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About 250 attended the Response Ability talk sponsored by the Sigma Nu Fraternity that was publicized to be an event geared towards addressing sexual assault on college campuses. However, some guests found the subject matter to be different than expected. Mike Dilbeck, a film producer and founder of the Response Ability Project, discussed the bystander effect in the Witherspoon Cinema Tuesday night, but emphasized cases of grade-school
level bullying and other lessrelevant topics to the setting. Lauren Frey, a sophomore in environmental science, said she heard the event would be discussing sexual assault, but Dilbeck ended up talking a little bit about a lot of topics and only briefly touched on the topic of sexual assault. “He talked about how anything you see going wrong you should speak up and not be a bystander,” Frey said. “He talked a little about sexual assault, but that was not the main focus.” The event was hosted by the Sigma Nu fraternity and numerous campus co-sponsors. Connor Pilgrim, a junior in
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OPINION In defense of public school See page 4.
FEATURES All we need is Dove: Dove season at NCSU See page 5.
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SPORTS Club rugby ready to rise to expectations See page 8.
Brian Lutz, author of Knoll: A Modernist Universe, spoke at Hunt Library Tuesday night about the Knoll Furniture Company and the history of modern furniture design. With more than 80 different styles of chairs to choose from, Hunt Library has numerous options for students. Throughout his lecture, Lutz addressed four Knoll chairs that can be found throughout the library, and the designers that made their existence possible. Lutz spoke in particular about four pieces of furniture that sit in the Hunt Library including the MR Chair designed in 1927, the Barcelona Chair designed in 1929, the Womb Chair designed in 1948 and the Bertoia Diamond Chair designed in 1952. “So what in the world are we doing with chairs this old in a building of this caliber? It’s because Knoll is in the details,” Lutz said. After Hunts Knoll founded the company in 1938, he emphasized that his company brought European modern design to America. “Knoll strayed away from the saying ‘form follows function,’ because if this was true every chair would look exactly the same,” Lutz said. “Instead, form accommodates structure, the form follows
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Brian Lutz, author of Knoll: A Modernist Universe discusses the legacy of Knoll furnitures on Tuesday in Hunt Library. Knoll is one of the most successful high-end furniture companies in the world.
culture.” In 1927, Knoll designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created the MR Chair. This chair is formed using cold rolled steel which allows for more play in the movement of the legs. And although it is simplistic in design, many, including Lutz see the “beauty in the art of the piece” in that nothing like it had been thought of before. During the same year, van der Rohe began experimenting with
sketches based off folding chairs, according to Lutz. This prompted him to create the Barcelona chair which went into production in 1929. These chairs feature multiple leather squares that were “sewn in such a way that you knew they would last for decades” Lutz said. “I was shocked to hear how much they cost, especially when we have so many. But at the same time it is
special to have pieces of furniture that reflect the history of modern design so well,” Nickolas Gregory, a freshman in design studies, said in response to the $5,429 price tag of the Barcelona chair. “Now we just have to worry about people appreciating these pieces for what they are.” The third Knoll chair patrons can find within the Hunt library is the
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3-D printing technology could benefit the blind Dierdre An Correspondent
A team of NC State researchers created a tactile map for blind people depicting the roundabout at Stinson Drive and Pullen Road adjacent to the Bell Tower. The map was created by Bastian Schroeder, assistant director for highway programs at the NC State Institute for Transportation Research, and research assistant Jeffrey Chang using Hunt Library’s 3-D printer in Makerspace, an area on the fourth floor of Hunt with two 3-D printers and a laser cutter. The intersection at Stinson and Pullen currently has no traffic lights. Unlike many other crosswalks around campus, the roundabout also has no audible indicator
or crossing device to alert students to walk. The tactile map, currently on display on the second floor of Hunt Library alongside many other 3-D printed objects, serves as a teaching tool for the blind. There are currently no plans to place the map anywhere near the roundabout. “The maps are teaching and training tools rather than infrastructure equipment,” Schroeder said. “We will use them for research and lessons to try to explain the concept of a roundabout and how people can utilize it.” “Tactile maps help the blind travel more, and it can also be used for rehab and mobility specialists. To explain a roundabout would be dif-
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A model of a 3-D printed tactile map created by assistant director of the Institute for Transportation Research and Education, Bastian Schroeder, and Post Baccalaurate Studies major, Jeffrey Chang is on display at the James B. Hunt Library.
