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NCSU program aims to help students Josué Molina
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Starting Monday, students on Main Campus may see six-seated vehicles transporting students to and from their classes. The vehicles, which look like the offspring of a limousine and a golf cart, will be part of an electric-vehicle f leet for N.C. State’s newest transportation program, Wolfpack Pick Up. Wolfpack Pick Up will help students with mobility disabilities get around Main Campus. The pilot program will open at 7:45 a.m. Monday. Paige Maxon, the Disability
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Commission chair for Student Government and a senior in biomedical engineering, has long lobbied for the program, according to Brian O’ Sullivan, the assistant director for planning operation of University Transportation.
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New vehicles, which are owned by Gotcha Ride, will be available for students with disabilities starting Monday. The pilot program, called Wolfpack Pick Up, will pick students up and transport them around campus.
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Though the Wolfpack Pick Up service is only available to students who have mobility disabilities, Gotcha Ride started an evening transportation service Thursday, which is open to both students and faculty members. Gotcha Ride provides transportation by request both on-and off-campus between the hours of 9 p.m. and 3 a.m, seven days a week. Rides may be requested by flagging down
a driver or by calling (844) NC-STATE. Gotcha Ride is a transportation service designed for the college-student demographic. “College students we talked to were tired of getting stranded at a bar without a ride and always worried about needing their cars to get them around town,” Gotcha Ride’s website states. “They were fed up with parking tickets and had seen too many friends fall victim to DUIs, but weren’t comfortable taking taxis.”
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Chancellor Randy Woodson and other university officials met with President Barack Obama at the White House last week to discuss a new proposal to help students, who don’t have a family history of higher education, go to college. I n Wa sh i ng ton D.C ., Woodson announced the College Pipeline Initiative, which is a joint effort between N.C. State, UNCChapel Hill and Davidson College. It will place 60-70 recent college graduates in high schools around the state to improve graduation rates and encourage students to apply to college. According to Woodson a national college “access issue” exists in which a large percentage of young people in the upper income quartile attend and graduate college, compared to a very small percentage of students born into families in the lower quartile. “The President and First Lady have challenged university chancellors around the country to solve the problem of getting people who don’t have a family history of higher education to attend college,” Woodson said. “Most colleges, like
N.C. State, have outstanding financial aid programs, but those only work if students apply and get admitted. The pipeline is all about encouraging young people to work hard in high school so college is more than a dream, it can be a reality.” Woodson said the initiative started with a call from the White House in early December and a proposal from the John M. Belk Endowment to work with UNC-CH and Davidson. “[Starting the College Pipeline Initiative] was a collaborative effort, but the Belk endowment really stimulated the conversation by encouraging us to work together,” Woodson said. “It was a combination of the three universities wanting to work together and the Belk endowment wanting to support.” The Belk endowment will provide a three-year, $10 million grant to start the initiative, and will continue to fund the initiative if it’s successful, according to Woodson. “Essentially, it’s a threeyear grant to test this hypothesis to see if it has an impact on helping low income students get into college,”
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African art exhibit opens on campus Brittany Bynum Staff Writer
African portraits of religious traditions and the African Diaspora were brought to life by the fine-art portrait photographer Phyllis Galembo in the gallery opening of the “Theater of Belief.” The N.C. State African American Cultural Center partnered with Meredith College and Gregg Museum of Art on Thursday to display two different exhibits at both universities. According to Roger Manley, director of the Gregg Museum of Art, Meredith’s exhibit displayed portraits of projection by concentrating on the crowns, rings, power and regalia of African kings and queens. Manley said that, in com-
parison with Meredith’s exhibit, N.C. State’s gallery portrayed the art of transformation through dressing Africans in ritual costumes and masks from regions in Africa, such as Benin, Nigeria and Burkina-Faso. Manley said that contemporary Africans who were photographed became new people as they were dressed in the costumes. “They were transforming into ancestors, or spiritual beings, in these costumes,” Manley said. The AACC has been presenting art exhibits since 1991. Sheila Smith-McKoy, director of the AACC, said the exhibit was unique because it centered on African tradition. Smith-McKoy said that all students and faculty members, as well as any students
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in classes concentrating on Africana Studies, African descent or religion, are welcome to come view the exhibit. Accord i ng to McKoy, Galembo will be visiting Raleigh in February and will be a part of a panel discussion about the importance of African religious traditions, and how they have manifested in the new world. Galembo will attend Meredith College on Feb. 12 and N.C. State on Feb. 13. “The exhibit is particularly important because it gives gallery visitors an opportunity to understand how significant the presence of the divine was, and continues to be, in traditional African spirituality,” Smith-McKoy said. According to Darryl Lester, assistant director of the African American Cultural
Center, Galembo brought her experiences with different cultures and expressed it in her photographs. She was able to show religious experiences in a visual form. “The portraits are an understanding of the divine,” Lester said. “They bring ancestral beings to life.” Some students from the arts village in Turlington Residence Hall attended the gallery opening. Erin Roberts, a sophomore in medical textiles, said she admired the energy from the costumes of the African rituals. “I noticed the people in the photographs were less concerned about themselves,” Roberts said. “It was more about capturing the image.” The exhibits are currently on display and will be open until May 11.
