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IN BRIEF NCGA passes bill to bar LGBT rights Staff Report

NC State professor wins prestigious Canadian award

Rodolphe Barrangou, a food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences professor and a discoverer of the adaptive bacterial immune system, is one of the winners of the 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award, one of the world’s most esteemed medical research prizes. Along with the award comes a prize of $100,000 (Canadian). Earlier in the month, he was awarded the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize. Barrangou joined the NC State faculty in 2013, and in 2014 he was awarded the NC State Alumni Association Outstanding Research Award. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from the Rene Descartes University in Paris, France; a master’s degree in biological engineering from the University of Technology in Compiegne, France; a master’s degree in food science and a doctorate in genomics from NC State; and a MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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New Jersey bill would outlaw texting and walking

A bill was introduced in New Jersey last week that would outlaw texting and walking. Violators could be fined $50, spend 15 days in jail or both. New Jersey already has tight laws on distracted driving — those caught texting and driving could be fined up to $400 for the first infraction.

Distracted walking incidents have increased 35 percent since 2010 and people texting while crossing the road are twice as likely to be hit by a car than people talking on their phones.

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Raleigh deliberates water, stormwater fee hikes The city is trying to update old pipes, which would result in a $1 hike in residential water bills and a $14 increase for commercial bills. This week the Raleigh City Council gave preliminary approval to increase fees for water and stormwater management. Even with the fee increase, Raleigh still has some of the lowest water management prices in the Triangle.

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The North Carolina General Assembly sent a bill to Gov. Pat McCrory Wednesday that would bar local governments from passing nondiscrimination ordinances and prevent people to use bathrooms based on the gender with which they personally identify.

After three hours of debate, the Senate voted 32-0 in favor of the bill.

Eleven of the Democrats present left in protest because they said they were excluded from writing or amending

the bill.

The next step for the bill is McCrory’s office, and as of press time, his office did not make a comment of whether or not he would pass it.

The bill was prompted by Charlotte’s nondiscrimination ordinance that included the bathroom provision, which McCrory opposed. The bill is named House Bill 2 and would strike down Charlotte’s ordinance because it prohibits local governments from enacting their own legislation to ban

discrimination.

Instead, the bill would create a statewide law that would ban discrimination on the basis of “race, religion, color, national origin or biological sex” at businesses and other “places of public accommodation.” However, the law would not prevent citizens from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Virginia native talks southern upbringing Kat Kirby Staff Writer

Lambert said. “When I first got here, I had no idea what the Free Expression Tunnel was. I really liked what NC State has done in preserving that space, so I felt that we should try that here.”

Lambert communicated the idea to head coach Elliott Avent, who was very interested in the plan and the potential impact that it could have on students within the community.

“John came to me and said ‘Coach, what are we known for?’” Avent said. “I started with the Free Expression Tunnel, and he said, ‘let’s make the top of the dugouts the Free Expression Tunnel.’”

The third base dugout was completed Wednesday while the first base dugout will be completed Thursday. The change is a big step from what the dugouts looked like in the 2014-15 season, according to Lambert.

A charismatic Virginia native and former NC State professor, Lee Smith, read excerpts from her new memoir, “Dimestore: A Writer’s Life” during a Friends of the Library author event Wednesday.

Smith has been telling stories all her life — stories of fact and fiction.

“I write for the reason I’ve always done so: simply to survive,” Lee said. “To make sense of my life. I never know what I think until I read what I’ve written.”

This is Smith’s first nonfiction book, as she said she is much more comfortable with writing fiction.

“I was uncomfortable the whole time doing this book,” she said. “In fiction, you have a control you never could in real life.

I’m real glad I did it, but it was very unsettling.”

In “Dimestore,” Smith becomes the main character as she recounts stories she heard throughout her life, particularly in Benjamin Franklin Five-and-Dime, the dime store her father, Ernest Smith, ran and owned for 55 years. According to Smith, on the last day the Five-and-Dime was open, her father fell and broke his ribs causing him to hemorrhage to death.

“Thinking back on it, everybody has always said they don’t know what daddy would have done with his days, and I don’t either … He always put on his tie, and his nice little knit vest, and his jacket and then he went to the store, every day,” Smith said.

Smith spoke fondly of her father, telling the audience about the “little writing house” he built her. Her first experience with narration occurred behind the one-sided glass of her father’s dime store office where she vividly remembers watching the customers.

“I couldn’t stand for my favorite books to end so I would write more and more to the end of them,” Smith said.

She also recounted her earliest memories of writing. In one instance, she made her own neighborhood newspaper.

“Martha Sue, my best friend, and I started a neighborhood newspaper which we named the ‘Small Review,’ and I wrote out laboriously and sold it to the neighbors for a nickel … this was my first experience with the power of the press,” Smith said.

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NC State’s baseball team unveiled the first of its new “Free Experssion Dugouts” Wednesday. The artwork was created by Sean Kernick a local Raleigh artist and director of Oak City Hustle. According to John Lambert, director of player and program development for the team, the goal is to better incorporate the dugouts and the baseball field into NC State history.

Wolfpack unveils Free Expression-themed dugouts Joseph Ochoa Staff Writer

For years, the Free Expression Tunnel has been one of the most hallowed places on NC State’s campus along with the Bell Tower and Reynolds Coliseum. Now, the NC State baseball team has taken the Free Expression Tunnel as source of inspiration for a new tradition.

The baseball team unveiled the first of its new “Free Expression Dugouts” Wednesday. According to John Lambert, director of player and program development for the team, the goal is to better incorporate the dugouts and the baseball field into NC State history.

The dugouts will be available for public viewing on April 6, when the Wolfpack takes on the UNC Charlotte 49ers following its eight-game road trip.

“This is the first year that we have this being done with the baseball team,”

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Distance Education expands reach, quality Gavin Stone Staff Writer

NEWS Women in NC State’s ‘Herstory’ See page 2.

SPORTS Wolfpack heads to Florida State See page 8.

College students in North Carolina will soon have access to a wider range of accredited online courses available to them in the coming months. The UNC Board of Governors has approved a recommendation from UNC’s 17 constituent institutions, the North Carolina Community College and Independent College Systems to join SARA, or State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement.

SARA is a voluntary agreement that centralizes program authorization by establishing universal standards for Distance Education courses across state lines so that an institution will only need to meet their home state’s standards to be able to offer distance education to students of any other member state.

