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IN BRIEF Shack-A-Thon takes over Brickyard Darryl Hunt to discuss issues of wrongful conviction today
The Park Scholarships Social Justice Series will host a discussion with Darryl Hunt, a man who at age 19 was wrongfully convicted of the 1984 murder of 25-year-old Deborah Sykes. Hunt was proven innocent using DNA evidence in 1994, but the long appeal process kept him in prison for another decade. Hunt founded the Darryl Hunt Project for Freedom and Justice in 2005 to aid wrongfully convicted persons. Hunt will speak in Dabney Hall, room 222, at 6:30 p.m. today. Richard Rosen, professor emeritus at UNC School of Law and founder of UNC law school’s Innocence and Capital Punishment Projects, will follow Hunt’s discussion. The event is free and open to the public. SOURCE: NC State Park Scholarships website
Chancellor’s fall address date set
Chancellor Randy Woodson will give his annual fall address at 10 a.m. Monday, Oct. 5 in the newly renovated Stewart Theatre. Woodson, now in his sixth year at NC State, will review the university’s recent successes in fundraising, academics, research and outreach. He is also expected to discuss goals for the coming year as well as NC State’s increasingly improving national reputation. SOURCE: NC State News
Scott Skinner Correspondent
On Sunday, nearly two dozen shacks appeared in the Brickyard in the name of charity. Shack-A-Thon is an annual charitable event that raises funds to provide housing for lowincome families in Wake County. The consistent enthusiasm for Shack-A-Thon’s message is apparent in the games of corn hole and lively chatter that take place all along the makeshift streets of “Carpenter Court” and “Drill Drive.” More than 20 organizations have shacks set up in the Brickyard and are working to raise money by selling a variety of items, from T-shirts to baked goods with the goal of raising money to assist Habitat’s efforts. According to Habitat for Humanity, 1.6 billion people live in substandard housing, and the organization, with the help of the NC State chapter, is working to reduce that number.
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Several students in 22 shacks from 50 organizations on campus hunker down in manmade shacks for NC State’s yearly tradition of Shack-A-Thon on Sept. 22. This year Shack-A-Thon has a goal of raising $65,000 for Habitat for Humanity in order to construct a Habitat home. The shacks raise money by selling baked goods, raffle tickets, student-made products and a variety of other things.
Counseling Center video addresses mental health stigma
NC Legislature approves Medicaid privatization
In a 33-15 vote on Tuesday, the Senate passed House Bill 372, which restructures Medicaid. Although there were fewer than five minutes of debate, the topic has been the center of discussion for months. The bill is currently on its way to Gov. Pat McCrory for his signature. The bill would allow the state to enter into contracts with three companies that would offer statewide health insurance plans for Medicaid recipients. “We are finally going to put some controls in the Medicaid system,” said Sen. Ralph Hise, a Spruce Pine Republican, to The News & Observer. “I think it’s an exciting day for our state and future budgets.” SOURCE: The News & Observer
Man accused of trying to kill children, reportedly had troubled past
The wife of the man who has been charged with trying to kill his three children this week sought a domestic violence protective order against him before they married. According to a document successfully ordered in Durham County by, Alan Tysheen Eugene Lassiter’s girlfriend at the time, Ashley Ivey, complained of verbal threats. “He verbally threatened to throw hot oil in my face and cut my hair off. He also threatened to take my son from me for a long time,” Ivey wrote in the complaint. “All this started because I didn’t want to marry him. Things of this nature have happened in the past.” SOURCE: The News & Observer
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Hans Seebaluck and Mike Occhipinti are founders of the Youth Government Association. Seebaluck is a sophomore majoring in international studies and minoring in business. Occhipinti is an online tutor of business and marketing. Best friends since high school, the founders are emphatic about the difference students can bring in politics. They strive to increase student participation in politics and have created a record by registering about 4,000 students to a voting list in just eight days. They have implemented many innovative methods to streamline registering and voting process for students and said this is just the beginning.
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Hans Seebaluck and Michael Occhipinti are two idealistic young people with big plans for the youth vote effort in Raleigh. Together they formed Youth Government Association (YGA), an active, non-partisan group that aims to educate and empower students to pay attention to local politics. According to Seebaluck, a junior studying international studies, YGA’s goal is to get students involved in local politics so they can form their own opinion.
“Every day that I’m alive is a victory ... ” - Baysha Bernales, a student featured in the Stop the Stigma video
YGA students work to combat voter apathy Abby Pugh
Stigma, defined as a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality or person, is what stands between many students struggling with depression and a happy life, and it’s what drove Daniel Goldstein and Noah Martinson to go out into the Brickyard a year ago to ask students to talk about their struggles with depression and thoughts of suicide. “We were just having conversations about the stigma as-
“We’re not here to dictate those opinions, just to make sure they have them,” Seebaluck said. Specifically, they want to raise the youthvoter turnout in Raleigh by 10 percent, a benchmark which they expect to surpass. Seebaluck and Occhipinti (who also goes by Michael Valor) have been best friends since their first day of high school where they gravitated toward one another in the back of the class and discovered their simi-
sociated with suicide and how difficult it is for people to talk about in an open and honest way,” said Goldstein, a social worker at the NC State Counseling Center. “We know that it’s happening, we know that people are impacted by this and we thought there was kind of a gap in how big of a problem it is and how little it was being discussed in an open way.” To their surprise, many students opened up to them, and three agreed to speak on camera for a video that was shown at this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day vigil on Sept. 10. Baysha Bernales, a doctoral student studying physics who is currently taking a leave of absence from school; Wyatt Bond, a junior studying middle-school education; and Claudia McDonald, a sophomore studying business management, gave candid accounts of their suicide attempts, what led them to that point and what stopped them from going all the way, whether it was luck, a concerned stranger or a pause to remember good things. For Bernales, the opportunity to speak about her experi-
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FEATURES Blackbird, Fly talks strings and stroytelling See page 6.
NC State basketball players will have access to a new athletic residence hall, predicted to open in the 2018-19 school year. This new living space for men and women basketball players will be named Case Commons Residence Hall. Its purpose is to relocate the players to a central location on campus, allowing them the opportunity to take full advantage of all aids and facilities available
on college grounds. The budget for this project is estimated at $15 million. The cost per bed is estimated at $240,000. The cost per bed at the average dormitory is between $50,000 and $70,000. “We wanted to publicly state that this project is privately funded by the Wolfpack Club,” said Chris Boyer, senior associate athletic director for External Relations at NC State. “We wanted to make sure students knew this wouldn’t affect any student fees.” “While the money isn’t coming
from student’s pockets,” Boyer said, he understands the concern that the NC State community may have over the potential cost of such a project. Boyer clarified that “$15 million is just a number someone threw out.” An exact figure won’t be available until a designer is hired this fall. While there is no designer on board yet for the project, Boyer confirmed that the residence hall will have 62 beds, with just over half available to non-athletes. The application process for these rooms is unknown at this time.
