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play in the BCS National Championship Game, the runner-up, Clemson, was sent to the Orange Bowl, earning an additional $6.3 million for the ACC. Schools within the ACC, such as N.C. State, do have to help pay some expenses for the bowl-bound teams, such as assisting in the purchasing of any unsold tickets to a game, according to The Motely Fool.
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Chris Hart-Williams Chancellor Randy Woodson and the executive committee of the Association of Public and Landgrant Universities, of which he is the chairman, recently released a statement opposing the decision of many American universities to ban Israeli students. As a result of the conflict between Palestine and Israel, Palestinian groups have been attempting to minimize the academic impact of Israeli universities. During the last decade, these groups have actively pursued their goal by encouraging other countries’ universities to deny admittance to Israeli exchange students. Such attempts have been successful in Europe and have gained ground in the United States. The American Studies Association voted to support the academic boycott of Israeli universities last month, joining other groups, such as the Association for Asian American Studies, according to the Washington Post. The ASA is one of the nation’s most credible supporters of the resolution to boycott Israeli students. According to its website, 66 percent of its members voted in favor of the resolution. On Sunday the ASA published its reasons for supporting the boycott in an open letter posted on its website.
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they are overqualified for because their unemployment benefits and savings have been depleted. This is partly due to a new state law passed earlier this year that made North Carolina the only state whose citizens are ineligible for federally funded unemployment benefits after their state-funded unemployment benefits run out. The number of unemployed workers who relied on federal benefits after their state-issued assistance ran out has been on the rise after the General Assembly passed a law preventing the jobless from receiving federal benefits.
As a result, officials estimated that more than 70,000 jobless workers statewide haven’t received federally funded unemployment benefits. Vitner and Mike Walden, an economist at N.C. State noted other areas improvement as well, such as an increase in home prices, and a revival of commercial construction and a prospering technology sector, according to the N&O. Vitner said he expects that next month’s release for the unemployment data in December will show an increase of 18,000 jobs in 2013.
The N.C. State engineering students who gained national media attention after inventing a unique, twistable jar are moving forward with their product in the hopes that it will hit the shelves soon. According to Michael Bissette, a senior in chemical engineering and co-inventor of the jar, the JWAT team is negotiating a licensing option agreement with a multi-billiondollar corporation. In other words, if a deal is reached, the corporation will pay the team an incentive to give them exclusive research and development rights for the JWAT technology so that they can grasp a timely advantage in the market. “[The corporation’s] expertise in the market and knowledge of all things packaging will add value to JWAT,” Bissette said. The JWAT team is also negotiating a deal with “C-level” executives from another major corporation to move push forward with designing and manufacturing the jar, according to Bissette who said the company has “vast networks” of people who are knowledgeable about the consumer-packaged goods industry. The group, which includes Stephen Smith, a senior in computer, electrical and mechanical engineering, Spencer Vaughn, an N.C. State alumnus and Sean Echevarria, a senior in mechanical engineering, has been experimenting with different forms of production while waiting to hear back from potential investors. “The design of JWAT has not changed, however the methods by which it might be manufactured certainly have,” Bissette said. “We are looking at different ways of injection molding, blow molding, extrusion molding, extrusion blow molding and combinations of these methods to achieve the cheapest and most efficient mode of manufacturing.” In addition to researching ways to manufacture JWAT, the team has brainstormed design tweaks that would alter the design but not how the jar functions. “Depending on the manufacturability of our current design, these design tweaks could manifest them-
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Cuba now fair game for study abroad students Sammi Fernandes Correspondent
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Just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, Cuba seems like it’s a world away due to years of travel restrictions between Cuba and the United States. Recently, however, the economic and political restrictions set in place since the revolution in 1959 have been relaxed, making Cuba more accessible to U.S. citizens and N.C. State students. This summer, N.C. State students have the unique opportunity to travel to this mysterious country and earn up to six credit hours. The program is N.C. State’s first study abroad trip to Cuba and is directed jointly by Nicholas Robins, a professor of history, and Mark Darhower, a professor of foreign language and literature. The trip to Cuba will take place from May 17 until June 7 and emphasize the “exploration of the so-
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Travel to Cuba was once heavily restricted for U.S. citizens, but since the Obama administration loosened them, N.C. State and other universities have been adding the Carribean country to their list destinations for students in study abroad programs.
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Israeli occupation on Palestinian scholars and students; the extent to which Israeli institutions of higher education are a party to state policies that violate human rights; and finally, the support of such a resolution by a majority of ASA members,” the ASA letter stated. However, members of the APLU, Woodson included, disagreed with
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selves in the form of additional 3D printed prototypes if the need arises,” Bissette said. “However, assuming we figure out how to make the current design work, the
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the academic institutions that have joined the boycott of Israeli students. “This boycott wrongly limits the ability of American and Israeli academic institutions and their faculty members to exchange ideas and collaborate on critical projects that advance humanity, develop new technologies, and improve health and well-being across the globe…the call for a boycott in this case is severely misguided and wrongheaded,” the APLU stated. “We urge others to express their opposition as well.”
