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IN BRIEF Bar talk: McDaids owner talks closing Winter weather continues to affect class, URec schedule Classes starting before 10 a.m. are canceled today. The university will resume normal operations at 10 a.m. Until then, it will continue to operate under Status 2 of the adverse weather policy. The university encouraged students to make safe choices about their travel. University Recreation will also continue operating under the adverse weather plan today. Carmichael Gymnasium will be open from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Carmichael Recreation will be open from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Source: WolfAlert and NC State Recreation
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The new year started out on a sad note when McDaids Irish Restaurant & Pub on Hillsborough Street announced that it would be closing its doors for good Jan. 1. The Technician reached out to Tyler Mills, the owner of McDaids, for an interview to discuss what it was like to run McDaids, some of the challenges it faced and why it closed.
Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
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When did McDaids open, and why did you choose Hillsborough Street?
McDaids opened in September of 2013 by the means of two men from Ireland and one American partner. Hillsborough Street initially appeared to be an
exciting location for anyone interested in opening a business. As you know, Raleigh and the Triangle area are rapidly growing; being a part of that growth is enticing for anyone who plans on opening a business. Owning a business near a public university with over 20,000 students enrolled, including a large faculty with grounds staff and an abundance of student housing in close proximity gave the owners the confidence needed to invest money on Hillsborough Street. How could they go wrong?
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What caused McDaids to close down?
Carolina Panthers advance to Super Bowl 50
World War II ghetto and concentration camp child survivor Kaja Finkler will speak on campus Wednesday as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Finkler will guide the audience through a story of separation, longing, loss and fortitude. The talk will take place in SAS Hall, room 2203, from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Source: University Calendar
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FEATURES Triangle Restaurant Week kicks off in Raleigh
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The Court of North Carolina was covered in a thin layer of snow on Friday.
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SPORTS Wolfpack downed by Blue Devils See page 8.
and North halls to stay warm for the night and to have access to electricity for homework and reliable communication while AFC was under blackout, according to Allison Colley, community assistance coordinator for Wood Hall. Students were cleared to return to AFC at about 6 p.m. Saturday, according to Jackson. Duke Energy’s most recent re-
NC State’s Sustainability Council held a town hall-style recruitment drive Wednesday to kick off the next phase of development for the future of sustainability at NC State. The town hall was open to all members of the NC State community to offer suggestions for ways to build on the successes the council has already achieved and to build connections that will eventually form the working groups that would see these ideas through to completion. The university has reached the end of the five-year Sustainability Strategic Plan that has guided policy since April 2011 and is building the team that will form the next five-year strategic plan by fall 2016. Since the last plan went into effect, NC State has reduced its water usage by 50 percent, its energy usage by 28 percent and its greenhouse gas emissions by 13.5 percent, according to Assistant Vice Chancellor for Facilities Operations Jack Colby. The Sustainability Council was launched in September with a goal of broadening the communication network around sustainable practices for NC State administration through the for-
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Winter storm causes power outages at Avent Ferry Gavin Stone Assistant News Editor
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Avent Ferry Complex is now operating on full power after Winter Storm Jonas left more than 1,000 Duke Energy customers in the area without power for about 20 hours over the weekend. According to Duke Energy’s maps,
the area stretching from the intersection of Avent Ferry Road and Western Boulevard to the intersection of Trailwood Drive and Tanager Street was without power. Students living in AFC were without power from about 8:15 p.m. Friday until 5:45 p.m. Saturday, according to Curtis Jackson Jr., assistant director of University Housing for Southeast Campus. About 40 students were allowed to move into empty rooms in Wood
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The Carolina Panthers advanced to Super Bowl 50 Sunday night after a dominating victory over the Arizona Cardinals in the NFC Championship at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. The Panthers, led by quarterback and MVP-candidate Cam Newton, finished the regular season 15-1, the best record in the NFL. Sunday night’s win marks the second time the Panthers have advanced to the Super Bowl in franchise history, the first since February 2004 when they lost to the New England Patriots 32-29 in Super Bowl XXXVIII. The Panthers will face the AFC Champion Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50 on Feb. 7 in Santa Clara, California. Source: Fox Sports
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It is very difficult to pin point a single “cause” that led to our closure. There are many events and decisions that factor into determining a business’s success or lead to its failure. In the end, for McDaids, we simply made a choice not to continue operating the business, as it would eventually need reinvestment to conduct day-to-day operations. Reinvestment was not part of the owner’s business model. They planned for a 24-month return on their original investment. If we continued to conduct business, we would eventually
The UNC Board of Governors met to discuss the most recent developments affecting the UNC System schools on Thursday in Greensboro just before the snow. The meeting is still technically not over, with final points to resume on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at UNCChapel Hill. Talley to be renovated again Designs for the Talley Retail Uplift project will begin Monday to be completed on March 16 and for construction to begin April 18 and conclude June 17. The project will cost $450,000 and renovate approximately 2,400 square feet of constructed space into a merchandise retail space near the University Bookstore. The cost will be paid using Campus Enterprises receipts.