Students have expressed speculation regarding the necessity of the dorm. “I’m not sure we need a whole dorm designed for [basketball players] even if other students will live there,” said Alex Gay, a junior studying mechanical engineering. “A lot of players seem to move to off-campus apartments and housing, but if it’s not coming out of my tuition, have at it.” Other students suggested more
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September 21 5:04 PM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Hunt Library Wolfline bus driver reported striking open door of another bus. No injuries.
Today CAMPUS FARMERS MARKET Brickyard 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. IT CAMPUS COMMUNITY MEETING Textiles Convocation Room 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
5:31 PM | LARCENY DH Hill Library Student reported laptop stolen.
MAJORS EXPLORATION SERIES, COLLEGE OF SCIENCES AND COLLEGE OF TEXTILES 126 Witherspoon Student Center 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
5:53 PM | SAFETY PROGRAM Public Safety Center Officers conducted RAD Defense class. 6:30 PM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Fox Science Lab Two students were involved in traffic accident.
Friday NOMINATING COMMITTEE MEETING - VICE CHANCELLOR FOR FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION Chancellor’s Conference Room 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
9:45 PM | FIRE ALARM Wolf Village Officer responded to fire alarm. Cause unknown. 10:18 PM | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT Burlington Labs While checking building, officer was advised of someone yelling on the other side of building. Officers checked area but did not locate anyone in need of assistance. 10:20 PM | DRUG VIOLATION Parents Park Two students were cited for possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia. Both were issued referrals for same. 10:20 PM | DRUG VIOLATION Parents Park Two students were cited for possession of marijuana and possession of paraphernalia. Both were issued referrals for same. 12:06 PM | MEDICAL ASSIST Miller Field Units responded and transported student in need of medical assistance. 12:22 PM | SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE Alliance Parking Deck Report of vehicle left running. Officer made contact with owner who stated vehicle had push button start and did not realize it was running.
12:42 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Bowen Hall Report of subject pacing on the roof of this location. Officers determined it was AT&T working in the area.
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practical uses for the money. “If I had $15 million, I would definitely use it to make WebAssign free for all students,” said Louis Motew, a sophomore studying textile engineering. “I pay $25-$30 per class.” The targeted area of construction for Case Commons
STUDY ABROAD FAIR Ballroom Talley Student Center 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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ibrarians from across United States and Canada assemble at Hunt Library for a conference on “Designing Libraries for the 21st century.” This is the fourth conference in the series of yearly conferences. NC State and University of Calgary, Canada have been hosting this conference on alternate years for the last four years. These conferences are a joint initiative of NC State, University of Calgary and Coalition of Networked Information in order to encourage students to think big and provide hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology. NC State is hosting this conference for the second time. As part of the conference, the attendees visited and learned about the technologies and student facilities at James D. Hunt and D. H. Hill libraries. The conference took place from Sunday to Tuesday and included sessions from distinguished speakers about developing research platforms, interactive multimedia and pedagogical innovation, and gaming and interactive environments.
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ence was cathartic. “I had never spoken to people at large about the one thing that led to my PTSD and suicide [attempt] which was my sexual assault,” Bernales said. “It was something I had to keep under wraps because I never pressed charges so I could have been sued for defamation of character if I said anything.” Bernales said that in the aftermath of her sexual assault, coming back to campus was nearly impossible, but the Counseling Center made her feel welcome and was an “oasis in the desert.” “They set up an environment where I knew I would be listened to and that they wouldn’t ask me to do anything I was incapable of doing,” Bernales said. The turnaround wasn’t immediate,
is the parking lot east of The Case Athletic Support Facility. Because this is a relatively small lot, the residence hall will just contain room lodgings, with a few common areas. There will be no weight room, basketball court or any other athletic facilities in the building. The residence hall will be a short walk from all the facilities the players use daily. Women players benefit even more, being seconds away
however. Bernales found out that her cancer had gone into remission around the time of shooting the video, after which her fiancé broke off their engagement, sending her into a downward spiral that brought back the same feelings of hopelessness. “I know now that [suicide] is not a viable option and that I have the skills and strength to get past those feelings,” Bernales said. “Every day that I’m alive is a victory and a step toward recovery, but there’s always the possibility of falling back into that place.” The best thing that counselors and the general population can do, Goldstein said, is to talk about the issues without being shamed. “We know that it’s happening, we know that people are impacted by this and we thought there was kind of a gap in how big of a problem it is and how little it was being discussed in an open
from their home court, Reynolds Coliseum. The hall will house only men’s and women’s basketball players in its available beds. There are no plans yet for potential housing for football, soccer, baseball or any other Wolfpack sports. If this move is successful, Boyer said other sports teams could receive on-campus housing options in the future.
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way, and that was our mission — to just go out on campus and see if people were willing to come out of the dark and start a conversation about it.” The Counseling Center has received positive feedback for the video. “We’ve had an outpouring of really positive responses from the work we’ve done — people feeling seen, people feeling relieved and that there is more space on campus to talk more plainly about this stuff,” Goldstein said. Though dealing with these issues is not uncommon for counselors, Goldstein said he was inspired by the experience of simply asking the initial question. “I was inspired by the courage and bravery of the students who shared their stories,” Goldstein said. “And, hopefully, inspired to live with the same courage that these students are.”
