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those that came before us who fought against more with less,” said Reverend Doctor William Barber Jr. “If we don’t win now, we will fight tomorrow.”

The redistricting case began after the 2010 census when the Republican-controlled legislature in Alabama redrew voting districts to adjust racial proportions so that they were in accordance with the Voting Rights Act. The only problem: The VRA did not contain any language saying to do so, causing the Supreme Court to review Alabama’s redistricting practices, and now North Carolina’s redistricting practices are under review for similar behavior.

One example of this is the 44–51 percent increase of black voters in former NC Congressman Mel Watt’s district.

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The topic of sensitivity in the classroom is a growing discussion within the American collegiate dialogue. When designing a course curriculum, professors are expected to keep the best interest of their students in mind. The question has become centered on what way a professor is best serving their students — by presenting them with challenging and potentially upsetting material or catering to the sensitivities of the students?

In many colleges around the country, this discussion is taking the form of a debate. It’s asking what words, phrases or topics students deem inappropriate to discuss within the walls of an institution. In a recent article in The Atlantic, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt discussed the dangers of catering to student demands when it came to establishing what should be taught in academia.

The piece argues that shirking these subjects instead of confronting them head-on means that students do not receive the same quality of education from institutions of higher learning.

At NC State, it seems the issue of sensitivity has not worked its way into the classroom, but professors are still preparing themselves. David Zonderman, a history professor and a member of the Faculty Senate, said that while no incident has come up yet, some professors have begun a dialogue within as how to deal with the possibility of students requesting a removal of certain course topics.

When asked what his response would be to a student requesting a change in course material out of concern for the effect the content, Zonderman said he was in support of academic freedom in the classroom, and it was up to professors to decide what was appropriate to teach in their classrooms so long as it pertained directly to the course.

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CWA Senior Campaign Lead Angie Wells speaks to the crowd about voting inequality Monday.

The meeting was held publicly at Pullen Memorial Presbyterian Church.

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The NAACP will hold a rally at the state capitol on Thursday to demand that Congress restore the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and that North Carolina Legislators protect, rather than suppress, the voters they represent. Thursday’s rally is just one stopping point on the Journey for Justice march which began in Selma, Alabama on Aug. 1 and is set to culminate with a day of lobbying Congress in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 16.

On Monday, in anticipation of Thursday’s rally at the North Carolina Capitol and in the wake of the start of a new court case over the constitutionality of the state’s redistricting practices, the NAACP-led Journey for Justice took a night to take stock of their progress and look to the future at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church.

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Students come together for Harambee Estefania Castro-Vasquez Staff Writer

About 150 students, faculty and staff members packed together in the Washington Sankofa room to join hands and yell “Harambee” Tuesday night as a way to welcome new members into their community.

Harambee, sponsored by the African American Cultural Center, has been held on NC State’s campus for approximately 10 years and is instrumental in introducing new members to the African American Cultural Center, according to Kinesha Harris, a senior studying biological sciences and the president of the AYA ambassadors.

Harris, along with Brayndon Stafford, a senior studying environmental sciences, emceed Harambee, which is named after the Swahili word for “let us come together.”

Throughout the event, attendees were encouraged to take active roles in their surrounding communities.

Marc Jackson, a senior studying business and marketing education, delivered a statement re-

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Drummers Kevin Ohuoba, a sophomore studying accounting,C arlos McClaney, a senior studying technology design and engineering education, and Ade Adesina, a sophomore in Exploratory Studies, perform the ceremonial welcome, Call of the Drums, during the annual Harambee celebration held in Witherspoon’s Sancofa Room on Tuesday. “The drums, or djembes, derive from the Gambia,” McClaney said. “They are used to pass down tradition and oral history.”

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On the Oval on Centennial Campus will host the Entrepalooza festival Thursday to celebrate innovation and entrepreneurship on campus. Hosted by the NC State Entrepreneurship Initiative, Entrepalooza is the

first festival of its kind at NC State.

“We want to give new and returning students the opportunity to have an inside look at what student entrepreneurs are working on and see what the entrepreneurial landscape looks like on campus,” said Megan Greer, director of communications and outreach for the NC State Entrepreneur-

ship Initiative.

Lasting from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., Entrepalooza consists of two parts. The first half of the festival will have free food, games and interactive demonstrations from the different entrepreneurship programs across campus in the Innovation Labs.

Beginning at 7 p.m., the second

half of Entrepalooza features the Minute to Win It pitch competition, where students representing various colleges across campus will have 60 seconds to convince the audience that their entrepreneurial idea is the best. The crowd

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hraddha Rathod, a sophomore studying engineering, addresses her and her team’s entrepreneurship experiences with their corporation, FreshSpire. “FreshSpire is a mobile notification system that relays information of mark-downs that occur in a grocery store daily to consumers who need it,” Rathod said.

“We believe that technology is a good way to bridge the gap between people who don’t have food and the waste that grocery stores throw out every single day.” While FreshSpire is not currently available for commercial use, the team has won copious awards and received national recognition from organizations, such as the Clinton Global Initiative, for their social project. As the team acquires additional support from both local and big-chain grocery markets, the chances that FreshSpire will soon appear in the Apple Store or the Android Market become more and more probable.

sue with a topic, I’d like to think I’d treat them respectfully,” Zonderman said. “I would try to get them to cope with the material in a healthy way.” continued from page 1 Zonderman also spoke about Jerry Hough, the 3:01 PM | WELFARE CHECK Duke professor who came under fire after he postMetcalf Hall “If I know a faculty member is belittling stu- ed racially insensitive comments on an editorial Student experiencing emotional dents, then obviously we would need to take board on The New York Times’ website. distress was issued welfare referral. action against that,” Zonderman said.

“It’s my understanding that he made the stateZonderman said students can sometimes ments in question outside of his professional 3:20 PM | SUSPICIOUS misconstrue academic challenge and pressure life,” Zonderman said. “As long as what he said INCIDENT for some form of antagonism on the part of wasn’t in the classroom then he’s protected by his Timber Hall the professor. first amendment rights. He should absolutely be Officers responded to student and non-student in verbal “It often is the case that a student reads into criticized by his peers and the public but not face dispute. Student was issued challenge in the classroom as hostile,” Zonder- discipline for that event back at his university.” referral and non-student was man said.

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Zonderman said that he believed some of the tivity is important to NC Sate, and to continue to 6:06 PM | INFORMATION more difficult topics presented in the classroom foster that atmosphere, Steven Greene, associate UNIVERSITY often promote the most personal growth, and professor of political science, mentors graduate Public Safety Center he would take a student’s issues with a subject student teachers on how to conduct themselves Report of possible sexual matter seriously, but would not feel comfort- in their classrooms. Greene said that while he has assault involving student victim.

