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University Dining offers students a taste of Spain

Emily Duckett Correspondent

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Wolfpack Pick Up is officially up and running. This transportation program was put in place to help students with physical impairments get around main campus.

Wolfpack Pick Up aims to reach more disabled students Mark Iakvenko Correspondent

Wolfpack Pick Up, a new transportation service for NC State students with temporary or permanent disabilities, began providing crosscampus rides as an official university program on Oct. 6 to help aid students with an injury or chronic impairment in getting to class on time. Paige Maxon, the founder of Wolfpack Pick Up and a senior in biomedical engineering, said Wolfpack Pick Up gave more than 800 rides in the spring. “I expect this spring to see 1600 rides,” Maxon said.

Maxon said she can relate to the plight students with disabilities. When she was a freshman, Maxon developed Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, which affects the heart rate. Maxon said it made walking to class the hardest part of her day, hindering her academic success. “It was very difficult to walk far distances with my respiratory and cardiovascular issues, and I really wished someone could help me get to class,” Maxon said. “I would get to class, then pass out on a bench and would never end up making the class. So it was very hindering to my academic success.” Maxon said the idea of the pickup

Big Sean to headline homecoming concert, T-Pain, Jerimih open Staff Report

Big Sean, T-Pain and Jeremih will be performing at the Pack Howl Homecoming Concert on Thursday, Nov. 6 at Reynolds Coliseum. The event is being hosted by the Union Activities Board, and doors will open at 7:00 p.m. with the concert starting at around 8:00 p.m. Student tickets will be $10, while alumni, faculty and staff tickets will be $20; general admission tickets will be $25. The UAB will be selling tickets on campus from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Brickyard Thursday, Oct. 16. There will be a promotion event with $5 tickets to the first 300 students with valid student IDs. Students can purchase up to two tickets at the promotional event, Kelly Cravener, senior in business administration and president of UAB, said. Tickets will also be sold on Oct. 21 and 28 as well as Nov. 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The UAB is selling additional tickets on its website, and all of the tickets will be general admission seating, according to Cravener. “It’s first come first serve for the floor, so if you want to be by the stage you should get there early,” Cravener said. So far students seem to like these artists, according to Cravener. “So far the Twitter and Facebook buzz has been outstanding,” Cravener said. “We were trending in Raleigh yesterday which is pretty cool.” The process of choosing the artists is not taken lightly, according to Cravener. Some factors contributing to the decision include the allocated budget, the artists who students want and what genres they have chosen in the past. “We were trying to find someone who was pumping and enjoyable that students would like,” Cravener said.

program came to her naturally, and she started working on its implementation soon after. “I found out in June that we won a $25,000 grant from the Alumni Association, and we were able to purchase two brand new golf carts,” Maxon said. In the future, the program will be funded through student fees, according to Maxon. “We’re really excited to continue to help students as much as possible,” Maxon said. The program began later this semester because transitioning from a pilot program to an official pro-

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University Dining hosted a Spanish-themed meal Wednesday evening to educate students about the culture and food of Spain. Fountain and Clark dining halls held the event from 4:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. “Usually we do Oktoberfest this time of year,” said Steven Lester, evening chef for Fountain Dining Hall. “But this time we figured we’d do something a little bit different.” Typically, Fountain Dining Hall serves about 1,500 meals per night, and Clark serves about 800, but attendance increases for themed meals, said Keith Smith, director of dining halls at NC State. University Dining prepared for the estimated 3,300 people were expected to have attended, according to Smith. “I didn’t even know it was happening, I just kind of came,” said Shawnak Doshi, freshman in civil engineering. “I thought the environment and atmosphere were well set up. I thought the food was really good and unique.” The meal offered dishes such as seafood paella and vegetable empanada. “When all the dishes are out there together, there’s so much color and brightness,” said Julie Staples, recipe development chef for University Dining. “I think the paella is probably one of my favorites.” The goals of the meal including highlighting the talents of the culi-

nary staff and to educate students on Spanish culture, Smith said. “Here at Fountain we have a lot of really diverse talent,” Lester said. “Coming from New York, I’ve worked with Spanish my whole life. We have a lot of diversity in New York.” Some students came specifically to get a taste of Spanish culture and to experience new foods. “I came to the Spain meal, because I’m actually going to study abroad in Spain in about two years,” said Sam LaFell, freshman in communications. “It was a good meal. I think it met my expectations pretty well. They did a really good job at trying to incorporate the culture into such a small space.” Themed meals at dining halls are a good opportunity for students to try new foods, Smith said. “When you’re somewhere where people have to pay for each individual item, I think it’s harder to get people to try the different foods,” Smith said. “At a themed dinner, everyone usually gets one of everything and tries it out.” The menu for the meal was planned about a year ago, and the dining staff worked hard to prepare for the event, according to Smith. “We had over 1,000 pounds of fresh ham, 600 pounds of potatoes and just a really huge amount of product,” Lester said. “When you have to peel and slice 600 pounds of potatoes, it’s a lot of work.” Organizers of the event tried to incorporate cultural education and

