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New formalized fraternity rush faces challenges Inez Nicholson Correspondent

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Will Garrison, junior in chemical engineering, and Yang Ho, a junior in physics, applied mathematics, and computer science, performed with Lion Dance Troupe at NC State on September 19, 2013. They were celebrating Mid-Autumn Festival which is celebrated throughout Asia. This celebration was hosted by Kappa Phi Lambda and Chinese Undergraduate Student Association (CUSA).

Lion Dance Troupe celebrates traditional Chinese culture Sara Awad Assistant Features Editor

Tucked away in the Honors Village Commons multipurpose room, senior in physics Yang Ho bounces and bobs about in the shrouds of a lion costume. Ho performs this ritual Sunday afternoons along with other students as part of Lion Dance Troupe, an organization he co-founded with Peter Vu, a senior in chemical engineering, in order to educate the community about China’s traditional lion dance. The dance coordinates rigid movements of kung-fu along with a little freestyle to the beat of a drum and several gongs, according to Ho. Southeast Asia popularized the dance, which started off as a tradition in the Chinese martial arts school. “The lion dancing symbolizes a lot of things that the tiger symbolizes in China, which is actually kind of interesting, because tigers are much more prevalent in Asia than lions are…but it really symbolizes power,

good fortune, strength, wealth,” Ho said. “If one school has a lot of lions, that school is seen as very good, very rich, very prestigious.” Dancers perform stunts while dressed in elaborate lion costumes consisting of two parts: the head and the tail, held together by a blanket-like canvas, Ho said. The dancer inside the head of the lion acts a puppeteer, who winks the lion’s eyes, flaps its ears and opens its mouth while the dancer inside the tail helps lift the head. “I’m in the back basically hunched over down at 90 degrees hanging on my hands to Yang’s waist,” said William Garrison, a club member and junior in chemical engineering and international studies. Originally, performers used big, powerful stances in their movements to mimic the power of a menacing lion, a style known as futsan, according to Ho. Later as the dance evolved, the tamer hoksan style took center stage.

“The way of hoksan originated when one of the prominent practitioners of futsan was just kind of observing this cat and then he kind of realized that the lion dancing didn’t look anything like a lion or a cat…so he modified the style to make it look more modern and playful, and so a lot of the movements are a lot more joyful and softer, so it looks more like a small cat or kind of like a puppy…” Ho said. The third style of dance, fukhok, creates a middle ground by combining elements from both styles, according to Ho. The percussion instruments then dictate the pace and direction of the scene, Ho said. Since people stationed in China and Southeast Asia make the lion heads by hand, its cost ranges anywhere from $600 to $1,000. “It’s very intricate,” Ho said. “In

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Researchers find having a mentor can lead to a more fulfilling career Emily Duckett Correspondent

People who have had mentors throughout their lifetimes are likely to have a more satisfying and more intrisically valuable career, according to new NC State research. Joshua Lambert, a sociology Ph.D. student and co-author of the study, said researchers wanted to know more about the impact of informal mentoring on labor market outcomes because of the lack of information currently available about the effects of long term mentoring. The study found people who had mentoring relationships were more likely to emphasize intrinsic job rewards, such as caring about their quality of work and feeling their jobs are important and making a difference. People with mentor relationships were less likely to care as much about extrinsic job rewards, such as better wages and compensation. Lambert said a mentor is any nonparental adult figure that takes an interest in someone’s life. “We come in contact with other folks, and they become quite important and instrumental in our lives,” said Steve McDonald, sociology professor at NC State and lead author of the study. McDonald said examples of men-

NC State’s first ever formalized fraternity rush implemented by the Interfraternity Council ended last week. However, some members said the formalization caused problems and delivered unintended consequences. “At first, it was good,” said Adam Elshanawany, recruitment chair of Sigma Pi-Rho and sophomore in biological engineering. “It gave us a chance to meet guys that I normally wouldn’t outside of rush. And then, my opinions really changed with the results.” Rush week began Sept.12 at the Miller Fields, where each of the 22 fraternities had a tent and talked to

potential members about what their particular chapter had to offer. From there, potential members were told to pick their top six. “There was a lot of cool people I met,” said Ethan Hill, newly pledged Sigma Phi Epsilon and engineering first-year freshman. “But by the time I was at my 22nd tent, I totally forgot who I had talked to at my first.” On Saturday, the pledges went to the houses of the six fraternities they chose the day before. Transportation to carry the pledges back and forth between the on and off campus fraternities was included in the $30 registration fee. IFC ordered five buses for Saturday’s Open House. However, only three buses arrived.

