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Duke bags potatoes for those in need
More than 40,000 pounds of potatoes are bagged and ready to be distributed to families in need. The Duke University community spent Saturday sorting and bagging potatoes into 10-pound bags. The potatoes, which were grown on farms in the area, were ones that did not make the aesthetic cut to be sold to supermarkets. The bags will be donated to charities across Durham, including the Durham Rescue Mission, Urban Ministries of Durham and the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. SOURCE: WRAL
Investigators in Four Oaks, North Carolina, are looking into whether criminal charges are warranted after a rabbit was hurt at South Johnston High School. A spokeswoman for school system said that several rabbits were lowered in a cage into the school’s court yard. One rabbit left the cage and was hurt jumping into vegetation and had to be euthanized. “The administration at South Johnston High School and the Johnston County Schools takes the humane treatment of animals seriously,” the spokeswoman said in a statement. While student discipline is confidential, the spokeswoman said the incident has been turned over to local law enforcement. SOURCE: WRAL
Marine asks Rhonda Rousey to Marine Corps Ball
Marine Jarrod Haschert, who is based in Camp Lejeune, has become an Internet sensation after he released a video asking mixed martial arts star, Rhonda Rousey, to the Marine Corps Ball in December. “You are my celebrity crush. I love everything you do, and I think you are a phenomenal person, which is why it would be my honor to take you to the Marine Corps Ball,” Haschert said in a video he posted to Facebook. In less than a week, Haschert’s video had more than 3.6 million views and more than 170,000 shares. There are no words yet on whether Rousey will accept the invitation. SOURCE: WRAL
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From left, Brother Middle Passage, 65, Ruth Zalph, 88, and Kevin Myles, Eastern Division field director of the NAACP, march at the front of the demonstration on Sunday as part of the first leg of the journey through North Carolina. Brother Middle Passage recently recovered from heart surgery but has kept the pace for much of the march for a total of nearly 600 miles.
Historic march reaches NC, justice in distance Gavin Stone Assistant News Editor
Justice does not come easy, and it often doesn’t last, as the marchers have found in America’s Journey for Justice, an NAACP-led march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, D.C. For this reason, they have not turned back yet, and this weekend they made it into North Carolina, marking the halfway point of their 860-mile journey. The marchers, though many have rotated in and out of the ranks, have included children as young as 10 and elders as old as 85 braving the summer heat for an average of 26 miles a
day since the march began on Aug. 1. “We’ve been here before; we won these same battles 10 years ago when we started HKonJ,” said Reverend Curtis Gatewood, the North Carolina NAACP’s coordinator for the event. The Historic Thousands on Jones Street People’s Assembly Coalition, or HKonJ, began in 2006 and is made up of more than 250 social justice groups in North Carolina, including all 125 branches of the NAACP in the state. HKonJ has seen many of its successes rolled back in recent years: • House Bill 589, passed in 2013, included provisions that moved polling sites off of college campuses, shortened the early voting period
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University Police has identified a male suspect in the situation that occurred on the Brickyard Thursday afternoon involving three individuals and one of the Brickyard preachers. Police have reason to believe the male suspect may have communicated a threat. However, because an arrest has not been made yet, the name of the male suspect cannot be disclosed, according to University Police Chief Jack Moorman. The suspect is not affiliated with the university. However, he did have approval and the correct permits to speak on the Brickyard. Religion is believed to have played a significant role in the altercation. After University Police identified the suspect, he was brought into the university’s police station. Moorman warns of no imminent danger because the suspect made specific threats to a select group of individuals. He also said that University Police did not send out a Wolf Alert via email because there was no imminent danger to NC State students and residents. “We just wanted to solicit the help to identify the individual,” Moorman said. “This case has nothing to do with robbery, sexual assault or crime of that nature.” A verbal altercation between two religious groups ensued, resulting in a handful of NC State students filing a complaint with University Police. University Police confronted the suspect over the weekend, but no arrests have been made. An investigation is pending, and more information will be posted as it becomes available. Through the use of social media outlets, along with the help of various departments on campus such as University Housing, the Division of Academic and Student Affairs, and Student Government, University Police was able to successfully identify the suspect. In the span of almost three days, a number of people had responded to University Police’s call for help. The page received close to 17,000 shares on social media.
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On Thursday night, NC State partnered with the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in order to host the French Ameri-Can Climate Talks (FACTS) Symposium. The event, titled “Climate-Smart Agriculture: Innovation and Resiliency,” was held to increase public awareness of the intersectionality between climate and agriculture, as well as to discuss environmental, economic and societal impacts and possible solutions. The symposium was held in Stewart Theatre, part of the newly renovated Talley Student Union, and was free to the public. Several distinguished panelists participated in the
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Dr. Virginia Burkett, Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change at the U.S. Geological Survey makes a point during her presentation at the French Ameri-Can Climate Talks (FACTS) held Thursday. The event was organized by the Embassies of France in both Canada and the United States and took place at NC State University, Stewart Theatre, in partnership with the Southeast Climate Science Center.
