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THROUGH KAI’S LENS

NEWS NC State to lead advanced manufacturing hub. pg. 3

FEATURES

SHOOT TO THRILL

Tuffy II in training: New pup learns old tricks, pg. 6

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ohn Willis, alumnus, shoots a jump shot as Mike Simon, alumnus, attempts to block his shot on June 29 on the outdoor basketball courts of Carmichael Gym. The Carmichael outdoor basketball courts make up four of the gym’s 15 basketball courts. Alumnus Kevin Martel joined Willis and Simon for the game.

{ OPINION Letter to the Editor: Re. Talley voting location, pg. 8

IN YOUR WORDS

POLICE BLOTTER

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What do you think of the UK’s exit from the European Union?

BY KAI ANTHONY

“I don’t know, I feel like it was a long time coming. It’s definitely going to take a role on the economy. It was going to happen eventually.”

Grace Recavarre Engineering Camp attendee, junior at Apex High School

June 28 06:08 PM | INDECENT EXPOSURE Wolf Village Report of subject masturbating in front of window.

Officers located and issued referral to student for Indecent Exposure.

2:24 AM | ROBBERY Dan Allen Drive/Yarbrough Drive Non-student reported being assaulted and robbed of cell phone by two suspects. Officers located one of the suspects. Investigation and charges pending.

June 27 12:23 PM | INFORMATION - UNIVERSITY Off Campus Staff member reported Breaking & Entering at Equine Health Center in Southern Pines. Local jurisdiction responded and processed the scene.

SPORTS Cat nipped by draft: Barber goes undrafted signs free agent deal, pg. 9

“It’s time to buy stock. I think in the long run it’s all going to work out, but in the short run, it wasn’t the best option. Britain didn’t take it lightly.”

Joseph Phillips senior, industrial engineering

“I just think they made a huge mistake, and they will regret it. Seventy percent of the 52 percent that voted for it are old people who will not be impacted by this.“ Lyne Ignanga SKEMA Business School, financial marketing alumna

3:33 PM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Materials Management Warehouse Staff member reported vehicle door had been struck by another vehicle’s door.

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NC State to lead advanced manufacturing hub Gavin Stone Staff Writer

President Barack Obama announced on June 20 that NC State will lead the southeast hub for the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, which aims to catalyze economic growth in the United States by bringing academic institutions and the private sector closer together.

SMII, led by the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition in partnership with the Department of Energy, will be headquartered in Los Angeles. NC State is leading one of the five hubs being launched across the U.S., which include the California regional hub led by UCLA, the Gulf Coast hub led by Texas A&M, the northeast hub led by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the northwest hub led by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

“It is an opportunity to work on the next generation of manufacturing,” said Paul Cohen, head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. “It gives us an ability to work with other universities, with national laboratories and most importantly with companies to be able to innovate.”

SMII will focus on developing advanced sensors and controls, data analytics, advanced predictive modeling and simulation software with the goal of reducing energy costs, according to a university press release. SMII will also work to reduce the amount of time between research on smart manufacturing techniques being published and

its use in the private sector to create jobs and revenue.

The SMLC is still in the midst of contract negotiations with the Department of Energy. Cohen expects the negotiations to be finalized by the end of the year.

A White House press release noted indications of the U.S. returning to international prominence in the manufacturing sector, such as the addition of roughly 800,000 manufacturing jobs since February 2010, following a steady decline in the United States’ manufacturing sector since 2000.

“People do a lot of basic research, usually at universities, and then eventually companies want to do implementation but there’s what they call the ‘Valley of Death’ in between,” Cohen said. “So the idea of these institutes is for universities and national labs to work with companies to bridge that gap and take things that may be more basic research and figure out how to get it to a point where companies can take it and run with it.”

Cohen said that the need for this kind of initiative came from the vast amount of papers and research which may have merit on their own but which are difficult for corporations to utilize.

“Companies may not have research staff so there may be papers or work that’s going on at a university and they say ‘That’s really interesting, but we don’t really have the man-power,’” Cohen said. “Maybe there’s too much risk to take it from [the research stage] to where they’re ready to implement it, so this is an idea to bridge that gap from the

fundamental work that’s been done, trying to go and take it to a point where a company can take it and run with it.”

Professor Phillip Westmoreland has been named the executive director of the hub, which will be located on Centennial Campus. Westmoreland is the former president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and served as NC State’s representative to the SMLC where he pushed hard for NC State to take a large role in the SMII. Westmoreland described the role that the SMII will have on campus as one of coordinating “test beds” where a team of SMII researchers works with a company to find the best solutions to their problems.

Though the SMII is still in the development stages, Westmoreland used the example of Praxair, a company based in Port Arthur, Texas, to show the potential for smart manufacturing.

“We may be working with other universities or with national labs, and then we’ll go with a company and do a very large-scale implementation,” Cohen said. “We might put in a smart manufacturing system so that rather than just run your plant, you have sensing so it takes an information technology or a computer infrastructure collect a lot of information about different processes to link them together with models to try to predict what happens and then control everything in a way that will hopefully minimize the energy footprint and minimize the cost of what you’re doing.”

Redistricting controversy heads to US Supreme Court Randy Jaouhari Staff Writer

The Supreme Court is set to review a ruling from a North Carolina appeals court case, McCrory v. Harris, in which the plaintiff claims lawmakers relied heavily on race while drawing the 1st and 12th North Carolina congressional districts. The ruling has no official date, but the court may hear the case as early as this fall.