next generation of prototypes would be production-ready, looking and feeling like they will on grocery store shelves.” Bissette also said the JWAT team has been approached by other news stations, such as PBS’s North Carolina Now, as well as media companies from Europe and Japan who
but water heater had leaked through heating unit. Housing and Facilities responded for repair, clean up, and to provide alternate housing. Jan 5. 1:32 A.M. | MEDICAL ASSIST ALCOHOL Cates Avenue Officer found student laying in the street vomiting. Transport was refused and student was released to friend for assistance. 11:55 A.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Trenton Road WCSO notified NCSU PD in reference to vehicle crash into fence at Metabolism Beef Unit. Non-student was arrested for DWI. Proper notifications were made. 12:53 A.M. | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Centennial Pkwy/Blair Dr
APLU President Peter McPherson drafted the group’s statement. The statement was then reviewed by the six-member executive committee and approved by Woodson. According to Woodson, the vote to rebuke the boycott was unanimous. “We believe, strongly, it’s not scholarly organizations’ responsibility to get embroiled in political fights, our goal is to promote academic freedom and intellectual exchange,” Woodson said. UNC-Chapel Hill is in a different
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situation. Though it’s a member of the ASA, it does not stand behind the idea of a boycott. UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost James Dean, Jr. responded to the ASA’s resolution in a statement on Dec. 31. “We felt it was important to make clear that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation’s oldest public university, also opposes the resolution and is calling for ASA member institutions to reconsider this move,” Folt and Dean
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said in the joint statement. However, according to Bob Moog, an associate professor of public and international affairs, neither the ASA nor the APLU’s statements is likely to affect policy decisions. “They created a stir. I don’t think it’s going to have an impact at all,” Moog said. “When the ASA and others alike take a stand on political issues, they do so to make a point and make their criticisms known. They did it to take a moral stand and to bring attention to the particular cause they are espousing.”
are interested on doing T.V. specials about the Entrepreneurship Initiative and The Garage at N.C. State. Though the group has modified the wording in parts of their patent application since filing it, Bissette said there has been no threat of anyone designing around their patent. “Legally, we are protected based on the fact that we were the first to file, and we expect the patent to be granted within two or three years, which is typical of utility patents like the Jar With a Twist patent application,” Bissette said. DANIELLE SCHMIDT/TECHNICIAN
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cio-environmental impact of the sugar, tobacco and coffee industries, as well as unique historical-political and linguistic aspects of Cuban culture,” according to the Study Abroad website. Students can get credit for either HI 395: Environmental History of Cuba or FLS 295: Environmental History of Cuba and FLS 395: Language and Culture of Modern Cuba. “The idea is that students can get Spanish credit and/ or History credit,” Darhower said. “The history course is environmental history of Cuba so that would have an appeal to students who study environmental studies. This makes the trip a truly interdisciplinary experience.” Darhower said that he’d always been interested in “increasing the visibility of the Caribbean” as it is often underrepresented in Spanish programs. Therefore he, along with the Director of the Spanish Teacher Education program, Karen Tharrington, created the idea of a trip to Cuba to replace the summer study abroad to Costa Rica. Simultaneously, Robbins, who has extensive experience taking students to Cuba from his time at Tulane University, was planning a spring break trip to Cuba. After both Darhower and Robbins had submitted their individual proposals, the Study Abroad office put them in contact to plan a joint trip. Surprisingly, according to Darhower and Robbins, the
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Along with relaxed travel requirements, the government in Cuba is changing according to Mark Darhower, a professor of foreign language and literature, which should make the country a popular destination.
program to Cuba met with “a supportive and welcoming response,” and planning the trip was straightforward since the Obama Administration relaxed the requirements for traveling to Cuba at the end of 2011, making it easier to travel in groups. In addition, due to the recent changes of the requirements, there are now flights that go directly from Miami to Cuba and there are certain travel agencies licensed to
deal specifically with Cuba. Robbins, who has years of experience traveling to Cuba himself, said “Cuban people have no hostility toward American people at all,” and suggests that there is an affinity between the two cultures. However, according to Robbins, there are some people that may have issues with the program, and claimed that study abroad programs such as this one pumps money into the Cuban regime and sup-
porting their government. Robbins debased this claim, and said the majority of the money supporting the Cuban government comes from Cubans living outside the country and that study abroad programs do not support the government whatsoever. Going to Cuba will be a unique opportunity, according to Robbins, because it’s the only study abroad program at the University in an embargoed country,
and it will force students to exercise their critical thinking abilities and use all of the information from their experiences on both sides of the embargo to develop their own conclusions about Cuba. “Cuba is changing,” Darhower said. “Fidel Castro transferred the power of the presidency to his brother, who has said that he will not rerun once his term is up.” In addition, Darhower said students will get to see “the
last few years of a socialist state that’s near our borders and they’ll never see it again because it’s going to disappear. They will actually see history in the making.” “This is an unprecedented opportunity to see what, to most Americans, is the forbidden island, and students who are interested should sign up sooner rather than later,” Robbins said.
