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Raleigh officerinvolved shooting sparks protests
Peaceful protesters gathered on Martin Luther King Boulevard Tuesday evening to protest the death of 24-year-old Akiel Rakim Lakeith Denkins. Denkins was shot by a 29-year-old white police officer, D.C. Twiddy, Monday near the intersection of Bragg and East Streets. No arrests were made during the march. The Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP, said the investigation of shooting should be dealt with out in the open but encouraged protesters to remain peaceful. The Raleigh Police Protective Association said it supports Twiddy’s actions. SOURCE: WRAL
Duke Quad renamed after black architect
Duke President Richard Broadhead announced that the Duke Quad will be renamed after Julian Abele, the African-American architect who designed a lot of the Gothic campus, including Duke Chapel. The Quad is a main gathering space for celebrations, protests, concerts and ceremonies and includes more than 30 buildings and spaces designed by Abele. The renaming comes as universities across the country are taking stock of historic buildings and changing names of those named after historically racist figures. SOURCE: The News & Observer
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Gavin Harrison, the chair of elections and a senior studying biological sciences, talks to candiates Tuesday after announcing that the election for student body president and student body vice president has resulted in a run-off. Long and Nolan will face off in a run-off, and the results will be delivered Thursday.
Long, Nolan advance to election run-off Jonathan Carter Correspondent
The Student Government election results were revealed Tuesday night. The race for student body president and student body vice president resulted in a runoff between Cody Long and running mate Mitchell Moravec, and Paul Nolan and running mate Brayndon Stafford. The duos beat out three other tickets: Nate Bridgers and running mate Hayes Griggs; Rye Robinson and running mate
Jotionette “JJ” Jones; and Harrison Preddy and running mate Caroline Moody. The voting period will re-open Thursday at 8 a.m. and end 8 p.m. that evening. Runoffs occur when no candidate receives a voting count of more than 40 percent, a fairly common trend in Student Government. This leaves the candidates in limbo for the two days after the elections open. The rules for the runoff are clear: Candidates have their campaign time
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The new UNC System president Margaret Spellings took office Tuesday, four months after her controversial selection following the forced resignation of Tom Ross. Spellings is the former U.S. Secretary of Education under George W. Bush, and now looks to address a range of issues, from budget matters to concerns about academic freedom. She is starting her presidency by visiting every UNC campus and affiliate within the first 100 days of office to learn more about the system and how it operates. She is scheduled to visit NC State sometime in late April, though the date has not been SOURCE: WIKIMEDIA released. Margaret Spellings Spellings will bring a dogwood tree with her to every campus she visits. Even before starting her first day, Spellings has faced much controversy. Her appointment was made in a closed meeting after former president Ross was forced to resign. In an interview with WUNC, Spellings said she hopes to see eye-to-eye with those in the UNC System. “I’m going to find common ground with everyone, and that means we’re all going to be focused on affordability, access and accountability,” Spellings said. “No matter what your view, I think we can all agree that college education is the key to the American dream.” Spellings addressed statistics showing that poor and minority students perform worse in school, and said that is something that needs to be fixed. “What we’re going to do about it, particularly in our post-secondary institutions, is to understand what the research-based practices are that are going to move the needle,” Spellings said. “We also need teachers to go into our classrooms every day both as role models and as practitioners that can close the achievement gap.”
Museum completion delayed due to weather Sasha Afanasyeva Staff Writer
Completion of the Gregg Museum addition has been delayed due to weather related events and an unexpected granite rock layer. Construction that was scheduled to be complete by mid-July is now estimated to be finished by late September or early October, assuming no further weather-related delays. The Gregg Museum of Art & Design is an NC State art museum with more than 34,000 pieces. Originally located in Talley Student Union prior to the renovations, the museum will find a permanent home in the chancellor’s former residence by Pullen Park once the new addition is complete. The addition will add roughly 15,000 square feet to the museum and is expected to be open to the public by March 2017.
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The new Gregg Museum addition will add roughly 15,000 square feet to the musuem. The new addition is expected to open by March 2017 barring no further delays.
Although construction was originally expected to be complete by mid-July of 2016, unexpected delays have pushed the completion date back. “We are behind schedule because of all the rain over the course of
the fall,” said Roger Manley, director of the Gregg Museum. “We had nearly two and a half times the normal rain during October, November and December.” In addition to heavy rain, an unexpected rock layer slowed con-
struction even further. “When they were digging the foundation they ran into a seam of solid granite that no one expected,” Manley said. “They had
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IN BRIEF Students on six UNC campuses — UNC-Chapel Hill, Appalachian State University, North Carolina A&T State University, UNCCharlotte, UNC-Greensboro and UNC-Wilmington participated in walk outs demonstrating their contempt with the new UNC System president, Margaret Spellings, who took office Tuesday. At UNC-CH, several hundred people gathered on the quad while about 80 protesters stood on the steps of their library leading chants. Spellings spent her day in meetings with faculty leaders, in an interview with WUNC and had lunch with students at North Carolina Central University. SOURCE: The News & Observer
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The new leadership positions for the Technician, WKNC and Nubian Message for the 2016-2017 school year were selected Tuesday night at the Student Media Advisory Board meeting. The Board appointed Stephanie Tate as editor-in-chief of Nubain Message; Rachel Smith as editor-inchief of Technician and Emily Ehling as general manager of WKNC. An interim director will be ap-
pointed as editor-in-chief of Agromeck, and the application will reopen in August. Windhover did not receive any applications, so the application will reopen until March 14. The Annual Publications Advisory Board will meet March 16 and will select the next editor-in-chief April 12. As editor-in-chief of Nubian Message, Tate said she wants to increase staff retention, improve recruitment strategies and making stories more timely. “As a student publication, I want to
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Apple News,” Smith said. “I believe that aligning the Technician with sources like these will only benefit our publication’s readership.” Ehling’s main priority as general manager will be to interact more with campus. She wants to partner with Union Activities Board for events like the Homecoming concert. “A stepping stone to becoming more widely known around the NC State community would be team up with campus organizations outside of Student Media,” Ebling said.