The U.S. Supreme Court will review the appeals court decision on whether the two North Carolina congressional district maps were drawn with racial motives.

In February, a panel of three federal judges originally struck down these districts’ drawings, claiming they were drawn with racial bias. If true, this would be gerrymandering, the manipulation of congressional districts to favor a certain party, made illegal under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Gerrymandering has historically been used to restrict certain racial groups from voting, especially black voters.

The panel did not have sufficient evidence to determine that legislators who drew the district map were actually guilty of gerrymandering. The Supreme Court

will review this case to decide whether the original district maps were in violation of the Voting Rights Act. Because of the panel’s ruling, North Carolina was required to hold two separate primaries: one on June 7 for congressional elections, using the newly drawn districts, and one on March 15 for all other races, using the original districts.

However, some voters still complained about poorly drawn districts that grouped minorities and black voters into certain areas, according to The Associated Press.

State Senate Redistricting Chairman Bob Rucho, a Republican, worked on both the old and new congressional maps, and he defends the way the original district lines were drawn.

“That’s just the way the maps come out if you follow the criteria that we use,” Rucho said, according to The News & Observer. “I assume there will be a lot of [candidate] announcements if the Supreme Court does not stay the action of the three-judge panel.”

The Republican-controlled state legislature drew these districts hoping that it could maintain its district-representative lead of 10-3 over the Democrats, according to The Charlotte Observer.

The 2nd district, located in central North Carolina, had to be redrawn to

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fix the 1st district, located slightly to the northeast. This caused incumbent Republican representative Renee Ellmers to run against another incumbent Republican representative George Holding who won the primary vote on June 7.

Steven Greene, a political science professor, said it is unusual that two incumbents of the same party would run against each other when their own party controls

the state legislature, according to The News & Observer.

“That’s absolutely the sort of thing you do to the other party,” Greene said to The News & Observer. “What did Renee Ellmers or George Holding do to [anger] the state legislature? Could they really not come up with a different map that didn’t pit two Republican incumbents against each other?”

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SCOTUS strikes down Texas anti-abortion policy

Staff Report

The Supreme Court ruled 5-3 on Monday, June 27, that a Texas law requiring abortion clinics to meet medical standards equal to that of hospitals was unconstitutional because it placed undue restrictions on women’s access to healthcare while offering marginal health benefits.

The plaintiff, Whole Woman’s Health et al., took issue with two provisions, the “admitting- privileges requirement” and the “surgical-center requirement” which were included in House Bill 2 passed by the Texas Legislature in 2013 (not to be confused with North Carolina’s House Bill 2).

These provisions sought to protect women’s health by requiring that a “physician performing or inducing an abortion . . . must, on the date [of service], have active admitting privileges at a hospital . . . located not further than 30 miles from the abortion facility” and that abortion clinics meet “minimum standards . . . for ambulatory surgical centers” under Texas law, according to the official court documents.

Though perhaps righteous in its intent, the Texas legislature’s House Bill 2 caused 25 of the state’s 44 abortion clinics to close because they could not meet the requirements.

Women seeking abortions could only get the procedure in six cities, mostly in eastern Texas: Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso, Houston and McAllen, according to the Washington Post.

The court found that “[t]he great weight of evidence dem-

onstrates that, before [the bill’s] passage, abortion in Texas was extremely safe with particularly low rates of serious complications and virtually no deaths occurring on account of the procedure,” thus the law was found to be unnecessarily strict.

Justice Stephen Breyer delivered the opinion of the Court with Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Sotomayor and Kagan joining while Justices Thomas and Alito filed dissenting opinions.

“There was no significant health-related problem that the new law helped to cure,” Breyer wrote. “We agree with the District Court that the surgical-center requirement, like the admitting-privileges requirement, provides few, if any, health benefits for women, poses a substantial obstacle to women seeking abortions, and constitutes an ‘undue burden’ on their constitutional right to do so.”

In Ginsburg’s concurring opinion, she cited prior cases which showed that complications from abortion are extremely rare, adding “[m]any medical procedures, including childbirth, are far more dangerous to patients, yet are not subject to ambulatory surgical-center or hospital admittingprivileges requirements.”

Ginsburg also brought up that these kinds of restrictions to abortion could lead women in “desperate circumstances” to “resort to unlicensed rogue practitioners … at great risk to their health and safety.”

Thomas wrote in his dissent that by ruling as it did the court has allowed doctors and clinics to determine the constitutional rights of a third party, all women, which is an

“oddity” in legal proceedings. He also expressed frustration with the Supreme Court’s tendency to “to bend the rules when any effort to limit abortion, or even to speak in opposition to abortion, is at issue.”

The 5-3 victory was significant because it means that the majority opinion on this issue could continue regardless of the winner of the presidential election in November who will be allowed to choose who will fill the seat left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.

Texas legislators have promised to revisit this issue in the near future, while abortion clinics in the state are beginning the process to reopen.

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Hooked on ‘ponics: Club exhibits alternative farming

By Gabriel DeCaro Opinion Editor

The Recirculating Farms Club is showcasing the future of farming in Talley Student Union with an intricate aquaponic system of pipes, tanks, bacteria, fish and spring mix lettuce.