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Roundin’ up the turkeys BY CAIDE WOOTEN

arah Tong, sophomore in poultry science, carries a market-age turkey hen down an aisle within the poultry exhibition tent at the state fairgrounds Wednesday afternoon. Each year, 4-H students raise turkey poults from one day old to market age (roughly 18 weeks) to be judged at the fair in the Youth Market Turkey Show sponsored by the NC Cooperative Extension. The turkey exhibition, which takes place Friday at 9 a.m., along with other livestock shows hosted throughout the duration of the fair can serve as educational opportunities to many members of the public without much background in agriculture. “I enjoy teaching people about poultry, especially when the public is frequently misinformed about the poultry industry,” Tong said.

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gram included administrative tasks that required a lot of time, according Maxon. “I think it will gain popularity here at the NCSU,” said Russell Creswell, a freshman in biochemistry. “I can see such a project working in the future. It is not something beyond people’s abilities and definitely not beyond university’s budget. This is doable.” Ashton Doldoins, a sophomore in textile technology, said she thinks the program

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is a good idea for because the campus is so large, but isn’t sure students will be completely honest with it. “I think some people might abuse the idea and use it for their own purposes,” Doldoins said. Maxon said no one has abused the program at this point. To make signing up for a ride easy, students only need to agree to a disability verification statement to confirm that they have a mobility disability. Thus, a doctor’s note or registration with the Disability Services Office is not required. So far, the program owns two electric

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golf carts. Both carts have four seats, and one of the carts is wheelchair accessible. Wolfpack Pick Up has provided hundreds of rides to students thus far and plans to help as many more students as possible in the future. “We usually have temporarily injured students, but also chronically ill students,” Maxon said. “I just wanted to make it way easier for kids who have a hard time just getting to class.” To get a free ride, students can go online and sign up at least prior 24 hours before pick up. The service works from 7:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. during the week.

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history into the event by labeling different dishes with information about the food. “When they said we’re going to do a Spain meal, I went to cookbooks and found out some traditional dishes,” Staples said. “We based our menu off of some popular traditional dishes.” In the future, University Dining hopes to get more input and recipe ideas from students, Staples said. “We focus a lot on holidays, local food and doing theme events that are centered around cultures,” Smith said. “We’ve got a Brazilian meal coming out in January.”

trying door handles. Officers did not locate anyone matching description. 12:00 P.M. |Follow Up Avent Ferry Complex Four student were referred as follow up to CFS#37536. 2:20 P.M. |Fire Alarm Dabney Hall FP responded to alarm caused by facilities working in the area. 3:54 P.M. |Safety Program Joyner Visitor Center Officer conducted program for new employees. 8:35 P.M. | Larceny Carmichael Gym Student reported personal items stolen. Items were later located in Lost & Found. 9:02 P.M. |Fire Alarm Biltmore Hall Units responded to alarm. Cause unknown.

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Protesters should keep on despite censorship W

ith pro-democracy protests still taking place in Hong Kong against the Chinese government, I decided to start reading about the Tiananmen Square Massacre that took place in 1989. An article in The New York Times from 1989 reports tens of thousands of Chinese troops armed with machine guns shot at pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square. “Reports on the Jacqueline number of dead Lee Assistant were sketchy,” acOpinion Editor c ord i ng to t he Times. Students said about 500 people were killed. Not all of the hospitals reported how many casualties there were, but three said they’d received 68 corpses in total. People in fear of the government, and rightfully so, must have been terrified to testify the real extent as to what happened. It seems crazy to me—as I’m sure it does for other people in the U.S.—to think the current protest-

ers in Hong Kong can’t even read about Tiananmen Square as we can. Some of them might not even know the extent of how horrific the massacre was. “You can’t go on websites and commemorate Tiananmen Square in China,” said William Boettcher III, associate professor of public and international affairs. “They’ve really tried to wipe it from the collective memory and say, ‘We’re not going to talk about this.’” I can’t imagine if that happened in the U.S., and the government wouldn’t allow any news sources to cover what happened or allow me to write about it. According to Boettcher, it took a while to find out what really happened because China shut down U.S. media that had been reporting live. We’re lucky we don’t have limitations on the news we have access to. The Chinese government has taken measures such as blocking Instagram, according to CNN, so protesters can’t share images of what they’re seeing.

