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Mr. Engineer Pageant to promote Relay “They will have three minutes to do their talents. The contestants will also be asked one question on their views of engineering and their goals and aspirations.” Patrick Buenaventura, a senior in Katie Maness paper science and engineering, said Staff Writer he is looking forward to participating The Society of Women Engineers in the event. “I am excited about helping out a will host the Mr. Engineer Pageant good cause,” Buenaventura said. benefiting their Relay for Life team. “Also I want to spread the word Whitney Lohmeyer, junior in aerospace engineering, said there are 12 about my major. There are not a lot of undergraduates. I men competing can help out my who a re each own college.” from a differBuenaventura ent d iscipl i ne said he is most of engineering. nervous for the She said the four talent and intercomponents that will make up the Patrick Buenaventura, a senior in paper view. science and engineering, on why “A good numscore are the inhe’s participating in the Mr. Engineer ber of people are terview, talent, Pageant competing,” Buebusiness attire, naventura said. and a practice “They all have talents they want to essay exam. “The outfits [for business attire] show off and you easily can get fluswill correspond with their major,” tered on the interview. My talent is going to be dancing, a variety of styles.” Moll said.
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Moll said SWE is an organization, free to students and with over 250 members, that benefits the women of North Carolina State University who are focusing on engineering. “We provide the opportunity for female engineers to network among each other as well as companies,” Moll said. “We do events every semester. This semester we had interview night where we learned tips.” Lohmeyer said she is excited for the
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public to see a different side of engineers. “Engineers are multi-faceted,” Lohmeyer said.
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Michael Stutz introduces his three wolf sculptures on Central Campus Tuesday. The wolves are made of woven bronze, weigh about 1,200 pounds apiece and stand at about five feet. Though Stutz said he had named the wolves and the truck driver who moved them to campus named them, he would let the students have final say over what they would be called.
Tuition increase petition heads to ASG Association of Student Governments petitions against statewide tuition and fee increase
tion, said the petition was turned in last week. “We turned in our petition along with all the other ASG schools to the ASG president who is taking it to the Board of Governors,” Center said. Annie Albright According to Gromlich it was up to the leaders Staff Writer of student governments of each school to get their A petition put together by the Association of Stu- constituents to sign the petition. “The Association of Student Governments put dent Governments and forwarded around campuses by their respective student leaders was handed over together this petition and the leaders of student got to ASG last week as the next level of discussions over their constituents to sign it telling the state that we are unified and that this a $200 tuition increase is a decision that affects approved by the Board everybody at a universiof Governors in their ty level,” Gromlich said. last meeting. He said the petition Sen. Matt Gromlich, did not necessarily arsenior in plant bioloty, gue against a tuition said the bill would inSen. Matt Gromlich on what he and other student increase, but asked for crease tuition by 200 leaders aim to accomplish through their petition the universities to have dollars in the fall of more control on what 2010 for every student was done with the money. at a North Carolina public institution. “Another option is they could cut some of the time “None of that 200 dollars, as the bill is currently written, will go back to the universities themselves,” they are giving to the university and the university can increase their tuition and fees themselves,” Gromlich said. He said the petition is asking for re-evaluation Gromlich said. “We want to get the universities more involved in of the bill. “So our petition was asking them to relook their the decision-making process.” Gromlich said he believed the universities would $200 flat fee for every single student and to either decrease it or to make some or all of the money go know how to best allocate the funds versus the Genback to the universities themselves,” Gromlich said. Sen. Sarah Center, sophomore in science educaPETITION continued page 3
“We want to get the universities more involved in the decision-making process.”