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Brick thefts cause danger and cost dollars Delaney Sexton Correspondent
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As a tradition, students at NC State have been taking bricks from various places on campus to use as doorstops, decorations for their residence halls and as souvenirs to keep for generations.
However, Jeff Del Pinal, program manager of Grounds Management, said that brick theft has recently become progressively worse, with more than 300 bricks taken from campus since the start of this semester. “We do consider taking bricks as theft of state property,” Del Pinal said. “Grounds management
works very hard on a daily basis to provide a neat, clean and safe environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors alike.” Once one brick goes missing, the surrounding bricks are vulnerable and are quickly wiggled loose and taken by students. These holes create safety hazards that the university’s “Brick Crew” must im-
mediately fix to prevent injuries. Easton Snyder, a sophomore studying mechanical engineering, said that anyone who rides a longboard at night may have the unfortunate experience of falling in a hole.
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10:55 AM | NOISE COMPLAINT University Plaza Report of subject preaching and yelling. Officers determined subject had permit to be in the area.
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10:58 AM | INFORMATION UNIVERSITY Off Campus Student reported suspicious incident while at gas station. Officers referred to RPD.
Wednesday CAMPUS FARMERS MARKET Brickyard 11:30 AM - 1:30 AM
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Thursday DOCUMENTING MOONSHINE AND HERITAGE IN APPALACHIA Auditorium at the D.H. Hill Library 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
1:09 PM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Main Campus Dr Non-student was cited for speeding. 3:06 PM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Reserve Center Lot Student reported parked vehicle had been struck and damaged. 4:30 PM | SPECIAL EVENT EB III Officers provided law enforcement support for Fall Engineering Bash.
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essica Gallo, a junior double majoring in social work and Spanish and co-president of the Diversity and Inclusion adVenture Experience (DIVE) club, talks to Cynelsa Broderick, an Americorps Member in the University Sustainability Office, during the organization’s interest meeting. The club seeks to address social justice issues by combining outdoor adventures such as hikes, rock climbing and camping with diversity and inclusion activities, both on NC State’s campus and in a broader context.
Friday CRAFTS CENTER EXHIBITION: MARY KIRCHER - THE MARSH: REFLECTIONS OF PLACE (MULTI-DAY EVENT) Crafts Center All day
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symposium, including NC State’s own Ryan Boyles, NC State climatologist and director of the State Climate Office. Panelists from France were also in attendance, including Olivier Le Gall, agronomical engineer and deputy director general of the French National Institute of Agricultural Research. Luis Tupas, deputy director for Bioenergy, Climate, and Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture, opened the discussion by speaking about how climate change affects agriculture. He described how climate change increases land and water constraints, the amount of urbanization and environmental degradation. “The earth will need to provide for an estimated 9 billion people by 2050,” Tupas said, underscoring the reality of the urbanization and population increases the world faces. The rest of the panelists shared similar testimonies of ecological distress depicting the scale of the problem policymakers and scientists face in solving this issue. “One factor of climate change is an increase in sea level as a result of melting polar ice caps,” said Virginia Burkett, chief scientist for Climate and Land Use Change at the U.S. Geological Survey. “This has resulted in a degree and a half increase in sea level temperature since 1880, and an increase of 400 feet in sea level over the last 150 years.” Burkett said that as sea level and temperature rise, the amount and intensity of tropical storm is expected to increase. While these numbers seem insignificant within the context of the entire world, Boyles said that “by the middle of the century there will be an extra month of summer-like weather, and we are already experiencing an increased level of variability in water reserves,” making climate change a more immediately perceivable problem than one might expect. All panelists were in agreement about the harsh realities of climate change. They agreed there is a need to mobilize and in-
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In addition to skateboarders, longboarders and bicyclists, NC State also has to consider how missing bricks affect handicapped students who rely on wheelchairs to get around campus. Del Pinal said that in addition to causing safety hazards, stealing
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Panelists listen as Dr. Ryan Boyles, a Professor, State Climatologist, and Director of the State Climate Office, and University Director, U.S. Department of the Interior South east Climate Center presents on “Climate Change and Impacts in North Carolina “ at the French Ameri-Can Climate Talks (FACTS) held Thursday. The event was organized by the Embassies of France in both Canada and the United States and took place at NC State University, Stewart Theatre, in partnership with the Southeast Climate Science Center.
