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Duke Energy Renewable-Energy Projects: Solar and Wind
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Solar Power Projects Wind Power Project Battery Storage Facility INDU Solar Projects GRAPHIC BY AUSTIN BRYAN, SOURCE: DUKE ENERGY
Duke Energy proposes plans for a brighter, cleaner future Brittany Bynum Staff Writer
Duke Energy has proposed to nearly double its capacity for solar energy in North Carolina by the end of 2015. The corporation currently has 350 megawatts of solar power from developers which compares to the size of a small power plant, according to Randy Wheeless, communications manager of Duke Energy. With the new proposal, Duke Energy will add an additional 300 megawatts of power by renewable means. Wheeless said there are a significant number of solar projects being planned already, and they are in various stages of development. Duke Energy is giving its attention toward projects being proposed in order to achieve successful results. “We know those projects in development have the best chance of being ready by 2015,” Wheeless said.
Wheeless said solar developers will have flexibility in choosing whether they want to bring Duke Energy the solar project and sell the power over a particular period of time or sell the project when it is complete. “It gives the developers more flexibility on how they want to do it,” Wheeless said. “The bottom line for us is that we want to buy more solar energy or add more on to our system.” Wheeless said it’s more beneficial for Duke Energy to buy the project from other parties than to build the projects themselves. Wheeless said Duke Energy is looking for projects larger than normal size because it costs less per kilowatt hour than a smaller solar farm. The solar projects will be larger than five megawatts, which is midsize for a large solar farms. “Duke Energy has been around for 100 years.” Wheeless said. “Running power plants and buying power plants is just what we do.” Wheeless said North Carolina’s environmental
NCSU alumna recounts Peace Corps experiences Jacqueline Lee Staff Writer
N.C. State graduate Maggie Ernest had what she called the best experience of her life volunteering with the Peace Corps but she also faced many challenges. Ernest spoke to members of the International Club on Wednesday night in Withers Hall about her time serving in a village in the western region of Ghana. “It’s my other home now,” Ernest said. “It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life, but I’d do it again in a second.” She moved to Ghana in June of 2011 and returned at the end of July in 2013. The first three months she spent there consisted of a training period with other volunteers. Then she was sent to a specific village for the next two years, with the closest fellow volunteer 45 minutes away. “You realize you aren’t going to change the world, but you can do a lot of great things,” Ernest said. For example, Ernest said she helped a farmer start a bee keeping business to make more money to support their family. “You have to look at all of your successes and not just think ‘why
isn’t everyone listening to me?’ and ‘I can make this country so much better,’” Ernest said. “You have to go with the little successes which is something many volunteers have trouble making peace with.” Not only is there the challenge of getting emotionally adjusted to being part of a different culture, but also the threat of becoming sick with diseases such as malaria. Ernest said the hardest challenge, however, came when a volunteer she knew passed away because she became sick with cerebral malaria. “It was an unfortunate and rare occurrence, but it does happen,” Ernest said. During that time, she said all the volunteers supported each other because during the time volunteering, they felt like a family to her. Ernest said when she returned home she had the weird feeling that she didn’t fit in with her own culture anymore because the culture she was around for two years became part of her identity. She looks forward to returning to Ghana to see how children in the junior high class she taught science to are growing up. She talked about how living in
conditions and tax incentives are beneficial for solar projects. North Carolina is one of the top five states that has the capacity to generate solar power in the nation, according to Wheeless. The timeline of solar-project plans also aligns with the 2015 expiration date of federal and state tax credit influencing solar developers to build the projects by the deadline, Wheeless said. According to Wheeless, Duke Energy must generate more than 50 percent of its power using renewable means by 2021. Bringing the new solar energy projects into the system will be instrumental in the company to meet this requirement, Wheeless said. Solar farms are already housed throughout the state in Eastern North Carolina, Piedmont and west of Charlotte, according to Wheeless. The location of the new solar projects will be based on the bids made by developers and where the most logical ENERGY continued page 3 place will be
The White House has selected Raleigh as one of seven regional research hubs to assist farmers in adapting their agricultural practices to a time of changing climate that has brought drought, f lood and unpredictable weather. The announcement was made earlier this month by Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilisack. The Southeastern Regional Climate Hub will contain a research library, train officials to work with rural farmers, coordinate climate research information and organize educational programs for farmers. The hub will work with farmers, ranchers and timber specialists in 11 Southeastern states and Puerto Rico. The seven hubs have also received a significant amount of attention on the major stage when President Barack Obama touted the new hubs in his State of the Union address last month. The announcement came only a week after the official grand opening of the Southeastern Climate Science Center, which works under the Interior Department and collaborates directly with the United States Geographical Survey. According to Steve McNulty, director of the USDA Climate Hub and a research ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service, the new hub will not be one that conducts original
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uring a ski trip to Appalachian Ski Mountain on Saturday, freshman in mechanical engineering, Lily Jan falls while learning to snowboard. Jan went on the trip with other members of the Engineering Village. Jan was taught to snowboard by another member of the Engineering Village. “It was by far my favorite Engineering Village trip,” Jan said. “I had a lot of fun and it was a great bonding experience.”