DEAN, COLLEGE OF EDUCATION NOMINATING COMMITTEE MEETING Chancellor’s Conference Room 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. CONFERENCE ON PERCEPTION Withers Hall 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday CONFERENCE ON PERCEPTION Withers Hall 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. ST. JUDE WALK/RUN TO END CHILDHOOD CANCER Centennial Campus 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Monday MAJOR EXPLORATION SERIES-- COLLEGE OF NATURAL RESOURCES 126 Witherspoon Student Center 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION: THE GRADUATE (1967) James B. Hunt Jr. Library Auditorium 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Tuesday ENGINEERING CAREER FAIR Jane S. McKimmon Center 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. MAJORS EXPLORATION SERIES-- COLLEGE OF EDUCATION 126 Witherspoon Student Center 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
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CMAST offers hands-on experience on Carolina coast Ady Francis Correspondent
The spring 2016 semester will be the first time NC State has offered an opportunity to spend a semester studying marine sciences on the Carolina Coast to all students, regardless of year or major. The Semester @ CMAST program allows students to spend a semester at the Center for Marine Sciences and Technology research facility to study a curriculum of marine sciences and provides hands-on work with research facilities based out of Morehead City. “We’re able to take advantage of the resources in the area and offer students courses unavailable at NC State or to plug students into research opportunities and internships,” said David Eggleston, a marine ecology professor. Spearheaded by Eggleston and William Winner, an environmental science professor, the program began because professors felt they had more to offer students. “We have provided summer session courses for undergraduates for years, and what we found is that we just have so much more to offer with this program,” Eggleston said. The facilities that work in cooperation with CMAST include the Duke Marine Lab, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Federal Lab and the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, which are all located in the same vicinity of CMAST, making Morehead City a hub for some of the largest marine science projects on the East Coast. The program requires a minimum
of 15 credit hours and consists of classes such as Introduction to Oceanography and Biology of Marine Mammals with optional external learning experiences that range from internships, professional developmental activities and an undergraduate thesis. While this program is open to all majors, it may seem like a loss of a semester to non-environmental science students. The professors took this into account when designing the course. “There’s intentional design of the courses so students are able to meet degree requirements for majors across campus,” Winner said. There are also a variety of other classes offered by Carteret Community College, which shares a part in the CMAST building. “Students who need another class in their sequence of calculus or English or biology can take a wide breadth of courses at Carteret Community College,” Eggleston said. The program only accepts 25 applicants, the class size for the courses, and is taught by NC State scientists who will be team-teaching with local experts. The 25 applicants will live in the same hall, dine together and study together, making for an “NC State experience at the coast,” according to Katherine Winsett, professor of environmental science. The professors will review each application on a case-by-case basis. “The criteria for reviewing the student application will be discussed as we see them,” Winner said. “We’re looking to create a diversified student group in terms of gender, major, rank in class — we’re looking for a diverse pool of students.” Tuition, fees and the student health
plan will be the same price as that of living on campus, a savings that Winner and Eggleston managed to maintain for students. There is a $1,500 extra fee because of the difference between Duke Marine Lab and NC State’s dining and room costs. Claire Pelletier, a sophomore studying environmental science and an applicant for the program, explained her fascination with the Semester @ CMAST. “I want my career to somehow relate to marine sciences and I grew up near the coast, and so I’m looking forward to learning in that environment,” Pelletier said. “Hopefully this will help me figure out what I want to do in the future.” The course will also expose students to marine law and policies regarding environmental sustainability, something that may interest many students involved in environmental sciences. “As a society in general, we don’t really pay enough attention to some of the options we have with sustainability,” Pelletier said. “So I’m excited to learn more about marine law and fishery maintenance and stuff like that.” Emily McGuirt, a freshman studying environmental science, is another applicant for the Semester @ CMAST program and is passionate about sustainability. “I didn’t have many doubts going into this, and I really think that after I get some exposure to what the coast offers, I’ll start to get a better idea of what I want to do career-wise,” McGuirt said. Already relatively familiar with research in the sciences, McGuirt hopes to put her skills to use in a practical
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Fisherman weigh a blue marlin caught in the Big Rock fishing tournament last summer in Morehead City, NC. The Big Rock is just one of the fishing tournaments that turn their caught fish to CMAST to study feeding ecology, track migration habits and measure water toxins present in the bodies of the fish brought to the dock.
experience at the coast. “I’d be interested in interning at the aquatic museum and seeing what they do up close,” McGuirt said. Eggleston hopes the Semester @ CMAST will be sustained for many years to come. “We’d like to offer this indefinitely every spring semester and conceivably,” Eggleston said. “If there’s
enough interest it’ll be something that will be available in the fall and spring semesters.” The deadline for applying for the Semester @ CMAST program is Oct. 15. The application can be found at www.cmast.ncsu.edu.
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Joe Tynan, a sophomore studying animal science, helps hold out a string, while Austin Wrenn, a senior studying agricultural business management, plays with a kitten named Tyrone at the Alpha Gamma Rho and Pi Beta Phi shack during the week-long fundraiser Shack-a-Thon at the Brickyard Monday. Tyrone’s owner is Anthony Scala, a sophomore studying agricultural education, and could be petted for donations to the shack to help raise money for Habitat for Humanity.
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The event, hosted by the NC State chapter of Habitat for Humanity, requires that students live in small shacks of their own construction. Each of the shacks is designed differently to best reflect the personality of the group hosting the shack. The shacks must be occupied 24 hours a day during the five-day duration of the event. The shacks will remain in the Brickyard until Friday when the atmosphere shifts and Shack-A-Thon switches to
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lar interests. “One thing we’ve seen this election is that kids actually do care about what’s going on, they’re just not always empowered to know, and they’re not empowered to make moves on that,” Occhipinti said. “That’s what YGA lets them do.” Next month’s municipal elections in Raleigh and Cary have been of particular interest to YGA and its leadership. “The average age in Raleigh is 32, and the average age of a city council member is 58, maybe even higher,” Occhipinti said. “We’re working on having accurate representation for what this city has. Right now, there is
Darren Stebbins, a senior studying forest management, discusses with Miranda Day, a junior studying parks, recreation and tourism management and head of fundraising for the College of Natural Resources shack, ways to help raise money for Habitat for Humanity during Shack-a-Thon in the Brickyard Monday. Their shack is made out of bamboo, and according to Dillon Dunn, build coordinator for the shack and senior studying forest management, it took hundreds of hours to build and involved the use of a machete. The bamboo came from Hill Forest in Roxboro. Day said his inspiration to build the shack came from him wanting to combine his love of plants with his love of building.
Wack-A-Thon, the demolishing of the wooden structures. Each shack showcases the individual styles of the organizations. Except for the foundation, the College of Natural Resources’ shack is made entirely of freshly cut bamboo harvested by the students, according to Ryan Levine, a freshman studying wildlife sciences. Tripp Pearce, a junior studying environmental engineering and the secretary of NC State’s chapter, said the chapter has big goals in mind. “For this event, our goal is $65,000 to build a house, and our overall goal for this year is $250,000 to build a
block of houses,” Pearce said. The block of houses Pearce mentioned is the biggest collaboration NC State’s chapter the Habitat’s Wake County affiliate have ever done. The two groups will work to raise $715,000 to “Build-A-Block” of 11 townhomes on Lake Wheeler Road for those in need. The fundraising began with the announcement on Saturday night and will conclude at the student chapter’s annual Shack-a-Thon event in 2016. The plan is to build the first five townhomes in the fall of 2016 and the last six in the spring of 2017. The
property is two-and-a-half acres and is within walking distance of both a grocery store and a bus stop. “I’m really excited,” said Sarah Paluskiewicz, a senior studying polymer and color chemistry and president of the student chapter. “This year for the 2015-2016 school year, we’ll be fundraising for 11 sponsorships. That’s $65,000 a piece.” The Lake Wheeler property will have 16 lots in total. The first three, which are scheduled to begin construction this fall, will be managed by Lutheran Services Carolinas. The three units under the program “Build-
ing Independence” will be for disabled persons in need. Eleven will be for the NC State and Wake County Habitat for Humanity collaboration, and the final two may be used by the Lutheran Services Carolinas group or, if the fundraising exceeds expectations, NC State’s student chapter. “Building the shack was for Habitat for Humanity, but staying was for the fun,” said Otto Timberlake, a freshman studying physics who nested in the College of Sciences shack.