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While looking at a photo, Betty Saini slowly sways to the music in Phyllis Galembo’s “Theatre of Belief” Gallery. Roger shared that the photographs were taken on film and were developed by hand.
Latin American doctor talks global health problems Jacqueline Lee Staff Writer
Dr. Silvia Cu, a medical doctor from Guatemala, gave a presentation on Thursday at the Global Health Initiative. Cu has been practicing medicine in the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala since 1994, and is working at a health clinic in San Andrés. Because Cu does not speak English, she gave her presentation in Spanish while Cheryl Block, a Spanish professor at N.C. State, translated what Cu said as she spoke. However, several professors and other attendants
interjected with their input on what Cu said during the translation, as some confusion concerning the translation of Cu’s speech existed. “Translating can be challenging, especially if it’s the first time you’ve heard something yourself,” Block said. “But it is a really good experience.” Cu has been practicing medicine in the Lake Atitlan region of Guatemala since 1994 and is the primary doctor at the health clinic. Charlie Harless, a senior in social work and human biology, interned with Cu through study abroad pro-
gram for seven weeks. “Though I’m a social work student, I’m very interested in global public health,” Har-
“I feel depressed every time I walk into the pharmacy because of the lack of resources.” Silvia Cu, a medical doctor from Guatemala
less said. “I wanted to do an internship in a health clinic or with a doctor. I studied abroad in Spain for a full semester, so I felt competent in working with Dr. Cu.” Alex Lombardi, program manager of the Global Health Care Initiative, said the program matches students with a program in a regional or international organization that meets their interest, needs and skill set. She said it gives them hands on experience in the health field. “The Global Health Initiative is an organization
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Maxon said she began her push after a chronic illness made it difficult for her to walk to classes during her freshman year. This impacted her academics and her college life, Maxon said, so she began asking the administration to provide a service for students with mobility disabilities. “I tried asking the administrators about it, and I wasn’t really getting anywhere over the next few years,” Maxon said. “But then I really pushed for it over the past
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summer. In June, I started a petition for it on change.org.” Her initial post on change. org read: “N.C. State needs to provide a more adequate service to transport students with disabilities, chronic or temporary, to buildings on campus. Even injured athletes get carted to class! Please support this cause! If you were on crutches, would the bus system really be enough?” About 400 signatures later, Maxon said she got the attention of Chancellor Randy Woodson and Student Body President Alex Parker. Maxon said Parker asked
her if she wanted to join Student Government. Shortly after, Student Government created a new commission in its Executive Branch and appointed Maxon as the committee chair. Parker said administrators started sending him emails about Maxon’s petition, and he said he was impressed by how Maxon and her ability to get the attention of the administration. “I wanted other people in Student Government and other students to follow her story and what she did and how much she did with just and idea,” Parker said. “Be-
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cause that’s what we want to inspire students. If you have an idea on how to change campus, you can make that work. You can work with Student Government and other students to get the attention that it deserves by the administration.” In her new position, Maxon began working with administrators to get the necessary donations and golf carts. Maxon said the Division of Academic & Student affairs sponsored Wolfpack Pick Up, and Mike Mullen, the vice chancellor and dean for academic and student affairs, has been her mentor
throughout the process. A key part of the program is a partnership with Gotcha Ride, a company that uses a fleet of electric vehicles to provide transportation services, according to an announcement on University Transportation’s website. Accord i ng to Ma xon, the University had already planned to contract with Gotcha Ride for an evening service, and it was willing to assist Maxon with creating a disability service during the day. At the outset, the program will not be wheelchair accessible. Students who wish to
use the program must make an online request one business day in advance of using the system before 3 p.m., according the program’s website. Because of the anticipated high demand for the service, not every request will be accepted, and students who wish to use the service must agree to a disability verification statement, according to the program’s website. To request the WolfPack Pick Up service, you may visit its website at: students.ncsu. edu/wolfpackpicup.
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people realize that they have many options,” Woodson said. “For many low-income students, their parents aren’t equipped to advise them on where to apply. It’s not unusual that you’ll have really bright students form rural North Carolina that wouldn’t even apply to N.C. State or UNC-Chapel Hill because they think they can’t afford it, and they’re just not prepared to apply.” Woodson added that these student advisors would support counselors now who are responsible for hundreds of students each and are overwhelmed at these schools around the state. In addition, the pipeline counselors will be closer in age and experience to highschool students, Woodson said, which will allow them
to be good mentors. “The idea is not to replace high school counselors but to augment and support them,” Woodson said. Woodson and UNC-CH Chancellor, Carol Folt, traveled to the nation’s capitol on Air Force One after Obama came to N.C. State last Wednesday. “It was a huge honor for the President to invite me on Air Force One,” Woodson said. “[Obama] learned I would be at the White House the next day and invited Carol Folt and I along for the ride.” The meeting was held in the adjacent executive office next to the west wing, Woodson said. About 50 university presidents, representatives from non-profit organizations and other government agencies were in attendance.