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POLICE BLOTTER February 29 10:22 AM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Main Campus Dr/CCMS Student was cited for speeding. 10:57 AM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Cates Ave/Dan Allen Dr Staff member was cited for expired registration. 10:58 AM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Dan Allen Deck Student reported vehicle had been struck and damaged while parked at this location. 11:23 AM | LARCENY Talley Student Center Staff member reported merchandise taken from NCSU Bookstore. 12:48 PM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Poulton Innovation Center Student and non-student were involved in traffic accident. 2:17 PM | MEDICAL ASSIST Daniels Hall Units responded to student in need of medical assistance. Transport refused. 4:24 PM | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Off Campus
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ory Lazenby, a sophomore studying economics, and Trevor Graham, a sophomore studying sustainable materials & technology,lay in their hammocks on Tucker Beach Wednesday.The two first met while Graham was playing rugby. Lazenby said, “I saw him throwing the rugby ball once and was like, ‘what’s up, bro!’” Graham and Lazby are on the club rugby team together.
Environmental science major switches to CNR Randy Jaouhari Correspondent
The environmental science major at NC State has moved from the Division of Academic and Student Affairs to the College of Natural Resources within the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. Gregory Wilson, an advisor for students within the environmental science major, said he hopes students will have more opportunities available to them because of the change. The switch became necessar y this year because the environmental science major had about 220 new students of fall 2015 alone, establishing itself within the university. The students within the major can now experience a more collegelife experience being part of an actual academic college
like all other majors, according to William Winner, founder and professor of environmental science at NC State. He believes that the environmental science major has become a huge success here on campus. “We have, in six years here at NC State, gone from virtually nothing to an environmental science program that has somewhere close to 250 students in the major, over 200 students in the minor and were teaching in the area of 3,000 seats of environmental science courses every year,” Winner said. The switch will be official as of July 1, when the next semester begins. The students within the major will earn their degrees as part of the College of Natural Resources. Environmental science students graduating this semester will still
“I think that moving into a college we will have more support, and we might also expose more people to our major.” – William Winner, founder and professor of environmental science
earn their degrees as part of DASA rather than CNR. Nick Loschin, a freshman study ing env ironmenta l science, had some thoughts on the switch. “I like it the way it was, but I think that moving into a college we will have more support, and we might also expose more people to our major,” Loschin said. “The staff is extremely supportive, Dr. Winner is great, Greg is g reat, ever yone who leads the department is absolutely amazing, so I don’t want to see anything like that change at all.” The dean for students
within the environmental science major will now be Mar y Watzin instead of Mike Mullen, who is the dean of DASA. “The idea is to bring the program into an academic c ol lege where st udent s might have a much broader base of connection with other students who are interested in similar types of things,” Watzin said. Though the switch was unprecedented it doesn’t seem to have much of an effect on students within the program, and no issues have been noted yet. Watzin is happy to welcome the new
students within the environmental science program into the College of Natural Resources. New students coming into the environmental science major will attend orientations with those departments within the College of Natural Resources. The College of Natural Resources houses ma ny different majors, such as forest ma nagement a nd natural resources policy and administration. With the addition of the environmental science program, there will likely be chances for collaborations to be
made bet ween student s within the academic college. Also, programs such as the college ambassadors program and scholarships within the college will now be given to students within the environmental science major as well. A s t he env i ronmenta l science major was the only degree-granting program within DASA, the division now contains only the exploratory studies academic program and continues to provide minors in all areas to students, along with providing other programs such as counseling, ROTC and music. “We are excited to have all of you join us and look forward to working with you,” Watzin said.
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Paul Nolan, a senior studying materials and science engineering, and Brayndon Stafford, a junior studying environmental sciences, received results in Talley Ballroom on Tuesday. Though no one was elected for SBP/SBVP, Nolan and Stafford were one of two pairs of candidates selected to advance and campaign in the run-off. The run-off is set to take place Thursday.
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extended until the runoff and the election will take place two days after the initial reveal. There will also be a debate between the candidates tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. All four of the candidates were grateful of how far their respective campaigns had come. The candidates expressed how they had come this far and are ready to tackle the next two days. Nolan and Stafford expressed how hard they have worked and how grateful they are to the students of NC State for getting them this far. “We are very happy. It’s a bless-
ing to be able to be here,” said Stafford, a junior studying environmental sciences. “It doesn’t stop here.” Long and Moravec stressed how important it is for students to be informed while voting. “Please, please be informed on the issues involved when voting,” said Long, a junior studying political science. “There are a lot of issues being discussed, and it is important to understand what is being talked about.” Long said that since his campaign came out slightly on top by 13 votes, he has a little more momentum than the opposing candidates moving forward. He also said that now that this race is between two presidential candidates, the debating between them
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Cody Long, a junior studying political science, hugs Amanda Cannon, a senior studying business adminstration, after the announcing of the election results on Tuesday.
will be more intense. “Now that this is a two-horse race, it will be better to debate one-on-one to pitch ideas better and more clearly,” Long said. When asked how their campaigning would differ than the past week over the next two days, both candidates gave similar answers. Nolan and Stafford discussed how they have to be very active and vocal in their campaigning just like they have this past week. “We have to get out there in those places and get out in the
Brickyard and get supporters,” Stafford said. “If that means we don’t sleep, then we don’t sleep.” Long explained that he will continue to campaign very hard just as he has done over the past few days in order to gain support. “The campaigning worked the first time around, and it’s going to work the second time around,” Long said. All in all, both sets of candidates said they are thankful for having proven they are good picks for office. “I want to thank our support-
ers, especially those voters who I barely know or don’t know at all, and I want to thank God for blessing us with coming this far,” Stafford said. Long also expressed his thanks. “My campaign team and my running mate are the best I could ask for — I want to thank them especially,” Long said. A town hall debate between the Long/Moravec and Nolan/Stafford candidates is scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m. today in the Talley Mountains Ballroom.
