree and commend such actions of the vice-chancellor and the provost to attempt to reach out to and communicate with the student body. I hope for the best kind of success in these endeavors.

Unlike some, I do understand the severity of such budget cuts, however my article was directed towards the availability of the forums that leads to the solutions, not the solutions to the budget cuts themselves. I am the last person who would want to show disrespect to my authority figures or my peers. While I apologize if I offended you in any way and would be happy to discuss any possible solutions for the decisions N.C. State will be forced to face in the near future, I would like to discuss matters in a more private setting rather than on a Facebook Note.

those they represent. This announcement frightened many students and faculty campuswide. Unlike many of the other forums Chancellor Woodson has held, this one in particular hits home with every student walking on this campus. Due to this, I felt it was of high priority to point out the inconvenience of such an event.

However, I do agree with you that it is not only the fault of timing for such a meeting, but the history of the apathy of the student body at such forums.

For this issue I do propose more advertisement to the students, as well as making it accessible to them. I also applaud your leadership and responsiveness in attempting to get students more actively involved in their education. With this article I hoped to spark the interest of students so that attendance at these meetings would not be, as you put, “zero.” I would be up for meeting with you to bounce ideas off of one another as to the ideal way to get the student body at-large involved in such important matters, as well as

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Where do you think the solar gazebo should go? Why?

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N.C. State is considered a place of higher learning. Being that it is a land grant school with strong ties to science and agriculture.

People come to this University to learn about civilizing and caring

for the physical world that we all inhabit. Upon this basis, one would likely be shocked to see the senseless act of cruelty that took place outside of Burlington Labs Tuesday. I was definitely shocked, and disgusted.

A group of little boys, likely to be mistaken for as men based their age and stature, thought it would be prudent to trap an opossum and beat it to death. When they had enough, like most children do, they left their mess for someone else to clean up.

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If any of you who did this stupid and juvenile act are reading my letter, I have a couple high-level words that you might want to look into: depraved, infantile, reckless, brutish, malicious. This describes you and we adults do not appreciate your ignorance and stupidity. Do yourselves a favor and try growing up. You might learn how to enjoy your lives in a way that doesn’t involve killing defenseless animals for no good reason. Otherwise, go back home

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‘Gossip Girl’ star leads in psychological thriller

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far cry from her role as a pretentious Upper East Side socialite in Gossip Girl, actress Leighton Meester is trying her hand at the big screen in the upcoming psychological thriller The Roommate. Meester plays an insane college freshman, Rebecca, who becomes obsessed with her roommate, played by Minka Kelly. Technician had an opportunity to speak to Meester about her upcoming film and how it personally affected her. interview By LaURA WILKINSON So during filming I did my Technician: What kind of an impact did playing Rebecca best to maintain and I was really lucky because all I had to do have on you?

Meester: Watching it years was work on this movie every after you made it is really in- day. I didn’t have any other obteresting because you do re- ligations at the time so I got to member certain times and be really involved and focused, certain days that you filmed which really was a pleasure.

Some of the things that I had different scenes, but this movie is strange for me because I feel to do were really disturbing for I have a bit of amnesia about it. me. Particularly a scene involvI can’t say it wasn’t fun, it ing a kitchen, so it was an inwas, but it was also intense I tense experience. I’ll say that. think for everyone. It was a reTechnician: What attracted ally hard time for me because I try to share something in com- you to this particular script?

Meester: Well, the characmon with her or try to understand her motives and try to ter. I love to break down and see where I relate to her can relate to in some way. somebody It wa s e xand find the tremely diffihumanity in cult for me to them, and I do that with want to care her starting about my of f because character and of how she love my charunravels. acter.

From t he Leighton Meester It was not outside she easy w ith seems like a really good friend, good per- Rebecca to say the least, but son. She’s understanding, she’s I think that if you track how artistic, she’s trustworthy but she is, if you track her actions then eventually she just com- they’re always motivated by something internal and obvipletely loses that.