Despite these challenges in getting out their message to other Chinese citizens, the protests have received international attention. I don’t think the protestors should give up. There have been smaller victories in Hong Kong for people who have protested there before. In a vox.com article, Jeffrey Wasserstrom, a history professor at the at University of California Irvine, noted protests in Hong Kong that have prevailed. According to Wasserstrom, Hong Kong residents protested “a Patriot Act-style set of security measures on Hong Kong.” In another case they rallied against a more “patriotic education” that was being considered for Hong Kong and would have resulted in a limited and censored curriculum. After public outrage, neither of the measures was implemented. Even though the current pro-democracy protesters are facing a much larger challenge, I think it’s important they continue to try to enact change. It is worrisome reading about what happened at Tiananmen Square and

thinking about how the government could handle this protest. I really hope the protests don’t escalate to the point that places people involved in danger. But if they do, I’d hope the U.S. would step in. A f te r Ti a n a n me n S qu a re , Boettcher said President George H.W. Bush’s administration publicly decried what the Chinese had done, but quickly the National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft took a trip to China where he assured them economic relations between us would stay the same. I’d hope if the protests escalated into violence on the government’s part, that President Barack Obama and the U.S. as a whole would step in. The Times reported that Obama is set to visit China in November. If the protests are still waging, it could put human rights on his agenda. Boettcher said it’s hard to say whether or not the protests will still be occurring when Obama visits China. Business owners in the area have

been complaining that even though some support the movement, the protesters need to move on so they can go on with their business, according to Boettcher. “The difficulty for protest movements is: You want to disrupt daily life and engage in civil disobedience, but that can produce negative reactions,” Boettcher said. It will be interesting to see if the protests are still going on when President Obama goes to China. If it is still happening by then, I’d want for him to encourage Chinese leaders to handle this civilly and not like they stifled the Tiananmen Square protest. If anything to the extent of the Tiananmen Square protest were to happen again, I wouldn’t want Obama to only criticize the Chinese government. I’d want the U.S. to step in and show that it will not be tolerated.

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our things every university student should do less frequently: eating Cookout after midnight, taking the elevator to the second floor of a building, waiting until the last pair of underwear is gone before doing laundry, and scrolling through BuzzFeed. We’ve all fallen into the well-crafted trap that is BuzzFeed. We decide we need a minute of Facebook scrolling to ease the pain of organic chemistry. One click leads to another, and before we can get out of the trap, we find ourselves knee-deep in “19 ways you know Estefania you’re not the youngCastroest person at the bar Vasquez Staff Columnist anymore.” Some time passes, and we are still submerged in numbered lists upon numbered lists of “ways to tell” and “signs that you.” Only the sound of our phone, the rumble of our stomach or maybe, just maybe, the faint whisper of consciousness can call us back to reality. We close the browsing window and return to life. It may seem harmless and almost therapeutic, but there is so little to be gained from reading (what I reluctantly call) an article from BuzzFeed. There’s no substance, no original thought, no value to “15 pictures that prove necks are the sexiest part of a man.” In the last 24 months, BuzzFeed has tripled its monthly views from 4.3 million to 19.3 million, according to Forbes magazine. BuzzFeed is so successful, because it fits perfectly into the apathetic lifestyles we, as privileged university students (yes, all of us are privileged to some degree), are so susceptible to adopt. With the extent of institution-driven thinking we must do, it is too easy to feel we deserve to spend some time doing mindless Internet surfing. We feel we deserve to let our minds sit as we aimlessly scroll through “21 reasons Taylor Swift would actually make a wonderful girlfriend.” This sort of idleness, however, is less than ideal. The problem goes deeper than the superficiality of BuzzFeed’s articles. The root of the problem I have with BuzzFeed is the majority of us realize it fails to engage or provoke thought, and yet it continues to grow at an alarming rate. BuzzFeed writers use articles such as “25 ways to tell you’re a kid of the ‘90s” to trigger feelings of nostalgia to capture readers. From there, readers