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a different culture with different values can be difficult. According to Ernest, in Ghana, as in many African countries, they’re very against homosexuality. For a lot of gay and lesbian volunteers, that was very hard to deal with. It was such a serious issue there that it would threaten their life if they let people know. Ernest graduated in 2010 and majored in environmental technology. She said the Peace Corps tries to tailor specific projects to a volunteer’s education and work
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experience, but sometimes it can be somewhat unfamiliar. Volunteering w ith the Peace Corps is a 27-month commitment, but if a volunteer wishes to back out, they can at anytime. Each volunteer accumulates two days of leave and two personal days each month they serve. “I thought it was very informative and she was very well spoken,” said Darrell Palmer, a senior in electrical engineering. “I did a semester at sea two years ago, so I could relate to what she was talking about,” Palmer started the application a year ago and said he wants to complete it after he graduates because a bachelors
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Maggie Ernest, who graduated from N.C. State in 2010, talks about her time volunteering for the Peace Corps in Withers Hall Wednesday. Ernest volunteered for the 27 month commitment in Ghana from 2011 until the summer of 2013.
degree is required for most positions. According to Ernest, a year should be allotted to
complete an application. She said anyone thinking of volunteering should be openminded about where they
PMC LECTURE SERIES:”MUSIC, CONFLICT, AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE CONGO” BY DR. CHÉRIE RIVERS NDALIKO Burns Auditorium 7:00 P.M.
could be sent to work, which can be anywhere. Her job was working as part of the Agriculture/Environmental Initiative, but she said when a volunteer is assigned to a village, they help with whatever is needed in that community. Ernest worked with farmer associations to help teach better agriculture practices like teaching them to make their own fertilizer. She also got involved with a health initiative, because the school located behind her house in Ghana did not have a bathroom. Children would leave school to use the bathroom and not return, or many would just hide in the
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bushes. Ernest got a latrine installed at the school and taught children about hygiene, washing their hands and about taught HIV/AIDS awareness. “The Peace Corps gives you a skill set that’s marketable in every job,” Ernest said. “It gives you a different world perspective that employers appreciate because you think of problems from a different angle.” Ernest said her experience made her quick at thinking, creative, f lexible and improved her communication skills.
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research in the traditional sense. Instead it will emphasize translating data accumulated during 20 years of climate research into tangible solutions for farmers in the Southeast. According to McNulty, although the Federal Government has spent billions of dollars on climate change research, very little of that research funding has gone into tools that farmers can use to adapt to a changing environment. “This hub is designed to take the existing science and translate it into land management techniques,” McNulty said. “The hub will deal primarily with the aspects of natural resource management, agriculture and grazing land, which will be working primarily with cattle in the western part of the Southeast.” According to McNulty, specific topics that the hub will be working in the region in-
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to plant them. Wheeless said the state has done a great job of bringing new solar onto the system while keeping electric rates lower than the national average. Duke Energy’s solar capacity proposal has drawn great interest from developers about their projects, according to Wheeless. Steve Kalland, executive director of the North Carolina
clude drift irrigation, which is a method that saves water and fertilizer by allowing water to drip slowly to the roots of plants and developing more tolerant crops via genetic engineering. With weather conditions continuing to change significantly, McNulty said the new Hub will be instrumental for farmers hoping to learn to adapt. For example, it will teach farmers to change harvest schedules based on climate change variability. Although the center just had its grand opening, it has been in operation for about two years. “Take science that’s already been done into tools and strategies, from land-use practices to tilling soil to better improvement to the use of water, genetic engineering of crops, higher tolerance,” McNulty said. However, the USDA isn’t the only federal organization leading a climate change effort on campus. According to Gerald Mc-
Solar Center, said the solar market has been growing in the state and attributed the success to the state’s policies. “North Carolina has broken into the upper echelon of solar energy by making good policy decisions that makes the market more attractive to businesses to come to here and do their work,” Kalland said. Kalland said Duke Energy is putting a seal of approval on solar power as a technology by making it much bigger part of their portfolio.
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U.S. Congressman David Price (D) speaks at the grand opening of the Southeast Climate Science Center on Thurs. Jan. 23. While the SE CSC is primarily funded by the United States Geographical Survey, the Southeastern Regional Climate Hub is funded the U.S. Department of Agriculture and emphasizes working with farmers to develop tools to adapt to climate change rather than applied research.
Mohan, the USGS director of the Southeast Climate Science Center, this center will differ from the USDA
hub in terms of its primary emphasis. Instead of working to specifically outfit farmers and
foresters with new techniques, McMohan said the SE CSC is more of a traditional research center, but empha-
Kalland said the Raleigh area is lucky to be the home of solar energy. Centennial Campus already plays a significant role in solar energy technology through organizations such as the NSF FREEDM Center and the Solar Center, Kalland said. “When it comes down to technology driven economic development, there’s nobody better than N.C. State, in particular to those in the College of Engineering, management and other essentials that make companies emerge
from the research labs into the private sector,” Kalland said. “That’s how we grow and thrive to become the next RedHat or the next SAS.” At N.C. State, there’s an increasing interest in the student body in topics of renewable energy and clean technology through the new advanced manufacturing center recently announced by President Obama, the solar center and environmental sciences program, Wheeless said. Students will also get a chance to explore their inter-
ests through the sustainability minor and new renewable technology minor that are currently being established. The solar projects will affect N.C. State by creating job opportunities for students that have the skills. As the job market continues to grow in solar energy field, there will be a high demand for students with those skills in science, technology, research and development. Kalland said these projects will crosscut the campus, touching a different skill set
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sized that the results still have tangible implications. “Generally what we’re doing is developing projects that will inform concrete decisions,” McMohan said. “It might be someone in the federal or state government.” Current projects that the SE CSC is currently leading include developing new climate models to better understand ecological patterns in Southeastern United States as well as Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. McMohan said the CSC is just getting back its first sets of results now and is currently in the process undergoing scientific review. McMohan said N.C. State researchers are currently working on the appropriateness of certain research techniques for the region. “We have a pot of research funds, about $1 million per year, and we allocate those funds in a competitive process to USGS scientists, primarily in the Southeast, or scientists working at N.C. State,” McMohan said.
across campus affecting engineers from the technology side, business majors who figure out the financial models and put the projects together and CHASS majors in public policy advising who make sure the rules are set right. “N.C. State had a very real hand in getting the business models of larger scale-solar development validated in North Carolina,” Kalland said. “A lot of companies recognize the University for its role in solar energy.”