Senator vows to continue fight to restructure senate seats Bill similar to the one shot down two weeks ago will return next year with more senator input Ann Polk Staff Writer
The last time Student Senate reapportioned its seats was 1997, but Sen. Stephen Kouba has plans to change that within the next year despite the rejection of Government Bill 76 by the Senate Feb. 24. The bill, also called The Great State Compromise, would have reapportioned senate seats, but Kouba said many senators felt it was rushed. Kouba said he felt students were not adequately represented in the senate due to too few senators representing too many constituents. Kouba also said that the Apportionment Committee will begin work in the fall to put together a more comprehensive bill involving input from more senators, which was something that was difficult for the senators to do in such a short time period. “It is difficult because we need to lobby to have more student senators. People think we aren’t doing a good job with 64, so they will probably wonder why we would do any better with more people,” Kouba said. Kouba said his idea for improving apportionment would be to bring the total number of students that each base senator represents within a closer range of each other. “The ultimate goal is that we get every senator to represent an average number of students within their college,” Kouba said. Lack of representation can be felt among students. Many don’t know anything about Student Government and what they do. Allison Barnes, a sophomore in English, doesn’t feel she knows how to have her voice heard. “I don’t feel well-represented because I feel separated from Student Senate,” Barnes said. Cambridge Cunningham, a sophomore in communications, said the blame for her lack of representation at senate meetings couldn’t be blamed entirely on senators, alluding to her own lack of interest in the organization. “I don’t feel well represented but I don’t really know what they do, so I can’t pass judgment,” Cunningham said. Jason Cooper, an undeclared sophomore, said he doesn’t feel the students within Student Government are diverse enough to represent a diverse student body. “I would like to see a more diverse group of students in Student Government and that starts with Student Government actually reaching out to everyone to be a candidate for senate,” Cooper said. “They shouldn’t just use the same pool of candidates. N.C. State is a diverse campus so why isn’t our student government reflecting the picture of our school?” Senior staf f writer Ty Johnson contributed to this story.
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Israel rebuffs Biden by announcing new settlement construction Israel announced the construction of 1,600 homes in a settlement block in mostly Arab East Jerusalem, hours after the arrival Tuesday of Vice President Joe Biden to help launch indirect Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The announcement was an open rebuff that led Biden to issue a sharply worded condemnation.
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“They have brains, are multitalented, and poised.” Moll said she is looking forward to the event. “All the guys who are in it are really excited,” Moll said. “We’ve only had a month and a half to plan it, but I think the outcome will be really great. I think it will become an annual event.” Buenaventura said he hopes students will come out and see a new side of engineering. “I would like everyone to come out to support this cause,” Buenaventura said. “Come out and see different engineers from different backgrounds show you what you got. I think that is worth three bucks.”
eral Assembly. Center said not giving control to the universities could place their financial aid systems in debt. “Basically financial aid would be in debt since the $200 does not come back here because financial aid has to cover the $200, but none of it comes back here to be re-added to the pot,” Center said. The ASG collected more than 21,000 signatures and N.C. State alone collected more than 1,800, according to Center. “Basically what we are advocating is a CITA,” Center said. “That is a campus initiated increase so that money will
come back so that the money will come back to financial aid.” Gromlich said he hopes that the petition will improve decision the board makes in the future. “I hope that in the future this will tell them that we do have a voice and to take our opinions into consideration before they pass something that pertains to us,” Gromlich said. Center said there is little left to do on a campus level. “Basically it’s over on campus,” Center said. “I am not sure there is much we can do now since it is already been passed. We still have to tell them that it is not okay with students and hopefully we will be able to get some taken back or get some back for students.”
