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Student reports armed robbery on Hillsborough Street
The Raleigh Police Department received a report of an armed robbery on the sidewalk of the 1500 block of Hillsborough Street Sunday at approximately 2 a.m. According to the report, the male student victim was assaulted, and a knife was displayed, but not used. He was treated and released at the scene. The suspects were described as three black males, all about 6 foot tall. One of the suspects was reported to be wearing a white shirt and jeans, and another was said to have on a red shirt and jeans. The third suspect’s description is not known. All three suspects left the scene in an unknown direction. Students are encouraged to report any crime suspicious activity on campus to police immediately by calling 919-515-3000. SOURCE: WOLFALERT
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Award-winning designer and former NC State student Alexander Isley drew hundreds of attendees to his lectures in D.H. Hill and Hunt libraries where he discussed how his time at NC State helped shape his career as a successful graphic designer and business owner Thursday evening. Isley, a former student in the College of Design, was invited back to NC State to speak on
behalf of the NCSU Libraries’ Amazing Alumni series and the College of Design’s Designlife series. Immediately following the Amazing Alumni event at D.H. Hill, Isley spoke at Hunt Library for “Make, Believe: The Work of Alexander Isley,” kicking off the inaugural Designlife Alumni Lecture Series. “When I was a student, I didn’t know what kind of designer I wanted to be, and I still don’t,” Isley said. “I like designing all different types of things.” Over the span of his career, Isley has had the
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Study helps track history of diseases
WRAL: industry sources say Google Fiber is coming to the Triangle
While the formal announcement may not come until next week at the earliest, anonymous industry sources reportedly told WRAL TechWire that Google Fiber will begin constructing in the Triangle as early as April to bring ultrahigh-speed Internet to the Raleigh-Durham area. Google states that its Google Fiber service is up to 100 times faster than basic broadband speeds and operates at up to 1,000 megabits per second. Google Fiber was first constructed in Kansas City, and it later announced expansion plans in Provo, Utah, and Austin, Texas. Google announced last year that it was considering nine additional metro areas, including Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte, where it could potentially construct its highspeed Internet service. SOUCE: WRAL
Obama proposes making oil-rich part of Alaska protected wildness area
The White House released a proposal to name the oil-rich coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge wilderness area, which would leave it permanently off limits to drilling. President Barack Obama’s proposal, which designates 12.3 million acres of the refuge as a wilderness area, caused a conflict between the White House and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chair of the Senate energy committee, who called the move “a stunning attack on our sovereignty and our ability to develop a strong economy that allows us, our children and our grandchildren to thrive.” Obama’s proposal would still require Congressional approval before being enacted; however, its chances are likely nonexistent as it faces the Republican-controlled Congress. Currently, more than seven million acres of the 19.8 million-acre refuge are managed as wilderness. SOURCE: NEWS & OBSERVER
opportunity to work with a number of organizations. After attending NC State, Isley became the senior designer at M&Co., an influential design firm, and then became the first full-time art director for Spy magazine, a publication known for its satirical content throughout the ‘80s and ‘90s. Isley has been the creative director for his own company, Alexander Isley Inc., since its inception in 1988. “We are identity and communication designers,” Isley said. “We work with companies and organizations to help develop their identities
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tor for the Youth Organizing Institute; and Jorge Ramos, a youth council member at El Pueblo Inc. The panel included women, people of color, youth and people who identify as gay. “When we think about liberation, we have to think about collective liberation,” Tran said. It is impossible to compartmentalize identities and communities because, when fighting for women’s liberation, activists are also fighting for the liberation of people in the LGBT community as well as for people of color, Tran said.
Michael Just, a P.h.D. candidate studying plant and microbial biology, piloted research involved mapping more than 300 disease-causing pathogens all over the world and breaking them into regions, as well organizing them by whether or not they are spread by pests. The maps allow researchers to better track the geographical history of pathogens and how they have affected the history and culture of certain areas, which could help increase travelers’ disease preparedness and lower their risk of transmitting diseases. The research sought to answer the question of whether or not there were any patterns to the location of pathogens that seemed to be everywhere, according to Just. “It seemed like a question that should have been asked before and we found it hadn’t,” Just said. “We were looking for biogeographical patterns in common human diseases, and we found some.” The patterns were influenced by several factors, such as environmental conditions and cultural history, Just said. It is a well-known fact that certain diseases, such as Ebola, are more prevalent in some areas of the world than in others, but this research has begun to answer the questions of how much the location of diseases varies and why. The diseases studied in the research consisted of both vectored and non-vectored pathogens. A
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Freshman forward Caleb Martin loses the ball Sunday against Notre Dame. The Wolfpack lost to the No. 8 ranked Fighting Irish 81-78.
Equity panel explores collective liberation Marcus Blyden Correspondent
Four panelists discussed oppression and discrimination within the black, immigrant and LGBT communities during an open discussion about social justice on Friday in the Witherspoon Student Center. Panelists included Mandy Carter, co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition; Beth Dehghan, founder and president of Women NC; Ngoc Loan Tran, communications direc-
Calligraphy event celebrates Japanese culture Rachel Smith Community members gathered to participate in a calligraphy workshop commemorating the Japanese New Year tradition of “kakizome,” or “first writing” at the North Carolina Japan Center Saturday afternoon. Sadako Salcagno, an experienced calligrapher, led the workshop and reflected on how calligraphy was traditionally used to express one’s aspirations and hopes for the coming year. “It is a neat experience to get to celebrate the New Year with different cultures,” said Cynthia
Reed, a Raleigh native. “I am not artistically inclined, so I really enjoy the simplicity of this workshop. It’s been really relaxing, and a lot of fun.” Participants brought their own writing brushes and used black ink to create various Japanese symbols expressing their wishes for 2015. Linda Watson, a Raleigh native, said it was her first visit to the Japan Center. “It was a great start to the new year,” Watson said. “I appreciate the expertise and feeling of community that this place brings about.” The North Carolina Japan Center is located in NC State’s Spring Hill House.