Investigation ongoing. able giving out an alternate, less offensive as- not run into an incident yet, he does tell student signment. teachers to be respectful of all students in a class.

“If a student came to me with a personal is“As long as the classroom atmosphere is one that emphasizes respect, we avoid problems,” Green said.

Some universities have adopted poliYou deserve a factual look at . . . cies where a student can request a new A Cheater’s Dream: Can’t Trust, Can’t Verify assignment if a topic caused them some form of emotional distress. Green said Lying is Iran’s diplomatic tool of choice. No wonder most Americans don’t believe the Obama Deal will stop Iran from cheating— that he would be skeptical of students or catch them when they do. requesting a change of assignment Iran has cheated shamelessly on all its international nuclear agreements. Not only does President Obama’s based on personal sensitivity.

Iran Deal fail as promised to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons program, its verification regime is so weak it will “I’ve yet to see that assignment in any be impossible to catch most violations. But even if we catch them, we have little power to stop them. It adds up to a deadly dangerous deal. of our classes that presented a conflict weapons program engenders profound distrust of What are the facts? with personal beliefs,” Green said. “In Iran’s “agreement” to the Obama Iran Deal.

Despite strict international sanctions and treaties, fact, I think it is great practice for stuIf we don’t trust, can we verify? If Iran wants the Iran has operated covert illegal nuclear facilities $150 billion in sanctions relief it is promised for since the mid-1980s. In 2002, Iranian dissidents dents to write about issues that they adhering to this deal and if it has every intention of revealed to a surprised world that the Islamic really feel strongly about, but to be able complying, why would it refuse to allow the Republic was building a uranium enrichment plant at “anytime, anywhere” inspections promised by Natanz, as well as a heavy water plan at Arak, the likes to do so in a more analytic, and dispasPresident Obama? Yet the P5+1 abandoned strict of which is capable of producing plutonium for sionate way.” inspection protocols, including the ability to inspect nuclear bombs. In 2009, the U.S and other Western military sites, in exchange for a scheme by which Iran states discovered Iran constructing another secret Green said that he would be open to can delay any request to enrichment plan—this discuss a possible change in assignment inspect other secret one fortified deeply “Only if the U.S. Congress defeats the facilities for 24 days underground—known as with a student one-on-one to see if it Iran Deal can the international minimum (and possibly Fordow. Notwithstanding was appropriate. all evidence to the community avoid a nuclear-armed terror much longer) in a bureaucratic jungle— contrary, Iran has insisted Part of a professor’s duty is to chalstate—and the near certainty of a war.” plenty of time to spirit its nuclear program is lenge students to better themselves, and away all traces of peaceful. While Iran is a disallowed nuclear activity. signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the this can mean introducing ideas and What’s worse, astoundingly, neither the United International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) found fields of thought that could clash with States nor any of the P5+1 nations will be involved in back in 2003 that “Iran’s many failures and breaches inspecting Iranian nuclear sites. Instead, inspections of its obligations to comply with its NPT Safeguards his or her personal opinions and beliefs. will be administered by the IAEA, which has Agreement... constitute non-compliance.”

Stephen Puryear, a philosophy pronegotiated secret terms for these protocols with Iran, Indeed, in 2003 then nuclear negotiator and now

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president Hassan Rouhani bragged that “While we were talking with the Europeans in Teheran” about preventing Iran from enriching uranium, “we were installing equipment in parts of the [uranium conversion] facility at Isfahan.”

In just the past year during the P5+1 negotiations, despite generous easing of international sanctions offered as incentive, Iran has cheated at least three times on related agreements. First, in violation of the Joint Plan of Action, which prohibited Iran from enriching uranium in new centrifuges, the IAEA in November 2014 caught the Islamic Republic using advanced, high-powered IR-5 centrifuges. Second, in February 2015, Iran was discovered to have about 300 kilograms of banned, gaseous low-enriched uranium, which can be used as reactor fuel. Third, Iran swore to the IAEA it would answer questions about the Possible Military Dimensions (PMD) of its previous nuclear programs, but to date it has mocked this commitment, revealing virtually nothing.

This consistent history of lying, cheating and weaseling out of agreements to limit its nuclear

the wily sanctions evader, which we will never see.

But what if we actually do catch Iran cheating?

Even if Iran is caught violating Iran Deal terms, the P5+1 has tied its own hands. The only penalty the P5+1 can levy against Iran is a “snapback” return to the sanctions—which could take months of negotiations among P5+1 partners. What’s more, at the instant sanctions are reinstituted, Iran has the right to abandon the entire agreement, flip its centrifuge switches and return to full-speed nuclear weapons development. By then it will have collected its $150-billion reward and have little left to lose, but a nuclear arsenal to gain. With such stakes, it’s certain no Western nation will want to upend the agreement for the kind of small, consistent incremental violations that have characterized so much of Iran’s cheating in the past. We can also be sure that once British, French, German and Russian firms have lined up multi-billion-dollar oil and weapons contracts with Iran, they will be reluctant to kill those lucrative programs by reinstituting sanctions.

In short, if Iranians are determined to cheat, as they surely are, this deal leaves U.S. allies no means to catch them or force them to comply. Only if the U.S. Congress defeats the Iran Deal can the international community avoid a nuclear-armed terror state—and the near certainty of a Middle East or world war. Call your Sentators and Representative to voice your opposition today: (202) 225-3121.

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fessor, said that in his courses, a student’s religious beliefs can be the most sensitive issue that he faces in his classroom.

“Students typically keep an open mind coming into these courses, so I haven’t run into any major problems just yet,” Puryear said Puryear said if he had to avoid certain discussions to cater to student sensitivities, the course would not have the same value for students.

“It would be very difficult to teach the course material under constraints,” Puryear said. “I believe these topics can be discussed in a way that doesn’t upset people.”

Puryear said he usually presents his courses in a way that balances out controversial thinking with the more traditional.

“Obviously we have to be respectful and sensitive,” Puryear said. “If a course didn’t have a built-in balance then I would look to add some.”

With artistic expression, it can be tough to draw a line and establish what is and isn’t appropriate.

This struggle is consistently present than in the classroom. Thomas Lisk, an English professor with an interest in poetry said he does not alter the content of his courses in favor of sensitivity.

In fact, he embraces the challenging subjects and believes that tackling and dealing with them in an effective way is an important part of the collegiate experience.

“To not take up a subject seems to be a slippery slope in this case,” Lisk said.

