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In its 126 years of educating students, N.C. State has struggled to produce winners of prestigious scholarships despite its consistent high rankings among public institutions. Though N.C. State has had success in producing Fulbright, Goldwater, Truman and Marshall winners, it has yet to produce any Rhodes or Churchill scholars, according to Tiffany Kershner, the coordinator for distinguished scholarships and fellowships. Kershner said that before she came to N.C. State three years ago, there was no formal position for fellowship advising, and the job was handled by Larry Blanton, the director for the University Honors program, on top of his other duties. “We’ve had sporadic efforts to move toward a more formalized fellowship-advising program, and we gain momentum, but then the personell changes, and it falls back and the momentum is lost,” Blanton said. “We have to gain momentum and maintain momentum, and I’m confident we will be successful.” Since the creation of the fellowship advising position, there has been a significant increase in the number of students applying for these scholarships and fellowships, Kershner said. Kershner also said that more fel-
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lowship representatives have visited the University to meet with students. Blanton said it is important N.C. State begins developing a culture of thinking and knowing about the Rhodes Scholarship and other scholarship opportunities. The University also needs to convince students that these goals are worth striving for. “Your odds of getting one of these are close to none, so the question is why bother? Why set yourself up to fail?” Blanton said. “But the process of thinking of who you are and who you want to be, it’s very valuable. There are bonafide benefits but it’s hard to convince students that it’s not worth it unless they win.” Heidi Klumpe, a senior in English and chemical engineering, was a finalist for the Marshall Scholarship and although ultimately unsuccessful, Klumpe said participating in the fellowship process allowed her to discover what she was truly interested in and said she was thankful for the support she received from faculty members. “Once I was applying I realized that are so many people that were really invested in me,” Klumpe said. “I realized I have lots of thank-you cards to write.” Brian Gaudio, a senior in architecture and the founder of a nonprofit organization called Que Lo
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The National Academy of Engineering recently elected an N.C. State professor as part of a 2014 class composed of 67 new members and 11 foreign associates. Ruben Carbonell, the director of the Biomanufacturing Training Education center and distinguished professor of chemical engineering, is the 18th N.C. State professor, and the 12th current professor, to be inducted into the academy. Carbonell said that before coming to N.C. State in 1984, he taught for 10 years at the University of California at Davis. However, Carbonell said the environment at his previous institution did not compete with the connections made between N.C. State graduate students and Research Triangle Park. “N.C. State has made all the difference in my career,” Carbonell said. Frances Ligler, a professor in
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Bahá’í student group showcases film about educational prejudice Brittany Bynum Staff Writer
Members of the Bahá’í faith who have faced discrimination in Iran have started a movement to raise awareness about the injustices they face in their home country. The Bahá’í Club of N.C. State invited guests for a screening of Education Under Fire, a 30-minute documentary about discrimination, at 7 p.m. in Witherspoon
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Student Center on Saturday Night. About 10 people attended the event. Hossain Roushangar, president of the Bahá’í Club and graduate student in chemistry, said he wanted to bring awareness about the prohibition of education toward those of the Bahá’í faith in Iran. Roushangar encouraged attendees to go online to educationunderfire. com to sign a letter to Congress in hopes of raising awareness of the
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Safety, privacy weigh heavy on drone development at N.C. State Jess Thomas Staff Writer
Surveillance drones in development at N.C. State have great potential and many widespread applications, though the privacy policies that will dictate drone usage are not yet clear to the public.
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Privacy issues regarding the usage and testing of drones in North Carolina have arisen due to the testing done by the NextGen Air Transportation Center located on Centennial Campus. Larry Silverberg, a professor and associate head in the department of mechanical and aerospace engi-
neering, said that at N.C. State the purpose of the research is to further develop these technologies. “You have technology development on one hand, and then you have the user community that has their own specific needs, and we
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Que, was the endorsed nominee from N.C. State for the Rhodes Scholarship. Gaudio said he advises students who are interested in applying for prestigious scholarships and fellowships encouraging them to excel in their schoolwork and to broaden their academic horizons to understand the topics they are interested about in a holistic manner. “As an architecture student, my coursework is quite technical and focused on courses surrounding the building environment,” Gaudio said. “The Rhodes Scholarship looks for well-rounded candidates, and my transcript did not show that.” According to Blanton, another obstacle applicants for the Rhodes Scholarship may face is that they must compete with one another at a regional level. Because many of N.C. State’s students are in-state residents, they have to not only compete with each other, but also in a very competitive area. Blanton said that encouraging more out-of-state students to apply would increase the chance of success for the University. Blanton said that another factor could be the degrees N.C. State students tend to earn can be unattractive for certain fellowships and scholarships. “The Rhodes Scholars tend to be mostly students in the liberal arts and sciences,” Blanton said. “They are less enthusiastic about what they see in professional degrees like engineering and design because they are less attractive degrees for them.” Blanton said students who are interested should start preparing early in their academic careers. “They need to be thinking about very substantial scholarship activities,” Blanton said. “They need to be doing
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things like honors thesis and presenting papers, and they need to have very well established academic interests far beyond good grades. That’s an entiretime-at-N.C. State kind of thing, they need to start thinking about the day they come here and work toward that bearing in mind that doing that will position them to all kinds of activities, not just scholarships.” “It really does take four years to develop your application, so start early,” Gaudio said. According to Blanton and Kershner, there are grants donated by a private donor of about $5,000 to help students engage in extracurricular activities that could benefit them when applying for fellowships and scholarships to ensure there is a continuum in their activities. “They need to make sense together. Not just a checklist, but a crescendo,” Blanton said. “They are looking for these integrated individuals who have found a way to take difference experiences and make them make sense in some kind of way.” Kershner said that right now it’s important to just get the word out because a lot of students are not aware that these type of fellowships exist, and because she relies primarily on faculty members to spread the word, there needs to be a change in the culture to ensure students are informed on their opportunities. “I encourage students to read newspapers and be well versed within their discipline,” Kershner said. “Get involved on campus and beyond and in service leadership activities. With larger fellowships you could be asked a lot of questions, and you need to be prepared.”