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Woodson said. “It’s built like Teach For America, but in this case we’re partnering with the College Advising Corps.” Woodson said recent college graduates will be sent to rural high schools across the state because they have experience applying to college and graduating. In many cases, parents of the high school students that the program is meant to target don’t know enough about college to guide them. “A large number of students are first-generation college students, and one of things this pipeline effort will attempt to do is help young
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The grand opening of the Southeast Climate Science Center took place on Wednesday in the lobby of David Clark Labs. Aranzazu Lascurain, who is the program coordinator for the Southeast Climate Science Center, said the climate center, which has an annual budget to help fund NCSU faculty and graduate students, will serve as a resource for researchers. “The Center is poised to serve as the regional leader in research for climate and global changes processes for the U.S. Southeast,” Lascurain said. “It will also serve as a resource center on climate adaptation in the southeast.” Lascurain said the purpose
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designed to act as a liaison between students and faculty and local and international health organizations,” Lombardi said. “Our goal is to form a network and act as an umbrella organization over globally minded groups in the health setting.” Through her translator, Cu spoke about how supplies are very limited at the clinic. She said that when a woman is
of the center was to help people and organizations adapt to global change through actionable science, understand how climate change affects wildlife and its inhabitants, and provide research-based information to support landscape scale adaptive management decisions. “In other words, it is helping those [conser vation managers, city and regional planners, refuge and state park managers] make decisions about the things we care about that are vulnerable to global change processes,” Lascurain said. “Managers, scientists and the public are not experienced with handling these challenges,” Lascurain said. “Our applied science research will help fill this niche – ultimately helping us adapt to a
changing environment.” Steve Grodsky, a wildlife ecologist who previously studied at University of Wisconsin and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at N.C. State, said he is excited for this new center because it will provide funding for research. Grodsky said that having the center at N.C. State will bring more attention about climate research to campus. Chancellor Randy Woodson, director of the center Gerard McMahon, and vice chancellor of the Office of Research, Innovation & Economic Development Terri Lomax provided opening remarks for the event. Congressman David Price also praised the new center for its emphasis on cutting edge applied research that will take place at the center.
having a child, she must ask the family to have a car and money ready in case of an emergency, as no ambulances are available in the area. Cu said that her clinic didn’t have an ultrasound, and sometimes she didn’t even have rubber gloves. “I feel depressed every time I walk into the pharmacy because of the lack of resources,” Cu said. “Some equipment falls apart and we just use what we can find.” According to Cu, the supply of medicine is not only lim-
ited, but also of poor quality, as the government is simply trying save money. “She does an amazing job despite the lack of supplies and not having enough medicines,” Block said. “They make due with the resources they have.” Cu said she is working in the project “Hambre Cero” which means “Zero Hunger” to fight malnutrition and help people have a better diet. The public health plan was issued under President Otto Perez Molina to battle chronic and
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acute malnutrition in Guatemalans less than five years old. The program specifically aims to help poor and extremely poor communities, rural and marginalized urban areas and indigenous people. According to Cu, the indigenous are the most vulnerable and largest group. The effects of malnutrition can lead to severe cases of pneumonia and diarrhea, which can result in death, Cu said. “There is more to be done,
but we’ve seen improvement in the health of the children,” Cu said. The clinic attempts to ensure that women have healthy and monitored pregnancies, and that newborns are given the necessary vaccinations. The clinic keeps children up to date on their vaccines every two months, and if a child doesn’t show up in time, her staff goes looking for them. Cu said she hopes in the future San Andrés will have a hospital and a recreation area
with a playground and cultural center. She also hopes to be able to provide scholarships for all education levels and develop a garbage treatment system with recycling and composting. Running water isn’t always an option, so the clinic teaches people where to find clean water. Another plan for the future is to build water treatment plants in various communities.