“I think it’s so scary and it’s sexy and it’s fun and it’s exciting — it’s a ride.”

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College freshman Rebecca — portrayed by Leighton Meester — strokes her roommate’s hair while she is asleep in the psychological thriller The Roommate. Meester’s character becomes obsessed with her roommate Sara — portrayed by Minka Kelly — in the film that is set for release Feb. 4, 2011.

ously not based in reality at all.

So I thought it was really interesting, and I also think that it’s a movie and a film track that most people can relate to.

It’s about friends, not necessarily even just roommates.

I mean they’re friends and it goes terribly wrong because one person is really invested in the friendship and becomes unhealthily attached to her friend. So I think a lot of people have been there, probably not to this extreme, but I know that I’ve had friends that are just a

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little bit too nosy and needy and in your space and in your business.

So I think it’s interesting and then of course I’m so proud of how the movie turned out. I think it’s so scary and it’s sexy and it’s fun and it’s exciting — it’s a ride.

Technician : How was the role of Rebecca similar to or different from your role as Blair on Gossip Girl?

Meester: It couldn’t have been more different. The en-

tire experience altogether was different, but the character, she is from a different place. She has a different background, different parents. You know Rebecca has a history of having a mental disorder. It’s not at all the same as what I play day to day on my show, which is a pleasure to break from that and do something different, but it’s also so incredibly different from who I am as a person as well of course.

She’s not making any decisions based on reality. She

doesn’t find pleasure in pleasurable things. She only does anything, including interact with anybody physically or verbally, to gain something for herself, and she uses her intelligence, her sexuality, to gain control of other people.

Meanwhile she doesn’t have any control of her own mind, so obviously it’s a very far cry from what I do on the show.

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Construction of the James B. Hunt Jr. Library on Centennial Campus in the future and currently. Workers finished the steel frame in January. The construction is going according to schedule and should be completed on time in Fall of 2012.

Hunt to incorporate electronic library upgrades Hunt Library construction brings books, new technology to Centennial Campus.

Aaron Anderson Staff Writer

For students who spend most of their time on Centennial Campus, a potential aid is coming in the form of a new library. However, this library will be a dramatic change from D.H. Hill Library. The James B. Hunt Jr. Library is a Norwegian-designed structure with a sleek style and a new system of retrieving books.

Hunt Library is scheduled for completion in the fall of 2012, but the University has not yet announced an official opening date. Susan Nutter, vice provost and director of libraries at N.C. State said the construction will be completed on time.

In addition to the modern design, this library will feature a new system of book retrieval. Patrons will use an Automated Book Delivery System to acquire books from the library’s collection of up to two million volumes.

“It will eliminate having to go find According to the library website, this method of storage and retrieval al- the book and potentially getting lost lows the library to hold nine times the in the stacks,” Groover said. “It will amount of books as a regular library also be a good time saver.”

Students wanting to browse the of the same size.

An estimated 715,000 books will books in the ABDS can access a virtual move from D.H. Hill to the Hunt Li- browse feature that allows students to brary in order to make space for fu- see the entire collection of books in Hunt online. Nutture improvements ter hopes this feain D.H. Hill. When ture will eventually Hunt Library opens, include all of the liit should contain 1.3 braries on campus as million volumes. well as other librar“D.H. Hill is absoies students can aclutely full,” Nutter cess, such as those at said. “We will be takUNC and Duke. ing books out of D.H. Susan Nutter, vice provost and While Hunt LiHill to make space.” director of libraries brary will not be While books in as spacious as D.H. Hunt Library will be primarily available through the ABDS, Hill, the ABDS drastically improves patron accessible shelving will still be the structure’s versatility.

“The space is used much more effecpresent. “[About] 40,000 will be on the open tively in Hunt,” Nutter said. “A lot of shelves,” Nutter said. The shelved spaces in D.H. Hill are hard to get to.”