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Equality of opportunity is an N.C. value I
n December, Rep. Marcus Brandon, a Democrat from Guilford County, submitted a formal request to Roy Cooper, North Carolina’s Attorney General, asking for an opinion regarding the legitimacy of Deferred Action Childhood Arrival students seeking in-state tuition at universities. This would impact 15,989 young North Carolinians deemed eligible by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. The DACA program was implemented after President Barack Obama signed an executive order in June 2012 that said the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service will not deport people who came to the U.S. involuntarily as children if they meet certain requirements. However, deferred action doesn’t give these
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the majority of the Technician’s editorial board, and is the responsibility of the editor-in-chief. people lawful status. Consequently, states are allowed to charge DACA students out-of-state tuition, even though residents of undocumented status are required to pay taxes. DACA is on the forefront of the political fight for rights for people of undocumented status in many states across the country. Sixteen other states have given the approval necessary to allow students of undocumented status to pay in-state tuition. In January 2013 after the N.C. Department of Motor Vehicles threatened to suspend the licenses of 13 residents who entered the state
illegally, Cooper issued an opinion stating that those who qualified for DACA status can apply for a driver’s license if they have the proper documentation. The Technician staff thinks Cooper should advocate for in-state tuition for DACA students, based on his previous stated support of those living with DACA status. The NC Dream Team, composed of youth and students of undocumented status, operates as a movement within the state to push for the reforms so badly needed in regards to those with DACA status while raising awareness among documented citizens
about the urgency of their limited access to higher education. Oliva Prezas Garces, a student activist with the NC Dream Team, explained her struggle thusly: “I have lived here almost my whole life. I was raised here. I overcame the challenge to learn English. I gave academics my top priority. My future is here in North Carolina, and this is my home.” The Technician staff firmly believes that a response from the Attorney General is not only warranted, but vital to the interests of all people in North Carolina. We believe in equality of opportunity, and denying our future doctors, teachers and lawyers the right to access the affordable education they dream of is not only unfair, but detrimental to the state as a whole.
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n November, I wrote two columns regarding the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. In one of t hem, I recommended that readers donate to a charity they trust. I wantMegan ed to suggest Ellisor Opinion Editor a s p e c i f i c charity, but I couldn’t think of any that I considered trustworthy. CEOs of charities with the top 25 highest salaries can make between $773,693 and $2.2 million, according to CharityWatch.org, and that seemed to me like too much money for a true philanthropist to make. I was unable to find any charity that pledged to use 100 percent of its profits for relief efforts, and anything less than 100 percent wasn’t good enough for me. Hearing so many people speak in a disgusted tone about the huge salaries of charity CEOs and charity scandals made me not just skeptical, but almost cynical. During Winter Break, I watched a TED Talk that challenged my view of charity operations. Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta asserted that “the way we think about charity is dead wrong.” Pallotta made an argument that I needed to hear, and I think people would rethink their views of charities if they listened to his talk. “In the for-profit sector, the
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“ ... Why should someone who is trying to help others out of poverty ... be forced into poverty?” rectly to the cause rather than to these charity moguls. But the problem with this mindset is that we often don’t end up donating any money to anything. We excuse ourselves from all things charity related. What’s worse is that when we have this mentality, our reason for not donating is not that we don’t have the
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money. We think that by knowing the salaries of the CEOs, we somehow know better than everyone else because we know the back end of the operations. But Pallotta showed that most of us don’t understand it at all. When looking for a charity, it’s more important to look at what impact that charity has than how much money the CEO makes. Sure, charities should tell us where our money goes, but we shouldn’t necessarily discredit the charity simply because it uses portions of the donations for advertisements. We hate when charities spend their money on anything other than the cause. But what if they spend the money on advertisements to generate more donations? So long as the amount of money used toward the cause exceeds the amount of money used toward advertisements, it is a good business practice. I have heard several people suggest that if charity CEOs really cared about others, they would only take a minimum wage salary from the donations and put the rest of the money toward the cause. But why should someone who is trying to help others out of poverty subsequently be forced into poverty? I’m not sure I’m convinced that CEOs of charities (or anyone, really) should be making a $2 million salary, but they deserve to make no less than CEOs of other companies.
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more value you produce, the more money you can make,” Pallotta said. “But we don’t like nonprofits to use money to incentivize people to produce more in social service. We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. [It’s] interesting that we don’t have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money not helping other people.” I remember helping spread this idea in past years by digitally sharing charts that were made to incriminate charities by telling the salaries of their CEOs. I thought I was helping people save their money by telling them to donate di-
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The myth of U.S. student performance