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Sadako Salcagno teaches participants the Japanese character “moon” during “kakizome,” calligraphy written at the beginning of the year . The event, which taught guests the art of Japanese calligraphy, took place in North Carolina Japan Center on Saturday.
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llie Williams, freshman in the First Year College, and Morgan Sanchez, sophomore studying civil engineering, attended Taste of Engineering, an event organized by the College of Engineering in the Talley Student Union Ballroom on Thursday. This event aimed at giving more information to students about the different departments of engineering on campus so that they can narrow down and think about their choice of major. To make it a fun and unique interactive experience, the hosts had a creative way of displaying their food. For example, nuclear engineers used liquid nitrogen to make ice cream of students’ choices in front of them, material sciences and engineering representatives used marshmallows, toothpicks and licorice to make edible DNA helix structures, and civil engineers had concrete ice cream.
CAMPUS CALENDAR Tuesday, Jan. 27 ARTS NOW! CONCERT SERIES 7:00 P.M. BALLROOM - TALLEY STUDENT UNION THE HIP-HOP FELLOW - DOCUMENTARY FILM SCREENING 7:00 P.M. HUNT LIBRARY - AUDITORIUM
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Renee Wells, the director of the NC State GLBT Center and one of the event’s organizers, said this was the first time the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity has put on this type of collaborative social justice event. Wells said the event attempted to bring different communities together to have a conversation about social justice and to think of new ways to work together, as the groups are often impacted by similar issues. “When I walk into a room, I’m not sure if someone is going to be anti-me because I’m a woman or I’m black,” Carter said. “And if I tell people I’m lesbian that might be added to the list.” Carter said in order for all marginalized communities to participate in a unified movement, they must recognize that the efforts of each community impact other people. “Are we about justice, or are we about just us?” Carter said. The panel discussed how the system that currently stops gay couples from getting married is the same system that makes it difficult for oppressed people to find employment and housing while also putting minorities in prisons and detention centers. “There are just so many different things and everything is connected,” Ramos said. Dehghan tied this concept into women’s rights, stating how liberating women can help the entire community. Twenty-five percent of women in North Carolina experience domestic violence, and North Carolina is on the FBI’s watch list as one of the top eight states for human and sex trafficking, according to Dehghan.
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Mandy Carter, co-founder of the National Black Justice Coalition, spoke about interracial and intersectional issues and female repression at the intergenerational social justice panel that took place on Friday at the Witherspoon Student Center.
“There is not competition between men and women,” Dehghan said. “Both of us are two beings of humankind. If we fly in harmony and in equality then this bird can fly faster and better.” The panel visited the topic of the schoolto-prison pipeline several times during the discussion. The school-to-prison pipeline is an institutional system in the United States that sends marginalized young people from their classrooms into detention centers and
jails due to punitive disciplinary measures, Tran said. “Systems right now are making money and are profiting off of youth of color and poor youth,” Tran said. Chelsey Gardner, a senior studying communication, said she thought the panel was diverse and informative. “The way that the panel conceptualized all these topics that made it real for not only NC State, but also for neighboring community
members was just unparalleled,” Gardner said. Carter said it is important to have these conversations in the South. As an openly lesbian female African-American living in the South, she said it makes a difference that people can see and hear her in panels such as these. “I become the face for those who can’t be seen,” Carter said. “I become the voice for those who can’t be heard.”
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and convey a mission statement to the public through design.” Isley’s company has worked on a number of influential projects, including branding for Youth Service America, Armani Jeans and Goodwill. “When we start any assignment, we talk to our clients and make sure they know who they are, and that they are confident in what they are before we start designing things for them,” Isley said. “We start asking them questions like, ‘Tell me in a sentence what makes you different’ and half of the time people can’t even do that, so we go through experiences to help establish what their position is.” Isley was invited back to NC State to help create the communication and signage systems for Hunt Library. His company also designed the colorful backdrops found in the computer workstations. “I was always inspired by the color wall that is in D.H. Hill that was designed by Joe Cox, who was an artist and teacher at NC State University many years ago,” Isley said. “So what we decided to do for the computer workstations was to tie the missions of the two libraries together to echo that look, so we took the colors from his wall and created over 80 different panels, and no two are alike.” Isley also reflected on how he first became interested in pursuing a career in design. “My dad was an architect, and also a graduate from NC State’s school of design,” Isley said. “I would watch him draw up a building, and then a year later you could walk through it. That, to me, was just magic.” Isley took the inspiration from his father and began designing and building playgrounds for the kids in the neighborhood at the age of 14.
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Award-winning designer Alexander Isley shows his company’s Hunt Library designs in one of D.H. Hill Library’s auditoriums on Thursday. Isley gave a presentation discussing his experience with graphic design and showed his diverse portfolio of the work he and his company have done.