With all the space saved by using the books will primarily consist of the ABDS, more seating will be available newest titles in the collection.

Danielle Groover, a senior in me- to students. The finished building will chanical engineering said she looks be five stories high and will overlook Centennial Campus. There will also forward to the new system.

“We will be taking books out of D.H. Hill to make space.”

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be outdoor reading rooms, including one overlooking Lake Raleigh.

About 100 study rooms will be available for students to reserve. Nutter hopes to add “garage spaces” where students can work on long-term projects and store their work.

The University chose the Norwegian-based architecture and landscaping company, Snøhetta, as the lead designer of the Hunt Library primarily due to their focus on aesthetics. Nutter said approximately a one-third of the team were landscape architects “Really, a key element of our decision was to have the landscape look nice,” Nutter said.

The budget for the Hunt Library was originally $126 million, but was decreased to about $115 million in 2009 when the recession hit. This decrease did not cause a setback for the designers, who Nutter said kept the process under control.

“The budget was always a critical issue,” Nutter said. “They were realistic from the beginning. These are the best architects I have ever worked with.”

The budget for the Hunt Library is all from appropriated money.

Hunt Library Quick facts: Estimated completion date: Fall 2012 Budget: $115.3 million Size: More than 220,000 sq. ft.

Number of Books: Up to two million volumes Study rooms: about 100 Source: NCSU Libraries website

“Nothing will come from the students,” Nutter said.

Due to some technology projects not being covered by the budget, the University’s Libraries will do some fundraising to cover the additional costs. According to the library’s website, Hunt will have large video walls, technology-enabled furniture and greater internet bandwidth.

The Hunt Library will also include a small cafe and areas designated for gaming. Groover said she hopes Hunt has a good place to eat, “because Centennial is severely lacking in food options.”

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hours that day. At certain times of the year that is fine but he’s just used to working a lot. But I’d rather have that then have it continued from page 8 the other way around. He’s an tionally ranked] was a great extremely hard-working kid.”

The court is not the only memory,” Pulgar said. “I feel like all the hard work I put in place that you will find Pulgar putting paid off.” his skills to Some coachwork . He es complain is ahead of a b out t he i r schedule pl a ye r s not academiworking hard cally and has enough. With been on the P u l g a r, t h e ACC Honor coaching staff Rol l si nce has the oppohe has been site problem. a part of the “I have to Pack; he is kind of tell him coach Jon Choboy very close to sometimes to completing back down a little bit on how much he’s put- his first degree even though it ting in, as far as work,” Choboy is only his third year at State.

There is a lot more to Jaime said. “I have to tell him to turn it down a little. We’ll practice then just school and tennis, as for two and a half hours and he enjoys all sports but his fahe may practice another two vorites are football (soccer) and

“I have to kind of tell him sometimes to back down a little bit on how much he’s putting in.”

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if it wasn’t there we wouldn’t try so hard.”

With the standout performance, Club President Melinda Freeman believes this is just the beginning for the club due to its youth and the relatively cheap dues the club requires.

“It’s pretty gratifying,” Freeman, a senior in business administration, said. “I know we are going to get better in future years because we have so many freshman, which means we are going to continue to do well,

especially since our dues are so low. Other schools, such as App or Virginia, have dues are like $500 or $600 and ours are only $75, which really helps.”

Even though the team had a career day on the slopes, the clubs goal is just to go out and have a good time and enjoy riding down the mountain.

“We are not a supper competitive club. It’s awesome when we do well, definitely positive,” Freeman said. “But at the same time if we don’t do well at one race it’s not a big deal.

“We are out there to have a good time and just there because we love skiing and snowboarding.”

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basketball.

“I love football,” Pulgar said. “Real football. Well, soccer, in America. I am a huge fan of Real Madrid.

My favorite player is Ronaldo. I also love Rafa Nadal.