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Ruben Carbonell, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering and director of the Biomanufacturing Training Education Center was named to the National Academy of Engineering on Feb. 6. The 2014 class consists of 67 new members and 11 foreign associates.
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the biomedical engineering program and a member of the NAE since 2005, said that while she has only been at N.C. State for six months, she chose to work with N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill because of the collaborative opportunities between the two universities, the world-class faculty members, proximity to family and the emphasis placed on mentoring and program development. “I want to help develop research programs and work on my own papers while working with faculty and students,” Ligler said. “And I can do that here. I love it here.” Ligler said she works in creating sensors for drugs of abuse, infectious diseases, environmental pollutants, biological warfare agents and explosives. These sensors are important to first responders as they can easily be carried into the field to check a spot for contamination, used to monitor the air from the ground and on clinical samples at the point of care in developing countries. Though there is no monetary com-
pensation for becoming a member of the NAE, Joseph DeSimone, an N.C. State professor of chemical and bimolecular engineering and an NAE member since 2005, said members are expected to advise the government and address potential scientific needs. “It’s a service really, but it’s also a massive recognition and a real privilege to be a part of,” DeSimone said. Carbonell said he will work with NAE studies that are likely to affect public policies about important issues related to the role of science, engineering and technology for the benefit of mankind. “There’s no money award, but it’s an honor to be asked your opinion,” Carbonell said. Carbonell said his position within the University will not change because of the recognition, but the contacts that he has available outside of the school will help him get involved in new activities and programs. “The NAE offers so many opportunities to work within biomedical engineering that it becomes essential to carefully choose what to get involved in,” Ligler said. According to Carbonell, recipients may not apply and must be nominated by current NAE members who look for
engineers that have made significant contributions in research and education, and members are generally very active in the field. According to Carbonell, his work in three different areas contributed to his election into the academy including a multiphase reactor design, highpressure thin film coatings and novel separation processes. DeSimone said his work has been in polymer science, adhesives and plastics, and he is currently working on developing environmentally friendly polymers jointly at N.C. State and UNC-CH. “In order to solve the problems of today you need all three, science, engineering and medicine,” DeSimone said. “It’s really important to play a bridging role between them.” Carbonell currently works on the development of novel processes by finding more specific peptide ligands for target molecules in order to reduce the cost of production and purification of biotherapeutic proteins that can be beneficial in the treatment of cancer and other diseases. Carbonell said he will be formerly inducted Sept. 28 at a ceremony in Washington, DC.
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issue. “We’re not trying to preach religion, but we are sharing a story of people that are not getting the privilege of education based on their religion.” Roushangar said. According to educationunderfire.com, Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights guarantees education as inalienable right of every human being. The event addressed the unequal rights, persecutions, interrogations, and imprisonment that the Bahá’í face in Iran. In response to being denied the right to an education, the members of the Bahá’í faith have built their own universities. The Bahá’í Institute of Higher Education was secretly started in 1978 with the help of professors from different backgrounds and elite universities around the world. When BIHE was first started, assignments, exams, grades, and
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will develop technologies that will help the users,” Silverberg said. The two main issues regarding drones are safety and privacy, with privacy being the one that concerns the public the most, according to Silverberg. “One of the things that [Director of the NextGen Air Transportation Center] Kyle Snyder and I are working on is putting together a position statement on privacy that does a better job for the
booklets were mailed by professors to students so the Iranian government wouldn’t find out about the underground school, according to the documentary. It could take up to two months for one assignment to be completed because students would mail professors for questions and understanding. As time progressed, some BIHE students would go to class at different professors’ homes in Iran. The school days would last from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., according to the documentary. Students would have to leave the professors’ homes two at a time every five minutes because of the risk of getting caught. According to the documentary, science and math were the two degrees of study provided by the Institute. Sub groups were later developed and a music department was added. According to the documentary, about 3,000 students out of 300,000 Bahá’ís in Iran were a part of BIHE. The university was shut down in May 2011. In October 2011, professors involved with BIHE from Iran
community in explaining what’s allowed and what’s not allowed,” Silverberg said. Silverberg said only current privacy laws will regulate drone use. “For the most part, there are already a lot of laws on privacy so what will happen is the privacy laws pertaining to drones will only reinforce privacy laws that have not before been applied to drones,” Silverberg said. Silverberg said the application of drones needs to have boundaries so it doesn’t infringe upon privacy rights. “We want this technology to move forward for econom-
were jailed and imprisoned for four to five years, according to the documentary. The director of the school was sentenced to 20 years in prison. “Youth of my age should have the same opportunities as me,” Adele Agbaw, a student at Elon University said. “Iran isn’t benefitting from this.” Michael Hills, a non-degree seeking student at N.C State, said four to five professors from Wake County and two to three professors from Chapel Hill volunteer to teach students in BIHE online. The professors come from academic areas such as computer science, theatre arts, and engineering. Students from BIHE have attempted to transfer credits to U.S. based universities for better education opportunities but only a few of U.S. universities such as Indiana University accepts them. The Iranian government strictly believes in the Islamic faith and does not allow freedom of speech, according to Roushangar. The government and religion is one entity
ic development and business development, and we want to ensure there’s not infringement on privacy,” Silverberg said. According to Silverberg, permission must also be acquired if the drones are being used on public land. “The permission becomes stringent depending on what the use is. All of this is fairly unclear to the public and what we need are better guidelines for all of this,” Silverberg said. Kyle Snyder, the director of the NextGen Air Transportation center, said the primary purpose of the unmanned