Included in the project is locker space, a customer service counter, storage racks, workstation space and associated support space. Protest postponed Citing a new Faculty Forward Network survey of 1,400 UNC faculty which shows that many UNC professors are unhappy about the direction of higher education in North Carolina, protestors planned a demonstration during the Friday session of the meeting, though the meeting was canceled due to adverse weather. In an email sent out prior to the meeting, the protesters outlined concerns over Spellings’ record as Education Secretary and her work on the board of directors of Apollo Education Group, Inc., parent company of the for-profit University of Phoenix, which they consider to be a predatory institution that
targets low income students and students of color while “failing to deliver a high quality education.” Spellings has first meeting with Transition Committee Margaret Spellings, UNC System president-elect, held her first meeting with the Presidential Transition Committee responsible for acclimating her to the UNC System. Zack King, president of the Association of Student Governments, commented that Spellings is “definitely taking the job by storm” and that he expects a lot of changes when she takes over on March 1. Referring to the claim by the protestors that Spellings’ record as a board member of the University of Phoenix, King said that the subject “doesn’t come up” in the board’s meetings. Discussion on SARA Board members heard a presen-
tation on SARA, the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements, which will allow for all North Carolina schools, not only those within the UNC System, to have access to distance education courses offered in other SARA member states, as well as those schools to have access to North Carolina courses. SARA relaxes the regulations on courses so that only an institution’s home state needs to approve the course for it to be taken online by students at another university. If North Carolina were not to join SAR A, the presentation argued that the state’s universities would be at a competitive disadvantage as their markets would continue to be limited by authorization requirements which are expensive and time consuming.
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TECHNICIAN POLICE BLOTTER January 21 1:11 AM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Morrill Drive Student was cited and referred for Possession of Marijuana and Possession of Paraphernalia. 12:21 AM | FIRE ALARM Carmichael Gym Units responded to alarm caused by dust from Housekeeping. January 20 1:41 AM | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT Owen Hall Student reported suspicious incident with computer. Officers determined student had clicked on website causing the problem. 9:08 AM | LARCENY Centennial Campus Middle School Parent reported juvenile’s iPhone stolen. Pictures are now posting on iCloud.
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esidents of NC State’s Honors Village, or Honors Quad, get physical in a game of “snoccer,” a clever combination of the words “snow” and “soccer,” Saturday afternoon. Residents said that sometimes it’s hard to find something fun to do during inclement weather — especially inclement weather involving sub-freezing temperatures — so they decided to make their own fun. Though “snoccer” is not a regularly schedule Quad activity, the sport may reappear in the future if snowy or icy conditions persist.
CAMPUS CALENDAR Tuesday FIDELITY INVESTMENTS SPEAKERS SERIES: WIKIPEDIA EXPERT PETE FORSYTH Engineering Building II, Rm. 1231 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. GLOBAL ISSUES SEMINAR Withers 232A 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Wednesday WELLS FARGO EXECUTIVE SERIES - ABB EXECUTIVE GREG SCHEU Nelson Auditorium, 3400 Nelson Hall 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY LECTURE: LIVES LIVED AND LOST SAS - SAS Hall Room: 2203 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Thursday TOURNÉES FILM FESTIVAL DIPLOMATIE Campus Cinema - Witherspoon Student Center 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 2 VIDEO GAMES, PSYCHOLOGY, AND THE USER EXPERIENCE WITH DR. CELIA HODENT (EPIC GAMES) Auditorium (Hill) 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
THE RISE AND FALL OF “JEWISH CHRISTIANITY” Bostian Hall 3712 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 3 THE GLOBAL ERADICATION OF MALARIA - DEB DERRICK 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Thursday, Feb. 4 TOURNÉES FILM FESTIVAL TIMBUKTU Campus Cinema - Witherspoon Student Center 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. MOHO REALTY ARCHITECTURE MOVIE SERIES DOUBLE FEATURE Auditorium (Hunt) 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
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end up in debt, leading to a situation where we could still operate, but would not make profit for an undetermined amount of time. After two years of business experience on the street, reinvestment was a gamble that they felt smart enough not to make. That is not to say that Hillsborough Street is a terrible place to conduct business, but it was not fruitful for McDaids ownership. Again, there were many events and decisions that determine a business’s success. All the new development on Hillsborough Street is promising, but ownership did not believe that our business model would be profitable in the near future.
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What were some c h a l l e n g e s y ou faced running McDaids?
There was a long list of challenges for me right off the bat. I did not join McDaids’ leadership until January of 2014. The original GM was from Ireland. It was thought that employing a true blood Irish gentleman to operate the business would help create the authentic Irish Pub environment. This Irish gentleman did not have any experience operating a business in the United States. He did not understand our culture, nor did he understand the American tip system. Needless to say, I walked into a situation that one could only describe as business mayhem. On my very first day at the pub, the power was turned off by
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ports of remaining outages in the Carolinas counts roughly 50,000. The company estimated after initial damage assessments that all of the outages would be repaired by Monday at 11 p.m. Wake County is still among the areas with the most remaining outages, along with Johnston and Nash, according to Duke Energy. Friday night, Duke Energy claimed to have experienced
9:25 AM | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT Holladay Hall Chancellor’s Office reported unusual voicemail from unknown person.
1:15 PM | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT CVM Main Building Student reported receiving a concerning email from nonstudent regarding student’s W-2. Officers verified W-2 was sent to the wrong address. The W-2 was retrieved and returned. 5:54 PM | DAMAGE TO PROPERTY Coliseum Deck Student reported grill and headlight cover on vehicle had been sprayed painted while parked at this location. 7:03 PM |MEDICAL ASSIST Poe Hall Units responded to nonstudent in need of medical assistance. Transport refused. 7:37 PM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Sullivan Drive Student was cited for speeding. 11:05 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Bragaw Hall Suspicious subject refused to leave when asked by Housing Staff. Officers did not locate anyone matching description. 11:30 PM | FIRE ALARM Carmichael Gym Units responded to alarm. Cause unknown.
11:56 AM | SAFETY PROGRAM Avent Ferry Tech Center Officer conducted program for new employees.