“I would get paid to do this,” Isley said. “And this is when I started to realize that design was a good way to make a living.” When deciding where to attend college, Isley, a Durham native, was not always set on coming to NC State. “I looked at a lot of schools, and they either wanted to see a portfolio, or they wanted to see grades,” Isley said. “NC State was the only place that wanted to see both, and that im-
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vectored pathogen is a pathogen that requires an agent to carry it in order for it to be transmitted. For example, mosquitoborne malaria would be a disease with a vectored pathogen, with the vector being the mosquito. Any disease that does not require an agent to carry and transmit it is a non-vectored pathogen, such as cholera. Just and his team found that the non-vectored pathogens created a distinct location pattern on the maps, but the vectored pathogens created an even more distinct pattern with
pressed me.” Isley left his audience with a piece of advice. “I think it’s really important to put yourself in a position where you are over your head and terrified because once you start feeling really comfortable you have to move on to the next challenge,” Isley said. “If you are comfortable when you are 22 years old, then you are not doing something right. You need to keep learning, and I think that goes throughout
clear lines on the maps. This research is important to continue because diseases have a direct effect on the wellbeing of humans, Just said. Although the research in its current stage doesn’t directly affect the public, it could still lead to something later on down the line. “We are beginning to look at these clusters and how they might compare with other human associates, such as crops,” Just said. The research was conducted via aggregate data on disease rates and other information provided by the Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Network, an infectious disease database.
your whole life.” Nick Sorensen, a sophomore studying history, said he also feels that people should continue learning throughout their entire lives. “Having challenges builds character and makes you a better, more successful person,” Sorensen said.
“Science these days is conducted by looking at aggregate data,” said Rodger Wyatt Sanders, another author of the study. The research began as a class about human biogeography taught by Rob Dunn, another one of the co-authors. There are more than 2,000 pathogens that can affect humans, and mapping these diseases allows people to learn more about them, according to an article by Dunn about his students’ research. Just’s team consisted of other graduate students and one who was an undergraduate at the beginning of the research. Just’s paper is titled “Global biogeographic regions in a humandominated world: the case of human diseases.”
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On integration versus assimilation W
e come to know who we are as people by contrasting ourselves in the light of those around us. It is not a sudden realization, but the accumulation of gradual bits and pieces of learned knowledge t hat defines who we are. For example, we learn that Estefania we are tall Castrobecause Vasquez those Assistant around us Opinion Editor are shorter, and we learn we are not good at basketball because the others can play better. Later, we learn that we are good spellers because we won the spelling bee and bad kissers because our exes say they’ve had better. And so is the case with how we learn most things about ourselves. Once we have an idea of who and what we are—the pleasant and unpleasant, average and rare, tall and bad at basketball—we are pressed through a machine that tries to squish out all the unpleasant. I am the machine to you, and you are the machine to me. This machine, as you may have guessed, is our society. And what it does is not evil, but is rather just done out of habit of encouraging assimilation. It happens all the time. We are told to assimilate so as to advance under the radar without being detected. My mother has a pet peeve. If we are at the grocery store and the girl ringing us up has a nametag that reads, for example, “Guadeloupe Maria Lopez,” my mother expects to be addressed in Spanish. Guadeloupe will attempt to give us the total in English, but my mother will insist and eventually Guadeloupe will say, “Su total es...” My mother will be satisfied, and we will pack the bags in the car as she says that it could’ve been avoided
Erin Holloway, senior studying anthropology and English
‘Slacktivism’ is a necessary term
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hough I hate the word itself, “slacktivism” is becoming more and more prevalent as time goes on, especially with the imminent and still growing presence of socia l media. People Mary Anna are able to share their Rice personally Assistant held idea s Opinion Editor and beliefs easily, and those who receive these messages can pass them on, “like” them, respond to them, or adopt them for their own benefit with little to no effort. Participating in a supposed movement is, literally, a click away. Slacktivism, a grating portmanteau of “slacker” and “activism,” describes the act of passively partaking in a cause for any number of reasons. It could be that a person becomes a slacktivist to feel good about himself or herself, to be a part of something popular, to pass as a true activist, etc. Though the reasons for being a slacktivist may vary, the common denominator for most slacktivists is the convenience of inaction. Slacktivism bolsters the egos of those who participate in it and encourages only surface-level comprehension of the issues at hand. It breeds ideas that are harmful to the causes involved. Beliefs become mangled in the web of social media. Ideas emerge from the mechanisms of Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr
confused and misrepresented, as if they had just resurfaced from a strange game of telephone involving millions of people. Take as a for instance the alteration from “#BlackLivesMatter” to “#AllLivesMatter” regarding a recent Twitter campaign. The change between the two hashtags is offensive in myriad ways I will not go into here, but, for the sake of my argument, the initial message and its intended meaning were distorted through traversing the gutters of social media. Many people could not stand to not be included in the campaign, and so changed the message to suit their individual desires. “Black” became “all” so that those who wanted to proclaim their involvement in social rights movement could feel more included, despite that the movement itself wasn’t ever about them. Through slacktivism, people are given the opportunity to pretend to care about a movement without actually understanding it, or even fully paying it mind. Many people utilize social media to announce themselves contributors to civil justice. Apparently social equality is achievable by giving someone’s post a digital thumbs up. “Like this tweet if you want to save the children of Africa!” Who doesn’t remember Kony 2012? Back when the campaign was flourishing, the filmmakers of the 30-minute movie requested that donations be made to their charity, Invisible Children, rather
than to the Ugandan law enforcement. So, when the $31.9 million did go to the movie’s producers, the donations were used to make another movie about stopping Kony instead of being used to actually stop Kony. In this case, slacktivism allowed the people of the United States to contribute to a cause under the guise of helping it; although, in the end, their passive activism merely permitted Invisible Children to continue exploiting the horrors that those involved with Kony persistently confronted. Contributors to the Kony 2012 could pat themselves on the back and foster their savior complexes although they hadn’t truly done anything of worth. Effecting change is not as simple as watching a video or retweeting a message with hashtags such as “#SavetheWhales” and “#YesAllWomen.” What makes a difference is being knowledgeable about the issues that you care about and being capable of discussing why you believe certain things. Wearing a badge that states “I Love Diversity” means nothing if you do not actively advocate for diversity when it matters. It is undemanding and tempting to remain an observer, to chime in whenever it is convenient or popular, but we should be familiar with and educated about the things we claim to believe.