form both growers and politicians in order to come up with innovative, adaptive solutions to the myriad of global problems facing not just the United States, but the world. This is somewhat problematic, particularly in the U.S., where climate change and global warming are both topics of heated political debate. “What we’re seeing in France and in much of Europe, as opposed to the U.S., is that there is not much political debate about whether or not global warming is real or not,” Le Gall said. “That debate is settled. Now we are working on how to deal with this phenomenon. We are in consensus that it exists, and we are working to adapt.” How exactly can we begin adapting? Le Gall said there is a need to produce more
bricks results in heavy financial impact and losses in the integrity of NC State’s architecture. “An important aspect often not considered is that there are historical brick on campus that are no longer manufactured and cannot be replaced,” Del Pinal said. “When these bricks are removed, it forces us to replace them with newer-style brick, which alters the original architectural intent and
food to feed a growing population with fewer resources than ever before. The panelists recognized that there are no simple solutions to such a global problem, and they encouraged the education of politicians, growers and university students around the world on issues of climate change and innovative agriculture. “I don’t think there are any easy answers to climate change and the way it is impacting agriculture,” said Chris Reberg-Horton, assistant professor and organic cropping specialist in the Department of Crop Science at NC State. “Are we going to go back to having over 20 percent of the workforce working in agriculture? I don’t think that’s going to happen. I wouldn’t mind a few more farmers out there — there are more
changes the appearance and aesthetic quality.” The number of brick thefts increases at times when there are more bodies on campus, such as move-in weekend, Packapalooza and graduation. Brick bandits tend to target the Brickyard, Wolf Plaza and the Tri-Tower residence halls, according to Del Pinal. If these trends continue, legal action may be taken. The grounds
young people entering agriculture for the first time in many decades. I’d like to have more brains out there working agro-ecosystems.” Kat Stafford, a sophomore studying microbiology at NC State who attended the symposium, agrees with Reberg-Horton about the need for more students in both the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Natural Resources. “I think that it is more important than ever that we encourage young people to go into the sciences,” Stafford said, “particularly in light of global problems such as climate change.”
management team has called in the Raleigh Police Department for guidance in how to handle this escalating problem. Many options are being considered for how to deter brick bandits, including potentially providing free bricks to students upon graduation so that they won’t take it upon themselves to steal them. Whether the intentions are good or bad, the “Brick Crew” asks that
students think before they steal bricks. “T he g rou nds ma nagement staff at NC State are a group of dedicated individuals who takes great pride in the work they do,” Del Pinal said. “We want to see the students have that same pride and avoid defacing their campus by stealing bricks.”
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by seven days, eliminated same-day registration and required voters to present photo ID at the polls. The bill originally included only 16 pages of language related to voter ID regulations, which were similar to that of other states, but when the Supreme Court struck down Section 5 of the Civil Rights Act of 1965, thus allowing states to change their voting laws without federal approval, the bill was extended to 57 pages and packed with extra restrictions. • The Racial Justice Act of 2009, which sought to eliminate the possibility that the death penalty could be used on the basis of race. The act identified types of evidence that might be considered by the court when considering whether race was a basis for seeking or imposing the death penalty, and established a process by which relevant evidence might be used to establish that race was a significant factor in seeking or imposing the death penalty. The act was repealed in 2013 by Gov. Pat McCrory. • Increases in the federal minimum wage are also being battled in the state government. “The more you win, the more you have to maintain,” Gatewood said. On Saturday, the marchers took a break for the night on the border of South and North Carolina for a teachin on criminal justice led by Redditt Hudson, a former cop who now works for the NAACP and chairs the board of the Ethics Project. Hudson told the story of his training day as a police officer in St. Louis, Missouri, during which he witnessed the white female cop who
was training him break into the home of and beat a teenaged black man accused of an armed robbery and escaping on foot, even though the man was on crutches. “Accountability is everything,” Hudson said in reference to the abuses of power that he saw police officers of all races commit, though he acknowledged that the ones abused were often, if not always, black. “It’s not just the cases you see on television, it’s the everyday abuse of our dignity and of our bodies at the hands of police officers that creates these tensions,” Hudson said. For Hudson, white supremacy is a reality that all of us were born into, and he said that acknowledging this fact does not indict all white people. “Our responsibility, why we march, is to change that reality,” Hudson said. The focus of the march through North Carolina will be voting rights, with one court case on whether H.B. 589 was passed with an intent to discriminate awaiting a final ruling and a case set to begin on Monday to determine the legality of redistricting practices in North Carolina. “North Carolina is the battleground,” said Michelle Laws, executive director of the NC NAACP. “It’s in the courts, now we’re taking it to the highways.” Patrick O’Neill, a lifetime advocate for civil rights, said that in all of his years marching for various causes, “I never thought we’d be marching for voting rights.” The NAACP’s stated demands are as follows: national standards for use of force for all law enforcement agents and the passage of the End Racial Profiling Act; federal action to ensure every student has access to safe, high quality education
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Pastor Mattie Nichols holds a scroll of the Jewish Torah, which has been carried since the beginning of the march as it was during the civil rights marches of the ‘60s. The scrolls weighed close to 20 pounds and were passed around to marchers as the holders got tired.
regardless of location or household income; federal prioritization of job creation and training, and passage of the Raise the Wage Act and the Paycheck Fairness Act; and that Congress restore, strengthen and advance the 1965 Voting Rights Act by passing the Voting Rights Advancement Act. However, Rvd. Gatewood said, “There is no one bill that will rectify what we are facing as a community.” The march is scheduled to hold a rally in Raleigh on Thursday at 5 p.m. “to demand that Congress restore the Voting Rights Act and North Carolina Legislators protect rather than suppress the vote of the people they vowed to represent.” The march will conclude in Washington D.C. on Sept. 16 with a day of rallying and lobbying Congress on the issues raised throughout the march.
