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News & Observer, the place where the Technician prints, has reached a deal to sell its headquarters at the corner of Martin and Salisbury streets for $20.2 million. The deal has taken months of negotiations between the newspaper and the developer group, Above the Fold. The developer group plans to renovate the area in phases, the first being renovating the printing press spaces into retail space. Later phases have not yet been planned but will likely include the building and creating apartment or hotel space. The N&O buildings date back to the 1950s but have been in that location since 1907. SOURCE: News & Observer
Gov. Pat McCrory says he does not want Syrian refugees in NC
Monday, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory joined more than 12 mostly Republican governors to ask the president to stop the flow of Syrian refugees into the United States. From the beginning of 2014 to last month, McCrory said that 59 Syrian refugees have settled in North Carolina. He told reporters in Charlotte that he wanted to keep North Carolina citizens safe. He sent a formal letter to President Barack Obama to ask that he not send any more Syrian refugees to North Carolina. Other North Carolina politicians support McCrory’s move. U.S. Reps. Robert Pittenger of Charlotte and Richard Hudson of Concord both got behind bills to slow the settlement of refugees. SOURCE: News & Observer
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Wake’s annual budget is $1.14 billion, and the wage increase adds $93,000 in expenses, possibly more in future years. However, commissioners believe the higher pay will bring benefits like boosting the economy, improving worker performances and reducing employee turnover. “Creating higher paying jobs will allow those employees to spend more money within our economy, supporting small businesses and their workers,” Commissioner Sig Hutchinson said to the News & Observer. Nearly a year ago, Commissioner Matt Calabria advised county staff to review employee pay. One of the top priorities of the Commissioner Board is to address poverty. About 120,000 Wake residents currently live in poverty.
Although Burlington Labs is home to NC State’s very own nuclear reactor, students will be glad to know that no radiation is emitted from the building. NC State, before its most recent reactor, has had three. The first three have long been decommissioned but the fourth, better known as PULSTAR, lives out its days from within Burlington Labs. The state of North Carolina, service activities and research grants fund the maintenance and operation of the reactor. Since 1972, the reactor has had three main goals that are comprised within its mission statement: explaining the reactor’s dedication to research, teaching and extension. According to Scott Lassell, the manager of the Nuclear Services Center at NC State, scientists from the Manhattan Project, the research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II, helped establish the first academic nuclear program here at NC State. At the core of PULSTAR, there are radiation levels that are considered lethal. This radiation, however, is not dangerous because of how the reactor is constructed. There is no access to the area of lethal radiation because it sits at the bottom of a 20-foot tank that is filled with water. The water acts as a shield so that the radiation cannot cause any danger or harm to health. This allows students and employees to work around the reactor and for students to be able to walk around campus safely. Essentially, the water biologically shields the dangerous radiation. Since PULSTAR is not a power reactor, it should not be associated with the potential dangers and harmful effects of power reactors. Power reactor cores are much bigger and get hotter, and their fuel is more radioactive. The water in power plants cools the fuel. Because it cannot get hot enough, PULSTAR is a safe reactor, so there are no prob-
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Protesters pause their march in front of a McDonald’s during the Shaw University’s Fight for $15 rally Wednesday. They chanted, “McDonald’s, McDonald’s, you’re no good! Pay your workers like you should!” Rally participants protested for a higher minimum wage of $15 and union rights. Fast-food workers, childcare providers and educators were among those represented at the rally.
Wake County employees to receive wage increase Staff Report
Effective Dec. 1, 75 county employees — such as county customer service representatives, nurses’ aides, library assistants and animal shelter attendants — will now earn $13.50 an hour, instead of the previous $11.08 an hour. The Wake County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously about the decision Monday. County employees are now guaranteed to earn at least $28,080 a year. With the new wage, Wake is the fourth county in the state of North Carolina to adopt a wage ordinance. The Universal Living Wage Organization developed a calculation in which Wake’s wage ordinance is based upon. The organization’s idea for the calculation is that an employee who works full-time should be able to afford a one-bedroom apartment and meet his or her basic needs, such as food and transportation.
NC State celebrates Transgender Awareness Week Staff Report
NC State is celebrating Transgender Awareness Week to raise visibility of transgender and gender nonconforming people, address issues that transgender individuals face, educate the public and advocate and take action. Events on campus include a “Cultural Values about Gender and Violence in the Trans* Community” workshop, Transgender Day of Remembrance which will commemorate transgender individuals who were murdered during the past year and a film screening that discusses gender identity and sexuality in indigenous communities. The Transgender Day of Remembrance is the pinnacle of the week. It is a vigil where the names of the transgender individuals
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IN BRIEF A government settlement stated Monday that more than 80,000 students who attended for-profit schools will have $102 million in private student loans forgiven. Attorney General Roy Cooper announced that 2,881 students in North Carolina will receive $4.1 million in debt relief as part of the deal. The for-profit schools in North Carolina include The Art Institute in Raleigh and Charlotte. The settlement with Education Management Corporation will pay out an average of $1,370 per North Carolinian student. The settlement also requires EDMC to disclose accurate information about the total cost, average debt, default rate, job placement rate, average earnings and ability to transfer credits associated with its programs. SOURCE: News & Observer
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TRANSGENDER AWARENESS WEEK WEDNESDAY, NOV. 18 CULTURAL VALUES ABOUT GENDER AND VIOLENCE IN THE TRANS COMMUNITY 6:30 p.m.–8 p.m., Talley 4101 This workshop will create a space for dialog where participants can explore the role of cultural values in perpetuating antitransgender violence and their own role in creating or re-envisioning those values. FRIDAY, NOV. 20 TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE (TDOR) 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m., Wolf Plaza TDoR is an annual observance for transgender individuals who were murdered during the past year. Following the Reading of the Names and memorial
performance there will be a Call to Action and a chance to reflect by painting a section of the Free Expression Tunnel. MONDAY, NOV. 23 TWO SPIRITS FILM SCREENING AND TALKING CIRCLE 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m., SAS 1216 GLBT Center and Multicultural Student Affairs have collaborated to screen this film, which discusses gender identity and sexuality in native communities with particular focus on the life of Fred Martinez, who was killed due to his Two-Spirit identity and expression in 2001.