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Global tragedy, local passivity W

e currently reside in the midst of a seemingly chaotic world, where the only constant often appears to be social entropy. The host of global issues currently before us includes the Ebola virus, the f ig ht aga i nst ISIS, the battle for democracy in Hong Kong and continuing te n sion s b e tween Ukraine Josiah and Russia—to Keilson Staff Columnist name just a few. Keeping aware of the news and current issues can evoke heart-wrenching emotions in us that can be taxing and overwhelming. It is difficult to mentally synthesize all the problems and injustices occurring in so many different areas of the world simultaneously. Even more difficult than this is properly navigating those emotions within us that are aroused. The emotional responses to injustice and tragedy arise from a benevolent place and are natural to our humanity. Unfortunately though, this natural reaction often leaves us in states of paralysis. This paralysis emerges from that fact that we often prioritize and idealize global issues over the issues in our lives, therefore becoming slower to act in the local matters that we can actually control or influence. This paradigm is described as near versus far morality. Robin Hanson, an

associate professor of economics at George Mason University, said “since we are more idealistic in far mode, our ideals favor and admire far more than near.” Another economist from George Mason, Adam Gurri, calls this desire to focus on the far “telescopic morality.” This proclivity to telescopically concentrate on the far over the near is not only lacking in pragmatism, but also awareness. Need, tragedy and injustices exist everywhere in this world. We don’t need to look far to find them because, unfortunately, they are not scarce. Granted, the degree of these injustices is as diverse as their locations. Yet comparing them does no one any benefit. One injustice happening in Hong-Kong or Ukraine doesn’t negate the validity of an injustice happening here in North Carolina. Does the fact that people are dying of the Ebola virus on the African continent negate the lack of proper reparations for North Carolina families that were victims of its forced Eugenics program? In the current world of technology and seemingly increasing globalization, we often forget the degree to which we still live our lives locally. Gurri states, when we make “our morality telescopic, we trivialize the choices that do matter.” Sadly, this trivialization of one’s locality has damaging effects. While the last few years have brought a great degree of

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injustices abroad, questionable things have also happened here in North Carolina. We have watched as the NC legislature has worked to curtail our ability as North Carolinians and students to get out and vote. Do you remember what we as a campus did in response to this attempt at curbing our democratic right to vote? Funny, I don’t remember anything either. We watched as financial aid was cut for future years in North Carolina. We watched as this university’s administration concealed details of the Hofmann Forest sale. How effective can we be at addressing global issues from our current location when we clearly struggle to even muster energy against those we face locally? Perhaps we ought to begin by asking ourselves what can be done here. What do we passively allow to happen near and locally while we become enamored and overwhelmed with the far? By no means ought we to become globally unaware or unsympathetic individuals. Emotional responses to any form of injustice, whether global or local, are natural and deserve attention and respect. It is key to understand, though, that emotions need to be grounded by a relationship to action. Otherwise, awareness of the far will only serve to make individuals apathetic and inactive in their local spheres.

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will end up reading about “27 of the most important Jheri curls in history” of their own free will. The oversimplified lists target a wide spectrum of people with titles suggesting only a certain crowd will understand the information that is about to be presented. We look at these titles and feel that because this list applies to us, we are special and have an understanding that others could never comprehend because they simply weren’t there. It’s a lie and a trap. The people who create these lists were probably born well before the 1990s and who has never experienced half the things he or she lists. And again, I would venture to say that most of us know this and continue to entertain the BuzzFeed industry because we are too apathetic to do anything else. Let it be clear, rest may replenish the mind, but idleness does not. If rest is what we desire when we begin to read “51 facts you probably didn’t know about One Tree Hill,” it would be of much greater benefit to simply close one’s eyes and reflect on whatever it is that rocks our boat at that moment. This would at least require some semblance of original thought, introspection and reflection. The Pew Research Center reported that 23 percent of people living in the U.S. did not read a single book in 2013. I understand that it would be silly of me to ask an audience of university students to read more books; that’s certainly out of the question. But would it be too much to ask that we close the BuzzFeed website and entertain ourselves with any other type of engaging literature? Or a puzzle? Or a few minutes of meditation? Or a jog around campus? Or a quick Google search of what is going on in Antarctica? Worse than being ignorant of the fact that BuzzFeed articles don’t actually offer anything more than a couple of gifs and memes, is being aware and feeling we are entitled to engage. Perpetuating this ideal will lead to a generation that reads only when it’s told it must and is not only unable but, more importantly, unwilling to engage in thoughtful process. If we are to keep our brains from turning into idle muck balls of needless lists, it is necessary we engage ourselves in the one thing no one else can offer us, original thought.