a disconnect in communication within our government here in Raleigh. We don’t want all of us millennials going misrepresented in our own city.” Many students at NC State are from other cities in North Carolina while others are out-of-state students who may not have personal ties to the local community and its government. Occhipinti addressed this by saying, “We want YGA to be a figurehead that anyone can grab. If we create leaders at the various clubs at NC State, at Wake Tech ... then those students are going to go back to their hometowns and spread word about caring about politics and see what’s going on in their local environments when they are home.” In response to recent legislation in Raleigh about restricting outdoor patio usage in restaurants and bars, a movement called “Save the Patios”
has been gaining momentum in the Raleigh area. “A key issue is the ‘Save the Patios’ movement for many students at the moment … Students do not like curfews. It’s something we’ve never liked, even as children … now the government’s saying, ‘Hey, go inside at midnight, go inside at 1 a.m.,’ and kids are like ‘No, I’m an adult, I do what I want,’” Occhipinti said. Seebaluck added, “One of the biggest things that fires people up the most about the patio issue is that they didn’t hear about it until it was already set in stone. People were like, ‘When did this happen? What can we do about it? Can we change this?’ Once students are starting to see that they can change stuff like this in the municipal government elections, that’s when we see students wanting to be a part of this club.”
YGA is currently planning an event on Oct. 2 from 1-5 p.m. at the Bell Tower in an effort to get students to vote in the municipal elections on Oct. 6. Their goal is to register 3,000 people to vote from District D, the district that contains NC State. People from any voting precinct are welcome to come. Students can find out how to register to vote as well as learn about early voting and their precinct. Seebaluck urged, “The biggest thing we want to get across for that day is that whether you’ve registered to vote or not, you can register at the Board of Elections that day. [Registering to vote] is maybe filling out 7 slots on a form, just basic information.” There’s no shortage of confidence for the two YGA leaders; the group’s early accomplishments are also quite
impressive. “This sounds cliche, but YGA has literally broken records,” Seebaluck said. “In eight days, we registered 4,000 kids, imagine if we had all of Greek Life involved, or all of the people at football games, or even a quarter of that, we can make big changes.” Occhipinti and Seebaluck are looking for students who are passionate about their home states, their towns, their school as well as local and national political issues. “When so many people are shouting for growth, and a hundred people are shouting for things to stay the same, we millennials have to stand up,” Occhipinti said. “Change can suck sometimes, but you can’t have growth without growth pains. That’s how we grow.”
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ast Friday, a very unlikely source commented on the “evils” of the transgender community and the importance of protecting Chauncey the “sanctiBowden ty” of marCorrespondent riage. After sitting down for an interview with radio host Charlamagne Tha God, Waka Flocka expressed his issues with the transgender community, particularly with Caitlyn Jenner. In the interview he said, “They don’t market families and husbands and wives no more, they marketing young girls, you know what I’m saying, transgenders, they marketing evil man. It’s really evil dog.” Hmmm. This statement comes from a man who creates music that frequently exploits women, glorifies the so-called “trap life”, and never has any religious association. The rapper even went so far as to call out Jenner for rebuking God’s will: “You are who you are when God made you, not who you became after he did. That’s how I feel. You rebuking God, man.” There are several things wrong with Waka Flocka’s statements, and they are indicative of a wider problem in our society—why are Christians so obsessed with the LGBTQ community? Most are familiar with the Kentucky clerk, Kim Davis, who was released from jail after refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. According to a petition she intends to bring to the Supreme Court, “She holds an undisputed sincerely-held religious belief that marriage is a union between a man and a woman, only.” Davis’ religious preferences did not however stop her from engaging in four marriages. It seems that the LGBTQ community is often the favorite scapegoat of Christians about the “evils” of our society, while other “transgressions” are ignored or swept under the rug. Mike Huckabee stood beside the Duggar family after reports that Josh Duggar molested his sisters surfaced. He argued that they are a good Christian family being exploited by liberals and the media. Huckabee has also openly supported Kim Davis’ decision, and even gone so far as to quote Martin Luther King in saying that the law is unjust and “that an unjust law is no law at all.” Where is the backlash for politicians who engage in extramarital affairs? The Bible frequently speaks about giving to the poor, yet according to the National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness, more than 3.5 million people in the U.S. will experience homelessness each year. Yet there is no widespread outrage about helping those in need. I am not, by any means, saying that people are not entitled to an opinion. And I am certainly not saying that one must be perfect in order to possess an opinion. However, I am reminded of the phrase, “People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.” In the Bible, Matthew 5:7 states, “Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye.” Fornication and drunkenness are also sins, according to the Bible, yet they are both very legal and prominent features of our society.