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University Police is implementing new technologies to keep campus safe, including Social Sentinel, an online database that tracks suspicious behavior on social media and updates to WolfAlert. They have also produced new active shooter education videos to show people how to react in an emergency situation.
University Police use new online tools to better serve Brenden Parsons Staff Writer
University Police is implementing new technology that will make NC State a safer campus. New technology implementations include Social Sentinel, an online database that tracks suspicious behavior on social media, updates to WolfAlert and new active-shooter education videos that are available online. These new implementations are a way for police to stay better connected and keep students, staff and visitors safe when on campus, according to University Police. Social Sentinel Social Sentinel monitors suspicious behavior at major events such as football games and the Rolling Stones concert at Carter-Finley Stadium in July. University Police adopted Social Sentinel six months ago, but are still in the process of learning how to use it.
Social Sentinel works almost like a search engine, according to Major David Kelly. Police type in keywords to the database that would indicate a threat on campus. However, the new software only tracks behavior on public social media accounts. Students who have private Facebook and Twitter accounts will not have their information visible on Social Sentinel. “The sole purpose is not to dig into the personal information of people around the area, but it enables us to better monitor real-time concerning behavior,” Kelly said. In several of the last mass-shooting incidents around the U.S., the individuals responsible often posted things on social media as a preemptive message of what they were about to do. Brooke Bennes, senior studying bio-
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om Gower, department head of forestry and environmental resources, speaks before the presentation of the documentary titled “America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment.” The hour-long documentary was followed up by a panel discussion led by experts in the field about both the historical aspects of the film as well as the modern issues in the field. The screening and panel were held in Hunt Library auditorium Monday.
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logical sciences and former resident advisor, said she thinks it’s good University Police is using this technology. “Safety is more important than privacy,” Bennes said. Alert.Us Last year, University Police added Alert.Us to the WolfAlert system on campus. Alert.Us works so if a student is logged in with his or her unity ID on a university device, a WolfAlert will now pop up on the screen of the device. This new software was added in case students do not see the traditional WolfAlert notifications on their personal device, according to Kelly. A ler t.Us was used on campus when two inmates escaped a transport vehicle Nov. 6. Alert.Us sent notifications to all university devices the moment University Police found out. Luke Baker, senior studying geology and resident advisor in Owen Hall, said he thinks any improvements or
additions University Police are making to raise awareness will benefit students. Baker explained that he does not always check his email, so it can be easy to miss a WolfAlert. But now with Alert.Us, if he or anyone else is using a university device they will now know the minute a WolfAlert is issued. Baker said there is no perfect way for University Police to notify everyone the minute crime happens, but University Police is doing a good job about trying to notify as many students and faculty as possible. “There will never be a 100 percent successful way [to notify students], but every little bit will help,” Baker said. Active Shooter Video In addition, University Police has received more requests during the past year on active shooter safety. In response, University Police installed an active shooter response training video on its website for students to watch. The active shooter video explains what to do in the event that someone opens
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f ire on ca mpus. Act ive shooter videos are typically used in companies to spread awareness about workplace violence. The video University Police has provided is unique because it is intend-
ed for college students to be diligent for potential signs of danger. In the video, University Police emphasizes how to respond when a shooter is in proximity, how to respond when police arrive and how
to recognize signs of potential violence. “I feel safer on campus than off campus because I know the police are always close by,” Bennes said.
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Large number of events turn International Education Week into an entire month Adam Davis Correspondent
This week is the U.S. Department of State’s International Education Week, but the Wolfpack will be celebrating for the entire month. There are multiple opportunities in November to learn about international education. “In today’s world, you cannot solve a problem by one person or by one country,” said Bailian Li, the vice provost for International Affairs. “It’s collaborative in nature.” NC State used to hold these events during the State Department-sponsored International Education Week, but eventually decided that there were too many events for just one week. “The U.S. Department of State has been celebrating International Education Week for a number of years now to spread the word about international education and its importance across all institutions of higher education across the country,” said Megan Winzeler, communications specialist for the Office of International Affairs. International Education
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who lost their lives are read and remembered by those in attendance. Transgender Day of Remembrance was started in 1999 by trans advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman of color
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Week serves to inform students about how to participate in Study Abroad and other opportunities for international learning, as well as to teach about the benefits these experiences provide those involved. “With International Education Week or Month, we’re going to benefit those students who have never heard about [Study Abroad] or have no interest, so that it engages them to make them think ‘wow, I can do that too,’” Li said. Paola Guadarrama, a senior studying design studies, took classes abroad in Florence, Italy for two summer sessions. “I do think [Study Abroad] is something that’s pretty valuable,” Guadarrama said. “It kind of changes your perspective on the world to be a global citizen. I met a lot of people all over the world. I made a lot of friends from different countries. So yeah, it was definitely worth it.” Tomorrow, the U.S. Department of State will be hosting its 12th annual NC State Passport Fair. There, students can sign up for a passport and receive a headshot without having to leave campus.
“The Passport Fair is a very convenient way to get your passport on campus,” Winzeler said. “Normally, it takes five to six weeks, you have to make an appointment and a lot of times they don’t have appointments available in Raleigh, so you have to drive outside the city to get an appointment.” Normal passport registration fees apply, as well as a $5 fee for the photo. However, there are no additional costs to sign up for a passport at this event. “You can show up, get your photo taken, get your documents processed with the Department of State, and then your passport will be mailed back to you in two to three weeks,” Winzeler said. Anyone intending on studying or vacationing abroad is encouraged to attend. Friday, students can participate in a game based off of the TV show “The Amazing Race.” The event is free. The game will include several challenges with an international theme, and any students or faculty are encouraged to participate.