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From cloud-watcher to student weather forecaster Alexandra Goodfred Correspondent

For students who never know what the weather will be like, there is a new Facebook page run by an NCSU student dedicated to helping out. Michael Scanlan, a senior in meteorology, runs a blog, a Facebook page and a Twitter account dedicated to reporting the weather, which all share the name MiScan5000. He advises students on what to expect outside and what they should put on to better cope with the weather, knowing that students appreciate not having to think about how to dress in the morning and knowing what to bring with them. “About a year and three months ago I started a weather blog, and I just loved talking about weather and in all of my classes I’ve been the ‘resident meteorologist’,” Scanlan said. “So whenever teachers, or students, or fellow classmates had any questions about the weather they would be like ‘So, Michael, what’s the weather going to be tomorrow?’” Scanlan said he has always loved talking about weather. Born in Florida, Scanlan moved up to North Carolina 18 years ago and said he had always been a cloud- watcher. “[I’ll] just be driving down the road, and I’ll get distracted because I’ll look up at the clouds and say ‘Hey, look, that’s cool,’” Scanlan said. According to Scanlan, reporting does not take up too much time, though it depends on how detailed of a post he creates. “For the MiScan5000 blog posts, those typically take about an hour to do, but for the Facebook posts, it’s like 15-20 minutes,” Scanlan said. Scanlan said that he does not typically re-

ceive negative comments on his forecasting, though he got one recently on the Wolfpack Students Facebook page regarding his statement that there would be a slight chance of rain at 10:00 a.m. October 14. “I want to get better at forecasting. I’m in a class right now, Synoptic Forecasting and Analysis, which is strictly based on learning how to create more accurate forecasts,” Scanlan said. “Through that class I’m able to look at more variables, to look at more things the atmosphere that would change the amount of precipitation, or wind speed, or temperature or different atmospheric variables, so I’m able to make a more accurate forecast.” According to Scanlan, his posts get a range of viewing numbers depending on how interesting the topic is for the students who would be reading them. He said depending on how many different places he posts a report, his blog garners anywhere from 40-300 views on his blog, though Facebook can be hit or miss. “The first couple I had about 200-250 views, the post about the rain [Tuesday] got over 3,000 views, the lunar eclipse post I made on my blog got over 100 views and my game day and tailgating coverage also got big views,” Scanlan said. For publicity, Scanlan said he relies on his friends to share his posts “At this point, because I’ve been doing this for long enough, people know I’m gonna be posting it soon and so they’ll actually be looking for it,” Scanlan said. When comparing it to her usual weather source, weather.com, Aparna Arigala a sophomore in biological sciences, found MiScan5000 to be more user-friendly. According to Arigala, Scanlan’s blog and Facebook were

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Michael Scanlan, a senior majoring in meteorology, sits with a precipitation map on a computer in the Meteorology Lab in Jordan Hall. Scanlan enjoys talking about the weather and started a blog titled MiScan 5000 in June 2013 in which he does just that. Scanlan also records his own radio weather broadcasts for the university.

very convenient, and she felt the Facebook page was helpful if she wanted a quick update that was all in one place. “I like how the Facebook page is fairly concise, and the blog is detailed, and I like how the blog is organized,” Arigala said. “It’s cool if you want to learn about stuff like the lunar eclipse, and the gameday forecasts are convenient. The advice section he has at the end of the gameday section is nice, and the site has a good amount of info.” According to Scanlan, to make forecasts for the MiScan5000 Facebook page, he does ensemble forecasting, which involves looking at what the different websites, such as WRAL,

Accuweather, the National Weather Service, weather.gov and Weather Underground. He does go more in depth for his blog posts, looking at different models and programs in addition to looking at forecasts to see what might happen. “My end goal is to work for the National Weather Service in Miami and be an operational hurricane forecaster. I’ll be forecasting for when the hurricane is going to hit, how fast it’s going to be [and] whether evacuations need to be made,” Scanlan said. “That’s where I want to end up, but that’s a while down the road.”