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or those of you who follow the news or detest history classes, recent events regarding the instruction of history in elementary through high s c ho ol m ay have caug ht your attention. A nd i f you hated history classes, then you suddenly wish the news Paul surrounding McCauley the reform of Senior Staff North CaroColumnist lina’s history curriculum happened before you had to sit through those dry, boring lectures about the Federalists, Whigs and the Missouri Compromise. It is the esteemed opinion of this columnist that the proposal, which would mandate education in history from 1877 on (or divide the curriculum into two classes, pre-1877 and post-1877), fits with the general atmosphere of the times. As long as kids go to school and do what they are told, who cares about teaching them about old stuff like the Constitution and the “protections” enumerated in the Bill of Rights? Anachronisms of a naive, unserious generation, I say! The proof is in the pudding: as judges continue to pass rulings like the recent decision not to hear the appeal of Uighur detainees in Guantanomo Bay and similar decisions regarding indefinite detention, it becomes self-evident that the Bill of Rights and Constitution are merely anachronisms of a time of empiricism and liberty. Our War on Terror has become so righteous and pragmatic that the sensible, serious person MUST support the metaphorical shredding of the historic documents our nation is founded upon, which naively protect the so-called abuses of power the Constitution and Bill of Rights allegedly guard the common citizen from. Nor do we need to concern ourselves with those bothersome 11th through 15th Amendments. The 11th and 12th Amendments merely concern silly discussions regarding the jurisdiction of the federal courts and the procedures by which we elect presidents and vice-presidents — these are boring technicalities that seri-
ous people cannot waste time with. And clearly, the remaining three amendments - 13 through 15 - warrant no attention from the serious person — they address minor issues like the abolition of slavery, the protection of due process, redefinition of citizenship and the suffrage of all men, regardless of race. Excuse me whilst I take a nap from such a boring paragraph. The above subjects are simply things those elitist lawyers and sorts discuss. Serious, sensible people who care about educating the future generations of America care only about things that happen recently and apply the above information only when we must prove Barack Obama is a Kenyan Muslim Communofascist planted in Hawaii to subvert American awesomeness. If you want to call attention to some of the conf licts and contradictions in the label I have assigned to what the silly Constitution calls our rightfully and lawfully elected president, I will put my fingers in my ears and start calling you an Islamocommunofacsist pinko tree-hugger leftist and remind you of just how serious and responsible I am. But I digress. Yes, we have no need of history before 1877. Who cares about the fight for American independence, the fierce debates over the construction of a new government, the struggles to keep the nation together during the Civil War and the end of the institution of slavery? THOSE PEOPLE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE THE INTERNET. Clearly, these unenlightened souls lacked the guiding power of Google to lead them to the Promised Land of modern seriousness, which teaches us that we don’t need to bother with history because there is no way we’d EVER repeat past mistakes. So I say call every Congressperson you know and tell them the entire country should just forget about history before 1877, just like the shining beacon of educational seriousness that is North Carolina. Who even reads those silly historical documents responsible for creating this great nation anyway? Send Paul your thoughts on the that state’s curriculum ideas to letters@technicianonline.com.
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When is the last time you read a book for pleasure? BY SARAH TUDOR
“Over the summer, because during the school year I don’t have time to read.”
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or many students at N.C. State, especially those in engineering, three to four hours of homework a day — or more — is not unusual. I have heard complaints a nd seen students toi l a nd f ret over Emily Kelly hou rs of Staff Columnist Maple and WebAssign. Students need the practice, but what about a different kind of approach? Whatever happened to reading books? We have an incredible library open and available to us; why not use it? If you’re like me, you need a little motivation to read textbooks about your major. I get so bogged down in homework, classes and work that I simply do not have time to leisurely rock on the front porch and pick up a book. Thankfully, college is a time of development into an educated adult. As students, we are expected to be fickle and make changes to our career decisions sometimes over and over again. When we first begin college, we have so many things to think about, sometimes we miss the obvious. Learning about your career may be one of them. It may sound a bit strange, but rarely do I see books
assigned about what you are actually doing. For example, if you are an engineer, you are jumping headlong into a world of calculus and differential equations. Of course, you need to learn these subjects to be an engineer, but what about reading a book about your major — what you say you want to spend the rest of your career doing. If it sounds impractical, consider this: why not read a book by a famous engineer who designed an amazing contraption and study his ways of going about it? For humanities majors, we get a little more help in this category. We are probably taking English classes that assign readings about the subject we are taking. The point I am making is, if we get caught up in all the other homework and get no time to actually sit down and read, we are missing a large and essential part of our education. I remember even in elementary school the requirements of reading a book were well thought out. There were computer tests called “AR” or “Accelerated Reader” tests that we were required to take once we finished a book. Every two weeks the teacher would take us to the library to choose a book and we were asked to finish it within a two week span. This
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part of my developing education was probably one of the most essential and beneficial aspects of it, however simple it may seem. In some ways, I miss the motivation and the ability to have that routine as a part of my school day. Technically, we should not have to have a teacher assign us reading. Some could say that it is something that is our responsibility — which is true. But getting some recommendations would certainly help. S o next time you see your professor or advisor, why not ask them for a couple recommendations for reading about your major? Even if it takes you a while to get around to it, you could still benefit eventually from learning about your career, especially if you are unsure. You never know what you may find out.