Duke Energy during business hours because the previous manager did not pay the bill (this is not a normal occurrence in the business world). Two weeks after I started, I was told by the health department that our floor in the kitchen was “too porous” and that it needed to be repaired by Feb. 28, or the health department would shut us down. This meant that we needed to remove all of the equipment in the kitchen and install new floors. This included all refrigerators, sinks attached to the walls and the floor in our walk-in cooler needed to be re-done. Keep in mind that we were already in business, and I already had reservations for the entire month of February. We had to close our kitchen for two weeks while the new floor was being done. I was able to sell food off a limited menu and keep most of our product by having a refrigerated truck park in our parking spaces out back. Wouldn’t you know it, the over-aggressive tow company that the landlord hired decided to tow our refrigerated truck on a Saturday morning while we were trying to operate out of it. Imagine my surprise when I walked out back to pull out some produce only to find that the refrigerated truck had disappeared. The list goes on and on. Eventually, we did get squared away, and everything was looking up.
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Is owning a business on Hillsborough Street different than anywhere else? Are there unique challenges faced specific to Hillsborough Street?
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There are many challenges on Hillsborough Street day-
problems with its outage reporting systems, which slowed down the outage reporting process and updates from the company. Lloyd Yates, executive vice president of Market Solutions and president of Duke Energy Carolinas, apologized for delays in repairs. “We apologize for any frustration and inconvenience this caused customers,” Yates said. As of 4:25 a.m. Saturday morning, the Weather Channel estimated that 208,000 East Coast utility customers
to-day. We compete with a college that provides its own on-campus merchants who sell to students and faculty … The street closes every other month for a run or hike that neither starts nor finishes on Hillsborough Street. Hillsborough Street is a onesided business street. There are not enough businesses or parking spaces to entice the “would-be” drive-up clientele to come out of their way to visit the street.
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Do you plan to open up any restaurants in the future?
I certainly do! I would not open a restaurant in this state. I would describe the free market as being over controlled and highly taxed. Until state officials change the way they regulate and control hospitality/travel and tourism industry, there is more opportunity for restaurateurs in other states.
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What was your favorite memory?
I have ma ny mushy, warm, sentimental memories toward the staff and our regulars. We endured through many challenges that not many teams have to face. I am very proud of how hard we worked and how far we pushed ourselves. The “MADD Scientists” from the NC State biochemistry department came in once in a blue moon, they made a mess of things, but always reminded us of who we are and why we do what we do. To all of the friends and family we made down on Hillsborough Street... You will be missed, and thanks for memories.
were without power due to the effects of Jonas with the vast majority in North Carolina, where 151,000 customers suffered outages mainly due to heavy ice buildup from freezing rain Friday. For comparison, based on estimates at the same point in time, Virginia and South Carolina had 15,000 customers without power each, New Jersey with 6,000 in the dark and Delaware and Maryland each had about 5,000 households or businesses without power.
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After temperatures dropped Friday night, wet snow froze, and more snow fell. Bikes locked up on racks on Saturday in front of Talley Student Union and around campus froze over with icicles dangling from the seats and frame. The ground across much of campus became a thick sheet of ice that proved dangerous for walking and biking.
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Water froze around dried buds and branches on trees all around campus to form a glossy coat around everything.
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Lexi Weidmann, a freshman studying business, along with Trevor Graham, a freshman studying sustainable materials and technology, have a fun time skiing near D.H. Hill Library on a snow-filled Saturday.
Papa John’s seeing the dough
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Alexandre Felipe Lima, a junior majoring in biotechnology tries to catch a snowball that his friend threw at him. They were having a snowball fight in the Brickyard.
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s the NC State game against Duke came to a close and the power came back for students living on Avent Ferry Road, many sought the comfort and refuge of a Saturday night pizza. Due to influx of orders starting a little after 6 p.m., the Papa John’s on Avent Ferry began backing up, with customers experiencing heavy delays. Already behind by about 150 orders, Papa John’s was forced to suspend delivery orders at 7 p.m. in order to allow the drivers to finish making their rounds and to finish the night before the roads began to ice back over. ewis Prince, one of the cashiers, said Papa John’s closed early at 8 p.m. on Friday night, but they weren’t able to complete orders and leave until 11 p.m. Saturday night, Austin Jenkins, an employee working the oven all night, said they had made it to order 667 before finishing for the evening, not getting home until nearly midnight. From 8 p.m. until they had finished for the night, an extra 130 orders were completed, with one pizza coming out of the oven every two minutes.
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mation of five working groups in charge of key areas including academics, community and culture, student leadership, operations planning and campus design and communications. “It is clear that as we enter the fifth year of that plan that we’ve made great progress in all of the areas [we outlined], and we needed to be able to have the structure that would think about what’s next,” Colby said. “We have looked at that and said that one of the areas that we want to be sure that we improve is in reaching the students with our academic and research programs.” The Student Leadership Working Group will be made up primarily of students from
various groups around campus, according to Meghan Teten, director of the EcoVillage. Teten said the town hall was a good start for the next phase of the plan. “I think the contributions we got were really helpful and also pointed out some areas where we need to advertise and promote those programs and opportunities that are already available but are obviously not that well known,” Teten said. Surveys of students and staff conducted by the university have revealed that 69 percent of incoming students and 98 percent of staff consider sustainability an important value, which has further motivated the leadership of the council to reach out and mine these areas for support. In May 2015, the student-led
board of the NC State Sustainability Fund awarded $117,000 in grant-funding to 10 project proposals relating to furthering sustainability. These proposals included the solar umbrellas outside of Tucker Hall, which were installed last semester, as well as other projects slated to be completed this summer, including the installation of solar-powered waste compactors and an aquaponics system that will provide food for University Dining, according to Carla Davis, communications coordinator for the University Sustainability Office. “We want sustainability to be the norm at NC State — not a separate function over here for the passionate few — but a part of the culture and everything we do,” Colby said.