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Letters to the editor Editor’s note: All of the following letters have not been edited and are published in their entirety.
Technician Layout I am usually reserved and often do not give feedback on items I disagree with. I felt the need to share that I was disappointed that I did not see the technician carry out a tradition that I have enjoyed from NCSU since being a student from 1999 to 2006. I don’t think it can be fixed by your staff but I would hope you do not miss
another “Daily Tar Hell”. I have even had friends or my wife swing by campus to get hard copies as I kept several over the years. Please be sure to add it back to the priority list next year if not for current students, for the rest of us who do follow. –Harvey Blackman you must be kidding Maybe you guys should transfer. I hear unc-ch has a wonderful journalism school. –Andrew Howard
Too Busy… Really?! So very disappointed to hear this excuse. The satire could have written itself this year... As a graduate and giver to the Alumni Assoc. and the WolfPack Club I’m embarrassed for you. Absolutely unacceptable not to print the Daily TarHell. I really don’t even know what to say at this point other than to say if the aforementioned, tweeted excuse is true then we need a whole new crew from editor down the line. This you MAKE hap-
pen once a year. GO STATE –Scott Haire Daily Tarhell I hope this reaches you along with a massive flood of emails on the same subject. The daily tar hell is a tradition at NC State and your entire staff should be ashamed. Too busy? What a weak excuse. We have an inexcusable habit of letting traditions die at NC State. At the least you owe fans, students, and alumni an apology in to-
morrows edition. Too busy? I hope your entire week is filled with calls, emails, and meetings on the subject, then we’ll see if you’re “too busy,” next year. –Jonathan Ray c/o 2012 No Daily Tarhell?!?! This is not my NCSU. You should be ashamed. Quite possibly the worst part is the excuse of ‘too busy’? Again, you should be ashamed. Unacceptable behavior from my alma mater. I just died a little inside. Thanks
for that. –Dave Dunn North Carolina State University class of 2001 Daily Tar Hell How can you not have time for the Daily Tar Hell? This year you wouldn’t even have to check it for grammar and misspellings. That would be part of the joke. Hate to see that you are killing the edition. –George Stavrakakis What a puss! –Greg Falls
Longing for an SBP worth taking seriously
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milio Vicente stood before the Historic Thousands on Jones Street pre-march rally Feb. 8 in downtown Raleigh and proclaimed, “I’m undocumented and unafraid,” as he spoke for education for undocumented students. Vicente was one of the candidates for Student Body President at UNC-Chapel Hill. Vicente, who has advocated for the “One State, One R ate” campaign that gives instate tuition rates to undocumented immigrants, Ishan Raval w a nte d to Staff Columnist use the office of SBP to facilitate and maximize the student voice in University affairs. He emphasized the importance of immigration, and he believed that getting elected would give him a say regarding tuition for undocumented immigrants. Vicente’s race was not just an affront to injustice in the realm of immigration. “I’m undocumented, I’m gay and I’m Latino,” he told Al Jazeera America—his candidacy was a challenge to the systems of oppression that include homophobia and as well as racism. On Feb. 18, in a recordbreaking runoff election, Vicente was defeated by Andrew Powell. Powell’s campaign concentrated on education reform in classrooms, and he advocated for “f lipping the classroom,” an instructional method wherein lectures are to be viewed online by oneself and what used to be homework is done in the classroom with the instructor’s guidance. I am no fan of this flipping. Real learning does not take place as a one-way transmission of information from the learned (professors) to the ignorant (students). Knowledge, unique to each individual, is created through the interaction between teachers
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and students. I would much rather have seen UNC elect Vicente, who had meaningful politics, represented significant social progress and had political advocacy experience and skill-sets. (He took a year off to advocate for the proposed Dream Act, which would allow citizenship to youth who came to the U.S. as undocumented children.) But at least UNC has and elects candidates with substance. For 2013-2014, we elected
“SG at N.C. State, especially the SBP, is a joke.” Matt Williams, whose top reason to vote for him, according to his website, was that he would make the University website more studentfriendly. Other top reasons included creating a studentfriendly Raleigh Guide and improving communication and collaboration between students and University organizations. The year before that, we elected Andy Walsh, whose top concern was bringing more Student Government-organized parties and concerts to campus. SG at N.C. State, especially the SBP, is a joke. However, they need not be. In 2001, when the UNC System was facing $125 million in budget cuts, Andrew Payne, who was then President of the Association of Student Governments and an N.C. State student, organized a 5,000-person march to the Legislature within a week. Among the protesters was SBP Darryl Willie. Also in 2001, when the administration tried to reduce library hours, Willie himself organized a 500-person sitin at D.H. Hill Library and a march to the Chancellor’s mansion. The protest, the Technician reported, “woke up the chancellor,
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who responded along the lines, ‘OK, you can have your library hours,’ according to Payne.” This year, Alex Parker, who took over when Williams stepped down during the summer, appeased the administration regarding the sale of Hofmann Forest, and last May, despite being the former president of Students for Obama, refused to sign a Technician-initiated petition opposing budget cuts to the Republicancontrolled North Carolina legislature. His most popular deed so far was when he asked Chancellor Woodson for a snow day on Jan. 27. On posting the email screenshot—which garnered 1,738 likes on N.C. State’s student Facebook group, Wolfpack Students—he was lauded (non-ironically) as being “a man of the people for the people,” “a mystic pearl from the ocean” and with a meme that read “YOU ARE MY HERO,” among many fawning comments. Of course, we get what we want and what we get becomes what we want. That’s why the zealous reaction to that screenshot and Parker subsequently promoting the Court of the Carolinas’ snowball fight as if it were his crown jewel among achievements can’t be blamed on either Parker or the students. This campus culture of silly, misplaced priorities occurs through a dynamic interplay, and so, it can be affected at either end. So, as filing for SG elections runs through March 3, here’s hoping that people with something serious to offer, preferably in the interest of the students and education at large, will run this year. In recent years, the SBP has been little but an appeasing, administrative smiley-face, a dumb mascot outside of the wolf-suit. If the cycle of mediocre concerns and relishes between SG and students is to be broken, that has to change.