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in Iran which leaves no room for separation between government and religion. “It’s a violation of our faith,” said Eric Johnson, an N.C. State alumnus and Bahá’í spiritual assembly chairman who serves in Raleigh, said. According to the documentary, Iran is sensitive to international pressure, and members of the government believe that their public appearance is important. Roushangar said members of the Bahá’í faith are heavily discriminated against because they choose to believe in something different from the widely-practiced Islamic faith. The Bahá’í are not recognized in the Iranian Constitution, and they legally don’t have a right to choose their religion compared to countries like the U.S. where people do have that liberty. “It shows how lucky we are.” Roushangar said. “You can be Buddhist, you can be Christian, you can be Muslim and still get your education.” The Bahá’í faith is the second-
aircraft systems program is to help companies f ly and test the drones at N.C. State, which will give students a chance to be involved with the program. “The goal here is how do we help companies that are growing f ly and test here, so they can grow their companies here and get access to our students such as our computer science students, and our aerospace engineering students,” Snyder said According to Snyder, some of the concerns regarding privacy issues were addressed by the government’s plan and the strategies put in place by the center. “The initial concerns are being addressed through the government’s plan and the integration strategies that we have taken such as not employing law enforcement missions right now,” Snyder said. In addition, Snyder said another major goal is to support state agencies that want access to the technology, with the approval of the FAA. “We want to support state agencies that want access to the capabilities of the technology, such as the Department of Energy and Natural Resources and law enforcement agencies,” Snyder said.
most widespread faith with 5 million followers surpassing every religion but Christianity in Iran, according to bahai.org. The Bahá’í faith was started more than 150 years ago based on unity and right and wrong. Bahá’ís also view humanity as one big family, and they want to bring peace by serving their country and practicing their faith. Roushangar said N.C. State believes in education, diversity, and unity and the Bahá’í club is following that momentum. Education Under Fire was filmed in nine cities with almost a dozen BIHE students or teachers whose family members were imprisoned or persecuted for being involved, according to educationunderfire.com The institute is currently privately funded and run online. The Bahá’í club has not been established at N.C. State and members hope to do more events to raise awareness about this issue in Iran, Roushangar said.
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Kyle Snyder, director of the NextGen Air Transportation Center, conducts research on the applications of drones.
“The goal is to figure out how we can support all these agencies with FAA approval.” N.C. State’s role in the usage of drones is to determine
the safety of the aircrafts, the airspace that is being used and the policies that are being used for data management, Snyder said.
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he president of the United States had hardly set foot into the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center this past January when a firestorm of glowing screens materialized above the arms and heads Neel Mandavilli of an Guest Columnist exhilarated N.C. State audience. It was as this enthused assemblage fought for the airspace to effectively wield their video-recording smartphones—and yes, even laptop computers—that I felt a surge of annoyance toward what has become an expected practice of digitally cementing the unforgettable to ensure its future remembrance. The temptation to press “record” in our mobile-device world is an admittedly explainable desire under circumstances of momentous historic importance. But what about the regular occurrences that comprise our everyday lives? Even the most inactive social-media user can attest to the propensity for people to document seemingly trivial occurrences. From Instagram filtered photos of last night’s dinner to tweets about tomorrow’s grocery list, there is no shortage of attempts to capture and immortalize the present under the auspices of an all-serving, all-consuming cloud. But rooted within the desire to document our decisions and drudgeries prevails a fear for the present or, more precisely, a fear for losing the present’s memories to the inevitable future. In our efforts to digitally preserve meaningful glimpses of our lives, we ironically forego being truly present to experience the moments we seek to capture as our attention is divided between participation and keeping our
camera hand steady. Fragmented between the experience and our record-keeping devices, we effectively trade our faculty to remember by living to create intangible reminders of the past. Inceasing video and photography are but two symptoms of this detrimental tradeoff. The rise of Internet search engines such as Google have also changed the way our brain remembers information, according to research by Columbia University psychologist Betsy Sparrow. “Since the advent of search engines, we are reorganizing the way we remember things,” Sparrow said. “Our brains rely on the Internet for
“There are some things that deserve to be experienced in their entirety ... ” memory in much the same way they rely on the memory of a friend, family member or co-worker. We remember less through knowing information itself than by knowing where the information can be found.” And today, that information is mostly found in yesterday’s photographs and videos. The problem of literally losing our wits is deservedly frightful to those who value their capacity to think and remember independent of external and material reminders. But rather than finding methods to produce fewer, more deliberate photos or videos, some proponents of the photographic solution insist on increasing the grand sum of captured content to reduce the anxiety of miss-
ing magical moments. Swedish-startup Memento recently raised more than $550,000 to begin production of its “Narrative Clip,” a miniature camera that attaches to the front of its owners and takes photos of whatever is in front of it every 30 seconds. Marketed as a “way to relive more of our lives in the future,” Memento’s Narrative Clip represents everything that is wrong with our disposition to fight personal problems with materialistic products. I agree with Memento that sometimes “life just rushes by, too fast for us to grasp,” but I disagree that automatically capturing photos at customizable frequency is going to help me get my affairs in order to better appreciate the important details of my life. What can help, however, is stopping to smell the proverbial roses. Appreciating the present starts with living in the present, a task undoubtedly more easily said than done. But recognizing the necessity to live unencumbered by the urgency to record is a first step to appreciating the beauty that is lost during our reckless documentations of the mundane. I once asked a European travel partner if he planned on taking pictures while visiting the site of a former concentration camp. He hesitated before shaking his head responding, “No, I think I want to be in the moment when I go there.” There are some things that deserve to be experienced in their entirety else we lose the importance of their weight amidst our panicked panorama productions.