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Reverend Curtis Gatewood marches on the Journey for Justice on Sunday. “The more you win, the more you have to maintain,” Gatewood said.
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Stay as long as you’d like: D.H. Hill’s new hours W
hen I came back to campus this semester, I walked along the bricks to find where all of my classrooms would Missy be. I happened to Furman stroll past the liCorrespondent brary door at D.H. Hill and unexpectedly found a sign with different times than last year. With D.H. Hill’s new and improved hours, the main campus library for NC State students is now open 24 hours Mondays – Thursdays. I’m completely supportive of this change; it’s great that students will now always be able to access a respectable place to study, a place that is essential to the success of all students. With countless distractions readily available in the year 2015, it’s tough for college students not to get sidetracked. Admit it. When’s the last time you opened up your assignment on Moodle and fin-
ished it, intro to conclusion, without opening one other tab on Safari or skipping a Pandora song? Can’t remember? Don’t worry; neither can I. Facebook, email, the latest episode of whatever show you decided to binge-watch this week on Netflix — the list goes on. And those are just some of the distractions you create. Roommates blare their new favorite song, your phone buzzes every four seconds with calls from your parents and texts from your best friend back home, the microwave beeps with your suitemates’ popcorn that smells so good that all you want to do now is watch a movie. But no, you have an English paper due tomorrow, a biology test the next day and two WebAssigns due the day after (both of which you haven’t started). Oh, and about seven other things. And that’s just for this week. Unfortunately, you have no choice other than to open that
textbook to start studying. Sometimes getting productive studying done in a residence hall is nearly impossible. Even with a fo-
“Students need a quiet and accessible place to study, no matter what time it is.” cused mind and the willingness to put the effort in, we face too many variable factors that prevent us from completing essential tasks successfully and in a reasonable time frame. Students need a quiet and accessible place to study, no matter what time it is. Last year, I found myself
in D.H. Hill several times when the warning bell went off at 11:30 p.m. I’m not one to procrastinate, but even for me, sometimes that’s when the assignment just gets started after a full day of classes and dinner and club meetings. I would have to find another space to work diligently, and most of the time, I couldn’t find one. So, the homework that didn’t get finished before the warning bell never turned out quite as well. When students are at the library, they are there because they care about their schoolwork and want to study. And last year, they literally got kicked out when the library closed. It’s like telling the students they can’t study anymore and that maybe they really should go back and get distracted by that popcorn. A school preventing students from studying? Nobody wants that. Plus, let’s not forget about group projects or study groups. Meeting up with
some friends to practice some calculus problems or brainstorm ideas for a paper is a great way to interact with fellow Wolfpackers and learn at the same time. But when it’s dark at night and you have to walk all the way across campus to your room that’s hardly big enough for just one person, it doesn’t seem like the best idea anymore. D.H. Hill’s study rooms with screens and whiteboards can now be used more often by all of the students; they provide an engaging, focused area to knock out those assignments. I’m certainly not the only one excited about D.H. Hill’s new hours. Once the students take advantage of the library’s more flexible schedule, I hope it becomes clear to the NC State community that the library should always be open to students who are willing to work and who strive to study as best they can.
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What does the rise of online learning mean for us? R
ecently, we’ve seen debate about what should be the preferred mode of education to students. Should we advance with online modes of eduAbhishek cation or continue Karadkar with class in the Correspondent traditional way? Online courses offer the f lexibility that allows anyone to learn at any time. Many professionals and working-class people want to receive higher education but can’t because of their family responsibilities or lack of money. Through online courses, they can get the opportunity to gain education even in their 40s; this new online education system has even been found to be useful for retired people. In earlier days, we had no computers or Internet. But now with this technology, we are able to get information and learn new things instantaneously; online learning has tremendous potential to empower all sections of society. The main advantage of online coursework is the flexibility the courses provide. People have the choice to enroll for whichever courses they like and can either continue or opt out of them if the courses don’t interest them. The main companies dealing in this online course and education include Coursera and edX. Thou-
sands of students from all across the world enroll in a vast breadth of courses offered each year. The most fascinating thing about the companies is that various top universities of the world have collaborated with them in order to provide the best education from some of the best professors. Thus, students can learn some of the finest courses by just sitting at home and logging into their website. That’s all that is required. These online tools also provide certificates of accomplishment or even verified certificates after completion of their courses. This mode of learning has started even in the classroom. Nowadays, many professors record their lectures for students, and with this, the students can review lectures after going home. Entire submission processes for assignments occur online through education portals. Our present education system is undergoing massive change, and so many professional experts have begun debating this mode of education. Is online learning better than in-class learning? Let’s consider the pros and cons in order to understand this topic in a much broader sense. In-class learning has been the traditional mode of delivering knowledge for thousands of years.