The price of civilization
ood service is a perfect industry for college kids. Restaurant work provides flexible hours and doesn’t require much experience. The pay tends to surpass the minimum wage and, in most restaurants, servers take home their tips in cash each night. But just like any other industry, Uncle Sam wants his cut. The IRS requires servers to declare CR Denning tipped income, so it knows how Staff Columnist much they owe in taxes. Credit card tips are often reported automatically. The business has to collect that money from the customer and then pay it out to the server, so there’s a paper trail. If the IRS suspects underreporting, then it is easy to prove. When a customer leaves a tip in cash, though, reporting essentially works on the honor system. The Taxman expects servers to declare cash tips, but cash is untraceable. No one (not even the employer in many cases) can prove cash-tip income exists. Whenever a new employee would ask how to declare cash tips, a server I used to know would remark, “I don’t know — I’ve never had any cash tips!” As a tax accountant once told me, “Some people choose not to report cash tips. Whether or not you do is between you and the Lord.” So do servers have an ethical obligation to report (and pay income tax on) cash tips? For that matter, do you have an ethical obligation to pay taxes in general? To answer this question, we first need to establish a philosophical framework through which to understand taxation. Such a framework must begin with the concept of “the state.” We can define “the state” as an organized political community holding a monopoly on the legitimated use of coercion, or force. For example, if you steal your neighbor’s TV, we as a society don’t allow your neighbor to use violence against you to recover it. But we do license the state to do so. The police can arrest you, seize the TV and return it to its rightful owner. This is the most
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ce cream: It’s everywhere on NC State’s campus. From the Creamery to the soft-serve machines at Case, Clark and Fountain Dining Halls, Logan Howling Graham Cow ice Correspondent cream is a staple to any member of the Wolfpack. Yet, despite NC State’s immense love for our ice cream, one fact still remains: There’s no way to eat ice cream without making a fool out of yourself. Any student’s journey toward embarrassment with an ice cream eating endeavor starts as you approach the soft-serve machine. Grabbing the device’s lever with one hand and holding your cone with the other, you prepare to do battle with the machine. As gladiators once entered the Roman Colosseum to fight, you too enter the great battleground that is our dining halls as you pull down on the machine’s cold,
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silver handle and prepare to fight. Without so much as a warning, the ice cream immediately pours out of the machine into your cone with a pace faster than Usain Bolt taking speed. Always caught by surprise at the machine’s pace, the next five seconds you’re playing catch-up. Just a second behind, you frantically try to build a solid foundation, uniform swirls and a picture-perfect peak, all the while teetering on the edge of disaster. Without a doubt, you step away from the machine holding a disheveled mound of ice cream—something resembling a cross between a Picasso painting and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. And if, by some miracle, you managed to make a cone that could get you a job at Dairy Queen, don’t be so proud of yourself. Your battle with your cone has only just begun. Heading back to your
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presenting obvious downfalls, many students turn to the second technique, using your lips to scoop up and eat the ice cream. At first, this seems like an exceptional technique; it’s fast, effective and you don’t have to worry about being caught licking while looking at a stranger, but once you see someone else utilize this technique, its drawback is immediately presented. In your attempt not to use your tongue, you appear to be vigorously making out with your ice cream cone. There’s nothing worse than sitting down with a friend for dinner, looking down to take a bite of food, and then looking back up to see that he’s trying to get to second base with his ice cream. After looking like a fool when using your tongue or your lips, students will commonly turn to a third technique —using your teeth to bite the ice cream
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seat with your “cone,” the next problem presents itself: how on earth you actually go about eating it without making a fool of yourself. Three distinct techniques have been tried by NC State students for years, and they all end in the same feeling of humiliation. Many try the traditional lick technique, employing your body’s strongest muscle to eat the ice cream. Yet, the downfall to this technique comes from a different part of your face—your eyes. There you are, happily licking your ice cream looking around the dining hall. Suddenly, your eyes lock with a stranger just as you take an extra aggressive lick. They turn away as fast as possible, but the damage is done. For the rest of eternity, you are none other than the weird ice cream licker to them and whoever they tell about the incident. With the licking method
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off the cone. In all my years of watching people eat ice cream, I have never seen someone successfully bite into the cold ice cream without wincing in pain. If you can do this, I’m here to say you are a god among men, and I worship you. But to the rest of us mere mortals, as soon we bite into the ice cream our teeth erupt in agony, and we’re forced to recoil, often shouting out in pain. Embarrassment quickly ensues when we realize we’ve just been hurt by a child’s treat. So take your pick of any of three techniques. Just know whatever you do, you’re more likely to end up as the main character of an embarrassing viral video than walking away with any sort of dignity still intact. Howling Cow ice cream, you’re amazing and we’d never trade you in for the world, but man, do you make a fool out of us all.
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Cutting food waste by connecting people to produce aisles Carolyn Thompson Staff writer
According to the U.S department of Agriculture, up to 31 percent (or 133 billion pounds of the 430 billion pounds) in food supply at the retail and consumer levels of 2010 alone went uneaten. FreshSpire, a company founded by five students at different universities, aims to reduce this food waste and address the issue of ineffective food distribution. The founders of the company attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. “I got together with four of my friends and we were initially going to enter this competition that was happening which was the UNC Social Entrepreneurship Competition, and from there it just shot up,” said Shraddha Rathod, a cofounder of the company and a junior at NC State. “We got the validation at that competition and we took an entrepreneurship class to make a business plan of what it is now and learn more about the business process.” FreshSpire uses an app that is intended to connect grocers and consumers by notif ying users of the store’s daily markdowns, which often consist of nearly expired foods or cosmetically imperfect foods. “We talked to a lot of teachers, mentors and friends, and we realized that FreshSpire is something that can help out,” Rathod said. The app is still in a development stage, but the idea is to keep users aware of markdowns so food is not wasted at grocery stores. The app is also intended to get users thinking of food security.
Workers at the store would upload information about nearly expired/cosmetically imperfect foods to FreshSpire’s web-based Application Program Interface platform. The information would then be sent out through a mass text notification system as well as the mobile app. The app will have a newsfeed structure that updates based on the user’s location, store, item and deal preferences. “[The app] would increase communication between grocery rings and consumers,” Rathod said. “Typically twice a day, grocery stores mark down foods that are about to expire or are just nearing their shelf life. Using this platform, consumers can get notified about deals that people aren’t normally notified about.” Because the app uses a text notification system, non-smartphone users can still also receive the benefits of FreshSpire. These notifications could also save people money by making them aware of markdowns and help in increasing food security in communities. FreshSpire placed first in the 2015 Verizon Student Innovator Challenge at NC State’s LuLu eGames start-up competition. It has also earned national recognition at the Clinton Global Initiative University, which is an annual meeting hosted by Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton where more than 1,000 student leaders make commitments to action in five focus areas: education, environment and climate change, peace and human rights, poverty alleviation and public health. “We already had FreshSpire going, and we had heard about other
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Shraddha Rathod, a sophomore studying management, is one of the founders of FreshSpire, a company whose goal is to “reduce food waste” and “promote accessible sources of nutrition” to the public. Rathod started the company with four other college students; two who go to UNC-Chapel Hill, one attending East Carolina University and one who goes to the University of Pennsylvania. So far, the company has been recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative University, Net Impact and MSNBC.
people at NC State who had been to [the Clinton Global Initiative University],” said Mona Amin, one of FreshSpire’s cofounders and a student at East Carolina University. “When we got there, it was a big networking opportunity for students all across the nation.” Amin and Jennifer Wu, a FreshSpire cofounder and a student at the University of Pennsylvania, attended the Clinton Global Initiative University at the University of Miami in March. They were both introduced to the CGI LEAD program. “We were chosen as a select group of commitment makers for the CGI LEAD program,” Amin
said. “The CGI LEAD program works with about 20 students, and we are matched with a mentor who is a part of the professional network of CGI.” It is the company’s hope that the fully running app will be completed by the end of this year. “This is short-term vision and long-term vision,” Rathod said. “The short term, I want it to happen in the Triangle area…try to test it out, make sure there’s no bugs.” FreshSpire has completed a pilot run of the app, but the group wants to try to test it more in local areas, according to Rathod. “For a long-term vision, we defi-
nitely see all chains using it so we can try to curb food waste and help people who are [food] insecure get what they need,” Rathod said. The aim of FreshSpire goes beyond the app and includes making people aware of food waste and encouraging healthy eating. “We look at it not just as a mobile app that helps give discounts to people, but more of a lifestyle change for people,” Rathod said. “We want to encourage healthy eating. We want to encourage less wastage in general, so I think it’s both a lifestyle change as well as doing the technical parts to try to help make that happen.”