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money-laundering scheme across three states, the resignation of a Lieutenant Governor, f lag ra nt v ioWes Kyatt Guest Columnist l at ion s of campaignfinance laws, all underpinning illegal gambling might sound like a script from an episode of “Boardwalk Empire.” Unfortunately, it’s the all-too-real environment of pay-to-play politics in North Carolina, and it ties directly to the 2012 campaign of Gov. Pat McCrory. Computer sweepstakes— video poker and online gambling—have been a legal conundrum in North Carolina for the past decade. The General Statutes clearly indicate the legislative intent of the General Assembly to outlaw video gambling, but somehow these parlors stayed open even after the North Carolina Supreme
Court upheld a ban on video sweepstakes in 2012. It’s one of those legal questions that appears to be an anomaly, and when it appears there’s an anomaly in lawmaking, that’s a good indicator there’s money involved. As it turns out, operators of online gaming parlors have been smart enough to use software programs that exploit loopholes in the laws regarding gambling in North Carolina. Essentially, customers buy a small item, such as a prepaid phone card, then log on to see if they’ve “already won” before they start playing. Schemes such as this are nothing new, but this software is clearly intended to circumvent the law. Democrats have attempted to regulate and tax these machines through different legislative proposals, but the Republican-controlled General Assembly continues to keep the bills from the floor while law
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enforcement and the courts squabble about the legality of the whole fiasco. There’s one party that has an interest in perpetuating this state of limbo in which parlor owners exploit the law—the companies making the software. That’s where Chase Burns comes in. Burns owns a
“It’s worth noting that election laws are meant to govern both the politician and the financier ... ” company called International Internet Technologies, which is based in Oklahoma and makes the software video sweepstakes machines
run on. In 2013, Burns was conv icted of running a money-laundering scheme in Oklahoma and Florida, which funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to political candidates under the auspices of a veteran’s charity organization. Eventually, the state of Oklahoma seized $3.5 million from Burns and his wife Kristin, and the Lieutenant Governor of Florida resigned as a result of the investigation. But Oklahoma and Florida weren›t the only states that Burns was slinging money into. McCrory and dozens of other North Carolina politicians received a total of more than $235,000 from Burns in the 2012 election cycle, according to the watchdog group Democracy NC. Burns wrote checks to se vera l d i f ferent c a mpaigns from several different accounts, some of which may have contained money
from IIT, according to Democracy NC. It’s illegal to donate business funds to campaigns under North Carolina election law. Burns also funneled that money through Moore and Van Allen, a law firm that used to employ McCrory. In North Carolina, it’s illegal to donate to campaigns under an identity that is not your own. That’s two counts of illegal campaign financing in North Carolina. Finally, North Carolina law prohibits donating more than $5,000 to any single candidate in a cycle. But Burns allegedly donated more than that amount in at least one instance, to state Senate Leader Phil Berger. Three strikes, you’re out, Mr. Burns. It’s worth noting that election laws are meant to govern both the politician and the financier, meaning any elected officials who accepted these funds would be implicated in a subsequent investigation.
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It’s remarkable there has been so little coverage of this story despite the fact that numerous Republicans (and to be fair, a few Democrats) accepted these funds in 2012, and Burns was found guilty in two other states. It’s also remarkable that the Republican Party in the General Assembly is bent on outlawing these gaming parlors apparently to protect the financial interest of Chase Burns, and possibly others like him. If the Lieutenant Governor of Florida has resigned due to this scandal already, then the North Carolina State Board of Elections has an obligation to investigate this matter from a criminal standpoint. Politics may always be a contact sport, but democracy shouldn’t be a pay-to-play affair. Send your thoughts to Wes at technician-viewpoint@ncsu. edu.
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Graduate lights the way for safe cycling Dane Hall Correspondent
As any cyclist may say, riding their favorite form of eco-friendly transportation on the same roads as cars can be quite dangerous. There are several theories about why this is, but according to one N.C. State graduate student, it is because of a breakdown in communication between cyclists and motorists. Brian Franson aims to remedy this situation with his bicycle lighting system, dubbed ALIGHT, which placed third in the 2013 International Bicycle Design Competition. “Motorists often cite not seeing the biker or wrongly predicting their next move,” Franson said. “This communication gap that exists was the main problem I wanted to solve with ALIGHT. It was also the intent to eliminate hand signals currently used by cyclists in order to reduce the risk associated with taking the hands off the bicycle while attempting to make a maneuver.”
“Once turned on, it stays lit green until the cyclist puts the brakes on, which changes the light to red.” Brian Franson, ALIGHT founder
To do this, he needed to design a system that would be visible at all times and from all angles, and communicate as much, or more than, the brake and turn signals that we are used to on cars. To this end, the design started with a stretchable, flexible sheet made of electrodes sandwiched between layers of carbon nanotubes. This forms a pliable, light emitting sheet. To make the cyclist not only visible, but visible from all angles, Franson designed ALIGHT to take up as much visual space as possible.