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Bonnaroo is coming…but are you ready? Music and arts festival Bonnaroo takes place June 10th in Manchester, Tenn., where four days of peace, love and music await Tracy Anderson Staff Writer
Picture seven hundred acres of tents and stages with thousands of people walking around on mud-caked feet, sporting sunburns, and smiles. Inside of the gates, it’s like a different world – a small society free of social judgment and demanding schedules. It’s not quiet, but there is a sense of peace. It is the music festival phenomenon that is Bonnaroo. Since its beginnings in 2002, Bonnaroo is a music and arts festival that is held every summer on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, TN. Every year it draws 60,000-80,000 music enthusiasts together to camp for four days. The festival is constantly in motion all night
and day with music, art, vendors, comedy, and interactive group performances. Inside of Centeroo, concerts are held at five different areas — “Which Stage,” “What Stage,” “This Tent,” “That Tent,” and “The Other Tent.” The music festival has been a memorable experience for many of the Wolfpack. “By the end of the third day my feet and ankles were swollen from all the walking and standing,” Liz Cervantes, a junior in communication media, said. “But no matter what stage or tent you were at, something good was playing.” “It was pretty wild. Girls were walking around topless all weekend; everyone was sharing food and drinks,” Adam Kincaid, a senior in food science and nutrition, said. “It was just a huge utopian society.” Each year, the festival integrates more genres of music to cover broader interests and bring in more people. This year’s lineup includes The Avett
Brothers, Stevie Wonder, Dave Matthews Band, Kings of Leon, Weezer, The Flaming Lips, Regina Spektor, and more. There is a full line-up listed at bonnaroo.com. “This year will be my third year there and I think that the line up is the best I’ve ever seen!” Kelly Pattison, a junior in elementary education, said. “They always have musical legends, popular artists of today, and a few bands that you have never heard of before. Where else can you see Stevie Wonder and Kings of Leon at the same place?” Many students are interested in going to the festival but are limited by the high cost. “Being a huge fan of any type of music, Bonnaroo is definitely the place to be in the summer. I would go to the festival in a heartbeat if it weren’t so expensive,” Vinny Malikasim, a sophomore in chemical engineering, said. Concerts bring all kinds of surprises, both in the crowd
and on the stage. MGMT’s concert last year started with an eruption of disco lights and glow sticks thrown into the crowd. During the Mars Volta concert, a random hot air balloon slowly hovered over the thousands of fans that were gathered. The Beastie Boys had surprise guest Nas come up during their performance. Janelle Monae actually brought up a blank canvas, painted a work of art during one of her songs, and gave it to a lucky member of the crowd. At night, concertgoers don elaborate bodywear including body paint, hula-hoops, fullbody spandex suits, and glowin-the-dark robot costumes. Parades of clowns playing musical instruments circle at spontaneous times of night while the Ferris wheel and the fire show light up the grounds. Nothing ever slows down or stops, and there is something or someone interesting to watch everywhere inside the gate. One of the most popular
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activity tents the Silent Disco. Dancers wear headphones that play the music rather than loud speakers blasting for the whole tent to hear. Walking by, it looks like a bunch of people jamming out to silence. Different DJs are featured every couple hours. There is also a barn, sponsored by Fuse, which provides free power outlets and Internet
access for those that can’t quite break away from technology for the whole four days. “The best part is being able to find something entertaining almost around the clock for four days,” Mike Alston, General Manager of WKNC, said. “The value far exceeded the cost of my ticket.”