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mechanical engineering and member of Sigma Nu, said Dilbeck’s message was a little different than what he expected it would be when the fraternity hired him. “It focused more on the bystander than the victim and the perpetrator,” Pilgrim said. “It affected a lot more topics than we expected.” Callie Hagemeister, a senior in social work and officer of Students Advocating for Gender Equality, said SAGE officers made Response Ability a club event thinking the information would be relevant to the club’s interest. “I looked at the guy’s website and saw that his talks focus a lot on the Bystander Effect, but I thought he might tailor this speech to be more relevant to a college campus,” Hagemeister said. “He ended up talking a lot about bullying.” Will Pinston, a junior in human biology and member of Sigma Nu, said the event met a standards and nationals requirement. Pinston said Dilbeck’s booking fee was $4,400, and the chapter spent $1,200 of its own funds and
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raised the rest from sponsors. Dilbeck talked about the guilt people face for not taking certain actions that could have prevented people from doing harmful things to themselves or others. He recounted a personal story from middle school when he was bullied in the eighth grade. “Looking back on that morning, more than 35 years ago, I know I had a moment to stand up for myself, but I was scared, I was paralyzed,” Dilbeck said. “There were other witnesses, observers to what was happening. They could have done something. Yet no one did anything.” Dilbeck blamed fear for being one of the reasons people don’t take action in situations where they could have made a difference. “There are way too many abusive behaviors that many people are having to experience because no one is stepping in,” Dilbeck said. Accord i ng to Di lbeck, si x strengths are needed for courageous leadership: integrity, generosity, curiosity, equality, vulnerability and bravery. “These strengths will make no difference whatsoever,” Dilbeck said. “They are important but they
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are not the whole deal. In order to make any difference for someone else in a moment of time, you have to take action.” Dilbeck gave examples of people taking action, which included a businessman who got everyone at a subway station to tilt a train so a trapped person could be freed, and a high school student who prevented a kidnapping of a child by following the kidnapper. “I define courageous leadership as the act of standing up, stepping in and speaking up for what is right,” Dilbeck said. “That isn’t just leadership, that is courageous leadership.” While some students, such as Hagemeister and Frey, were not impressed with Dilbeck’s speech, others said they found it to be inspiring. “I thought it was really powerful, having a great message that can be applied to anyone regardless of individual level, organizational level and beyond,” said Emerson Moorhead, senior in computer science. Dilbeck said, prior to doing talks, he was a filmmaker. Currently, he does 50 to 60 speeches a year around the country with audiences up to 5,000 people.
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ficult without it.” This research is not a new concept for Schroeder and his team. “We have been involved in roundabout extension research for 15 years, so it is longstanding and has been around for many years,” Schroeder said. “This tactile map was a little bit of a process that took a couple of months to process through various prototypes.” Makerspace at Hunt library has made it relatively simple and cost-efficient to 3-D print materials, Schroeder said. Before 3-D printing was readily available, a tactile map would have to be created by another company off campus. “Before it was difficult to create custom maps but the 3-D printer at Hunt allowed us to design this model and get it out faster,” Schroeder said. “Potentially this is a big application for others to use and create maps.” According to Schroeder, the
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problem with tactile maps is the difficulty in customizing, but 3-D printing has become so cheap that it is easier to attain materials. Using 3-D printing technology isn’t just unique to NC State, Schroeder said. “There are some Wake County public schools that are starting to use 3-D printing to help blind students,” Schroeder said. “There is a blind student at NC State who has explored 3-D printing technolog y and his group has been able to download a sample 3-D model. One of the students used the printer to create a representation of DNA’s double helix that he could not find before.” Students who have seen the tactile map representation as well as other 3-D printing objects displayed at Hunt are nonetheless impressed. “It is pretty cool. I really didn’t k now much about how 3-D printers work until I saw this display,” said Asia Edwards, a freshman at UNC-Wilmington and visitor to NC State. “This [tactile map] would be great if displayed outside.”
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Raleigh city council caps number of road races allowed in the area Staff Report
Raleigh City Council voted to cap the amount of road races that happen each year in Raleigh from 100 events to 95. The Raleigh City Council voted 6-2 on Tuesday in favor to cap the amount of road races even though there are already 91 events on the
calendar, according to the News and Observer. In addition to capping the number of road races, the new policy also bans existing races from closing streets on back-to-back weekends in the same neighborhood. This policy forced some existing events to change their dates or locations. Neighborhoods around
downtown and Hillsborough such as Mordecai, Oakwood, Boylan Heights, University Park and Cameron Park would not be allowed to hold any more races. Residents and businesses in those neighborhoods complained the roadblocks make it difficult to get around and hurt shops and
restaurants’ business. Race directors have protested the new policy because they think it could cost them their previously planned date, location and possibly some fundraising revenue. The only two councilmen to cast votes against the policy were Thomas Crowder and Russ Stephenson, the N&O reported.
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Womb Chair designed by Eero Saarinen in 1948. It is unique in that it was the first chair to be made from molded plastic, according to Lutz. This allowed for the design to be lightweight, stronger and easier to produce on a large scale. In 1952, Harry Bertoia, an Italian wire sculpture artist, created what is known as the Bertoia Diamond Chair. The company uniquely decided to create a separate stainless
steel workshop to produce the first 200 forms of this chair to ensure the production was done correctly, Lutz said. “I think all of the chairs at Hunt Library are beautiful and unique, but not all of them are comfortable” Jordan Stokes, a sophomore in fashion textile management said. “And it doesn’t surprise me that some of the chairs are inspired by time periods as early as the 1920’s. A lot of the chairs feel very retro or antiqued. Out of those four, my favorite would have to be the Womb Chair.”