“ALIGHT can be extended with the two ends attached to the rear axles which creates a natural curve making it more visible in traffic,” Franson said. “In the extended position the motorist can see ALIGHT from the rear and also from the side.” As with anything, though, versatility was a main concern according to Franson. Under circumstances where the large surface area isn’t needed or may be distracting, the sheet can be retracted into the cylindrical casing. “When coiled up, it still lights up through the case and acts as a smaller taillight under the seat,” Franson said. “When detached, ALIGHT has the added benefit of becoming a small flashlight to help you find your things or lock up your bike in the dark.” The light-emitting material is what allows ALIGHT to integrate the cyclist into the flow of traffic, effectively acting as a set of tail lights for the bicycle. Franson took advantage of colors and patterns that drivers are already used to seeing on the road. According to Franson,
understanding the next action of the cyclist should be intuitive, even if a driver has never seen ALIGHT before. “ALIGHT features a bright glowing green light that is visible day or night,” Franson said. “Once turned on, it stays lit green until the cyclist puts the brakes on, which changes the light to red. When turning left or right, a yellow light will blink in the direction the biker intends to go. Controls are located at the handlebars and connected electronically.” So not only should ALIGHT be easy for motorists to understand, but should be easy for cyclists to operate from their first time using it, thanks to common sense controls. It may be some time before bicycles are as common a sight on the road as cars, but Franson and all the other competitors in the International Bicycle Design Competition are aiming to make that a possibility with innovative safety devices.
Professor explores humane whale euthanasia Katie Sanders Assistant Features Editor
Craig Harms, associate professor of aquatic, wildlife and zoologic medicine, works with anything that’s wet – invertebrates, fish, sea turtles and aquatic mammals. Most recently he’s helped pioneer a method for the humane euthanasia of stranded whales. T he va st major it y of beached whales are already dead when they become stranded on the beach. There is only about one live whale
beached a year in North Carolina, according to Harms. “Usually [being beached] means that they’re sick,” Harms said. “Rarely it’s an accident, just a whale in an unfamiliar territory that gets caught by a falling tide. Those are the best chances that a whale has to be rescued or rescue itself.” Accord i ng to Ha r ms, whales are often stranded because of sickness, such as a parasite or pneumonia, or injury due to contact with a ship.
“They just don’t get out of the way fast enough, and they get chopped up by the propellers or just blunt trauma from the bow of the ship,” Harms said. Harms said whales also get entangled in fishing gear. “They get those wrapped up around their flippers and f lukes and that can really slow them down,” Harms said. “They can’t swim as well and they can’t feed as well and they waste away and they eventually come into shore.” According to Harms, even if marine veterinarians were able to move many of the injured whales off the beach, they would not survive in the ocean. Harms said it’s inhumane to leave the whales to suffer. Once they are beached, they will usually have scavengers such as crabs and gulls starting to pick at them, especially their eyes. The sun also burns their skin until they blister, to the point that the injury is equivalent to a third degree burn. It is hard for whales to breathe without the buoyancy of the water holding them up, as eventually the whales’ lung collapse, Harms said. Therefore, according to Harms, euthanasia often is the only feasible option. “[People] will say that the stranding responders took the easy way out, got rid of the problem, but it’s really not the easy way out,” Harms said. “There’s nothing at all easy about doing this. It’s a tough decision to make, it’s tough to carry out, the only reason we do it is because we think it’s better than the alternative of letting them suffer, because they are usually not in a rescuable or recoverable situation.” However, accordi ng to
Harms, euthanizing whales effectively is difficult. “We did the best we could, but it was just not good enough,” Harms said of the first time he attempted to euthanize a beached whale. Harms said he found it distressing not being able to care for the whale like he was used to being able to do for smaller animals. According to Harms, a few of the other authors of the paper, Bill McLellan from UNC-Wilmington, Michael Moore from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Susan Barco from the Virginia Aquarium, had similar difficult experiences, and so they met together to consider better solutions to the problem. Harms and his fellow researchers not only struggled with the sheer size of the whales, but also with how to euthanize them humanely without affecting scavengers in the area. When whales have been euthanized before, the drugs used for the process have harmed the environment. “The big challenge with these large whales is if we have a situation where we can’t properly dispose of the carcass afterwards, finding what we can use that is still going to be humane to the animal but isn’t going to cause problems to other wildlife,” Harms said. “That is where we came up with the combination we used.” The team did this with an intracardiac injection of potassium chloride; a wnatural salt and something
that a scavenger would avoid eating because of its taste. According to Harms, this in itself would not be humane, and so to relax the whale and make sure it doesn’t feel the injection it is given a combination sedatives and pain reliving drugs including midazolam, acepromazine and xylazine. “That’s key — we get those three other drugs before we do [the injection],” Harms said. These preliminary drugs are given intramuscularly near the head of the whale for the safety of the workers, as the powerful fluke, where drugs are normally injected in marine mammals, is very dangerous to be around. These calm the whale, making the process easier for the animal and safer for the veterinarians. Harms said that the danger of a beached whale was something that people really needed to appreciate – even if the whale is dead, it is still moving in the surf and can trap people that get to close beneath it. The moving body of the whale also causes a trough in the sand around it, making the water much deeper near the animal. To inject the whales, the researchers had to design their own needles, which are 33 and 55 cm long, in addition to a pump system. However, even though the needles are so long, they are standard gauge and so the whales react very min-
imally to them. People have previously used sharpened brake or refrigerator line for whale intra-cardiac injections, which works well, but are just not as functional as the needles Bill McLellan created. “[The needle for the heart is] a lot thicker and it has sideports instead of end-ports so that when you’re sticking the needle in it doesn’t core,” Harms said. It also has a quick release, or a place to attack a pressure chamber, which the researchers made out of a garden sprayer. “It’s going to probably be more widely used now that the information is out there and we’ve had some success with it,” Harms said. Harms said that every stranding is different, and veterinarians have to adapt to the circumstances in which procedures, materials available and drugs may vary. “It’s not perfect, but it’s a lot better than what we had before. There’s room for improvement, and I hope it does get improved,” Harms said. Harms was the first of the researchers to have a chance to put their methods into practice. “It was just an incredible relief,” Harms said. He said while it was still depressing, he believes that he and his fellow researchers are doing the right thing. “One of the components to the veterinarian oath is relief of animal suffering,” Harms said. “It’s hard to watch an animal that big and with that big a brain go through the really long process of dying on a beach.”