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who was brutally murdered in Allston, Massachusetts on Nov. 28, 1998. “The Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence,” Smith said, “I am no stranger to the need to fight for our rights and the right to simply exist is first and foremost. With so many seeking
to erase transgender people — sometimes in the most brutal ways possible — it is vitally important that those we lose are remembered and that we continue to fight for justice.” Hester’s death also inspired a web-based project called “Remembering Our Dead,” a site dedicated to honoring murdered transgender individuals due to transphobia.
majority. The commissioners hope the pay increase will spark changes in the private sector. Labor advocates also praised the board’s decision for the wage ordinance. Michael Gra-
vinese, a vice president for the North Carolina State AFLCIO, told the News & Observer that it suggests Wake County understands the difficulties of “have nots” during time of growing income inequality.
lems that can result from the structure. The water is needed in order to operate the reactor because it allows the neutrons to slow down in the core. The slowed atoms cause fission, meaning the atoms split. The water slows the neutrons down until they are at the same kinetic energy as the water. There are many uses of PULSTAR’s radiation. One of the main purposes of the reactor is to enable and facilitate research and experiments throughout several disciplines. NC State’s Nuclear Engineering website lists PULSTAR’s main applications as the reactor making it easier to interpret different diffraction patterns, understand-
ing the properties of materials and investigating cosmology theories used in physics. “Another purpose of the reactor is to provide service,” Lassell said. “The reactor has even completed work for NASA and the EPA to look for trace element concentrations in materials.” Lea Durand, a junior studying English, said she recognizes the benefits of having the reactor on campus. “I think it is important for students to have the opportunity to do nuclear research, and NC State offers students that opportunity at Burlington Labs,” Durand said. “It’s great that the rumors about the reactor are being dispelled.” Carl Smith, a senior studying nuclear engineering, explained that the reactor is a “hands-on training tool.”
“It serves as a hands-on training so that students can see the phenomena that are actually taught. We can see largescale events that happen on the atomic scale, such as Doppler broadening and negative reactivity due to voids. Additionally, we also learn regulatory protocol and the reactor program provides a unique handsoff opportunity to students to become licensed.” Tours are available to academic groups or prospective facility users in and out of NC State’s community. The tours can be made in advance and by appointment. For more information about the reactor, visit http://www.ne.ncsu.edu/nrp/ index.html.
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Why I am not a libertarian, part II The Necessity of Regulation The issue of government,” said Franklin D. Roosevelt, “has always been whether Daniel Root individual men and Staff Columnist women will have to serve some system of government or economics, or whether a system of government and economics exists to serve individual men and women.” In current political discourse, the raison d’être of government and the economy has been lost. At its simplest, an economy exists for the creation and distribution of wealth. In a capitalist economy, the act of working is nothing more than a generative act resulting from the sale of labor for wages. The beauty of capitalism is its elegant simplicity. It rests solely on self-interested cooperation rather than any convoluted ideas of altruism. As the father of capitalism, Adam Smith, said, “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.” A government is instituted to protect
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the rights of its citizens from foreign and domestic threats. Liberty is an intoxicating draught. Government ensures that we do not become drunk on liberty to the detriment of cooperative society. As Roosevelt said, “The exercise of the property rights might so interfere with the rights of the individual that the government, without whose assistance the property rights could not exist, must intervene, not to destroy individualism, but to protect it.” Capitalism is a marvelous system, but it is not a perfect system. The government has a duty to its citizens to protect them from the abuse of property rights. Rational self-interest can lead to undesirable outcomes. A good example of this is the tragedy of the commons. Imagine a communal grazing pasture that is used by various shepherds but owned by no individual. If each shepherd were to act in his self-interest, he would increase the size of his flock. But if each shepherd made this rational decision, then the pasture would be overgrazed, and each shepherd would lose. No individual shepherd can take
the initiative and decrease his flock because the other shepherds would have no incentive to do the same. There must be a binding hegemon who ensures that all the shepherds reach an agreement and abide by it. Libertarians cannot abide the thought of a hegemonic government regulating the market. They believe that capitalism is self-regulating, and to an extent it is, but not entirely. Laissez-faire capitalism is built on the erroneous assumption that people are always informed, and will therefore know a good deal when they see it. The complexity of production is simply beyond the comprehension of most consumers. How can one know where his or her steak was processed or whether his or her car is safe? Businesses in a capitalist system have no incentive to care about the environment and consumers apart from how they affect profits, and major corporations have the power to obfuscate their dishonesty. It was just revealed that Volkswagen had been lying for years about its cars’ emissions standards.