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Artificial intelligence revisited E
ver thought of what would it feel like to live during the age of the gold rush? Digging hard, excitedly looking for gold. Miners get envious when others find gold, causing them to dig more furiously, determined to strike gold themselves. What happens, though, when someone hits a rock that looks exactly like Namen gold, but really isn’t? All the miners get curious. They Muley all wonder, will the outside Staff Writer world take this for gold? One brave chap goes and markets it. Lo and behold! The world likes it! Now the miners start scavenging for this rock. In that, they forget their quest for the real gold. Except, maybe, a few grumpy miners who found the first gold. Back in the 80s, after Steve Jobs brought about the personal computer revolution, computer engineers began running around like miners in a gold rush. But, there is one other endeavor I want to point out today: The quest for artificial intelligence, the quest to duplicate the human mind or, if I may, the quest for “real” artificial intelligence. Douglas Hofstadter, a Ph.D. in Physics at the
University of Oregon, won the Pulitzer prize in 1980 for his seminal book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. The book, also known as GEB, sprung from his summer excursion in 1972. While camping around in forests and besides lakes, he thought about thinking itself. He thought about the brain and its wondrous ability to create an abstract concept called thought. He aligned his reasoning with self evaluating mathematical systems and realized that there lay an answer in Kurt Gödel’s 1931 mathematical proof that mathematical systems could generate statements not just about numbers but about itself. Hofstadter’s was the first quest for real artificial intelligence in the history of mankind. GEB introduced the field of artificial intelligence, an inter-disciplinary study of logic, math, cognition and neuroscience. The miners had started looking for gold, digging furiously. IBM was one such miner. Relentless in its search for artificial intelligence, its stronghold in the computer industry worked to its advantage as a computer could only perform mathematical calculations of that cadre. In 1988, IBM undertook a project called Candide. Candide started by accepting defeat on the path set forward by Hofstadter,
deeming the problem of constructing mathematical systems on understanding the constructs of language, semantics and symmetry as too complex. Instead, they found a rock that looked just like gold. They called it machine
“...The first quest for real artificial intelligence in the history of mankind.” learning. Machine learning is so similar to the way a child learns that it is a surprise they don’t call it human learning. The underlying concept is that of learning by analogy. If a mathematical system is trained with huge amounts of data, the system learns the patterns and will predict an outcome based on the patterns it sees. This is exactly how a baby learns a language. But here’s why it is not the real deal. A fullygrown human brain can do more than a baby’s brain. “Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there,” Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, said
in his Ted Talk. That is the physics approach. That is the exact opposite of reasoning by analogy. The problem with analogies is that they are limiting. Analogies can only help one hop about horizontally. But it requires reasoning to dive deeper down vertically. A system that works by analogy will be able to predict, by training through huge amounts of data or by evaluating all permutations and combinations, that Obama is an important person or that I use “one” in a plural sense in my writing. But it will not be able to discover gravity, nor general relativity. Yes, IBM marketed it, and the world liked it! A lot of swag that the information technology world has is accredited to this move of IBM. It enables weather forecast, auto spell-check, search engines, Siri and Deep Blue — the IBM computer that beat Gary Kasparov in the famous chess game of 1997. Yet, Hofstadter is one grumpy professor, teaching cognitive science and yearning to duplicate the human mind in all its full glory. I wonder sometimes if the way to check if a real artificial mind has been created or not is to see if it settles for the rock or digs away for the gold.
Stricter gun laws won’t change gun violence
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he topic of school shootings is not an easy one to discuss, and for the students of Purdue University, the effects of violence are hard felt. T h i s we e k Richard 23-year-old Fenimore Cody CousGuest Columnist ins was arrested and charged for the murder of fellow student Andrew Boldt. My heart goes out to the family and friends left to deal with the aftermath of the sudden loss of a loved one. Finding details of this story was somewhat difficult and took a small bit of perusing in comparison to, say, the shooting at Santa Monica College in June. I would like to imagine that it is due to some media revelation that found that publicizing a murderer is counterproductive when trying to prevent similar attempts. In this case, however, I cannot help but feel it is due to the lack of hype applicable to a story where the phrase “school shooting” is not synonymous with “mass shooting.” Aligning with the official police report, it appears that Boldt was the only intended target. This is all that is available at
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the moment as Cousins has been uncooperative with authorities. What I am getting at by bringing forth these details is the inevitable continued debate about how to prevent this kind of thing from happening, particularly, how to protect our educational facilities. In essence, gun control. The topic of gun control has shifted toward the backburner with all the recent reforms and debates coming from governing bodies concerning healthcare, marriage, drugs and public espionage, but the controversy is still there. I cannot comment about the means Cousins employed to obtain his weapon, legal or illegal. But to say that more numerous or more strict gun control laws could have prevented the murder of Boldt is naive. There are already laws in the Indiana state books that ban the concealment and carry of firearms on any university grounds. Further measures, such as banning assault rif les or extended magazines, are more irrelevant in a case like this where the police report maintains that the victim was found with four to five small caliber
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gunshot wounds. Take away guns from the scenario altogether, and the victim was still stabbed a number of times. Based on the most recent census information, 307 million people reside in the United States. Of that amount, an estimated 70 million adults legally own a firearm of some kind, more than half of whom are handgun owners. With a number this sizable, the media would have you believe that every fourth person you come in contact with could be the next mass shooter, when in reality they are sane, responsible human beings. It is the extreme outliers that stand out against this pattern. The same could be said about any other group in which extremes exist. If all Christians were judged on the actions and reputation of the Westboro Baptist Church, I can’t imagine many would be proud to come forward with their religious beliefs. What excessively strict gun control laws turn into then are assaults on the rights of those already abiding by the rules and expectations put in place that they agreed to upon legal purchase.