When I am warming up, I’m either wearing a Rafa shirt, a Spanish national team shirt, or a Real Madrid jersey.”

Choboy likes to joke around with Pulgar about his love for Real Madrid.

“You don’t want to talk to him about Barcelona football as opposed to Madrid,” Choboy said. “I’m going to tell him Barcelona’s the best. You don’t want to get into it with him. He takes it pretty seriously.”

So far this season, Pulgar has helped N.C. State achieve the No. 57 rank nationally and is 3-1 in both singles and doubles.

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Contact information: Weekly meetings at 7 p.m.

Tuesday at Carmichael Gym room 2047 Contact Melinda Freeman at mlfreem2@ncsu.edu Source: Campus Rec

At the Raleigh Viper Pitch, Dave Maki, senior in graphic design, tries to get away from players during the Alumni match, Oct. 24 2010. The current players and alumni were dispersed between the two teams. Maki played for N.C. State rugby club team for three years before quitting.

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guys on the team got a house together and that’s usual where the socials are.”

“Sometimes you have a couple poor sports but mostly what happens on the field stays on the field and afterwards you’re all just rugby players,” Maxwell said.

The toughness of the game is what Maxwell believes builds a kinship between the teams.

“It is a mix between football and soccer. It has the game play of football with the continuity

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of soccer,” said Maxwell. “To play 80 continuous minutes hitting and running instead of four or five second bursts is tougher.”

Fox believes that rugby above all else is the toughest sport out there.

“In my opinion it’s the roughest sport you can play,” said Fox. The game of Rugby originated in public schools in England in the early 1900’s and has really influenced America’s favorite game, football.

“Some guys were playing soccer and a guy picked up the ball and started running with it

and the other guys tackled him and they made a sport out of it,” Maxwell said. “They call it a touchdown in football because when you score in rugby you have to actually touch the ball down in the end zone.”

As other sports do, rugby creates bonds between people through the efforts of teamwork.

“I definitely plan on staying on the team for my five years of eligibility and even after,” Fox said. “If I have a job that places me near Raleigh, I will continue with the club because it’s such a good group of friends.”

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5 Mason of “The Goodbye Girl” 11 Cinephile’s cable channel 14 Par 15 Delta competitor 16 “Turn on the heat!”

17 *Yellowstone Park beast 19 The Mustangs of the NCAA’s Conference USA 20 Work like a dog 21 Flooring material 23 The Grammys, e.g.

25 Egyptian Christian 27 Prado hangings 28 *Fort McHenry defended it in 1814 31 Norwegian noble name 32 “__ Yankee Doodle ...”

33 Swelter 34 50-Across’s st.

35 A director may ask for more of it 37 Justice Dept. agency 40 Curly smacker 41 Lacto-__ vegetarian 42 Provoke 43 *Medical professional 48 Puts on the tube 49 Tampa Bay squad 50 Home of Creighton University 51 Seasonal pharmacy offering 53 Red ink 54 Served dinner 55 *Feature of many customer service calls 60 Race segment 61 Spoke out 62 Fit to be drafted 63 GPS heading 64 Martial arts instructor 65 “My word!”

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Club ski and snowboard

Ski, snowboard rack up medals

Women’s basketball looking to get second ACC win

Men’s snowboard team leads charge to eightmedal performance by club team.

After a heart breaking loss to the No. 4 Duke Blue Devils on Sunday, the women’s basketball team will get back into action tonight at 7 p.m. against the Miami Hurricanes, in Coral Gables, Fla. The Canes are ranked No. 16 in the nation and sport a 18-2 record (4-1 in ACC), while the Pack is looking to get back over .500, as it heads into the game with a 9-10 (1-4 in ACC) record. Junior Bonae Holston will be looking to become just the 27th member of the 1,00 points club, as she is just 19 points shy of the mark.