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Near the end of Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” Johnny Depp (dressed as the Mad Hatter with orange hair and a gap in his teeth) is doing the “futterwacken” dance while rap music plays in the background. This scene sums up Burton’s shallow and clumsy adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass.” Carroll’s books have been adapted on film 20 times— there is even a very successful porno/musical version from 1976! With all the well-trodden ground, it is difficult for filmmakers to put a new twist on the story, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying. Alice has even broached into new forms of media. In 2000, EA Games released “American McGee’s Alice” for PC. Its take of Alice’s world was striking and original. The film version of his game has been in the works for years, but alas, Tim Burton’s weak version arrived first. Mia Wasikowska plays the titular Alice, a sullen Victorian girl who is being prodded into marriage with an undesirable man. Fortunately for her, she plummets down the—you guessed it—rabbit hole, where—you guessed it again—she drinks from the glass and becomes enormous! Alice then ventures out and finds that Wonderland (excuse me, Underland) has been taken over by the big-headed Red Queen—Helena Bonham Carter, the film’s one bright spot. Of course it is up to Alice to try to save the day by getting involved in intra-chessboard character politics. It is a sad day when the most visually and cinematically interesting world in the film is the Victorian England from the opening. Burton’s world is all CGI and no heart. It looks exactly like how you would expect Tim Burton’s vision to look. After years of the same style, he has become
stale and boring. I hate to say it, but Danny Elfman’s music for Burton’s films is not exactly groundbreaking either. Even the lead actress Wasikowska turns in a stiff and lifeless performance. I do not care whether or not Burton is faithful to Carrroll’s characters. What matters is that he does something new to make the time-worn characters fresh and weird. Unfortunately, he makes the Mad Hatter, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the White Rabbit and the rest of the gang into nothing more than color for Alice, who is trying to get t he sword to slay t he dragon. Burton forgot the magic of Carroll’s writing. Plot is the last thing on his mind. Yes, that makes it hard to film, but some things are just not meant to translate to film. For a long time, Tim Burton hasn’t been very original, story-wise or visually. His style is mainly derived from David Lynch’s masterpiece “Eraserhead.” Even the sandworms from “Beetlejuice” were lifted from Lynch’s “Dune.” What makes Tim Burton special is his ability to take his influences and create compelling characters—see Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, or Beetlejuice. Lately he has been coasting, making films derived from classic stories and films, such as“ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Planet of the Apes,” “Sweeney Todd” and “Sleepy Hollow.” Of those, only “Sleepy Hollow” was fun because Burton takes a classic story and really twists it around. He also creates memorable characters and tells a story with unexpected surprises. In “Alice,” he
utterly fails at this. After the 20 film adaptations, Burton did not bring anything innovative or interesting to the material. To make Alice’s character older and to pretend that Wonderland harbors only cartoon darkness is to do a disservice to literature and film. The history of the story is actually very sinister and tainted. There is a rumor that Lewis Carroll was a pedophile and Alice was a girl that he was obsessed with. We know for a fact that Carroll had a hobby of photographing young girls in the nude for “artistic” photos. Carroll biographers have debated for over a hundred years whether or not he was actually a pedophile. The combination of his sexuality and the fantasy world he created starring young Alice is a dark story that is ripe for telling. Instead of seeing the new “Alice,” I recommend checking out a film that takes elements and inspiration from the “Alice” story and turns it on its head: Guillermo Del Toro’s dark, beautiful, violent and magnificent “Pan’s Labyrinth.”
“What matters is that he does something new to make the timeworn characters fresh and weird.”