“Right now I don’t know, because I feel like my tuition went to Talley, and I’m not impressed with it.. So I don’t want to give more money to them and I’m only going to be here a year and I won’t see it.”
Are you in favor of implementing an annual $3 sustainability fee to help N.C. State become more sustainable? Why or why not?
Jeremy Evans junior, environmental sciences “I feel like $3 would turn into $25, but if $3 is the set cost then I’m OK with it.” Shiana Thomas senior, civil engineering
Davis Leonard, senior in technology, engineering, design education
Robots aren’t the future ... yet
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et me first make a distinction between the different kinds of robots. The most intuitive ones are robots from the Isaac Asimov school of thought— human-shaped robots built for strength, meant to help humans scale their lives better. These are appealing at first thought. Who wouldn’t want a humanlike companions who could take care of t he house while we go about working? Yet all evidence shows that these won’t Naman Muley be the kind Staff Columnist of robots that will first permeate the world. They’re too ambitious. It’s like wishing your 5-yearold son would become Roger Federer. The other kinds of robots are swarm-bots. These are more like ants and bees, working collaboratively. Replicating animals seems a degree simpler than replicating humans. Yet, these are again too ambitious to begin with. Of course, studies and prototypes of these robots are a good exercise in building a knowledge base. Then there are the simpler kinds of robots that are closer to the artificial intelligence spectrum than the full-grown robot spectrum. For example, there are selflearning thermostats, 3Dvisualizing smartphones, self-driving cars and the like. They are more like machines embedded with intelligence than self-sufficient robots. A curious way to understand these is to look at them as smaller functional units of the full-grown robot. The reason these shall perme-
ate the human world faster is the age-old phenomena of evolution and growth. In this case, it isn’t the growth of the machine, but the growth of the human intelligence to produce such robots. We must learn by breaking the complex Asimovian robot into smaller parts. First we must create and inculcate the smaller functional units and then go on to the more complex assimilations of these units. Last week the Computer Science department hosted a talk by Erik Demaine, professor of computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Demaine is a child prodigy who completed his Ph. D. at 20 years old and became the youngest professor at MIT. He also solves cool problems. His work is centered on exploring and mastering only small functions of robots. He works on finding optimal solutions to getting one arrangement of blocks to take the shape of another (a function of the more complex assimilation we call “transformers”). He tries to find optimal ways to make the bots on the boundary of a swarm of bots understand how to expand the boundaries. He solves the smaller functions one by one, hoping he will be joined in time to recreate his inspirations that range from the swarm-bots in The Matrix to replicators shown in Star Trek. There is also other evidence that suggests this gradual progression. The smaller functional units are the need of the hour. Sure, robots are cool, but there is no evident reason for the economy to want metallic figures running around streets, carrying your grocer-
ies. But small thermostats that intelligently manipulate the temperature at your house and keep your electricity bills in check, sure, here’s my money. Google released another visionary project recently. Tango is a small device that it built in collaboration with a horde of artificial intelligence companies such as Movidius. It’s a smartphone-like device that lets users build applications that use its advanced infrared imaging and camera systems. A single android app can then be built to scan a room and build a 3-D projection of it, complete with measurements. A small functional unit of the Asimovian robot will be adopted in the immediate market. The Internet of Things is another ingredient contributing to this distributed revolution. Giving intelligence to smaller pieces of hardware is generally not enough. Getting these small devices to communicate is huge. Even as IPv6 facilitates the Internet of Things, it also enables these smaller functional units to collaborate—a feature that will be key to having more complex assimilations. The hardware renaissance in waiting is making the development of these simpler, artificially intelligent machines gain more potential. Lower prices of silicon, due to cheap Asian manufacturing, are acting as a catalyst. If only hardware found a more efficient way of distribution, like software, it would gain the same permeability as the latter. Slowly but surely, Asimov shall have his chance to say “I told you so!”