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‘Defense of Public School’ Erin Holloway, senior in English and anthropology
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s an education major, I believe that getting a good K-12 education in the United States does not require attending private school. There are 49.8 million students enrolled in Katherine public elementary and Waller secondary Staff Writer education in the United States in 2014. I was one of the millions of students in public school growing up, and felt that I got the best education that I could. Coming to college, for the first time I was exposed to a multitude of peers who did not experience public education, and in fact, had pretty strong opinions on the inferiority of it. I don’t agree with the stereotypes presented about public schools. I attended one of the poorest schools in Wake County and I was never a victim of violence or unsafe conditions. I feel there is an inaccurate portrayal of public school in the media, movies and in the many documentaries I’ve watched about education in the United States. Aside from wanting to get a more religious education, I don’t see the educational difference between private and public school. Yes, in most cases, in a private school there is a better student-to-teacher ratio, which can make it easier to be successful. However, public school teachers face stricter certification regulations and more frequent professional development and oversight. Regardless of all this, I don’t think the value of a public education lies in the
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curriculum. Students that attend college after public school, I argue, are better prepared. These students often faced overcrowded classrooms, negligent school counselors, sometimes little support from parents and are forced among a diverse community. Flourishing despite sometimes difficult circumstances in a classroom causes a student to appreciate their success more and teaches them to work harder even in the face of adversity. Diversity, I believe, is the primary advantage of a public education. Of those 49.8 million, more than half are minority students, and socioeconomically, students come from families with a wide variation in income. This prepares students for the realities of life after graduation. Being exposed to diversity and having peers from a wide range of situations helps to encourage humility in the lucky and advantaged students, and encourages success from the more disadvantaged students. According to data provided by the Pew Research Center, there is a rapid demographic shift in public education from the 1990’s and projected until 2022 from a majority of white students to a majority of minority students. This shift mirrors a similar demographic shift occurring in the U.S. as a whole. Our population now consists of many more individuals from minorities than ever before. This makes exposure to diversity in early years that much more important for kids in the U.S. The exposure to diversity in public education gives students a perspective on life and a keen social awareness
that I believe even the best private school cannot. I believe that we need to support our country’s public education because public education will pull kids out of poverty and gives the 49.8 million students enrolled the tools to be successful and productive citizens. In the headlines today, we only see the harmful things in education such as decreased funding, drop-out rates and low teacher pay. When are we going to begin seeing all the great things that public education is doing? When are we going to see all the success stories and the amazing heights a public education enabled a disadvantaged student to achieve? We need to emphasize the good in public education. The right to a free education should be supported and glorified, not put down by being called inferior. Many students in the U.S. only have one choice, and this is going to public school. Neglecting public schools will ensure significant social stratification because wealthier students simply have more options. I think that students should have an invested interest in the well-being of public education in the U.S. It does affect every single person on campus whether they went to a private or public institution before college. The people receiving public school education are your friends, coworkers, future bosses, employees, lawmakers and yes even our future children. As a society, we need to reevaluate how we value public education.
“For those who wanted to be represented and bring that awareness, that would be a bummer for them. There are certainly people that would feel undermined because flag day was canceled.”
“I guess it means we need to spread awareness for the Hispanic community. I think people do care, but if they don’t know about it they’re not going to support it.”
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n Monday, four million people preordered a slightly larger version of a phone they already have. According to 24/7 Wall St., Apple received four million preorders for the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Taylor Quinn Plus within the first 24 Associate hours it was Features Editor available to pre-order. One of the new features on the iPhone 6 is Apple Pay. Apple Pay is a method of paying for items without a debit or credit card. It’s only in select stores for now. Apple advertises Apple Pay on its website with this paragraph: “Gone are the days of searching for your wallet. The wasted moments finding the right card. The swiping and waiting. Now payments happen with a single touch.” Are we that lazy that we can’t reach into our wallets
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fully clothed,” according to what she posted to Facebook, with her husband, Brian James Lucas. Not detained, Lucas was able to photograph the detainment. His photos depicted Watts crying in handcuffs in front of two members of the LAPD. After Watts refused to present identification—knowing she did nothing wrong and that the cops had no right to see her ID—the cops cuffed her, so aggressively they cut her wrist in the process, and put her in the back of their car. “As I was sitting in the back of the police car,” Watts writes, “I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong. I felt his shame, his anger, and my own feelings of frustration for existing in a world where I have allowed myself to believe that ‘authority figures’ could control my BEING.” (I encourage everyone to read Watts’ narrative in its entirety, as it is quite a moving piece). Evidently, the police officers saw the couple displaying affection and assumed Lucas had hired Watts as a prostitute. It’s an easy mistake for those who build their schemas of the world from racist stereotypes. The idea of a rich white guy paying for sex from the exotic woman of color (as well as similar stereotypes) is one that damages interracial couples. We like to think we live in a post-racial United States, one that accepts diversity of race and culture, but we don’t. A Cheerios commercial, which first aired during the 2014 Super Bowl, featuring an
interracial couple generated a considerable amount of racist backlash, indicating anything but a post-racial society. Comedian Hannibal Buress jokes about a time he thought an old man was mad because Buress and his girlfriend were buying eight cartons of apple juice only to realize the old man was actually shaking his head because Buress, a black man, had a white girlfriend. “I was so caught up in the euphoria of having all that apple juice that for like a minute I lived in a world where racism didn’t exist,” Buress said, reflecting on the experience. Buress jokes, but this sort of experience doesn’t seem uncommon. People still hold unwarranted prejudices against all sorts, and these prejudiced people sometimes take jobs as police officers. As recent events such as those in Ferguson have demonstrated, the abuse of executive power frequently goes unpunished, and those abuses often (if not always) stem directly from stereotypes and prejudices. Until we stop viewing men who date people of a different color as fetishists or see those women as an exotic sex symbol, Watts’ experience will continue to be one of many (as it’s likely the only reason we heard about this slip up is because of the actress’ fame). No, stereotypes about interracial couples may not be among our foremost concerns when it comes to police corruption, but it is a concern. Cops’ targeting interracial couples is an act of violent oppression. It’s a form of racial profiling that must be stopped if we want so much as to believe we live in a post-racial society.