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India used to utilize a system called “gurukul” in which the professor, or “guru,” personally gave education to a handful of people. The professor was the students’ teacher, mentor, guide and even godparent whom the students worshipped and from whom they directly received sacred knowledge. Professors ensured that the knowledge they delivered was correct and authentic, and they were responsible for continuing this tradition of education among students. The gurus would select the best of their students and assign them the duty of imparting education to the next generation. Similar kinds of education systems prevailed in ancient China and among ancient Greeks and Romans. It is important to note that this system existed until World War II in Europe, especially in Germany and in England, and led to the establishment of some of the most revered universities today, such as Oxford and Heidelberg. The institutions of science and mathematics developed in Europe were the products of this student and teacher interaction. As said by Albert Einstein, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.” With the development of technology in the last few decades, the need
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to educate society has emerged and has led to the present system of schools and universities. Education systems were designed so that they could provide well-educated and trained individuals as a ready workforce for the modern world. Presently, with a much larger number of students per class, it has become difficult for professors to closely monitor the overall progress of students. The cost of education has escalated as well, and today, it is highly improbable to say that everyone has equal opportunity for education. The in-class teaching method provides many benefits, but the most important benefit is that it promotes a healthier environment for learning. All students in one class can learn together, discuss and debate over topics and take personally directed instruction from knowledgeable and present teachers. It’s necessary to point out that the in-class system also leads to a competitive environment that is not seen in online learning; this can be good or bad, depending on the person. Contrarily, online learning focuses on the use of the computer and Internet — the main facets of what we call the information age. Though this seems a lot more flexible and convenient compared to
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in-class learning, it has its dark side too. It is argued that in online learning systems, students often develop a narrower understanding of the subject if they experience no discussion or debate in that topic. The doubts students face are not resolved immediately like with in-class learning. We have no way to completely test that the student has understood the concepts thoroughly. Some people often rely on giving false answers or plagiarism to pass exams, as they have little to no supervision when taking tests. The lectures that are prerecorded are tailor-made and follow a strict pattern of enforcing study habits, but the best way to learn anything is by direct experience. Unlike inclass systems, students cannot receive the pedagogical environment to learn, ask and debate with fellow students and enjoy individualized learning processes. We recognize pros and cons on both sides, but the best way to address teaching methods will be to further develop both traditional and online systems. We are indeed fortunate that NC State has been using both ways to deliver the best education to us from some of the finest professors.
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The machine that hurled for science VOMITING MACHINE HELPS TO STUDY NOROVIRUS AEROSOLIZATION
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Dominic Libera demonstrates how the vomit machine works. The machine was designed to simulate human vomiting and determine how disease can be spread. The team worked to determine if viruses can be suspended in the air after the process of vomiting.
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Each year, more than 20 million people suffer from the horrible effects of the gastrointestinal illness known as the norovirus. For children and the elderly, the virus is responsible for nearly 1,000 deaths annually. Since the widespread outbreak of the norovirus in 2013, medical personnel across the country have done research to try to better understand the disease and how it is spread. Recently at NC State, a team of cross-discipline researchers made groundbreaking discoveries about the virus through somewhat unusual means — the vomiting machine. The vomiting machine is a fairly self-explanatory device. Its purpose is to simulate human vomiting to allow scientists to study how diseases can be spread. NC State scientists were specifically trying to determine whether norovirus could be aerosolized through vomiting. The hy pot hesis was t hat when vomiting occurs, viruses might be suspended in the air. Therefore, the norovirus could infect others if they simply breathed in those viruses. Other researchers had speculated that the disease could be spread through this method, but it had yet to be proven in the lab. Under the direction of Lee-Ann Jaykus, professor of food science and expert on the norovirus, doctoral students Dominic Libera and Grace Tung-Thompson sought to prove the theory of aerosolization. “Norovirus is shed in vomit and diarrhea,” Libera said. “You can get in-
“I was told I needed to build a vomit machine. I had to come up with an idea that worked even though it wasn’t necessarily in my field.” Dominic Libera, a graduate student studying civil engineering
fected if you come in contact, but the question was, could you get infected through aerosolization? We built the vomit machine to test this theory.” Libera’s role in the project was to build a functional vomit machine, while Tung-Thompson ran the experiments. Libera began designing the machine while he was completing his master’s degree in 2011. In the designing process, Libera relied heavily on advice from Kenneth Koch, a gastroenterologist from Wake Forest University. “I would call Koch and have phone interviews with him,” Libera said. “He was the expert. I showed him the designs and he gave me feedback to make it better.” In 2014, after two years of design and testing, the vomiting machine was complete and ready to be used in formal experimentation. The machine used tubes and pressure chambers to replicate the human mouth, esophagus and stomach. Because working with the actual norovirus would require special labs, the research team chose to work with MS2, a bacteriophage that has similar characteristics to the virus. They placed the virus in substances of varying viscosities. This practice helped to simulate vomit at different levels of digestion. Through her experiments,
Tung-Thompson determined that the disease was able to spread through aerosolization from vomit. “By simulating vomiting using a device scaled to human physiological parameters, this study demonstrated that virus aerosolization did indeed occur,” Tung-Thompson said in her paper regarding the project. While it was shown that only a miniscule percentage of the virus was aerosolized, thousands of viruses were suspended in the air. This meant that the virus could easily be spread through aerosolization since it takes only the ingestion of 10–20 virus particles to become infected. The project was not only successful in the fact that it proved the theory of aerosolization but was also successful in showing the productivity of cross-discipline research. The team members working on the project came from diverse backgrounds. Libera was studying civil and environmental engineering while Tung-Thompson was studying food science. Neither necessarily had a strong background in medical research or the norovirus. “I enjoyed this project because it was a new kind of field for me,” Libera said. “I was told I needed to build a vomit machine. I had to come up with an idea that worked even though it wasn’t necessarily in my field.”