Self-taught poet inducted into NC Writers’ Network Sara Awad Assistant Features Editor

The North Carolina Writers’ Network inducted a native east Texan poet into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame Sunday. Betty Adcock, a Guggenheim fellow (among other honors), former teacher at NC State, Meredith, Duke and the low residency Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and author of six books, grew up on a small, Texan farm reminiscent of North Carolina’s wooded landscape. She arrived in North Carolina at 18, after marrying her husband, Don Adcock, an accomplished jazz and flute musician, who also served as the university’s band director for 22 years. “[The induction] was kind of a capstone to the fact that North Carolina is very accepting of writers, and it turned me into a North Carolinian,” Adcock said, adding it was one of the greatest achievements of her career. A self-taught poet, Adcock said she read a lot in place of formal schooling to become the poet she is today. “I don’t think anybody learns how to write except by reading,” Adcock said. “But you need to read something besides poetry because you need to know the world before you can write about it well. As to influences, poetry is like a river; some of it sticks with you, and you keep what

sticks and use it.” Her mother, an English literature teacher, read poetry to Adcock before passing away when Adcock turned 6. She did not know much about her mother aside from the papers she read of hers many years later, which showed how much she loved poetry, according to Adcock. Poetic inspiration came from her mother, a “mouse-chewed volume of John Keats” and from her great grandfather, in addition to a long line of poets before her. “It was just something I did and stuck in a drawer,” Adcock said. Before becoming a famous poet, Adcock worked in the advertising industry for 11 years to earn a living while doing poetry on the side at night, according to her. “My husband adored poetry, and he was all for me being the poet I wanted to be,” Adcock said. “That was rare in those days because I was married in 1957.” NC State’s literary magazine and the Southern Poetry Review published her earliest works, according to Adcock. She heard about the review from her former fiction writing professor at NC State, Guy Owen, and later become an associate editor of the review. After many years, the magazine moved to UNC-Charlotte. “I think NC State did not know what they had,” Adcock said. “He looked for good poetry, and he found it.”

A style all her own. Loss runs as a common theme through Adcock’s poetry, according to her. “It’s not simply about death, it’s the loss of the Earth, the loss of things due to technology,” Adcock said. However, Adcock said she could not describe a common style to her poetry, likening it more to “jazz improv.” “She changes rhyme and rhythm in the middle of a poem, and this innovative approach distinguishes her from other writers,” said Charles Fiore, communication director for the NC Writers’ Network. According to Adcock, sometimes she will write a formal sonnet, while at other times she’ll write narrative poems since the poems themselves determine the form. “I simply write what I have to write,” Adcock said. However, she said she has noticed a common “intensity of language” in her writing, which makes her readers get a clear sense of where the poem takes place. Not only does she write, but she also shared her expertise with her students of her various teaching positions. “I love teaching poetry because I am teaching people as much how to read as how to write,” Adcock said. “It’s very exciting to find gifted students and watching people blossom.” Teaching poetry also gave her the chance to give to others an oppor-

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Betty Adcock, a former professor at NC State, Meredith and Duke was inducted into The North Carolina Writers’ Network Sunday. Adcock taught herself poetry and said that her mother read poetry to her when she was young before she passed away. Adcock’s poetry presents a common theme of loss.

tunity she lacked when growing up - the chance to take a poetry course herself, Adcock said. “It’s really amazing what Betty has

accomplished,” Fiore said. “She’s one of those rare double threats.”

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same organized, defensive approach combined with clinical counter attacking that allowed the Pack to take down No. 5 Louisville earlier this season — the team’s marquee win. Crucial to this is the play of freshmen defenders Caleb Duvernay, Matias Fracchia and

Conor Donovan, who, along with junior goalkeeper and ACC saves leader Alex McCauley, will be tasked with directly stopping the Tar Heel’s dangerous attacking group. Although this match seems crucial to the Wolfpack’s hopes of making the tournament,

Findley and his players concentrate on performing to personal expectations. “We need to try to get points out of any game, but we don’t look at any individual match as a must win,” Findley said. “That just adds pressure. Instead, we just go out, play the way we play, and try to get better at what we do.” With the win against Louisville earlier this year and a 1-0 overtime victory over Carolina in 2013, Findley said he believes the team’s culture is changing for the better, and while the group is once again the underdog, games are not played on paper. “There’s no question we can get a result,” Findley said. “The guys know that, we have the quality and our work ethic is coming on. Those three things together can create great results.” The Wolfpack will look to attack strongly through players like sophomore winger Travis Wannemuehler, freshman midfielder Zach Knudson and redshirt senior forward Nick Surkamp, and exploit the spaces left by the Tar Heels’ overtly attacking style. “We’ve watched their last four games,” Findley said. “We know what they do well, but more importantly we examined their weaknesses and want to capitalize on them.”

challenge of rebuilding the team that he worked so hard to put together last season. “We have new challenges ahead of us,” Moore said. “That’s the thing about college athletics, we’re here to help these kids earn a degree and help them prepare not just for the next four years that they’re here but the next 40 years.” According to Moore, the biggest challenge for the Pack will be determining minutes for the post positions. The departures of senior post players Markeisha Gatling, Kody Burke and Lakeesa Daniel have left the Pack’s interior spots up for grabs.

