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‘I Heart Female Orgasm’ educates students Show returns to campus, draws crowd
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Thursday to watch and learn about the “I Heart Female Orgasm” program in the Stewart Theater. People were waiting in line as early as 6 p.m., although the program started at 7 p.m. Sex educators Marshall Miller and Dorian Solot came to the University to share their personal experiences and to educate students on their sexuality. The program covered many topics such as achieving the “G-spot,” having multiple orgasms, the female anatomy and an open discussion for students. Solot said when people usually learn more about the program or attend the program they understand it better and realize that it’s not some horrible thing. “People actually realize that its some sort of a tasteful program about informing yourself and about making choices that are right for you,” she said. “There are important reasons why women need access to really good accurate information about our bodies and about our sexuality.” Jewel Williams, a senior in english, said she thinks the main topic of the program is different from any other
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Explaining the alternative uses for the vibrating Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 broom, Marshall Miller reads five-star reviews from Amazon.com at the I Heart Female Orgasm presentation at Stewart Theatre Thursday evening.
programs she has attended. “That’s why there were so many people out here tonight,” Williams said. “College, in general, is supposed to be open to all topics, it’s not just
academia. It’s about learning about yourself and everything in the world. I think that’s why I think this program was a really important.” The pair of sex educators separated
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Dorian and Marshall’s book about female orgasm, “I Heart Female Orgasm: An Extraordinary Orgasm Guide” by Dorian Solot and Marshall Miller A resource on how to have an orgasm, “The Elusive Orgasm: A Woman’s Guide to Why She Can’t and How She Can Orgasm” by Vivienne Cass A book about female sexuality, “The Clitoral Truth: The Secret World at Your Fingertips” by Rebecca Chalker ”Petals” by Nick Karras “The Whole Lesbian Sex Book: A Passionate Guide for the Rest of Us” by Felice Newman ”Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot” by Deborah Sundahl Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving by Betty Dodson A book for people of all genders in regards to “getting it on,” “The Guide to Getting It On” by Paul Joannides A book on sex for men, “Great Sex: A Man’s Guide to the Secret Principles of Total-Body Sex” by Michael Castleman Source: SOLOT & MILLER
the males and females during the program to learn about sex education and the anatomy of their bodies.
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Students fear job market and apply to graduate, law school In spite of the low economy, graduate programs receive an increase in their applicants
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Second year graduate student Amanda Smith answers a question from one of her students about secant lines in her MA 141 class Wednesday morning. Smith, who is in her first semester of teaching, has noticed substantial cut backs in the graduate program in her department. “They’ve hired less grad students this year,” Smith said, “and they’ve combined multiple smaller classes into bigger lectures with more students.”
Graduates present fresh teaching styles in classroom Graduate teachers diverge from traditional teaching methods, quality questioned Nick Tran Deputy News Editor Students completing their undergraduate educations have the opportunity to gain additional experience in their field by becoming teaching assistants. TAs shadow experienced professors to get a feel for how to teach effectively and are eventually given jobs teaching classes of their own. TAs are generally given positions teaching lower-level or introductory classes and are often criticized by students for being ineffective at communicating essential information and being generally disorganized. Genesis Atkins, a junior in marketing, said having a TA teach instead of a qualified professor is definitely a different experience. “It gives practice to student teachers in teaching and their field, but it’s more valuable for them than the students [being taught],” she said. “A lot
of times they’re really nervous and a split down the middle. “I can somewhat tell which little easy on the material.” Atkins said TAs are also much less evaluation was written by who formal and the likely reason for having though,” she said. “Much of the graduates teach is the ailing economy. time students who didn’t really “It has a lot to do with the reces- participate in the class or did poorly will write sion and how complaints.” the University Bell said is having to cut formality isn’t back costs.” necessarily an Taylor Gapissue with just cynski, a freshgraduate TAs. man in com“Informality puter science Ryan Therkelsen, a graduate TA is an issue with engineering, professors in said he also noticed a different style with TAs, but it general. Many feel they can drop formality and still maintain conwasn’t always a disadvantage. “Sometimes TAs teach in different trol of their class,” she said. “In a styles and they’re hard to get used to, larger class it’s hard to be inforbut it might or might not always be mal and still come across with a bad,” he said. “TAs can be informal sense of authority. With formaland laid back but that doesn’t mean ity, there’s no question on your auyou can’t still learn. It doesn’t matter thority, but without it people tend if they’re students too, there should al- to see you as their friend instead of ways be respect for them as teachers.” as a teacher.” According to University policy Jennifer Bell, a graduate teaching assistant, said it depends on the students’ perspective, and those who like Teaching continued page 3 or dislike her teaching are pretty much