For the Pack to walk away with the victory, sophomore guard Marissa Kastanek will need to continue her recent good play as she is averaging 21.7 points in the last three games.

Source: : N.C. State Athletics

Swimming and diving set to host UNC The swimming and diving team will take on rival North Carolina tonight at 5 p.m. at the Willis R. Casey Aquatic Center. The Tar Heels are ranked No. 12 overall and will prove to be a good test for both the men’s and women’s teams as they have each only lost a single meet this season.

Source: N.C. State Athletics

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Club Rugby

Men’s Tennis

Rugby to defend title

Pulgar paces Pack tennis

With numbers steadily growing, team enjoying success.

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club, Evers is not new to skiing, as she raced throughout junior high and high school in Sammamish, Wash.

“I wasn’t really sure what the competition was going to be like,” Evers said. “I just missed racing so much Taylor Barbour and wanted to get back into it, I just had no idea what Deputy Sports Editor the competition was going to be like. I didn’t know From the first time kids take a swing at a baseball, what to expect at all but it was exciting.”

Even with such a great individual accomplishshoot a basketball or attempt to ride a bike, fathers and mothers tell their children practice makes per- ment, Evers said the highlight of the weekend fect, and the only way to get better at something is was not her performance, but instead the entire team’s accomplishment. good, hard practice.

“The best part was that I was not the only However, the club skiing and snowboarding team may have something to say about it, as the person on the team that placed. It was pretty team combined to collect eight medals, including exciting to be a part of N.C. State,” Evers said. a second place finish in team men’s snowboard this “Several times our names got called and it was past weekend at the USCSA Southeast Bryce GS, in exciting to be one of the people that placed for N.C. State and to be able to represent the Mount Jackson Va. “We had two races, one Saturday and one Sun- school and our team in that way.”

Aside from Evers, four day and we all did really good both days,” Emory Robinson said. “It was amazing. It was much better others skiers and snowthan previous attempts trying to win those medals. boarders walked “We really vibed well and it felt really good being away with hardable to take a bunch of pictures with medals around ware this past weekend. Robinson won two, one-second place with the our necks.”

With the temperate weather in Raleigh, the team snowboarding team, along with Jeff Mickler and Miis left without a place to practice chael Sheehan, and during the week, unlike other an individual second place teams in their conference such as on Saturday. Also, Jake LaRoe Appalachian, Virginia and James won silver and bronze medals in the Madison. Because of this disadmen’s skiing. vantage, the great finish over the With skiing and snowboarding beseven other teams participating in ing near polar opposites, Robinson the race is that much sweeter for admits there is a bit of competition the club members. between the two sides of clubs at the “Our biggest disadvantage is not races, but just to get the competitive having the ability to practice every juices flowing. day,” Robinson said. “But we only senior Emory Robinson “There are not any snowboarders get to snowboard on days where who want to put on GS Suits and I there are races and I think that shows a lot towards our abilities that we don’t re- don’t think any skiers want to strap their feet to one ally get to practice, and just come in there with our piece of wood,” Robinson said. “But we always give each other some lip here and there to try and amp up game faces on and do what we try to do best.”

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Today Volleyball vs. South Carolina St. @ N.C. Central tournament Durham, 11 a.m.

Volleyball vs. N.C. Central @ N.C. Central tournament Durham, 7 p.m.

Saturday Volleyball vs. Campbell @ N.C. Central tournament Durham, 9 a.m.

Volleyball vs. Loyola @ N.C. Central tournament Durham, 1 p.m.

Men’s Soccer vs. UCLA, 4 p.m. (exhibition)

Wrestling Standings SCHOOL

CONFERENCE

OVERALL

VT

2-0

14-4-0

UVA

2-0

14-5-0

UNC

1-2

6-6-1

MD

0-1

10-4-0

NCSU

0-1

7-5-0

DUKE

0-1

1-2-1

Source: N.C. State Athletics

all that is required is you bring shorts, cleats and a mouth guard and want to learn and play hard,” Maxwell said.