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Engineering program extends to Eastern NC Colleen Kinen-Ferguson Staff Writer

NC State’s engineering program now has a branch in the Havelock campus of Craven Community College in New Bern in an effort to provide residents in Eastern, North Carolina an opportunity to obtain an engineering degree. “As a land grant university, the College of Engineering wanted to establish a program to serve the needs of residents of Northeastern North Carolina,” said Linda Krute, director of distance education engineering programs at NC State. “We saw this as an opportunity to reach out to residents who wanted to stay and pursue careers in engineering.” The program began when two alumni from NC State’s Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, Dennis West and Chris Holder, approached NC State about beginning an engineering program for the civilian engineers of the Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point. The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) and the department of defense at Cherry Point are among the largest employers in Eastern North Carolina, employing more than 3,200 people. Of these, more than 600 are civilian engineers. The program was designed for students who wanted the benefits of an NC State engineering degree but

can’t make it to Raleigh. “People want an engineering degree, but they can’t quit their jobs or uproot their families,” said Richard Gould, RJ Reynolds Department head at NC State. The length of the program depends entirely on the students. For full-time students, it normally takes around four years, whereas part-time takes six, according to Bill Fortney, Eastern regional director for Engineering Programs. “That’s the beauty of the program,” Fortney said. “It’s completely flexible. Students with little to no experience in engineering can take Calculus at Craven Community, and then transfer to Havelock to earn their degrees. It can really make a difference for people.” Krute said this program is unique. “It doesn’t exist in Raleigh, but the courses taught at Havelock are delivered from Raleigh.” With this program, students can learn Mechanical Engineering Systems, which is a degree not available in Raleigh. In order to attend Havelock, students must apply to the program in the same way they would apply to NC State. Havelock is a site-based program designed specifically for residents of the area, whether they are long-time locals or students wishing to remain and work in the area after college. “It’s for the students who want an

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Mentor Katie Almasy, a sophomore in chemistry, meets with Christina LaMaire, a freshman in chemistry at Clark Dining Hall as a part of the Goodnight Scholars Mentor Program at NC State.

tors include teachers, clergy members, employers or relatives. The researchers studied informal mentoring relationships in adolescents, and many of the mentors adolescents had in the study were teachers. “I think a lot of it has to do with the mentor taking it upon themselves to have an investment in the adolescent’s future,” Lambert said. “That can look many different ways: It can be more emotional support, it can be very instrumental, or it can be more along the lines of role modeling.”

The study followed people who said they had mentors as well as people who didn’t and also used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. Researchers looked at information about these people over time to see what their employment outcomes were like later on, McDonald said. The study tried to discover whether there was a causal relationship between mentoring relationships and the labor market and also whether or not the impact was

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Josh Katz, an NC State alum and creator of the most visited piece of content for The New York Times in 2013, will speak Thursday in the Erdhal Cloyd Auditorium at D.H. Hill Library. While a grad student in the Department of Statistics at NC State, Katz decided to analyze in more detail results from the Harvard Dialect Survey which led Katz to create a dialect map on the use of “y’all,” “youse,” and “you guys” across the United States. After posting this initial map to the NC State website, The New York Times graphics desk discovered it and offered him an internship. This internship gave Katz the

platform to dive deeper into the statistics and further refine the data of his initial map. After publishing the new map with The New York Times it quickly became the most popular content for the newspaper in 2013. Katz now works at The Upshot as a data analysis journalist. The Upshot is a New York Times website that combines statistics with data visualization. The discussion on Thursday will follow Katz’s career trajectory and how data visualization is improving researchers’ ability to break down complex information to the general public. The discussion will be moderated by NC State students Dan Oliver and Gino Lerebours. This program is part of the “Amazing Alumni” series and will start at 3 p.m. on Thursday.