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be in graduate school needs to know why they are going into that specific program. “They need go ahead and do it now assuming it will be necessary to have several years of experience before Joanna Banegas competing in the global economy,” Staff Writer She said. “The more experience you have the more meaningful your trainWith the economy of ing and education will be.” unemployment at ten percent, Schroeder also said one needs to be more people are growing interest incredibly well prepared for the job and applying to graduate and law market because it is extremely chalschools. A NY Times article published last lenging. “I think there is a lot of fear and week that the number of people taking the Law School Admissions Test rose anxiety about the job market but 20 percent in October. And the num- I wouldn’t say it was uncalled for,” Schroeder said. ber of Americans “I think it is a who took t he very place to be. Graduate Record Students should Examination in approach t he 2009 rose 13 perjob market with cent, according hope and in a to Educational positive way but Testing Service. also in a very The University pragmatic and Annual Assesspersistent way.” ment Report of Machado said 2008 stated the Nicole Machado, a senior in textile and she wa nt s to number of apapparel management further her eduplicants for the cation and make graduate school climbed to nearly 10,000 in 2007- sure that not just a bachelor’s degree 2008, the largest number the graduate is taking her to places she wants to go. “I have big dream and I need a betschool has ever received. Nicole Machado a senior in textile ter education for that,” Machado said. and apparel management said she “It used to be that you could get an thinks more students are applying awesome job with an undergraduto graduate school because they are ate degree but now going to graduate afraid of the people who already have school is starting to become a norm.” Schroeder said they are some things jobs in the global market. “They don’t have the network as the that students can do and being in a older professionals do have because good graduate program may wind they’ve been working in the field for a up being the best bet for them but it long time,” Machado said. “Eventually needs be a carefully decision. “Students who believe that finding graduate school is their back up plan and tell themselves, ‘So I guess I’m just a goal in life will magically appear going to stay in school longer.’” Carol G. Schroeder, director of Career Center said anybody wanting to Increase continued page 3
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Censorship provokes cracks in China’s Great Firewall BEIJING - Zhang Shan never paid much attention to Internet censorship in China. The stylish art gallery clerk said it didn’t really matter in her daily life. Then last year, she lost access to some of her favorite Web sites. First YouTube. Then Twitter. Then Facebook. It was her first memorable brush with the Great Firewall of China - one of many
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ining Hillsborough Street in front of the Bell Tower, Taylor Degrasse and Patrick Sazama, both freshmen in first year college, cheer with oncoming traffic following State’s 88-74 win over Duke Wednesday night. Degrasse said the energy at the belltower was contageous. “We watched [the game] and it was awesome, the spirit is incredible,” said Sazama.
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American Foreign Policy: Yes We Can or No We Can’t Stephen J. Stedman, former Assistant Secretary General and Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, will be the featured speaker at this public event cosponsored by N.C. State’s School of Public and International Affairs and Department of Nuclear Engineering, and Duke University’s Program in American Grand Strategy. It will be held today from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. at the DH Hill Library EC 2304. source: NCSU Campus Calendar
powerful mechanisms the Chinese government uses. source: MCTcampus.com
Relief agencies struggle to identify corpses PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Just before dawn, the bodies began arriving - wrapped in sheets of plastic - and pulled off pickups and makeshift stretchers at a morgue that was already overflowing before disaster struck Tuesday evening. Within hours, the corpses were strewn across the gray brick courtyard outside the drab one-story building that houses the city’s dead. source: MCTcampus.com
CHASS Dean for a Day If you have business with the dean on Jan. 28, be advised he won’t quite be himself. CHASS Dean Jeff Braden is trading places with a CHASS student for the day. He’ll take classes, and he or she will attend meetings and do all things deanly. Watch Technician for details.
size scale, to intensify an emotional and/or sensual encounter. This traveling exhibition is curated by Wendy Weiss and organized by the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska. This will be held on Monday, January 25 from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Source: NCSU Campus Calendar
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With Lathe and Chisel: North Faces and Mazes with Carolina Wood Lisa Cook Turners and Carvers In Lia Cook’s most recent series of weavings, she uses an electronic Jacquard hand loom to weave faces that dissolve into continuously changing mazelike patterns. Drawing on familiar childhood sources, Cook uses a detail, often re-photographed, layered and re-woven in over-
New airfields, port reopening speed up aid Two aftershocks rattled Haiti shortly before noon Thursday but appeared to cause little new damage as U.S. and international troops ramped up capacity for the quake-ravaged country to receive humanitarian cargo, heavy equipment, fuel and other supplies. Three new airfields and the reopening of the capital’s seaport Thursday will dramatically increase the amount of aid available to the country. source: MCTcampus.com
sociation of Woodturners. Local chapters of the AAW are independent organizations of enthusiasts who come together to learn more about the craft and enjoy fellowship with other turners. In addition to the work of these skilled and innovative artists, the exhibition will include wood from the permanent collection of the Gregg. This will be held on Monday, January 25 from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Source: NCSU Campus Calendar
This exhibition showcases the current state of art in the world of woodturning and features turners from North Carolina. Guest curator and noted wood artist Dale Nish has selected objects from active members of the North Carolina Chapter of the American As-
Quote of the day “There are important reasons why woman need access to really good accurate information about their bodies and about their sexuality” Dorian Solot, sex educator
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POLICe BlOTTER Jan. 18 11:29 AM | Traffic Accident Cates Avenue Traffic between non-student and student. Non-student was cited for driving with revoked drivers license. 11:51 AM | Welfare Check ES King Village NCSU PD conducted welfare check. Everything OK. 12:52 AM | Drug Violation Wolf Village Report of possible drug violation. Student was referred for same. 11:49 PM | Drug Violation Lee Hall Report of possible drug violation. Student was issued citation for Possession of Drugs and referred to the university for Possession of Drugs and Alcohol Underage. 5:49 PM | Fire Alarm ES King Village FP responded to alarm caused by cooking.