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‘Cedars in the Pines’ exhibit comes to the City of Oaks Sara Awad Staff Writer
“Cedars in the Pines,” an exhibition about Lebanese immigrants in North Carolina, opened Saturday at the North Carolina Museum of History. The exhibit will run through Aug. 31. More than 270 people attended the reception at the museum Friday, which included a performance by the Triangle Lebanese Association according to Marjorie Merod, assistant director of the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies. The exhibit represents the culmination of three to four years of work, according to Akram Khater, the director of the Khayrallah Program for Lebanese-American Studies, director of the Middle East Studies Program and a professor of history. It started as an oral history project funded by Moise Khayrallah, a LebaneseAmerican, who approached Khater in his quest to gain a sense of community in the land of the pines. The project’s purpose involved collecting stories and memorabilia from those who immigrated to the state from about 1880 to the 1920s and from 1945 onward. “After 9/11 the whole idea of being Arab-American became so closely tied to terrorism, and that of course includes the Lebanese-Americans, and when people are thinking nicely about Lebanese Americans, they think of tabouli, so it’s between terrorism and tabouli: Those are the two things we seem to be,” Khater said. “It’s just that we were seen as these newcomers and these ‘others’ that both culturally and physically were alien to America.” The exhibit will tell the story of the Lebanese immigrants in three parts: journeys (how and why they immigrated), belonging (how they integrated to life here) and being (how they maintained a sense of identity and heritage), according to Khater. Each of the sections will contain panels with text, photos and artifacts, such as an old Arabic Bible, newspapers, musical instruments, clothing and religious iconographies. “I think it makes us more aware of the history of our neighbors,” Merod said. Visitors will also get the chance to simulate life as an immigrant through interactive stations, according to Khater. “When the first wave arrived here, many of them — men and women — worked as peddlers,” Khater said. “They would carry these suitcases, and they would literally walk the back roads of North Carolina to farmhouses and small towns selling things like thread and needle, lace, clothes, sheets, towels — anything that people needed. In essence they were the origi-
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Akram Khater is the curator of Cedars in the Pines, an exhibit that commemorates the history of Lebanese immigrants who have made North Carolina their home. The exhibit runs through August 31 in the North Carolina Museum of History.
nal Sears catalog…and so we have this low-tech thing in which you pick up one of the suitcases, which has 25 pounds, and imagine yourself walking 50 miles with that.” Other simulations include letting people experience what it felt like to be in a third-class cabin as the Lebanese crossed the Atlantic, hearing early Arabic music and touching silk, a former cash crop. In Lebanon, its decline helped spark the immigration in the first place. More high-tech activities allow attendees to play games in which they decide whether they should leave Lebanon or not after being presented with a scenario, as well as an Xbox dance game in which participants can learn how to dance the dabke, according to Khater. Children’s programs, music concerts and film festivals will make debuts periodically throughout the exhibit’s duration in order to attract the general public, but especially K-12 students to the exhibit, according to Khater. “I think the biggest challenge is trying to tell the story in a way that is evocative and not sensationalist,” Khater said. “People entrusted us with one of the most precious things they have, which is their very own life story.” For example, many participants seemed to be reluctant to talk about race because they had arrived during the time of the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation and made a welcoming atmosphere hard to come by, according to Khater. “When we ask them these stories, many of them are of course long past those days. They’ve settled into the American mainstream ,and it’s perhaps their parents and grandparents who struggled more than them, and so I think in many ways
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Many Lebanese artifacts are on display, including this jambiya, a decorative dagger.
they would tell the story much more passingly — they would just kind of minimize how important [race] was,” Khater said. “So on one hand you have to respect the story, and on the other hand, you have to tell the story: that there were race issues.” The Lebanese make up the largest Arab community in the United States, with about 16,000 Lebanese-Americans living in North Carolina, according to Khater. “Anyone that has grown up in North Carolina probably knows a Lebanese-American,” Merod said. With such a large population, many of which are highly educated, they contribute about $4.5 billion to the state’s economy each year, Khater said. Key Lebanese economic players include the George family, who own Merchant’s Distributors and
Lowe’s Foods, and Greg Khatem, who helped revitalize downtown Raleigh by opening a number of restaurants such as Sitti. We can also enjoy Lebanese cuisine and get a sense of their culture through music and film festivals, Khater said. “All of these things enrich life here and give it meaning,” he said. “It’s not that there’s anything unique about Lebanese or Arab Americans — I think you can see the same things about the Polish, about Jews, about Mexicans, Hispanics — and it is this constant infusion of new people that add to the tapestry of life here.” In a land of immigrants, the Lebanese have also become “neighbors,” according to Khater. “In daily conversations and in daily interactions we bring
a different way of being and thinking, a different way of family, a different way of appreciating the world, even a different perspective of what the world looks like — politically, culturally, economically,” he said. Once the exhibit leaves the museum on Aug. 31, the Lebanese story will continue with an exhibit at Tryon Palace in New Bern, after which it will move to Charlotte, according to Khater. Cedars in the Pines, which currently consists of about 30 partici-
pants, will then make national rounds after they build a center in Washington D.C., as well as build relations with the international Lebanese community. “The story of immigration is universal, and it’s ironic that the first wave that comes here in the 1600s starts getting threatened when the 1700 wave comes in and the 1800 and the 1900, but if you look at it the story is very similar,” Khater said. “It’s people trying to make a better life for themselves.”
Free exhibit programs • • •
Cedars in the Pines on the Plaza (outdoor festival): March 29, 11a.m.-3p.m. History à la Carte: Strangers at Home: History of Arabs in America: April 9, noon-1p.m. Music of the Carolinas: Music for “Cedars in the Pines,” April 13, 3p.m.-4p.m.