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Lost in the Trees finds footing in new album Past Life
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Lost in the Trees has long since been a band best known for its grandiose orchestrations – it was the band’s calling card of sorts. When I first happened upon the band, it had more than 10 members in its lineup, but during the years it has gradually trimmed down the roster, yet beefed up its sound. Though the band performed only as a sextet for A Church That Fits Our Needs it produced some of its loftiest, most ambitious work to date. When a band becomes so firmly known for a trademark sound, it can take two directions: settle into that foundation, or strip it all down and start anew. For Past Life, Lost in the Trees chose the latter and it paid off in bunches. Gone are the swelling chamber arrangements, steeped in rich classical tradition. In return they have delivered dense soundscapes crafted by synths and electric guitars. Though there is a handful of moments where its orchestral backgrounds peep in through the mix, Past Life is prominently built upon this new minimal approach and it works. Instead of emphasizing the pomp and fanfare of the string section, songwriter Ari Picker can concentrate more on the core aspects of
these songs. Though Picker’s previous work was dedicated to his recently deceased mother, Past Life trades in autobiographic musings for more abstract lyrical explorations. Dealing with less emotionally weighted subject matter allows for a more leisurely listening experienced listeners can put away their empathetic heartache and allow the soothing sounds to wash over them. Picker certainly still sings of love and longing, but it’s more firmly rooted in contemporary styling as opposed to the theatrical approach we’re used to receiving from this group. Past Life finds Lost in the Trees bursting past expectation, album opener “Excos” opens with haunting vocals and a sparse piano arrangement that slowly unfolds to find Picker singing of the “rising water” and an infinite longing for another’s love. The song gradually devolves into a melodic collage of sorts, Emma Nadeau’s wordless chorus meshes with Picker’s verses, beautifully countering the subtle yet piercing horns in the background all washed in faint percussive embellishments. As the song slowly bleeds into the titular track, we’re tossed into the waters of this new arrangement and it feels insanely gratifying. “Past Life” erupts with a melodic guitar lines and a minimal drum beat that pops and clicks along as Picker croons softly of warm, comforting
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Lost in the Trees recently released its fourth studio album, Past Life, which veered from the band’s usual ochestral style of presentation. The band saw its start in Chapel Hill in 2007.
images. As the driving synth line erupts within the song’s chorus, one can finally feel at home within this new soundscape. Lost in the Trees always felt like they were in a category of their own musically, while their music felt immediately connectable it could easily be slightly dissociative due to how deeply it was entrenched within the classical and baroque styles. Past Life finds the band pulling more from its peers, but doesn’t make its music any easier to classify. Although it has stripped down to a quartet, they’re still equally ambitious in their musical goals. Tracks like “Daunting Friend” and “Wake” are perfect examples of how Lost in the Trees has retained much of its initial extravagance, creating lush arrangements from minimal tools.