Typical Burton without the flavor ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Laura Wilkinson Life & Style Editor
This is not the right Alice indeed. The newest fantastical film in Tim Burton’s repertoire, “Alice in Wonderland,” opened with huge box office success but lacks the flavor and lure of previous works by the seasoned director. As far as Burton films go, the Alice undertaking is not his best. True, all the essential Burton elements are there – dark undertones, eccentric characters, creative use of color, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. But the point remains that while the film is good, it is nothing too special or exciting. The plot sets around Alice’s return to Wonderland where she has to defeat a huge, dragon-like creature. An hour or so into the film she finally plucks up some courage and beheads the thing. A predictable plot and typical happy ending, yet it still maintains a feel-good vibe. Part of the predictability comes from the casting choices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway. While Depp always brings a uniqueness and certain charm to the character he portrays, the most interesting thing about the Mad Hatter is his appearance, an explosion of clashing colors and a hat with sentimental value (“Pirates of the Caribbean” much?). Because of his domestic relationship with her, Bonham Carter is often featured in most of Burton’s films. This time she managed to do a good job of portraying the bipolar Red Queen, especially with the repetitive use of the one-line “off with their heads.” Anne Hathaway, what has happened to you? Her character lacked color, physically
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MPAA rating as PG, “for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar.” Had the MPAA allowed for a higher rating, it is quite possible the range of inventiveness and exploration of the darker themes in Wonderland could have been opened up. Instead, in order to get little kids interested in the film to jack up the number of ticket sales, the rating was lowered and the content was toned down, resulting in a lower-quality production. The large opening at the box office means the previews and hype did its job of creating public interest, but it will be interesting to see as the weeks pass how much of that interest stays — will it gain momentum, or decline to a modest intake?
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and dramatically. She came off as a vapid, forgiving White Queen who could have been cut entirely without anyone missing her. Portraying Alice in a breakthrough performance was Mia Wasikowska. She kept up well with her more famous and trained costars, but did not outshine them in the long run. Wasikowska’s transitions from the the Victorian age to Wonderland and back were smooth and believable, and her interpretation allowed the audience to sympathize with her situation. However, the plotline did not leave much room for a significant outburst of character creativity. At the same time, Wasikowska has the potential to grow for further films. Movies.yahoo.com report the
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16, is a golfer in high school. Norah, 14, plays multiple sports. Hopkins is a former gymnast, which has helped her transition into diving seem very easy. “I started out in gymnastics. I was a gymnast for 12 years,” Hopkins said. “It helped me pick up everything so much faster, except going in hands first.” The transition to the collegiate workload is usually a tough change for most freshmen. However, Hopkins has been able to easily transition into the college lifestyle of balancing school work with athletics. “It’s just the same; waking up early, going to practice, then going to school,” she said. Pack coach Jenny Keim Johansen was Hopkins club coach in high school, which helped to make her transition into collegiate swimming easier. “Hannah has been working with me before hand and she’s made some amazing improvements in that short period of time and I knew it would just keep going up from there,” Johansen said. “One of the great things for her, especially is that she didn’t have to go through a coaching change coming in her freshman year. I think that would be part of her whole reason that she came her. We had a past relationship and I think it helped for the success she had at ACC as well.” Even with Hopkins’ mindblowing performance this sea-
bars for some reason. A lot of people say it’s my best event but for some reason I get really anxious to do it.” And while she is focused on her work at hand, Vontz understands that she will have a life after college, after gymnastics. “I want to do something in the medical or health field and I definitely want to work with athletes at some point,” Vontz said. “I’m really considering physical therapy and I’d really like to work with athletes because I am one so I know what other athletes are going through with injuries.” Vontz has had many experiences with physical therapists in her time as a gymnast, so the move is one that would come naturally. “With gymnastics you jump a lot, so I saw [physical therapists] a lot,” Vontz said. “I got to see how physical therapists work with their patients and I think it’s a really cool relationship. They teach you a lot of really great skills.” And if her work ethic and attitude are any indication of how she will fare when she leaves State, she should be in good shape. “[She] is unwilling to give up working until it’s the way it needs to be,” Stevenson said. “[She] has a phenominal attitude about being successful.”