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Designed by Dominic Libera, the vomit machine went through two years of design and testing. The machine used tubes and pressure chambers to replicate the human mouth, esophagus and stomach.
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The buzz around NC State’s Beekeepers Club Jules Conlon Correspondent
Consumers may be awa re of the human labor required to produce goods such as coffee, fruit, cotton clothing and chocolate, but few realize the important role bees play in the making of these and many other common products. Educating the public is one of the main goals of the Beekeepers Club at NC State. Its conception was inspired by the popular Introduction to the Honey Bee and Beekeeping class taught by entomolog y professor David Tarpy. When Sarah Edwards, co-vice president of the club and a junior studying human biology, signed up for the class, she wasn’t quite sure what she was getting herself into. “Being honest, I was scared of bees until I took the class,” Edwards said. “But it’s one of those things where you learn about something, and it takes the fear away.” Edwards took the beekeeping class alongside club secretary
Mally Dietrich, a junior studying communication, and the other co-vice president, Mitchell Stephens, a senior studying animal science. After the class ended, Edwards and Dietrich decided they wanted to start a club, only to discover that Stephens and his former roommate Jacob Gantt, a second-year agriculture student studying agribusiness management, were trying to get one up and running simultaneously. The two pairs joined forces, and the Beekeepers Club was formed in April. “People keep giving us beerelated home decor,” Edwards said, holding up a pair of mugs with bee wing-shaped handles. “We’re known as ‘the bee people’ now. It’s cool.” Edwards and Dietrich are more focused on the education aspect of bees. Bees are responsible for approximately $286 million worth of crops in North Carolina yearly, according to a 2007 study conducted by the NC State entomology department. Yet despite their importance, the bee population has
been decreasing in numbers. The United States Department of Agriculture states that the popHeavulation of managed honey bee colonies in the U.S. has decreased from 5 million to 2.5 million since 1940. “We’d love to educate people based on the knowledge that we have about honeybees and similar insects,” Dietrich said. “This is a really, really extreme situation.” Gantt, the club’s president, has a more personal connection to honey bees. A third-generation beekeeper on both sides of his family lineage, Gantt was taught the ways of the trade by his dad, who, in turn, learned from his own father. “Really, bees are just like any other livestock,” Gantt said. “You’ve got to feed them, you got to treat them, you got to make sure they’re healthy.” The club plans to begin with basic bee education and then later take members into the field. It plans to have tentative topics which include parts of the hive, pest control, bee trivia
and even a honey tasting event. “We had an interest meeting at the end of the last semester, and the array of experience is interesting,” Edwards notes. “We have some people who have tons of hives; they’ve been keeping bees forever. And other people have just heard about the club and thought, ‘that sounds fun, let’s try it!’” Later in the fall, the club plans to visit beehives and apply what the members have learned firsthand. The club doesn’t have its own hives yet, though ultimately hopes to obtain one. In the meantime, the club has teamed up with NC State’s Agroecology Education farm and has plans to get involved with the bees there. “A lot of people … they’re not really interested in getting technical or having their own bees, but they want to know more about bees and how they can help,” Dietrich said. And in this situation, knowledge is just as important as application. The club’s first meeting of the fall semester is planned to take place Thursday.
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sport and excitement to be a part of the program. “I’ve always loved sailing, since I was really little,” freshman John Taylor said. “I’ve always taken classes. I’ve taught people; it’s just something that made me happy. I don’t have too much experience with racing, so I wanted to get more involved in that aspect of it. I’m really excited to try that out.” In addition to the newcomers, several of the returning
sailors and leaders all have different elements they are looking to bring to the team, including making the NC State sailing experience fun for everyone. “Most of what I’m trying to bring is a positive attitude,” Spencer said. “While yes, I have a lot of experience, so does everyone else, and we all try to look at each other as equals and help each other. So, I’m less of a coach and more of a motivation.” Having an enjoyable day out on the water was also important to other members of
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that up with another strong performance [against South Carolina].” Brown was well supported by her teammates on the court. Senior middle blocker Morgan Cormier contributed 11 kills and 10 digs overall in the match. Junior setter Maggie Speaks had 33 assists and sophomore defensive specialist Emily Harris had three aces. “We have a new identity with a lot of new players,” Bunn said. “It’s good to get some wins under your belt. At times we had two freshmen, three sophomores on the floor, so it’s nice to build some confidence.” The Wolfpack returns to Raleigh for Labor Day weekend in the Hilton Garden Inn Cary Classic.