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T he rec iproc it y ag reement means that the perception of distance education courses as sub-par education could soon be a thing of the past, according to Rebecca Swanson, associate vice provost of distance and distributed education for DELTA. “I think ultimately what [joining SARA] is going to do is remove the last barrier to that perception that Distance Education is second rate which certainly was fostered, fueled in fact, by a number of institutions that were in the business to make money, not serve students,” Swanson said. “That ability to point to a membership in something that says, ‘if you join this organization you will abide by these standards’ helps everybody.”

The consumer assurance that SARA membership carries with it could save North Carolina money by allowing the state to avoid

costly regulation fees designed to protect students from the possibility that their coursework will be discounted due to the uncertainty associated with taking an online course.

“By having regional groups that provide reciprocity among all the states, what it says is that every state that joins SARA is going to have a common standard of student advocacy, where we are attesting to the quality of the programs we offer and that what we say we are doing and what we are delivering is happening and that students are not being given sub standard education with profit as the motivation,” Swanson said.

One of the limitations that have impacted Distance Education programs are physical presence triggers. If an institution is found to have stepped beyond the dense set of rules barring face-to-face meet-

ings with students from another state or advertising across state lines, they could face large penalties. Even proctoring an exam could trigger a physical presence issue.

Adding to this issue is that each state interpreted these rules differently.

“If you did any online advertising you might run up against somebody in a state that had that as a physical presence factor and then are we liable because a student happened to see something on the internet that was sent out to everybody,” Swanson said. “What SARA is doing is saying ‘Let’s have some common sense around this.

Let’s look at the physical presence factors let’s set things that make sense for all of us.’ If a faculty member just meets a few hours a

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Women in NC State’s ‘Herstory’ March is Women’s History Month, or Women’s “Herstory” Month. Although NC State didn’t vote to “admit women in all departments on a basis of equality with men” until 1899, NC State has had many notable female alumnae, faculty and staff.

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First female student takes class Margaret Burke is the first woman to take a course at the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. She enrolled in a physics course.

First female to enroll as a freshman The first female student to enroll as a freshman and complete a four-year degree was Ada Curtis Spencer. She majored in social science.

Former female slave begins 50-year career at NC State “Aunt” Ellen McGuire started working at NC State’s infirmary (now known as Student Health) in 1889 and retired in 1939. She was born into slavery on a plantation in North Carolina, according to a Technician article about her from 1939.

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First full-time female student Lucille Thompson becomes the first woman to enroll as a full-time student, studying electrical engineering.

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First female full professor and head of department hired Gertrude Cox becomes the first woman at NC State to be hired as a fulltime professor and head of a department.

She was a statistics professor and headed the Department of Experimental Statistics.

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First female librarian due to World War II Library director Harlan Brown took a leave of absence to fight in WWII, along with the entire male staff of the library, leaving Reba Clevenger to become the acting librarian for NC State until 1946.

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First female student earns bachelors of science in civil engineering Emily Catherine Brown Blount was the first woman to get her degree in civil engineering from NC State. The following year, she earned a professional degree in civil engineering in 1954. She became the first female licensed professional engineer in North Carolina in 1960. In 2007, she was inducted into the North Carolina Transportation Hall of Fame.

First female student body president Cathy Sterling becomes the first female student body president.

During her presidency, she led protests against the invasion of Cambodia. She wrote the report, “Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control,” which resulted in a greater student role in the spending of student fees.

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First ACC women’s basketball tournament NC State’s women’s basketball team competed in the first ever ACC women’s basketball tournament as a number one seed, but it lost in the championship game to Maryland.

First women’s basketball team The first women’s basketball team is established, the team included two AfricanAmerican females.

First All-American athlete Susan Yow becomes the first NC State female to be named an All-American athlete.

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First African-American female hired on academic staff Justina Williams becomes the first African-American to be hired as part of NC State’s academic staff. She worked in the Department of Genetics’ Drosophila research lab.

First female editor of Agromeck Betty Ann Cline became the first female editor of the Agromeck.

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First female mechanical engineering student The first female student to enroll as a mechanical engineering student was Katharine Stinson. Later, in 1941, she became the first student to graduate from NC State’s School of Engineering. She took flying lessons at the old Raleigh airport in the 1930s, and met Amelia Earhart. Earhart advised Stinson to become an engineer instead of a pilot.

Stinson took that advice, and overcame the obstacles women faced in college at the time. Women could only enter State College as juniors, so she took the bulk of her classes at Meredith College. Stinson was also the first woman engineer hired by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, which is now the Federal Aviation Administration. In 1997, one of the longest streets on campus, Katherine Stinson Drive, was named in her honor.

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One of first female students joins marching band Lois Madden, a drummer, was one of the first female students to join the Wolfpack marching band.

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Technician’s first female editor-in-chief Cora Kemp becomes the first female editor of the student newspaper, the Technician.

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The center’s goal was to enhance the experience of women in nontraditional fields such as math, science and engineering.

Women’s Studies Program created Barbara Risman serves as the first director of NC State’s Women’s Studies Program.

First College of Engineering female African-American faculty member Christine Grant, a chemical engineering major, becomes the first African-American female faculty member appointed in the College of Engineering.

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First female Board of Trustees chair Peaches Simpkins is named the first female chair of the university’s Board of Trustees.

First female chancellor of NC State Marye Anne Fox becomes the first female chancellor, who served until 2004, until she left to become the chancellor of University of California-San Diego.

First woman appointed full professor in College of Textiles Cynthia Istook became the first woman appointed full professor in the College of Textiles.

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TRANSPORT Student Health Center Officer transported student for mental health evaluation.

March 22 12:47 AM | DRUG VIOLATION Sullivan Lot Officer detected odor of marijuana but did not locate source.

3:04 PM | SPECIAL EVENT Off Campus NCSU PD and RPD participated in crosswalk enforcement campaign at Ridge Road and Wade Avenue.

1:01 AM | SUSPICIOUS VEHICLE Student Health Center Officer made contact with two students in vehicle talking. No action taken.

5:07 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Varsity Drive Lot Report of several males approaching females in parking area. Officers determined no crime had occurred.

8:54 AM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Scott Hall Report of subject begging for money. Officers checked area but did not locate subject.