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The new Gregg Museum addition will add roughly 15,000 square feet to the mesuem. “There are all sorts of ways for the process to slow down,” said Roger Manley, director of the Gregg Museum. “The day we had those tornadoes, they couldn’t work with the winds they had; it becomes dangerous for cranes to pick up things in the air with high winds.
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done some drilling before for core sampling but somehow the drills, despite being evenly spaced, missed detecting this thick layer of rock in this area.” According to Manley, it took a couple of weeks to remove the rock so that the concrete foundation could be poured. Additionally, when heavy tornadospaw ning storms passed through North Carolina last week, const r uc t ion was delayed further as high winds made working conditions dangerous. Although the new construction completion estimate is for late September, Manley believes it could be pushed back further due to future rain or whether or not there will be hurricanes. “There are all sorts of ways for the process to slow down,” Manley said. “The day we had those tornadoes, they couldn’t work with the winds they had; it becomes dangerous for cranes to pick up things in the air
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According to Roger Manley, director of the Gregg Museum, it took a couple of weeks to remove the rock so that the concrete foundation could be poured. Additionally, when heavy tornado-spawning storms passed through North Carolina last week, construction was delayed further as high winds made working conditions dangerous.
with high winds. I think it will get done sometime between late September and early December. It could be anywhere in that range. It’s just really hard to predict.” A l t hou g h t h e d e l a y s cost time, NC State and the Gregg Museum do not have to pay the construction compa ny ex tra for t he time. The compa ny
currently working on the Gregg Museum addition is HM Kern, based in Greensboro, and has constructed other buildings for NC State in the past. “The delays don’t affect things on our end, but the people doing the building don’t like it because they have to pay their employees longer, so it’s in their
own best interest to work as frequently as they can,” Manley said. Although the Gregg Museum is currently without a permanent place to display t he col lection unti l t he construction is complete, the museum continues to host ex hibitions around NC State, such as the D. H. Hill library.
The Gregg Museum will also be doing an exhibition in Charlotte starting March 23 called “The House that Modernism Built” at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art. The Gregg Museum will be loaning 80 pieces of furniture, contributing to a large portion of the exhibit. In addition, the museum sees several classes a week ranging from anthropology to design as students and instructors come to look at and study artifacts. “We have classes use the museum several times during the week,” Manley said. “It varies from semester to semester, sometimes it’s classes from religious studies who want to look at Buddhist or Muslim artifacts; all sorts of professors use it for one reason or another and that’s one of the main things we do.” Students expressed enthusiasm toward the nearing completion of the museum construction. “I think it’s a good idea for NC State to focus on the arts. Even though NC State is a land-grant university, arts have a definite impact here,” said Luke Lahay, a
junior studying business administration. “I think the Gregg Museum expansion would be a great addition to our university.” Other students see the museum as a way to have fun over the weekend. “I think the art scene is up and coming here and the more places the better to have for artists to have an outlet to express their work,” said Taylor Rogan, a senior studying accounting. “Plus it gives students in particular something that’s relatively inexpensive and free to go to. As a college student, things can get expensive to do, and an art museum is a great thing to do for free or little cost on a Saturday afternoon.”
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olitics are scary, and they have become even scarier with certain presidential candidates on the loose. Many of us are afraid to admit it, but at the end Chauncey of the day we don’t Bowden know a thing about Staff Columnist pol it ic s . I n g r ade school, we vaguely learned about the three branches of government, and if you’re anything like me, you don’t remember most of that stuff. We are told that our vote matters and that we have to use our hypothetical voices, but how effective is voting when we don’t know who and what the heck we’re voting for? I vote because my ancestors fought for my right to do so. But whenever I step foot onto a voting site, I immediately begin to feel uneducated, inadequate and uninformed. To be completely honest, besides the presidential nominees, I usually don’t know who any of those other guys are. I am so embarrassed by my ignorance that I rush out of the booth, go home and try to forget about the ordeal entirely. I’ve always hesitated to talk to anyone about it because it seems that no one else really knows what they’re doing. Besides, I, a college senior, should know better! But that’s the thing, most of us don’t know better. I went to NCVoter.org to get more information on what a ballot looks like. The website is great for lots of other information such as voter history, districts, polling places and precincts. Available on the website was a “Sample Democratic Primary Ballot,” dated for March 15. There are 10 sections on the ballot. Nine of these sections represent partisan offices, and one represents a referendum. “Partisan” means a member of a particular party. The first subgroup represents the nominees for
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“Many of us are afraid to admit it, but at the end of the day we don’t know a thing about politics.” Presidential Preference. The second subgroup represents the U.S. Senate. Then there is the North Carolina lieutenant governor, North Carolina attorney general, North Carolina commissioner of labor, North Carolina superintendent of public instruction and the North Carolina State Senate District 16, respectively. The last section of the ballot, or “referendum,” represents a proposed plan of action in which you, the voter, either vote for or against. I knew 2 out of the 24 names on the ballot, making me a blind voter. The truth is, there are plenty of other things I’d rather do after I finish a long day of classes besides looking up the other 22 names on that ballot, but that is not an excuse for being an uninformed voter. Tuesday, March 15 represents the day that North Carolina voters will vote in the presidential primary and state primary election. That day is swiftly approaching. If you don’t recognize any of the names on that ballot or the duties associated with such positions in office, it may be worth looking into over spring break. Find these candidates on Twitter. Ask them questions if you can. And if you’re still struggling to figure it all out, try visiting the political science department — someone may be able to break things down into layman’s terms.