“At the four and five position, we have mostly new players,” Moore said. “That will be the big challenge for us to figure out who can come in learn the system and adjust to this level of basketball to help us be successful. When you take Kody Burke and Markeisha Gatling, two players drafted in the WNBA with Keisha being a top-10 pick, that’s some big shoes to fill.” However, working with fresh faces is a task Moore is accustomed to. The coach said that as a first-year coach last season, “It was almost like having 13 or 14 freshmen,” as most players were not familiar with his system.

This season, however, Moore says that he looks forward to working in conjunction with his returning players to get the newer members of the team adjusted more quickly. “It’s almost like having extra assistant coaches, because they can help the younger players with drills,” Moore said. “When you’re introducing something, you can put those veterans out there first and show the young kids how it works.” Moore and the Pack will kick off the 2015 season with an exhibition game against Lenoir-Rhyne on Nov. 7 at Reynolds Coliseum.

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The NC State men’s soccer team heads back to Raleigh to face rival and No. 15 ranked UNC-Chapel Hill Friday, following a 0-0 draw with ACC opponent Boston College last weekend. The Wolfpack (5-4-3, 1-2-2 ACC) takes the field at Dail Soccer Stadium against the Tar Heels (9-4-0, 3-2-0 ACC) knowing that handling UNC’s individual threats is a priority. Heels senior forward Andy Craven leads the ACC in scoring with seven goals, while highly-rated freshman forward Alan Winn and sophomore midfielder Nyambi Jabang, who scored twice in a 4-0 victory against Georgia State earlier this week, provide additional offensive threat. At the back, Carolina’s anchored by one of the top defenders in the country, senior Boyd Okwuono. “The reality is, on paper, they’re better than us individually,” NC State Head Coach Kelly Findley said. “Our responsibility is to go out and be a better team. Our guys understand that and are willing to do whatever it takes to get a result.” For NC State that means employing the

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Four Wolfpack wrestlers feature in preseason rankings

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Four NC State wrestlers were ranked in the top-25 of TheOpenMat.com’s preseason rankings for collegiate wrestling, which were released on Wednesday. Redshirt junior Nick Gwiazdowski, junior Sam Speno, senior Tommy Gantt and sophomore Pete Renda are ranked No. 1, No. 9, No. 11 and No. 18 respectively. The four finished last season with a 13035 record, along with Gwiazdowski winning a national championship at 285 lbs. The other three all qualified for tournament play: Speno for the second straight year, and Gantt was an automatic qualifier. Renda qualified as well, along with earning the third most wins by a freshman in Pack history (27). SOURCE: GOPACK.COM

Volleyball adopts a child with Friends of Jaclyn program The NC State women’s volleyball team added a new member to the squad Wednesday. As part of the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation, the team adopted Meghan Bunn, a child diagnosed with brain cancer. As she battles her disease, Meghan will sit on the bench with the squad during games to cheer on her fellow teammates. The mission of the Friends of Jaclyn Foundation is to improve the quality of life for children and their families who are battling pediatric brain tumors and to raise awareness of the disease. The women’s volleyball team is the first NC State team to partner with the foundation. Since it was founded in 2004, the program has connected more than 500 children with sports teams. SOURCE: GOPACK.COM

Volleyball takes on Chapel Hill Friday

The NC State volleyball team takes on UNC-Chapel Hill Friday at Reynolds Coliseum at 6:30. The Wolfpack has lost four straight matches and will look to return to winning ways against the Tar Heels. Read our full preview at Technicianonline.com. SOURCE: GOPACK.COM