Lisk said that he brings up some sensitive material for the purpose of challenging students’ intellectual boundaries. He discusses a poem by Amiri Baraka called “A Poem for Black Hearts” that delves into issues of race relations in America in an unrelenting style. The poem builds upon the racial tensions in America and the need for change, culminating in the author stating that if the movement for equality failed then they deserve that “white men call us faggots till the end of the earth.” Lisk believes that censoring this piece and not discussing it in an intellectual atmosphere would do more harm than good.

“These things don’t go away just because we don’t talk about them,” Lisk said. “I think this discussion of political correctness reminds us that we need to bring up the stuff that needs discussing.”

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will vote on the winner, who will receive a prize of $1,000 that they can put toward their idea.

Greer said the goal of Entrepalooza is to show the Wolfpack community that students from different academic disciplines can leverage each other’s talents and skills to create something even bigger than if you did it on your own.

“In the past, we’ve had some lectures, but with Entrepalooza we want to flip the script and give NC State student entrepreneurs the opportunity to be the main event, and to showcase their ideas and what they’re

working on.”

The concept for Entrepalooza first came about after the Lulu eGames last April, and the Entrepreneurship Initiative team has been working hard throughout the summer to take it from an idea into reality.

“We have a great team, and like all good entrepreneurs, you have to have a good team,” Greer said. It really is a group effort because we all bring different talents and skills to the table, we work in collaboration and we try to practice what we preach.”

To learn more and register to attend, visit ei.ncsu.edu/entrepalooza. The event is free and open to the public. The Entrepreneurship Initiative will run a free shuttle to Entrepalooza from the Talley Student Union.

Pick-up starts at 5:15 p.m. and the last dropoff after the event is 8:15 p.m.

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garding the leadership opportunities available to students on campus, including opportunities in Student Government, Student Media and the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Service.

“There aren’t as many students from diverse backgrounds taking advantage of these opportunities,” Jackson said.

Toni Thorpe, the program coordinator of the African American Cultural Center better known to students as “Mama Thorpe,” echoed Jackson’s encouragement for attendees to get involved.

“You have heard the call of the community in your heart and your head,” Thorpe said. “Govern yourself accordingly.”

During the event, African-American student leaders were asked to get on stage and introduce themselves after which all first-time attendees were encouraged to stand and introduce themselves.

“We welcome everyone,” Harris said. “Don’t be afraid to come here and take your shoes off.”

Toward the end of the evening, all attendees stood and held hands in a large circle. Lifting their arms as they chanted, participants yelled “Harambee” seven times holding the final yell for as long as possible to symbolize that “we will work until we are exhausted,” according to Thorpe.

Thorpe, who will complete 25 years working at NC State in November and 14 years with the African American Cultural Center, is responsible for having coined the event “Harambee.”

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Carolina in the redistricting case, pointed out to NPR in April that lawmakers in both states focused on hitting certain percentages.

“The court made clear that using racial targets in redistricting was not constitutional,” Earls said.

Earls explained that the redistricting practices involved going block by block to put black voters into fewer districts in order to “get a Republican majority” in the following election.

“This practice breaks apart the biracial coalitions that we have grown over time and says to voters that ‘white voters will vote for the one person and black voters only vote for another’ and we know that’s not true,” Earls said.

Earls, who was present for the first day of proceedings on Monday, said that the defense is using the arbitrary compliance with the VRA in the form of manipulating some districts to have a black majority say that they cannot be found to be discriminating on the basis of race.

“America is going backwards in terms of voting rights,” Barber said. “Standing here tonight, 25 days after the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, we have less voting right protections right now than we had 50 years ago.”

The Civil Rights Act of 1965 required that lawmakers in states that have a history of discriminating against minority voters obtain federal permission before changing voting rules. In June of last year, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to overturn this section of the Voting Rights Act that allowed GOP lawmakers across the United States to implement House Bill 589, which added new voting restrictions.

“To think that we have extremists that have retrogressed should be deeply concerning,” Barber said. “They thought that we would bow down, lay down and roll over. They didn’t know about the NAACP; they didn’t know the Forward Together movement; they didn’t understand Democracy NC; they didn’t know that a law firm would come along and offer us free representation.”

Bob Hall, executive director at Democracy North Carolina, said that throughout the

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The audience engages in an important group ritual which forms an integral part of Harambee.

mission of the center but also represented the NC State community,” Thorpe said. “Harambee has an Afrocentric foundation and a Wolfpack foundation.”

The program was designed to be Afrocentric, and for this reason, throughout the evening, attendees practiced a form of applause which had a particular rhythm in order to exchange the energy of those clapping to those whom receive the applause, according to Harris.

While a majority of students were AfricanAmerican, several participants spoke of the importance of being an inclusive community.

“Harambee is open to everyone, not just African-American students,” said Shealynn Womble, a senior studying middle grades and language arts and a four-year attendee. “It’s a welcome to everyone with a taste for African culture.”

The event opened with a call of drums played

by Carlos McClaney, a senior studying technology, design and engineering education; Ade Adesina, a sophomore studying communication; and Kevin Ohuoba, a sophomore studying accounting.

Matthew Wright, a sophomore studying graphic design, later sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” a song he said has often been dubbed as the “Negro National Anthem.”

While Harambee is largely an event sponsored to encourage students to become familiar with the African American Cultural Center, many in attendance agreed the event has come to mean much more to their community.

“Harambee is very important because it builds a sense of belonging, consistency, support, awareness and involvement in our community,” Womble said.

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Toni Thorpe, an ambassador of African American Cultural Center, welcomes guests at Harambee. Harambee is the Swahili word meaning ‘let us come together.’ Each fall at Harambee, the African American Cultural Center welcomes new members into the community and introduces them to student leaders, faculty, staff, students and administrators. The event took place at Washington Sankofa room at Witherspoon Student Center on Tuesday.

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20th century, North Carolina was consistently amongst the bottom 12 states for voter turnout but that provisions put in place in the early 2000s were bringing North Carolina’s numbers back up.

“In 2002, early voting started to bring our numbers back up,” Hall said. “In 2004, we introduced Sunday voting. In 2007 we got same-day registration, and that was massive.”

Of those who participated in the 2012 presidential election, 70 percent of voters in North Carolina took advantage of early voting and nearly 103,000 people were able to vote thanks to same-day registration. Without the overturning of House Bill 589, it’s unlikely to see these types of numbers in the 2016 presidential election, according to Hall.

“I had to ask all of these Republicans, why don’t you spend more time bringing people into politics instead of pushing away people?”

Hall said.

Barber said that this dismantling of voter rights in North Carolina is not only detrimental to voter turnout but also to the legacy of the civil rights movement.

“These provisions were put in place to help people overcome the barriers that once existed,” Barber said. “It’s like going down to the grave of my grandmamma, to my daddy’s grave, digging up the body and spreading the bones and saying we don’t care what it costs to get here.”