Jeb Fox a member of team, Jon Goodman used club rugby as a way to Staff Writer continue playing the sport The men’s rugby team com- he played throughout high petes in its second game of the school.

“I played in high school spring season at home on the Miller Fields on Saturday Jan. and wanted to keep play29 against Appalachian State ing,” Fox, a freshman in University. The team de- chemical engineering, said. feated UNCW 45-3 in its first “It’s a good learning experimatchup of the season and ence, veterans always have look to follow up on a state something new to learn and the young guys get to learn championship fall season.

The club has not had much from the vets.”

Maxwell credits the playdifficulty finding players, now putting two full teams ers’ hard work, the organization of on the field t he club at ever y a nd t he competicamaration, an de r ie of A-side and the rugby a B - s id e . players for Each team the team’s in compesuctition plays cess. Each fifteen semester players on young the field at athletes a time with l i k e Je b five substiFox come tution playRugby Club President out a nd ers.

Bryan Maxwell compete.

Club Fox played president and junior in environmental for the team in the fall and engineering, Bryan Maxwell now is a starter on the Bsaid the team has at least 40 side and a sub on the A-side.

It is customary after the people at every practice and if you practice then you get to matches for the home team play in the games. The team to host the road team for a does not host tryouts, anyone meal.

“We always have what that comes out and practices gets to be on the team and no are called socials where we previous experience is neces- hang out at the rugby house and just have a good time,” sary.

“The team practices on the Fox said. “A couple of the IM Fields every Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30-7:30 and rugby continued page 7

“It is a mix between football and soccer. It has the game play of football with the continuity of soccer.”

Junior’s hard work playing off in third year.

Josh Hyatt Staff Writer

From the streets of Madrid to the brick sidewalks of N.C. State comes a great example of the diversity found within the Wolfpack community. Jaime Pulgar, a junior tennis player, is no doubt one of the key assets to the success of the men’s tennis team. Having been born in Spain, living in Madrid his entire life, and a great deal of school-searching, Pulgar decided he felt at home in Raleigh.

“I had an agent that was looking at several schools and scholarships,” Pulgar said.

“I came here for a visit and I liked it so much that I decided to come here.”

Pulgar found his knack for tennis during a chance encounter while on a vacation with his brother, who also plays college tennis.

“I have a twin brother so I started to play with him when we were at the beach,” Pulgar said. “After one summer, someone suggested that we start taking tennis lessons.”

From that point on, Pulgar only got better and better at the sport. When he came to visit State in 2008, he was ranked 83 nationally in Spain’s senior division. This did not go unnoticed, especially not by men’s tennis coach Jon Choboy.

“He was nationally ranked pretty high in the men’s ranking over there,” Choboy said.

“He had very good results and he played a lot of men’s tennis.

There are a lot of other play-

Amanda Wilkins/Technician file photo

Jamie Pulgar, a sophomore in business administration, jumps to return a ball during his single match at the men’s tennis match against Georgia Tech on March 28, 2010. Pulgar won both his singles and double matches.

ers there and he was ranked 83 in Spain in the men’s national ranking when, obviously, [Rafael] Nadal was number 1. He has very good credentials.”

Since joining the Wolfpack, Pulgar has worked extremely hard to reach his potential and earn the respect of his coach and his teammates.

“One good thing about him is he’s becoming an all around player,” Choboy said. “He was sort of one dimensional when he got here even though he did very well. He’s got an all around game now. He’s a very good

doubles player, as well.

“He’s emerging as a leader, somebody who’s able to talk to the rest of the guys, especially the younger guys. He works so hard so they listen when he has something to say.”

During the past summer, Pulgar’s hard work paid off when he made it onto the ACC rankings. Currently he is the highest ranked player on the team, ranked no. 61 nationally in singles play.

“I think that [becoming na-

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