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t’s not uncommon for proponents of samesex marriage to point out how recently interracial couples were granted the right to marry. Advocates for same-sex marriage rights often draw comparisons beNicky Vaught tween their Opinion Editor cause and the former ban on interracial marriage. People have sloganized the phrase, “Be on the right side of history,” and usually present the phrase alongside photos from the civil rights movement. Photos from marriage equality protests have more than once shown interracial couples holding up signs reading something along the lines of, “Our love used to be illegal too.” It’s a nice sentiment, one that implies we live in a post-racial United States and that the fight for racebased rights is over and has been replaced by the sexuality rights movement. Unfortunately, that’s only the case on paper. Just shy of 50 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled laws that prohibit interracial couples as unconstitutional, effectively legalizing interracial marriage in 1967. However, as anyone who has followed the development of the Equal Pay Act of 1963 will know, anti-discrimination laws can’t and won’t always be enforced. Danièle Watts, acclaimed Django Unchained actress, could verify this firsthand. On Thursday, she was handcuffed and detained after “showing affection,
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and grab our debit card? I’m going to go out on a limb and say that whoever wrote that paragraph was exaggerating the “agony” that is paying with a debit card. It’s almost sad that anybody would advertise a product by saying that you won’t have to wait for your card to be swiped. Why can’t we take the time to search through our bags and pick out the correct card? Why does everything need to be so fast and efficient? Why does everything have to be a “get in, get out” process? As a society, we are so obsessed with instantaneous action. We have no patience. Apple Pay is making these characteristics worse. Not to mention that Apple Pay will lessen our human-tohuman contact even further. Even though the exchange of a credit card to a cashier is simple, it’s an exchange. It’s a small conversation. It’s human contact. Most people probably won’t even make eye contact with the person they are paying. Apple Pay will force us
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to stare at our phones even more. We will rely on our phones even more than we already do. Now, if one leaves his or her phone at home they may be launched into withdrawals, but they can still go out and buy/do whatever they were planning on doing. Shopping now is, usually, a social outing. It is a time where friends and family can make a day out of perusing stores and enjoying each other’s company. Mothers go prom shopping with their daughters, parents bring their children to Toys R Us for a surprise gift and young tweens go to the mall alone together for the first time. These times are important for people, and Apple Pay is speeding up the process of moving all social shopping to online shopping. Online shopping will ruin these precious interactions. I can understand that technology progresses quickly, and that it will change the way we live but I don’t like it. I don’t like that technology can’t progress without human interaction diminishing.
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All we need is Dove: Dove season at NCSU Brandon Yunker Correspondent
Sitting in the woods, surrounded by friends, Tate Mayo waits, rif le in hand, his eyes towards the trees and the sky. Dove season is in full swing for North Carolina. Through Oct. 11, and again from Nov. 27 to Jan. 15, you can expect several students at NC State to participate in an activity with deep roots in rural America, but with something for people from all walks of life. “It’s the test of man versus nature,” said Mayo, a senior in agricultural science. “There are times when hunting is really rewarding, and
times when it is really frustrating, but there is nothing like the gratification of going out and getting something.” Mayo is from Tarboro, North Carolina, a small town about an hour east of Raleigh. According to Mayo, it’s a town that has Wal-Mart and fields, and that’s about it. Hunting is a recreational activity taken up by the residents of Tarboro and other rural communities in North Carolina. And according to Mayo, it is a family tradition. Mayo belongs to a family with generations of hunters. His great-grandfather and grandfather used to big quail hunt, as well as go foxhunting on horseback. Mayo said he remembers when his
father would take him along hunting while he was on his father’s back in a baby carrier. “I guess you can say that it’s in the blood,” Mayo said. According to Mayo, the first time that he actually went dove hunting was when he was about 6 or 7 years old. Sitting on the edge of a field with his father and sister, he waited with an old .410 shotgun in hand. When that first dove was claimed, Mayo remembers the excitement he felt. “Doing something that you have seen your father do. Something that your grandfather had done. And then doing it for yourself… it was really gratifying,” Mayo said. According to Mayo, dove
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Tate Mayo shoots his gun at his family’s 36th annual dove season celebration held at their farm. The Mayo farm is located in Tarboro, NC.