Source: NC Museum of History
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Features
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Wolves in sharp clothing: spring runway fashions Megan Stitt Staff Writer
The fashion industry never stops moving. The collections for next fall and winter are being shown right now during Paris fashion week, which was preceded by shows in New York, London and Milan. The looks for this spring took their form last September in these cities as well. But don’t worry if you missed out; I’m about to do a recap and a “how to” on taking these trends from the runway to the Brickyard. The first trend for this spring is metallics. Shimmery fabrics in all colors, not only gold and silver, were displayed across runways and oceans. Brands that displayed this trend included Versace, Rachel Zoe, Tadashi Shoji and Emilio Pucci. There were takes on gym shorts and harem pants, loose, flowing and, now, shiny. The designers tended to go with sheer tops and pastel colors, making them perfect for spring. One of my favorite looks was a rose gold skirt with a pale pink, sheer top by Marissa Webb. In applying this trend, take it straight from the runway: metallic bottoms with a pretty top. This enforces a cool but girly image and plays dow n t he “space age” aspect of the ref lective surface, which, if paired with bright neon colors, screams futuristic. For tops this spring, you’ll want to look for crop tops or box tops. The crop is a bit adventurous, though it is becoming a more regular occurrence. Last summer girls paired billowing crop tops with their
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jean shorts and converse as if they were going to a music festival. This spring, try them with skirts and try them tighter. Any skirt shape will do! Use your body type to your advantage; chances are you know which skirt works for you. Crop tops aren’t only for the models on the runway. Box tops are distinguished by their broad shoulders, big sleeves and shift shape form. They were shown in the runway shows by Tory Burch, Valentino, Alexander McQueen and Dolce & Gabbana. These tops can be plain or covered in graphics; either way works. As for styling, go for skinny pants or a fitted mini or pencil skirt. The mini skirt option was demonstrated flawlessly by a look in Richard Nicoll’s collection. His box top was mostly grey with black details, paired with a striped skirt and some booties. The options in bottoms seem to be grow-
ing for spring — the hemlines of skirts are getting longer. Instead of a mini, try a midi, a skirt length that hits just below the knee. Sub your maxi for a tea-length skirt with sandals; this length hits right above the ankle. You can also try the asymmetric hemline of high-low skirts in a different way, high in the front just above the feet to let your cute shoes peek out, but reaching the ground in the back. All of these new skirt options should be used in your outfits just the same way as the old. Skirts are always tricky to keep in consistency with your style; you really just have to try on pieces together. A basic blouse or tee will probably work, but I encourage you to experiment with your tops — you might be surprised. Sorry to those who don’t like dressing rooms or who like to roll out of bed and go; these skirts will take time.
Floral is also an obvious pattern trend for every spring. Flowers come in bright and beautiful colors, inspiring designers almost every spring season. So please, don’t forget to add these f lower designs into the mix. Trying new trends is important because it helps you to define your own style, it brings fresh outfits and ideas to your wardrobe, but most of all— it’s fun. Don’t be afraid to get carried away in the winds of new spring trends! SKETCHES BY MEGAN STITT
College Cookbook: quick spaghetti for student schedules Holden Broyhill Features Editor
Ingredients:
Spaghetti is one of my favorite dishes. I’ve loved it since I was a little kid and still make it here at school. There are a variety of recipes to explore when making spaghetti and each have their merit. However, I often find myself without enough time to cut and chop tomatoes and onions. Thankfully, there is a recipe that takes half the time and is comparable in taste. Spaghetti can be enjoyed with a variety of sides, such as garlic bread and salad, or a simple piece of toast can be enjoyed instead of garlic bread for a fraction of the cost.
One 16-ounce box of spaghetti pasta One 24-ounce can of traditional-style pasta sauce One tablespoon of oregano, basil, sugar and salt One pound of ground beef One clove of garlic
1. Set one large pot of water to boil. Add a pinch of salt once the water boils. 2. Add one 16 ounce box of pasta to the water, and let the pasta boil for 11 minutes. Be sure to break the dry pasta in half before adding it the pot and stir it occasionally to ensure it will not clump together. 3. While the pasta is boiling, prepare the sauce. Start by turning a burner of the stove on high and frying one pound of ground beef. While the meat is cooking in the pan, use a spatula to break it into small sections. Make the sections as large or as small as you like. I chop the meat into very small sections to ensure it cooks all the way through.
4. While the ground beef is cooking, peel the clove of garlic, chop it, press it and add it to the same frying pan as the ground beef. 5. Once the ground beef is thoroughly cooked, add one can of traditional-style pasta sauce to the frying pan.