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Re: I tried to get a voter ID card, here is what happened The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles wants to make certain our state’s college students know how to obtain a Voter ID card. Once a student has registered to vote, they can fill out an application for a no fee Voter ID card at any North Carolina Driver License office. The student will be required to fill out a declaration stating that they do not have an acceptable photo ID. The reason being that if they already have an acceptable photo ID, they are not eligible to receive a No Fee Voter ID. To learn what documents students should bring to the DMV office, they should check NCDMV website at http://www.ncdot.gov/ dmv/driver/id/. A transcript or a registration document signed by a college or university official and an out-of-state driver license are among the many documents accepted for a Voter ID card. NCDMV offices cannot register an applicant to vote if they are not applying for a DMV service such as a license, but the offices do offer voter registration applications which can be completed and mailed to the State Board of Elections. Anyone with questions regarding the process can contact the NCDMV at (919) 715-7000, or through our Contact Us system at http:// www.ncdot.gov/contact. Kelly J. Thomas Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
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that did not include funds for transportation projects; our board unanimously endorsed the action of our legislature to move forward with a bond issue supporting critically needed investments in higher education, clean water systems and our state parks system. The legislature’s decision to reduce the magnitude of the bond issue, eliminating the transportation component, was a result of their action to end the practice of transferring money from the Highway Trust Fund to the general fund, freeing an additional $216 million each year (that’s more than $2 billion over the next decade); a huge step toward improving our connectivity.
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What else are you to do? Sometimes I say a prayer, but what happens next isn’t really up to me. There are countless people who do take charge and who are involved in every serious situation. There’s a firefighter or a police officer or an EMT worker who drops everything in their lives to save someone else’s. In the city and on campus, people dedicate their lives to rescuing people from the most dangerous incidents, such as fires and deaths, to the smaller, while still significant, ordinary events, such as patrolling the areas. One night last semester, I needed to walk back to my dorm a mile or two or away in the dark at midnight. NC State is a much safer place than plenty other parts of the country, but I still didn’t feel all that comfortable to be alone at a time so late. I called the non-emergency campus safety line and within five minutes, a staff worker pulled up and drove me back to my apartment. These workers are always on the job, even when everyone else should be asleep. Safety and security don’t receive enough gratitude from
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all the people they help. They take on extra responsibilities just so we can all be a little less stressed. A person willing to help has taken the responsibility to save a life, to heal a wound, to make a difference for every phone call or blue light emergency. People don’t think about that enough. Just knowing that someone can come help you when you need it most is reassuring every second of the day. So the next time you hear a siren, take a minute to recognize that there are so many helpful people whose job it is to protect others. Maybe it’s a horrible accident; maybe it was a foolish mistake. But a firefighter doesn’t ask if there was a gas leak or if you left the stove on carelessly, and the EMT doesn’t ask if your brakes gave out or if you fell asleep at the wheel after pulling an unnecessary all-nighter. No matter the reason, they are there to help. Thank you to all the self less rescuers. After all, for every siren, there’s a hero. And for every time there isn’t a siren, you can bet that there’s a hero who helped prevent it.
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can’t remember the last day I was at NC State and didn’t hear a siren. Or sirens, plural, because more often than not, Missy t h e r e ’s m or e Furman Staff Columnist than one. As a resident in Wolf Village, my apartment is on the outskirts of campus. Being so close to the street, I hear a lot more traffic than I’m used to, compared to my centrally located Tri-Tower dorm (shout out to Metcalf) or my rural town back home. I am consistently shocked. In periods of a few hours or so, I hear two, three, up to four or five sirens throughout my studying in the meeting rooms with windows that overlook Gorman Street. If not while at my dorm, I’ll hear it walking through campus, sitting in class, going to the gym, wherever. No matter when it is or where I am, my reaction is always the same. I catch my breath, my stomach churns and my heart drops. Let’s face it, most ambulances aren’t speeding through the streets because of sunshine and rainbows. You hope that everything will be OK and then go on with the rest of your day.
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The university is alive with the sound of new music Samuel Griffin Staff Writer
NC State is a university that covers a wide variety of disciplines and sciences, fields and subjects, but this large group of options and opportunities generates a lot of noise and can make it difficult for some departments to stand out. One such department, the Music Department here on campus, is seeking to change this status, and make some noise. For the past two semesters, the Music Department has been offering new classes in a wide variety of subjects that move away from traditional, classical music studies. These new classes focus on more modern genres, such as hip-hop and rock, as well as the production and business behind the music industry. It’s all a part of what Tom Koch, Interim Director of the Music Department, refers to as his three-prong plan. “We feel that we have a responsibility as a department to start getting into an area of music that is very much student-centered and is very much in the mainstream now,” Koch said. “First of all, I want to create a set of courses that answer business and arts entrepreneurship, the production of it.” Koch said that these more business-focused classes are the first prong of the Music Department’s plans. Koch said trying to find traditional music jobs for students in fields such as classical performance can be very difficult but that there are increasing opportunities in industry, entrepreneurship or technology in the music field. Therefore, the new courses of the department are catered around these subjects and work to help students find a job in the music field at a community or professional level. One of the newly offered classes is “Introduction to the Music Indus-
try,” a course that focuses on a wide variety of subjects related to music production such as publishing, Internet downloading and streaming, record distribution, artist management and copyright laws. “The term should really be music industries because there is no such thing as one music industry, being that there are so many sub industries,” said Christopher Reali, professor of the course, Intro to the Music Industry. “The way I approach a class is I teach the class how a song gets from a performer’s brain into the market.” Reali said his course encourages interactions with the Raleigh music scene and that he has many guests, such as Greg Lowenhagen, the founder of the Raleigh music festival Hopscotch, attend classes to speak to his students. “The next prong is what we call the artistic creation through digital technology,” Koch said. “We want them to be able to use technology in songwriting and create something artistic from this.” As part of this effort, the Music Department is offering a new class called “Songwriting using Digital Audio Workstations,” a class focused on learning how to use the variety of digital software involved in music production, such as Pro Tools. The goal of the class is to teach students various techniques used in the songwriting process such as editing, looping, equalization and rack hardware. “Third is historical awareness of the popular traditions,” Koch said. “New courses in rock, hip-hop, country and R&B teach not only popular musical styles but the impact of commercialism, technology, economics, politics, gender and race on the evolution of popular music — issues anyone will encounter when pursuing a career in the music industry.”