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riday marked the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, which granted legal access to abortions. Kathleen In the 43 years since the Maxwell decision, anti-abortion Correspondent activists have helped lead state legislatures to enact a wide variety of restrictions on a woman’s right to have an abortion. In the past five years alone, states have adopted hundreds of different restrictions on a woman’s access to abortion. One of the most recent restrictions has been to enact policies that require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. Anti-abortion activists claim that having admitting privileges at hospitals will allow doctors providing abortions to treat those women with complications at local hospitals. However, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, emergency room physicians and hospitalbased physicians can already provide services to those with abortion-related complications. The requirement for admitting privileges is also complicated by the fact that some hospitals require doctors with admitting privileges to admit a certain number of patients every year. Yet, the American Civil Liberties Union
{ Re: Byron Pitts inspires students to dream The recent article “Byron Pitts inspires students to dream” about Byron Pitts’ appearance at NC State was amazing to me, someone who has struggled with stuttering. The fact that Pitts persevered to becoming a national reporter for CBS News and ABC News despite stuttering is an American success story if I’ve ever heard one.
Re: Save money, exploit the poor I understand the theme of the article; I hate Wal-Mart, what it has done to many American small towns and how it treats its employees. I avoid shopping there when I’m not with relatives. However, the conclusion of this article does not follow from the premises given. Yes, Wal-Mart is terrible. But look at this article from Business Insider: It says, “The closings include
states that abortion is safe enough that those doctors providing solely abortions will not be able to meet those requirements. Already, these requirements have closed multiple abortion clinics. A dozen clinics have been closed in Texas since their admitting privilege regulation took effect. Oklahoma, Louisiana and Wisconsin will face the same closures of their abortion clinics if their laws take effect. Under the admitting privilege regulation, Mississippi’s only abortion clinic would have closed had a federal court not stepped in and found the law an unconstitutional violation of a woman’s right to get an abortion. Admitting privilege regulations place an undue burden on doctors to receive the qualifications necessary to perform safe, legal abortions. They require unnecessary relationships to hospitals that can be hard to come by for a variety of reasons. Although anti-abortion activists say that these regulations are to protect women’s safety, the real goal is to shut down abortion clinics and make it harder for a woman to receive their procedure. These admitting requirements are just one more attempt by anti-abortion activists to further unnecessary restrictions on the right to receive an abortion.
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Pitts is on the list of famous people who stutter on the website of The Stuttering Foundation. Never in my youth in the ‘60s and ‘70s was there ever a positive role model of a person who stutters available to me or any of the stuttering kids in the country. Pitts’ story will no doubt motivate kids who stutter, or young people with any challenge, to fight to overcome the odds. Pitts had speech therapy and other speech classes in
college. I want to mention that the website of The Stuttering Foundation offers many free resources, including a brochure called “Special Education Law and People Who Stutter” that explains how every child with any speech problem in the U.S. has the right to free speech therapy, from age 3 through high school. It is part of federal legislation from 40 years ago. Sincerely,
154 locations in the U.S. — 102 of which are the company’s smallest stores, called Wal-Mart Express, which have been in pilot since 2011.” Wal-Mart tried to extend its market share by creating its own versions of CVS or Walgreens and found that did not work, so it is closing them. Further research will also reveal that the rest of the stores being closed have been underperforming. The Business Insider article goes on to say that Wal-Mart is shifting employees to other stores
where it can and is providing the rest with resume and interview training. So you are correct, in a sense. Wal-Mart is trying to maintain its place at the top. But your ad hominem attack on the Walton family and its business lends no credibility to your argument — the business certainly isn’t throwing its employees around like wasted garbage. Sincerely,
Thomas Luipold
Aaron Vodicka senior studying political science
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uring the Democratic presidential debate Jan. 17, the take-away point was not any of the political ideas that excited voters, and it was not anyKatherine thing that any of the three Waller candidates said — instead, Staff Columnist the thing talked about and heavily reported on after the nationally viewed event was Bernie Sanders’s “side-eye.” The side-eye is the simple shift of the eyes that expresses a whole range of negative feelings, from annoyance to loathing. It’s a bit like an eye-roll, but less stigmatized. In a weird way, Sanders’s side-eye makes him more relatable, someone equally prone to annoyances with an inability to express his full contempt. The “side-eye” culture is one in which people would rather scowl than enunciate what exactly makes them scowl, a culture where having a bad attitude is praised and celebrities are celebrated for all the “shade” they throw by just averting their eyes in a certain direction. Side-eye culture is one of inaction, one based on a gut-reaction and a culture based on a whole lot of underhanded comments, petty eye rolls and unresolved conflicts. It is truly a bizarre interpersonal communication phenomenon. But no — we are not alone. We see sideeye in everything from medieval art to dogs, from stills of old Western film to elderly monks worshipping. We have successfully now transformed a multitude of different time periods and cultures, through the work of clever memes, into a copy and paste version of our own culture. The world is senseless without our modern western perspective. The side-eye is celebrated by young people — by high school students, college students and young adults. This defiant, yet standoffish approach to showing displeasure represents the often powerlessness perspective this group of people has in the face of potential unemployment and in the face of striking out in a world that still heavily relies on the values of their parents’ and grandparents’ generations and not their own. It is refreshing and exciting to see famous and successful people give the side-eye and show that they
too cannot express what they truly feel. This impotence becomes universal through the clever workings of Photoshop. Non-aggressive aggression is epidemic, and side-eye is the symptom. A lack of a “go get it” attitude or a proactive approach to communication shows that many feel inept in verbal expression. Instead of saying what needs to be said, we fall back on our sense of politeness and poorly masked contempt. The side-eye is the least committed display of scorn that exists. We’d rather have handsoff disdain than speak up about problems. More significantly, when you start a protest, or say something, or take an active stance on defending what you believe to be right, you are “doing too much;” you are making people uncomfortable, and you are disrupting this “side-eye” philosophy of the world where people attempt to preserve all social order and that people cling to out of self-interest. We value this propensity to react that is so very much degraded from the reactions that are needed. The side-eye contradicts our ability to enact change and it makes aggression so small scale that being offended by it is perceived to be ridiculous. “Micro-aggressions” is a buzzword that is scoffed at and labeled a symptom of an easily offended and even silly generation. However, this is more often than not the scale of aggression that is commonly experienced. Absolutely larger scale things still occur and individuals continue to face very serious intolerances, but for the most part, microaggressions are experienced at high levels. Our excess and materialism grows while our ability to communicate issues becomes very small. Now, we show derision through micro-aggressions, and we communicate through the side-eye. The latest Democratic presidential debate really showed voter apathy. Viewers, surely in an attempt to be somewhat informed, in the end, cared very little for what was said and much more on the spectacle of an angry glance on camera. A single glance to the side seems to be helping Bernie Sanders’s polling. A single glance to the side seems to be dominating pop culture.