Danita Jones, a North Carolina attorney, said that right now, everyone is simply waiting on a decision from Judge Schroder.

“In a perfect world — in a utopia — we would be successful in all of our claims which means that there would be a repeal of House Bill 589,” Jones said.

In a less perfect world, when the NAACP’s claims are not successful, Jones said that the floodgates of voter suppression would open throughout the United States and voter turnout amongst minorities and majorities alike would continue to decrease.

“Voting rights are a weighty matter,” Barber said. “And when you undermine voting rights you are undermining the very foundations of our democracy. When the dust settles, justice will rise, and we will win.”

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an is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?” These words come from the mouth of Friedrich Nietzsche’s prophet, Zarathustra. Zarathustra Daniel J. speaks of the Übermensch Root or superman, the ultimate Staff Columnist goal of human evolution.

“What is the ape to man?” asks Zarathustra. “A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just the same shall man be to the Übermensch ... You have made your way from worm to man, and much within you is still worm. Once you were apes, and even yet man is more of an ape than any ape … Behold, I teach you the Übermensch! The Übermensch is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Übermensch shall be the meaning of the earth!”

I bring up Nietzsche’s Übermensch because there is a Zarathustra in our presence today.

Zoltan Istvan, besides having what might be the best name ever, is a philosopher and futurist. Not only that, but he is running for president in 2016 under the Transhumanist Party.

Transhumanism is a movement dedicated to transcending the human condition through the use of science and technology. It is difficult to draw the line of demarcation for what constitutes the point of human transcendence. As Istvan said in a BuzzFeed interview, “Transhumanism is whatever you … want to think about. Is it the first time we picked up a rock and made an axe, or is it really a jet airplane flying at 30,000 feet?”

However, the common understanding of transhumanism is something akin to a cyborg, a person whose use of bodily technology has made his humanity ambiguous. Cyborgs are still things of imagination, but there are some precursors today, such as artificial limbs, hip replacements and perhaps even Google Glass.

As a presidential candidate, Istvan is “hoping to change the world and usher in an age where science, technology and the right to do with your body what you want are not at odds with American culture,” according to a post by Istvan on the Gizmodo blog. “Unfortunately, on many counts, transhumanism is at odds with our national culture … Most Americans just don’t care about the goals of transhumanism. Many subscribe to what I call a ‘deathist’ culture, where they insist we must follow the rules of the Bible, die and go to heaven to meet Jesus,” Istvan wrote.

Istvan describes himself as an atheist, and if elected, he would be the first openly nonreligious president. However, Istvan says, “I still insist my campaign and the Transhumanist Party welcome all religions and try to be respectful and open-minded of people’s beliefs.

After all, transhumanism is possibly the least discriminatory philosophy out there — it accepts anyone who wants to be a part of it.”

The most ambitious goal of transhumanism is the conquest of death. Indeed, Istvan has even said that “the number one goal of transhumanism is … to conquer death.” But that sounds a bit far-fetched. Even if science could extend life expectancy ad infinitum, who would want to live forever?

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This seems to be a point about which even Istvan seems hesitant. “I’m not saying let’s live forever,” he said. “I think what we want is the choice to be able to live indefinitely.

That might be 10,000 years; that might only be 170 years.”

Immortality would be a logistic nightmare.

The only possible way it could be sustainable would be to prevent future births. Otherwise the planet would quickly become overpopulated. Even if humans began populating other planets, the population would continue to grow at an unsustainable rate.

Additionally, it has been argued that mortality is the foundation for morality. It is this connection that John Gardner makes in “Grendel” when he writes that a character “built this hall by the power of his songs: created with casual words its grave mor(t) ality.” It is possible that morality stems from a perceived vulnerability (i.e. morality allows for teamwork, which increases the odds for survival). Yet, as long as the immortality is not permanent (i.e. one can be killed), its effect on morality should not be an issue.

The biggest problem would be apathy. Life eternal would be extremely tedious. Eventually one would reach the point where there would be nothing new left to do. Humans would be able to say, in unison with Douglas Adams’ Marvin the paranoid android, “The first 10 million years were the worst, and the second 10 million years, they were the worst too. The third 10 million years I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.”

As John Stuart Mill suggests, “It seems to me not only possible but probable, that … not annihilation but immortality may be the burdensome idea; and that human nature, though pleased with the present, and by no means impatient to quit it, would find comfort and not sadness in the thought that it is not chained through eternity to a conscious existence which it cannot be assured that it will always wish to preserve.” Indeed, our lust for life is given by our mortality.

Despite the hopes of transhumanists everywhere, Istvan stands no chance of becoming president. In fact, it is doubtful whether a third-party could ever put a candidate into the White House.

But Istvan is smart enough to realize the impossibility of his presidency. Istvan’s true goal in running is not to win, but to spread his message to a broader audience. He wants Americans to be aware of transhumanism so that they can pressure the next president to put into effect transhumanist policies. Immortality is unlikely to become a reality, but increased technological and scientific research should be on the agenda regardless of who is president.

We must continue to move forward; indeed progress is the essence of life. Zarathustra says, “All beings so far have created something beyond themselves: and you want to be the ebb of that great tide, and would rather go back to the beast than overcome man?”

Man shall be overcome. Transhumanism shall succeed someday. But some things, like death, are here to stay.

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Re: Higher Education In regard to Mr. Becker’s “How to begin thinking differently about higher education,” one must start with the obvious. Does Mr. Becker carry with him a dictionary? Or rather, is Mr. Becker familiar with William F. Buckley’s linguistic maxim “An unusual word, in a verbally demanding environment, comes at you more aggressively.”? My intent is not to arraign Mr. Becker for the usage of such protracted prose, but merely to raise the conclusion I believe, if I may speak on behalf, we as readers came to: “What exactly did I just read?” It seems Mr. Becker has mastered the art of going around his elbow to get to his thumb. Perhaps that reveals that he is a closeted politician. Whatever the case may be, Mr. Becker has assured us, “Bear with me; I’ll try to explain away your worries in a future article.” We can only hope so.

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Sarah Ishida, graduate student studying technical communication

Do not shy away from our history I

n late July, the College Board, the nonprofit organization that controls all Advanced Placement courses and exams, rewrote the guidelines for the AP U.S. history test. The mainstream media accused them of “bowing to conservatism,” as the guidlines were rewritten because of the large amount of public criticism.