great game today. He made the great catch today and had a couple hits, then came in and threw a great ninth inning.” The Aggies got on the board first in the top of the second inning with a tworun homerun by catcher Lester Rivenbark off of freshman starting pitcher Danny Healey, who made his second start of the season. But the Pack tied it back up in the bottom of the inning when sophomore designated hitter Pratt Maynard hit a two-run home run, tying the game at 2-2. “The game was back and forth a lot,” Maynard said. “They went up in the top of second with a homerun, but we answered back with a homerun from me. It was just a fun game to play in.” In the bottom of the fourth inning the Pack broke the game open when sophomore Harold Riggins led off the inning with a monstrous homerun. The rally continued with second baseman Dallas Poulk, third baseman Andrew Ciencin, and right fielder Drew Poulk all driving in runs taking the score to 6-2. The Pack added one run in the fifth when Matt Bergquist drove in catcher Chris Schaeffer, extending State’s lead to 7-2. However, A&T clawed back into the
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Freshman Hannah Hopkins prepares to dive at N.C. State’s dual meet against East Carolina University Jan. 20 at Casey Natatorium. Hopkins went on to perform well at ACCs.
son, Coach Johansen believes she still has a lot of untapped talent. “Her potential is through the roof. I feel like we just started tapping into it. She has that inner drive, that passion for the
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Junior gymnast battles back Football announces ten players who will miss spring practice Ten players on the football team will be absent from spring practice this year. Nine of the ten players will miss practice due to injury. These players include cornerbacks Justin Byers and Jarvis Byrd, tight end Mario Carter, defensive end Sylvester Crawford, offensive guards Gary Gregory and R.J. Mattes, wide receiver Steven Howard, linebacker Colby Jackson and defensive Deion Roberson. The last player, quarterback Russell Wilson, will miss spring practice due to his focus on baseball. Source: N.C. State Athletics
Strachan and Kastanek named to ACC All-Academic Team Freshman Marissa Kastanek and junior Brittany Strachan were named to the ACC All-Academic Team this year. Both players played important roles for the women’s team this year as Strachan lead the ACC in threepoint shooting at 42.4 percent, while Kastanek was named ACC Freshman of the Year. Source: N.C. State Athletics
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friends and family,” Vontz said. “All of my teammates are like sisters to me.” But Brittany Vontz’s gymnastics journey is not one that always runs smoothly. After being signed to be a member of Brent Kitchen the Wolfpack gymnastics team, Vontz Senior Staff Writer tore her achilles tendon, an injury that For a gymnast to lose the strength is devestating to an athlete who relies in an ankle is a devestating injury heavily on her ankle strength to jump that hinders her ability to compete. and land cleanly. However, head coach Mark Stevenson And while some may throw in the towel and call it a career, the Wolf- knew he had something special when pack’s Brittany Vontz fought back, he signed her. “Brittany [Vontz] was one of the best fought through the pain and is now one of the team’s leading point con- athletes we’ve ever recruited,” Stevenson said. “She is a phenominal person who tributors. Vontz, a junior, grew up with gym- does a phenominal job.” And she has not let him down. Since nastics as her focus since the age of three, and despite a few moments arriving in Raleigh, Vontz has made where she wanted to give up, found consistent improvements during her three years at State. it to be her passion. “The first year she did bars only,” “When I was little there were a couple times I told my Mom I Stevenson said. “The second year she wanted to quit,” Vontz said. “And she did bars and some of the other events. told me every time that she had al- And this year she’s really come into her ready paid the month’s tuition [and own.” Vontz led the team with a 39.100 in I had] to keep going. By the end of the month I was always having fun the all-around at the Pack’s recent meet against William and Mary. And her sucagain and didn’t want to quit.” cess not only helps Her passion t he team w it h for gymnastics points, but also has also led to with confidence. her achieving “The more she what ever y does and the more student wants she competes and - success in the puts it out there, classroom. the better off the “My parents team is,” Stevena lway s told son said. “When me I had to she is being sucget straight A’s cessful, [her in order to do teammates] are gymnastics,” coach Mark Stevenson feeling successful Vont z s a id . so they continue “It ’s r e a l l y helped me in school because I’ve to step up to the plate.” But as with any great athlete, Vontz had to work really hard to keep the straight A’s in order to do gymnas- has her quirks. “I’m really superstitious,” Vontz said. tics.” Gymnastics has also provided “So I’m normally the one off to the side her a social outlet to help her de- a little bit probably pacing back and velop friendships through the forth being nervous.” And while her coach sees her odd habsport,including her current teamits, he is not worried about them. mates. “Superstitions are crazy but at the “It’s helped me meet a lot of new
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“Brittany [Vontz] was one of the best athletes we’ve ever recruited She is a phenominal person who does a phenominal job..”