The core mission of the project is to educate the public on the benefits of aquaponics and recirculating farms with an interactive experience, according to Maddie Ciszewski, a junior studying agricultural science and president of the RFC. Aquaponic technology offers an alternative to traditional farming by combining aquaculture, farming aquatic animals, and hydroponics, growing plants in nutrientrich water rather than soil.

“I definitely think that getting more people on board with sustainable agriculture starts at a younger age, whether it’s middle school or college,” Ciszewski said.

“But these are the people who are supposed to go out and change the world. Hopefully getting kids to actually see this and not just hear about it through the grapevine; they’ll get excited to do something similar.”

NC State Dining, the Brickyard Farmer’s Market and some local food banks will make use of the food grown by the RFC’s system. The current batch is destined for salads at 1887 Bistro, while future batches will also include herbs.

“Giving to the food bank is a good way to give back to the Raleigh community,” Ciszewski said. “Working with University Dining and the Farmers’ Market is a really good way to reach out to students and get them interested about it. It’s not just this closed-off exhibit here in Talley; they can actually get involved with it.”

A Sustainability Fund grant provided the funds for the RFC to build the system. As

part of the grant, NC State Dining helped the club find a proper location for the exhibit near Talley Market.

According to Chris Dunham, nutrition and sustainability specialist, NC State Dining is committed to incorporating sustainability on campus in any way they can.

The system uses multiple aspects of sustainable design.

Gravity takes water full of nutrients from the waste of tilapia fish to the grow beds.

The waste is then filtered to remove the solids and converted into a chemical form that plants can use for nutrition. Lettuce, in particular, thrives in an aquaponic system because it easily absorbs nutrients from the water and grows quickly in three to four weeks, according to Dunham.

The club has brought together students from a wide variety of disciplines including Sayam Patel, a sophomore studying physics.

Fascinated by the novelty of growing plants in a nontraditional and more efficient manner, Patel became a member of the club during his first year.

“It just seemed like a futuristic thing that I was interested in, so I joined,” Patel said.

“Ever since, I was just learning more and more at every meeting, and it’s been fun.”

Patel helps to manage the monitoring system for the project, which senses various environmental conditions including acidity, water and air temperature, humidity and salinity. Patel plans on setting up a camera to check the plants daily, making it possible for the project members to access the monitor from their own computers.

Ciszewski said she plans on bringing the system to the State Fair in October. After the fair, the club plans on working with NC State Dining to find a permanent home so that the farm can continue to interactively educate.

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A sign displays the science behind an aquaponics exhibit in Talley Student Union on June 29. The Recirculating Farms Club sponsored and put on the aquaponics exhibit and has applied to take its exhibit to the North Carolina State Fair.

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A 180-gallon tank holds tilapia that help in the fertilization process of the aquaponics exhibit in Talley Student Union on June 29.

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Water pumps into the growing bed of the aquaponics exhibit in Talley Student Union on June 29. Recirculating Farms Club plans to use the lettuce that is being grown in salads at the 1887 Bistro.

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Tilapia swim in a 180-gallon tank as a part of an aquaponics exhibit in Talley Student Union on June 29. This aquaponics exhibit was sponsored and put on by the Recirculating Farms Club.

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Tuffy II in training: New pup learns old tricks

Samuel Griffin Features Editor

At ever y home footba ll game, NC State fans come out in droves to cheer on the players, but among the crowd is a very special member of the Wolfpack: a Tamaskan. His name is Tuffy II, and he joins his brother as a mascot this fall season.

The Tamaskan breed, chosen for its wolf-like appearance and obedience, has been NC State’s live mascot since 2010, when the original Tuffy was chosen and first started appearing at games. Prior to Tuffy, NC State used many different mascots including a mechanical wolf costume in 1946, a live timber wolf in 1947 and a second wolf in 1966 that turned out to be a coyote.

For the last six years, Tuffy has served as a symbol of NC State, but when Tuffy’s owners had an opportunity to purchase another Tamaskan, a second Tuffy was added to the Wolfpack.

“We expect that Tuffy II will participate alongside Tuffy throughout the course of this football season,” said Christopher Boyer, the deputy athletics director for external operations. “[The owners] had an opportunity to acquire another Tamaskan, and we thought the time was right to begin training.”

Boyer said there is currently no planned date to retire and replace the current Tuffy, who is 7 years old, which is about middle-aged for a dog his size. Boyer said that NC State will continue to use Tuffy as long as it is comfortable for him.

“When ultimately NC State and the owners of the current Tuffy agreed to have their Tamaskan participate as a live mascot on game day, they handled all of the necessary acclimations and training,” Boyer said. “And likewise, they’ve been handling all of the necessary animations and training with a professional trainer to prepare Tuffy II for this role.”

The owners of Tuffy and Tuffy II have their identities kept secret in order to protect their, and the dogs’, safety and wellbeing. However, the Technician was able to ask them several questions through the athletic department to find out how the dogs behave off the field.

“The Tamaskan breed is known for being clever, mischievous and hard to contain,” one of the owners said. “Tuffy has managed to escape many enclosures, stumping all who tried to contain him.

We always warned everyone of his talent.

They didn’t believe us until they found ‘Houdini’ on the other side with no evidence of his escape, other than a very happy Tamaskan.”

The owners said Tuffy is warming up to

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his new housemate and that training for Tuffy II started when he was 9 weeks old.