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Blackbird, Fly is the duo of spoken word artist Marc Bamthi Joseph and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, combining elements of Haitian music, hip-hop, strings and storytelling.
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Incorporating spoken word, violin, piano, hip-hop, folk and dancing all together beautifully as one piece of art, spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph and composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, or DBR, are performing their concert, Blackbird, Fly, at NC State. The unique duet is performing at Titmus Theatre through NC State Live followed by an open discussion with the artists. The duo held its first performance Tuesday night at 8 p.m. and will again perform tonight at 8 p.m. Blackbird, Fly is a touring performance in which both Joseph and Roumain narrate stories about their Haitian heritage, fatherhood, African culture and “black joy,” as Joseph said. Joseph narrates his accounts through spoken word, storytelling and dancing while DBR tells his through violin playing, piano playing and singing. Beyond their music background, Joseph and Roumain are both educators. According to NC State Live, Joseph has lectured at more than 200 universities and has been an adjunct professor at Stanford and Leigh. DBR is currently the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center ArtistinResidence at the University of Houston and a Center for Art and Performance Resident Artist at UCLA. Joseph and DBR sat down between rehearsals to talk about their compositions, their Haitian heritage and their identities as artists and educators. How did you two start working together? DBR: We have known about each other’s work for probably about 10 years, and we met about five years at a commission piece with the Atlanta Ballet. He did the words, I did the music and there was dancing on stage. So we’ve been working together since 2010, basically with one major commission a year. This is our first duet piece. I’m pretty sure it’ll tour from now until next year, and then in 2017 we’ll have another major opera commission, and then we’ll see what happens after that. How would you describe Blackbird, Fly? MBJ: Well, we call it a concert for voice, body and strings, and I think that it’s just that. It’s part concert, but also part revival. It kind of moves at the speed of life, which is to say that whatever it is that you’re reading right now, this concert engages, analyzes and expands upon that. So it’s a hypercontemporary concert. You all have been working on bigger commissions and projects, so how did you decide to do a duet? DBR: I think we both had the idea. It made sense because we were doing these larger pieces, and we clearly wanted to duet. In the theater world, you’re always balanc-
ing unrealistic dreams with practical realities. So in a way, we’ve had dreams with big institutions, the Chautauqua symphony piece for example, “Meditations on Raising Boys.” It was me, Marc and a 100-piece orchestra behind us and a 20-voice chorus of young boys for 40 minutes. These are big works, significant commissions, and in some ways, they’re unrealistic dreams. It’s kind of crazy that that even happened. We were very fortunate. We’ve been fortunate to have our unrealistic dreams become very real, practical realities. But we wanted to do something that is practical reality, something that is small, self-contained. In the theater world, you’re always balancing big pieces with small pieces. So this is small, portable, tourable. MBJ: I would say that it is revolutionary for the two of us to be partnered the way we are. How did you create these compositions? MBJ: There was a lot of pre-composed texts in many instances, and Daniel was responding to that text. There’s a little bit of improvisation within the set score for each night and for each performance. So every performance we do, we do just slightly different. I think that’s also part of the premise of us coming together. The partnership enables both of us to be more flexible in our form. It’s like having another instrument for both of us in the band to play off of. I would say we do it with these compositions and with intention and with emotion. I believe emotion is practical, I believe that emotion is tactical. So, the first thing is the intention, the second thing is the emotion. So out of that comes the language, the spoken language. The spoken language gets convened to Daniel, and Daniel ties some pre-composed work and some original work. That’s how it all came: intention, emotion, practice. How is Haitian tradition and culture important to your art? DBR: My music is melodic, percussive and tonal, and a lot of Haitian music is melodic, percussive and tonal. My music is built on a lot of beautiful melodies, a lot of Haitian music is built upon beautiful melodies. I think my music is oftentimes in service to something else. A lot of Haitian music is in service to a singer, to a storyteller, a ceremony, a religion. Haitian music is never in a vacuum, I think it’s always being played. It has a really specific role. I think Haitian music is like any folk music, and I think any great folk music is a time capsule, a cultural diary, a cultural pulse, so I think a lot of what I do sounds old and new at the same time. I use a lot of effects and I try to bend the violin into something else. Oftentimes, it doesn’t sound like a violin.
MBJ: 1804 marked the triumphant military success of the Haitian revolution. So, Haiti was the first country in this hemisphere where slaves rebelled against the colonial power, in this case, France, and successfully won their independence. So there’s a tradition of not just the military instruments, but the cultural and the spiritual instruments being tools of liberation among Haitian people, and I think part of the vitality of the work is that it’s drawn from that spirit. There’s a way that we advocate art in the public realm, in the public space as a means of education and perhaps creating other avenues for access across culture. So I would say that part of this music, austere as it might be or as elegant might be, it’s also liberation music. There’s a sense that I get from the two of us together of yearning to be free, and that to me is another way the art forms connect to Haitian heritage. How would you describe yourself as an artist? How would you describe yourself as an educator? DBR: They’re very related. As an artist, there is questioning, exploring, wanting to learn, wanting to remain relevant, challenging myself. Part of the job is to grow, evolve, deepen and twist. There’s nothing static about being an artist. Art is change, art is challenge, art is pain, and after all of that, hopefully, art is love, and comfort and enough. But there are no promises in art. Art is a bi---. It will kick your a--. It will try to kill you, and some people have died for their art. To be an educator I think is to do those same things but in the service of something or someone else. So you’re challenging the classroom, you’re provoking them. In the best sense, education is synergetic. It’s unilateral, not bilateral, in the best sense. We’re learning from one another. It’s challenging. It’ll kick your a--. The best teachers I felt were trying to kill me. There were no promises; then get to the end, there was beauty, there was love and there was more than enough. Maybe that’s the difference. MBJ: I would say that in terms of being an artist and an educator, I really do collapse the two. I actually think more of myself as an educator, and I think of art as a means. Honestly, I think more of myself as a culture maker. My graduate work is in education; I believe in liberatory pedagogy, there’s a Brazilian educator, Paolo Freire, who is extremely inf luential in my life. Freire really teaches the gift of affording language to others. Hew says the way that we find ourselves in elevated states, or the way that we culturally evolve is to land language in the mouths of the oppressed so that they might speak their existences on their own terms. So the way that I found that is most able to happen is if I’m doing
less telling than asking. So both in my art and my educational practice, I try to tell a little bit and ask a lot. Why do you think story telling is important? MBJ: it’s very oppressive to be in an environment where only one story is being told, only one story, one point of view, one culture, one standard of beauty is being affirmed. So we tell multiple stories because there are multiple realities on the planet. In fact, the more we limit our capacity and the freedom of speech that we enjoy, the more ecologically dangerous it is for all of us, and the more socially dangerous it is for all of us. So storytelling doesn’t just keep the self alive, it responds to the natural call for diversity. Let’s say we were at a pond, and there were 10,000 species at the pond, and we wiped out everything but the frogs. Eventually, the frogs would die out too. Like when you take out one part of the ecosystem, there are ripple effects all down the ecosystem until eventually the ecosystem dies out altogether. So think about this in terms of our stories, in terms of our humanity. Every time we lose a language, every time we suppress a cultural story, we impact the broader ecosystem. So it’s not just my life that’s impacted when I’m silenced, it is everybody’s life that is impacted. What stories are you telling in Blackbird, Fly? DBR: We’re in a theater; we’re surrounded by it right now. A story is being told from the stage. That’s why it’s so great that this is piece is here. Marc is brilliant in telling a wide range of stories. We’re starting with our own Haitian ancestry and expanding out all the way into outer space and back again. MBJ: We’re telling stories of fatherhood, global travel, immigration, prayer, religion. We’re telling stories about our hometowns, about our children. We’re telling stories about the country that we live in and the country that our parents were born in. We’re telling stories about love. Why did you choose to perform at NC State? MBJ: We were very, very privileged to perform at NC State. NC State and Daniel have had a longstanding relationship. He’s been coming here and performing here. I think this might be the sixth or seventh time in the course of 10 years. So this engagement is part of a continuum, part of a natural trajectory. We are actually honored that NC State has chosen to maintain the relationship with us.