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Junior Brittany Vontz vault’s during the team’s meet against Florida February 8, 2010. Vontz scored a 9.575 on the vault. This is Vontz’s first season competing on vault for the Wolfpack. State lost to Florida 195.475-194.450.
same time, they’re in somebody’s head,” Stevenson said. “As long as Brittany gets her head on right, she’s awfully good and that’s important to our team.” Perhaps surprisingly, Vontz’s biggest superstition is in what many maintain is her best event.
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“I’m very superstitious about my grips,” Vontz said. “It started when I was younger and I just don’t let anybody touch them for some reason. I think it’s because I’m always really nervous about
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Matt Bergquist hits the ball during the game at Doak Field against North Carolina A&T Tuesday afternoon. N.C. State won, 14-10.
Offensive attack helps to bail out subpar pitching performance Taylor Barbour Deputy Sports Editor
The baseball team continued to dominate North Carolina A&T today as the Wolfpack won, 14-10. The Pack continued its mastery over the Aggies and has won all 12 of the games between the two teams. With the win, State moves to 11-1 on the season while the Aggies fall to 3-7.
Freshman Anthony Tzamtzis picked up his first career win out of the bullpen while Garrett Braun of A&T got the loss. The game was a back-and-forth affair throughout, with four different lead changes over the course of the game. “We played pretty good. We played hard and that is the main thing,” junior Russell Wilson said. “When we got down, we kept our composure and kept fighting hard and came up with some big hits and big plays.” The Pack struggled on the mound in the game as eight
different pitchers pitched in the game, but it was the work done in the back end of the pen by Tzamtzis and Wilson that helped secure the game for the Pack. “Today we got to learn a lot more about our staff,” coach Elliott Avent said. “Tzamtzis did a good job coming in and stopping things. We haven’t determined who our closer is and it’s nice to have somebody at the back end of our bullpen. Then Russell had a
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just like practice,” Hopkins said. “I tried to be nice, clam, relaxed. My teammates definitely helped me get through everything.” Fellow freshman Kirstyn Arth Pandya Shepler said Hopkins displayed Staff Writer the drive and the determinaAny casual spectator that tion needed to succeed at the wandered into the 2010 ACC tournament. “She had two really great Swimming and Diving Championships last week might have competitions on Thursday and Friday. assumed that She just kept N.C. State’s building up Hannah as the week Hopkins was went on, and a senior. she was comA f ter a l l, pletely in it,” she won the Shepler said. platform “She k ne w diving comwant she was petition and there to do, finished what she had just shy of to do a nd 2009 NCAA t he n c ome Champion freshman Kirstyn Shepler Saturday, it a nd State’s all paid off.” most decoHopkins rated diver Kristin Davies’ school record hails from Greensboro, NC, of 314.20 with a 312.35 in the where she was home schooled platform while earning All- with her three sisters,who also Atlantic Coast Conference have their fair share of athletic ability. honors. Sarah, 17, is a soccer player at Hopkins said she did not anticipate coming close to Davies’ Greensboro College. Mariah, record, and just wanted to have a solid meet. “I tried to picture everything hopkins continued page 7
“She knew want she was there to do, what she had to do and then come Saturday, it all paid off.”