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Shedding away the strings makes Picker’s songwriting the immediate draw-in, which is one of the most fantastic parts of Lost in the Trees anyway. Picker’s lyrical acrobatics are part of what makes this music so easily accessible, he paints vivid pictures and elicits specific emotions through his wordplay to make listening feel therapeutic. But to only concentrate on what Lost in the Trees has changed for Past Life is doing a disservice to the album. If this were the band’s debut it would still be equally impressive, whether you’re aware of its orchestral background or not Past Life serves as an incredibly middle-ground between string-laden folk music and inventive electronic i nst r u mentat ion. These songs feel firmly rooted in its contemporary influences like Radiohead and Blonde
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Redhead. It’s made a bold transition into the art-rock territory and did so flawlessly. Lost in the Trees have reinvented themselves with Past Life. It has wiped the slate clean and left its future wide-open. One of the most
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Wolfpack pushes Orange to the brink but comes up short Zack Ellerby Correspondent
N.C. State battled admirably against Syracuse on Saturday night, but a series of late mistakes doomed the Wolfpack as it fell, 55-56, to the nation’s No. 1 team in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y. With the loss, State falls to 16-9 overall and 6-6 in the ACC. The Wolfpack sits sixth in the conference, sandwiched between No. 23 Pittsburgh (20-6, 8-5 ACC) and Clemson (15-9, 6-6 ACC). The Orange (25-0, 12-0 ACC) remains atop the ACC with the win, leading Virginia (215, 12-1 ACC) by a half-game. Syracuse’s unbeaten run to start the season is the thirdlongest in ACC history, behind 1972-1973 N.C. State (27-0) and 1956-1957 UNCChapel Hill (32-0). The Pack fell just short of notching its seventh all-time win over the nation’s No. 1 ranked team, with its latest
win coming just a season ago against then-No. 1 Duke on Jan. 12, 2013 at the PNC Arena. Sophomore forward T.J. Warren led the Wolfpack with 23 points, marking the eighth straight game where the sophomore has scored 20 or more points. Warren also added four rebounds, three assists and three steals. The Durham native contributed on the defensive end as well, guarding Syracuse’s senior forward C.J. Fair, an ACC Player of the Year candidate, for the majority of the contest. Fair was held to 11 points on five-for-16 shooting on the night. Head coach Mark Gottfried said he was proud of his team’s effort against the nation’s top team but also said the Wolfpack didn’t travel to Syracuse, N.Y. looking for a moral victory. “We didn’t come up here to feel good or play well,” Gottfried said. “We came here to win.” “We did enough to put our-
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selves in a position to win, so that’s what’s tough right now.” With the Wolfpack up, 5554, with 21 seconds remaining in the game, junior guard Desmond Lee attempted to dribble out of a Syracuse trap at midcourt. But Lee unintentionally dribbled off his foot and out of bounds, giving Syracuse the ball and a
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said the foul happened before Warren began his shot, meaning the Wolfpack would receive no free throws. “When I watch the tape, it’s hard for me to walk out of here not feeling frustrated,” Gottfried said. “It’s a hard one for T.J.” Barber received the ensuing inbounds pass in a corner and was immediately trapped by Syracuse’s suffocating defense. With nowhere to go, the freshman passed to Washington in a crowded post area, but the Orange’s junior forward Rakeem Christmas was there to intercept the pass. Christmas found Fair in the open court, who made a clutch layup to put Syracuse ahead, 56-55, with seven seconds left. The Wolfpack was immediately forced to drive the length of the court with no timeouts. Warren took a desperation jumper with the clock expiring, but it missed off the front iron to give Syracuse the win.
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UNC, DeShields down State Pack takes Sweetheart Invitational N.C. State’s gymnastics team hosted UNC-Chapel Hill, William & Mary and George Washington University this Saturday in the Sweetheart Invitational. The Wolfpack won the meet, posting a season-high score of 196.050, more than two points higher than the second place finisher, George Washington University. Senior Stephanie Ouellette won the all-around event, finishing with a score of 39.300. Be sure to check out the full article on our website, TechnicianOnline.com/Sports. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Wolfpack golfers off to hot start in Puerto Rico Senior Brittany Marchand posted a score of -1 (71) in the first round of the Lady Puerto Rico Classic at the Rio Mar Country Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico. Marchand finished the first round in a four-way tie for second place, three shots behind the leader. Junior Augusta James shot a +1 (73) in the first round, and helped the Wolfpack (+9) finish the first round in a tie for fourth place, just two shots off Alabama (+7) in second place. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
State dominates Cougars, enters ACC play with undefeated record The Wolfpack women’s tennis team won its fifth straight match of the 2014 season, beating College of Charleston, 7-0, on Sunday at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center. Sunday’s win ensures N.C. State (5-0) will enter conference play with an undefeated record for the second straight season. Senior Joelle Kissell, with 53 career singles victories, is seven wins away from setting a new N.C. State record for all-time career singles victories.
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In what has become an endearing annual event at N.C. State, more than 8,100 fans were treated to a highly entertaining women’s basketball game between two ranked rivals with terrific team and individual play. The No. 10 N.C. State Wolfpack fell to No. 17 North Carolina, 89-82, on Sunday in the ninth annual Hoops-4-Hope game at Kay Yow Court in Reynolds Coliseum. The loss drops the Wolfpack to 22-4 overall and 9-3 in the ACC while the Tar Heels improve to 20-6 on the season, 8-4 in conference play. It was State’s first loss at home in 14 games. North Carolina used a sensational performance from freshman guard Diamond DeShields to complete the regular season sweep over N.C. State. The Norcross, Ga. native scored a career-best 38 points on 12for-23 shooting, including five-fornine from three-point range. The Tar Heels were lethal from behind the arc the entire game, making 13of-23 long range attempts, to overcome the Wolfpack’s 25 offensive rebounds in the contest. “You have got to give them credit,” N.C. State head coach Wes Moore said. “They knocked down a lot of shots. DeShields was phenomenal. They hit 13 threes and we hit five. That was a big factor in the outcome.” The Pack was led by senior forward Kody Burke, who finished with 18 points and four rebounds. Three other players finished in double-figures scoring for N.C. State, led by senior center Markeisha Gatling, who posted 15 points and nine rebounds after being saddled with foul trouble in the first half. North Carolina started early from
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Senior guard Myisha Goodwin-Coleman works her way to the basket during the Hoops 4 Hope game between No. 10 N.C. State and No. 17 North Carolina in Reynolds Coliseum Sunday. Goodwin-Coleman had 13 points and five steals against the Tar Heels, but State fell to Carolina, 89-82.