Ziyi Mai The skirmish between Staff Columnist the two political spectrums stemmed from the 2014 guidelines for the AP history test. After teachers complained the older version of guidelines forced them to rush through topics, the College Board revised them. The new guidelines focused on U.S. history as a series of conflicts over power, emphasizing race, gender and crimes against Native Americans, and not mentioning important historical figures — such as Benjamin Franklin and Martin Luther King Jr., who played crucial roles in pressing history forward.

In response to criticism of the 2014 version, this year’s revisions included substantial changes. National identity and unity, the celebrated ideal of liberty, founding political leaders, founding documents and the roles of free enterprise have been added to the newer version. This series of changes is seen as a big win for conservatives, who want the guidelines to address the positive aspects of history.

Conservative leaders had pushed hard to get the College Board to revise the history guidelines. Former Vice President Dick Cheney issued an open letter opposing the 2014 framework, arguing that it posed “a grave new risk” to the study of American history. Ben Carson, the 2016 Republican presidential candidate, said that most people who complete the course would be “ready to sign up for ISIS.” It is true that Republicans and conservatives pushed for the changes, but to interpret this as a political battle between liberals and conservatives to go in a dangerous direction.

The fundamental pillar of history education is getting the facts right. It is often said that victors write history, but that’s not entirely true.

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After the Revolutionary War, the British didn’t teach their children Britain voluntarily gave America its independence. That wouldn’t be factual. Moreover, even after getting the facts right, education in history could still run into the risk of cherry-picking historic events or figures in favor of populism or special interests.

There have been many afflictions of humanity, conflicts over power and crimes against minorities since this country was founded.

We should not shy away from telling the next generation about the evils of slavery, the Trail of Tears and oppression of women and apartheid.

The implications of this darkness also reveal other traditions of the American history: rule of law and desperate pursuit of freedom.

Each of those conflicts were resolved within the framework of rule of law. The case of Dred Scott v. Sanford was a step backward, but the 13th and 14th Amendments corrected it once and for all. And without our freedom-loving tradition, the civil rights movement and pursuing women’s right to vote would never have happened.

History is an evolving process. Judging the past by modern standards is certainly a frightening proposition. The ideas conveyed in our founding documents, such as the Constitution and the Federalists Papers, are more conservative than today’s Tea Party. From a liberal’s eyes, almost all the founding fathers were Republicans, including Alexander Hamilton, because all of them were extremely suspicious of government power and afraid of authoritarianism. Though the federal government continued to expand during the last century, in opposition to the wills of the founders, it is still necessary to educate students on the founding history of our nation and require them to read classics written by the founders. People may interpret particularly historic events differently and draw varying implications, but that should not stop students from exploring the past and the truth.

As former President Ronald Reagan said, “If we forget what we did, we won’t know who we are.” Let’s not shy away from what happened in our country’s history.

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Online marketplace launches at NC State campus Zoe Phinazee Correspondent

Tradeversity is launching a new app for NC State this fall.

In order to make some spare change or get rid of old stuff, many college students try to sell used textbooks, furniture and appliances.

Mike Meyers, co-founder and CEO of Tradeversity, realized this trend among students and created an online marketplace for students where they can buy and sell just about whatever they are looking for.

Tradeversity’s free mobile app is a safer, more localized marketplace exclusive to college students, according to Meyers. Tradeversity began as a website but has now grown to be a smartphone application as well.

“It’s a place for students to find what they need for apartments or classes,” Meyers said. “Listing an item on Tradeversity is as easy as Instagramming your lunch for the day.”

With Tradeversity, students can use their phones to snap a picture, give a 140-character description and categorize and price it, all on one screen, according to Meyers.

“It’s not like an auctioning site,” said Lauren Harper, public relations and communications for Tradeversity. “It works like first come, first serve, but you can direct message students and bargain on prices.”

Meyers launched Tradeversity after noticing a need

for an online marketplace where students could easily buy and sell items while he was a student at the University of South Carolina.

“If you look at every successful company, there’s a problem they tried to find a solution to,” Meyers said.

“In school, fall September 2013, I was a student at USC just trying to sell items laying around, trying to make money to cover expenses.”

Meyers identified the three different outlets students mostly use to buy and sell items — eBay, Craigslist and Facebook — and he marked the flaws in each.

“There’s eBay, but the problem with that is that it’s an international site,” Meyers said. “There’s Craigslist, but you never know who you’re selling to. And then people also try to sell items on Facebook. The problem with [Facebook] is that it’s a social network. Every time you post something, it gets lost in the pages. So when I saw other USC students on Facebook who couldn’t sell their items, that’s why we created Tradeversity.”

Tradeversity started out as a simple platform where sellers listed their items, but has since grown.

“The app that we’re pushing now basically has all the features that our users from USC asked for, and we put it into an IOS iPhone app, Android app and then also a new website,” Meyers said.

In addition to NC State, Tradeversity is also launching at Virginia Tech, James Madison and, of course, the

University of South Carolina.

In the future, Tradeversity plans to expand campus marketplaces to include other universities in close proximity, but for now, NC State students will only be able to buy and sell with other NC State students.

Tradeversity decided to launch a marketplace at NC State mainly because of the amount of students who reached out to the company.

At Packapalooza, more than 400 NC State students signed up for information about the application, according to Meyers.

“We had about 30 schools reach out to us,” Meyers said.

“We chose NC State because it’s a large school; it’s a very good school. The quality of the students is very high, and we think we can make a good impact here.”

Mike and others on the team at Tradeversity said they felt they really connected to the students at NC State.

Harper agreed that NC State would be an ideal campus to launch Tradeversity.

“We know there’s always a need for it on campus, and we just figured NC State would be a great place to bring our service to,” Harper said.

Not only was the Tradeversity team encouraged to come to NC State to market the application, but it was also working to bring people to its team as brand ambassadors or other student jobs.

“A big part of our company is creating jobs for students

HOPSCOTCH BAND PROFILE Pusha T

Charles Morse Underground Director Pusha T is a hip-hop veteran who has stayed relevant for more than a decade without crazy marketing schemes, endorsements or toned down lyrics. In a genre that has had a love-hate relationship with toughdelivered lyrics in recent years, Pusha T has managed to spit some of the hardest bars in the game. He undeniably carries the torch into the new generation of hip-hop as the boss of “coke rap.”

Pusha T and his brother, No Malice, emerged onto the Hip-Hop scene in the late 90s as the hailed duo, Clipse.

With the help of Pharrell Williams, they were signed to Elektra Records in 1997, and released “Exclusive Audio Footage.” Clipse made a major dent in mainstream hip-hop during the early 2000s with an appearance on Justin Timberlake’s first cross-over hit, “Like I Love You” and their goldselling album “Lord Willin’.” “Lord Willin’” had some of their most wellknown tracks, including “Grindin.’”