had Guadeloupe just spoken Spanish in the first place. Fine, my mother is a terrible person for profiling, but let’s put that to the side. Sure, it could have been the case that Guadeloupe isn’t from a Spanish-speaking nation, and, sure, maybe she really didn’t know Spanish, but I would be willing to bet that Guadeloupe just doesn’t want to be heard speaking Spanish in a public space. Why? Because we are constantly being told to sepa-
“And we’ll do just about anything to assimilate. We won’t teach our children the language of their roots.” rate and flee all things that could relate us to adversities we may have had to face. And we’ll do just about anything to assimilate. We won’t teach our children the language of their roots. We give them names that are easier to pronounce in English. We pack them lunches that won’t stand out at the lunch table. And this isn’t just about ethnicity. It’s also about wanting to forget that drunken uncle who hits his wife, that cousin who ended up in prison, the aunt who got knocked up when she was still in high school. Any trace of not coming from a perfect background is brushed under the rug and avoided during dinner. We are encouraged to erase the appearance of scars, so not only those around us don’t see them, but more importantly, in the hopes that if we don’t see them ourselves, we may begin to forget they were ever even there. And that’s the problem.
There is a world of difference between assimilation and integration, and we don’t seem to understand that. Assimilation is what happens when you mix all the different paint colors in a Crayola kit and end up with a uniform and murky brown. Integration is what happens when we chose each color to represent themselves in their own lights. The brown looks best for the tree trunk, the yellow for the sun and the blue for the sky. Rather than being ashamed when we are out with our friends and bump into our good-for-nothing relative wearing his McDonald’s uniform, perhaps it would show a bit of character to introduce him to our friends as if he was a normal human being. Hey, maybe we could even ask how his rash is doing, because admitting that we share something with someone who isn’t a cookie-cutter replica of a white-picket-fence upbringing is recognizing value. And recognizing the value in contrast is integration. I understand being uncomfortable when our alcoholic sibling is brought up or when our parents’ sloppy divorce is mentioned. We recognize that we have something in common with these people, that at one point in our history, we probably went through something similar. But because we, the lucky ones who actually managed to go undetected, are here now, we fear any f licker of recognition that would attach us to them and cause us to backtrack. But submitting to this way of thinking and being is allowing that machine to squish us until we are pancake f lat and fully assimilated into a puddle of murky and flat brown when we could choose to act in a way that integrates us all into a contrasting and colorful painting. That is the difference between assimilation and integration.
Why dynasty in the United States is harmless B
ritish economist John Maynard Keynes once said, “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right a nd when they are wrong, are more powZiyi Mai erful than is Staff Columnist commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else.” Though Keynes’ original intention was not to stress on education, it indicates that the ruling class is always a small group of welleducated people, regardless of different periods of history in any society. In the United States, the class of social elites has evolved in a slow way, through genera-
tions of accumulations of intellectual capital and wealth. A recent article, “America’s new aristocracy” published by The Economist, states that a country founded on the principles that rejected kings and hierarchical social structure is actually rather tolerant of the political dynasties. Presidents in the past three decades were also born into wealthy and elite families. In the upcoming presidential election, choices of candidates will be expected to have strong family ties with former presidents or presidential candidates. The article concluded that the children of the rich and powerful are increasingly well suited to earning wealth and power themselves, which is a problem. But the same thing is happening around the world.
Kim Jong-il, former dictator of North Korea, sent his son Kim Jong-un to Switzerland to attend high school and college. Of course the Kim family is also the wealthiest and most powerful in North Korea. Many of China’s ruling class have been sending their children to the U.S. for higher education and investing heavily in markets overseas. These ruling classes behave the same as their counterparts in the U.S. in terms of making decisions in children’s education and accumulating wealth. But the evolution of the ruling class in the U.S. is the most harmful. Misperception widely exists in the public view of social elites. As the founders established laws and rules based on ideas hostile to inherited sta-
tus, many successful American elites in history had a hard time from the beginning that most people did not hear and pay attention. Thanks to Hillary Clinton’s intention to run for president, the so-called “Clinton dynasty” was in fact from a very ordinary middleclass family in Arkansas. Bill Clinton was as normal as any high school student back then. People exaggerate the inherited aspects of elites because they don’t perceive that early time and hard work matter in elites’ lives. When the first generation succeeds and accumulates some wealth, it is perfectly normal that those parents evaluate education as one of the necessary factors leading to any kind of success. They are more likely to send their
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wealth to gather in one place. The concentration of wealthy residential housing is a result of personal choice. Even if the government directs more resources from one wealthy school to another, it might not necessarily attract high quality teachers there. As long as the institutions in the U.S. function stably at the beginning, opportunities are still equally open to everyone. The rich aren’t rigging the system so that the poor do not have a chance at climbing the ladder. The successful become rich and powerful because they love what they do and choose a career in that profession. It is still highly possible today for a smart, hardworking kid in a poor community to strive and become an elite member of society, but it takes time.