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important. We have a really hard stretch of games coming up. There’s not much rest for a lot of the guys so that’s tough. It was good to have him back.” Bulldogs forward Marvin Mendy leveled the score after a missed clearance from Fracchia in the 28th minute, a shock goal to concede given the Pack’s statistical dominance. The deadlock would last another five minutes, with Hachem answering the Gardner-Webb goal. Wannemuehler found space down the right side, played a low cross into the box, and Hachem beat the defender, taking a touch to settle the ball before blast-
ing it in off the underside of the crossbar. Gardner-Webb simply wouldn’t go away, however, equalizing in the 40th minute to send the game into halftime tied 2-2. “The guys knew what they needed to do,” said Findley about his halftime talk. “I just made it very clear exactly what we needed to do.” The Pack scored twice within 10 minutes of the second-half whistle. Ryan Peterson scored his first goal of the season (50’) off a rebound from a shot by recent ACC Defender of the Week and sophomore Caleb Duvernay, and sophomore midfielder Zach Knudson added a fourth in the 55th. “It felt amazing to put us up in a crucial game we could’ve dropped,” said Peterson about getting off the
mark for the season. “We got our heads down, and to get that goal meant a lot because now the floodgates open and hopefully more goals will come.” Mendy would score again for Gardner-Webb to make things interesting in the 60th, but NC State saw out the match 4-3 and escaped a potentially catastrophic slip up. Now, the Wolfpack looks forward to traveling to Louisville Friday for its third ACC match of 2015. “Those games are easy,” Findley said. “Louisville has a great facility. These games are the ones I worry the most about. The guys will be motivated. We’re wellprepared and well-trained for that game.
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touchdown on the next play. Brissett’s touchdown gave the Pack some momentum, as it outscored Old Dominion 31-7 after being tied at 7-7. Player to Watch: Kentavius Street The sophomore defensive tackle led the team with six tackles, including one for a 3-yard loss. He was an integral part of the defense that was able to contain the FBS leading rusher Lawry to his lowest rushing total since Nov. 1 of last season. Stopping the run game was what the defense set out to do from the
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Sports PAGE 8 • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015
CLUB SPOTLIGHT Nicole Malanaphy
ATHLETIC SCHEDULE Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Women’s soccer vs. Virginia Tech 7:00 PM
Women’s volleyball at Pittsburgh 7:00 PM
Football at South Alabama 8:00 PM
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Wolfpack claws past Gardner-Webb Jordan Beck Sports Editor
Eliza Butts Correspondent
Correspondent While the NC State men’s club lacrosse team will play its normal fall slate of scrimmages and tournaments in preparation for the spring regular season, the club will also look to establish a new tradition in 2015: philanthropy. In late October, the team will hold its major charity event known as Stick It to IPF to raise money and awareness for the Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis foundation. The event is also considered the fraternity game, where the different fraternities on campus have the opportunity to create a team to play against one another along with the club lacrosse team. “We ask the different fraternities to pull together a team, and then we play four contact-games against them,” said senior John Hughey, the club’s president. “There will be a raffle. We’re working on getting food and drinks for after the game, and entry is free. There will be places for donations, and we will be tabling in the Brickyard to raise awareness for the event.” Hughey has been a member of the team for four years and is currently serving his second year as president. This will be the team’s first official philanthropy event since he joined, and he hopes to keep the tradition going for the years to come. “I decided we should take on IPF as our philanthropy because, since it is personal to me, I knew having 40 guys behind me to help raise awareness for it would be a great way to support the foundation and to also benefit the community,” Hughey said. The event will take place Oct. 30 at Miller Fields. Entry is free for anyone who wishes to watch and support the cause. The NC State men’s club lacrosse team is a Division I team that plays in the North East section of the Southeastern Lacrosse Conference — a division of the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association. During the fall, the team will engage in a number of non-regular season matches against other North Carolina universities, including Wake Forest, Duke and UNCChapel Hill. “We have a tournament at ECU where we play teams from all over the North East, and we also have an alumni game where graduates— recent and older—come back and play against us in a game,” returning midfielder Jack Sarle said. The team practices every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for two hours at the Method Road fields, where the first game will be held Oct. 4 at 1 p.m. vs. Elon.