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ntil recently, online dating sites earned a reputation of having an endless supply of middle-aged, balding men who emulate t he personality of a doorknob. People thought Taylor u s e r s of Quinn online Staff Columnist dating sites were desperate and undesirable. It was considered strange to talk to someone you had never met to make plans to meet them in person (and then go through with it). It’s still a foreign concept to some, but according to a recent study, 41,250,000 people in the U.S. don’t think it’s foreign at all and have, in fact, given it a try. According to this study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences, a whopping one out of every three marriages originates from an online dating site. So this thing works—and why wouldn’t it? The sites congregate a bunch of people on a public forum looking to date someone, with the intent to marry. If you are on a dating site, you are ready to settle down. No 43-year-old man-child
who goes to the club every night to get drunk and wants to sleep with a different woman every night will be on there. These online daters know what they want, and the average time of courtship proves just that. According to Statistic Brain, the average length of courtship between two people meeting off line is 42 months. According to the same source, the average length of courtship when meeting online is 18.5 months. They want to get hitched. It’s as simple as that—or is it? Like I said before, that 43-year-old won’t be on a dating site, but now a 20-yearold might be. It’s called DateMySchool, and it’s an online dating site specifically for college kids. All you need is a valid college email address and a desire to find a smart significant other. With the slogan “Educated people, educated dates,” this site pairs college students with other college students who share the same goals. One can even narrow their search down to what school and major they want their dream guy or girl to be from. “If somebody really has their heart set on meeting someone from Princeton, this is a great way to narrow down the search,” said Julie Spira, dating expert and au-
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thor of “The Perils of Cyber Dating.” Now that is degrading and snobby. If someone is only concerned with if his or her future partner went to a prestigious school or majored in engineering, that person is confused as to what love truly is. Love is not dictated by dollar signs. Obviously, if they want their significant other to be from Princeton, they want money. Why are college students so gung-ho about finding someone anyway? They are young, and finding significant others shouldn’t be their first priority. If it happens, it happens, but I don’t think young people should go on a site, type restrictions into boxes and pick someone based on his or her profile picture. They have their whole lives to find partners. And they are narrowing their options by only allowing college students to try for their heart. What if your soul mate didn’t go to college? You are missing out on true love because of an online dating site. Online dating is okay for people who have some social anxiety issues or feel like they have played the field enough, but online dating is not okay when it is only limited to an educated population.
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College Cookbook: Ice box pie Katie Sanders Asistant Features Editor
Ice box pie has always been a summer staple for my family. We take it with us when we go out to play on the lake every year. The finished product, which is almost identical to key lime pie, suggests a recipe much more complicated than it actually is, so I never thought to even try to prepare it until I went off to college. But after I left I had to ask my grandmother how to make my favorite dessert, and it turned out to be the easiest food I know how to make. The recipe is so simple you don’t even have to go to a kitchen—it can be made in your dorm room. All of the ingredients are non-perishable except the whipped topping, which can still survive decades as long as you keep it in the fridge so you can buy the supplies far in advance. It also doesn’t require an oven or a stove—only a bowl and a spoon. You can even get away with not owning a can-opener if you use Eagle Brand condensed milk, which comes with a pull tab. Moreover, the only step is mixing, which means the prep time is less than five minutes. It’s the perfect college recipe. CHRIS RUPERT/TECHNICIAN
Ingredients: -One large 16-ounce tub of whipped topping -One pack of lemon Kool-Aid (without sugar) -One small 14-ounce can of condensed milk -One graham cracker pie crust or about 12 miniature graham cracker pie crusts
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Steps: 1.Mix together the whipped topping, Kool-Aid and condensed milk in a large bowl. Beat the mixture fairly hard until the consistency changes and the mixture seems to thicken. 2.Add this pie filling to either one graham cracker pie crust or several miniature graham cracker pie crusts. Either way, you will almost certainly have a little filling left over. If you don’t want to throw it away, put it in a bowl and prepare it like a crust-less pie.
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3. Put the pie, pies and/or your bowl of filling into the freezer. Leave it there for at least two hours, but for best results, it should be left there overnight. 4. Remove your ice box pie from the freezer and enjoy.
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Maryland, but only shot five-for-13 from the f loor. The speedy guard will need to limit bad shot selections and capitalize in fast break situations where his game excels. Barbers’ vast array of dribble moves and a consistent pull up jump shot gives him the ability to excel on the col-
freshman teammates adapt to the changes of college life. “Homeschooled girls are doing a terrific job transitioning into a big university,” Fallanca said. “We help them, make sure they don’t go too crazy and make sure they’re aware of what it’s like with classes and what it’s like to
legiate stage. If Barber plays within his game, he will be a tough assignment for even Georgia Tech’s experienced guards. The Wolfpack’s big men will have to step up and play consistently against a physical Georgia Tech interior. In its loss to Virginia, N.C. State allowed the Cavaliers’ sophomore center Mike Tobey to shoot six-for-10 from the floor, with most of his buck-
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do homework. We just have to guide them in the right direction but hope that they learn on their own too.” “[Assistant Coach Colleen Johnson] took me in,” Fallanca said. “I was a lost freshman when I came in, and I was kind of the underdog benchwarmer. She helped
ets coming in the first half. State’s senior center Jordan Vandenberg, freshman forward Beejay Anya and the Wolfpack’s interior will need to neutralize Georgia Tech’s senior center Daniel Miller, whose game resembles Tobey’s. Miller, who stands at 6’11”, averages 10 points and seven rebounds per game. The Yellow Jackets head into the PNC Arena on Sunday looking to stop their los-
to mold me and have confidence in myself…and here I am competing in three events when I was supposed to be a benchwarmer.” Mentors like Johnson have helped Fallanca become a star for the Wolfpack. After she graduates with a degree in Parks and Rec-
ing trend against the Wolfpack. Georgia Tech has not beaten the Pack since 2011, where the Yellow Jackets defeated a State squad led by former forward C.J. Leslie. A win against the Yellow Jackets this weekend would improve the Wolfpack’s record to 3-4 in the ACC. Tip off at PNC Arena is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Sunday.