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Director alumnus producing first feature film Sam Roberson Staff Writer
Since graduating from NC State in 2008, Josh Harrell has co-founded a production studio and is currently working on his first featurelength documentary film. Harrell graduated with a degree in English and a minor in film studies, and has since relocated to Nashville where his production company, Good People Studios, creates documentaries as well as story-driven advertisements for businesses. “Storytelling has always been my passion,” Harrell said. Harrell first started sharing stories with the public while writing for the Technician as a student. He served as Editor-in-Chief for the paper in 2008. Harrell continued his career in journalism working for The Fayetteville Observer after graduating, but said he grew tired of the field after putting so much time into it. “I was burnt out from journalism.” Harrell said. “I thought, ‘What if I brought film and journalism together to shoot documentaries?’” Although Harrell had minored in film studies, the program at NC State focuses mainly on theory rather than production, so he said he lacked experience in the technical aspects of the field. Harrell enrolled in Watkins College of Design in Nashville to further study film. With his background in the history and theories behind filmmak-
ing from NC State, Harrell believes he had a great foundation to learn the technical aspects of producing a film himself. “Our program places more of an emphasis on theoretical analysis, but we don’t think that leaves students at a disadvantage,” said Tom Wallis, a lecturer in the film studies program at NC State. Harrell’s company, Good People Studios, is evidence of this. The studio has released shorts, and Harrell has been working on “Manuel,” his first feature-length film, for the past three years. “Manuel” is a documentary that depicts Manuel Cuevas, who migrated to the United States from Mexico and designed iconic rhinestone suits for the likes of Elvis, the Beatles and Johnny Cash. Shooting has taken place in both Cuevas’ current home of Nashville and his former home of Mexico City. “He’s a passionate guy with huge ideas,” Harrell said about Cuevas. “At the same time, his business model is outdated and his work is this relic of an older time.” Harrell said the film will explore the transition of time while Cuevas stays firm in his ways. “The film follows Manuel and tells a story through his experiences,” Harrell said. Harrell is also co-directing with Yuri Sigueroy, a filmmaker with Mexican heritage. “Yuri, being from Mexico, can capture the traditional side of Manuel,” Harrell said. “We work together to capture two sides.” According to Harrell, being able
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Josh Harrell, an NC State alumnus and former editor of the Technician, is now a filmmaker with his own production studio. Harrell is currently working on “Manuel,” a documentary about Mexican immigrant Manuel Cuevas.
to film at an intimate level with his subjects is important. Unlike more traditional documentaries, the film will not be focused on interviews with Cuevas and his peers, but rather on Cuevas’ everyday life experiences to give the viewer insight to his life and character. “In a way, his work is the work of a highly sensitized investigator,”
said Devin Orgeron, director of NC State’s film studies program and one of Harrell’s former professors. “He finds a subject and devises a strategy that allows the viewer into that subject.” Harrell and Sigueroy continue to work to bring an honest and accurate portrait of what they believe is a fascinating character to
the screen. “The hardest part of documentaries is earning the trust of the subject,” Harrell said. You can follow the progress of “Manuel” on Facebook by searching “Manuel Documentary Project.”
‘The Boy Next Door’ provides guilty pleasure The Boy Next Door Rob Cohen Blumhouse Productions
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“The Boy Next Door” is not in the least a great movie, but it is most certainly an enjoyable one. Though I may be tempted to award “The Boy Next Door” five stars based on the sheer enjoyment I received from watching it, I cannot in good faith do so out of respect for film technique and competence in general. Still, I can highly recommend it. “The Boy Next Door” provides a pure, concentrated source of guilty pleasure. Its indulgent sex scenes, inexplicable sense of humor and sudden descent into self-immolation and excessive gore in the third act make the movie simultaneously wonderful and absurd. Though Jennifer Lopez doesn’t exactly do her best acting here (her performance as faux J. Lo on “American Idol”
trumps every other role she’s played), she relishes the opportunity to play foolish and long-suffering Claire Peterson, a recently single mother who’s struggling in her love life. Enter Noah Sandborn (Ryan Guzman), the titular “Boy Next Door.” The conflict between Claire and Noah is nebulous, and often one may wonder whether it deserves to drive the plot at all. The two share a brief, intimate encounter in one of the more unrealistic sex scenes I’ve seen, and Noah becomes obsessed. This is fine and logical enough. However, Claire’s motivation to keep their tryst secret, even after things become increasingly dangerous for her and her family, is much more difficult to grasp; especially seeing as Noah essentially coerces Claire into sleeping with him. He takes advantage of and asserts power over a drunken woman, but somehow it’s her fault. The movie frames it as such, at least to begin with. To this end, Noah isn’t under 18 years old, and he cer-
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tainly doesn’t look it; Guzman’s own 27 years don’t fit too well into the mold of his 19-year-old character. In addition, he joins her English class and becomes her student only after the whole event. It becomes less of a student-teacher forbidden affair and more of a “cougars are taboo” thing,
which is rather offensive on the whole. The barrier of age as an initial conf lict is confused additionally by the lack of reasonable age on Jennifer Lopez’s face. The edited-in blurs intended to scrape away any sign of natural maturity (because Heaven forbid Lo-
pez look older than 30) can be distracting, and they are ultimately insulting to the actress herself. For people who still like Kristin Chenoweth, she’s in the movie, filling the positions of mandatory best friend, convenient plot device and cheap stunt setup for the climax. She
also serves as the movie’s attempt at comic relief, though many of her jokes fall flat. Ian Nelson portrays Claire’s son, who is perhaps the only likable character in the movie. “The Boy Next Door” transitions gracefully from selfseriousness to not caring at all after its first act. The lack of research is astounding and probably intentional. My personal favorite example of the movie’s ineptitude and flippancy is Noah presenting Claire with a “first edition of ‘The Iliad,’” an item that would have to be more than 2,700 years old, which he claims to have bought from a garage sale. Also notable is the movie’s overall lack of a general knowledge of how allergies work. The movie is littered with dropped plot points, bizarre decisions and faulty logic, and is laughable all the way through. Suffice to say, any movie that features Jennifer Lopez plunging an EpiPen into someone’s eye and then subsequently gouging out that same eye will receive a thumbs-up from me.