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For the past two semesters, the Music Department has been offering new classes in a wide variety of subjects that move away from traditional, classical music studies. These new classes focus on more modern genres, such as hip-hop and rock, as well as the production and business behind the music industry.
Koch taught History of Rock I in the fall semester of 2015, a class covering rock music’s evolution from its beginnings in the early ‘50s to the punk and new wave styles found in the ‘70s, with a focus on American and British rock. Koch said History of Rock II will be taught by William Boone in the fall of 2016 and focus on ‘80s to present-day rock. Boone also taught another of the Music Department’s new pilot music history course, The Art and Culture of Hip-Hop. “We examine social, cultural, and economic issues relevant to hip-hop, and students also get opportunities to engage creatively with the processes of hip-hop music-making,” Boone said. “I want students to
be able to hear a hip-hop recording they’ve never heard before and situate it in terms of era, style and influence.” The Music Department’s lineup for the fall of 2016 includes History of Rock II, Introduction to the Music Industry, Introduction to Arts Entrepreneurship and Songwriting using Digital Audio Workstations. Koch said the new courses being tested out are not being offered at the expense of the department’s traditional foundations of classical composition, vocal and instrumental performance and classical and world music history. There is currently no music major available for students at NC State but the Music Department does of-
fer two minors, one being a general Music minor, and one being an Arts Entrepreneurship minor. Additionally, students can choose a music concentration for the Arts Studies major offered through interdisciplinary studies. Koch said he and the department are hoping to establish a Music Industries and Technology minor at some point in the future. Koch also said that any students with questions regarding the music department and these new courses are welcome to email him at tdkoch@ ncsu.edu.
NC researchers expose the ‘secret’ behind deodorants Carolyn Thompson Staff Writer
Deodorants and antiperspirants might be part of your daily routine to fend off odors and sweat, but they do more than affect your confidence. They actually change the microbial ecosystem of your skin. Researchers from NC State, Duke University, Rutgers University, North Carolina Central University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences collaborated together to understand how deodorants and antiperspirants affect the kinds of microbes that live in the human armpit. Julie Horvath, a research associate professor at NCCU and head of the Genomics and Microbiology Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, is a member of the research endeavor and described that its beginning was to engage students and museum visitors. “Because we want to not only engage students but also engage museum visitors in research, science and the scientific process — that’s kind of how this project began,” Horvath said. “Rob Dunn [an author of the study and ecology professor at NC State] had been studying belly buttons on people, and we started thinking about how we could engage visitors. We asked if we could continue with belly buttons, but it might be fun to try a new area of the body.” To carry out the study and find differences in people’s underarm microbes based on hygiene product use, a group of willing participants was split into smaller groups
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of deodorant-only use, antiperspirant-only use and noproduct use. Over the course of eight days, product use was changed and the armpit areas would be swabbed to look at the microbes each day. “We enrolled people from the museum, and visitors, to try and do this study look for an ecological time point and see, ‘well if you usually wear product and you stop wearing product, how many days does it take for there to be enough microbes on your body so that you look similar to someone who never wears product,’” Horvath said. The microbial cultures would be grown for a few days to see their development and the variety of bacteria. According to Horvath, sequence-based analysis was also used since not every microbe on the body will grow in the lab. This approach uses DNA sequences to identify
bacterial species. The researchers found that bacteria samples from regular antiperspirant users two and five days after stopping product use were more diverse than that of deodorant users and users of no product. This study presents a measured difference, rather than benefit versus non-benefit of the microbial changes. However, variation or diversity of microbes tends to seem healthier in other microbiomes. “If we look at the gut microbiome and other parts of the skin, the more variation you have, typically that’s a healthier state,” Horvath said. “So when you get down to only one or a couple predominant microbes, a lot of times that can lead to these perturbations that cause a flare up or an issue from the predominant microbe. So having more variation and
diversity could be potentially a better thing overall.” While the bacterial variety is higher with the antiperspirant users after stopping product use, the bacterial growth and abundance went down, according to the study. With the deodorant users, this effect is modest, if there at all, which Horvath said could be because deodorant is more easily washed away while antiperspirants actually block the sweat glands and give the bacteria less food to grow. Factors besides deodorants and antiperspirants also change the microbial ecosystem of our skin. “There are a lot of different factors that play into which microbes live on us,” Horvath said. “The deodorant/ antiperspirant seems to be actually quite a large player looking at the armpits specifically, but there are many oth-
er things that play a role … it’s just that a lot of them are sort of very tiny amounts.” Horvath explained that some of the contributing factors could be your diet, your gender, how much you exercise and the other products you put on your body. As human hygiene and sanitation practices have changed over the past couple hundred of years, the microbes that are living on us also have changed. “We’re eliminating some of these microbes that we thought were negative for us, so some parasitic worms for example,” Horvath said. “We sort of eliminated those from our bodies, but if you look at a lot of the primates, a lot of the primates still have those in their bodies. So maybe they are at some level doing something beneficial.” Therefore, according to Horvath, it is a possibility
that if one can keep microbes at a low level, then they might actually do something beneficial to our bodies. Horvath said, for example, that there have been some indications that microbes are work with the immune system. According to Horvath, gender seems to be a big factor as well as antiperspirant/deodorant in the armpits. Eventually Horvath said she would like to get at the question of whether or not these microbial changes are beneficial, but that is a long road ahead. “Getting to ‘are deodorants and antiperspirants bad,’ there is a lot more information we would need to know before we would be able to say that with our research,” Horvath said. “Our current research doesn’t say bad or good, it just says different.”
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Cat Warren, an English professor at NC State and author of “What The Dog Knows: The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs,” sits beside her dog, Jaco, after doing some training in Pullen Park. Jaco, a 2-year-old male German Shepherd, is training as a cadaver dog, a dog who helps find the missing and dead. Dr. Warren’s book has been on the New York Times nonfiction paperback bestseller list, the animal book bestseller list and the New York Times science bestseller list.