hunting is an activity that bonds people together. He said even dogs get to join in on the activities. A hunting manual provided on the website of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission suggests the use of dogs helps retrieve downed game because of their heightened sense of smell. “You respect everyone and everyone will respect you,” Mayo says. According to Mayo, the culture of hunting at NC State is strong. He said he knows a lot of people who go hunting, particularly people in the agricultural science major. “People in agricultural science tend to have been raised around it,” Mayo said. “When you have spent so much time outdoors, raising crops for people and animals take from the crops, you’re more likely to have an interest.” Every year, for the last 35 years, on Labor Day Sunday Mayo’s father and his father’s cousin hold a party to initiate the start of dove season. T-shirts are given out, a pig is cooked, peanuts are boiled and skeet-shooting takes place for anyone wanting to come. According to Mayo, last year around 100 people showed up. Location also plays a big factor in the popularity of hunting in the area. Raleigh might be urban, but one doesn’t have to go far to find the outdoors. Harris Game Land, located near Holly Springs, 30 minutes from Raleigh, hosts hunting for deer, fox, quail, rabbit, raccoon, squirrel, turkey and waterfowl. Hunting has, as a whole, entered the mainstream. Popular television shows such as Duck Dynasty and Mountain Men have permeated the national psyche. Clothing can now be regularly found in camo. But for all of its popularity, hunting still attracts controversy. Some people believe
that it is cruel to t he a n imals and that it is destructive. But Tate says that just isn’t the case. “I wish people would see more of the conservation side,” Mayo said. “In the spring I put plots of kale, 10 acres of clover by hand and a field of oak tree. All that people see is me killing an animal, but there is more than meets the eye.” The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission sets limits for how many animals can be bagged in a day, 15 for doves, and other stipulations such as no hunting on Sundays. Hunters need to attend education courses and are required to receive a license, unless the hunter is out for their first time and is accompanied by a licensed adult. “They [hunters] care about the land they cultivate. I might kill a deer hunting, but I hope that the acorns I plant will feed other deer for the next 75 years.” Ducks Unlimited, an organization that raises money for wetland conservation, has a chapter at NC State. The chapter, which is student run, consistently sits at the top of national rankings for fundraising. Anything that Mayo or his family shoots does not go to waste. There isn’t much meat to come from the doves, but
enough can be used to be included in jalapeno poppers. Excess meat that does not go in a cooler to be cooked at a later date is donated to a homeless shelter. “Nothing is more fun than a good dove hunt, and nothing is worse than a bad dove hunt,” Mayo said. On a sticky, humid afternoon, with insects buzzing around and friends chatting amongst each other, it’s hard to tell if it is going to be a good day or bad day, as Mayo waits for the doves to start sitting on power lines, giving hunters a chance to bag. But the experience is worthwhile as they travel through the woods and hear the birds sing.
Court of Carolina couple goes viral on WPS Sam Roberson Correspondent
Who said romance is dead? Definitely not Hersh Shah when he got down on one knee to propose to Avani Patel in the Court of North Carolina. Unknown to the couple, a fellow student had snapped a picture of the engagement and shared it online in the Wolfpack Students Facebook group where it was met with very enthusiastic support. Shah and Patel, who had been dating for five years, met at NC State and said the
university had always held a special place in their hearts. “It’s basically home,” Shah said, “and has always been a constant throughout our relationship.” According to Shah, when it came time to take the next step into engagement, the location that came to Shah’s mind was NC State. Patel was sent on a scavenger hunt throughout meaningful locations on campus from their past. After visiting numerous spots, including where they first met and first began dating, Patel was led to Shah in the Court of
North Carolina. “I had no idea he was planning this” said Patel. Shah, who had been coordinating the day for more than a month had kept his plans under wraps. While nervous about the logistics of the plan, Hersh wanted the event to be a special one for his fiancee. “I wanted the engagement to be memorable for us,” Hersh said. The engagement was not only memorable for the couple, but also fellow student, Taylor Paige Ledbetter, a freshman in biochemistry,
who quickly pulled out her iPhone to capture the moment. Ledbetter did not know Patel or Hersh, but was walking by when she saw the moment unfolding before her. “I know I would want someone to take a photo of my engagement,” Ledbetter said. Soon a f ter, L edbet ter uploaded her photo to the Facebook group Wolfpack Students to see if she could get it to the couple. Hersh and Patel did find the photo, along with another several hundred students.
“I had just wanted to get the pictures to the couple so they could have some more shots,” Ledbetter said. No one could have predicted the traction that the post received online. The photo has now received over 1,200 likes from the NC State community, as well as numerous commenters wishing the couple luck. Among the hundreds of students to see the photo was Patel’s sister, Anjali Patel, also a student at NC State, who saw the post moments before her sister called her to share the news. The couple was then told of
the post by Patel’s sister. “We’re so thankful for the outpouring of love we got from the Wolfpack community,” Patel said. The couple said they are very happy about the post because it allowed members of the community to share their thoughts and wishes, making their connection to NC State even greater and more memorable. Hersh and Patel hope to take the next step of marriage sometime next fall. They are considering NC State as a possible wedding location.
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Tuning into NCSU’s upcoming A capella scene A capella groups talk about what is new this season Elena Durvas Correspondent
On Sunday, Aug. 24, more than 100 singers and beatboxers came to Talley Ballroom in hopes of joining one of NCSU’s four a capella groups. Grains of Time, Ladies in Red, Acappology and Wolfgang each provide unique elements which contribute to the university’s a capella culture. According to Troy Mitchell, a sophomore in electrical engineering and secondyear member of Grains, the current members of Grains of Time chose their newest members, or GRITS (Grains in training), by narrowing down their choice singers and then voting. “It was tough to pick because there were so many good guys,” Mitchell said. “First we had to decide how many people we even wanted in the group, then we picked the best guys we could.” Off icers from all four groups came together to form NCSU’s a capella council. “We got to interact with each other, kind of see the different styles between the groups in the a capella community,” said Tianna Soto, a junior in Spanish and psychology and the music director of Ladies in Red, NC State’s music departmentsponsored all-female group. “It did a really good job of bringing all the groups together.” According to Soto and Mitchell, the joint audition did present some disadvantages. “It was a very long day and it took a really long time,” Soto said. “I was in the music directors’ room and I had to
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Georgina Ishak, junior in human biology, belts out a solo with the Ladies in Red at Packapalooza 2014. Ladies in Red is the all girl A capella group at NC State.
listen to like a hundred scales, and I would’ve liked to maybe see the soloists perform.” Mitchell said that since Grains of Time is an all-male group, they ended up having to watch all the female singers try out on audition day. Naturally, advantages included seeing more potential new members. “When we audition separately, we don’t get to see as many people,” Soto said. Besides performing in various university and community functions, a capella groups also compete regionally and nationally. Grains
of Time will be competing in SoJam this fall, and will join the Ladies in Red in the spring to compete in the National A Capella competition for collegiate groups. Before that, the groups will have to prepare the new members for competition through rehearsals and arrangements. “We arrange and write all the songs ourselves,” Soto said. “We’ll take a pop song that we think is suitable for our group style and we will arrange it in a software program and then assign parts to everyone.”