9:42 AM | SAFETY PROGRAM Schaub Hall Officer conducted engraving program.

10:58 AM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Harris Hall Report of suspicious subject asking where to park. Officer did not locate any problems.

12:43 PM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Pi Beta Phi Two students were involved in traffic accident.

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nee for governor, said the legislature is “putting discrimination into law.”

If McCrory signs the bill, 17 cities and towns would have their nondiscrimination ordinances revoked, according to Equality NC. Bans for school districts Students would not be allowed to use communal bathrooms and locker rooms that do not match their biological sex. Transgender students would be allowed to use singleoccupancy restrooms.

These measures would only be enacted in public schools and facilities and would not affect the practices of private businesses.

Employees contracted to do government work could also be discriminated aganist on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity.

Are federal funds threatened?

Democrats expressed con-

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for facetious things written about her neighbors.

“I got in lots of trouble, too for my editorials such as one named ‘George McGuire is Too Grumpy’ about the neighbor across the street,” she said.

Smith did not fail to keep the audience engaged with her wit and southern charm.

“She’s got a great personality for this, she’s so entertaining,” said attendee Barbara Bass.

“Her story is very interesting and very relevant to the upbringings of others in the room.”

She addressed the issue of the treatment of mental ill-

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5:25 PM | LARCENY Kamphoefner Hall Student reported subject had taken wallet and keys. Officers placed BOLO on subject but did not locate.

5:39 PM | SAFETY PROGRAM Public Safety Center Officer conducted Police Citizen’s Academy.

8:18 PM | FIRE ALARM Terry Companion Vet Center Units responded to alarm. Cause unknown. Electronics and Fire Marshal were notified.

11:02 PM | HIT & RUN Clark Hall Student reported seeing vehicle strike parked car.

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cerns that North Carolina could lose $4 billion in federal education funding for violating Title IX nondiscrimination requirements. Republicans responded by saying separate facilities are permitted by law, but if the state is found to be violating Title IX, it would have plenty of time to comply to avoid losing the money.

Democrats were upset that the Republican majority rushed a bill to the floor, and it was only being seen for the first time that day.

Republicans added biological sex to the list of nondiscrimination factors, which includes race and religion. Biological sex means the sex listed on someone’s birth certificate, according to the bill.

Democrats sought to add sexual orientation and gender identity to the protected categories, but Republicans rejected the amendments. Republicans argued that the state law allows for transgender people to change the sex listed on their birth certificates after gender reassignment surgery.

ness in the 1950s throughout the novel. Many members of her family dealt with mental illness in the past and her father, in particular, believed it was a “character flaw” instead of an illness.

“My story is not a sob story … it’s a love story in a way to the small town and small community,” Smith said.

She is also the author of short story collection “Cakewalk” and The New York Times bestseller “The Last Girls.”

The event was co-sponsored by Quail Ridge Books, who recently relocated from Ridgewood Shopping Center to North Hills.

Battling it out PHOTO BY KAYDEE GAWLIK

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tudents form teams to participate in various heats of Pool Battleship in Casey Natatorium on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Pool Battleship is offered twice during the spring semester — once in January, and once in March. This uncommon intramural sport requires 3-4 people per team for the open league, and prohibits teams from bailing their boats out. To be victorious, teams must sink all opposing boats.

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“Last year, we didn’t try anything like this,” Lambert said. “What we did last year was put ‘NC State Baseball’ in bold letters on a black canvas and tried to be very minimalist. We are definitely going for a different direction this year.”

For the f irst year, the baseball team brought in an outside artist to do the work for bot h dugouts.

However, after 2016, the team hopes that more students will want to engage with and be a part of the project.

“For this f irst year, we wanted to bring in an out-

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semester [with students], that’s not a class being held in a different state, that’s within the realm of possi-

side artist,” Lambert said.

“Ideally after this season, we would like to make it a chance for artists at NC State in the design program or elsewhere to leave their stamp on the dugouts and have something impressive to put on his or her resume.”

The plan is to have one student design a print for the first base dugout and another student design a print for the third base dugout. For this first year, the team felt the need to bring in an established artist to get the ball rolling, according to Lambert.

Sean Kernick, a local artist and the director of Oak Cit y Hust le, is the man who was pegged for the inaugural Free Expression

Dugouts. Kernick was not at the ballpark and was unavailable due to traveling conf licts.

For Coach Avent, the implementation of the dugouts is one that will get much more student involvement with the team.

“I think it’s a great for getting students involved with team,” Avent said. “When I think of NC State landmarks, I generally think of the Free Expression Tunnel before the Bell Tower. It’s going to be great for getting people in the student community involved.”

While the rest of the team will get its first chance to view the dugouts after the team’s trip to Florida State, s e n ior c atc he r C h a nc e

Shepard and sophomore closer Tommy DeJuneas got a look of the dugout on the third base line.

“It’s gonna change the way that people see us,” Shepard said. “I like it a lot and I really like the design, it’s something new and different that no one else is really doing right now.”

Avent said he is really looking forward to showing the rest of the team the artwork that features more than 150 names of current and former players.

“I want them to have pride not only in the program that they play in, but to have pride in this university and I definitely think that they do,” Avent said.

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Some members of t he Board of Governors raised concerns at their meeting in January that programs that require on site interaction could face stiffer competition from institutions around the nation re-

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However, Swanson said that competition isn’t a concern for her, as long as the students are getting what they need to reach their goals.

“I have never been that concerned about competition,” Swanson said. “I

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The folly of Obamacare A

s a senior thinking about surviving in the real world, I’ve been researching health insurance a lot reChase cently. What McLamb Guest Columnist I’ve found has been somewhat disturbing.

The first problem is all the laws that exist for the sole purpose of preventing competition in the medical care industry.

Large hospitals are legally protected from smaller, start-up medical facilities and regularly engage in hostile takeovers by purchasing all the small practitioners around small hospitals.

In turn, the practitioners are forced to write recommendations to the large hospitals, and the smaller ones eventually go out of business. On the subject of legal protection, there are Certificate of Need laws which require startup hospitals to go before a board to demonstrate that the community needs a hospital and that it can be funded.

Unfortunately, the members of the board are typically representatives of the large hospitals who hate competing. These types of laws were successfully lobbied by the American Hospital Association in the late ‘60s.