9:14 PM | Suspicious Vehicle Trenton Road Staff member reported suspicious vehicle. Vehicle left prior to officer’s arrival. Jan. 19 11:43 AM | Medical Assist Dan Allen Dr/Sullivan Units responded to non-student in need of medical assistance. Subject was transported to hospital.
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Student on bicycle was struck by vehicle door. Student was transported to Student Health. 1:47 PM | Larceny NCSU Bookstore Student caught shoplifting was trespassed from bookstore and referred to the university. 3:14 PM | Suspicious Incident Research II Faculty member reported unknown person had left disturbing message on voicemail. 8:14 PM | Suspicious Persons DH Hill Library Report of several subjects in stairwell. Officers checked area but did not locate anyone. 8:22 PM | Safety Program Lee Hall Officer conducted safety program due to recent break-ins in the area. 8:26 PM | Medical Assist Carmichael Gym Units responded to student in need of medical assistance. Student refused transport. Jan. 20 10:12 AM | Larceny Biltmore Hall Staff reported theft of laptop. 10:46 AM | Information West Dunn Bldg. Officers documented receipt of counterfeit bill. 12:39 AM | Traffic Stop Varsity Dr/Wolf Village Way Student was issued citation for revoked registration and no insurance. 9:06 AM | Suspicious Person DH Hill Library Officers investigated non-student in the area. Subject was advised of options. No action taken.
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Technician HOWL FOR HAITI
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At 88 Holzman dies, remembered by staff Staff Report
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Emptying their wallets for a good cause, Hunter Capps, freshman in microbiology, and Ahmed Elimbabi, freshman in biomedical engineering, each donate a dollar to Anna Rains, junior in plant biology, who was raising money for Howl for Haiti in the line for the I Heart Female Orgasm presentation at Stewart Theatre Thursday. “That was my last dollar,” Elimbabi said.
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The females listed different things to help a woman get an orgasm. The audience said strategies such as “confidence, foreplay and patience” help achieve an orgasm. Matt Peterson, a junior in biology, said that he expected to learn about the female orgasm and female sexuality and how he can respect that. “Maybe by coming to this program I will become less embarrassed about talking about those kinds of things,” Peterson said. “Just having that kind of forum where people can talk about the female orgasm and sexuality can be useful to both sexes.” Peterson said he attended the program this year because a lot of his friends enjoyed the pro-
provides little education on gram last year. “I thought I should definitely what sex education is about. “For teenagers, the sex educome this year so I can see what cation provided tends to focus it is all about,” Peterson said. Solot said people would learn on all the things that could more if the program is inter- go wrong like diseases, getesting or if they are enjoying ting pregnant accidently, and emotional problems with sex,” themselves and the subject. S olot s a id . “I think sex “There is litis inherently tle discussion funny and it’s about how to a fun thing to be prepared talk about.” for positive Solot sa id . sexual expe“People will riences. They lea rn more need this so and learn betDorian Solot people c a n ter that way.” ma ke good During the program Miller said he wanted choices right now or whether to appreciate the diversity of when they’re married years down the road.” the audience. “There are women here who want to learn more about their sexuality and men who want to learn about women sexuality,” Miller said. Solot also said this country
Abraham Holzman, a professor emeritus in the Public and International Affairs Department, died Monday, Jan. 18 at the age of 88. A professor at the University for more than 45 years, he was a Distinguished Alumni Professor and was frequently noted as an outstanding teacher and adviser. One of his awards was the Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal for Excellence, the highest honor bestowed on a faculty member by the University. During his tenure here, his research included interest groups, lobbying, political parties, age-old politics and the relationship between presidents and Congress. His passions included Jewish life and democratic politics, the Cameron Vil-
lage Library, reading, stampcollecting, Wolfpack football and exercise. Born in Detroit in 1921, he was raised in California where he earned a B.A. at UCLA to prepare for teaching. After enlisting in the Army, he was deployed to New Guinea, returning when wounded. Following his service in the Army, he earned an M.A. at UCLA and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. Before arriving at N.C. State he taught at Dartmouth College, was the Staff Assistant to the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and was an aide to a U.S. Senator and Congressman. He is survived by Sylvia Hochfield Holtzman, his wife of 62 years, three sons, five grandchildren, three greatgrandchildren and his sister, Naomi Golding.