According to Mitchell, both the Grains of Time and Ladies in Red have a similar process. “We’ve got some people in the group with leadership positions,” Mitchell said. “They’ll decide and then someone will arrange it and we’ll have somebody choreograph it and we’ll learn it, teach it to each other, and keep using it for at least a couple semesters.” A Capella groups are unique in that they perform without any instrumental music, which requires constant fine-tuning of vocals.
According to both Mitchell and Soto, bringing new singers into a group can present challenges. “There’s a really big range of talent levels and background levels so we have some girls that can do music and some that can’t, but luckily with the four that we accepted this semester, all of them have the background,” Soto said. Mitchell also stated that having veterans on the team plays a huge part in their success. “I think it’s one of the most experienced teams that we’ve had,” Mitchell said. “We’ve
got to teach them a lot and it’s a lot to teach. We have to teach six new guys all our current songs that we’re performing along with all the old songs we may pull out at certain gigs, all the choreography, etc.” The Grains of Time will be performing next Friday at the Dunn Center. Ladies in Red will be performing at the International Festival of Raleigh on the Sept. 19, and on campus at the alumni tour event in Talley on the Sept. 28.
Sam Miller directs a thriller full of dull moments No Good Deed
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Hammy acting and predictive horror elements shortchanged No Good Deed, the latest thriller directed by Sam Miller, in a very problematic way. It could have been a cutting portrayal of genderclashing dynamics. But it felt more like a dull, cat-mouse revenge kick with no lingering complexity to it by story’s end. Right off the bat, we know Colin’s (Idris Elba) imprisonment is the result of killing five people after swinging into a violent rage. At his probation hearing, one committee member condemns Colin of “malignant narcissism,” or a condition that reinforces self-importance and a lack of empathy for others. It’s an essential precursor that legitimizes all of Colin’s actions for the rest of the film. I would take it one step further and say that Colin is a hyperdriven, medically-stamped example of toxic masculinity. Following Colin’s escape, more bodies hit the floor. But more importantly, the film transitions to female spaces. Taraji P. Henson plays Terri, a wife and mother of two young girls. Henson projects a degree too far when por-
traying the ever-present and concerned mother figure; you feel it for the performance that it is. The same goes for scenes with an absent and passive husband, who subtly reminds Terri it was by choice that she is at home and not working anymore. When Colin arrives under the victim-guise of getting in a car accident during a storm, there’s a textbook horror trope of leaving the door ajar as Terri runs off to answer the call of her child. The collective audience “what are you thinking?” is clear. But it remains only that: a trope. Colin doesn’t have to sneak in when Terri’s too-telling sympathy feels for a stranger having to wait in the downpour. It’s this act that makes you question the film’s title. Is it a warning that there are no good deeds in a fundamentally sick world or a full-stop of the adage “no good deed goes unpunished?” If it’s the latter, then it stands to reason that the film is propagating that Terri asked for the consequences that follow her good deed. The signs of Colin’s status as a malignant narcissist are not so much nuanced out as they are blatantly triggered when he confronts Terri and, eventually, her friend Meg (Leslie Bibb). It’s practically Psychology 101 class when Colin discovers Terri’s marital and motherly struggles, as well as a medicine cabinet of
Hydroxycut and other weight loss pills, and uses those insecurities to project his own. This and his tenuous sense of control are called out by the women in the film, spawning yet another psyche sign of narcissistic behavior: rage when their own idea of selfperfection is questioned. In one particular scene, Terri reveals to Colin that before deciding to be a stayat-home mom, she worked for the district attorney’s office as a lawyer in homicide cases. She hits the nail on the head when she explains how the accused men were often related or close to their victims and were just plain “weak.” To say the least, it bristles Colin. What follows is an all-out mortal combat between Terri and Colin. Guns, knives, fists and various household items become weapons. One surprising twist arrives toward the end of the film and truly confirms that Terri is surrounded on all sides by dangerous and untrustworthy men. How she decides to resolve this fact of life induced a resounding “hell yeah!” from all the female movie-goers in attendance, maybe even some of the men. Even still, the conclusion is too neat and too cheesy. It almost effectively sweeps everything that occurred under rug.