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to remain and work in the area after college. “It’s for the students who want an engineering degree, like the kind you would get at NC State but who want to stay in the area,” Fortney said. Krute emphasized the value of a three-way partnership between NC State, Craven Community College and the government agency of NAVAIR. “We’re so proud of our students and their accomplishments,” Krute said. The program, a site-based program in Havelock, began gathering steam in 2003 and recently received accreditation from the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). After its first four graduates completed the program

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Aiden Burke, newly pledged Pi Kappa Phi, said the schedule and transportation was chaotic. “They didn’t have all the buses figured out,” Burke said. “By midday, the schedule was so messed up that we just abandoned the schedule and went to the houses when we wanted.” Instead of hosting casual events unregulated by the IFC to gain new pledges, each fraternity had to put in more effort into their rush week activities to compete with the 21 other fraternities now seeking the same pledges. “Larger fraternities got even larger classes, and smaller ones got smaller classes,” said Chris Macon, president of Sigma Pi Epsilon and senior in mechanical engineering. “When these guys are exposed to more fraternities, they’re more inclined to go to the larger chapters. This really hurts the smaller

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in spring 2012, the program began to seek accreditation in fall 2012. Accreditation through ABET is a long process, taking a little less than two years from start to finish. “It’s the exact same accreditation the engineering departments at NC State had to go through and have to repeat every six years,” Fortney said. Havelock earned its accreditation in early Fall 2014 and was made retroactive. This way, those who graduated before the accreditation became official still were able to obtain ABET accredited degrees from Havelock. In order to seek accreditation, a program must first have graduates of that program, which is why making the accreditation retroactive is a necessity.

chapters and even the average size chapters.” Adam Feshel, a junior in business administration and recruitment chair for Sigma Nu, a fraternity known for having larger pledge classes (typically around 45 in both the spring and fall semesters), said formalized rush was not beneficial to the smaller chapters. “We’ve never really had problems with recruitment,” Feshel said. “But I think that some of the smaller fraternities got weeded out. Down the road you’ll probably see some of the smaller ones die out.” Elshanawany said Sigma PiRho got the same size pledge classes that it would have expected doing it the old way. “For all the extra work, it really wasn’t worth it,” Elshanawany said. While many pledges were confused with the attempt at a formalized rush, active members also expressed discontent in the way the process turned

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long term. The researchers used the propensity score matching technique to attempt to isolate the impact of informal mentoring on labor markets. “We line up people that have similar risk factors that are basically the same in terms of their background but differ only in terms of having a mentor or not having a mentor, and we match all these folks up and look at the difference in terms of their outcomes,” McDonald said. One important benefit of mentoring found by the study was intrinsic job rewards, according to McDonald. “I think what it suggests

out. “No one really knew what was going on because no one had ever done this before,” Feshel said. According to the IFC, the goal of formalized rush was to level the playing field to give each new member a chance to meet with all 22 fraternities on campus, in turn generating bigger pledge classes. Chris Jefferson, associate director of the IFC, said the IFC lost a lot of people that signed up for fraternity recruitment in past years before formalized recruitment. “It was a unified effort to make sure the people in the fraternities had an opportunity to see all of the fraternities that were represented,” Jefferson said. Regardless of intentions, planning mishaps combined with unfamiliarity with the new system left many current brothers and new pledges disappointed with the outcome. “Formal rush was not all that

is that mentors help young people to try to focus on getting career types of jobs rather than just getting jobs,” McDonald said. The study treated the definition of mentor subjectively and looked at naturally occurring mentoring relationships. Just because some mentoring relationships are naturally occurring, such as relationships that come from mentor programs, it doesn’t mean people can’t still emphasize their importance, Lambert said. “There is something really special about the organic way that mentoring takes place, and one very big challenge of formal mentoring programs is they have to try to recreate that,” Lambert said.

it was promised to be,” said Trey Edwards, president of Chi Psi. Edwards said he thinks a duel formal and informal rush system should be implemented. “That way smaller fraternities can still do informal recruitment and look for guys that normally wouldn’t be interested in a fraternity otherwise,” Edwards said. Jefferson said he acknowledges that transitioning into a formal rush happened on a short timeline. “In theory, it is a good process,” Jefferson said. “I just don’t think they thought all of the logistics through. I understand that this is their first time.” A presence round table meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, Sep. 24. The board and presidents of the IFC will attend along with each chapter president to discuss how the first formal recruitment went and the future of the system.