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reation, Fallanca said she hopes to pursue her dream of working with the Special Olympics to stay around the sport of gymnastics while helping children with special needs. Fallanca said she has also entertained the thought of opening up her own gymnastics facility one day.
Whatever the future holds for Fallanca and the N.C. State gymnastics team, expect her to attack it with cheerfulness and a positive attitude. Fallanca and her Wolfpack teammates will be in action against William and Mary tonight at 7 P.M. in Reynolds Coliseum.
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Sophomore guard Tyler Lewis drives into the paint during the game against Virginia in PNC Arena on Jan. 11. The Wolfpack fell to the Cavaliers, 76-45, in its worst ever loss in PNC Arena.
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The No. 47 N.C. State women’s tennis team will begin its 2014 season against N.C. Central and East Carolina at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center in Raleigh. Senior Joelle Kissell starts the season with 50 career singles victories, nine short of the N.C. State record of 59, set by former Wolfpacker Jenny Sell. Play will begin on Friday morning at 10 a.m. against N.C. Central.
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N.C. State returned to winning ways and in the process matched last season’s win total in its 85-76 triumph over the Boston College Eagles on Thursday evening in Reynolds Coliseum. The No. 23 Wolfpack never trailed and improves to 17-3 overall, 4-2 in the ACC. With the win, State also matches its victory total from last season, when the Pack finished 17-17 and lost in the second round of the WNIT. The inside duo of senior center Markeisha Gatling and senior forward Kody Burke proved too much for Boston College to overcome. Gatling finished with a game-high 27 points and eight rebounds, while the two-time Academic All-American Burke tallied 24 points and hauled down 11 boards--her third doubledouble of the season and 15th for her career. The pair went a combined 19-for-29 from the f loor and pulled down 10 of the Pack’s 14 offensive rebounds. State got off to a hot start and torched the Boston College zone defense by scoring the game’s first nine points and opening up a 15-2 lead less than four minutes into the contest. “We found the open man in the zone that they were in,” Burke said. “When we distribute the ball while they’re in the zone, someone is going to be open. I feel like we found the open person.” The Eagles were not deterred and used hot threepoint shooting to draw with-
in two points at halftime. Boston College connected on 13-of-28 three-pointers in the game, with eight coming in the opening half. “You have got give Boston College a lot of credit,” N.C. State head coach Wes Moore said. “They shot the lights out. I thought in the first half we were playing fundamental defense, but Boston College did a great job of swinging the ball and finding the open person.” With 14:49 remaining, N.C. State led 48-46 after a pair of Boston College free throws. The Pack, who never trailed throughout the game’s entirety, then went on a 14-3 run over the next five minutes to open up a 13 point lead and were never again seriously threatened. “We were impressed with Coach Moore and his team on film,” Boston College head coach Erik Johnson said. “I am even more impressed having played them. Both Burke and Gatling were just too much inside.” The win improves the Wolfpack to 11-0 for the campaign on Kay Yow Court in Reynolds Coliseum. Coming off a loss in Coral Gables, Fla. to Miami on Sunday, N.C. State is 1-2 on the road in league play and Moore, while happy with the outcome, said he wants to see better production from his team on its travels as State enters the heart of the conference season, beginning Sunday at Georgia Tech. “I did not know how we would respond, obviously it was a disappointing loss Sunday on the road,” Moore said. “This team has shown some
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Redshirt junior guard Len’Nique Brown takes a shot during the game against Boston College in Reynolds Coliseum on Thursday. Brown scored 15 points in the Wolfpack’s 85-76 defeat of the Eagles.
resilience and played really well at home, we have got to take that to Atlanta with us. I don’t like trading wins at home. Georgia Tech is going to be a tough matchup for us.”