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“It was strong my first two years here, and we made it to multiple national championships. However, it was slack last season and we struggled as we barely had enough players show up to the games. But we had about 45 players show up to our game Saturday, so that is a good sign.” The team has been to five national championships over the past three years, and had one of its games broadcasted nationally on NBC Sports. The team struggled last season, but has started off the year in dominant fashion, posting a 29-15 win against Wake Forest at home. The team has a tough schedule ahead, as its next home game isn’t until Oct. 25th against Virginia Tech. However, Jernigan believes
the team can overcome it. “Maryland will be tough,” Jernigan said. “And Clemson will be especially tough, considering the fact that they get $50,000 for recruiting purposes while we don’t get any money. They bring people from overseas to come play for their rugby team. But our team is only improving, and we have an opportunity to pull a few upsets late in the season.” Jernigan notes that rugby is not only fun and competitive, but develops a strong sense of comradery between players both on their team as well as opposing teams. He is encouraging new people to come out and give rugby a try. “We practice on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 to 7:30,” Jernigan said. “All you need are cleats and athletic wear. No experience is needed. The majority of the team didn’t ever play until
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to the Cougars’ none, but the Pack held only a slim advantage. In the second half, Charleston came out with tremendous urgency and had the better of the possession. State sat back, comfortable absorbing pressure and trying to hit the
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making tough catches in traffic. Hines enrolled early to get a leg up on the competition and get better acquainted with his new quarterback. His decision to start prematurely worked out perfectly, as Hines currently leads the team in receptions and receiving yards. While he has yet to find the end zone, Hines has certainly played a huge rule in a lot of the Pack’s scoring drives. Hines has been mainly used in the slot receiver role and has shown the ability to make plays and move the chains. The Pack faces off against the Presbyterian Blue Hose in its next contest and it will look to continue its dominant air attack led by its talented trio of receivers to improve its overall record to 4-0.
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Freshman wide receiver Bo Hines runs the ball during the game against Georgia Southern in Carter-Finley Stadium Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014.
college, including myself. Give it three games, by that time you’ll have a good idea of how the game works and whether or not it is right for you.” He also mentions that it is not limited to a specific body type and that anyone of any size, strength or speed can play.
Cougars on the counter without committing too many men forward. The back four of freshmen Caleb Duvernay and Conor Donovan and seniors Simonin and Ingram comfortably dealt with the Charleston attack, but were lucky when an unmarked Cougar player blasted wide left from 16 yards in the 53rd minute. With the game winding down,
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“The good thing about rugby is that, unlike football or basketball, you don’t need a specific body type to play,” Jernigan said. “You can be 300 pounds or 120 pounds and still be a big contributor for the team. However, it is good to be in shape since it is estimated that players run an average of about four
State endured a few nervy moments, but it was the freshman Knudson who iced the game in the 89th. Ingram played a ball into the right channel for Surkamp, and the forward drew two defenders out of position before cutting the ball back into the middle of the field, creating a foot race between Knudson and a Charleston defender. The bullish midfielder outpaced
miles every game.” Rugby will be featured in the 2016 Olympics, and the United States has begun making an effort to support college rugby. The club rugby team has a tough schedule, but is set to have a good season under new coaching and a strong recruiting class.
his marker and managed to keep his balance, touch the ball out of reach of the onrushing Charleston goalkeeper, and pass the ball into the back of the net to seal the win. “It was a huge relief to see the ball hit the back of the net,” Knudson said. “At that point we needed to cool off the game.” With a trip to Pittsburgh on the weekend, and a return to full
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NC State’s doubletrouble running backs breach ACC top-10 in rushing
Junior power runner Shadrach Thornton and sophomore speed back Matt Dayes have compiled 410 rushing yards on the season. NC State is the only school to feature two backs within the top ten of the ACC rushing leaders. Thornton ranks 8th with 229 yards and Dayes sits at 9th with 181 yards. In addition to rushing yards, Dayes also has also been prolific in the passing game. Dayes has recorded 141 reception yards off of 10 catches. This puts Dayes 16th on the list of ACC receiving leaders. In addition, Dayes is the first running back on the list beating out second place finisher Tony Zenon of Georgia Tech by just over 70 yards. SOURCE: ESPN.COM
Augusta James ties for 7th at Cougar Classic
The NC State women’s golf team competed in the Cougar Classic this weekend, hosted at Yeamans Hall in Hanahan, South Carolina. The Wolfpack placed ninth out of 23 in the tournament, and as usual, Senior Augusta James excelled, finishing seventh overall and shooting a 70, 66, and 74 (210 overall). The Bath, Ontario native averaged a 70 and shot six under par, while accruing her 10th top-10 showing in her college career. Vivian Tsui (70-72-76-218) tied for 26th and Rachael Taylor (7373-74-220) tied for 33rd among the 120-player field. Duke’s Sandy Choi (69-68-68--205) won the individual title. Arkansas won the tournament, followed by UCLA and Duke. The Pack will face the foe down the road in its next tournament, the Tar Heel Invitational, on Oct. 10-12 at Finley Golf Course in Chapel Hill. GOPACK.COM
Club Rugby ready to rise to expectations Daniel Lacy Correspondent
Rugby is a fascinating sport that most people have heard of, but are not familiar with its rules or play style. The game is almost like a combination of soccer and football, where players on each side of the field schematically fight to get the ball to the goal line. In addition, a player can only advance the ball by carrying it forward and pitching it back to their teammates. There are two types of rugby: 15s and sevens. The more traditional type is 15s, and it is arguably more physical due to the fact that there are 15 players from each team on the field at the same time. Sevens are faster pace, higher scoring and arguably more fun to watch due to the fact that there is a lot more space to run on the field. This year marks the club rugby team’s 50th anniversary at NC State. The club was started by just five people in 1965. After an underwhelming 2013 season, the club rugby team is set to bounce back with a strong season after replacing the majority of its coaching staff and obtaining a solid group of recruits.