It is understandable why businesses would seek to cut corners. Consumers simply face too many distractions; businesses must find new ways to entice shoppers. As John Stuart Mill wrote, “Success, in so crowded a field, depends not upon what a person is, but upon what he seems: Mere marketable qualities become the object instead of substantial ones, and a man’s labour and capital are expended less in doing anything than in persuading other people that he has done it.” Libertarians want to limit the government to a police force and a court system, but these structures are reactive in nature, which means that harm cannot be prevented, only redressed. In Victorian England, houses were lit by gas, which could not be shut off, and therefore it had to be lit constantly. There was a common practice among gas suppliers to reduce the flow of gas at night when few people would need light. This seems like a good way to cut costs, but the problem is that sometimes the reduced flame would blow out in the night, allowing gas to fill the home, suffocating the sleeping
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f you think nuclear technology (or any other for that matter) is inherently dangerous and deadly, you really need to read this article Robert Hayes to hear of something Guest Columnist that might help put things in perspective. There is a single substance that is known to be the major chemical constituent found in all cancers known to man. This same substance is the primary chemical also found in every deadly bacteria. Without this chemical, both cancer and bacteria would simply die. It is found in the most acidic chemical mixes we know of, including hydrochloric and sulfuric acids. These all have a single common chemical substance The substance can be referred to as dihydrogen monoxide, or DHMO. There are websites that describe the dangers from DHMO in more detail, such as http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html, but the truth is, every industry that uses DHMO or is critically dependent on it will tell you that it is not harmful in and of itself. This includes their engineers and managers — they could make this
claim without any regret other than the time lost in the effort. These large chemical conglomerates could (and would) have their best chemists and scientists claim that DHMO is not a danger to the public, and there is no need to worry. Natural disasters involving DHMO have been known to kill tens of thousands of people in recent history. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 3,000 U.S. citizens died in 2013 from inhalation of DHMO alone. In other words, DHMO kills. We know what this substance is and what it can do, but there are basically no laws or regulations preventing industry and commercial entities from introducing this into our food. As such, this is currently in almost all of our food and is routinely added to many food products. Every vegetable and fruit currently farmed in the U.S. has this chemical added to it when it is grown, and there are no regulations or laws preventing this. Furthermore, effectively every disease and health problem we know of in life requires DHMO to operate, and yet we are doing nothing
to prevent this material from being in our stores, homes and environment. So, given that everything stated so far is indeed fact, would you be willing to boycott DHMO utilities, remove it from our food and environment and punish those who have promoted it in the past? Would you be willing to organize and petition the government to institute laws controlling this chemical or even abolishing it altogether to prevent it from ever again being in our food or released freely to the environment? If so, you may have been told the truth about DHMO so far, but not the whole truth. DHMO is di-hydrogen (two hydrogen atoms) mon-oxide (single oxygen atom), or H2O. Yes, it is water, and yes, everything stated above is true about water, but selectively chosen and presented to make it appear pernicious, evil and wrong. Cherry-picking facts to bias an opinion is not a difficult thing to do — something to think about anyway. Robert Hayes is an Associate Professor of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at NC State.
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ollowing the brutal and bloody terror attacks in Paris on Friday, governors of more than a dozen U.S. states have issued statements that their states will not accept any Syrian refugees, or they will suspend the resettlement Ziyi Mai programs tempoStaff Columnist rarily. In North Carolina, Gov. Pat McCrory has called a news conference in Charlotte to address the Syrian refugee resettlement program in the United States, according to The News & Observer. Several state legislators have asked McCrory to refuse to accept any Syrian refugees to North Carolina and to deport the 59 of them who live in the state. The strong reactions from several governors regarding accepting Syrian refugees were the result of President Barack Obama insisting
on implementing the resettlement program and not agreeing to decrease the number of refugees. The Atlantic reported that Jeb Bush, a GOP presidential hopeful, called for a straightforward religious screening on Syrian refugees. He said the U.S.’ effort should focus on protecting Syrian Christians. In his address to the G20 summit, Obama called Bush’s idea of screening Syrian refugees based on religion “shameful.” Screening refugees based on religious reasons indeed is un-American and it’s unlikely to eliminate potential threats to the U.S. But there are always trade-offs between benefits and costs. Benevolence and generosity should not come at the cost of bringing fear to state residents and local communities. As the so-called Islamic State accepted responsibility for the Paris attack and released video footage claiming assaults on Washington
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residents. What good is a court system to the dead? Businesses are not accountable to people, governments are. More regulation does not necessarily lead to despotism and liberticide. A. G. Gardiner wrote, “I shall not permit any authority to say that my child must go to this school or that, shall specialize in sciences or arts, shall play rugger or soccer. These things are personal. But if I proceed to say that my child shall have no education at all, that he shall be brought up as a primeval savage, or at Mr. Fagin’s academy for pickpockets, then society will politely but firmly tell me that it has no use for primeval savages and a very stern objection to pickpockets, and that my child must have a certain minimum of education whether I like it or not. I cannot have the liberty to be a nuisance to my neighbours or make my child a burden and a danger to the commonwealth.” Likewise, no person or business has the right to commit harmful actions, and it is the government’s duty to prevent harm before it is done.
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D.C. will be carried out, it is impossible to comfort the public unless the government takes serious action to prevent potential plans of attacks. The Obama administration should consider at least suspending the resettlement program due to this urgent event. Obama and his supporters argued that the national security team and immigration agency would demand more details and background checks for each individual refugee who comes to the U.S. There’s no doubt that not all Muslims are radical extremists. But admittedly, never before in history have there been organized and large-scale terror attacks carried out by a group of people who claim to be Muslim. In a statement admitting responsibility, Islamic State cited verses from the Qur’an justifying the violence as a “blessing.” The technical problem of accept-
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of liberty, and un-American. It is equivalent to saying that refugees are allowed to enter the U.S., but are restricted to living in internment camps. If the U.S. government does not give civil liberties to the Syrian refugees and spends taxpayer money on the process of accepting them, why still accept them? The fabric of a civil society with individual liberty is trust. A trust that is embedded in every person’s heart: that a civil society is about respecting life, caring for the weak and embracing individual liberty. Once this trust is violated by those who don’t agree, the fabric is torn apart, and the public would fear a religion or a group as a whole. This is what has led to the great distrust of Syrian refugees around the world right now. It is a kind notion, but not an obligation to help them all, especially when local communities start to fear.