After a gut-wrenching home loss to Boston College over the weekend, the road doesn’t get any easier as the NC State football team heads to Kentucky for a bout with ACC newcomer Louisville. Saturday’s 30-14 loss to the Eagles came as a surprise to Wolfpack fans. After an embarrassing performance at Clemson two weeks ago, a trip home seemed like just the right medicine. Instead, the Wolfpack (4-3, 0-3 ACC) go into Saturday’s showdown with Louisville (5-2, 3-2 ACC) having lost 11 straight conference games. A matchup with the Cardinals is a tough task, one in which State will need to play its best to have any shot at pulling out a victory. “For us, it’s week eight,” NC State Head Coach Dave Doeren said at the weekly ACC Coaches Press Conference. “I think all of our focus has to be on what’s in front of us and not what’s behind us.” Redshirt junior quarterback Jacoby Brissett had an average outing against the Eagles, going 14-for-30 with 174 yards, one score and one interception. Running backs Matt Dayes and Shadrach Thornton combined for 38 yards on 10 carries, well below their season averages. The offense won’t catch many breaks this weekend against a stout Cardinal defense. “Louisville has a really good defense,” Coach Doeren said. “The No. 1 defense in college football giving up only 14 points a game,

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Death Valley to Clemson. Louisville outgained the Tigers on offense 264229, but their Achilles heel came in the form of their third down offense as they went 1-for-17 on the day for third down conversions. The twoquarterback system Louisville runs will be sure to keep the Wolfpack defense on its toes. “Offensively, [Louisville] Coach Petrino is a very good play caller,” Coach Doeren said. “Both quarterbacks are playing, and they’re very different from each other, so we’ll have to be ready for whichever QB steps out onto the field.” In light of the seven suspended players, including defensive starters Jerod Fernandez and Josh Jones, the Wolfpack defense will start true

freshman Airius Moore at linebacker. With this move, the defense gets younger, but it also loses the experience and leadership Fernandez brought. Off-the-field issues haven’t kept Coach Doeren from keeping his players motivated, however. “I just hate losing,” Coach Doeren said. “I’m just like these guys; I hate it, and I want so badly to win, and I want them to win and to taste the rewards of their hard work. I love my players, and I’ll never quit on my guys.” After Saturday’s trip to Louisville, the Pack has a bye week before traveling north to New York to take on the Syracuse Orange.

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“The reality is, they’re better than us invidually on paper. Our responsibility is to go out and be a better team.”

230 yards and 60 yards rushing a game.” Louisville relies on its defensive presence. The Cardinals’ defense has forced 13 interceptions, seven of which have come at the hands of sophomore safety Gerod Holliman. Louisville boasts the top-ranked rushing defense in the nation along with the third best scoring defense, so if the Wolfpack wants to score often, it needs to be extra creative. “They’re going to pressure a lot, Doeren said. “They mix their coverages and have multiple fronts. Our offensive coaches are excited about the challenge, and our players will be too.” The Cardinals come into Saturday’s matchup off a 23-17 loss in

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Redshirt junior quarterback Jacoby Brissett runs downfield while being chased by Boston College players Saturday, Oct. 11 at Carter-Finley Stadium. The Eagles defeated the Wolfpack 30-14. Brissett went 14-for-30, throwing for 174 yards and one touchdown completion in the loss.

On Tuesday, members of the NC State women’s basketball team and second-year Head Coach Wes Moore addressed the press during the club’s annual media day. Fresh off of his first season as head coach at NC State, Moore has already made a name for himself at the university. Under Moore’s tutelage, the Wolfpack finished the 2014 season with a record of 25-8, the team’s best since 1998. The team also impressed in the ACC, recording an 11-5 mark despite being projected to finish tenth in the conference. Moore’s quick success can be attributed to his long history of winning at the collegiate level. Before signing with NCSU in the

spring of 2013, Moore spent 15 years in Chattanooga as the head coach of the Lady Moccasins. During his time with Chattanooga, Moore enjoyed 13 seasons of 20-plus wins and compiled an outstanding winning percentage of .767. In the Southern Conference, the Lady Mocs went 241-43 under Moore and won 11 consecutive conference titles, 12 in total. The coach also led his team to nine NCAA Tournament berths. For his triumphs, Moore was awarded Conference Coach of the Year awards six times. Moore did not just dominate his conference, but also recorded a few signature wins along the way. In 2004, the Lady Mocs upset seventhseeded Rutgers to give Chattanooga its first ever appearance in the sec-

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NC State women’s basketball Head Coach Wes Moore takes charge of the Wolfpack for a second season. Moore led State to a 25-8 record last year, the school’s best finish since 1998.

ond round of the NCAA Tournament. In 2012, his last season in Chattanooga, Moore recorded his first ever win over a ranked opponent when his team toppled peren-

nial powerhouse No. 20 Tennessee. Moore was able to earn four additional top-25 wins in his first season

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