In another successful lobbying venture of large hospitals, the Affordable Care Act also made it illegal for the construction of new, physician-owned hospitals or the expansion of existing facilities unless they get explicit backing from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services which then, by acceptance of federal

funding, subjects them to all the regulations which would make starting a hospital extremely noncompetitive. Additionally, the famous Oregon Health Insurance Experiment concluded Medicaid produced no statistically significant effects on physical health or labor market outcomes.

Dr. Keith Smith, founder of the Free Market Medical Association and a doctor at the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, has found legal ways to avoid federal funding and remain open. As a result, the OSC was able to post its prices online for its different services, proving to the market that competitive medical care with fewer regulations is much more affordable than the same care one could receive from a larger hospital. Smith said, “What we’ve discovered is healthcare really doesn’t cost that much.” I encourage everyone to go see how his or her prices compare, especially if you are in need of surgery.

Dr. Jeffrey Singer, in an interview with Freedomain Radio’s Stefan Molyneux, recounted the story of a man who was going to cancel his hernia surgery because the hospital was going to charge him approximately $20,000 for the procedure.

Singer told the man to go to a different hospital and tell them he was going to pay in cash. By doing this, the next hospital treated him like he was uninsured, and he ultimately paid just a little more than $3,000.

For more information, read “Jeffrey Singer: The Man Who Was Treated for $17,000 Less” in the Wall Street Journal.

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Singer recounted a similar story in the same interview.

This time, two women, one insured and the other uninsured, came in to receive the same procedure. The uninsured woman received the procedure that day and paid $300 out of pocket. The insured woman was treated a few days later after being processed and paid $800 out of pocket.

I personally checked the Affordable Care Act marketplace to find out how much a plan would cost. The cheapest plan for a 21-year-old male expecting to earn $30,000 was $1,957 per year, plus a $5,825 deductible. The yearly fee for not having insurance is 2.5 percent of yearly income in my case. This means the fee for not having insurance would be $750 per year, earning $30,000 before taxes. This makes not having insurance as a healthy 21-yearold, which some people would argue is reasonably safe, $1,207 cheaper per year than purchasing insurance. Given the stories above, a healthy uninsured person could still have access to hospital services and pay much less for it per year, especially once the nearly $6,000 deductible is considered.

Procedures like surgery shouldn’t cost more for someone who pays for insurance coverage than it does for someone who is uninsured, but this is the state of the American healthcare system created by government intervention and our slow journey to socializing the industry. As this trend continues, remember: If you think it’s expensive now, just wait until it’s free.

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Should transgendered individuals be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice?

BY KAYDEE GAWLIK “I think they should use the bathroom with the gender they identify as. Gender identity isn’t a choice.”

Anna Beam sophomore, animal science

“Yes, they should. What’s the difference between someone who is the way they are biologically, and someone who chooses to change?

Why should they be treated differently, or have to make a different choice?”

Kayla Gales sophomore, civil engineering

Editor’s note: Gawlik asked a handful of students today’s “In Your Words” question and was told, repeatedly, that they refused to answer the question because it made them uncomfortable.

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Sarah Ishida, graduate student studying technical communication

Tending to new friendships with Cuba “

Cultivo una rosa blanca,” President Barack Obama began, citing a famous Cuban poem by Jose Marti. I have a white rose to tend.

The line sounded the beginning of an end to years Logan of deadlock Graham between Correspondent the United States and Cuba.

Fifty-five years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, the U.S. severed all diplomatic ties with Cuba in opposition to Fidel Castro’s authoritarian regime. The conf lict, which began with the Cold War and was edged on by the Cuban Missile Crisis, grew, for over half a century, until the two countries cut a l l communications despite being just 90 miles apart.

This was the state of Cuban relations two years ago, a time when it would have been unthinkable to picture a U.S. president on Cuban soil, and yet, yesterday, for the first time in nearly 90 years, a U.S president stood on Cuban soil and delivered an address. Obama’s address, capping off a threeday visit to Cuba, is incredibly historic and might just be coming at the perfect time.

For fa r too long, ou r countr y has practiced a failed diplomatic polic y against Cuba. With Cuba stuck under a terrif y ing

dictator the U.S. hoped to push Castro out of power by implementing strict trade embargos, which Cubans refer to as blockades. Yet, 55 years of trade embargos later, the Castro family is

“For far too long, our country has practiced a failed diplomatic policy against Cuba.” still in charge, the U.S.’s trade embargos proving no threat.

It was only rational then, after a half century of limited successes, that the U.S. attempts a different diplomatic approach to Cuba.

Obama’s visit is just this. It normalizes relations with Cuba, allowing the U.S. to finally be able to work with Cuba rather than against it.

Through new negotiations and commercial ties with the U.S., the Cuban people can begin to shape their own model for their future.

The new policy buries “the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas” and allows the Cuban people to “chart (their) own course,” as Obama put it in his speech. This is extremely powerful.

So while the normalized relations are undoubtedly a good thing for our Southern neighbors, the change of policy also comes as a blessing to the U.S. — spe-

cifically its image abroad.

At a time when a leading ca nd idate for president from a major political party is calling for a ban on all Muslims in our country, Obama’s actions come in stark contrast to this.

Around the world, people see Trump’s comments as an image of a xenophobic, i ntolera nt a nd i solated countr y. Such an image ruins America’s appearance abroad.

Ever since our country’s creation, we have prided ourselves on being a diverse country, full of immigrants and diverse perspectives.

Yet today, Obama’s action to renew relations w it h Cuba might be one of the only things protecting this hard-earned and well deserved image.

The new era with Cuba highlights what t he NC State Study Abroad program there is already doi ng, prov id i ng posit ive American inf luence on the country to create necessary change. It highlights a U.S. that wants to help others, not exile them.

By normalizing relations w it h Cuba, t he A mer ican people are proving to the world that we aren’t as xenophobic as Trump’s comments might lead others to believe. The white rose Obama has planted in Cuban soil confirms this.

The curious case of Nacirema A

nyone who has ever taken an introductory-level sociology class has probably read the famous article “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema,”

by Horace Miner. This Jim Twiddy article treats America as Correspondent an exotic land unknown to the reader but just describes the normal morning grooming rituals that Americans go through on a daily basis (Nacirema is American backwards).