6. Then add one tablespoon of oregano, basil, sugar and salt to the saucepan, and mix the solution thoroughly to ensure that all of the ingredients are evenly distributed. 7. Turn the burner that the sauce is on to a lowmedium heat setting to prevent the sauce from boiling over. 8. Once the pasta is done, pour the contents into a strainer in a sink and run cold water over it. Add sauce, and enjoy. This recipe feeds three to four people. E-mail Technician your recipes at: collegecookbookncsu@gmail.com
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014 • PAGE 7
Wolfpack flounders in Puerto Rico, finishes last in field Colin Phibbs Correspondent
The N.C. State golf team traveled to Rio Grande, Puerto Rico for a fifteen-team tournament that featured a slew of national powerhouses, including No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 Georgia Tech and No. 5 Georgia. The Wolfpack finished 15th overall, scoring 897 as a team (+33). Head coach Richard Sykes said the finish was simply the result of bad luck. “It wasn’t a lack of effort,” Sykes said. “Everyone just played poorly on the same day. “We played against a good field but we didn’t represent ourselves well. Hopefully when we come out again we will do better.” Senior Logan Harrell led the team, ending with a three-day score of 217, one stroke over par for the tournament. His low round of the week came on the second day, when he tied a season-best score of 69 (-3). State had a solid first day in Rio Grande. Harrell was the
Pack’s leading player, landing a 73 (+1) on the first day of competition. Sophomore David Cooke and redshirt junior James Chapman finished right behind Harrell with identical scores of 74
“It wasn’t a lack of effort. Everyone just played poorly on the same day.” Richard Sykes, head men’s golf coach
(+2). Harrell, Cooke and Chapman were followed by Wolfpack sophomores Carter Page (75) and Chad Cox (77). After the first day, Harrell was tied for 20th in the individual standings, recording two birdies and three bogeys in the first round. As a team, State finished the first day in 13th place, trailing UNC-Chapel Hill (296) by just a single stroke. The Pack improved its team score after the second round
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by three strokes over its score from day one, finishing day two with a score of 293. Harrell shot one stroke under par on the front nine and two strokes under par on the back nine, finishing the round with a 69 (-3). The quality round from the Huntersville native knocked his total score for the tournament down to two strokes under par. Chapman shaved a stroke off his previous day, shooting one over par, 73. He had a solid front nine, shooting one stroke under par. Chapman was in a good position to finish the round under par until a triple bogey on the 17th hole bumped his score up to two strokes over par. Despite some success on the second day, the Wolfpack struggled in the final round on day three. Harrell had the lowest score among Wolfpackers, but even he finished the round three strokes over par. Harrell, Cooke, Chapman, Page and Cox combined for a total of 18 bogeys, six double bogeys and one triple bogey, while only sinking eight birdies on the day.
Harrell ended the tournament tied for 35th among all players in the tournament, with a final score of one stroke over par. Chapman finished tied for 61st place, nine strokes over par, while Cooke tied for 64th place. “We didn’t execute and we made some judgment errors,” Sykes said. “We weren’t very sharp and obviously as you start playing poorly, then you try to press a little bit to make up for it, and it seemed to go in the wrong direction.” The Pack heads to Aiken, S.C. for the Palmetto Intercollegiate Tournament on March 10. Notable teams participating in the tournament are No. 13 Clemson, No. 16 South Carolina and No. 25 Virginia. Sykes was very straightforward about how the Wolfpack will prepare for Palmetto, saying his team will have to work hard to improve its scores. “We are going to get busy and get to work,” Sykes said. “We are going to figure out what we did wrong and make it better.”
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Future Wolfpacker wins All-American honor The No. 13 N.C. State’s women’s basketball team will hope that future guard Chloe Jackson can help the Wolfpack carry the successes of this season into the future. Jackson, an N.C. State signee in its recruiting class of 2014, was chosen as a member of the Women’s Basketball Coaches Association High School All-American honorable mention team Thursday. Jackson has helped Riverdale Baptist (Upper Marlboro, Md.) to a 24-3 overall record and a No. 17 national ranking, according to ESPNW. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Women’s basketball program seeks landmark win tonight The Wolfpack (23-5 overall, 10-4 ACC) will take on the Pittsburgh Panthers (11-17 overall, 3-11 ACC) Thursday night, hoping to lock up the 800th victory in the history of N.C. State women’s basketball. The Panthers currently sit at the bottom of the ACC, while State is third behind Notre Dame (27-0 overall, 14-0 ACC) and Duke (24-4 overall, 11-3 ACC). The Pack will play Notre Dame Sunday in Reynolds Coliseum at 2:30 p.m. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
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Paige hauls Heels over Pack Zack Tanner Staff Writer
Spencer Ellis Correspondent
Despite a career-high 36-point performance from sophomore forward T.J. Warren, N.C. State dropped a heartbreaking overtime matchup against archrival UNC-Chapel Hill, 85-84, Wednesday night at PNC Arena. The loss marks the first time the Wolfpack has ever lost a game in which Warren scored 30-plus points. “I loved our effort,” head coach Mark Gottfried said. “I’m hurting for our guys right now because they laid it on the line. They gave everything they could give.” In the 256th meeting between the two teams, the Tar Heels (21-7 overall, 11-4 ACC) earned their 150th win over State (17-11 overall, 7-8 ACC). Wednesday’s matchup also marked the third straight win for Carolina over the Pack. The two teams traded baskets early in the first half, with neither team leading by more than four for the first 11 minutes of the game. Following an early trip to the bench for senior center Jordan Vandenberg due to foul trouble, freshman forward Beejay Anya admirably filled the void left by Vandenberg. Anya made an instant impact off of the bench, netting eight points and on threefor-three shooting in 13 minutes of court time in the first half. “I just played hard,” Anya said. “Being physical is what we had to do.” The Pack earned its largest lead of the first half after two big plays from
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N.C. State’s sophomore forward T.J. Warren drives to the basket during State’s game against North Carolina in PNC Arena Wednesday night. Despite a career-high 36 points from Warren, including 17 of the State’s final 25 points, the Wolfpack fell to the Tar Heels in overtime, 85-84.