University Theatre welcomes new member Katherine Waller Staff Writer
NC State University Theatre has a new addition to its faculty this year. Mia Self, the new assistant director, teaches acting and directing, and will be making her directorial debut this spring with Seamus Heaney’s “The Burial at Thebes.” Self grew up all over the Southeast, but at age 13, she
moved to Black Mountain, North Carolina. She said growing up near Asheville gave her exposure to what would become her life’s dedication: theater. After working as a performer with a children’s theater for five-and-a-half years and traveling around the country, Self decided to go back to graduate school because she fell in love with working with teachers. She
became particularly interested in teaching students critical and creative thinking skills using poetry and performance. After earning her Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Mississippi and spending three years at the university doing voice, movement and directing work, she went to work at Alice Lloyd College in Eastern Kentucky, where
she taught public speaking, theater and voice and movement workshops. She then spent seven years at Lenoir-R hyne University before coming to NC State Self said her experience here has surprised her. “I am still really blown away by the fact that this program exists in a school that is so focused in other areas; this is not a school that is focused in the hu-
manities,” Self said. Self ’s favorite roles during her acting career include her time playing Hecuba at the University of Mississippi, where she said she fell in love with Greek theater; and Jocasta in the Roman version of t he Oed ipus story. She said her love for theater stems from her experience witnessing actors living and understanding intense human experience
and relating to it through their performance art. Self is interested in the creative process for everyone, even if someone is not necessarily a “theater person.” “The fact that there are things to be learned from creating theater for people who are not theater artists is amazing,” Self said. “What is really interesting is when people really want
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to be involved when they are from totally different disciplines.” John McIlwee, the director of University Theatre, remarked that Self ’s directorial debut this spring is an exciting adventure for everyone involved in the production. He said that Heaney’s version of t he Antigone story references a prior adaptat ion t hat graced the opening season
of the University Theatre 50 years ago. “‘The Burial at Thebes’ is a version of the Antigone story written by Sophocles and first performed in the fifth century BC,” McIlwee said. “This is the third part of the Oedipus story and it focuses on the act of the burial of Polynices and the drama among Antigone and Creon. Self admired the version because it is about “reveling in the language.” Self said she would really like a multi-ethnic cast for “The Burial at Thebes” be-
cause she felt it would really help connect the play to current social issues. “As I look at the show, and I look at the things that are happening in the world, I think, gosh, this play so connects with conversations that have been happening with Ferguson, with the police saying, ‘You’ll be OK if you don’t push back and don’t challenge,’” Self said. “This play is about ,‘this is the right thing to do. Don’t question the right thing to do.’ The people of Ferguson are Antigone say-
ing, ‘I hear what you are saying and it just doesn’t feel right to me.’” McIlwee stated that Self ’s interpretation of “The Burial at Thebes” is both fresh and innovative with a modern setting. “She is making it much more accessible to modern audiences, which has enabled University Theatre to show the distinct differences in today’s production and the one we presented fifty years ago,” McIlwee said. Self believes that “The Burial at Thebes” will help
TECHNICIAN students step back and try to understand how not to get too involved in either side to learn how to have genuine conversations. She encourages students to take the little day-to-day injustices and use them as practice for the bigger things going on in the world. “Regardless of the intention, art is the ref lection of the beliefs of the artist about what the world is,” Self said. “That is the value of it—we have ‘ah-ha’ moments when we see these artists’ perspectives and
realize that what we never realized is true, and in our gut we get it, and feel like it’s connected to us in some way. That’s why we need to have art. We could look at life as, ‘It sucks and then we die,’ or out of the chaos that human beings, people, have this imperative to create meaning and order.” University Theatre will present “T he Bu r ia l at Thebes” March 27-29, April 8-12 and April 15-19.