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FOCUS ON FOOD | DINING ON CAMPUS AND OFF
Triangle Restaurant Week kicks off in Raleigh Emily Boyette Correspondent
The Triangle is quickly becoming a culinary destination, and Triangle Restaurant Week provides a perfect opportunity to try some of the more than 50 Raleigh restaurants that participate in the event. With fixed prices for lunch and dinner plates, Restaurant Week gives diners the chance to try a nicer restaurant in the area at a reasonable price for a night out. Menu items can also range from a regular item, seasonal, or a new dish they are trying out for the future. Damon Butler is the CEO of Triangle Blvd which organizes the event. Butler moved from Cleveland, Ohio, to play soccer for NC State while studying industrial engineering. After working in the computer industry for two years, he left for marketing. “In engineering you listen to people and try to come up with a solution, while in marketing you listen to the customer and deliver a solution,” Butler said. “It’s not that far off of engineering. It’s solving a problem. Now I do things that I am passionate about.” Triangle Restaurant Week started in 2008 with 26 restaurants. The event has grown to include 95 restaurants in the Triangle area. “We’ve become one of the largest and most successful foodie
events in the Southeast,” Butler said. “We just thought we could bring the area together with food in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area as a whole. Food is one of the best ways to do that.” Each restaurant involved in the event only charges $15 for lunch and up to $30 for dinner, which includes a three-course meal. Students from the surrounding areas are enjoying both the quality of the food and the great deals. “On average a person is going to save a minimum of 20 percent when they go,” Butler said. “Restaurants proportion the food to the price level. You also get the full experience the restaurant is trying to offer.” Triangle Blvd reaches out to restaurants, but now most restaurants actually reach out to them because of how much the company benefits them. It helps restaurants from all over the Triangle attract new customers and also gives them a chance to go off their regular menu options. “A lot of restaurants involved are local and independently franchised,” Butler said. “They employ a lot of folks in the Triangle, and in result, they are getting more business to their establishments, which in turn, everyone wins.” The Lonnie Poole Golf Course restaurant, Terrace Dining Room, will be included in Restaurant Week this year. This is a great opportunity for NC State students to get involved, especially because
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Busy Bee Cafe plates its dark rum cake dessert in preparation for Triangle Restaurant Week, taking place Monday through Sunday in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill. The dish features a butter rum cake topped with molasses ice cream and soaked raisins. Busy Bee Cafe developed a three-course menu for Triangle Restaurant Week, featuring a choice of three appetizers, three entrees and two desserts, all for $30.
meal plans can be used at this particular restaurant. Having the restaurant from Lonnie Poole Golf Course on board brings a wider variety of people involved, including college students. “For Triangle Restaurant Week we are spread out throughout the entire Triangle and surrounding areas,” Butler said. “We like to bring everyone together because downtown Raleigh tends to sep-
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Chefs behind the sushi bar prepare for Triangle Restaurant Week Sunday. Sushi Blues, located on Glenwood Avenue, will offer a three-course menu for $30 at the event, which features restaurants in the Triangle.
arate themselves out. If we can make the area better as a whole rather than compete against each other, then we have achieved our goal as Triangle Blvd.” Food is something that brings people together naturally. Triangle Restaurant Week happens twice a year, with one event in the last week of January and the other the first week of June. “Unfortunately and fortunately
the winter one does a little better,” Butler said. “There is a lot of other events in the summer, and folks tend to go out of town more often. The good thing about it is it’s dead time throughout the country the last week in January for a lot of restaurants.” To find out which restaurants are participating, visit trirestaurantweek.com
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Customers dine at Busy Bee Cafe on Wilmington Street while chefs and other staff prepare a menu and food for Triangle Restaurant Week. This is the first year that Busy Bee will be participating in the event, which features restaurants from all around Raleigh and the Triangle.