Tuffy II undergoes training for 16 hours per week, and he will train for six months to improve his obedience and agility. He will also receive other specialized training to prepare him for the events he attends.

Boyer said the current agreement with the dogs’ owners consents that Tuffy, and now Tuffy II, appear on the sidelines at home football games. They also appear

at bowl games if the bowl allows it and the travel is manageable. Tuffy has also been a regular attendee of Packapalooza and other football and men’s basketball events, such as Meet the Pack Day. The owners said Tuffy’s training was completely different than Tuffy II’s. Tuffy was raised as a family pet but rose to the challenge when he became a mascot. He will continue to do so until he is too old, at which point Tuffy II will take up the mantle alone.

Researchers help computers ‘see’ better Samuel Griffin Features Editor

Driving down a road, you have to identify a lot of different objects at once. The car in front of you, a pothole in the road or a street sign are all objects that a driver may need to take note of, but what if your eyes lacked the ability to identify these everyday objects? What if one eye was only good at seeing the road, while the other was only good at identifying the car in front of you?

These are all problems that a computercontrolled vehicle may face, but researchers at NC State have developed new methods that allow computers to “see” and take in everything the road may present.

Edgar Lobaton, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Qian Ge, a graduate student studying electrical engineering, have developed a new method of image segmentation, the process by which computers take in visual information.

“Segmentation refers to the fact that you have an image and you’re going to divide it into little significant pieces,”

Lobaton said.

Lobaton and Ge have developed a new method of image segmentation that involves taking multiple algorithms and combining them into a single, more effective program. The research came from their prior work on a 2012 self-driving car study.

“We found when we used one algorithm to do the image segmentation, we couldn’t get good results for all of the images,” Ge said. “We tried several segmentation algorithms and found that the different algorithms could get good results for different images. So then we thought, ‘If we combine all of the segmentation results, could we get better segmentations?’”

Lobaton and Ge took this idea and launched a new, broader study. They found that by running multiple image segmentation algorithms at once, a computer could process an image more accurately, allowing it to break down objects by their patterns.

Lobaton and Ge said that many different variables affect an image segmentation algorithm’s accuracy, such as the

color and sharpness of an object’s edges.

An algorithm registers a certain repeating variable, like the pattern of asphalt, and identifies it as an object, like a street.

Ge described the process like trying to find a book in a bookshelf. The computer would take an image of the bookshelf and divide it into all of the different books.

The book spine with the information or patterns that match the book would be identified separately from the rest of the shelf.

“This problem of looking at the segmentation of images is kind of like a building block that can be used for a lot of different applications,” Lobaton said.

Lobaton said this process could be improved further by parallelizing the program’s code. Parallelization essentially means running multiple things at the same time. In this case, it means running multiple image segmentation algorithms at once as opposed to going through each algorithm individually, collecting all of that algorithm’s data and only then moving on to the next.

Image segmentation can be used for everything from medical imaging to sur-

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The probability map of each segment curve represents the segmentation set where darker colors indicate higher probability of the curve being present.

veillance. Identifying cancerous tissue or highlighting a single person walking through a large crowd are two potential uses of the technology that could be developed using Lobaton and Ge’s work.

For now, Lobaton and Ge are hard at work finding new algorithms to test and add to their program. Ge is presenting their work in Las Vegas at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition on July 1.

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Planting a seed of sustainability

Maddy Bonnabeaux Assistant Features Editor

On a field trip to the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle, Bob Patterson, alumni distinguished professor of crop science, splits his students into three groups. The first gets an excellent meal, the second gets a mediocre meal and the third group sits on the f loor, eating a bad meal.

“It’s a powerful experience; I ask the students later in their career how they feel about it, and they no longer take food for granted,” Patterson said.

Through his interactive “STS 323: World Population and Food Prospects” course, Patterson encourages students to think on a global level. He is a recipient of the 2016 Green Brick Awards, which are given for outstanding contributions to sustainability.

“I grew up in a simple rural environment in the foothills of NC,” Patterson said. “My mother taught by her example not to be wasteful. I grew up on a farm practicing what I teach today.”

After pursuing graduate school at Cornell University, he returned to NC State to teach a crop science class. At the time, Chancellor John Caldwell wanted to bring into existence courses of student interest — one of which was STS 323. With the conception of the First Year College (now Exploratory Studies), Patterson introduced a freshman version of the course. Although working with freshmen is challenging, Patterson said it is highly rewarding.

“The best part about teaching is the opportunity to plant seeds in the minds of the freshmen,” Patterson said. “I have the opportunity to work with students before their minds are completely made up about life.”

A Fulbright Scholar, Patterson conducted research and taught at Humboldt University of Berlin. In 2009, Patterson returned to attend the “Long Night of Science,” in which science institutions, laboratories and libraries in Berlin and Potsdam are showcased.

“They open their doors and demonstrate how the university is spending the public’s money,” Patterson said. “Probably 75 percent of what I saw had to do with green Germany. It’s incredible what they’re doing with wind, solar, nuclear and hydroelectricity. I’ve learned so much that I can’t wait to share with my students.”

According to Patterson, Germany prioritizes minimizing adverse effects on the environment. Consequences of growing crops are researched as much the crops themselves.

“They don’t want any waste in grow-

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ing the food,” Patterson said. “You can go down the street in Berlin and you’ll find a dozen organic food stores for every one that’s not organic.”