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general they use bamboo for the frame, the basic structure of the head, and they kind of use like a paper-maché type thing to get the coloring. For some of the fuzzier parts or the fur, people use bristles or yak fur.” Mithi de los Reyes, senior in physics, secured the funds for the club to purchase their very own lion head, according to Ho. Before, they would always borrow the head from the Triangle Area Chinese American Society of North Carolina, meaning they had limited time to learn head movements during practice. Ho said he danced with both TACAS and the NC Kung Fu Center before coming to the university and misses the hobby, since TACAS catered towards high school students. He said time constraints did not favor a return to the Kung Fu Center. “I wanted to keep doing lion dance as much as I can, and I just figured an easier way instead of having to drive all the time would just be to start a club here, so that way I could continue on, and also help to just bring more awareness to the dance,” Ho said. Garrison said he joined the group, which started in spring 2013, after he befriended Ho, who lived on his hall freshman year and helped Garrison with his Chinese classes. “A lot of the new members, most of them haven’t really

heard of lion dancing, or they don’t have any experience doing it, and so it’s pretty exciting to see that, that there are people interested in learning this style of dance,” Ho said. Garrison started off learning the movements without the costume, since the lion tail limits his visibility to the floor beneath him, he said. “It was an unorthodox, but also physically demanding way to explore that culture,” Garrison said. Few universities host a lion dance troupe for students, making the group “unique” according to Ho. UNC-Chapel Hill’s lion dance group did not last, while the organization at Duke University limits its performances to universitysponsored functions unlike NC State’s troupe. “I do walk around with the lion head for performances, and people are interested,” de los Reyes said. “A lot of times Asian culture gets reduced to a certain stereotype when it’s actually a lot more than that.” Due to the small size of the club, the future of lion dance at NC State looks shaky. “I think we’re all afraid that after we graduate there won’t be anyone to carry on that tradition,” de los Reyes said. Fortunately, Ho said, the dance only requires a handful of dedicated students (two in the dragon suit and a few on percussion) to carry on that tradition. If you would like to join Lion Dance Troupe or learn more about this group, send an email to Yang Ho at yho@ncsu.edu.

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In defense of D.C.’s own statehood I

read recently in The Washington Post that Congress is considering making the District of Columbia its own state. My f i r s t thought was silly but still one t hat probably crosses ot her peoJacqueline ple’s minds: Lee 50 states Assistant s ou nd s s o Opinion Editor concrete, and 51 sounds annoyingly uneven. We aren’t accustomed to it. After reading the article, I thought seriously about why D.C. should be a state and realized why its residents

want it so badly. It surprised me looking at the article’s accompanying graphic that said, “The 51st state would have a population of 645,000, larger than Wyoming or Vermont.” I didn’t realize just how many people live in D.C. It seems like a no-brainer, then, that they should be represented. According to the Post, only two senators were at the meeting about granting D.C. statehood, and one of those was a senator who proposed the bill. Other members of Congress need to take this more seriously. President Barack Obama didn’t even send a representative to speak about the

bill, even though he has said he supports it. There aren’t enough people who have signed the bill for it to pass, but it’s time action is taken. A f ter read i ng se vera l articles in the Post about D.C.’s potential statehood, I realized I didn’t know how residents vote there and for whom they can vote. The D.C. Board of Elections website reads it has a mayor in charge of the city and council members, but no one represents them in our national government. It does have a delegate to the House of Representatives, but that person does not have a vote on the House f loor. That person can only

vote in Committee. A major argument residents have is the $4 billion in taxes they pay, according to the Post. If you go to D.C., you’d see “Taxation without representation” appears on D.C. license plates. If the residents are contributing that much in taxes, I think they deserve representation too. Also, consider the members of our military who hail from D.C. I’m sure they want a member of Congress to represent them as well. I’d love to live in D.C. one day. The times that I’ve been, it has always been exciting how young and driven people seem, and there’s always new growth in the city.