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onrad Funkle, practicing white Rastafarian and junior studying civil engineering, Mary Anna attracted the attention of Rice University Opinion Editor Pol ice la st night when he lit up a blunt while sitting cross-legged in the middle of the Brickyard. Senate Bill 313, passed a few weeks ago, made industrial hemp legal in North Carolina and caused Funkle to assume he could now smoke pot … you know, wherever. University Police kindly escorted Funkle from the premises, refraining from violence even when Funkle threw a few punches when they confiscated his just-rolled marijuana cigarette. Industrial hemp and marijuana are not the same thing. Funkle did not know this. He claims he still does not know this. “Miley Cyrus would never lead me wrong,” he said while enjoying some “sick munchies” — a bowl of Fritos, mild cheddar cheese, M&M’s and mayonnaise microwaved for 30 seconds. Carl Friday, Funkle’s equally dank roommate, lament-
ed, “The government has no right to take away what God planted on this Earth. It’s natural, it’s beautiful, it’s green for Heaven’s sake. Excuse me.” Friday stood up and ran to the bathroom, presumably to vomit. Joellyn Williams, organizer of last week’s on-campus protest for marijuana legalization, said of the situation in the Brickyard, “It’s absurd. These ridiculous people are running around, angry that they can’t get high whenever they want, not being punished for whatever hell breaks loose in their wake — meanwhile, thousands of AfricanAmericans rot in prison on minor possession charges.” According to the NAACP, while only 12 percent of drug users in the United States are African-American, they make up 59 percent of those imprisoned for drug offenses. According to Friday and Funkle, these statistics fail to reflect the persecution white marijuana users face on a daily basis. “People look at my locs and assume I’m dirty,” Friday said, “when, in fact, I shower every day.” “On top of that,” Funkle added, “whenever I tell people that my favorite movie is ‘Cool Runnings,’ they act like
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I’m out of my mind. Don’t judge me by what I look like; I’m as hard as anyone else. I don’t think it’s true that anyone has it more or less bad than anyone else. I just don’t see color.” Upon being reminded that black people are sentenced prison time for drug offenses at 10 times the rate of white people, Funkle said, “Like, I have a black friend. Even maybe two.” Friday nodded
his head in agreement. Fe l low p ot he ad s a re mourning the polite dismissal of their brave leader Funkle from the Brickyard. Olivia Graham, Funkle’s girlfriend, arranged a memorial surrounding the ashes from Funkle’s repossessed blunt. The makeshift shrine featured printed clipart of marijuana, Funkle’s high school senior portraits, a tasteful glass bong and, yes, a DVD
copy of “Cool Runnings.” Graham said of the events, “What people don’t understand is that stoners do have their own culture. They do hurt when the things they love are taken away from them. They do feel pain. Even when they’re high.” She sniffled. “Sorry, I’m really confused right now. Can you point me back home?” Williams urged students not to take part in the up-
coming vigil. “It’s nonsensical. Hemp is not the same thing as marijuana. It never has been. It’s still illegal to smoke marijuana in North Carolina, and Conrad honestly should have been more harshly punished than he was.” Upon hearing Williams’ comments, Funkle and his groupies shouted, “Narc!”
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Before the iPad there was Bitzer’s PLATO Alix Vo Staff Writer
In 1960, the world was just getting acquainted with the wonders of color television, but Donald Bitzer was already thinking about the touch screen. Bitzer, a distinguished university research professor with research areas in artificial intelligence and intelligent agents, advanced learning technologies and scientific and high performance computing, started Program Launch Automatic Teaching Operations, PLATO, in 1960 to apply computers and technology to teaching. “The problem I saw was that many of the students in large public school areas usually came out illiterate,” Bitzer said. “It really affected how those kids got along later in life.” In 1964, along with Professor H. Gene Slottow and graduate student Robert Wilson at the University of Illinois, Bitzer was able to create the first plasma display panel. It was built with memory tubes, and because of the lack of necessity of the resources, it turned out to be quite expensive. Since keyboards were only available for Teletype machines, they had to build their own keyboards. They also had to create their own cable modems to be able to send
their data to the terminals they set up. “The first thing we had to tackle was the display with the memory built in; you had to be able to write on it and erase it, and it had to be transparent so it can project images from behind that you can select,” Bitzer said. “Nothing existed like that, so we drew it up, and we decided to build it with gas and glass since it was more economical that way. People tried doing this method for years and the trouble was an impedance between the elements where if they turned one on, it wouldn’t affect the one next to it. But we were able to make it work, and the terminal launched in 1964.” The first model, though it did not have all the bells and whistles of a modern touchscreen, was about the size of an iPad. The screen originally only had graphics in a monochrome display of orange. “Even though it was orange, this was beneficial to the military because the color could show up at night,” Bitzer said. “A lot of what was made from PLATO the military used for ships and planes. But the net resolve of this was that it worked, and we were able to put 16 terminals on a phone line rather than one terminal on a cable channel.” When the team then de-
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Donald Bitzer holds a model of his PLATO touch screen. The touch screen featured a monochromatic display only showing orange that could be programmed to display custom graphics.
cided to make displays in color, they built a model with phosphorus in it. This idea appealed to Japan more than it did to the U.S., who Bitzer said had a real need for plasma panels. The reason the Japanese wanted the plasma panels was due to the intricacies and details of the traditional Kanji script not being able to be displayed on monitors of the time, not necessarily the problem that most Western countries had.
Bitzer’s work w ith the display panel encouraged a group of students at the Universit y of Illinois to “ develop ha rdwa re a nd software to allow a mainframe computer to speak the human language.” L a r r y We b e r, re t i re d president and CEO of the Pla smaco subsid ia r y of Panasonic and past student of Bitzer, is best known for his inventions in the 80s and 90s for several plasma displays.
“Professor Bitzer had a major impact on the giant f lat panel display industry and his invention and promotion of the Plasma Display Panel is directly responsible for the great success of today ’s f latpanel television displays,” Weber said. “As a student and young professor, I was fortunate to make acquaintance with all of the world’s leaders as they would come to visit Professor Bitzer. He planted many seeds that,
in later years, developed into major technological achievements.” Even though he’s proud of the success of his work and the years with PLATO, Bitzer said that the commercial success of the plasma display will die out, and there will be new ideas that will replace them. “That’s why I’m trying to teach my students to think,” Bitzer said. “If they can think, they can have new ideas that can be creative.”