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Entering the stretch run of its season, N.C. State’s gymnastics program is gaining momentum in its push for a second consecutive East Atlantic Gymnastics League title. Leading this year’s team is a senior who is making noise for her talent on the balance beam. Senior gymnast Hannah Fallanca is a two-time AllEAGL first team selection and has four total second team All-EAGL accolades, along with the fourth-best beam score in Wolfpack his-
tory. Fallanca, who competes in beam, vault and floor exercise events, has also been named to three consecutive EAGL All-Academic teams. But she said that she is more comfortable on the beam than anywhere else. “I can walk easier on the balance beam than I can on the floor,” Fallanca said. “My family always makes fun of me saying ‘I can’t walk straight but I can do flips on the beam. It’s not normal.” Fallanca began competing in gymnastics when she was three years old. Now a senior leader for N.C. State, the Winston-Salem native
hasn’t lost sight of where she comes from. Fallanca said she chose State so she could compete closer to home and her mother, whom she said is her role model. “She has been such a positive influence on me throughout my whole life and been by my side no matter what my decisions have been with school, gymnastics and life,” Fallanca said. “She’s my best friend, so I want to be just like her.” Fallanca admitted that the transition to college can be difficult for those compet-
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Coming off possibly its most impressive win of its season against Maryland on Monday night, N.C. State (127 overall, 2-4 ACC) welcomes the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to the PNC Arena on Sunday afternoon, with tipoff set for 1 p.m. The Yellow Jackets (11-8 overall, 2-4 ACC) are coming off a win over Boston College after losing their previous two ACC matchups. Senior guard Trae Golden, who averages 14.1 points and 3.3 assist per game, leads an experienced Georgia Tech squad into Raleigh. The status of sophomore for ward T.J. Warren is still in doubt for Sunday’s game. Warren, who didn’t play against Maryland after spraining his left ankle against Duke on Saturday, was named on the midseason watch list for the Wooden Award on Wednesday, and his absence would deprive the Pack of its leading scorer for the second straight game. Playing at home inside PNC Arena should provide an advantage for the Pack, who is 9-4 at home this season. State’s offense will be eager to get after the Yellow Jackets defense, ranked 81st in the country in points allowed per game and 74th in rebounds per game. The Wolfpack will look to
spread the floor against Georgia Tech by knocking down the deep ball. This season N.C. State is shooting a measly 29 percent from three, allowing opposing teams to pack to lane, taking away the Pack’s ability to score in the paint. Junior guard Ralston Turner is coming off a monster game against the Maryland. After returning to the starting lineup for the first time in 14 games, Turner scored a career high 23 points and connected on five threes, which all came in the second half. If the Wolfpack wants to open up the paint, Turner and his teammates will need to knock down some early threes. On defense, N.C. State will need to slow down Golden and Georgia Tech’s dynamic guards. Junior guard Desmond Lee put in a faultless performance on Monday against Maryland junior guard Dez Wells, considered one the most physical guards in country. Lee held Wells to 10 points in the contest, below Wells’ season average of 14 points per game. Lee was also very aggressive on the offensive end. The junior relentlessly attacked the basket against the Terrapins, scoring 14 points and making eight of 11 free throws. State’s freshman guard Anthony “Cat” Barber scored 13 points for the Pack against
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Gymnastics and wrestling teams to compete simultaneously at Reynolds Reynolds Coliseum will host N.C. State’s first-ever Beauty and the Beast event on Friday night, with both the Wolfpack wrestling and gymnastics teams competing simultaneously. The wrestling team will face off in a dual with Campbell, while the gymnastics squad takes on William & Mary and Texas Woman’s University. SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Wolfpack women to open season on Friday The No. 47 N.C. State women’s tennis team will begin its 2014 season against N.C. Central and East Carolina at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center in Raleigh. Senior Joelle Kissell starts the season with 50 career singles victories, nine short of the N.C. State record of 59, set by former Wolfpacker Jenny Sell. Play will begin on Friday morning at 10 a.m. against N.C. Central.
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N.C. State returned to winning ways and in the process matched last season’s win total in its 85-76 triumph over the Boston College Eagles on Thursday evening in Reynolds Coliseum. The No. 23 Wolfpack never trailed and improves to 17-3 overall, 4-2 in the ACC. With the win, State also matches its victory total from last season, when the Pack finished 17-17 and lost in the second round of the WNIT. The inside duo of senior center Markeisha Gatling and senior forward Kody Burke proved too much for Boston College to overcome. Gatling finished with a game-high 27 points and eight rebounds, while the two-time Academic All-American Burke tallied 24 points and hauled down 11 boards--her third doubledouble of the season and 15th for her career. The pair went a combined 19-for-29 from the f loor and pulled down 10 of the Pack’s 14 offensive rebounds. State got off to a hot start and torched the Boston College zone defense by scoring the game’s first nine points and opening up a 15-2 lead less than four minutes into the contest. “We found the open man in the zone that they were in,” Burke said. “When we distribute the ball while they’re in the zone, someone is going to be open. I feel like we found the open person.” The Eagles were not deterred and used hot threepoint shooting to draw with-
in two points at halftime. Boston College connected on 13-of-28 three-pointers in the game, with eight coming in the opening half. “You have got give Boston College a lot of credit,” N.C. State head coach Wes Moore said. “They shot the lights out. I thought in the first half we were playing fundamental defense, but Boston College did a great job of swinging the ball and finding the open person.” With 14:49 remaining, N.C. State led 48-46 after a pair of Boston College free throws. The Pack, who never trailed throughout the game’s entirety, then went on a 14-3 run over the next five minutes to open up a 13 point lead and were never again seriously threatened. “We were impressed with Coach Moore and his team on film,” Boston College head coach Erik Johnson said. “I am even more impressed having played them. Both Burke and Gatling were just too much inside.” The win improves the Wolfpack to 11-0 for the campaign on Kay Yow Court in Reynolds Coliseum. Coming off a loss in Coral Gables, Fla. to Miami on Sunday, N.C. State is 1-2 on the road in league play and Moore, while happy with the outcome, said he wants to see better production from his team on its travels as State enters the heart of the conference season, beginning Sunday at Georgia Tech. “I did not know how we would respond, obviously it was a disappointing loss Sunday on the road,” Moore said. “This team has shown some
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Redshirt junior guard Len’Nique Brown takes a shot during the game against Boston College in Reynolds Coliseum on Thursday. Brown scored 15 points in the Wolfpack’s 85-76 defeat of the Eagles.
resilience and played really well at home, we have got to take that to Atlanta with us. I don’t like trading wins at home. Georgia Tech is going to be a tough matchup for us.”