Locally, Patterson takes his students on numerous field trips: the Burlington Engineering Laboratories, SOUL Garden, J.C. Raulston Arboretum and the NCSU Solar House, to name a few.

“It helps our students understand the importance of being green,” Patterson said. “That’s the way I encourage my students to think.”

One destination is NC State’s Agroecology Education Farm, where students learn about the proper growing of plants and volunteer on their own for a few hours.

Also being a Green Brick Award recipient, the farm functions as an educational apparatus. Notably, all the produce grown is provided to on-campus dining.

“Nothing synthetic is produced out here, be that chemicals or fertilizer,” said Alison Reeves, farm manager. “It’s a different way of growing — they’re all natural.”

The fruitful hub sits on six acres adjacent to a nature preserve. The farm has a strong sense of community, attracting apprentices and volunteers.

“We get a lot of students who may not come from farming backgrounds, which can be one of the first introductions to where their food comes from,” Reeves said. “We also get kids. I usually send

them on a scavenger hunt for bugs. We try to be a place where students and the community can coexist.”

According to Chris Dunham of NC State Dining, the farm produces 27 percent of the food across campus. It also contributes to The State Club on Centennial Campus.

“A big part of my job is sourcing local items,” Dunham said. “For example, I saw that we weren’t buying sweet potatoes from NC. We had the f lexibility to do that because we’re self-operated. We’re the last school in-state that does that.”

A contract has its benefits, as the corporation makes the decisions of what ingredients to use and where they’re coming from. Nevertheless, it could take anywhere from six weeks to six months to put a new item in the system, according to Dunham.

“We spend our money how we want,” Dunham said. “But we don’t make a profit; we break even every year, donating what we have leftover to scholarships for the university. Last year, we donated over $1 million in scholarships. We’re the lowest-priced meal plan in the state, potentially the lowest in the southeast.”

Dunham meets with the chefs every few weeks to inform them of what’s available and what they need. The chefs have their own row of crops, including lime, lemon and basil.

“Dining is welcoming to us,” Dunham

said. “We’re a lot more culinary-driven than we were in the past; we have more chefs now.”

The Agroecology Farm exists within the chefs’ recipes, growing produce yearround. Unique crops such as yellow beets, purple broccoli and ground cherries set its produce apart.

For instance, the moon and stars watermelon is distinguished by its yellow f lesh and speckled exterior. This celestial fruit is served on special occasions, such as the upcoming All Carolinas Meal Aug. 25.

The meal is locally curated and presented buffet-style outside of Fountain Dining Hall. The event will feature vendors and a local band.

“The first All Carolinas Meal we ever did had canned green beans,” Dunham said. “It’s definitely not like that anymore.

NC State Dining only uses fresh and frozen produce now.”

Looking for ward, the Agroecolog y Farm wants to introduce compost for food waste and a post-harvesting area.

“NC State has a robust sustainability program that includes numerous initiatives going beyond green or environmental sustainability that create a better quality of life for our community, developing leaders that have knowledge of sustainability,” said Tracy Dixon, director of the University Sustainability Office.

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Cat Barber dives for the basketball during the 88-70 win over South Alabama in PNC Arena on Nov. 15.

Cat nipped by draft BARBER GOES UNDRAFTED, SIGNS FREE AGENT DEAL WITH PELICANS Daniel Lacy Sports Editor

Before the 2016 NBA Draft, former NC State point guard Cat Barber was projected to go off the board anywhere from the end of the first round to the middle of the second round.

The overall expectation was that, at the very least, he would get drafted at some point. However, that was not the case, as he fell out of the draft entirely and became a free agent.

Barber’s decision to forego his senior year and enter the draft was not a hotly contested one, as he had his best year of his college career while leading the ACC in scoring. However, Barber didn’t have much reason to stay with NC State since the highest ranked recruit NC State has ever courted, point guard Dennis Smith Jr., is arriving this year. Additionally, Barber has to provide for his daughter, and a professional basketball player’s salary would certainly assist with that.

Though he arguably made the right decision, he became the fifth NC State player in four years to declare early for the draft and the third to go undrafted.

So how does the ACC’s leading scorer go undrafted? Statistically, he had an incredible year, averaging 23.5 points, 4.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game while playing almost 39 minutes per game. But, obviously, individual numbers aren’t the only things that go into scouting an NBA prospect.

His team struggled, winning just five ACC games and finishing with a losing record for the first time under head coach Mark Gottfried. This led to questions about his leadership and whether he had the ability to better his teammates. However, this is not something NBA teams should’ve held against him, as the Wolfpack simply lacked consistent scorers. Other than Barber, forward Abdul-Malik Abu was the only player to average more than 10 points per game and shoot better than 40 percent from the field.

Another issue with Barber is his small frame. Measuring at 6 feet 2.75 inches and 173 pounds at the NBA combine, he was the sixth-shortest and third-lightest participant. Of the 11 point guards taken in the draft, all four in the first round were 6-foot-4 or taller. The only two that were sub-6-footers were Kay Felder and Tyler Ulis, who ranked first and sixth in assists per game with 9.3 and 7.2 respectively, while Barber ranked just outside the top 100.