It’s fast-paced, exciting and filled with people my age. According to the Post, from years 2000-2010, D.C.’s popu lat ion g row t h ha s mainly been due to people aged 18-34. Many of them are most likely to be politically active since they work in the nation’s capital, and many of them hold political jobs. It would be very interesting to see how they vote and whom they choose to represent them. That also could be a reason why more congressmen don’t bother working to make D.C. a state. Many who are more conservative probably don’t want to see them become a state be-

cause of how that age demographic typically votes. But the 20-34 age group is the future of our country, and that is us. Even if the voting tendencies of our demographic are intimidating to certain politicians, that in no way should be a reason to keep D.C. from being represented. I wouldn’t be satisf ied with just voting for the president and for a delegate who hardly has any power to the House. I’d want someone in Congress who represents me. More than likely, it won’t be given statehood anytime soon, but I hope that one day if I’m considering moving to D.C. for a job, it will be a state by then.

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odern critics decry white pop stars such as Iggy Azalea or Meghan Trainor for mimicking the ‘ethnolect’ (ethnic dialect) of African-American hip-hop ar tists, or, in the case CR Denning of Trainor, Correspondent choosing to employ black backup dancers in a music video. They call it “cultural appropriation,” or one culture’s borrowing aspects from another. The term is used as a pejorative mostly by those who argue that white artists should abstain from borrowing from minority cultures, but the reasoning for this type of argument has lost focus over time. To answer the question of what artists should (or shouldn’t) do, it’s important to understand the historical context from which criticisms of cultural appropriation originate. In the 1950s, white teenagers began to take interest in a musical style born out of black culture: R&B. While some black artists, such as Chuck Berry and Little Richard, saw commercial success, deeply entrenched racism among much of White America caused a backlash against what was described as the “raw, savage tone” of black R&B. The recording industry was not going to forgo capitalizing on the popularity of this new style, however, and white artists— most notably, Elvis Presley— were able to bring R&B into

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to ask ourselves what our outrage accomplishes.” ginalize that differentiates between harmless homage and racist appropriation. According to this definition, it seems clear that the acceptance of R&B in the 50s, so long as its performer was white, was a clear example of cultural appropriation deserving of criticism. It is not so clear, however, that modern-day white pop stars fall into the same category. Their styling may derive from black culture—primarily hip-hop—but the argument that black hip-hop stars “languish in obscurity” as the likes of Azalea and Trainor profit from their innovation is specious at best. Modern criticisms of appropriation aren’t concerned

with this distinction, however. As John McWhorter wrote in a piece for The Daily Beast, “[There] is [a] new way to see the matter: Imitation is a kind of dismissal.” This approach doesn’t seem to hold up under scrutiny, according to McWhorter musings. We imitate things we like. It makes more sense to assume, if we must make such assumptions, that Azalea raps like southern, hip-hop artists because she appreciates their music, not as a slight to black culture. Once we dispose with the arguments relating to profiting on the backs of oppressed cultures, or the “dismissal” of those cultures, what we’re left with is the claim that white artists should avoid creating anything with even a modicum of inspiration from or inclusion of another culture, out of some vague sense of “respect.” When we find ourselves feeling rage over a social issue such as cultural appropriation, it’s important to ask ourselves what our outrage accomplishes. The attitude that white culture ought to remain whitewashed is necessarily divisive. If our goal is a more open, accepting and tolerant society—which is a goal worth pursuing—we should take care not to let our outrage push us further apart.

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the mainstream as an iteration of rock-and-roll, while the African-American originators of the style remained relatively obscure. As a piece on racialicious. com pointed out, “It matters who is doing the appropriating. If a dominant culture fancies some random element … of my culture interesting or exotic, but otherwise disdains my being and seeks to marginalize me, it is surely an insult.” It is the disdain and desire to mar-

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for his young team. “There are a whole lot of una nswered quest ions,” Miller said. “We will know a lot more about where we stand, especially with the new folks, after this weekend.” While the team may not have any seniors currently on the team, it still returns some top talent. Sophomore Lucas Kozeniesky hopes to bring the same sharpshooting back to the team this year that he displayed a year ago. He was named to the AllSEARC Team as a freshman and led the Wolfpack in airrifle eight times during the season. The talented Virginia native showed big improvements during his freshman