“I think sex is inherently funny and its a fun thing to talk about.”
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Dorian Solot talks about female sexuality with a story about her adolescence at the I Heart Female Orgasm presentation at Stewart Theatre Thursday night.
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on TAs, graduates must have sufficient knowledge of their field as well as some experience with teaching. Graduates must have completed at least 18 credit hours of graduate courses before being taking an assessment. Before being given their own classes, graduates will be assigned supervision of recitation classes, attend workshops and shadow a faculty member. After successfully completing the department-specific requirements, TAs are given full authority over a class, often introductory level, while being closely supervised by a faculty member. Arouna Liloudini, a senior in chemical engineering, said TAs do well enough and any quality conditions are because they don’t get a lot of guidance after taking the position. “They do OK, but they don’t get enough from the institution and a lot of the work is on them,” he said. “It’s always hard for them in the beginning but I think they do a good job.” Liloudini said he came from a country with a stricter educa-
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by going to graduate school,” Schroeder said. “They are going to be very disappointed at the end.” Machado also said she thinks a student must have an advanced degree to obtain a better job. “It’s really hard to find jobs right now,” Machado said. “Graduate school is delaying that process for me by finding
tion system and the informality of TAs is very apparent. “Students don’t respect them as much as they would an experienced professor,” he said. “The informality takes a little away from the learning experience.” Ryan Therkelsen, a graduate TA, said informality does not necessarily have to be detrimental. “It’s true graduate TAs can be less formal, but that can be good or bad. Sometimes the amount of discipline can increase if you connect with the students,” he said. “Graduates bring a lot of energy to a classroom and have yet to develop any bad teaching habits.” Therkelsen said TAs are definitely capable of providing quality education. “I feel they go to great lengths to train instructors,” he said. “They were good for me when I was an undergraduate and it was also a great experience as they were more interactive with students.”
a job that will help me get out into the workforce hopefully by the time the economy has turned around.” Schroeder said the global market is not going to turn around by the time a student leaves graduate school. “We [the career center] really do believe that the job market is changed forever and that it will never go back to what it used to be,” Schroeder said. “It never does.”
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The Office of Information Technology recently announced that students’ e-mail accounts will be hosted by Google beginning in fall 2010.
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The change to Gmail truly has no negative repercussions and will surely simplify students’ campus experiences.
he Office of Information Technology, OIT, recently announced that Gmail would begin hosting all student e-mail accounts as of fall 2010. OIT is now letting students sign up for beta testing of the e-mail hosting service, which should go online for all students about July 1. When OIT originally announced the choice of Google for e-mail hosting, many students raised concerns about the negative changes it could bring, despite the myriad new opportunities Gmail opens. The concerns have been adequately addressed by OIT and students should take comfort in the thorough approach the University has taken to the
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility of the Editor-in-Chief.
transition. For a few examples, students were concerned about e-mail ownership and anti-virus protection. The e-mail is merely being hosted by Google and will still be completely owned by students during their enrollment. As many students who already have Gmail know, Google offers award winning anti-virus and anti-spam protection, standard. The user interface is improving and the inter-connectedness is obviously enhanced — principally due to the wide-
ranging applications Google offers — with the transition. But the savings in no longer having to locally host the content and in outsourcing our anti-virus and anti-spam is important. Not only will the University save $60,000 per year in server management, it will also free up the administrators who have, in the past, spent the majority of their time on server maintenance; they will now be able to work on OIT’s many other projects. This change is unequivocally a major upgrade for students.
They will receive all the benefits of Gmail and still have the professionalism of an ncsu.edu e-mail address. The days of running out of quota are over, unless students can fill a 7-plus gigabyte Inbox. Until that beautiful day when students will finally be freed of Squirrelmail, they should consider signing up for the beta testing phase and help OIT work out any kinks in the system for the full transition during the summer. If not out of service then out of self-love — saving yourself the tormented hours of yelling at defenseless monitors on campus.