Pusha T started to accumulate more respect among hip-hop loyalists in the 2000s. Clipse was bounced from label to label in a storm of industry politics, which caused their second album, “Hell Hath No Fury” to be delayed for almost three years. Upon its release in November 2006, it had subpar sales, but was lauded by critics as one of the best albums of the year.

It received the rare “XXL” rating from XXL Magazine, and was called “one of the best coke rap albums of all time”

by Rhapsody.

After a few years of obscurity, Pusha T and his brother musically split ways, and Pusha’s career skyrocketed. He signed with Kanye West’s G.O.O.D.

Music imprint in 2010 and had one of the most successful years out of any rapper. The Kanye association put him front and center to the masses as a revered spitter, crushing tracks on other rappers’ albums (including Kanye’s), and making himself one of the most sought-after featuring artists through the early 2010s.

After signing with Def Jam in 2011, Pusha T released “Fear of God II,” a sequel to his critically acclaimed mixtape, “Fear of God.” “FOGII” was a Billboard success that cemented everything he started with G.O.O.D. Music. In 2012, he was heavily featured in the G.O.O.D. Music compilation Cruel Summer,” on smash hits like “New God Flow” and “Mercy” alongside the likes of rap giants such as Ghostface Killa.

In 2013, he released his first solo studio album called “My Name is My Name.” The album was produced by hip-hop’s most prestigious producers, including NO I.D., Kanye West, Pharrell Williams and Swizz Beats, and had features from Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, and Kendrick Lamar. It stands as one of the best albums of the decade.

Pusha T is a hip-hop head’s emcee. He’s in that special niche of rappers who have seen commercial success but remain strongly rooted in underground culture via his personality and his music. His live performances are known to be really energetic, and his cult following will be sure to be a great crowd to be in the middle of. This is one of Hopscotch’s best picks for rappers to hit the stage at the festival.

Pusha T will perform at Lincoln Theatre, Friday night at 12:30 a.m.

For more Hopscotch band profiles and Hopscotch tips, check out WKNC’s blog: http://blog.wknc.org/

and encouraging student entrepreneurship,” Meyers said.

Tradeversity has been doing well in comparison to its competitors, Classy Mobile and CollegeCrap.

Classy was Tradeversity’s biggest competitor, but the company recently went out of business, according to Meyers. However, Tradeversity is not much different from these apps. A buying-and-selling college student application is not a revolutionary idea.

“Every student is trying to build something like this,” Meyers said. “Seeing all these competitors pop up is only validation that we’re doing the right thing. What makes us different is that the others are just websites, not apps.

It’s like Craigslist — you list your item and hope it sells. We’re trying to build a community. We learn the behavior process of each user, so for example if a student is constantly looking for something, we’ll notify them if it’s listed. We want to be a service, rather than just, ‘hey you can list your item here.’”

Tradeversity tries to be as secure as possible for its users.

“Unfortunately, safety is something you can’t guarantee anywhere,” Meyers said.

“We require all users to have email, so you’ll have an idea of who you’re dealing with like peers on campus.”

Students can upload profile photos, rate others and, most importantly, direct

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A behind-the-scenes look at Hopscotch Music Festival Emma Cathell Features Editor

Hopscotch Music Festival, a massive attraction in downtown Raleigh each year, is filled with all the music genres one can imagine.

Raleigh will play host to the festival Sept. 10-12.

Its inception came at the mind and hands of Greg Lowenhagen in September 2010. During this time, Lowenhagen wrote for the INDY Week, and he had a desire to highlight bands from the Triangle area. Although Hopscotch has reached a national, and even international level of interest, the festival still features several bands from North Carolina.

“The idea from the start was to integrate Triangle musicians, and, also, it’s grown to the coast of North Carolina, the mountains, Charlotte, other places,” Lowehnhagen said. “The local aspect has been a huge part of what we’ve done from the beginning, and we haven’t strayed from that one bit.”

Nathan Price, Hopscotch talent coordinator, said about one-third of the bands they book are from North Carolina or the mid-Atlantic area.

“We do that on purpose for sure,” Price said. “That’s where we’re from. I go to a lot of shows with all these bands all year round, so we definitely want to make sure everyone’s a part of it come September.”

The process of planning Hopscotch is not an easy process, according to Lowenhagen and Price. After about two weeks of reviewing and accounting the music festival, the Hopscotch team starts planning the next Hopscotch. Having to contact, coordinate, schedule and organize about 140 bands, along with the 12 venues and other Hopscotch

events, is a lot for a staff to do, especially with only two full-time and 15 part-time employees, working inside of Lowenhagen’s kitchen.

“It’s kind of like doing a giant puzzle every year,” Lowenhagen said. “It’s kind of fun, and it’s kind of frustrating, just like a puzzle.”

Once the lineup is decided, the staff releases it between mid-April and mid-May. Then by mid-summer, they release the Hopscotch schedule. However, the lineup can still change a lot, according to Lowenhagen. For instance, experimental noise rock band Deerhunter was one of this year’s headliners for the music festival. A change of plans for the Hopscotch team occurred when Deerhunter canceled their performance.

“We booked Deerhunter … pretty far in advance, and we announced it early in the year,” Price said. “So things changed between when we announced the lineup and when they were planning on touring. [Originally] they thought they were going to be doing some festivals, but they decided to hold off, and we were lucky enough to have Ought step in, and they seem really excited to come play.”

In order to choose which 140 bands perform at the three-day music festival, Lowenhagen, Price and the other staff must sift through thousands of submissions throughout the year. Not only are the staff of Hopscotch reaching out to managers, bands and artists, but the bands and artists reach out to the Hopscotch staff as well.

“I’d say we get 1,500 to 2,000 submissions a year from different bands … sometimes five to eight submissions a day,” Lowenhagen said. “It’s not like Prince has called and said, ‘Hey, we want to play at Hopscotch,” but there are many, many bands

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Loamlands performs at the Lincoln Theatre in downtown Raleigh during Hopscotch Music Festival Friday, September 5, 2014.

Loamlands is a local band from Durham, NC.

now that are familiar with the festival. They’ve either heard about it from friends who have played there before, or they’re aware through the Internet or the world out there. So there tends to be a pretty positive reaction if we contact someone asking them to be a part of it.”

One strategy the Hopscotch team uses while choosing the artists for the festival is looking at an artist’s album release, according to Price.

“We try to book bands that are releasing records leading up to the festival,” Price said. “So this year we have Bully, who we booked at Slims headlining Thursday night, and as it got closer, it kind of became apparent that they were maybe too big for that space and that we might have overbooked and created a line out the door, so Greg was able to get them to come a day early and play Design at the free block party.”