the Gaithersburg, Md. native. Following an and-one, Anya capped an 11-2 State run with a huge dunk off a pocket pass from sophomore guard Tyler Lewis. With 6:34 remaining in the first half, the Pack led, 26-15. In his sixth consecutive start, Lewis improved on his ACC-best 3.95 assistto-turnover ratio by dishing out six dimes in the contest and giving up only one turnover, his first since Feb. 11. Carolina attempted to make comeback in the closing minutes of the opening period, but entered the locker room down by eight. Just over a minute into the second half, Warren picked up his third foul and headed to the bench. In the absence of its leading scorer, the Pack struggled offensively, failing to score until Warren
re-entered the game four minutes later. Freshman guard Anthony “Cat” Barber gave State its first basket of the second half with 12:48 remain-
“I’m hurting for our guys right now because they laid it on the line. They gave everything they could give.” Mark Gottfried, head men’s basketball coach
ing in the game. Barber’s bucket ended a 10-2 run by the Heels. With 8:01 left in the game, Warren was forced to the bench again after receiving his fourth personal foul.
The Heels took advantage, gaining their first lead since 15:57 in the first half. The two teams proceeded to go shot-for-shot, totaling four lead changes in an 80-second span late in the second half. Vandenberg proved to be beneficial for the Pack down the stretch, recording three blocks and a put-back dunk to help the Pack remain close. Carolina took a 71-69 lead after a pair of free throws from sophomore forward J.P. Tokoto. But with two seconds left, Warren was fouled on an inbounds play and went to the line for two shots, sinking both to send the game to overtime. “He was a cool as a cat out there,” Gottfried said. Warren took over for State down the stretch, scoring 17 of the Pack’s final 25 points. Warren went shot-for-shot
with Tar Heel sophomore guard Marcus Paige, who recorded a career-high of 35 points. “To see both players go at it like they did,” Gottfried said, “That was spectacular basketball.” With 30 seconds remaining, two UNC free throws tied the game, 83-83. Warren was fouled with seven seconds left and split a pair of free throws. With the Wolfpack leading, 84-83, Paige drove the length of the floor and sank the goahead layup around the outstretched arm of Warren, giving Carolina the lead with 0.9 seconds remaining. A desparate last-second fullcourt heave by the Wolfpack fell short, giving the Heels their 10th straight win. “[U NC] stepped and made a couple big plays,” Gottfried said, “Really just one more play than we did.”
BASEBALL
Q & A Thursday: Wolfpack junior outfielder Bubby Riley Christian Candeloro Staff Writer
One reason for the early-season success of N.C. State’s baseball team (7-1 overall) has been the emergence of junior outfielder Bubby Riley. Riley, a transfer from Delgado Community College in Louisiana, is hitting .313 with five RBIs in eight games to start the season. The Technician caught up with Riley to find out more about the New Orleans native. Technician: You transferred to N.C. State from Delgado Community College. How and why did you come to State? Riley: “I thought that [State] was my best offer coming out of junior college. They were the best program, especially with the nucleus of guys that they had coming back. I just thought it was the best place for me to come and fit right in.” Q: How did you get the nickname Bubby? A: “My dad had a dog named Bubba, who was a really hyper dog. When I was a kid I was really hyper, so they started calling me Bubba. Then the movie Forrest Gump came out and my mom said she couldn’t call me Bubba anymore, because she would think of the scene where Bubba Gump died and it would make her sad. So it turned into Bubby.” Q: You were selected by the Chi-
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Junior outfielder Bubby Riley rounds third base during N.C. State’s matchup with Appalachain State Friday. Riley went two-for-four with two RBIs, helping the Wolfpack scrap out a 6-5 win over the Mountaineers.
cago Cubs in the 40th round of the 2013 MLB Draft. What factored into your decision to come back and play college baseball instead of turning pro? A: “I got drafted late, and I was leaning the whole time to come back to college. I think that factored into why I was drafted so late. I kind of let scouts know that I wanted to
come to State and this is exactly what I was looking for, to come out here with this team and win games.” Q: You have stepped in and contributed immediately for the Wolfpack. How have you adjusted so fast to Division 1 pitching? A: “Whenever I talk to my junior college coach, he’ll tell me the same thing: ‘It’s the same game whether
you are playing Division 1 or junior college. It’s still 60 foot-6 inch mound and 90 foot bases.’ I’ve just kept my same approach and played hard every day and good things will happen.” Q: Have you ever had to deal with snow cancelling a game before? A: “No, actually before I came to N.C. State I had never seen snow
before. We were all outside playing in it. I was like a little kid in a candy store. I had never seen snow like that. I like it when it’s not cancelling games.” Q: What are some differences between the coaching staff at N.C. State and Delgado C.C.? A: “Practices are a lot less intense in junior college; it’s more of a laid back atmosphere. Here you have to play hard every day and coaches are getting on you. I like that though, it makes you a better player.” Q: You were high school and junior college teammates with junior catcher Luke Voiron. How has your relationship with him helped you mold with the team? A: “It made it a lot easier to come here with one of your best friends, and it made the transition from Louisiana to North Carolina way easier.” Q: What’s the best thing about N.C. State? A: “Just playing baseball here. That’s why I came here and it’s been everything I had hoped it would be so far.” Q: What are your expectations for this year? A: “I think it’s the same expectations as last year. Make it to the College World Series and win it. I think we have the team to do, we just have to come to the park every day and play hard.”