NCSU’s experimental class on the science of happiness Carolyn Thompson Staff Writer
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NC State offers a class on happiness. It isn’t a self-help course or a replacement for therapy, but it is a course that provides students with an academic background on the nature of happiness. Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Global Knowledge Special Topics 295 is a combination of scientific insights into happiness from biology and psychology and ancient insights from philosophy and Buddhism. Philipp Tavakoli, professor of the course, recently created and taught the class for the first time this past summer. “For years I spent working on ethics, values, trying to find a scientific basis for ethics and values, but still the question was always, ‘What motivates people to do what they want to do?’” Tavakoli said. According to Tavakoli, he traveled for many years and wondered why some people who are considered desperately poor appear to be happier than people who have an abundance of material things, and two years ago he decided he wanted to teach a course on happiness. The academic components of the course revolve around topics such as the science of happiness, f low experience, multitasking, perfectionism, procrastination, forgiveness, the biology of disease and stress, suffering, Buddhism and more. “We have to get a foundation — the science — when we talk about stress ; we have to talk about the biology of the body as well as the
brain, how it’s working, how it interacts,” Tavakoli said. “And on that basis we can talk about the latest studies done showing the scientific foundation. Then we can look at how meditation relieves stress, what it does to the body, what chemicals are changing, how the brain is changing.” Ancient insights, alongside scient i f ic i nsig ht s, serve as a supplement to the academic learning. The course also has an experiental component that includes t he students d iscussi ng course-related topics with each other, as well as an ungraded free-f low discussion. “Ever y week we have a different exercise that relates to the topic, and we take that to the classroom for discussion,” Tavakoli said. “It’s just really cool. Students open up, they get excited about the course, they share, they support each other, and it’s a structured discussion. I require them to take personal experience and relate it to the theory we learned, and that surprisingly worked way better than I was hoping.” The class is classified as an experimental course, but Tavakoli said he wants to make it permanent and teach it each semester in the future. There are some advantages to taking the course as a distance-education class, especially for individuals who are less likely to speak up or join discussion in a classroom setting. “I realize that teaching it online, students open up more,” Tavakoli said. “They are more honest, they open up more, they’re less scared — you don’t lose the shy, in-
troverted ones. It gets a little bit personal sometimes in the class when people share their experiences.” T houg h t he cou rse is about happiness, Tavakoli said he never explicitly defines happiness during the class. “That is something that develops throughout the course, which frustrates students at the beginning because they would like to know what is happiness, how do we find it and how do we get it really quick,” Tava kol i sa id. “It’s not about finding your authentic self. What makes you happy doesn’t necessarily make me happy either, even though the basic structures are very similar — same chemistr y, but there are differences still.” Class discussions, weekly quizzes, exercises and learning take place during the course of 10 weeks, and the class is only available during the summer semester for the time being. The course is not meant as a selfhelp or quick fix course, ac c ord i ng to Tava kol i, but students can take the academic and experiential knowledge gathered from the class and decide how to apply it to their decisions thereafter. “We look at all this science behind [happiness]… and not with the objective that the student gets happier at the end — that’s not my promise,” Tavakoli said. “But for the students to understand themselves better and experience how the science works and say, ‘OK, this has an impact on me,’ and then it’s up to them what they want to do with that.”
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tournament teams while playing in the most difficult conference in the country. The ACC contributed seven teams to the tournament, so should even the lower-ranked teams in the conference be considered for a tournament berth based on their quality relative to weaker conferences? NC State was left out of the tournament in favor of Connecticut, a team with an RPI of 36, slightly behind State’s ranking based on strength of schedule. This calls
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chen. I was already outraged when the Dallas Cowboys signed him after the incident last year and became further outraged when Jones continued to def lect Hardy’s on-thefield and off-the-field antics to the point where he called Hardy a “leader” and someone that deserved a contract extension. When I think of Hardy, “irresponsible” and “abuser” are
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into question why RPI even exists if the selection committee can so easily dismiss it. Connecticut made it further in its conference tournament and beat USF, the tournament’s 14-seed, twice, but the Huskies lost to all three ACC teams they played: Syracuse, Boston College and Louisville. The Pack went 1-1-1 against those teams in the regular season. Does this mean NC State is clearly a better team than Connecticut? No, but it does call into question the legitimacy of the selection committee, and with headcoaching jobs often coming down
to making or missing a tournament, the subjectivity involved in choosing who gets in and who doesn’t is irritating. The selection committee cannot watch every team play matches week in and week out, so a team like State, which can be incredibly brilliant or excruciatingly frustrating (in true Wolfpack fashion) can be left behind, while teams with a few big wins can sneak into the tournament. Boston College is one of those teams. The Wolfpack dominated the Eagles in terms of chances and possession but needed overtime to win, thanks to BC’s brutal-to-
watch defensive style — reminiscent of the Eagles’ other football team. Boston College, however, managed to go 9-7-1, including four wins in conference, one against defending national champions Virginia and a 2-1 win home against Syracuse, the eventual 2015 ACC champion (the other two were against conference bottom feeders Virginia Tech and Pittsburgh). Stats are telling, though. The Eagles scored twice in the first half and sat deep, as the Orange outshot them 16-1 in the second 45. At the end of the day, the Pack
was a fun but f lawed team in 2015 with an attacking style with plenty of f lair but without a go-to scorer in key moments. NC State could outplay pretty much any team, and the biased side of me is upset the committee didn’t look harder at the games against Notre Dame, Wake Forest, Boston College and South Carolina. Unfortunately, the NCAA’s system is the one we’re left with, and the Pack must take solace in the growth of its young players, the establishment of a strong system and an uncompromising approach to playing for more than W’s and L’s.