Emile Durkheim, the father of sociology, made the important point that sociologists should be culturally relativistic when they examine a particular culture. This is to say, because all cultures exist separately from one another, the observer must not judge based on their own cultural lens.

I talked with a student today who used the Nacirema piece as an example of how being culturally relativistic can help you avoid running into problems.

They claimed that this external perspective of Americans presented our grooming rituals as ridiculous and self-obsessive.

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They concluded that we can’t view cultures from an objective standard and must look at each culture through the specific culture’s own norms.

This student, I believe, has actually gotten it backwards.

What makes the typical American grooming process look ridiculous in the Nacirema piece is not that it doesn’t view the ritual from our culture’s perspective, rather that the piece makes the process look ridiculous because it is, objectively, ridiculous. The student essentially argued that cultural relativism in the case of the Nacirema removes the Features Editors Sam Roberson Emma Cathell (Bienvenidos Editor)

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observer from his or her own culture’s subjective norms and places them in another culture’s norms, giving them a new perspective.

I don’t think that the objective of cultural relativism should be to place the observer in the perspective of the people in that culture. What cultural relativism can do to benefit an observer is to remove them from their culture’s perspective and help them to view another culture objectively, not just to trade from that cultures perspective. This is made clear by the effect that the Nacirema piece has on its reader.

The body-grooming rituals seem absolutely ridiculous and self-serving and show that the Nacirema must be very vain people. Then when you realize by the end of the piece that the author is talking about the United States, you should realize that there are some serious problems with vanity in our culture, which is something that comes from a naturally objective view.

If the student arguing for subjectivity was right, then the reader should view the Nacirema from his or her own culture and not judge them for their vanity because it is just a

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part of their culture. This is a dangerous concept and one that is born from a new movement of not wanting to offend anyone. If this was not the case, then injustices all around the world can be justified, subjectively, from the perspective of the culture in which the injustice resides. This suggests the benefits of an innate objective morality, like that suggested by Christopher Hitchens and other philosophers.

There is a difference between asserting your own culture above others and realizing problems within all cultures.

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Alumnus initiates grant, funds students’ ideas Noah Russ Staff Writer

A new grant, the NC State Acceleration Fund, seeks to help NC State’s student entrepreneurs pursue their dreams and begin to grow their own companies.

NC State alumnus and businessman, Robert “Chip” Andrews III, and his wife, Lyn, initiated the grant by giving a generous $1 million seed donation. Andrews graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1966 and went on to help late NC State professor Emol A. Fails found the FMI Corporation, now the largest construction consulting company in the country.

During his time at FMI, Andrews witnessed the success and failure of many start-up companies. Viewing the failures of so many entrepreneurs, he decided to donate money to maximize the potential success of student startups at NC State.

“I would like to give back a little bit and take some of the experience I have had in entrepreneurial success and build that into a development program to increase the potential success of new startups,” Andrews said.

Many funding sources for startups require that students give up ownership of part of their companies while it is still difficult to evaluate the true value of their businesses.

Unlike these sources, the NC State Acceleration Fund is not equity-based and will not require students to give up any portion of their companies, according to Lewis Sheats, director of the NC

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Lewis Sheats, director of the NC State Entrepreneurship Clinic, works with students alongside alumnus Robert “Chip” Andrews III and his wife, Lyn, at the Entrepreneurship Clinic. The Andrews initiated a grant called the NC State Acceleration Fund that seeks to help NC State’s student entrepreneurs pursue their dreams and begin to grow their own companies.

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“They can take this non-equity money and build their company into a $1 or $2 million evaluation,” Sheats said. “This really protects the students.”

A long w ith grants of up to $50,000, NC State Acceleration Fund recipients will also be given a multitude of other resources through the Andrews Launch Accelerator that goes along with the fund.

Andrews said he believes that ma ny young innovators have great ideas but are missing what it takes to make a great business.

The launch accelerator will at-

tempt to help the students fill in the missing links and merge great ideas into great businesses.

“Too many startups fail,” Andrews said. “The failure rate is huge. Many times, there are predictable reasons that we might be able to intervene, help and support.”

The launch accelerator will support students by guiding them t hroug h a si x-modu le “ boot camp,” which will require them to do things such as conduct customer and market research, practice presentation skills and plan business launch strategies.

The accelerator will also provide

students with free office space, legal and accounting services and a network of mentors.

Applications for the NC State Acceleration Fund opened March 1 and will close April 15. The application is open to any NC state undergraduate with a junior or senior standing, graduate students and recent alumni. There is no required major for the application, and the fund would like to see representation from a variety of colleges.

After April 15, applicants will be narrowed down to five finalists and voted on by a selection board.

The board will distribute $50,000

among the best of the finalists as they see fit.

Andrews and Sheats are hoping that the NC State Acceleration Fund will continue to grow and be able to impact more student entrepreneurs. The fund is calling for more donors to help expand and get involved in the program.

“We want to build the acceleration fund to be much bigger,” Sheats said. “We want to build this into a really large fund that will continue on in perpetuity.”

‘Daredevil’ Season 2 heats things up in Hell’s Kitchen Kevin Schaefer Contributor

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Season two of “Marvel’s Daredevil,” which released this past weekend on Netf lix, continues the exploits of the titular crime-fighting vigilante while expanding upon the character’s mythos and providing viewers with a relentlessly action-packed 13 episodes.

Whereas season one recounted the origin story of blind lawyer Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) turned street-level superhero, here the showrunners are able to complicate matters by bringing in murderous antiheroes Frank Castle/The Punisher (Jon Bernthal) and Elektra (Elodie Yung). Punisher, infamous from a couple of terrible movies from 2004 and 2008, is an ex-marine turned

vigilante after his family is brutally murdered, hell-bent on ridding the streets of the mob; Elektra is Matt’s former lover and a martial arts prodigy raised in a ninja cult (she also received a terrible film adaptation in 2005).

The first four episodes of this season focus on Punisher as he arrives in Hell’s Kitchen and starts taking out every associate and rival of crime boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio), the big bad Kingpin from season one who’s now imprisoned.

As Daredevil goes after him, he must deal with accusations from people that it was his own vigilantism which created this monster.