However, for the most part, Barber’s strengths balance out his weaknesses very well. He makes up for his slender frame with polarizing speed and agility that are simply unteachable assets on the offensive and defensive ends of the floor. His passing improved every year at NC State despite a lack of offensive weapons last season, jumping from 3.7 to 4.5 per game in one year. These strengths should have set him enough apart from others to at least be considered in the second round, but NBA

teams did not share that opinion.

Although he went undrafted, some would argue that it is better than being a late-second round pick, as he got to pick his destination and the majority of second rounders don’t receive guaranteed contracts anyway.

Almost immediately after the draft, as he was a hot commodity as an undrafted free agent, Barber signed with the New Orleans Pelicans to play on their summer league team. This will be a good opportunity for Barber to prove he can make an impact with an NBA organization against lower-level NBA talent. If he plays well enough, he could earn a spot with the Pelicans in training camp.

If that works out, it isn’t too farfetched to say he could make the Pelicans’ final roster. While the team currently has four true point guards — Jrue Holiday, Norris Cole, Toney Douglas and Tim Frazier — he could end up beating out one or both of the latter two for a roster spot, as they were called up after injuries to Holiday and Cole. Overall, it is arguably one of the better landing spots for Barber, given Cole’s impending free agency and Holiday’s injury history (played in only 139 out of 246 games in the past three seasons).

While Barber probably should have been drafted, he could be in better position than some of the players who were selected in the second round (see Marcus Paige as one of seven point guards with the Utah Jazz). Worst case scenario, he either plays

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Entitlement v. Perfection: the customer service paradox S

Aditi Dholakia Correspondent

mile, stand up straight, say “please, ma’am” and “thank you, sir,” laugh at their jokes, always apologize and, above all, remember that the customer is always right.

If you’ve ever worked in America’s customer service and/or retail industry, this mantra should be familiar enough to you to induce many nightmares about forced politeness, aching feet and lower back muscles and the ever terrifying phrase, “I want to speak to the

manager.”

Compared to other countries in the world, such as Germany or Switzerland, customer service employees in the United States are treated almost worse than garbage, paid less than a pittance and yet are expected to remain loyal to their employers and treat their customers like royalty. Google couldn’t help me figure out this problem since the results only showed articles giving pointers on improving a business’s customer service to create a better environment for more revenue.

What’s even more interesting is that the “customer is always right” mindset is really only prevalent in the U.S. Customer entitlement has been proven and supported time and time again.

Customers know that if they kick up enough of a fuss, whether

or not their complaint is valid, management will give that customer preferential treatment cushioned by free merchandise.

I experienced this firsthand while working at my current job, which revolves around friendly and polite customer service to ensure that the consumer population returns to buy more of our products. A potential customer berated me for looking impolite and unladylike when I took a 10-second sit-down break on a cooler when feeling dizzy from standing out in the heat all day. I was working alone, and there were no apparent customers in the tent, so I took a seat. The potential-but-lost customer found this apparently offensive and complained about it loudly.

When I, in turn, complained to one of my German friends about this event and the much larger, ongoing phenomenon, she was appalled at the behavior of the customers as well as the doormat-like treatment of the minimum-wage customer service workers who endure the aforementioned behavior day in, day out.

In Germany, customer service and retail-oriented jobs are much more straightforward. Customers enter an establishment, whether it’s a clothing store, a grocery store or a restaurant, with the express purpose of minding their own business with as little fuss as possible. Store checkout employees are permitted to sit behind the counter while scanning, and they are paid much

more than American employees. In the event that there is a problem, customers respectfully work with employees to make sure it is resolved as quickly and quietly as possible.

What it boils down to is a paradox of entitlement and unachievable perfection. Customer service culture in America has blown up in a way that automatically puts all parties at a disadvantage. Companies and establishments advertise the perfect customer service experience to consumers, thereby implying that their workers will make absolutely no mistakes, behaving like the perfect customer service robots they have been trained to be.

A more truthful experience, in which customers are not expecting perfection but acceptable service in exchange for money, and in which employees are not breaking their backs while bending over backward for minimum wage, would lead to a more enjoyable consumer experience for all parties involved.

Rather than feeding into customer entitlement and unachievable employee perfection, the culture needs to change to be more equally accommodating so that it’s acceptable for customer service workers to take a 10-second break every now and then when they feel dizzy from heat exposure and dehydration.

Pay attention to Brexit, because it might happen here A

s the poll results for the U.K.’s European Union Remain/Leave referendum began to appear on CNN, lyrics from “Hamilton” echoed in my head. “The world turned upside down.

Luke The world turned upside Perrin down.” The consequences Correspondent of the historic vote to exit the EU will shift the international economic landscape in the immediate future and longterm, with little indication of what these effects may be. We are truly witnessing one of the defining moments of our generation.

The results were shocking. Polls and pundits alike expected the vote to go in favor of remaining in the Union by a considerable amount, with some polls ranging as high as an 8-point victory. The political polls that citizens constantly rely on were wrong. The right-wing populists were able to beat the odds and experts, which is why I am increasingly concerned about the United States’ presidential election.

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We’ve heard it for the past month. Polls and pundits agree that Hillary Clinton will beat Donald Trump by a considerable margin. We claim that Trump is the best scenario for Clinton and that there is no way that the reality TV star can win in a general election. I’m one of those people, and I’ve been pushing those claims for months, even if they aren’t backed by any type of factual evidence.

After the results of the EU referendum, I’m no longer convinced. If the populists were able to beat the polls in Britain, then the populists can beat the polls here in the United States.