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ast month, the Program for International Students Assessment released its 2012 databases. The results came as a shock to the United States education researchers and policymakers, as the mainstream media have been widely reporting that U.S. teenagZiyi Mai Staff Columnist ers made average scores in reading and science and their scores were below average in math compared to 64 other countries participating in PISA. PISA was designed by Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a club for primarily rich economies. The test has been given every three years around the world to compare math, science and reading proficiency of 15-year-olds since 2000. What concerned educators most was not that the U.S. students were lagging behind the international average on these tests, but that American students’ performance has continued to slip throughout the past decade. Not sur prisingly, East Asian countries and Scandinavian nations dominated the top five spots in the race. Students in Shanghai stood out compared to the rest of the teenagers in 64 countries, with 55 percent of students achieving the highest level of proficiency in math, 25 percent in both science and reading. Shortly after the release, American media started attacking the current school system, calling for an overhaul on education policy. Many are advocating an agenda that will take steps to improve teacher education
and establish a standard test for final high school exams, just as Germany has done since 2000. Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association, said the country should end its divisive debate about policies and adopt methods that are working in top-scoring nations. But on the other side of the arena, concerns about the validity of PISA have arisen. Aside from the sampling and statistical method that PISA used, the hard data in the result are quite reliable. However, another set of data show a completely different perspective. Despite excellent performance in the tests, an increasing number of Chinese and Korean parents have been sending their kids to the U.S. for high school during the past five years. According to The Seattle Times, underpopulated high schools across the country are taking tuitionpaying foreign students, especially from China. As international students, federal laws require public school to charge foreign students the full cost of their education. The number of tuition-paying foreign students in U.S. public high schools has jumped from a few hundred to nearly 3,000 last year, according to the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel. The vast majority of tuition-paying international students still study at private schools. Most of them are from China and South Korea. This trend of increasing number of tuition-paying East Asian students raises a question: If their performance is so good, why do they still flock to schools in the U.S.? To understand this seemingly contradictory fact, one must understand the educa-
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tional system in China. It still has a culture where critical thinking and creativity are stif led. Parents who want more for their children send them abroad to avoid this traditional rank-and-file teaching approach. In many East Asian countries, students are involuntarily trained to be professional test-takers. Solving test problems occupies a significant amount of their time at school. Even if free thinking was allowed, doing it would not be cost effective. American students are believed to outperform Asian students when it comes to critical thinking and creativity, but no standardized measurement of this area currently exists. The structure and design of PISA are also worth questioning. Martin Carnoy, a professor at Stanford University, and Richard Rothstein, a researcher at the Economic Policy Institute, examined the adolescent reading and mathematics results from four test series in the last decade. They pointed out that average U.S. scores in reading and math on the PISA are low partly because a disproportionately greater share of U.S. students comes from disadvantaged social groups, whose performance is relatively low in every country. In other words, the sampling of PISA is problematic in the U.S. Another intuitive reason is that there are fewer coercive elements in curriculums in U.S. educational system compared to China and South Korea. Americans should treat the PISA results cautiously. If they ignore the complexity of the test results and oversimplify the conclusion, it may lead policymakers to pursue inappropriate and even harmful reforms.
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Cuba abierto para estudiantes Sammi Fernandes Corresponsal
Solamente 90 millas de la costa de Florida, Cuba parece ser un mundo de distancia por causa de muchos años de restricción en contra de viajes a Cuba desde los Estados Unidos. Recientemente, las restricciones económicas y políticas establecidas desde la revolución en el 1959, se han sosegado, haciendo a Cuba más accesible para los ciudadanos de E.U. Este verano, por primera vez, estudiantes de N.C. State tienen la oportunidad única de viajar a este país misterioso y obtener 3-6 créditos. El programa es el primer viaje de estudios en el extranjero a Cuba de N.C. State y es dirigido de forma conjunta por Dr. Nicholas Robbins del Departamento de Historia y Dr. Mark Darhower del Departamento de Lengua Extranjera y Literatura. El viaje a cuba se llevará a cabo desde el 17 de mayo al 7 de junio del 2014 y se enfocará en la “exploración del impacto socio-ambiental de la azúcar, el tabaco, y el café, así como los aspectos histórico-políticos y lingüísticas únicas de la cultura cubana,” de acuerdo a la página web Study Abroad. Los estudiantes pueden obtener crédito ya sea para HI 395: Historia Ambiental de Cuba o FLS 295: Historia Ambiental de Cuba y FLS 395: Lenguaje y Cultura de la Cuba Moderna. “La idea es que los estudiantes puedan obtener crédito de español y/o historia” dijo Darhower. “Además de cursos en historia ambiental de cuba y de esa manera interesar a los estudiantes que estudian estudios ambientales. Esto hace el viaje una experiencia realmente interdisciplinaria.” Dr. Darhower dijo que él siempre ha estado interesado en “aumentar la visibilidad del Caribe” ya que no es representado suficiente en programas de español por lo tanto, él junto con la
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Banda da la bienvenida al Día de los Reyes Magos en Madrid Paula Gordon NICK ROBBINS /TECHNICIAN
Una calle en la Habana, Cuba. El grupo de estudiantes verá muchos aspectos de la vida cotidiana Cubana que ahora es menos conocido en este país.