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ake the corner of your mouth and lift it toward your ear. Now, do it with the other corner. Smile and be happy. I love it. I love the fact our basketball team took Duke to task. The best part about our team winning is the sort of empathy and contagious Jake Goldbas happiness students give Staff Columnist to each other. The situation is like a guy in a wolf costume dancing happily, with us sort of realizing we are the wolf-guy. Basketball is like a costume we wear and define through our actions. The old expression that goes with this is “Existence comes before essence.” This means that as a person, the only thing mentally creating you is yourself. You synthesize information and choose whether you like ice cream, say, or that you admire the basketball team — or Jay-Z. You are the only person who can make that choice. From Wednesday, we know that the only difference between a Duke basketball player and an N.C. State player is individual choice. You choose to play as realistically and competitively as you can. Likewise, how much of the Duke team is created by the students who go there? In basketball, one has a contest in which the end result is based on hard work and effort. You could just as easily substitute a “rigorous selection process” into the basketball team or academics. I can’t help but feel that Duke students know they will never be in the Ivy League — essentially, an absurd academic club based on tradition and football. The three most-known things from Duke are President Nixon, basketball and the tobacco industry. Duke students know that the next president could just as easily come from N.C. State — John Edwards, almost — as from Columbia University or Harvard, the Ivy League schools where Barack Obama went. Therefore, basketball for Duke students is less like an
emblem than an amulet, less a tattoo of their mom’s name than a tattoo saying, “I’m rich.” If you were really rich, you would not have to say it. If it matters as basketball, do not f launt it as intrinsic to the school. It should be a sign of self-esteem, not the self-esteem itself. You would never catch a non-Ivy League school comparable to Duke, such as the University of Chicago, emphasizing athletics in the same way Duke does. It’s about compensation. For the Pack, the win was about effort. The team is obviously about effort, not the recruiting rank of its players. It brings to mind a famous Abraham Lincoln quip, “If I had two faces why would I be wearing this one?” The only reason the Iv y League is the beacon of academic standards is because those schools create those standards and every individual works to the best of his or her ability at those schools. The essence of the school comes after its existence. I define the win against Duke, not the other way around. The only way a win could be important is if it was important to me. I affirm the win with all of us, which makes it a contagious happiness. Mark Twain said, “A hero is powerful to the extent that he empowers others.” The basketball game would be worthless if it could not inspire us to work harder as individuals. Take the basketball win and smile. I would hate to be a millionaire (or maybe for Duke students, a millionaire’s son) and not even realize it. But the real power is how you individually define this win. It’s about how you define yourself as a winner. Jay-Z said, “I’m the realest that run it, I just happen to rap.” I challenge you to use this win as an excuse to work hard as an individual. Define the win; do not let it define you. As always, the strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. Send Jake your thoughts on N.C. State versus Duke to letters@technicianonline.com.
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Editorial misses the mark on tuition Despite many of us in the Wolfpack family making resolutions to improve ourselves as we started the new year, Technician and its Viewpoint section have apparently decided to continue its habit of using stale news as a foundation for the paper’s opinions. Today’s unsigned editorial “Now they stand up for us,” curiously attacks the tuition petition being circulated by N.C. State’s Student Government, while calling on the UNC Association of Student Governments “to make a more concerted, multi-pronged effort” that includes “an extensive phone or e-mail campaign and have people directly speak to the legislators.” Yet that multi-phase approach is precisely what UNCASG has been doing since July, with the tuition petition only comprising one piece of the puzzle. At every single meeting over the past six months, delegates from all 17 UNC institutions have been thoroughly briefed on both the timeline and activities for the comprehensive approach we’ve taken to opposing the
Deputy Features Editors Justin Carrington Caitlin Cauley Rich Lapore Jessica Neville Laura Wilkinson
Tyler Risdon graduate student, civil engineering tax on students. Maybe Technician just got tripped up when we called it “multiphase” instead of “multi-prong.” Your editorial is particularly shameful when student newspapers with far fewer resources than Technician have reported on these efforts throughout the semester, while Technician has been unable to spare a single reporter or columnist to attend any meetings of the Association or the UNC Board of Governors. As if to highlight the embarrassment this paper has become, the UNC-CH Daily Tar Heel Monday had a front-page story detailing the very efforts we’ve been undertaking, efforts that your Editorial Board has only now been kind enough to recommend to us. I recognize Technician has spent this year working aggressively to shred its already-limited credibility with the Student Body and I recognize finding every conceivable opportunity to complain about the Talley fee — no matter how unrelated the complaints to the underlying news story — is the paper’s best option to rehabilitate its image with readers. But if you’re unwilling to even make an effort at proactively seeking accurate information for your editorials, at the very least you should consider reading your competitors’ papers before writing those editorials. T. Greg Doucette alumnus, class of 2009 president, UNC Association of Student Governments
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Massachusetts and the change that is going to be coming to Washington had nothing to do with being too liberal. I argue that that being too liberal is precisely the reason why this change is going to take place. The democrats in Congress, instead of focusing on our floundering economy decided to push their “Hallmark ‘liberal’ issue,” health care. Almost the entirety of President Barack Obama’s first term has been devoted to health care, which is an issue that would appease his base. But health care has stalled, partly due to the success of the way the GOP has framed the issue and kept in mind that the American people are not the most patient people in the world. They are tired of the same old Washington. During the 2008 campaign, President Obama promised a new age of transparency descend upon Washington but why then do we hear news of backroom deals in which some states are promised no tax increases in exchange for their vote? That is same old backroom Washington politics. So being too liberal is the reason why the election in Massachusetts was won by Scott Brown and why change will be coming to Washington. It is the American People’s way of saying that they are tired of waiting for the “Change We Can Believe In.” Andrew Dworznicki junior, political science
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n an age when people of both sexes are told that they can do anything, it’s easy to forget that there are still some places where the sexes are disproportionate. While rock and roll is still generally seen as a boys’ club, the women of Girls Rock N.C. are working to change this. The initial idea “was based on all of us being women musicians and knowing that it’s a little more difficult,” Beth Turner, current program director of Girls Rock N.C., said. Turner only began playing music seven years ago as part of the all-female trio Pinkslips. “I was in the company of professional local musicians, all men,” Turner said on the subject of her own musical history. “There were frequent jam sessions at my house and lots of guitars and
drums around and I got tired of watching the boys play so I picked up the guitar and taught myself how to play!” In 2003, Turner and the organization’s other founders, Amelia Shull and Abigail Pearce, discovered that they all had the common thread of rock musicianship. The initial model for the Girls Rock N.C. camp was the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp For Girls Portland, out of Oregon. “We started with 25 girls the first year,” Turner said. “Last year we had 98 girls in 18 bands.”