Professor and her dog train to find cadavers April Smith Correspondent
“Sometimes, the worst puppies can make the best cadaver dogs,” NC State English professor and author, Cat Warren, explained to students and faculty on Feb. 15 as part of NC State’s Great Animal Semester of Seminars. Wa r ren is t he aut hor of the best-selling book, “W hat t he Dog K nows : The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs,” which was published in 2013 and released in its paperback version in 2015. Warren was born in Oregon, and about 20 years ago, she moved to Raleigh to begin teaching at NC State. Warren said she is still adjusting to North Carolina even after living here for several years, but she had several positive things to say about the state. “I love teaching here,” Warren said. “I love watching good dog trainers and good scent dogs work here. I love the mountains and swamps. [But] I will never adjust to North Carolina’s climate. It nurtures f leas and ticks almost year round. Southern air contributes to sweat, rather than evaporating it.” In this seminar, in which t he Depar tment of Forestry and Environmental Resources hosted, Warren specifically spoke about her first cadaver dog, Solo. “Solo was my third German Shepherd,” Warren said. Solo was a singleton, the only pup in his litter. Often, singletons are dog agg ressive because t hey don’t know how to communicate with other dogs properly. Solo was dog aggressive. Warren showed photographs of Solo as a puppy. As cute as he was, she said Solo was the worst puppy
she had ever owned. On the ver y f irst day in his new home, Solo tried to bite Warren. She cried to her husband that night. “I just don’t like him,” Warren said. “We’ll just return him,” her husband said. But that didn’t happen. S olo’s jou r ne y wa sn’t easy for anyone involved. T he G er m a n She pherd dropped out of four different puppy classes, and Warren changed veterinarians three times. Frustrated and lacking hope for her new dog, Warren enlisted the help of a trainer whom she knew well. Solo’s new trainer gave Warren helpful advice that ended up changing both Solo and Warren’s lives. The trainer explained to Warren that her puppy wasn’t a bad dog, but just needed something to focus his energy on for him to become a well-behaved member of Warren’s family. Thus, the pair arrived at the idea of Solo becoming a cadaver dog. Cadaver dogs fa l l under the category of scentdetection canines. While other dogs might be trained to detect illegal drugs, explosives or weapons, Solo was taught to identify human blood and decomposition such as human tissue, bones and f luids. Warren and Solo volunteered with the law enforcement for about eight years. “If somebody was missing and presumed dead, and they heard about me and Solo, they would call us out for a search,” Warren said. “But what you have to have is a dog that is very welltrained. You can’t practice on the field when someone is missing. You have to a have dog that you know is going to be dependable.” B efore beg i n n i ng her
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Cat Warren, an English professor at NC State and author of “What The Dog Knows: : The Science and Wonder of Working Dogs,” conducts a training exercise with her dog, Jaco, in Pullen Park. In the training exercise, Jaco found training material in a mason jar that was buried in leaves, as well as one that was strapped to the side of a fence post. Jaco follows the cloud of scent the training material emits, however faint, down to its source. Jaco’s job is to tell his handler, Warren, that he has detected the scent of human remains. His reward is a game of tug with a tennis ball on a rope.
journey with Solo, Warren knew nothing about the world of scent detection. However, she said that after watching Solo grow into his job, she fell in love with the work. The cadaver team of Warren and Solo grew into the NC State professor’s new “hobby.” “I finally stopped making excuses to colleagues about the time I spent working and learning with Solo and conceded that I had become a sniffer-dog nerd,” Warren said. Sadly, Solo passed away last April after nearly eight years of service to Warren and many North Carolina v ictims. However, Warren continues to train her new cadaver dog in her free time. The newest addition to Warren’s family is Jaco, a 2-year-old German Shepherd from the Czech Republic.
“[W hen Solo died] we were pretty heartbroken,” Warren said. “We weren’t going to get a dog right away, but because I train w it h l aw en forc ement , they bring dogs over that are meant to be law enforcement dogs. Jaco was brought here to be a law enforcement dog, but I got a chance to see and work with him, and fell in love with him. Then I was given the opportunity to buy him. We train with law enforcement trainers and handlers on a regular basis, and are having a blast.” Warren, along with other experienced trainers, are training Jaco to do similar cadaver-dog work as Solo did with the police enforcement. After only six months of training, Jaco is almost ready for certification and the honor of being Warren’s newest partner against crime.
Warren said she is thankful to have this experience training Jaco as a cadaver dog. Although he is very different from Solo, he is also very good at what he does. According to Warren, Jaco “loves the work in a similar way that Solo loved the work.” Wa r ren sa id she even w rote her f irst book in hopes of informing others about the many gifts and pleasures a canine has to offer. In the book, Warren explains the recurring thought that a machine can do this work better than dogs can — that a machine can detect illegal drugs or missing people better than a dog’s nose can. I n t he book, Wa r ren quotes Kennet h Fur ton, analytical chemist and forensics scientist at Florida International University, where he explains that a dog’s nose is irreplaceable.