Directora del Programa de Educación de Maestros de Español, Karen Tharrington, se le ocurrió la idea del viaje a Cuba para reemplazar estudios en el extrajero a Costa Rica. Si mu lta nea mente, Dr. Robbins, que tiene una ex-
“La idea es que los estudiantes puedan obtener crédito de español y/o historia.” Dr. Mark Darhower, Profesor de Español
periencia extensa en llevar a estudiantes a cuba durante su tiempo en Tulane University, planificando un viaje en la primavera a Cuba. Después que ambos Dr. Darhower y Dr. Robbins sometieran sus propuestas individuales, la oficina de Estudios en el Extranjero los puso en contacto para planificar el viaje en conjunto. Sorpresivamente, de acuerdo a Dr. Darhower y Dr. Robbins, el programa a Cuba encontró una respuesta favorable y acogedora. Y planifi
car el viaje fue sencillo ya que la Administración de Obama sosegó los requisitos para viajar a Cuba a finales del 2011, lo que hace viajar en grupos más fácil. En adición, por motivo a los cambios recientes en los requisitos, ahora hay viajes directos desde Miami a Cuba y hay ciertas agencias de viajes licenciadas para ocuparse específicamente con Cuba. Robbins, quien tiene años de experiencia viajando a Cuba, afirma que “los Cubanos no tienen hostilidad hacia los Americanos,” y sugiere que hay una afinidad entre las dos culturas. Sin embargo, de acuerdo a Dr. Robbins, hay algunas personas que pueden tener problemas con el programa, alegando que los programas de estudios en el extranjero como este invierten dinero en el régimen cubano, apoyando su gobierno. Dr. Robbins envilece los reclamos, afirmando que la mayoría del dinero que apoya el gobierno Cubano viene de los cubanos que viven fuera del país y que los programas de estudios en el extranjero no apoyan de ninguna manera al gobierno. Ir a Cuba será una oportunidad única como lo expli-
ca Dr. Robbins, es el “unico estudio en el extranjero en State en un país de embargo” y forzará a los estudiantes a ejercer sus habilidades de pensamiento crítico usando toda la información desde sus experiencias en ambas partes del embargo a desarrollar sus propias conclusiones sobre Cuba. Darhower insiste que el gobierno de Cuba está cambiando por el mejor. “Cuba está cambiando,” dijo Darhower. “Fidel Castro transfirió el poder de la presidencia a su hermano, quien dice que no seguirá una vez su periodo haya terminado.” “Lo que los estudiantes obtendrán específicamente por este estudio único en el extranjero será ver los últimos años de un estado socialista cercano a nuestras fronteras y que nunca más se verá porque desaparecerá. Ellos verán hacer historia,” continuó Darhower. En las palabras de Dr. Robbins, “esta es una oportunidad sin precedentes el poder ver, lo que para la mayoría de los Americanos, es una isla prohibida,” y los estudiantes que están interesados deben inscribirse lo antes posible.
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El domingo, la banda de música de N.C. State fue a tocar en La Cabalgata de Reyes en Madrid, España por el feriado. La Cabalgata de Reyes es una celebración que representa el llegado de los Magos a Belén para ver el bebe Jesús. El desfile representa la cabalgata de los Reyes Magos, ya que siguieron la estrella que anunció el nacimiento de Jesús. Día de Reyes, o la epifanía como se le conoce fuera de España, se celebra extensamente en América Latina. En Puerto Rico, es común hacer cosa distinta. Sean Rivera, estudiante puertorriqueño de cuarto año, dijo que su familia siempre celebraba el feriado cuando era niño. “Dejábamos hierba en una caja de zapatos pequeños para mostrar respeto por los reyes porque estábamos dando la comida a sus camellos, y por su parte, los reyes nos dejarían regalos,” Rivera dijo. Esta tradición es común también en España. Por este razón, se celebra La Cabalgata de Reyes Magos por la noche antes del Día de Los Reyes, para que los niños pueden ver el llegado de los Magos. En La Cabalgata, hay grandes carrozas que representan los tres reyes en formas variadas, además de las procesio-
nes de hombres a caballo, y flotadores de personajes de dibujos animados similares a el Desfile del Día de Acción de Gracias de Macy. Para algunos estudiantes, fue su primer viaje por el extranjero, y fue un honor estar en el procesión. Katherine Freeman, un Tambor Mayor en su cuarto año, dijo que “Estoy muy emocionada. Yo tenía muchas ganas a ver Madrid!” La banda, que consiste de más de 200 estudiantes, estará en España hasta el 10 de enero. Junto con los otros miembros de la banda, las experiencias que tuvieron no se olvidarán pronto.
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Roundabout: Susan Woodson’s artistic outlet Kaitlin Montgomery Staff Writer
Nestled in a wooden rocking chair outside of a whimsical purple house located off of Oberlin Road, sits artist Susan Woodson, but this house is not her home. Woodson lives in a mansion overlooking Lake Raleigh with her husband, Chancellor Randy Woodson. The purple house, on whose porch she frequently finds herself sitting is, however, the home of her art gallery, Roundabout Art Collective. Woodson said she named the gallery after the nearby roundabouts on Hillsborough Street and Oberlin Road, which she said were a source of amusement for her when she arrived at N.C. State. “After they finished the roundabouts on Hillsborough, it was hilarious how people tried to drive on them and cause so many problems,” Woodson said. “It was the focal point when we moved here and had our place right on Hillsborough.” Woodson’s love for art was sparked as a child and pushed her, eventually, to pursue a degree in the subject. In keeping with the wishes of her father, who insisted she find a way to incorporate her love with something that would be able to support her, Woodson graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in art education. In Bentonville, Ark., Woodson taught seventh-, eighth- and ninthgrade art for a year before realizing the rigid timetable was something she couldn’t live with. “My style is very flexible. My life is very flexible,” Woodson said. “It just didn’t work for me.” After marrying Randy, Woodson moved to Ithaca, N.Y., where she fed