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tied it at 11. Before a media timeout, the Wolfpack took a 15-11 lead. NC State was able to stay ahead of South Carolina by an average of six points before South Carolina took a timeout with the score 19-13 in favor of the Wolfpack. NC State remained on top, winning the set 25-14. Sophomore outside hitter Julia Brown was named MVP for the weekend tournament. “She played really well this weekend,” Bunn said. “She got off to a slow start against NCCU, but she played fantastic [against Southeastern] and followed
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Club sailing builds on previous success Andrew Schnittker
NC State men’s soccer match rescheduled Sunday’s men’s soccer match against the College of Charleston has been postponed to tonight at 7 p.m. due to inclement weather. The match, which was originally set to take place in Charleston, South Carolina, has been relocated to Raleigh, giving the Wolfpack a home-field advantage at Dail Soccer Field. SOURCE: NC STATE ATHLETICS
Pack football announces depth chart With just one week remaining before the football season begins, the NC State football team has announced its depth chart for the 2015 season. The secondary returns all of last season’s starters in graduates Hakim Jones and Juston Burris, juniors Jack Tocho and Dravious Wright and redshirt sophomore Josh Jones. Other positions, mostly at wide receiver and along the defensive line, feature new starters, including junior Jumichael Ramos at wide receiver, sophomore Kentavius Street at defensive tackle, sophomore Bradley Chubb at defensive end and freshman Nyheim Hines at slot receiver. Other notable changes are graduate guard Joe Thuney moving from left guard to left tackle and redshirt sophomore Jerod Fernandez reclaiming the starting middle linebacker job alongside sophomore Airius Moore, who will line up at weakside linebacker. SOURCE: NC STATE ATHLETICS
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Coming off four straight years of being the top college sailing team in North Carolina, the NC State Club Sailing Team is looking forward to beginning another competitive season. Recently, interest in the program has grown due to the program’s success, and the team is holding tryouts for the second year in a row. “We’re working our way to really becoming a wellorganized, running machine,” senior captain Paulina Spencer said. With this growing interest in the program, the team is starting the season looking to bring together a new group of sailors, along with some old faces, to form a strong and competitive team. “This semester, we have a lot of incoming freshmen that have a lot of experience,” Spencer said. “Our main goal is to just get everyone up to the same speed. We’re going to more
regattas this semester than we’ve ever been to in a semester, so we want to organize all of that and get out there and show everyone what NC State sailing is made of.” As regatta participation has increased, the team has set some high goals for itself this season, including finishing well in the South Atlantic Intercollegiate Sailing Association (SAISA), the sailing conference NC State is a part of that includes schools from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida, and northern Alabama. “As a team, I’d like to see us do very good in SAISA,” sophomore James Stonecypher said. “I know last year we were in the fifth-seventh spot. This year I’d like to see us get up there and be a solid six or a solid five in the rankings. The reason for that is it gives us a really good shot to go to nationals.” In addition to doing well in SAISA, the team will also strive to keep a steady level
“We have a new identity with a lot of new players. It’s good to get some wins under your belt.” Bryan Bunn, volleyball head coach
across the entire year. “My biggest goal is just to be consistent,” sophomore Ma rk Thompson sa id. “Rather than us winning one regatta and then doing mediocre in others, I’d like to see us be consistent and competitive. I’d also like to see the whole team be equal in competition, rather than having two really good people, and everybody else
way behind. I want us to be equal, so we can send more than one team to different regattas in different areas and be competitive at all of them.” Many sailors looking to join the team attended an orientation at Lake Wheeler Friday prior to trying out the following day. The newcomers cited both a love for the sport and interest in NC
State’s growing program as reasons for their interest. “I love it so much,” freshman Elizabeth Blenk said. “It’s just a great thing to be involved in and a great team spirit. This is a good sailing team. It’s up-and-coming, which is awesome.” Other newcomers expressed their love of the
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Pack sweeps foes in weekend tournament Taylor Peers
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The NC State volleyball team began the 2015 season with swift wins against North Carolina Central University, Southeastern Louisiana and the University of South Carolina at the South Carolina Tournament in Columbia this past weekend. This will be the fourth time in head coach Bryan Bunn’s six years that the Wolfpack has started the season with success. “It’s good to be 3-0,” Bunn said. “We had a good match tonight against a tough opponent on their home court. It was a really nice environment; they had about 1,500 people there. It was really nice to go in there and play well this weekend.” NC State took an early lead in the first match of the weekend against