generally the words that come to mind for me. Leaders don’t resort to violence toward assistant coaches in order to get their point across, which Hardy did during a game against the New York Giants, so I have no earthly idea where Jones gets this notion of Hardy being a leader. Leaders also take responsibility for their previous actions, not place blame on others, which Hardy did during his reinstatement hearing for the NFL. According to transcripts obtained by Deadspin from Hardy’s
reinstatement hearing, Hardy also claimed that Holder’s injuries resulted from her falling in the bathroom, and his attorney, Frank Maister, used victim blaming tactics during the hearing in order to discredit Holder and her statements. What that statement tells me more than anything is that not only is Hardy a despicable human being, as that was a given, but that Jones is right there with him. Even in interviews leading up to the season, Jones speculated that Hardy didn’t commit
violence because the accuser was lying about it. I never thought that in this postDonald Sterling ownership world that we would have someone who would be willing to alienate victims of domestic abuse just to support a player who is not worthy of it. Just because one of your players is performing well on the field does not mean that you have to vehemently defend him off the field. If Ray Rice can become a football pariah after a video of him hitting his girlfriend in an eleva-
tor was released, why can’t Hardy, and by association Jones, be treated the same? It shows that no matter what egregious action a player may have committed, you will be able to find work in the NFL if you are talented enough. Hardy isn’t the first professional athlete to commit domestic violence, nor will he be the last. The NFL has the opportunity to show that it can go beyond wearing pink apparel in October to prove that it cares about women, and it needs to act to show that domestic violence no longer will be tolerated.
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Many NC State alumni have made their marks in the NFL this season. Here are the most notable performances from Week 10. Russell Wilson Quarterback Russell Wilson struggled this Sunday, completing only 14 of 32 passes for 240 yards, a touchdown, an interception and a 67.2 passer rating — by far his lowest rating of the season — as his Seattle Seahawks fell 39-32 to the visiting Arizona Cardinals. His 40-yard pass to wide receiver Paul Richardson led to fullback Will Tukuafu’s eventual rushing touchdown to get Seattle on the board in the second quarter. Wilson did rush for 52 yards on six carries; however, he also fumbled. His one touchdown pass, a 32-yard pass to wide receiver Doug Baldwin in the third quarter, was a big one as it brought the Seahawks within one score of the Cardinals. Steven Hauschka The Seahawks kicker had a solid day, going 2-for-2 on f ield goals and 2-for-2 on extra points. He made a 33-yarder in the third quarter to bring the game within two scores, and a 46-yarder late in the fourth quarter, to cut the Cardinals’ lead to 39-32. Stephen Tulloch The Detroit Lions middle linebacker ranks in the top 20 in combined tackles in the NFL through Week 10, getting 43 individually and assisting on 24 others for a total of 67. Tulloch had another solid day Sunday, registering four tackles as the Lions beat the Green Bay Packers 18-16 at Lambeau Field. Willie Young Young had a good day at outside linebacker for the Chicago Bears Sunday, recording two combined tackles and his first interception of the season, which he returned for 39 yards, as the Bears won their road game against the St. Louis Rams 37-13. Audie Cole The Minnesota Vikings announced Nov. 8 that middle linebacker Audie Cole will be out for the remainder of the season after he suffered a fractured ankle last week against the St. Louis Rams. Cole had three tackles on the season, in a mostly backup role, prior to his injury.
Despite holding a top-25 ranking for much of the season, the NC State men’s soccer team missed out on an NCAA berth for the sixth straight year. Leaving the Wolfpack (8-6-3) out of the tournament was a massive snub by the selection committee, but also entirely predictable. NC State missed out on opportunities to truly prove itself with big wins and came apart down the stretch. Although the Pack held the 34th RPI nationally, it was not deemed one of the best 48 teams in the country. However, the Pack proved a worthy contender against top opposition. The ties against Wake Forest and Notre Dame, respectively ranked first and seventh in the tournament, were not desperate defensive performances but wellcontested matches that could’ve gone either way. In a fairer world, the Wolfpack would ’ve been judged on the quality of its play game-to-game, rather than the vague committee format, which looks generally at win total, streaks and “big” wins, which the Pack didn’t really have. K nock ing of f ranked Sout h Carolina, which made the tournament, was huge, and State defeated Boston College (also a
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Sophomore defender Caleb Duvernay passes the ball in the 1-4 loss to Clemson on the NC State men’s soccer team’s senior night Oct. 30 at Dail Soccer Stadium.