her interest in graphic design. “I did that for 30 years,” Woodson said. “I had experience, computer skills … I was always able to get a job. When we moved to Indiana, I started a magazine with my editor called HELEN. It was for the women of the community.” After moving again, Woodson found herself in here North Carolina, and for the first time in 30 years, without a deadline. “After we moved here I said, ‘Oh! I don’t have a deadline. Yay!”’ Woodson said. “I had lived with one for 30 years and I wanted to get back to the arts and my first love: painting.” According to Woodson, Roundabout Art Collective became her reason to paint again. “I always painted a little, but only here and there,” Woodson said. “But starting this made me really get back into painting and selling. It’s the whole idea of being an artist. It’s what I really love.” According to Woodson, just about everything inspires her artwork. “Being a graphic designer, I love shapes and colors,” Woodson said. “Using the basic skills of design and incorporating some abstract expression, from that I create my style. The beauty of this area, my dogs, the colors of the world, it’s all amazing to me.” Henri Matisse, one of Woodson’s favorite artists, is who she looks to for a large part of her creative inspiration. “Matisse worked with shapes, lines and designs all of which are amazing,” Woodson said. “A more current inspiration is Joan Mitchell. She’s a big abstract artist.” Woodson refuses to sit down while painting, opting to stand instead so she can paint, most frequently with
acrylics, using big strokes. “I use my table as a pallet and I like to paint with a palette knife when I’m not using my hands,” Woodson said. “I even sometimes use the dry paint on the table for some texture in my paintings.” Woodson mainly paints on paper and sometimes incorporates oils into her works. However, it’s how she frames her work that she finds truly exciting, Woodson said. “Being a graphic designer, paper is something you really get into and work with,” Woodson said. “I do a lot of mixed media.” According to Woodson, she never really becomes attached to the pieces she creates. “I love for people to fall in love with a piece and for them to take it home,” Woodson said. “The one piece I can’t seem to part with though is currently hanging up in my bedroom. It’s called What Was Paradise But A Garden. It’s not even the best one that I’ve done. There’s just something about it that makes it my favorite piece.” Though she said she hopes to one day become a famous artist, Woodson said that right now, she’s focused on Roundabout’s growth and the installment of the Gregg Museum. “I want to keep Roundabout going,” Woodson said. “I want it to get bigger and better and stronger. I want it to be a destination place for people who come to town. I want people to view N.C. State as an arts community. I’m focused on the Gregg Museum, and, as the honorary chair, it’s thrilling to be working on getting the extension ready and running. I want the public to come to what we have here to see the art instead of us always traveling downtown.”
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Susan Woodson, owner and founder of the Roundabout Art Collective on Oberlin Street poses, in her studio Dec. 7. Woodson, wife of Chancellor Randy Woodson founded the Art Collective in 2010.
‘Community’ returns to its roots in fifth season Katie Sanders Assistant Features Editor
“Community” season five recently started, and Dan Harmon, director of seasons one through three, is behind the wheel once again. After a rocky fourth season, it seemed as though there was little that could be done to restore the show to its former glory. The first three seasons were interesting because of their postmodern absurdity. The cast and crew managed to take overused story patterns and traditional relationships and make fun of them without being too cynical. Instead, the uncertainty of real life was looked at as hopeful. The show poked fun at played-out plots and television motifs by including them in episodes and then referencing their presence and breaking from them for better, more-heartfelt things. It made fun of the idea of a perfect family by making the characters a diverse study group in constant conf lict while still caring for each other. Unfortunately, season four, run by writers David Guarascio and Moses Port, lost a lot of its subtlety. The absurd and stereotypical stayed, but the pop-culture commentary, the real relationships and the conflict that came with them didn’t. The twist in each episode was gone, and the stories seemed empty. The fifth season addressed this by immediately becoming self-referencing and mocking again. For instance, all of the characters referred to the fourth season as the
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Actors (left to right) Danny Pudi, Gillian Jacobs, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie and Joel McHale are all main characters in the TV show, “Community,” shown on NBC.
“gas leak” year. It also started with a much darker tint than all of the previous seasons. Not only do many of the jokes sting, but the characters are truly in trouble. Many are unemployed, with few personal relationships and nowhere left to go. I think this is intentional—the first episode is called “Repilot,” after all. This dark humor is completely disparate from why I enjoyed the show to begin with, but I think it was the right move. It seems to make the show much more genu-
ine, and Harmon had to get back to where the characters were real people in absurd circumstances. His move not to ignore season four may even strengthen the show in the long run. The flaws that were ruining the characters are being used as their motivations to return to Greendale, so they can grow as people. For example, Jeff asks what happened to Annie, the “unstoppable go-getter.” Shirley turned from an “independent divorcee to a bankrupt fry cook hoping for a call
from her husband.” Both are returning to work on themselves, which should provide real character development. While the characters’ return to Greendale was predictable, the show needed it in order to find its bearings and reorganize. They’re getting re-grounded, and the tone and characters are already improving. There is less absurdity for the sake of being absurd, and I was surprised by the return of witty one-liners. My only complaint is the
darker humor, which may suit other viewers better than it suits me. Though I enjoyed the jokes, it was saddening to see characters simply fail. Hopefully, since the characters have returned to Greendale, it’s no longer as necessary, and I hope it will lessen as the characters grow. Another worry is that Donald Glover, who plays Troy, will be leaving after the fifth episode. His close friendship with Abed (Danny Pudi) will be sorely missed, but it seems that Harmon has already be-
gun working him out of the plot, as he has had fewer lines in the first two episodes of the fifth season. Really, we’re looking at a whole new show, and we’re just going to have to wait and see how everything goes before we can call it. But so far, the “gas leak year” has been expertly dealt with, and I’m quite hopeful for how the rest of the promised “six seasons and a movie” will play out.