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The new head coach, Brian Ketchem, used to play rugby for the Wolfpack and was almost good enough to play in the national league. According to President/ Captain/Treasurer Cam Jernigan, Ketchem has the ability to propel the team to a higher standard this
season. “Our previous coach was here for six years, and he was good, but he wasn’t going to take us to the next level,” Jernigan said. “Coach Ketchem is our one returning staff member, so the guys are comfortable with him.”
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# Wolfpacker Stephen Tulloch led the Lions with 10 tackles, three tackles for loss, and a sack in the loss at Carolina
In addition, Jernigan believes that they had a good recruiting effort this season, which is one of the biggest keys for the team’s success. “Recruiting is the life and death of the organization,” Jernigan said.
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The NC State men’s soccer team rebounded from Friday’s loss to Wake Forest with a dominant display over the College of Charleston, defeating the Cougars 2-0 in Raleigh. Senior striker Nick Surkamp pounced on a keeper mistake in the 25th minute to put the Pack (3-2-1, 0-1-0 ACC) up 1-0, then freshman midfielder Zach Knudson sealed the win in the 89th to hand the Cougars (2-4-1) their fourth loss of the season. State came into the match shorthanded, missing five players. Junior winger Reed Norton and sophomore midfielder Michael Bajza were suspended after picking up red cards in Friday’s match vs. Wake Forest, while senior team captain and right back Ryan Metts, as well as freshmen forwards Ade Taiwo and Ryan Peterson all missed out through injury. “It’s a great result,” NC State head coach Kelly Findley said. “We had some good performances tonight, especially since we were missing so many players. Matt Ingram was very good filling in for Ryan Metts and Cameron Steele, Yanni Hachem and Phil Carmon all stepped up and helped us.” The Pack controlled the game from the starting whistle, with the midfield trio of junior captain Holden Fender, soph-
omore Roland Minogue and freshman Zach Knudson outnumbering and outplaying the opposing Charleston pairing. State earned a number of corner kicks in the first ten minutes and sophomore winger Travis Wannemuehler found space down the right continuously, nearly scoring in the 14th minute, but the attacker sent his chip over the bar. State had to wait until the 25th minute, when Minogue accelerated onto the end of a cross, touched the ball past his defender and unleashed a powerful volley; Cougars’ goalkeeper Brian Kilgallon made a diving save but couldn’t keep hold of the ball, allowing Surkamp to pounce and poke the ball home. “It was a scrappy goal, but being the first to the ball is the mindset coach has set for us,” Surkamp said. “You take the first goal no matter how it happens.” With the lead, the Pack settled in and defended strongly. Senior defender Matt Ingram, filling in for Metts at right back, was particularly bright shuttling up and down the flank. The senior provided extra attacking emphasis while covering defensively; Charleston continually tried to play balls in behind the State back line, but Ingram was not beaten. “Ryan Metts is one of the leaders of the team,” Ingram said. “I was definitely up to the challenge but those are big shoes to fill.” At halftime, State had outshot its opponents 11-2 and had taken four corners
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The NC State Football team has boasted a prolific offense this season, averaging just below 40 points per game. This is in no small part due to the talented receiving corps that the offense has to work with. After losing its two leading receivers from a year ago to graduation, the Pack was in desperate need for playmakers in the passing game. Rashard Smith led the Pack last season with three receiving touchdowns, 49 receptions and 530 yards receiving, and left his role of number one target up for grabs. The Pack has since decided to fill that missing link with a variety of talented, young receivers. The Pack has shown a lot of balance on the attack this season under new offensive coordinator Matt Canada, posting 243 yards rushing and 273 yards passing per game. Junior quarterback Jacoby Brissett has found his weapons early on in the passing game this season, leaning on sophomore Marquez Valdes-Scantling, sophomore Bra’Lon Cherry and freshman newcomer Bo Hines. Valdes-Scantling has become the big target, which every quarterback needs in their arsenal. Coming off of a solid freshman season where he hauled in 22 passes for 281 yards, the Pack’s tallest receiver is showing that he is ready to become a featured piece of the offensive puzzle, catching eight passes and gaining over 100 yards thus far in the season. Also,
Valdes-Scantling is averaging 13.6 yards per catch, proving to opposing defenses that he is a downfield threat. Cherry has shown early on in the season that he has a nose for the end zone. He currently leads the Pack in receiving touchdowns, always threatening to take it all the way when the ball is in his hands. The New Bern native has not snagged as many catches as the other top targets in the receiving corps, but he has caught the most amount of passes thrown to him. Cherry currently has nine receptions, three of which he ran for touchdowns. He currently has more catches, yards and touchdowns than he did throughout his freshman year. Cherry has proven to be a reliable and consistent target for his new quarterback, a reason why State fans should prepare to see Cherry get the ball more often. “He catches the ball,” head coach Dave Doeren said. “He is very dependable, whoever is open is going to get the ball, and Bra’Lon has been open a lot.” Cherry’s emergence on the field has come to no surprise to most around the NC State program. “He’s just playing with a lot of confidence,” Doeren said. “You started to see it last year with punt returns. He’s a good runner, we’re just trying to get him some touches.” Another integral part of State’s aerial attack is Bo Hines. The talented Charlotte native has shown a knack for getting open and
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