NC Central, never letting the Eagles get within six points after the first set. Freshman defensive specialist Kassie Kasper stopped NC Central in its tracks when she served five points in a row to end the Eagles’ early second set lead and turned the favor back to the Wolfpack. It was clear at the start of the third set that the Pack was determined to win as it took a quick 10-point lead. “We served the ball really tough and got some of the first game jitters out,” Bunn said. “NC Central did a nice job defensively, so it challenged our hitters.” Saturday morning’s match against the Southeastern Louisiana Lions was the first meeting of the two teams in history. The first set was a battle in which the Lions took an early lead, forcing the Wolfpack to call a timeout. NC State then rallied to tie the score and
eventually win the first set 25-17. The Wolfpack came into the second set fired up and made Southeastern Louisiana fight to keep the score in close range. Shortly after a Lions’ timeout, the second set was taken by the Wolfpack thanks to sophomore outside hitter Perry Ramsey’s kill. NC State won the third set without a problem. When asked about the early troubles with the Lions, Bunn pointed to the toughness of the schedule. “It was a match at 10 in the morning on a Saturday, and Southeastern started the match playing really well,” Bunn said. The final match of the weekend took place Saturday night against the South Carolina Gamecocks. NC State and South Carolina fought for the first couple of points until the Pack took a 10-4 lead. It was short-lived as the Gamecocks
quickly negated every Wolfpack advancement on the scoreboard. The end of the first set was a nail-biter, as it went to 27-25 in favor of NC State. “Winning that first set was huge because it gave us a lot of momentum,” Bunn said. “We served really tough and got them out of system a lot more in the second and third sets, forcing them to make more errors.” In the second set, it was looking like more of the same as the scoreboard went back and forth until the Wolfpack broke away with a 17-11 lead, forcing the Gamecocks to call a timeout. The Pack came back explosively after the timeout and kept South Carolina at bay to win the set 25-16. The third set was a struggle for domination but NC State quickly
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Wolfpack women’s soccer routs Bucs in road victory Jordan Beck Sports Editor
Freshman forward Maxine Blackwood scored the first goal of her NC State career and added an assist, and the Wolfpack women’s soccer team edged East Tennessee State 2-0 on the road Sunday. Redshirt sophomore midfielder Jackie Stengel notched her second tally of the year 31 minutes into the match to give NC State (2-2-0) a 1-0 lead, and Blackwood added another less than a minute after the second half began to keep the Buccaneers (3-1-0) at bay. Freshman goalkeeper Sydney Wootten played 90 shutout minutes to give the Pack its second win in as many games. A week ago, the Wolfpack was 0-2 on the season after two tough losses in San Diego, but the Pack has responded with a pair of 2-0 non-conference victories to get back to .500. Against ETSU, head coach Tim Santoro once again showcased the depth at his disposal, experimenting with various combinations and getting minutes for 19 players. Once again, the freshmen group played a huge part in the win. The aforementioned Wootten got the start in goal, while midfielder Crys-
tal Cordova made her first start of the season, most likely in response to her energetic display against Elon on Thursday. Freshman Hannah Keogh continued to cement her place in the team at left back and put on another solid performance, while freshman Taylor Porter looks a mainstay at defensive midfield just four games into the season. The standout, however, was Blackwood. The Somerville, New Jersey, native had a strong match against the Phoenix but failed to get on the scoresheet. Against the Bucs, she was even better, showcasing her excellent holdup play and quickness into the channels. This time, though, she made her mark statistically, playing a good ball behind the defense for Stengel to run onto and score, before putting the game to bed with a powerful, low shot into the corner 32 seconds after the whistle blew to open the second period of play. Blackwood capitalized on a mistake by the ETSU defense for her goal, showing alertness and smarts to attack a bad pass and finish quickly. Another bright spot was Stengel, who once again showed her importance to the side. The Wolfpack cap-
tain’s leadership and composure were vital in the middle of the field, where she contested defensively and looked to combine with teammates. Despite missing all of last season, Stengel hasn’t looked the least bit rusty, and with two goals already and a blossoming partnership with Blackwood, the Pack’s attack is in a much better place than a year ago. While the Wolfpack came out ahead on the scoresheet, the game was more evenly contested than the 2-0 difference implies. The Buccaneers were unbeaten coming into the game and were playing at home. They generally possessed the ball well and created good chances on the NC State goal. But Wootten was equal to the task, making five saves on the day, and the Pack was the more clinical side, despite having a hectic schedule and long days of travel in the past week. It’s clear the Pack is still trying to find its best lineup, and Santoro will likely continue experimenting with different formations, lineups and players during the 2015 NC State Tournament, which begins Friday. The Wolfpack takes on Oregon at 8 p.m. and will look to continue winning ways and continue improving with ACC play on the horizon.
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Redshirt junior defender Dayna Tomayko leaps into the arms of freshman midfielder Ella Bonner after Bonner’s first goal. The Wolfpack took down the Elon Phoenix 2-0 in Dail Soccer Stadium on Thursday.