However, the planning, coordinating and organizing certainly does not stop for Lowenhagen, Price and the rest of the staff once Hopscotch begins. If anything, it

can get even more intense, according to Lowenhagen.

“You can only be at one place at once,” Lowenhagen said. “There’s so much going on with the 12 venues, and then the Convention Center, and all the Day Party locations and all these things. But really, you’re just focused on keeping the bands on time, keeping people safe, making sure everyone seems like they’re having fun. We set this environment that hopefully is a blank canvas for everyone to go crazy and have a good time at.”

Lowenhagen said that Hopscotch Music Festival’s main goal is to become sustainable.

Hopscotch has never been in a place that it’s automatically going to happen the following year, so we just put all of our energy into the actual weekend, hope that it works out enough so that I don’t lose enough money to stop doing it,” Lowenhagen said.

“It would be fun to plan 2016 knowing that 2017 is going to happen. We’ve never done that … so that’s why it feels carefree, weird and risky. It’s just fun the weekend we have

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Toon and The Real Laww perform on Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014 at Hopscotch Music Festival. In its fifth year, the festival features a variety of local bands and some bigger names such as Spoon, St. Vincent and De La Soul.

it.”

With all of the running around the Hopscotch staff does during the music festival, Lowenhagen and Price said they aren’t actually able to attend many of the concerts, but that doesn’t take the fun out of the festival for them.

“I think the most fun part comes from knowing other people are having fun,” Lowenhagen said. “Everyone seems like they’re having an

excellent time during Hopscotch, and I think … we all feed off that energy and have fun …. For the most part, it’s not about seeing music during Hopscotch; we have the rest of the year to try to see music. It’s more about making sure everyone else is having a good time.”

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work, and this team could be dangerous in a short time.

Miami Al Golden enters the season on the possibly the second hottest seat in the nation, behind another team’s coach on this list. The Hurricanes have had talent across the board and have largely underachieved, finishing 6-7 last year, including 3-5 in the ACC. The Canes have star quarterback Brad Kaaya back for another season, and the secondary is talented, but a brutal schedule that features in order: Nebraska, at Cincinnati, at Florida State, Virginia Tech, Clemson and at Duke will most likely sink them.

North Carolina Every year, the Tar Heels are pegged to be the sleeper team in the ACC with the chance to break into contender status, and it seems like every year they underachieve and finish 6-6 or close to it. We won’t break the jinx. Behind star quarterback Marquise Williams and a tal-

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ented wide receiver corps and backfield, the Tar Heels have the chance to be a good team in 2015. The defense has to improve this season and probably couldn’t get any worse. Defensive coordinator Vic Koenning is gone, and the Tar Heels should improve behind new defensive coordinator Gene Chizik’s 4-3 defense.

Virginia Virginia head coach Mike London may be the only coach in the nation with a hotter seat than Al Golden and with good reason. A 23-38 record in five years doesn’t exactly instill job security. The Cavaliers named Matt Johns their starting quarterback for 2015, and his 6-foot-5 frame and passing ability should help the Cavs a little this season. The Cavs have holes all over the place and did themselves no favors by setting up a brutal schedule. The Cavaliers would’ve been much better suited for a schedule akin to NC State’s instead of the horror show that features UCLA, Notre Dame and Boise State.

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utes to four forwards, the starting pair of sophomore Ryan Peterson and freshman Tanner Roberts, and the secondary pairing of Taiwo and grad student Phil Carmon, a program veteran.

“Off the field we’re good friends,” said Taiwo when asked about his relationship with his strike partner. “Phil was one of the main people who welcomed me into the team, so we have a good connection on the field. I like to come in, and he likes to run behind, so that partnership

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really makes a dynamic duo.”

With a year to watch and learn the game from the sidelines, the forward has developed the intellectual side of his game and has lost the nerves that made him sometimes try to do too much individually as a freshman.

“On the field I’m just trying not to rush it,” he said. “I know last year, my first year, I had jitters. You want to be the big impact player on campus, but it’s a team game. You just do your part, the team does its part, and hopefully you come together for a win.”

Love for the team has come to the forefront of his priorities, Taiwo said.

“Off the field I’m doing well with encouraging my teammates because I was out for a long time,” Taiwo said.

“During that time that’s one thing you want to focus on is making sure you’re encouraging other players. So, when your time comes, they’re encouraging you.”

A healthy Taiwo gives Findley and the Pack a new dimension up front. His physical attributes make him a terrifying prospect for most defenses to handle while his excellent foot skills and renewed focus allow him to set up teammates.

“We think Ade has some special qualities,” Findley

said. “We look forward to seeing him get all the way healthy, which he’s really close to, but he needs to be game fit, too. He’s had a big impact on the game.”

For Taiwo, the goal is simple: stay healthy.

“This year I just want to make it through the full season,” he said. “As a team, get wins, bond together, come together, so it makes a good going into the next year and the year after that, and it just keeps going and going. Hopefully we become a powerhouse again.”

ball players, which is a big problem. Although plenty of players come on scholarship, walk-ons do not. The whole idea reeks of indentured servitude.

The NCAA already enforces a strict policy that restricts athletes from receiv-

ing money for autographs or memorabilia, but a fine system could force more players to attempt under-the-table, cash-for-favors deals. After all, if the programs are profit-motivated, should athletes not be expected to act the same?

Even Babcock said that though Virginia Tech discontinued its fine system, they are probably not the only school that is doing this. So while this may be finished for Virginia Tech, the problem is far from over for the NCAA.

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For sophomore Ade Taiwo, getting on the field for the NC State men’s soccer team has not come easily.

Just after winning the 2012-13 North Carolina Gatorade Player of the Year award after his junior year at Cardinal Gibbons High School and verbally committing to NC State, Taiwo tore his ACL. He spent the next year rehabbing, enrolling in State in January 2014.

By the time the fall season rolled around, Taiwo was healthy enough to take on a starting role, and Wolfpack fans got a glimpse of the Raleigh native’s power and athleticism that made him a force in high school. However, Taiwo’s growth into the elite center forward needed to replace outgoing senior Nick Surkamp stalled again, when he re-injured his ACL after just five regular season matches.

Nearly a year later, Taiwo has returned to the rotation of forwards head coach Kelly Findley has entrusted to lead the Wolfpack back into the upper half of the ACC, but the coaching staff has restricted his time on the field to aid his recovery.

“I want to rush back because that’s just the player I am, but the coaches are doing well with playing me a few minutes here and there so I get my

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Sophomore forward Ade Taiwo runs with the ball, keeping it away from College of Charleston’s Lorenz Esposito at Dail Soccer Stadium Monday. The Wolfpack defeated the Cougars 2-0 in Raleigh after the two teams had their game in Charleston canceled on Sunday.

health back 100 percent,” Taiwo said.