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Wolfpack records consecutive losses to ranked opponents Daniel Lacy Staff Writer
Just three days after a heartbreaking 67-63 loss to No. 10 UNCChapel Hill, the NC State women’s basketball team dropped a second consecutive game, this time to No. 23 Syracuse, by a score of 66-49. In its 100th meeting against the Tar Heels (17-4, 4-3 ACC), the Wolfpack (12-8, 3-4 ACC) started off with a quick five points but went on a five-minute scoring drought. Fortunately for the Pack, the Heels struggled early as well, starting just 2-of-18 from the field during that span. “It was a rival game, so we were both anxious and there was a lot of intensity,” redshirt senior guard Len’Nique Brown-Hoskin said. “We needed to calm down, and finally we did toward the end of the half.” NC State led for the entirety of the half. However, after a slow start, North Carolina ended the final six minutes of the half on a 9-2 run to cut the lead to 26-21. “I was disappointed we didn’t have a bigger lead because of how slow they started out offensively,” head coach Wes Moore said. “Unfortunately, we joined them, as both of us struggled to put the ball in the hoop early on.” The Pack came out of the break hot, going on a 7-0 run in a 1:19 span to extend the lead to 35-25. However, the Tar Heels countered with a full-court press, forcing three
consecutive turnovers on inbound attempts. “There’s no doubt that it killed our momentum,” Moore said. “You can’t afford lapses like that against a good team, and it came back to bite us.” Slowly but surely, North Carolina closed the gap. It was a close game from then on, as the game featured five lead changes and two ties. However, once the Heels took the lead with three minutes left, they didn’t look back, and despite multiple strong efforts from the Pack, the team simply couldn’t finish the game after leading for 33 minutes of the game. Brown-Hoskin led all scorers with 21 points, six rebounds and three assists. Sophomore Jennifer Mathurin totaled 14 points and added six rebounds. Despite fouling out near the end of the game, redshirt sophomore Dominique Wilson put up a double-double, totaling 15 points and 10 rebounds. “This was a heartbreaking loss,” Moore said. “When you lead at home for 33 minutes, you have to find a way to get it done, but I am proud of the way our kids competed. We needed a signature win, but we were unable to finish it up.” Just three days after the narrow loss to Chapel Hill, NC State didn’t fare any better against new ACC rival Syracuse (15-5, 5-2 ACC), losing 66-49 in the team’s first trip to the Carrier Dome. The first half was a game of runs,
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Fighting Irish down Pack in OT Pack football’s recruiting class grows
The NC State football team was able to add another running back commit Saturday as North Carolina native Johnny Frasier flipped his commitment from the Florida State Seminoles to the Pack. Frasier had offers from Alabama, Florida and many other top programs in the NCAA. The talented running back prospect is rated as a four-star prospect according to Scout.com and is known for his power and ability to handle a load of carries out of the backfield. Frasier, who stands 5-foot11 and weighs 220 lbs., will offer a nice balance to the speedy Nyheim Hines who committed earlier in the month. SOURCE: SCOUT.COM
Wolfpack gymnastics earns road victory
In its first road meet of the season, the NC State gymnastics team came away with a 196.175-193.275 victory over Texas Women’s University Sunday afternoon. The Pack’s score marks the highest of the season and 13th-highest in program history. Junior Brittani Watkins finished first in vault, floor exercise, all-around competition, and tied for first with teammates senior Lane Jerrod and freshman Nicole Wild in balance beam. Watkins’ all-around score of 39.525 tied her career-high and was the third-highest individual score in program history. Junior Michaela Woodford also set a career-high allaround score of 39.100. SOURCE: GOPACK.COM
Tennis falls 4-3 against Harvard
The No. 27 men’s tennis team fell by a score of 4-3 against No. 30 Harvard in its consolation match at the ITA Kickoff Weekend on Saturday. Despite losing the doubles point, No. 19 Robbie Mudge and Ian Dempster claimed a big victory over No. 7 Dennis Nguyen and Brian Yueng 7-6 (7-3). The deciding match came down to NC State’s Beck Bond against Harvard’s Alex Steinroeder. Bond was able to put himself in a position to win with a 5-4 advantage, but Steinroeder ultimately ended up coming away with the 7-5 victory. The Pack will travel to Tennessee for a double-header against Jackson State and Middle Tennessee State on Friday. SOURCE: GOPACK.COM
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The NC State men’s basketball team lost a heartbreaker Sunday evening, falling to No. 8 Notre Dame 81-78. Despite leading by 18 points early in the game, the Wolfpack (13-8, 4-4 ACC) let its lead slip and eventually dropped the match in overtime. “Every time you lose, it hurts,” head coach Mark Gottfried said. “Today we had an opportunity; we just didn’t finish it.” The State bigs took advantage of a small Irish lineup, pounding the ball into the paint early and often. Freshman Abdul-Malik Abu and sophomore Kyle Washington combined for 10 of the Pack’s first 12 points, and the duo ended the contest with 20. Aggressive post play complemented State’s aggressive defense to start the contest, lifting the team to a 10-4 advantage early. The Irish were held to 37.5 percent shooting in the first half, the team’s worst shooting display in a half all season. Freshman forward Cody Martin was vital to the Pack’s intensity. The freshman made the most of his second start of the season, earning two quick steals for State. Cody’s brother, freshman forward Caleb Martin, heated up as soon as he entered the game midway through the first, going 3-for3 from the floor with two triples in his first four minutes of play. Gottfried said he was pleased with the energy he saw from the twins in the first half. “They made great plays both
offensively and defensively,” Gottfried said. “They affect the game in so many ways. For freshmen, in a game of this magnitude, they stepped up big.” The Pack’s sharp shooting was due to the team’s excellent ball movement. State finished the first half shooting 62.1 percent with 13 assists, already more than the team’s average of 11.3 assists per game. Redshirt junior guard Trevor Lacey finished with a season-high seven dimes. State maintained a comfortable lead throughout the first half, taking a 12-point advantage into the break. The Irish came out of the locker room with authority, breaking off a 13-6 run to start the second half. Notre Dame continued kept its momentum further into the half, using an 8-0 run to retake the lead over State, 53-52, with 13:22 remaining. The two teams continued to trade baskets for the rest of the game, until two quick baskets gave the Pack a six-point lead with just over six minutes to play. The Irish chipped away at the State advantage little by little, outrebounding the larger Pack lineup. Notre Dame finished the contest with 18 offensive rebounds compared to State’s 22 defensive boards. “There were a couple opportunities that we had to get defensive rebounds, and we didn’t,” Gottfried said. “I thought that was huge. We needed to get a stop.” With 18.7 seconds left, the Irish cut the State lead to two with a layup. On the ensuing inbounds pass, Cody Martin lost the ball out of bounds, allowing Notre Dame to score the game-tying bucket. Lacey, the in-bounder on the play, took full responsibility for the turnover, but Gottfried gave his support for Lacey’s decision.