Meanwhile, Matt has his own problems as he struggles to manage his dual identities, which only intensifies when Elektra returns. As tensions rise between him and his longtime friend and business partner Foggy Nelson (Elden Hanson), Matt also develops a complicated romance with fellow partner Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll). Now as his city finds itself on the verge of a destructive gang war and a mysterious third party known only as the

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Blacksmith, complicating things even further, Daredevil must get to the bottom of these events before all he has fought for is lost.

Season two is at its highest when it focuses on Bernthal’s Punisher and the ways in which Daredevil deals with the reciprocations of his arrival. While initially introduced as a ruthless, bloodthirsty villain, both Bernthal and showrunners Douglas Petrie and Marco Ramirez do a nice job of portraying the character from different angles. An episode where Punisher captures Daredevil and forces Daredevil to either kill him or let a murderer die is particularly well done, as it examines their conflicting moralities. As the season progresses, we also see Punisher in a more humanized light as a sort of trust relationship ensues between him and Karen.

Bernthal’s performance is an added bonus, as he balances Castle’s violent, vengeanceseeking nature with his humanistic side.

Another highlight of this season is how it incorporates several story arcs rather than a single narrative. Whereas its predecessor focused mostly

on Daredevil’s early days and the buildup to his showdown with Fisk, here there are more layers to the basic plot. After the initial Punisher arc and Elektra’s introduction, these storylines converge with the reveal that a larger gang war has ensued. Though this does make the last few episodes feel pretty rushed and the bringing back of a supposedly dead villain from season one a little forced, Petrie and Ramirez are nonetheless able to increase the scale of the narrative this time around without it becoming convoluted.

Yet, despite the grittier tone of this series in comparison with its Marvel Cinematic Universe counterparts, the season is certainly not without its ridiculousness and an overtly cheesy voiceover about heroism at the tail end of the finale. Daredevil may be a darker comic book character, particularly in the Frank Miller run, but he’s still a comic book character. On that note, the most grounded and relatable character this season is Foggy. Rather than a plot device of a sidekick, Foggy is very much his own character, an idea which is all

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the more realized this season.

And due to the fractured relationship between him and Matt, it’ll be interesting to see where he’ll be in season three.

Season two of “Daredevil” isn’t perfect, but it effectively builds on the foundation laid

This Saturday, enjoy the sunny day by shopping at Sola Coffee Cafe’s pop-up market. The pop-up market will include local artists, handmade items and delicious coffee and doughnuts. This market used to be a once-a-season event, but because of its popularity, it has increased to most second Saturdays of the month, just like this one.

out in season one. With new and old characters, an increased level of tension and a long list of visceral action sequences, it is certainly one to binge-watch.

North Carolina Museum of Art March 19 – June 19 Marvel at the newest exhibitions at the NCMA this weekend. The exhibits are “Marks of Genius: 100 Extraordinary Drawings” and “American Impressionist: Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals.”

In “Marks of Genius” 100 drawings are showcased by artists far and wide, with some familiar names and some who you can learn more about. “American Impressionist” highlights Childe Hassam’s work from his summers spent on the Isles of Shoals, off the coast of New England.

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Q-carbon: diamond’s newfound rival NC STATE RESEARCHERS CREATE CARBON SUBSTANCE HARDER THAN DIAMOND WITH APPLICATIONS IN MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTRIBUTED BY JAGDISH NARAYAN

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Diamonds might be forever, but they’re no longer nature’s hardest material.

Unt i l recent ly, g raphite a nd d ia mond were t he only known solid phases of carbon. Researchers at NC State have broken that mold, though, with their discovery of Q-carbon.

“A cut above the rest:” the novel phrase often used actually has promising applications, according to Jagdish Narayan, research leader and John C. C. Fan distinguished chair professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. These applications, Narayan explained, are particularly important to the realms of medicine and technology.

The diamond’s newfound rival is created using a meticulous, yet rapid process.

At regular room temperatures and pressures, amorphous carbon is exposed to

powerful lasers, driving up the temperature of the carbon to 6,740 degrees Fahrenheit in nanoseconds, according to Narayan.

Thus, the melted carbon is quenched — hence the “Q,” or cooled, forming the Qcarbon. Outside of the lab, the only place it might exist is in Earth’s core, buried under miles of molten rock.

“What we’re doing here is bypassing thermodynamics,” Narayan said. “Converting carbon into diamond at low pressures has been a dream for scientists across the world.”

Narayan said he’s been working on the process for 40 years. He first presented the possibility of a new carbon phase in the journal, Science, back in 1991.

The bonds between atoms shorten and don’t have time to re-lengthen as the material cools, which resultantly makes the substance denser and harder than diamond.

If not cooled properly, the atoms revert to graphite.

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Jagdish Narayan, research leader and John C. C. Fan distinguished chair professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, works with graduate students in his lab in Engineering Building I. Narayan is among one of the researchers at NC State who discovered the Q-carbon, the newest, most solid phase of carbon, which has promising applications, according to Narayan.

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According to Narayan, the difference between carbon and diamond relates to the arrangement of outer-fold electrons.

Sy nt het ic d ia mond s have been manufactured since the mid-1950s. Labmade methodologies have required expensive equipment to expose the graphite to high temperatures, pressures and hydrocarbon gases.

The innovative Q-carbon technique is inexpensive and relatively simple.

Thanks to the laser technolog y, notably used in Lasik eye surgery, a carat can be created in 15 minutes, according to Narayan.

“When you get laser eye surgery, you’re essentially putting a nuclear reactor in your eye,” Narayan said. “But, what happens is it lasts for such a short time that it doesn’t do any damage. That’s the beauty of the surgery. The high-powered laser basically manipulates the electrons.”

Narayan explained that the true brilliance of the Q-carbon lies in its unique properties. For instance, the form sets itself apart with its ferromagnetism, which has prospective biomedical applications, such as a biolog ica l impla nt that can sense magnetic fields. By controlling the nucleation and grow t h, nanodiamonds, microdia-

“What interests me is how I can help do the maximum good for humankind.” ­— Jagdish Narayan, research leader and John C. C. Fan distinguished chair professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

monds and nanodots can be produced.

“A nanodiamond is the best drug-delivery vehicle,” Narayan said. “We create a nanodiamond, which can be coated w it h a d r ug, which could go into the cell and kill the cancerous cell. The nanodiamond is totally biodegradable and the least toxic material we have known [for drug delivery].”

Additionally, its atomic arrangement emits a luminous glow.