The NC State men’s soccer team narrowly avoided succumbing to a trap game against Gardner Webb Tuesday night, winning 4-3 at Dail Soccer Stadium. With a tough 1-0 loss on the road at defending national champs Virginia on Friday, the Wolfpack (6-2-0, 1-1-0 ACC) needed to keep its focus against the Runnin’ Bulldogs (1-6), especially with a trip to No. 24 Louisville Friday. NC State head coach Kelly Findley wasn’t happy with his team’s performance but was happy to remain unscathed. “The midweek games are very tough,” Findley said. “You play a really hard one on the weekend against No. 6 in the country at UVA. It’s a mentality, 100 percent. It looked like a midweek game. I’m not pleased with our effort, but in the end, these are tough games to play.” During the first 25 minutes of action, State couldn’t buy a goal, but the introduction of sophomore forward Ade Taiwo sparked the Pack into life. Taiwo received a short pass from junior defender Travis Wannem-
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Sophomore forward Ryan Peterson makes a move against a Gardner-Webb defender Tuesday in Dail Soccer Stadium. Peterson had six shots, two of which were on target, and a goal. The Wolfpack struggled defensively but pulled out the 4-3 win against Gardner-Webb.
uehler, turned and hit a rocket of a shot into the top right corner of the net with his left foot to put the Wolfpack up 1-0 with 20 minutes left in the half. Findley rested members of his defense in preparation for Louisville,
and the rotated defense was somewhat shaky. Sophomore center back Matias Fracchia made his first start of the season since breaking a bone in his foot before the season and suffered from a bit of rust. “I think he looked like it was his
first game back,” said Findley about Fracchia’s return to the lineup. “I think it was good to have Holden play in the midfield a little bit, and we got to rotate some guys which is
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Rose, Dayes lead top performers vs. ODU Daniel Lacy Assistant Sports Editor
With the NC State football team rolling in and pillaging Old Dominion’s house in a 38-14 fashion Saturday night, here is a look at some of the top performances from that game. Mike Rose The graduate defensive end led a defense that held Monarch running back Ray Lawry, who was the leading rusher in the Football Bowl Subdivision coming into the game, to just 15 yards on 11 rushing attempts. As a team, Old Dominion netted -3 yards rushing and merely 151 yards passing, 70 of those coming on a breakaway pass to Lawry. Rose believes that the offense chewing up the time of possession helps the defense remain dominant. “We’re fresh, we feel good,” Rose said. “We haven’t played much this season. Our offense does a good job of keeping us off the field, so the longer we’re off, the better.” Rose showed why he is one of the marquee leaders on this team with a stellar performance Saturday night, totaling five tackles, 1.5 tackles for a loss, one sack and one quarterback hit. With Art Norman graduating last year, Rose has stepped up big in his place, and his presence will be huge for the Wolfpack once conference play
begins. Jacoby Brissett The redshirt senior quarterback’s play in the first three games has been nothing short of spectacular for State. Against Old Dominion, Brissett completed 18-of-27 passes for 179 yards and a touchdown and rushed for a season-high 43 yards and a touchdown on nine carries. While the 66.7 completion percentage was actually his worst in the season, it certainly isn’t anything to frown at, and Brissett ran the ball better than he did in either of the first two games. He isn’t the fastest guy in the world, but he is very shifty and elusive, and combining that with his 6-foot-4, 235-pound frame makes it very difficult for defenders to wrap him up. Additionally, Brissett is very efficient with the ball while still taking care of it, as he has gone 26 quarters and thrown 156 passes without an interception, dating all the way back to last season’s game against Georgia Tech. Matt Dayes Dayes has opened the season by celebrating his third straight game with at least 100 yards rushing, the first time a Wolfpack running back has done this since 1981. He continued to show off his versatility Saturday night, tallying 20 rushes for 108 yards and a touchdown and catching three passes for 29
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Redshirt senior quarterback Jacoby Brissett rushes to the edge against the Eastern Kentucky defense. Brissett threw 17-for-22 for 216 yards in the 35-0 shutout against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels in Carter-Finley stadium Sept. 12.
yards while splitting time with senior running back Shadrach Thornton. On the season, Dayes now leads the team with 68 carries for 350 yards and six touchdowns. His stellar play has helped him maintain the starting job over Thornton, although they will likely see similar amounts of playing time because they complement each other very well. Play of the Game There weren’t a ton of plays that stuck out other than Brissett’s 21-yard touchdown rush. Brissett carried the
ball to the left, opted to keep it rather than pitching it out to Dayes, evaded multiple defenders and carried one on his back on his way to the end zone. Not only was this an impressive showing of strength and athleticism by Brissett, but it came at a time when State needed a big play. Freshman kicker Kyle Bambard missed a 49-yard field goal off the right upright and Lawry had just outrun the entire defense on a swing pass for a 70-yard
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COMMENTARY
Case Commons: A result of America’s sports obsession Almost two months ago, the 32 voting members of the UNC Board of Governors convened on Aug. 7 to determine the future of NC State’s newest building project, a 62-bed, four-story dor mitor y w it h a price tag of $15 million that would Michael house men’s and McLamb women’s basketball Staff Writer student-athletes and 30-some fortunate students. NC State Chancellor Randy Woodson came under heavy fire shortly after the board voted to approve the construction project that was viewed as a gross mismanagement of funds. The facility will be named Case Commons. Woodson defended the con-
struction of Case Commons by stating that the project originated within the NCSU Student Aid Association (Wolfpack Club), and that the club would also subsequently foot the $15 million bill. On Sept. 16, the Technician published a letter to the editor from Austin Haas, a sophomore studying exploratory studies. “I believe that this [Case Commons] is a terrible waste of money and that these funds should go to bettering the university in other places,” Haas said. Haas’ point was promptly followed by a reply from one Bill O’Donnell, an alumnus of NC State and resident of Raleigh. “Since this [Case Commons] was funded by private donations to the WPC [Wolfpack Club] then I re-
ally don’t understand how anyone can have a huge problem with this project...A [donor] allocating the money in the way that you want it spent is the entire point behind private donations.” Haas’ view that Case Commons is another example of financial inequality amidst athletics and academics may be shared by a large portion of students and alumni. However, O’Donnell’s perspective is correct in that Woodson cannot simply reallocate the money received on behalf of Case Commons to other worthy academic departments. The donations received by the university for this project were given through the Wolfpack Club with the expressed interest that their financial gift go toward the construction of
Case Commons. Thus, no one from the NC State administrative personnel has the ability to repurpose funds collected for Case Commons. Equivalently, private donations with the expressed interests that they go toward the Colleges of Engineering cannot be reallocated to fund the renovation of Reynolds Coliseum. Despite the revelation that Case Commons would not be built using unfixed university funds, critics of the project claim that Case Commons promotes the destructive idea that athletic success is greater than academic excellence. To this I would say that the critics are not wrong. The vast amount of money that is being poured into a luxurious athletic residence hall suggests that winning basketball games is a top priority for NC
State; but hey, don’t blame Woodson for that reality. In the end, the only people left to blame are ourselves. If you have a passion for a particular discipline at NC State, then it is entirely within your power to improve that academic department by making monetary contributions. The college athletic landscape in America has fallen prey to a terribly broken system. It’s because of this broken system that college head coaches make millions of dollars per year and grandiose athletic facilities like Case Commons can be built. Believe me, if I could restructure athletics in the United States, I would model it after what we see in Europe,
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