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The N.C. State rowing club will begin its spring season with many new members in 2014 after a turbulent fall semester
N.C. State Rowing Club strokes toward success Zack Tanner Staff Writer
The N.C. State rowing club will look to build on its success from a controversial fall season with a strong outing in spring competition. The 2013 fall semester brought coaching changes for both the men’s and women’s teams. These changes led to a divide in the men’s side, causing many members of the varsity team to quit the club altogether. The rowing club is separated into two divisions: novice and varsity. Once a rower spends three seasons as a novice, he or she is moved up to varsity competition. However, due to the loss of many
members, the club was unable to put together a men’s varsity squad this year. Josh Ewy, a freshman in chemical engineering, explained that there were many differences among the philosophies of the members and new coaches. “In the past, the coaches hadn’t held the team to a certain standard that our new coaches are holding us to,” Ewy said. “The team used to be much more relaxed. The older rowers didn’t like a lot of the things that [the new coaches] were trying to implement. It’s really sad that we lost all those members.” Ewy said he is hopes the varsity team can rebuild over the course of the next year. “[The coaches] have a
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great vision for the team,” Ewy said. “I believe with them coaching us, we can do great things. I could see how [their coaching style] could rub people the wrong way. They’re very passionate about what they want for the team, and some people take that as them being a little too forceful. They just have high hopes for the team, and they hold us to a high standard.” The novice crew made quite a splash in its biggest competition of the year, traveling to Augusta, Ga., for the Head of the South Regatta. The novice men claimed a first place finish in the 26-boat competition, despite being without key members. The women’s side also saw
success under the new coaching staff. The varsity women’s team earned a bid to the largest regatta of the year: the Head of the Charles in Boston. The women’s team finished the event with its best 5k time on record at just over 22 minutes. The novice and varsity teams both finished in the top 11 in the Head of the South as well. Club president Kristin Fossett, a senior in women’s and gender studies, said joint practices between the novice and varsity women’s teams have helped bring more competition to workouts. “[The coaches] are doing a lot to mold the two teams together,” Fossett said. “It doesn’t really matter if you
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just joined the team or if you’ve been on the team for four years. If you’re the fastest, you’re going to earn a spot in the boat.” The club will jump back into action on Monday to start training for competition in the spring. During winter break, the team used a point system to stay in shape. “Everyone was on their own for winter training,” Fossett said. “If you do a f light of stairs 12 times, then you get a point. [Running] a mile is a point.” Shorter 2k events, including the Southern Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championship Regatta in April and Aberdeen Dad Vail Regatta in May, make the spring sched-
ule for the club. Fossett said the club is always looking for new members and will have information sessions in Carmichael 2306 on Thursday from 7-8 p.m. and Friday from 3-4 p.m. Ewy said even though the workouts were time consuming (the club works out up to 12 hours per week) they were worth it in the end. “To be a rower, it requires an extreme amount of dedication,” Ewy said. “It’s a lot more than I thought it would be when I first started out. The camaraderie you get on the team is something that’s really hard to find any place else.”
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Wolfpack steals win in South Bend Four newcomers join Wolfpack in time for spring season Three highly-touted recruits and a stellar transfer have joined the Wolfpack men’s soccer team. Freshman forward Ade Taiwo, freshman midfielder Zach Knudson, freshman midfielder Nicolas Retzlaff and sophomore midfielder Reed Norton are enrolled at N.C. State and are all eligible to participate in spring semester activities with the team. Taiwo, Knudson and Retzlaff are all listed as four-star recruits on topdrawersoccer. com. Norton, a transfer from Georgia Southern University, notched one goal and three assists in 18 starts through his freshman season for the Eagles. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Homolka joins football staff N.C. State head football coach Dave Doeren has announced that Cullen Homolka has been named the Wolfpack’s Director of Player Personnel. In addition, running back coach Des Kitchings will take on the recruiting coordinator responsibilities for the State football program, and Coach Ryan Nielsen will now serve as the Pack’s run-game coordinator for defense in addition to serving as the Pack’s defensive line coach. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
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Sophomore forward T.J. Warren led four players in double figures and N.C. State withstood a 21-point, 18-rebound performance from Notre Dame senior center Garrick Sherman to claim a 77-70 victory over the Fighting Irish in South Bend, Ind. Head coach Mark Gottfried opted to change his starting lineup against the Irish, giving freshman forward Kyle Washington his fourth start of the season with freshman forward Lennard Freeman beginning the game on the bench. Two jumpers from freshman guard Anthony “Cat” Barber put the Pack (11-4, 1-1 ACC) in command early, but the Irish quickly took State’s lead away. Both teams fought neck-and-neck for the lead throughout the first half, with State eventually pulling out a slight lead. Warren, the ACC’s leading scorer coming into Tuesday’s game, didn’t score his first bucket until the 9:45 mark in the first half. Warren quietly went about his business in the opening 20 minutes, scoring nine points and grabbing four rebounds. He finished with 17 points and seven rebounds while Barber added 16 points.
Gottfried employed a fullcourt press throughout the game that succeeded in disrupting Notre Dame’s offensive rhythm. With the Irish (10-5, 1-1) offense stifled, a half-court buzzer beater by Barber at the close of the first half was all that separated the teams at the break as State led 39-36. The Wolfpack outrebounded the Irish 23-13 in the opening half and led Notre Dame 15-0 in bench points. Learning from its mistake against Pittsburgh on Saturday, State came out of the gates quickly in the second half. The Wolfpack jumped out to a 51-42 lead, forcing Notre Dame head coach Mike Brey to call timeout in an attempt to halt State’s momentum. Junior guard Desmond Lee rebounded from a disappointing performance on Saturday against Pitt, scoring 12 points and giving the Pack a much-needed offensive outlet. Junior guard Ralston Turner also had 12, making two treys and an old-fashioned three-point play that put State ahead 66-59 with five minutes left. The Pack enjoyed a largely successful day from the freethrow line,making 25 of its 32 attempts.