“For a lot of display devices, [Q-carbon] would be ideal,” Narayan said. “It takes very little energy for the electrons to come out.

The energ y f rom where they’re sitting to the vacuum to escape is reduced.

It’s a negative; these electrons are ready to come out, which makes it glow.”’

The display devices can also be coated with Q-carbon, improving the longevity of the devices. It could also revolutionize the cutting tool industry, such as sharpening the diamondtipped drill for deep-sea

drilling, which could cut through at a high depression, according to Narayan.

However, at this point, it’s uncertain if the Q-carbon will jeopardize the natural diamond industry.

Justin Schwartz, department head of materials science and engineering, said the finding was “remarkable on many levels.”

“Human-made diamonds that can be produced quickly and inexpensively have been sought after for years, but this has the potential to be so much more than that,” Schwartz said. “Only time will tell just how broad the impact will be.”

A de vot e d profe s s or, Na r ay a n h a s adv a nc e d NC State’s reputation as a first-class research university around the globe, producing many doctorate students, according to Schwartz.

“What interests me is how I can help do the maximum good for humankind,” Narayan said. “That’s what drives me. It’s not just that I’m working hard — I’m having fun.”

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on notice is the Seminoles’ home record. The Seminoles have dominated teams at home, boasting a 13-3 record, including a three-game sweep of Georgia Tech.

The offense is led by senior infielder John Sansone, but seven Seminoles boast batting averages north of .300, and there have been some new faces that have stepped up to give Florida State some good production.

Sansone has started the 2016 season on fire, hitting .412 with three home runs and 31 RBIs. The senior leads the team in hits, batting average, home runs and RBIs and is second on the team in doubles and stolen bases.

Freshman catcher Cal Raleigh has been electric in a starting role batting .333 with 22 RBIs. The highly touted recruit has caught six would-be base stealers but allowed 19 to reach safely, meaning there may be running room for the Wolfpack speedsters.

In all likelihood, the Wolfpack will

see redshirt senior Mike Compton (3-1, 3.21 ERA) on Friday night, with sophomore Drew Carlton (4-0, 3.08 ERA) starting Saturday and freshman Cole Sands (3-2, 2.59 ERA) taking the ball on Sunday.

The Wolfpack will undoubtedly counter with junior Joe O’Donnell (3-1, 2.64 ERA) and sophomore Brian Brown (2-0, 3.33 ERA) but who the third starter is remains yet to be seen. Redshirt junior Johnny Piedmonte (0-2, 2.70 ERA) started last Sunday with disastrous results, while junior lefty Ryan Williamson (4-0, 2.52 ERA) was erratic but remained mainly untouched in relief.

Sitting just two games behind the Seminoles in the standings, the series gives the Wolfpack a chance to sink or swim in conference play.

The pitching staff will be tasked with keeping the team afloat, and against a team of Florida State’s caliber, it’ll be the toughest test yet.

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on the team is forward Marvin Williams. His specialty is the 3-point shot. He is shooting a blazing 40.1 percent from three while averaging 11.5 points per game and 6.7 rebounds per game. Williams’ production gives the Hornets the ability to keep up in games they are behind, as well as pull away from teams because of Williams’ ability to f ly under the radar (teams are beginning to keep an eye on him now).

The Hornets currently sit in the sixth seed with a 41-30 record.

Eleven games remain in the season, and the Hornets are in a tight race against the Hawks (41-30), Celtics (41-30) and Heat (41-29) for the No. 3 seed behind the Cavaliers and Raptors. If the Hornets can continue to stay hot, a three seed going into the playoffs is very feasible, which is almost hard to believe seeing how the first half of the season, as well as the past three years, have looked.

season last year, and his defensive game has continued to improve under head coach Bill Peters.

The third piece of this line, rookie winger Phillip Di Giuseppe has provided the line with a good forechecker and net front presence. He has chipped in with some secondary scoring, and his straight line, power forward game has been a good complement to Skinner’s game.

Goaltending was an issue early, but Eddie Lack, who is under contract for two more years, has rebounded nicely following a rough first two months.

All these factors, and the tea m adapt ing to Peters’ system, led to a 16-8-5 run from an awful 5-1 loss to the New Jersey Devils on Dec. 3

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While the Canes’ 2015-16 season will ultimately end in disappointment like the six that preceded it, it was certainly an important year in terms of developing pieces for future success. There are plent y of positives to take from this season, ones that should help the team’s chances of ending its playoff drought next year.

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Wolfpack heads to Florida State Christian Candeloro Staff Writer

The NC State baseball season is more than one-third of the way finished, and at this point we have a good idea of where the Wolfpack stacks up against not only other teams across the nation but also against its conference foes in the ACC. The Wolfpack enters this weekend’s series with a 16-7 (3-3 ACC) record after falling to UNC-Wilmington on the road Tuesday night.

The coming schedule will be tough, as the team will play its next seven games away from Doak Field. As the Wolfpack prepares for a huge conference road series against Florida State this weekend, here are some quick thoughts about the team.

Wilmington Blues The Wolfpack fell into a 4-0 hole to the Seahawks after three innings and was never able to recover in a 6-4 loss.

The Wolfpack had taken care of business in weekday games so far this season (6-2 overall record in weekday games) but was less than convincing in some of the wins.

The pitching staff has struggled mightily, and that trend continued Tuesday with freshman right-hander Christian Demby lasting only

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Sophomore infielder Stephen Pitarra swings and hits the ball toward first, only to be caught for an out. Pitarra was at bat five times during the game and made three hits, bringing in two runs. The NC State baseball team lost to Indiana State 11-7 at Doak field at Dail Park March 16.

three innings and allowing four runs. Junior right-hander Cory Wilder relieved him and didn’t fare much better, laboring through two innings while walking three and allowing two more runs to score. The Seahawks are a good team with high aspirations for the 2016 season, and this loss won’t necessarily hurt them, but these are games the Wolfpack needs to have.

Salvaging the Series The Wolfpack’s weekend nearly turned disastrous on Sunday, as the team trailed Notre Dame 5-0 in the third

inning of the weekend’s rubber match. The Wolfpack took the first game of the series in convincing fashion, dismantling the Fighting Irish 9-1, but fell in Saturday’s matchup 8-4 in 12 innings.

The Wolfpack led 4-2 entering the ninth inning, but couldn’t hold on down the stretch and gave the game away with walks in extra innings.