1887 Bistro: elevating the campus dining experience Carolyn Thompson Staff Writer
1887 Bistro opened its doors in Talley Student Union in September and has since gained the interest of faculty and students alike as a late-night gathering spot and “fine-dining” option. Located on the third floor of Talley Student Union, 1887 Bistro presents a change of pace in food with its flatbreads, entrees, desserts and more. Chef Corey Palakovich, the unit chef in 1887 Bistro and One Earth, talks about the beginnings of the bistro and how it functions on a regular day. “It’s kind of still the same crew we started off with,” Palakovich said. “When we first starte, I think all of the servers were students, and they still are, and as far as back of the house goes we had myself as the chef, and I have one sous chef underneath me. He kind of runs the late night, and he’s got three cooks and a dishwasher. Daytime is pretty
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1887 Bistro, which offers lunch and late-night meals, maintains one chef and three cooks per serving period. It also serves as a place for students to learn the ins and outs of wait staff while providing customers with a more upscale dining experience in both its food and atmosphere.
much the same. I run the daytime and we’ve got three cooks and a dishwasher as well.” Students who do work at the bistro have the opportunity to gain service industry experience. Carey Kauffman, a sophomore studying nutrition science, has worked at 1887 Bistro since about three
weeks after it opened. “I think the bistro is a really cool place for students to have a restaurant-style meal on campus,” Kauffman said. “Working there gives students the opportunity to know what it’s like to work in the service industry as well. All of the staff at 1887 are really friendly,
and I have made friends with coworkers and customers alike.” Kauffman said she wishes the bistro was open more hours but understands from a university standpoint why it is not. 1887 Bistro is open on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
and then from 9 p.m. to midnight. The amount of business from faculty and students changes between the daytime operations and late-night operations, with the late nights being geared toward students. The bistro is the first fullservice restaurant at the university, and a lot of the service staff were fairly new at waiting tables, according to Palakovich. “It kind of took a while for the front of the house to get trained to get comfortable, and now that they know what to do and what to look for, the service goes a lot better,” Palakovich said. In 1887 Bistro’s beginning, there were a lot of long tickets and a long time between when the order was taken and when it was rang in, according to Palakovich. “From the customer’s perception, it seemed like 30 minutes to get their food when in actuality by the time it got rang in, it was taking only 10 minutes for us to make it,” Palakovich said.
Now there is more service staff on the late nights, and the staff is taking strides to better itself, according to Palakovich. The students who come to Talley Student Union have their own takes on what they think of 1887 Bistro, what it offers students and how it could improve. “Though the portion sizes tend to fall on the lighter side for the price, it’s very nice to have a place like 1887 Bistro on campus,” said Anirudh Bhateja, a sophomore studying mechanical engineering. 1887 Bistro continues to serve students and faculty with its restaurant-like atmosphere and mix of appetizers, small plates, shareable dishes and bistro cuisine. “I definitely think it’s a good addition,” said Jesse Morgan, a sophomore studying engineering. “It’s nice to have a more unique dining experience on campus and have somewhere to use my meal swipe for late-night hours.”
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Tapingo app attempts to streamline student meals Samuel Griffin Correspondent
With over 30,000 students at NC State, lines for food can get a little crowded. University Dining has several workarounds for this, such as the buffet style dining halls and the grab-and-go system featured at the Atrium, but it doesn’t always keep the lines down. However, last semester Universit y Dining introduced a new possible solution, Tapingo, the mobile food ordering app. A free app available on both the Apple and Android market, Tapingo allows students at NC State to order food from non-self-serving restaurants on Central and Centennial Campus, as well as from most coffee shops. This allows users to select and pay for their meals while avoiding wait time in lines. When their food is ready, users receive a text message notification. They simply have to walk up to the counter, show proof of the order from the app and walk away with their meal. “Our goal is to help universities enhance campus dining services by eliminating long, unnecessary lines and providing the convenience of delivery,” said Leanne Reis, a public relations manager for Tapingo. “Users can browse menus, order and pay, then schedule pickup or have their order delivered.” At the moment, Tapingo only operates in or around college campuses and is used by over 125 colleges across the country. “Having grown up with mobile technology, students are familiar and comfortable with mobile and
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Tapingo is an online ordering and delivery service for restaurants in and around college campuses. Students are able to use dining dollars and meal credits as a method of payment straight through the application. Tapingo lets students order from popular restaurants in the area that don’t deliver: Tuffy’s Diner, Cook Out and Starbucks are just a few of the restaurants that students can choose to order from on the app. The service launched Nov. 9 at NC State.
have come to expect the same level of convenience and customization that technology affords them in most other aspects of their daily lives,” Reis said. “Not only do today’s students live busy lives, they have also been the driving force behind the shift toward mobile technology.” Reis said that once a school is selected to be a Tapingo school, the company begins working with the college’s information technology department to install the hardware necessary for the app to work. Following that, student ID cards must be programmed into the system, and then finally, staff
and managers are trained to use the system by Tapingo employees. Currently, students can pay for their meals using dining dollars, meal credits, debit or credit cards, or a combination of these. “It took approx i mately si x months,” said Randy Lait, the senior director for hospitality services at NC State. “We worked with Tapingo to be the first university in the country to connect their system to a campus meal plan system that a llows mea l equivalency at campus retail operations. This was the most complicated part of the implementation.” Lait said Tapingo at NC State has
had some minor problems since it started, such as daily special menu items showing up for purchase on the app at all times, but these and other problems have been mostly resolved. “Like any new system, getting both customers and staff to learn how to use the system properly takes some time, and there have been minor system tweaks and operational adjustments required,” Lait said. “There have been a few bumps in the road making sure that all staff know how to deal with various issues that come up with Tapingo orders, but with every instance we learn and correct
and adjust our operations accordingly.” NC State first started considering Tapingo three years ago but did not implement the service at the time due to being too busy with renovations. The university didn’t have any concrete plans for Tapingo until a team from NC State visited Georgia Southern University and got to test out the app for itself. NC State had more app downloads in a single day than any other college and has exceeded expectations in terms of utilization. In addition to allowing users to order food, Tapingo also offers food delivery services from nearby restaurants like Chipotle, Noodles & Company and Cook Out. “Students looking to have food delivered place the order through the Tapingo app, which then processes the order and payment. The order then f lows through to the Tapingo Courier app — a dedicated app that we built to facilitate dispatch and communication,” Reis said. “The Tapingo Courier app connects with a network of Tapingo Couriers who are then able to efficiently see what orders are outstanding, pick up the order, and deliver it straight to the user.” Tapingo is currently working with NC State Dining to make Tapingo Deliver y compat ible with on-campus venues, beginning with The Oval and Talley Student Union restaurants. “Imagine ordering a meal from your phone using your meal plan, and having it delivered to where you are studying,” Lait said.