Just as North Carolina’s program Another label Turner wants to has grown since its inception, so has abolish is the common label “girl the concept of girls’ rock camps. band.” There is now a Girls Rock Camp Al“I have mixed feelings about ‘girl liance with 21 participating camps band,’” she said. “You don’t hear across the United States. anyone saying ‘boy band’ unless The GRCA lists equality, diversity they are referring to, say, the Jonas and positive approaches to fighting Brothers.” She was always careful sexism in its core to refer to her own band, the values. This is an Pinkslips, as an organization that is “all female rock proudly feminist and trio” rather than is on a mission to do “girl band” to more than just create stay away from new pop stars out of the associations young women. “We’re not trying with the phrase. to create the next W hile the A me r ic a n Idol,” founders themselves have Turner said. “We Beth Turner, Girls Rock! NC g u i t a r b a c khave workshops on program director g rou nd s , t he body conf idence, most popu lar self-esteem, femiinstrument nism -- the girls make ‘zines and learn about women choices for incoming girls, all aged in rock history.” 7 to 17, are vocals and keyboards. The word feminism is a label that “You don’t have to play anything is still problematic for some, and at to come,” Turner said. “We encourfirst might not seem to be necessary age them to branch out and try difin rock music. ferent things. It’s the week to try “I’m not a fan of labels,” Turner something they’ve never tried besaid. “Part of our mission is to talk fore. Girls who have never played a lot about language and words the drums before will try it out and so you’re not adversely effecting a be on the stage at Cat’s Cradle.” woman’s self-esteem. I’ve always Every camp ends with a Cat’s Craidentified as a feminist so I dle showcase, giving young women don’t think it’s a bad word the chance to be on stage without at all. As women we have being part of a nationally touring to do what it takes group. When one considers the to educate number of female musicians tourpeople ing nationally compared with their about male counterparts, the motivation behind Girls Rock N.C. is even more feminism.” A n d i n d e e d , apparent. a venue to educate about Girls Rock N.C. is holding a benfeminism is what Girls Rock efit concert on Jan. 23 at the Duke N.C. is all about. The orga- Coffeehouse as part of the 50 Shows nization’s official mission in 50 States series for the GRCA. statement includes a goal to The performance lineup consists “ensure that there are pro- of “Scientific Superstar,” “Princess gressive venues, events and and the Criminals” and “Heart of community leaders sup- Glass,” all of which prominently porting the young feminists feature female performers. we’re educating.”
“I got tired of watching the boys play so I picked up the guitar and taught myself.”