“W hen I started doing work in this area twenty ye a rs a go, I or ig i na l ly thought we would be able to ma ke a machine that could replicate a dog, but, it’s not going to happen in my lifetime,” Furton said in Warren’s book. “We are not going to replicate what a dog can do.” The Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources is hosting the series of semina rs during the spring semester. The next event is “The Art and Science of the Duck Stamp,” and will take place on March 21 at 7 p.m. in 2203 SAS Hall, featuring Suzanne Fellows, national coordinator of the Federal Duck Stamp Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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son, unless the Rangers re-sign him, the Canes essentially loaned Staal for roughly 20 games remaining in the season, plus the playoffs. Because of the no-movement clause in his contract, it complicated matters for Francis, as Staal had to approve any trade involving himself. Reportedly, Staal gave Francis only two teams he would accept a trade to, making it more difficult to get maximum value in return. All things considered, Francis did well to get two good picks and a prospect that can play at the NHL level one day. The next player to be moved was forward Kris Versteeg, who was sent to Los Angeles in exchange for prospect Valentin Zykov and a conditional fifth-round pick in the 2016 NHL draft. “We got a young prospect, a guy that was drafted 37th [overall] by L.A.,” Francis said. “They traded up to actually take that year. [He] had a pretty successful junior career. I know they were high on him early. I think maybe a change of scenery is what we’re hoping for him that will kind of spark him again and get him going.” While Zykov has struggled in his first season in the minors, there is no denying his talent and skill. In his three
seasons of junior hockey, he scored an incredible 184 points (84 goals, 100 assists) in 162 games. If the Hurricanes organization can get him back on track, he has the potential to be a very good NHL player for a long time. The final major deal was done right at the deadline, sending defenseman John-Michael Liles to the Boston Bruins for a third-round pick in the 2016 NHL Draft, a fifth-round pick in the 2017 NHL Draft, and prospect Anthony Camara. “With Johnny, we have some good, young [defensemen], and he’s been a great mentor for those guys,” Francis said. “It’s always disappointing to have to move out a guy that’s been a good role model for your kids. But again, we got some more picks and a prospect.” The Canes now have a plethora of draft picks, including seven in the first three rounds of the 2016 draft and six in the first three rounds of the 2017 draft. With so many, Francis has plenty of options at the draft and over the summer, including packaging picks to move up in the draft or packaging picks to make a trade for a player who can immediately jump in the lineup and help the team. “Now we’ve got an abundance of picks,” Francis said. “We have to look at the next stage. Is that drafting the right players? [Or] is it turning those picks around for further assets that can go in our lineup?”
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ing the 2016 season under the franchise tag. If he maintains his elite level of play, his market value will increase by a modest amount — likely by no more than $2 million — but if he suffers even a minor injury or is simply less productive while on the field, his market value could feasibly drop by twice that much or more. Any more than $14.02 mil-
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going to spot up or move in my vision so I can pass her the ball.” Wilson added that their offensive versatility made scoring a more efficient task. “We just read off of each other,” Wilson said. “We know both of us can drive, both of us can shoot. So we try to create for each other or we try to create for ourselves, but if one of us gets stuck or tries to trap
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lion would make Norman the highest-paid cornerback in the league, surpassing Darrelle Revis, and he’s likely waiting for a contract offer in that neighborhood. Spotrac estimated his current value at $13.8 million per year, but the Panthers are understandably hesitant to pay up, given that he’s only recently proved himself to be an elite player, whereas Darrelle Revis had six Pro Bowl visits under his belt at the time of his contract. Both sides clearly have reason to be cautious in their ap-
proach to these negotiations, but waiting it out for another year is unlikely to be mutually beneficial. Norman is now a rich man, set to make nearly five times his previous career earnings in 2016, but it may be his cockiness that will be his ticket out of Charlotte in 2017, as the Panthers have had a knack lately for finding great replacement players at just the right time and could be playing this game again with their star cornerback.
us, we always look for the other because if I have two people on me, that means Miah is open.” During the regular season, Wilson led the Pack in freethrow percentage and points, with Spencer following right behind. The two both surpassed the 1,000 career-points mark this past January during their win over Virginia. The two combined finished the regular season registering 43 percent of both the Pack’s points and steals. “It was a blessing,” Spencer
said. “I didn’t even know we had got it on the same night until after the game. I didn’t know they were going to give us the ball at the end of the UNC game. That was incredible, just a blessing, but we can’t stop there, we got a lot more to go in the season and a lot more to go in our career.” Wilson and Spencer are true testaments that there must be something in the water in Georgia. It’s obvious that these two guards are two Georgia peaches who have fallen from the same basketball tree.
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Spencer, Wilson named to All-ACC Second Team The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Tuesday that the NC State women’s basketball junior guards Miah Spencer and Dominique Wilson were selected to the 2016 All-ACC Second Team. In the regular season, Spencer averaged 13.8 points, 5.0 assists and 4.6 rebounds for the Wolfpack, while ranking first in the conference with 37.6 minutes per game in ACC-play and third in the conference in assists per game. Wilson averaged 15.6 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game while ranking third in the ACC in free-throw percentage and fourth in the ACC with 17.1 points per game in conference games. SOURCE: GOPACK.COM
Chance Shepard named ACC Player of the Week
Senior catcher/designated hitter Chance Shepard was named ACC Player of the Week along with Pittsburgh Panthers first baseman/ designated hitter Nick Yarnall Monday. Prior to Tuesday’s game against UNC-Wilmington, Shepard had a big weekend against Wright State this past Friday – Sunday, hitting a home run in each game and eight hits during the series. SOURCE: ACC.COM
ACC Wrestling seeding announced
The seedings for the ACC wrestling championships were announced Tuesday afternoon. The NC State wrestling team took home four No. 1 seeds at the 141, 159, 165 and heavyweight weight classes and No. 2 seeds at 125- and 184-pound weight classes. The Wolfpack also has No. 4 seeds at 133, 149, 174 and 197 pounds. The ACC Tournament will be held Sunday in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Wolfpack finished ranked No. 2 in the country as a team following a win against the Iowa Hawkeyes in the National Duals. SOURCE: GOPACK.COM
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The Wolfpack women’s basketball team has enjoyed a phenomenal 2015 regular season, defeating arch rivals No. 22 Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill and tying for sixth in the ACC with a 19-10 (10-6 ACC) record. The Pack has to credit some of its success to its dynamic backcourt duo, junior guard Miah Spencer and redshirt junior guard Dominique Wilson, who were named to the All-ACC Second Team. Hearing the announcement of the starting line-up from the stands, most fans would assume the two Georgia natives came from the same high school, or at least had played with each other before NC State, but the two had never met before. The duo knew of each other through the Amateur Athletic Union scene. Both guards, Georgia natives and born one year apart, grew up playing basketball and sharing their love of the game with their older brothers. Spencer described playing with her 4-year-older brother often. Wilson’s older brother later went on to play basketball for fellowACC school, Pittsburgh. “I’m going to say me of course [when describing who’s better at basketball],” Wilson said. “I haven’t played him in a while, but last time I played him I beat him, so I think I’m going to stop playing him, just going to keep that land forever.” Upon entering high school, the guards became standouts among their peers in both high school and AAU play, playing in higher age divisions. Wilson hit the 1,000-point mark as a junior, then
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Junior guard Miah Spencer and redshirt junior guard Dominique Wilson pose for a picture before practice. Both passed 1,000 career points scored this season with double-digit point averages of 13.8 and 15.6 points, respectively, this season while leading the Wolfpack to a 19-10 season.