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The NC State rif le team looks to start its season off with a bang and take control of the South Eastern Air Rifle conference in its first event of the season Saturday. The team dominated in the SEARC last season, winning first place in every event it took place in—including the conference championship. This weekend, State starts its season off with the SEARC 1 event in Dahlonega, Georgia, an event in which they took first place in just a year ago. The team would like to repeat this two years in a row, but Head Coach Keith Miller sees this as a measuring stick

for the team. But, the esteemed sharpshooter looks to make her mark this year on the SEARC and bring her award-winning talents back to the team. Foster is a twotime all-SEARC performer, as well as an NCAA qualifier and a talent that the team sorely missed a year ago. “It is no doubt that Dani is [a leader],” Miller said. “It is her fourth year on the team, her third year in competition. She’s very seasoned, and she knows the deal.” On top of returning to the team after missing the entire season a year ago, Foster will be switching to a different gun as well. This, however, doesn’t dampen expectations for the respected veteran, as

the team still expects high scores and leadership from Foster. “She has worked real hard this year getting back,” said Miller. “We have her on a different gun, a different stock. I think she is a little nervous because she’s taken a year off, but we’re expecting [Foster and Kozeniesky] to lead us in scoring.” The team hopes to prove its dominance yet again and win the SEARC conference championship for a third year in a row behind talented leaders Kozeniesky and Foster, but the rest of the team will also have to step up to the plate if they hope to be crowned champions once again.

Saturday’s contest has all the makings of a trap game. Coach Doeren’s goal will be to keep the players motivated and concentrated on the task at hand. “This is a big week for us to stay focused,” said Coach Doeren in the ACC Football Coaches Teleconference this week, “try and work on the details we need to get better at before we get into [Florida State and Clemson].” This will be the Wolfpack’s last scheduled nonconference game of the season, as the rest are against ACC foes, beginning with Florida State and a trip to Clemson before returning home for a showdown against Boston College.

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• Page 6: Wolfpack aims for continued triumph

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Undefeated Pack primed to continue win streak Drew Nantais Correspondent

After a blowout victory over South Florida, the NC State football team returns to Raleigh to face Presbyterian this Saturday at 6 p.m. in its last test before opening conference play. After two less-than-stellar firsthalf performances, the Wolfpack (3-0) performed like a team eager to prove itself in all four quarters against the Bulls. State’s first road test of the season turned out to be less of a test and more of a clinic as sophomore wide receiver Bra’Lon Cherry recorded three touchdowns on the day, with two rushing and one receiving. Redshirt junior quarterback Jacoby Brissett’s performance has also been quietly improving, as he completed 20 of 29 throws for 266 yards and two touchdowns. Overall, the Wolfpack offense racked up 589 yards of total offense in a confidence-building win to stay undefeated in its march toward Florida State on Sept. 27. The State defense also showed improvement, yielding just a single touchdown in the first half and only 17 total points over the course of the game while conceding just 159 yards to the Bulls. NC State Head Coach Dave Doeren will no doubt look to his de-

fense to continue its strong play while ensuring the Brissett-led offense maintains its consistent play against the Blue Hose Saturday. Presbyterian, an FCS school from the Big South Conference, rolls into Carter-Finley this weekend riding a two-game win streak. This is the second meeting between the two schools, the first being a 2-0 Presbyterian victory over NC State in 1930. After a 55-3 trouncing by the hands of Doeren’s former team, Northern Illinois, the Blue Hose bounced back, easily taking care of Bluefield College and squeaking by Furman. Inconsistency has been the theme of the Blue Hose’s offense so far, putting up 678 total yards and 69 points against Bluefield followed by a 192yard, 10-point performance against Furman. Presbyterian’s defense is nothing to marvel at either, yielding 635 yards to Northern Illinois and only forcing two turnovers this season. The Pack will use this opportunity to fine tune both the offense and defense, making sure Brissett and his running backs, sophomore Matt Dayes and junior Shadrach Thornton, get into a rhythm early. Defensive Coordinator Dave Huxtable will look to shore up the defense and force Presbyterian sophomore quarterback Heys

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Redshirt junior quarterback Jacoby Brissett hands the football off to sophomore running back Matt Dayes during the second quarter against Old Dominion Sept. 6. The Wolfpack defeated the Monarchs 46-34.

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The Wolfpack should face little to no problems this weekend; however, the team should avoid overlooking this game and fixating on next week’s showdown with number one ranked Florida State. Because of last week’s performance combined with the coming ACC showdowns,

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