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WEEKEND UPDATE Friday, Jan. 22 Berkeley Cafe
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It’s been almost exactly two years since the world got its first taste of Vampire Weekend. The self-titled debut was, in essence, four white boys from Columbia University curiously fiddling with African rumba beats and singing about Oxford Commas and Peter Gabriel. Though the description suggests typical indie pomp and pretense, the final product turned out to be one of the most memorable releases of 2008. Suffice it to say, then, that anxious ears have been anticipating the band’s sophomore release, entitled “Contra,” for quite a while. Probably the most pressing question was whether or not the band would maintain the characteristic sound established on the first album. The answer is not readily clear, but after a spin or two, “Contra” feels like the natural next step from the selftitled debut. The lead track, “Horchata,” delivers the buoyant melodies and quirky lyrics one would expect, but also explores new sonic territory with its prominent xylophone romps. Lead singer Ezra Koenig sings as if you’re in the room with him: “In December / Drinking horchata / I look psy-
chotic in a balaclava.” The song transitions almost imperceptibly into “White Sky,” which features a falsetto melody that sticks to the ears like sugar coating. Like its predecessor, “Contra” evokes a sense of mirth; it is very much an audio accompaniment to summertime frolics or lazy sunny afternoons. Though the spirit is shared, the music on “Contra” is more adventurous. The beautifully disjointed “California English” sounds like an unreleased Animal Collective b-side, while the spunky “Cousins” f lurries with sixteenth-note guitar runs and snare rolls. There are occasional moments where “Contra” sounds conventional, but only in a relative sense. The saccharine, straightforward pop hooks in “Giving Up the Gun” are atypical for the band — strings are traded for synths and the rhyming isn’t outlandish. Still, Vampire Weekend renders the song in such a way that it feels familiar. To balance out the newer sounds, there is still plenty of classic material; syncopated rhythms, string flourishes and sunny lyrics abound in tracks like “Run” and “Diplomat’s Son.” The latter is six minutes of rocksteady rhythms and cryptic lyrics that hint at the 1981 Contra movement in Nicaragua — just the kind of madness you would expect from Vampire Weekend. “Contra” coasts to a stop with the subdued “I Think Ur A Contra.” A gorgeous, acoustic guitar-based melody underlies the gentle yet accusatory lyrics: “I think you’re Contra / I think that you lie / Don’t call me Contra /
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Till you’ve tried.” It’s absolutely sublime. So what does “Contra” have to do with anything? The band chose the term as the album’s title to suggest opposition against external expectations. According to Koenig, the album is a reaction to
the media pigeonholing the band as erudite, polo-wearing preps from Columbia (bluntly illustrated by the album cover). For Vampire Weekend, “Contra” is uncompromised self-expression. It’s not an extension of the first album, but rather an evolution that
still sounds very much like Vampire Weekend. Though “Contra” is not intended to cater to anyone’s expectations, it ends up surpassing them.
Film festival provides journey of ‘Strange Beauty’ The Strange Beauty Film Festival Comes to Durham January 22, 23 Elliot G. Borman Staff Writer
The Manbites Dog Theater in Durham will feature over 50 short films Jan. 22 and 23 which cross the fine line between terrifying normality and the sublime fever dream. The inspiration for the festival came from the often subversive strange otherness film brings to its viewer. Creating a peculiar visual oasis, the festival shows off the work of global producers. Artists have submitted and traveled as far as Sweden to take part in this two day festival. The original inspiration for the festival was taken from the uniquely strange beauty of the viral video “Chocolate Bunny,” and from there the beginnings of Strange Beauty formed. “We found ourselves talking about [‘Chocolate Bunny’] for a long time,” the festival’s co-organizers, Jim Haverkamp and Joyce Ventimiglia, said, “and how
strangely beautiful it was and ‘Strange Beauty’ was born.” The festival features global productions, with many local works as well from producers Nic Beery, Brad Boll, Shambhavi Kaul, Margaret Morales, Savannah Scarborough, Nicole Triche, Monique Valasquez, as well as N.C. State’s own Neal Hutcheson, an award-winning filmmaker whose works have been shown on PBS and the Documentary Channel. Hutcheson completed his degree in film and literature under Joe Gomez. His submission “Jornada del Muerto” is an intuitive experimental documentary of struggle, combing the western frontier and 1998 Las Vegas. “’Jornada del Muerto’ is a film shot over 10 years ago,” Hutcheson said. “One night when I was filming, a poor drunk came cruising along on his bike, hit a curb and wiped out in a crunch of bone. [The response of two onlookers in polo was sarcastically] ‘Yeah, it’s a real tragedy isn’t it?’” The physical and metaphorical pain of
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reality is what inspired this film’s creation. know it.” Similar to the rest of the films, “Jornada The film takes the auditorily deranged hallucination of a waterless desert won- del Muerto” becomes an enigmatic experimentation for underer, from George derstanding reality, Douglas Brewerwhere the meaning ton’s “Overland becomes transcenwith Kit Carson,” dent and unique to combined with a the viewer. grainy black and The Strange white textured SuBeauty Film Festiper 8 film, crossing val takes place this the line of sanity and logic within weekend. Student Neal Hutcheson, quoting poet Jonathan the neon city. tickets begin at $18. Williams “Re v i sit i ng it However, the festinow, it’s easy to val has already sold read [‘Jornada del out for the Friday Muerto’] as coming from a person dis- and Saturday night exhibition, so if one turbed by what he saw as a world of people is looking for something to do Saturday going through the motions,” Hutcheson afternoon at 2 p.m., check that exhibition said. out. No film lovers will be disappointed. Being unable to fully describe the For more information on the festival meaning of his film in his own words, visit www.strangebeauty.org. To contact Hutcheson used those of poet Jonathan Hutcheson about his own work, or to ask Williams: “There’s a lot of people walk- any other questions, he can be reached at ing around today who are dead and don’t nealhut@bellsouth.net.
“There’s a lot of people walking around today who are dead and don’t know it.”
LOCAL BANDS RAISE MONEY FOR EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS In the wake of the recent tragedy in Haiti, several local bands and venues have pulled together impressive lineups to raise money for aid.