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Sophomore forward T.J. Warren goes in for a layup. Warren 17 points and grabbed seven rebounds in a 77-70 win over Notre Dame on Tuesday night in South Bend, Ind.
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Thursday WOMENS BASKETBALL VS. CHAPEL HILL Chapel Hill, 6 p.m. Friday MENS TENNIS @ WOLFPACK INVITE Raleigh, all day SWIMMING & DIVING VS. VILLANOVA Raleigh, 5 p.m. Saturday MEN’S TENNIS @ WOLFPACK INVITE Raleigh, all day RIFLE VS. COLUMBUS STATE Murray, all day MEN’S BASKETBALL VS. VIRGINIA PNC Arena, 5 p.m. WRESTLING @ PITTSBURGH Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Sunday MEN’S TENNIS @ WOLFPACK INVITE Raleigh, all day WRESTLING @ PITT DUALS Pittsburgh, 10 a.m. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL @ WAKE FOREST Winston-Salem, 2 p.m. WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS @ WAKE FOREST Winston-Salem, 2 p.m. Wednesday WMEN’S BASKETBALL @ WAKE FOREST Winston-Salem, 9 p.m. Thursday WOMEN’S BASKETBALL VS. 21/20 FLORIDA STATE Reynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
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Top: Freshman forward Travis Wannemuehler takes off down the field on a break away against UNC-Wilminton Saturday, August 24, 2013. Right: The N.C. State men’s soccer team celebrates after a goal by junior defenseman Clement Simonin during the first half of their matach against UNC-Wilminton.
Men’s soccer keeps moving forward in new year Andrew Schuett Sports Editor
As the N.C. State men’s soccer team rang in the new year, head coach Kelly Findley’s message to his players and coaching staff was heard loud and clear. “One of our goals this year is to make it to the College Cup,” Findley said. “There is no more, ‘I hope we get into the NCAA Tournament.’ The bottom line is that our goal needs to be something we own and we believe we can do instead of just something we’re hoping for.” The College Cup is NCAA soccer’s equivalent of the Final Four. The Wolfpack has only made the College Cup once in program history, a semifinal appearance in 1990, and failed to make the NCAA Tournament last season. On the surface, Findley’s declaration may seem an impossible task. But most of State’s starters from last season’s team, which barely missed post-season play, will
be returning to play for the Wolfpack in 2014. “We had young guys like [sophomore midf ielder] Michael Bajza, [junior midfielder] Holden Fender and [sophomore midf ielder] Travis Wannemuehler who did well this year and played significant minutes,” Findley said. “But we’re also going to have a really strong senior group. Guys like [senior defenders] Matt Ingram, [junior defenders] Moss Jackson-Atogi, Ryan Metts, Clement Simonin and [senior forward] Nick Surkamp are all guys who are going to be able to help carry this team.” The Wolfpack also has a group of highly-touted newcomers to carry the load in the fall. Freshmen midfielders Zach Knudson and Nicolas Retzlaff, along with freshman forward Ade Taiwo, are all listed as four-star recruits by topdrawersoccer.com. Sophomore midf ielder Reed Norton, a transfer student from Georgia Southern University, will also give State’s attack another deadly
dimension. All four players are eligible to participate in spring activities with the team after enrolling in spring semester classes at the university.
“ ... our goal needs to be something we own and we believe we can do.” head coach Kelly Findley
“We play around seven or eight games in the spring that these new guys can play in also,” Findley said. “They can get great experience, and we can actually start incorporating them into our team tactics, philosophy and those things.” Findley’s 2014 recruiting class doesn’t end there, however. Goalkeeper Marius Heislitz and defender Conor Donovan, both four-star recruits, have committed to
N.C. State as well and will join the Wolfpack in time for the 2014 regular season. “This group of players we have coming in is probably going to be the best group that’s been recruited at N.C. State since the late 1980s,” Findley said. The Wolfpack’s current group of core players, including senior defender Ryan Metts, had its first team meeting of 2014 on Tuesday afternoon. Metts, State’s captain for the 2014 season, said the meeting had one clear theme throughout. “We talked about how we need to start believing in ourselves,” Metts said. “We know now, after last season, that we can beat Carolina and compete with the best soccer programs in the country. We were up one goal on three of the four teams that were national semifinalists this year, and those are games that we could have won easily but didn’t.” “After last season we’re all hungry for more. We all believe that we can win games,
but now it’s a matter of doing it.” Some of the Wolfpack’s key attacking players will be graduating, including midfieldersNazmi Albadawi and Alex Martinez. But senior forward Nick Surkamp says the coaching staff has established a system that helps the program handle the loss in personnel without a drop in results. “Coach [Findley] has a very structured philosophy where he likes us to do specific things and play a certain way,” Surkamp said. “But with some of the players we had before, they had a lot of freedom to do lots of things. Creative players need to be given lots of freedom to produce.” “But going forward, in a structured system like the one coach [Findley] has implemented, our roles are more defined than they were before. A lot of the players we have now will fit into our system a little bit differently than they did before.”