“We can’t stop there, we got a lot more to go in the season and a lot more to go in our career.” — Junior guard Miah Spencer
led her team to a 4-AAAAAA state title her senior year at McEachern High School and a No. 2 National Ranking. In the meantime, Spencer led her team to two 3-A state titles both her junior and senior year. Upon graduation, Wilson enrolled at Arkansas as member of the Razorbacks in 2012 where she averaged 6.6 points per game and racked up a 17-point game in a triumph over No. 8 Kentucky
before transferring to NC State in 2013, just in time to meet up with Spencer as she enrolled her freshman year. “When I first got here, I thought she was a really good guard; she can drive, she can shoot,” Wilson said. “I knew she was from Georgia, and in my opinion, everyone from Georgia is awesome, so I thought she was good.” While Wilson sat on the bench as a redshirt freshman, Spencer
entered the starting lineup late in the season and averaged 8.3 points, 2.6 assists and shot 44.9 percent from the field. After many long practices and swishing baskets together in Dail Basketball Center, the two finally hit the court together on Nov. 14, 2014 against Tennessee State. Wilson and Spencer combined for 34 points solidifying the 84-55 win. The two Georgia natives’ oncourt chemistry has allowed the Pack to have much success in the backcourt. “I just feel like we are both talented players, and we know basketball,” Spencer said. “We know the IQ of basketball, so if I’m driving to the basket, I know Dom is
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Why the Panthers should keep Josh Norman long-term After failing to reach a long-term deal before Tuesday’s deadline, the Carolina Panthers were forced to use the franchise tag to retain the services of All-Pro cornerback Josh Norman for at least one more season. Norman emerged Tyler Horner as a star in 2015, playing an integral Correspondent role for one of the league’s top defenses at the position which was otherwise most devoid of health and consistent performers. NFL.com rated the 28-year-old
as the second-best free agent in the 2016 class, behind only Denver edge rusher and Super Bowl MVP Von Miller. Though long-term contract discussions are currently dead in the water, the offseason is long, and there’s little doubt that the Panthers front office will continue to work on Norman’s agent, Dave Butz, to lock up the South Carolina native for up to five years. Last year, the Cowboys showed that the franchise tag is not a set-in-stone decision when they extended receiver Dez Bryant in mid-July, just before the deadline for signing franchise-tagged play-
ers to new contracts. If they are unable to reach a new contract, Norman will earn $13.95 million under the tag — the average value of the five highest-paid cornerbacks currently in the league. That’s a fair number, to be sure, but there’s good reason for both sides to work toward a longer deal. For the Panthers, Norman is one of just five cornerbacks actively under contract for the team and only one, Bene Benwikere, is signed past the 2016 season. And with the cap rising rapidly — it rose $12 million or 8.4 percent from 2015 to 2016 — Norman will assuredly ask for a
corresponding increase in base salary next season, which could bring a $14 million average salary to over $15 million. If the team used the franchise tag on him again in 2017, his contract would jump to nearly $16 million. With approximately $15.2 million in cap space remaining after using the franchise tag, the Panthers have ample room to re-sign the few remaining free agents who are worth retaining, especially if they release defensive end Charles Johnson, which would add $11 million in space — and the recent meeting with Quinton Coples suggests the
team is leaning in this direction. However, Carolina has a number of significant contributors set to become free agents next year, including Pro Bowl defensive tackle Kawann Short and fellow starters Michael Oher, Star Lotulelei, Ted Ginn Jr., Kurt Coleman and Andrew Norwell. Adding Norman to that list would turn balancing these contract negotiations from a headache to a nightmare. On Norman’s side, there is even more risk associated with play-
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Implications of the Hurricanes post-trade deadline David Kehrli Staff Writer
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Carolina Hurricanes captain Eric Staal regains control of the puck against Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Ryan Murray. Staal earned one point in Friday’s game at PNC Arena with an assist to Elias Lindholm’s empty-net goal. The Hurricanes beat the Blue Jackets 4-1.
More than 24 hours after the NHL trade deadline has come and gone, the Carolina Hurricanes have a much different-looking roster after deals made, involving some of the team’s best players, by general manager Ron Francis. Because none of the Canes’ unrestricted free agents were able to come to a contract-extension agreement before the deadline, and with the team dropping several games they shouldn’t have in the past couple weeks, further hurting their chances of making the playoffs, Francis was left with no choice but to sell. “For the first time in a while, we were legitimately in a playoff run in Febru-
ary, which hasn’t happened around here in a long time,” Francis said in his trade deadline press conference. “But you run the risk of chasing that. Do we really have legitimate odds to get in or not? If you chase that, and you don’t get there, now we’ve almost taken the progress we’ve made to this point and gone backwards. I don’t think we can afford to do that as an organization or as a team.” The first to be traded was the cornerstone and face of the franchise for the past decade, captain Eric Staal. In 12 seasons, all with the Hurricanes, Staal set numerous franchise records, rarely missed a game and of course won a Stanley Cup Championship in 2006 — the state of North Carolina’s first and
only professional sports title. Eric Staal was dealt to the New York Rangers, where he will have a solid chance of winning another championship and get to play with his other brother Marc Staal, in exchange for a second-round pick in the 2016 NHL Draft, a second-round pick in the 2017 NHL Draft and prospect Aleksi Saarela. “It’s never easy when you trade a guy that’s been with the organization for a long time, who’s been the face of this franchise,” Francis said. “We get some picks and an asset, but at the end of the day, we have a big hole we have to fill.” With Staal’s contract expiring at the end of the sea-
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