Even in those few minutes on the field, Taiwo has shown tremendous growth as a player and has made his presence felt. The 6-foot-2, 185-pound striker is a physically dominant player, but he has offered far more than pace and strength to the lineup.

While he bullies defenders and offers an instant outlet since he can hold off the opposition and remain in control of the ball, Taiwo shows guile as

well. The smooth left-footer can strike the ball in a variety of ways, making him a gifted playmaker on the field.

In one sequence against College of Charleston, for example, Taiwo received the ball with his back to goal near midfield while holding off two defenders, turned and hit a 30yard pass with the outside of his left foot into freshman right back Simon Blotko’s stride, which allowed the defender to sprint forward and join

the attack.

“Here, they teach you, ‘what we try to do is get the ball in behind,’ but you have to mix it up a little,” Taiwo said.

“So, sometimes I’ll run behind, and sometimes I’ll come in and connect with other players because that opens up space for other players out wide.”

So far, Findley has given big min-

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QUOTE OF THE DAY “You just do your part, the team does its part, and hopefully you come together for a win.”

Ade Taiwo Sophomore forward, men’s soccer

Fining unpaid student-athletes is ridiculous Last Thursday was just another day for me, right up until about 5 p.m, when I read a story that I thought was so ludicrous that I assumed it had to be one of those satirical pieces from Joseph ClickHole or The Ochoa Onion.

Staff Writer “Virginia Tech Football Players Apparently Assessed Fines for Missing Meals, Class, Study Hall,” read the headline in the Richmond TimesDispatch, and I was disgusted to learn this was not fake and was confirmed by Bleacher Report, SB Nation and other news outlets.

If a player missed a class that met three times week, the fine was $30, and missing a class that met once a week resulted in a $90 penalty.

Being late for study hall drew a $5

fine, and missing study hall, which was later than five minutes, was a $10 fine.

Other infractions included $50 fines for having a dirty room or locker and $100 for incurring a flagrant/ unsportsmanlike penalty. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, it remains unclear if the fines were actually levied or who or how the structure originated.

Student-athletes are not paid, and while whether or not they should be paid is an argument for another day, fining an unpaid member of a team seems dubious at best, and given these same student-athletes generate millions of dollars in revenue for schools and top programs, it feels like something someone would read about Amazon employees, not football programs that promote building relationships with student-athletes.

Frank Beamer, Virginia Tech’s head coach and someone I assume

was at least aware of what transpired under his leadership, dismissed questions regarding the fines and said the team is only focused on beginning the season in the next few days.

“That’s over and done with, and we are approaching Ohio State now,” he said.

Whit Babcock, the athletic director of Virginia Tech, went on the record saying he had no prior knowledge about the fine system but went on to state that the system has been discontinued “effective immediately.”

I can understand Babcock not knowing about the system. He’s head of the entire athletic department and has to make sure he knows what’s going on in all the sports, even the ones that don’t generate more than $21 million in revenue that football and basketball rake in each year according to Techsideline.com.

The fact this existed disgusts me to my core, and it’s telling how swift

both Beamer and Babcock reacted to squashing the program.

Bud Foster, defensive coordinator for the Hokies, gave probably the most haunting statement about fining players, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He stated players could potentially be fined out of the cost of attendance for the athlete.

“We are going to look into doing that,” Foster said. “You need discipline, and that’s one way of doing that.”

Foster is not the only coach who believes this. University of Cincinnati head football coach Tommy Tuberville has been on the record stating he wants to withhold cost of attendance money of students who commit off-field infractions, according to Joe Schad of ESPN. The fact that there is more than one

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ACC Football: Breaking down the Coastal Division Christian Candeloro Staff Writer

With the college football season now only a day away, the Technician continues its preview of the ACC by taking a look at the Coastal Division.

Yesterday we took a look at the Atlantic and determined that Clemson and Florida State were the clear frontrunners in a division that has been topheavy for years.

The Coastal, on the other hand, has been a crapshoot for predictors on a week-to-week basis. Georgia Tech enters the 2015 season as the favorite to be the Coastal’s representative in the ACC Championship Game this season, but cases can be made for every other team on this list. Here’s what you need to know about the ACC Coastal Division.

Georgia Tech It seems like every time someone questions Paul Johnson and the triple option, the Yellow Jackets have a great season, and all the doubters are immediately proved wrong. Now the next question arises: Can the triple

option sustain a championship run?

The Yellow Jackets have a star quarterback in junior Justin Thomas, a natural fit for the option who ran for more than 1,000 yards in 2014. The Yellow Jackets had the best offense statistically in 2014, and there is no reason to think that will change this season. The defense struggled mightily last season, however, allowing 411.3 yards per game.

Virginia Tech The Hokies have drawn significant praise across the nation, with many predicting the offense will finally catch up with their highly skilled defense. Quarterback Michael Brewer returns for his senior season and has weapons in sophomore pass-catchers Isaiah Ford, Cam Phillips and Bucky Hodges.

The defense is anchored by the defensive line, which returns senior defensive end Dadi Nicolas and junior defensive end Ken Ekanem, who combined for 18.5 sacks and 33 tackles for loss last season. The secondary features stud junior cornerback Kendall Fuller, another in the long list of

Fullers to play at Virginia Tech. The Hokies have potential in 2015, but another upset of Ohio State is unlikely and the Coastal is too unpredictable to pencil them in as a contender.

Duke The Blue Devils have largely been written off because of the loss of quarterback Anthony Boone to graduation. However, his successor, junior quarterback Thomas Sirk, has drawn positive reviews from coaches and media alike. If he can play at a level higher than Boone did last year, (which honestly shouldn’t be all that hard, as Boone held a 56 percent completion rate in 2014) there is the potential for Duke to be a contender again. The team returns its whole secondary and should have a good ground game.

Pittsburgh Possessing possibly the best running/back-wide receiver combo in the nation was enough to get excited about Pitt football in 2015. Throw in the hire of head coach Pat Narduzzi and now you have the ingredients for a successful season in west Pennsyl-

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Junior runningback Shadrach Thornton runs the ball during the game against UNC-Chapel Hill Nov. 29. Thornton had 161 rushing-yards in the Wolfpack’s 35-7 win over the Tar Heels at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill.

vania. Narduzzi’s hard-nosed style should translate well to the ACC, and he has the playmakers to make it work. Half-back James Conner, a junior, and wide receiver Tyler Boyd could both be Heisman Trophy candidates if it was possible for anybody other than a quarterback to win the

award these days. The defense will bring them down, however, as could the play of junior quarterback Chad Voytik. Give Narduzzi some time to

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