behind the arc, making its first three baskets from three-point range. The Tar Heels built a 25-14 lead with 10:46 remaining in the first half. The Wolfpack responded and junior guard Len’Nique Brown hit a layup with 25 seconds left in the first half to give N.C. State a 40-39 lead at intermission. Immediately after the break, senior guard Myisha GoodwinColeman, honored before the game with a midcourt ceremony after becoming the 30th player in N.C. State women’s basketball history to score more than 1,000 points, hit a three-pointer to add to State’s lead. The Pack extended its advantage to six points with 16 minutes remaining, but then DeShields took over,
scoring 27 of her points throughout the remainder of the contest. N.C. State held a 63-62 advantage after Goodwin-Coleman hit a threepointer with exactly nine minutes remaining. Then DeShields hit a three to give North Carolina the lead and the Tar Heels used a 14-4 run over the next four minutes to take a 76-67 lead with a little more than four minutes to play. “At the end of the first half, I took a pass when I could have shot at the top of the key because I was not confident in my shot at that time,” DeShields said. “But in the second half I knew what I needed to do.” The Pack rallied to cut the deficit to two points with 1:03 remaining after Burke completed a three-
point play, but DeShields responded with a tough, fadeaway jumper to push Carolina’s lead back to four. Goodwin-Coleman missed a threepointer with 22 seconds remaining that would have cut the lead to one and State never threatened again. “There is a lot of things we can take from [the game] and hopefully we can improve as we head to March,” Moore said. “This is a tough stretch.” N.C. State will return to action Thursday with another game against a Triangle rival when the Pack travels to Durham to face No. No. 7 Duke in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Tip is set for 6:30 p.m.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY “Maybe we’ve heard too much about how good we are, and maybe we’re not that good.” Elliott Avent, head baseball coach
Golden Griffins defeat Wolfpack Christian Candeloro Staff Writer
Behind a strong pitching performance from junior pitcher Rohn Pierce and a little help from N.C. State, the Canisius Golden Griffins defeated the Wolfpack, 3-0, Sunday at Doak Field in Raleigh. Junior pitcher Carlos Rodon earned the opening day start for the Wolfpack and pitched well, allowing only four hits and three runs while striking out six during six innings of work. However, only one of the runs Rodon allowed was an earned run. Errors by junior left fielder Bubby Riley and junior second baseman Logan Ratledge cost the Wolfpack crucial runs in the early stages of the ballgame. “It’s one game, we should be able to get more than three runs for [Rodon],” junior shortstop Trea Turner said. “I think we can improve everywhere…it’s not a total disaster but it wasn’t how we wanted it to go.” Opening day at Doak Field came a week early for the N.C. State Wolfpack, who was not originally scheduled to play its home opener until Feb. 21. State was scheduled to play a three-game series against the University of California-Santa Barbara this weekend but due to weather and travel issues the series was cancelled. In its place, the Wolfpack scheduled a three-game series against Canisius, but game one of the series on Saturday was cancelled as well due to poor weather conditions. “We wanted to play,” Turner said. “We were anxious to find out where and when and it. I don’t think the
scheduling affected us mentally or physically though.” The Golden Griffins jumped on Rodon right from the beginning, with junior outfielder Mike Krische leading off the game with a ground rule double. Senior outfielder Jessie Kelso followed that up with a double past a diving Riley in left field to drive home Krische. The Wolf pack immediately bounced back, getting runners on first and second with one out in the bottom of the first. But Pierce quickly slammed the door shut, striking out one Wolfpack batter and getting junior right fielder Jake Fincher to fly out to right. Rodon got the Golden Griffins out in order in the second, but the wheels came off in the third. After Riley misplayed a deep fly ball in left field, Rodon hit a batter and then issued back-to-back walks to give Canisius its second run. The junior left-hander would work out of the jam, but quickly found himself with a runner on third and two outs in the top of the fifth. Junior designated hitter Jesse Puscheck laced a screaming line drive back up the middle that Rodon got a piece of, sending a dribbling ground ball toward Ratledge, who misfired to first base and allowed another Golden Griffins runner to score. “My command overall today was just up-and-down, in-and-out, just inconsistent,” Rodon said. “I just wanted a win and it didn’t happen.” The game settled into a defensive battle from there, as no one could muster a threat until the Wolfpack moved freshman third baseman Andrew Knizner to second base with
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Sophomore pitcher Carlos Rodon throws a pitch during N.C. State’s season opener against Appalachain State on Doak Field Feb. 17, 2013. The Wolfpack fell to the Mountaineers, 6-3, in the first game, while the second and third games were cancelled due to inclement weather.
two outs in the seventh. But once again, Pierce (seven IP, 0 ER, five H) came through by striking out freshman right fielder Garrett Suggs to end the threat. Turner was a bright spot for the Wolfpack with a three-for-four day at the plate. However, he was left stranded in scoring position all three times. “Trea [Turner] can’t do this by himself and it’s a baseball game, so sometimes you have bad days…but today we really didn’t have good at bats at all,” Wolfpack head coach Elliott Avent said. Wolfpack fans got their first chance to see State’s new-look bullpen when senior reliever Andrew Woeck came in to relieve Rodon at the top of the seventh. Woeck retired the side one, two, three in the seventh, and allowed a long single in the eighth to senior first
baseman Jimmy Luppens before junior catcher Brett Austin gunned him out trying to steal second. In total, Woeck threw three scoreless innings, surrendering one hit and striking out four. Canisius’ sophomore pitcher Alex Godzak relieved Pierce and earned the save for the Golden Griffins by shutting down State’s final rally in the ninth. After Fincher drew a walk, freshman first baseman Kyle Cavanaugh lined a single to left field with no outs. However, Godzak retired the final three Wolfpack hitters to end the game. “I put a lot of stock in one game,” Avent said. “That game counts. It was real. It was who we were today and it wasn’t very good. Maybe we’ve heard too much about how good we are, and maybe we’re not that good.”