Losing Sunday would’ve been a disastrous start to ACC play for NC State, as the loss would’ve put its record at 2-4 in league play with back-to-back series against

Florida State and Virginia coming up.

Instead the Wolfpack rallied behind a bases-clearing double by junior first baseman Preston Palmeiro and ultimately broke the game wide open with six runs in the seventh inning to secure a 16-6 win and an overall series victory.

Scouting Florida State The Seminoles are currently tied for first in the Atlantic Division with a 5-1 record in ACC play. The number that should put the Wolfpack

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Walker, roster additions lift Hornets from mediocrity Mitchell Davis Correspondent

Ju st fou r sea sons removed from the Bobcats’ infamous 7-59 season, this year’s Charlotte Hornets are poised to clinch a playoff spot behind excellent team basketball.

There are a few things that have contributed to the Hornet’s newfound success.

Firstly, the additions have helped to counter injuries and a lack of experience.

The additions of forward Nicolas Batum from the Trail Blazers, guard Jeremy Lin from the Lakers, guard Jeremy L a mb f rom t he Thunder and guard Courtney Lee from the Grizzlies have added depth, talent and experience to one of the National Basketball Association’s youngest franchises.

Batum has been extreme-

ly dynamic, averaging 15.1 points a game along with 6.2 rebounds and 5.6 assists. Lin has filled many roles within the team. He started as just the backup point guard to Kemba Walker but now he is used in a two-point guard set that features them both.

Lin averages 11.8 points per game as well as 3.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists. Lamb provides production off the bench, averaging 9.3 points and 3.9 rebounds per game.

The most recent acquisition, Courtney Lee, has already shown he fits with the team as he starts and averages over nine points a game.

The revamped roster’s leader and point guard, Kemba Walker, has been playing at an All-Star level, helping to close out games with clutch shots while also faci litating a nd scoring throughout games. Walker

is averaging 21 points per game with 4.5 rebounds and 5.2 assists. He was awarded Eastern Conference Player of the Week twice this season, and he also set the franchise record for points scored in a game with 52 against the Jazz Jan. 18. Also, earlier in the year, Walker was given serious consideration for the All-Star team when he was averaging 24 points and five assists a game.

Hard work and improvement has been the story for the Hornets this year. Some would say that head coach Steve Clifford was on the hot seat at the beginning of the year because of inconsistency since 2013, and the beginning of this season looked unpromising. The Hornets were below .500 for the majority of the first half of the season. Since the All-Star break, the Hornets

have been one of the hottest teams in the NBA, with a record of 14-4.

Still on the topic of improvement, the Hornets’ most recent draf t pick, Frank Kaminsk y out of Wisconsin, has been improv ing t hroughout t he season. Some fans were unhappy with the selection of Kaminsky in the 2015 NBA Draft because they felt that there were better options still available at the time of his selection, such as Justise Winslow out of Duke. Kaminsky has found his role with the team and is looking much better than he was at the beginning of the season.

He averages 7.3 points (more than Winslow’s 6.4) and 4.1 rebounds per game.

Perhaps the most underrated and overlooked player

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PHOTO COURTESY OF KEITH ALLISON

Kemba Walker of the Charlotte Hornets drives against Marcin Gortat of the Washington Wizards during a preseason game at the Verizon Center on Oct. 17, 2014 in Washington, D.C.

COMMENTARY

Although playoffs are out of reach, Canes show promise Andrew Schnittker Staff Writer

Barring a miracle over the last 10 games of the season, the Carolina Hurricanes will be watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs on the sidelines for a seventh-straight year.

The team sits seven points behind the Detroit Red Wings for the Eastern Conference’s f inal wild-card spot, meaning it needs help to make the playoffs. Despite slim playoff chances, there are plenty of positives to take from the Hurricanes’ 2015-16 season.

First and foremost is the growth of the team’s young defensive core.

All-Star and U.S. Olympian Justin Faulk, who leads the group, was having an incredible season before being injured in early February. He was leading the league in

power-play goals, the Hurricanes in scoring with 15 goals and 34 points in 55 games and doing everything the team could ask for from the backend.

He played extensive minutes, both at even strength and on both special teams units. He shut down the other teams’ top players and led the rush up the ice with his strong puck-moving ability. With Faulk only 24 years old and under contract for another four years, he will continue to lead the team for years to come.

Joining Faulk has been three rookies — Noah Hanifin, Brett Pesce and Jaccob Slavin. It is rare for a team to get such strong play from one rookie defenseman, let alone three. While Hanifin’s defensive game is still a work in progress, he has made strides in

that regard, and his offensive game is something to behold for a 19-year-old. Hanifin’s skating ability is already at an elite level, and he is excellent at joining the rush defensively, being able to skate the puck up the ice and show off his playmaking ability in the offensive zone.

Pesce has provided solid defensive play in the top four, helping both the power play and penalty kill. Pesce also shows great puckmoving ability like Faulk and Hanifin, and has an impressive slap shot that has been a good asset to the Hurricanes’ offense.

It is Slavin, however, who has been the real asset. Since Faulk’s injury, Slavin has played extensive minutes for the team, basically stepping into Faulk’s role.

He draws the other team’s best

players, plays in all situations and has definitely been the team’s best defenseman with Faulk injured.

Like Hanifin, Slavin displays a strong skating ability and poise with the puck, and already has a very good defensive acumen.

These t hree shou ld cont inue to develop and get better with age and experience. Along with Faulk and some other defensive prospects in the organization, the future on the backend is incredibly bright.

While it is still a work in progress, the team’s forward corps has made big strides this year as well.

Jordan Staal has finally looked like the player the Canes traded for at the 2012 draft, giving the team Selke-level two-way play.

Staal consistently plays against the other teams’ top line and shuts

them down. The box score for any Hurricanes game since early December often shows zeros across the board for the other team’s top line. Staal also increased his scoring and had formed a dominant line with wingers Andrej Nestrasil and Joakim Nordstrom prior to Nestrasil’s season-ending back injury.

Following an impressive rookie year, center Victor Rask has continued to show strides in his game, setting career highs with 16 goals and 41 points while also showing a nice defensive game. Rask’s regular linemate, Jeff Skinner has bounced back this season, leading the team with 25 goals and 44 points after a disappointing

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