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Redshirt junior guard Trevor Lacey blocks a shot during the men’s basketball game against No. 8 Notre Dame in PNC Arena Sunday. The Wolfpack lost to the Fighting Irish 81-78 in overtime.
“Trevor is the most reliable guy [to inbound the ball,]” Gottfried said. “I would do it again with Trevor and I would have him make that decision.” State had one last opportunity to take the lead, but Abu pushed off his defender, picking up his fifth foul and sending the game into overtime. The two squads continued their back-and-forth affair into the extra period. However, with just over one minute left, Notre Dame extended its advantage to a two-possession lead as Washington was called for goaltending. After State made two free throws and one in response from the Irish, the Pack had 11 seconds to tie the game. However, Lacey’s final heave was blocked by Notre Dame’s Jerian
Grant, and time expired. Grant was the personification of toughness throughout Sunday’s match, scoring a game-high 25 points while playing all 45 minutes of the contest. Despite the loss, Gottfried said that he was pleased with the way his team played against top ACC competition. “I’m extremely proud of our effort,” Gottfried said. “They played their hearts out and did everything they could in terms of wanting to win. We just came up a couple plays short.” The Pack will look to end its twogame skid at home against Clemson on Wednesday. Tip-off is slated for 9 p.m.
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Junior heavyweight Nick Gwiazdowski notched a school-record 42nd consecutive win, and the NC State wrestling team topped the Kent State Golden Flashes 26-13 Saturday during Alumni Weekend in Reynolds Coliseum. In a back-and-forth dual meet, the Wolfpack (12-4 overall, 0-1 ACC) went down early but found success down the stretch, topping the Golden Flashes (6-10 overall, 2-2 MAC) in front of a number of former NC State wrestlers, including 1988 national champion Scott Turner. The story of the day was Gwiazdowski (285), whose pin against No. 30 Mimmo Lytle (285) gave him his 42nd successive win. With the win, the NCAA national champion broke an NC State wrestling record for most consecutive wins in a career. The talented 285-pounder continues to build his legacy at NC State as he adds yet another accolade to his prestigious resume. “That’s a pretty impressive accomplishment,” head coach Pat Popolizio said. “Wrestling in Division I in college and winning that many matches means that you are on your A-game that many times. That is extremely difficult to do and that just shows his commitment to this sport and to what he is trying to do.” Gwiazdowski wasn’t the only member of the Pack to put on a strong performance for the wrestling alumni in attendance. Freshman 149-pounder Beau Donahue picked up his second career pin on the night, and sophomore 174-pounder Pete Renda had a dominant performance, winning
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Junior Nick Gwiazdowski earned a school-record 42nd straight win in the Pack’s 26-13 win vs. Kent State Saturday.
by major decision, 12-1. Popolizio was very impressed with the team’s performance as a whole and was glad to put on a show for the NC State alumni. “Anytime you have people here that have been here and have been a part of this, you want to show a good product,” Popolizio said. “I feel very pleased that we were able to do that, and I am pleased with the turnout of alumni that were here. It shows that this program is building and people are buying in.” The Golden Flashes opened the match with a major decision win in the 133-pound weight class. The Pack responded by winning backto-back matches, with both junior Sam Speno (141) and Donahue recording wins. Despite the two Pack victories, the Golden Flashes would not go away, as they posted two wins of their own to take a 10-9 lead.
NC State showed its resolve, however, combing back to win four of the last five matches between the two teams. Freshman Nicky Hall (184) and redshirt senior Joe Deangelo (125) also pitched in decision wins to help bolster the Pack’s score and help it grab the dual meet victory. “We had a very solid outcome and I was pleased with the intensity,” Popolizio said. “The stuff we have been working on over the last couple of weeks is really starting to show in our competitions. I was very happy with a lot of the team’s performance.” The Pack will start a road trip Sunday as it faces off against the North Carolina Tar Heels, the Old Dominion Monarchs and the Virginia Tech Hokies for their next three dual meets. The Tar Heels currently have a 5-3 record on the season and have lost their only con-
ference dual meet this season. The Monarchs currently stand at 9-3 on the season and are currently coming off of a win against the Golden Flashes as well, 25-10. Old Dominion is ranked 19th in the nation and will look to get a signature win against NC State. The Wolfpack will finish off its road trip against conference opponent Virginia Tech. The Hokies are currently ranked ninth in the nation and have had an impressive start this year. The Pack hasn’t fared well this season against ranked opponents but this dual meet offers the team a chance for a tournament-quality win. The Pack will return to Reynolds Coliseum on Valentine’s Day to take on the Pittsburgh Panthers as it prepares for the conference tournament in March.