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three-point range. Sophomore Grayson Allen led the way for Duke in the f irst half, scoring 16 points on 7-of-12 shooting. Freshman phenomenon Brandon Ingram tacked on another 10 points for the Blue Devils. “He’s a good player,” Cody Martin said when asked about Duke’s Ingram. “He’s long, can shoot threes, get to the rack, got great vision and can pass the ball. He can just do it all, and that’s what makes him special.” Unfortunately for the Pack,
the streaky three-point shooting was just that as the second half brought major shooting woes for the Pack. Duke’s zone defense was suffocating in the second half and seldom let the Pack get the ball down low. Junior Lennard Freeman wound up getting most of the touches in the paint for the Pack, but he opted to pass it back out rather than post up and attack the basket. “They just played harder than we did in the second half,” Cody Martin said. “I’m not going to say we didn’t play hard, but it seemed at the second half at the beginning [Duke] wanted it more.”
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Despite the troubled shooting, the Pack was able to hang around in the second half, remaining within striking distance until the final minute. State’s defensive pressure was nowhere near what it was in the first half either. “Defensively we just kind of came out slow,” Abu said. “They came out hot. I, myself, picked up two quick fouls, so that put momentum in their favor.” Abu’s foul trouble led the Pack to lose its frontcourt inf luence, and that didn’t bode well for its chances. Allen and Ingram continued to be the go-to scorers for Duke in the second half. The two un-
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derclassmen seemed to ma ke everything, regardless what shot they took. Plumlee also began to hold his own down in the post for the Blue Devils, grabbing crucial rebounds and scoring several second-chance points down the stretch. “Duke played extremely well in the second half,” Gottfried said. “They shot the ball extremely well. They gave us all kinds of trouble in the second half.” Barber took a hit to his thigh during the second half and was playing with a small limp the rest of the game. “That point forward in the game we were a different team,” Gott-
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The Wolfpack was looking to make a move Saturday to try and follow up its most complete game of the season Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Panthers. The only problem was Duke’s t a lented u ndercla ssmen had something else in mind. Af ter a terrif ic f irst-half shooting performance, the Wolfpack dropped its sixth ACC game of the season Saturday afternoon to the No. 20 Duke Blue Devils 88-78 at PNC Arena. The recent play of the Wolfpack (11-9, 1-6 ACC) gave hope that maybe the team was turning a corner af ter a dreadful start to conference play. The Blue Dev i ls (15-5, 4-3 ACC) were look ing to avoid a four-game losing streak after dropping their last two home games. Needless to say, Duke had its way Saturday fueled by a dominant second-half performance en route to a victory. The Blue Devils opened up in a 2-3 zone defense with the hope of at least trying to contain junior An-
thony “Cat” Barber. Duke also used a full-court press to try and slow down the pace of the game. Going into the game, the obvious advantage for State came down low on the post. Aside from senior Marshall Plu m lee, t he Blue Devils didn’t have anyone big enough to match the size of the Pack’s front court. Duke was doing everything right defensively in the first half, but the problem was when it forced the Pack to take that tough shot at the end of the shot clock, State was making it. Eventually the Pack’s three-point shooting caught f ire and couldn’t be stopped. The Wolfpack made six straight three-pointers in the first half, and considering the Pack ’s troubled three-point shooting this season, it was surprising, to say the least. “They were shooting it conf idently,” sophomore Abdu l-Ma l i k Abu sa id. “They weren’t really hesitating, and they were falling and it got us on a roll.” Barber had a terrific first half for the Pack. Shooting six for nine and scoring 14 points, Barber’s performance propelled the Pack to a 43-36 halftime lead over
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Anthony “Cat” Barber makes a layup in the second half of the game versus Duke. Barber finished with 19 points on 8 of 14 shooting as well as one assist, three steals and two turnovers in 39 minutes. NC State lost to the Duke Blue Devils 88-78 at PNC Arena Saturday.
the Blue Devils. “He’s so dangerous,” Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski said. “He’s really damn good.” The Wolfpack shot 42.9
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Rams’ move to Los Angeles leaves St. Louis in bad situation When I was 7 years old, I fell in love with the game of football. The St. Louis Rams, my “hometown” team, were having one of the greatest seasons in NFL history — one that led them straight to a Super Bowl XXXIV win over the Tennessee Titans. Just recently, a bit of my childhood died because of Joseph the announcement that my Ochoa beloved Rams were going Staff Writer to relocate back to the West Coast and would be the Los Angeles Rams from this point on. Much like the breakup of a marriage gone utterly sour, the breakup between the city and Rams’ owner and villain Stan Kroenke was a very long and drawn-out process. The rumors of relocation began several years ago. In August of 2010, Kroenke became the outright owner of the Rams after the NFL approved his $750 million purchase of the team from the family of late-Rams owner Georgia Frontiere. At the time of the purchase, the Rams had been abysmal, finishing at or near the bottom of the league in three straight seasons.