Brexit increasingly appears to be a harbinger of events to come.

The parallels between the two elections are uncanny. The referendum campaign, commonly known as “Brexit,” encompassed populist anger, a rising sense of nationalism, angst toward political elites and a rising sense of the ordinary voter seeking to take their country back. Trump’s campaign is built around the exact same premise. A broad segment of the U.S. population feels as if the government no longer works for them and that major change

Re. Talley voting location On June 30, the Wake County Board of Elections is set to consider early voting hours and locations for 2016. These decisions will directly impact our entire community and set precedent for future elections for years to come.

At this meeting, the Wake County BOE will decide whether an early voting location will be offered once again at NC State University as it was in the 2012 general election. There are many who argue that an early voting site at NCSU is both unnecessary and a waste of resources due to a variety of reasons including apathy among young voters and whether or not college students

is necessary in order for the country to finally be on the path that they desire.

Many Americans are aggravated with trade deals, immigration policy and the government as a whole. British right-wingers disdained the immigration policies mandated by the EU. Meanwhile the immigration policies in the U.S. have become the central platform goal of the Republican Party presidential ticket. In both cases, racism has catalyzed these sentiments.

Right-wing populism is growing all across Europe, and the past year’s migrant influx has caused polarized opinions to form in minds and mouths of politicians. The terror attacks in Paris and Brussels only added kerosene to the fire, and anti-Islamic sentiments are prominent. While certainly some in the U.S. disdain Islam, those in Europe with similar views are arguably much more vocal. Globalism in the 21st century is being undermined by those who shield racist motives with cries of independence and angst toward policies that favor the people who they opposed.

The same waves are felt in U.S. politics. The

deserve an on-campus voting site since they are not “true” citizens of Wake County. As a society we acknowledge that every citizen regardless of their age, sex, religion or race is guaranteed to a set of fundamental rights and services. However when it comes to one of the most fundamental rights of being an American, little to no effort is made to make the voting process more accessible or convenient for a majority of the population. We need to ask ourselves what kind of message this sends to new voters. Want to know why there is increased apathy among young voters? We treat them like they don’t matter and therefore their votes don’t matter. If we want to work toward a more inclusive political

presidential candidate for a major political party has built his platform on cries for independence from the current regime, but it seems to be more of a puppet for the xenophobic sentiments that exist within his heart and his electorate. It’s time that we stop pretending that this candidate cannot win, because the results of the Brexit referendum have proved that right-wing populism has taken hold.

We must ignore polls that show Clinton winning in large numbers for the time. For those opposed to the prospect of a Trump regime, there needs to be a continual effort to undermine him and his beliefs, all the way until the day that polls close in November and potentially past that depending on the outcome.

Brexit has shown that a Trump presidency is not inevitable, but rather that the possibility of it coming into fruition isn’t something that can be predicted by statistics and overly complex equations. An electorate is angry, and anger cannot be measured numerically.

system where every citizen has a voice and is represented equally, we first need to work to make sure that every citizen feels that their voice truly does matter. By placing an early voting site on campus at NCSU we are sending a message that young people’s voices and their votes do matter.

As an alumna of NCSU, I helped fight to organize the first early voting site at Talley Student Union on campus at NCSU in 2012 that hosted over 16,000 voters. I’ll be at the Wake County BOE’s meeting on June 30, at 5 p.m. to help fight again so that students have a voice. I hope other NCSU students and alumni will join me to do the same.

Anna Marie Fristoe Class of 2014

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Hicks, Johnson, Kapita latest to join Pack’s top-five recruiting class Earlier this offseason, the NC State men’s basketball team was faced with the potential losses of Cat Barber, Abdul-Malik Abu and BeeJay Anya to the NBA Draft while Kyler the Martin twins transProffitt ferred out of the program.

Staff Writer Then like a f lood, it all happened at once. Three-star forward Darius Hicks committed to the Wolfpack May 13, giving it some depth in what seemed to be an exodus of Wolfpack basketball players.

Turkish center and five-star prospect Omer Yurtseven signed with the Wolfpack May 16. Realizing the potential at hand, Abu and Anya both withdrew their names from the NBA Draft. The transfer rumors surrounding Abu also quit, and everyone exhaled.

Four-star point guard Markell Johnson joined the team on June 20 to add just a little bit more depth. Then to put the icing on the cake, four-star forward Ted Kapita signed with NC State June 24. All of a sudden, the Wolfpack has a top-five recruiting class nationally, according to

247Sports.

The basketball gods seemed at peace with NC State for once. A team that looked like it would run a six-man rotation now has some depth and breathing room for a long season ahead. Forward Lennard Freeman, who played much of last year hurt, can now sit this year out and heal his ailing body.

So, what will the addition of Johnson, Kapita and Hicks look like for the Wolfpack?

With Barber gone, it looked like freshman Dennis Smith Jr. was going to spend most, if not all of the 40 minutes running point guard. With Johnson added to the roster, NC State head basketball coach Mark Gottfried has some room to work with.

Johnson was the number-one-ranked point guard coming out of Ohio in the 2016 recruiting class. The 6-foot-1 playmaker will give Smith an opportunity to play a little bit off the ball as well. Johnson is a playmaker who can help take the pressure off Smith to run the offense on a game-by-game basis.