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Today TRACK & FIELD AT HOKIE INVITATIONAL Blacksburg, Va. SWIMMING & DIVING AT MINNESOTA Minneapolis, Minn. WOMEN’S TENNIS V. N.C. CENTRAL Raleigh WOMEN’S TENNIS V. EAST CAROLINA Raleigh GYMNASTICS V. WILLIAM & MARY Raleigh GYMNASTICS V. TEXAS WOMAN’S Raleigh WRESTLING V. CAMPBELL Raleigh Saturday TRACK & FIELD AT HOKIE INVITATIONAL Blacksburg, Va. SWIMMING & DIVING AT MINNESOTA Minneapolis, Minn. MEN’S TENNIS V. VIRGINIA COMMENWEALTH Knoxville, Tenn.
The game versus the Yellow Jackets at McCamish Pavillion is set to tipoff at 2 p.m.
SAM WHITLOCK/TECHNICIAN
Senior Hannah Fallanca tumbles across the floor on Jan. 17 in Reynolds Coliseum during the floor exercise portion of the competition. The Wolfpack took second place with 195.650 points to Michigan. Fallanca scored 9.625 points on her floor exercise routine.
GYMNASTICS
Senior succeeds in balancing academics with athletics
Christian Candeloro Correspondent
Entering the stretch run of its season, N.C. State’s gymnastics program is gaining momentum in its push for a second consecutive East Atlantic Gymnastics League title. Leading this year’s team is a senior who is making noise for her talent on the balance beam. Senior gymnast Hannah Fallanca is a two-time AllEAGL first team selection and has four total second team All-EAGL accolades, along with the fourth-best beam score in Wolfpack his-
tory. Fallanca, who competes in beam, vault and floor exercise events, has also been named to three consecutive EAGL All-Academic teams. But she said that she is more comfortable on the beam than anywhere else. “I can walk easier on the balance beam than I can on the floor,” Fallanca said. “My family always makes fun of me saying ‘I can’t walk straight but I can do flips on the beam. It’s not normal.” Fallanca began competing in gymnastics when she was three years old. Now a senior leader for N.C. State, the Winston-Salem native
hasn’t lost sight of where she comes from. Fallanca said she chose State so she could compete closer to home and her mother, whom she said is her role model. “She has been such a positive influence on me throughout my whole life and been by my side no matter what my decisions have been with school, gymnastics and life,” Fallanca said. “She’s my best friend, so I want to be just like her.” Fallanca admitted that the transition to college can be difficult for those compet-
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Coming off possibly its most impressive win of its season against Maryland on Monday night, N.C. State (127 overall, 2-4 ACC) welcomes the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets to the PNC Arena on Sunday afternoon, with tipoff set for 1 p.m. The Yellow Jackets (11-8 overall, 2-4 ACC) are coming off a win over Boston College after losing their previous two ACC matchups. Senior guard Trae Golden, who averages 14.1 points and 3.3 assist per game, leads an experienced Georgia Tech squad into Raleigh. The status of sophomore for ward T.J. Warren is still in doubt for Sunday’s game. Warren, who didn’t play against Maryland after spraining his left ankle against Duke on Saturday, was named on the midseason watch list for the Wooden Award on Wednesday, and his absence would deprive the Pack of its leading scorer for the second straight game. Playing at home inside PNC Arena should provide an advantage for the Pack, who is 9-4 at home this season. State’s offense will be eager to get after the Yellow Jackets defense, ranked 81st in the country in points allowed per game and 74th in rebounds per game. The Wolfpack will look to
spread the floor against Georgia Tech by knocking down the deep ball. This season N.C. State is shooting a measly 29 percent from three, allowing opposing teams to pack to lane, taking away the Pack’s ability to score in the paint. Junior guard Ralston Turner is coming off a monster game against the Maryland. After returning to the starting lineup for the first time in 14 games, Turner scored a career high 23 points and connected on five threes, which all came in the second half. If the Wolfpack wants to open up the paint, Turner and his teammates will need to knock down some early threes. On defense, N.C. State will need to slow down Golden and Georgia Tech’s dynamic guards. Junior guard Desmond Lee put in a faultless performance on Monday against Maryland junior guard Dez Wells, considered one the most physical guards in country. Lee held Wells to 10 points in the contest, below Wells’ season average of 14 points per game. Lee was also very aggressive on the offensive end. The junior relentlessly attacked the basket against the Terrapins, scoring 14 points and making eight of 11 free throws. State’s freshman guard Anthony “Cat” Barber scored 13 points for the Pack against
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