Part of the reason why there was speculation of relocation was the Missouri native’s ties to other sports teams west of the Mississippi River. Kroenke also had ownership stakes in the Colorado Avalanche and the Denver Nuggets. When he bought the team, Kroenke had been on-record with multiple outlets promising to keep the Rams in St. Louis. Kroenke was also part of Frontiere’s group of investors who helped bring the Rams to St. Louis from LA in the mid-‘90s. Since then, Kroenke has been part of the perpetual cycle of ineptitude and mediocrity that has surrounded the Rams. His management of the team came into question when he hired former Titans’ head coach Jeff Fisher, a man with a career head coaching record below .500 and one Super Bowl appearance in 2000 when his Titans lost to, you guessed it, the Rams. Following the Rams’ submission of a bid to move to LA, the documents of the proposal from Kroenke were released to the public. In the documents, Kroenke stated that the city of St. Louis was a “two-sport town” and any proposal for a new stadium would put any football team in “financial ruin.” In short, the man who swore he would keep
the Rams in St. Louis turned his back on a city that genuinely cared about the franchise. It’s no mystery that the NFL has longed to be back in LA since the Raiders and the Rams
“While it may seem like everybody wins in this move to L.A., the real losers are the fans left behind in St. Louis.” left the area in the 1990s. Yet, with a market that is extremely college football heavy with the University of Southern California and the University of California-Los Angeles in the area, as well as a huge basketball market with the Lakers and now the Clippers, the move seems a bit puzzling, especially for those in St. Louis. The residents of the St. Louis area must pay taxes on a building that no longer houses an NFL franchise. The city now must continue to pay on a loan on the Edward Jones Dome, the Rams’ former home in St. Louis, until 2021.
When the Rams played, the $4.2 million in revenue generated from games was used to offset $6-million-per-year price tag that came with the upkeep and renovations of the stadium, according to the St. Louis Post Dispatch. The remaining money would probably be recouped from taxes and other avenues. In addition to the loss of revenue for St. Louis, the city will now have to rely heavily on the revenue generated from the other two franchises in the city, the St. Louis Blues and the St. Louis Cardinals. Why move to a city that already generates tons of revenue from a location that has an embarrassment of riches in terms of sports franchises, when the city that they just left is the one that could benefit the most from the revenue generated from the team’s presence? While it may seem like everybody wins in this move to LA, the real losers are the fans left behind in St. Louis. They are saddled with a stadium that has millions left on its refinanced bonds and no football team to support and help generate with revenue. So as I said before, Kroenke: half-man, halfvillain. At least you’ll have a nice view from your new stadium in Inglewood, California, to distract you from mediocre football.
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Son of Randy Moss commits to play football for Wolfpack Four-star tight end Thaddeus Moss w ill join the NC State footba l l tea m in 2016, he announced Saturday at t he Du keNC State basketball game. Daniel Moss made Lacy the decision Sports Editor to join t he Wolfpack after fielding offers from Te x a s A& M, A l a ba m a , Arizona State and UCLA, as well as offers from about half of the ACC schools, including in-state riva ls Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and Wake Forest. “It just felt right,” Moss told ESPN. “It’s close to home, it felt right and they
kept it real with me from day one. NC State was the first team to offer, and loyalty was rewarded.” Moss is the son of NFL great and soon-to-be Hall of Famer Randy Moss, who spent 14 seasons in t he NFL. Randy Moss caught 982 passes (14th all-time) for 15,292 yards (third alltime) and 156 touchdowns (second all-time) over his 14-year career w it h t he Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots, Tennessee Titans and San Francisco 49ers. He set the record for most receiving touchdowns in a single season in 2007 with 23, as well as the rookie touchdown reception record with 17 in 1998. B e fore b e i ng d r a f te d
No. 21 overall in 1998 by the Vikings, Randy Moss was originally committed
is listed at 6-foot-4, 240 pounds, attended Mallard Creek High School in Char-
“Look for the Pack to lock up more recruits in the coming days, as National Signing Day is set for Feb. 3.” to play college football at Notre Dame before of fthe-field issues forced him to redshirt for a season at Florida State. He wound up playing two seasons for the Marshall Thundering Herd where he caught 168 passes for 3,356 yards and 53 touchdowns. The younger Moss, who
lotte. He joins fellow Mallard Creek alumni tight end Jaylen Samuels and cornerback Vernon Grier. Moss is currently ranked as the top recruit of NC State’s 2016 recruiting class, with ESPN giving him a four-star rank ing and a grade of 80. He ranks just above three-star recruits
and quarterback Dylan Parham, safety Isaiah Stallings and defensive tackle Shug Frazier, who each earned a grade of 79. He is one of two tight ends who have committed to the Pack for the 2016 season, with three-star Dylan Autenrieth being the other. Moss joins a talented tight end group t hat features Jaylen Samuels, Cole Cook and Pharoah McKever, but just lost Benson Browne to graduation and David J. Grinnage to the NFL Draft. The amount of playing time he gets will likely revolve around how well he adjusts to the higher level of competition, as well as how often the team decides to line up the juggernaut Samuels at tight end and the progres-
sion of Cook and McKever, the latter of whomw just switched positions for the second time in three years. Last year’s top recruit, running back Johnny Frasier, was redshirted for his rookie season due to the depth at the position at the start of the year. However, the second and third recruits Nyheim Hines and Darian Roseboro each saw their fair share of playing time. Moss could find himself in either position, as the depth at tight end is currently adequate, but he could be too talented a player to pass up playing time — only time will tell. Look for the Pack to lock up more recruits in the coming days, as National Signing Day is set for Feb. 3.