Smith is coming off a torn ACL, and while he is progressing greatly, the addi-

tion of Johnson will surely help him keep his minutes low to start out the season in hopes he doesn’t re-injure himself. For an offense that seemed to be stagnant last year, Johnson can also help create space on the court.

This past spring, Johnson played on a Nike EYBL team and averaged 18.2 points, 5.9 boards and 4.9 assists.

Kapita is the most recent commit to the squad and will be vital during the season.

With Freeman rumored to redshirt the 2016-17 year, Kapita will likely be thrown into a frontcourt that includes Abu, Anya and Yurtseven. There is plenty of space for him to thrive in this rotation.

At DME Academy this past season, Kapita averaged 12 points and seven boards.

One of the biggest things that he can help the Wolfpack with immediately is his free-throw shooting. He shot 83 percent from the line, which is a vast improvement from any current frontcourt player on the roster.

Kapita will look to help spread the court as he can knock down perimeter jumpers, something the roster was clearly lacking last season. He may also be helpful if Yurtseven is not cleared for action, which

is possible with the NCAA. Whatever happens, Kapita brings a lot of depth to this team and could see his role transform over the course of the year.

The best part about Hicks, who committed to the team when uncertainty was high about who would be where, is that while he may not be able to contribute greatly to this team right now, he can be a four-year player. He can be one who works hard every single day of the year to improve his game and get better and see a starting job open later in his years.

Right now, Hicks adds length and depth to this roster. He will more or less be used as much as Shaun Kirk was this past season. He could give some much-needed defense and energy off the bench. One of Hicks’ strong suits is that he can play multiple positions, and in that case, he can also guard multiple positions.

With the addition of these players, the ACC is going to be highly competitive next season and the Wolfpack has the opportunity to make a run as one of the top teams in the conference.

Cleveland’s championship drought mimics Wolfpack’s Mitchell Davis Correspondent

LeBron James and the Cavaliers ended Cleveland’s 52-year-long championship drought on June 19, after decades-long struggle similar to the one NC State fans are currently experiencing. If Ohio natives were able to keep hope alive for that long, there’s nothing stopping NC State fans.

Cleveland sports teams have essentially been the butt of everyone’s jokes for more than half a century. In 2007, the Cavaliers were swept in the NBA Finals by the San Antonio Spurs. In 2010, James announced that he would be leaving the Cavaliers to join forces with Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade in Miami.

The drought contains more letdowns and sadness, as it stretches from the NBA to the NFL and MLB. One of Cleveland’s biggest heartbreaks dates back to the 1997 World Series in which the Cleveland Indians lost to the Florida Marlins in Game 7. Another devastating Cleveland loss can be found by traveling even further back to Jan. 17, 1988 for the AFC Championship game.

The Browns lost to the Denver Broncos because their running back, Earnest Byner, fumbled the ball on the Broncos’ 1-yard line with one minute remaining in the game.

The 2015-16 NBA season finally ended this “curse,” as the Cavaliers made history by coming back from down three games to one against the Golden State Warriors

to win Game 7 in Oracle Arena and secure the title. The city of Cleveland and the entire state of Ohio celebrated, as 52 years of cheering — and heartbreak — through thick and thin finally paid off.

While collegiate and professional athletics are obviously different, NC State fans certainly feel a pain similar to that felt by Cleveland natives.

NC State has played in two College World Series. The first one in 1968 and the most recent in 2013 in which the Pack was eliminated by rival UNC-Chapel Hill, in a 7-0 drubbing, following its first 50-win season in program history and arguably its best ever. This past season, the team was eliminated by Coastal Carolina in regionals during a game in which State was just one thrown strike away from a victory and advancing to the super regionals. Coastal Carolina made it to the championship series of the College World Series, fighting Arizona for a NCAA National Championship June 29. The game had not concluded as of press time.

NC State football hasn’t won an ACC title since 1979 and hasn’t been able to compete with the upper echelon of the ACC for a while. Each year, the team starts off strong, creating hope for fans as it tends to defeat multiple sub-par opponents, then struggles against averageto-great ACC teams. Last season, the team appeared to have taken a step in the right direction under head coach Dave Doeren when it was invited to play in the Belk Bowl against Mississippi State. The Pack lost 51-28, in a game that wasn’t even as close as the final score.

The NC State men’s basketball program hasn’t won a NCAA National Championship since 1983 and its most recent championship of any kind was the 1989 ACC Championship. While the team has gotten close in recent years, the seasons continue to end in bitter disappointment. The team has suffered two losses in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament in the past five seasons, plus an elimination in the Round of 64 in 2014.

The most heartbreaking of those came against St. Louis in 2014, when the Wolfpack had a 14-point lead with five minutes left in regulation. The Billikens countered, erasing the substantial deficit in the final 4:45, thanks in large part to poor NC State free-throw shooting, to send the game to overtime, where the Wolfpack eventually fell 83-80, ending its season for good. But perhaps even worse than blown games was the team’s failure last season to make it into the tournament at all.

Though times are tough, State fans should look to the city of “Believeland” for comfort. The fans persevered until the Cavs’ season ended with cheerful tears. The next time an NC State team wins a championship, State fans will be able to say that they hung on and continued to support the Pack during the worst of times. While State hasn’t had major athletic success for a long time, it hasn’t quite been 52 years. There is no reason to quit yet. As Jimmy V once said, “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.”

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