tournament team) 2-1 in overtime in the ACC season opener. However, under nearly perfect conditions to knock off Clemson (the 2-seed in the tournament), chance after chance went begging, and Clemson sucker-punched the Pack, running up a 4-1 scoreline in Dail Soccer Stadium. This match in particular was frustrating to watch. NC State
broke through on goal numerous times in the first half but wasn’t clinical, failing to punish the Tigers for their defensive mistakes. The Pack caught Clemson at the end of the regular season with eyes on the postseason but lacked the offensive punch to get a massive upset that would’ve been enough to get an at-large bid. State’s other near misses include
failing to hold a late lead at Syracuse, ranked sixth in the tournament and falling at Davidson, a match that, if won, would’ve made State undefeated in its non-conference slate and gotten the team a crucial ninth win. Even with its stumbles, however, the Pack either beat or tied four
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Clemson tops Week 12 power rankings Joseph Ochoa Staff Writer
1. No. 1 Clemson (10-0, 7-0 ACC) Even though it wasn’t the usual blowout win the Tigers are accustomed to, Clemson defeated Syracuse this weekend 37-27. Sophomore quarterback and Heisman candidate Deshaun Watson was the difference for the Tigers, accounting for a career-high 461 yards of total offense and two touchdowns. 2. No. 12 UNC-Chapel Hill (9-1, 6-0 ACC) The Tar Heels won a schoolrecord ninth-straight game after stomping on the Miami Hurricanes at home, 59-21. While the defense has struggled of late, the offense has picked up the slack, outscoring opponents 125-52 in the last two games. 3. No. 16 Florida St. (8-2, 6-2 ACC) After falling behind 17-7 at the end of the first quarter, the Seminoles scored 27 unanswered points to get the 34-17 victory against NC State. Heisman trophy candidate and sophomore running back Dalvin Cook had his sixth game of the
season with over 100 yards rushing, tallying 138 yards on the ground with two rushing touchdowns. 4. (rv) Pittsburgh (7-3, 5-1 ACC) The Panthers recovered well from their loss to Notre Dame, as Pitt defeated Duke 31-13 on Saturday. Pitt is now 4-0 in conference road games and its two road losses have come to top-25 programs outside the conference. 5. Louisville (6-4, 4-2 ACC) The Cardinals became bowl-eligible after defeating Virginia 38-31 Saturday. Louisville has been on a tear since starting 0-3, winning five of the last six games. T-6. Duke (6-4, 3-3 ACC) Duke lost its third-straight game this weekend, as it fell to the Pittsburgh Panthers 31-13 in Durham. Duke’s defense has been the source of the team’s struggles, allowing 42.25 points per game to opposing teams the last four weeks. T-6 .NC State (6-4, 2-4 ACC) NC State could not capitalize off of a 17-7 first quarter lead in Tallahassee, giving up 27 straight points and falling 34-17 to the Seminoles. All four of the Pack’s losses have come against teams with a record
of .500 or better. T-6. Miami (6-4, 3-3 ACC) After winning its previous two games under interim head coach Larry Scott, the Hurricanes were beat down Saturday against the Tar Heels, 59-21. Miami originally dug itself in a 45-0 hole but scored 21 points in the final quarter-anda-half of the game to avoid the shutout. 9. Virginia Tech (5-5, 3-3 ACC) The Hokies escaped Thursday night with a dramatic win against Georgia Tech, 23-21. Freshman running back Travon McMillian was a workhorse for the Hokies, rushing for 135 yards and two touchdowns on 24 carries, including the gamewinning touchdown. 10. Virginia (3-7, 2-4 ACC) The Cavaliers came up short again this season, as they lost to Louisville 38-31. The loss now marks the fourth time this season the Cavs have lost a game by a touchdown or less. Up next for the Cavs is Duke, which has experienced its fair share of recent struggles. 11. Syracuse (3-7, 1-5 ACC) Syracuse lost another home game to a top-10 opponent this week, as
it fell to the Clemson Tigers 37-27. After starting the season a promising 3-0, the Orange has now lost seven straight games and has been mathematically eliminated from attaining bowl eligibility. 12. Georgia Tech (3-7 1-6 ACC) Georgia Tech lost to the Virginia Tech Hokies 23-21 after having a 14-point lead at one point. The Yellow Jackets have now become the first team since 1996 to miss a bowl game after winning the Orange Bowl the previous year. 13. Wake Forest (3-6, 1-5 ACC) Despite having more total yards, first downs and time of possession, the Demon Deacons struggled to capitalize off its opportunities and put points on the board, falling to No. 5 Notre Dame 28-7. Up next for Wake Forest is No. 1 Clemson. 14. Boston College (3-7, 0-7 ACC) The Eagles had the week off to prepare for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Fenway Park. Despite an injury-plagued season, the Eagles still have a defense that ranks first in total defense and rushing defense, as well as fifth in passing defense.
COMMENTARY
Hardy, Jones make a mockery of NFL and fan bases In light of the photos from former Carolina Panthers and current Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy’s domestic violence case being released by Deadspin, Jerry Jones, ow ner, president and general manager of the Cowboys, seems to be ig nora nt of t he Joseph serious nature of Ochoa domestic violence. Staff Writer Hardy was convicted on two counts of domestic violence in July 2014 after an incident with then-girlfriend Nicole Holder. Hardy and his lawyer appealed for a jury trial in superior court, but Holder did not show up for court, and the charges were
dismissed in February and later expunged from Hardy’s record. NFL.com reported that Holder reached a civil suit agreement with Hardy. Despite all the issues with Hardy, the Cowboys signed Hardy to a one-year contract during the 2015 offseason, with Jones viewing the signing as a second opportunity for the embattled defensive end, and made many nonsensical statements to defend him. Jones needs to be removed from his position of general manager of the Cowboys and Hardy needs to be released immediately. Jones must be held accountable for what seems to be a lack of institutional control, and for being incapable of relating to issues of all the people in the Cowboys
fan base, not just the ones on the team. In May 2014, while Hardy was still with the Panthers, two 911 calls were made from the Charlot te-Meck lenburg a rea. T he transcripts of the calls were initially obtained by the Charlotte Observer. One of the calls was from Hardy, who could be heard on the call saying “you shouldn’t have hit me” to Holder, followed by background noise. The second call came from two people, one of whom was the building attendant of Hardy’s apartment complex. On the call, the attendant described the incident immediately as “domestic violence” and said “some girl is getting her ass beat upstairs.” Other details obtained by the
Charlotte Observer from Holder’s court statements included Holder describing being thrown against a bathroom wall, thrown onto a bed littered with assault rifles and choked to the point where Holder thought she was going to die. After the photos from the case were released, i nclud i ng t he bruises that were scattered all over Holder’s body, while Hardy only seemed to have scratches on his cheek from the incident, I think it’s time to evaluate if Jones actually did his due diligence investigating the former Ole Miss defensive end. I figured that Jones would finally stand down from his position of defending Hardy, given the graphic nature of the photos and report. But, much like the rest
of the football community, I was sorely disappointed. After the release of the photos, Jones defended the embattled player, stating t hat Hardy is “grateful for the opportunity he has been given.” It’s not the first time that Jones has come out to support Hardy this season. Following his reinstatement from a four-game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy, Hardy used his first media opportunity to objectify Gisele Bundchen, Tom Brady’s wife, during the interview. Just one day after, Jones came to Hardy’s defense, agreeing with him and further objectifying Bund-
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