When: Jan. 23, 6 p.m. Where: Cat’s Cradle Who :The Bipolar Bears, Charles Pettee, HWYL, Kick the Future, Kitty Box and the Johnnys, The Moaners, New Town Drunks and Puritan Rodeo. Cost: $10
When: Feb. 4, 6:45 p.m. Where: Pour House Who:A Rooster for the Masses, Andy Bilinski, Chatham County Line, the Debonzo Brothers, Filthybird, The Hotwires and Roger Gupton. Cost: Donations are appreciated COMPILED BY CAITLIN CAULEY
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Girl” calling is the fact that she is encouraging other athletes. “I wasn’t really looking for any attention from it. I just wanted to boost school spirit, and I think it worked,” Hofmann said. When she goes out to a game and starts the wave,
Heading into College Park, team hopes momentum from Duke game carries over Taylor Barbour Deputy Sports Editor
Coming off its biggest win of the season against the previously No. 7 ranked Duke Blue Devils, the Pack hopes to carry the momentum it built Wednesday night over to Saturday’s game against the Maryland Terrapins. “This is a good win for us, but tomorrow it is over,” coach Sidney Lowe said after the game. “We’ll enjoy it tonight, but after that we have to get ready for another tough game and bounce back.” The Pack (13-6, 2-3 in ACC) is in one of its toughest stretches of its schedule as it travels to Maryland to take on a dangerous Terrapins team that is averaging 81.1 points per game, almost 10 more than State. The Terps have dominated the series between the Pack in the past few years and have won the last five games, including knocking State out of the ACC tournament in the first round. The Pack will need another big game by leading scorer Tracy Smith, who led the Pack with 23 points against Duke, as he will need to help keep the Pack in the game both offensively and rebounding the ball on defense. To get the tough win on the road, the Pack will have to focus on stopping Maryland’s star player, senior guard Grevis Vazquez. Vazquez is fourth in the ACC in scoring, averaging 17.9 points per game and has scored over twenty points in seven of his last eight games. Vazquez is also a very unselfish player, as he is averaging 6.1 assist per game – second most in the ACC. Even with the upset win against the Blue Devils fresh on his teammates’ minds, Smith said the Pack still feels like it has something to prove. “It was a big win for us,” Smith said. “We are a team on the rise. We are really good, but we have to keep fighting and prove to people that we are a great basketball team.” After a win over a top-ten ranked team, the Pack gained a great deal of confidence and discovered it can play with anyone in the ACC. But the players’ main focus is to carry over the inten-
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Carolina football game,” Andrason said. Every member of the hard hat group has his own personalized hat that represents not only N.C. State, but his personality and interests as well. The helmets contain different stripes and stickers put on by each member of the group. “My helmet has a couple of coaches’ signatures on it
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she feels that she is encouraging other athletes to succeed through the campus-wide effort Athletes Supporting Athletes. “We have a program as varsity athletes called Athletes Supporting Athletes. It shows that really, we support one another. We try to go to as many different games as possible. We’re doing this not for notoriety, but because we enjoy doing this,” Hofmann said.
As Wave Girl, she feels that it is important to keep on encouraging other athletes, no matter what, fair weather or no. “It was a rainy game, a women’s soccer game. It was a good steady downpour and most [of the] people had umbrellas, and we did the umbrella wave that time. So rain or shine, the Wave Girl still does her job,” Hofmann said.
and I hope to get more in the future,” Reid said. They have been featured many times on camera showcasing their passion for State athletics by dancing, screaming, jumping and just about anything else to excite fellow State fans. The group is planning to take its fanatic behavior beyond the two major revenue sports in an effort to promote positive support for the other teams on campus. Plans include attending women’s basketball games in historic Reynolds’s Coliseum
and possibly attending other non-revenue athletic events in the future. “We got to spread it to the non-revenues and especially women’s games,” Reid said. The Hard Hats are actively recruiting new members. Anyone who is interested should join in with them at the major athletic events on campus. “Our group wants to develop a certain mentality for fans and we try to work as hard as the athletes do while in the stands,” Andrason said.
“The fans are too relaxed as being fans. They’re not involved as fans,” Learish said. “It’s like they don’t care about the team – they’re just there because everyone else is there and they feel obligated. It’s like being in uncomfortable clothes at a wedding or a funeral. Whether or not they have a good record, it doesn’t really work. If you’re not going to get into it, don’t go.” He also has his own ideas as to how events should be run in order to draw more of a reaction out of the student body. “I hate that guy with the microphone,” Learish said. “If the
students are going to get into it, they’re going to get into it on their own. No one likes him – he needs to stop doing it. Half the student section shuts up when he starts talking.” Learish is searching for the one missing piece of his costume before he makes his basketball debut: the Joker’s girlfriend, who wasn’t featured in “The Dark Knight” but played a significant role in the animated series. “I was looking for a [girl to play] Harley Quinn for most of the season, but no one seemed interested,” Learish sa id.
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Leaping under the basket for a lay-up near the end of the 2nd half, junior Tracy Smith tallies two of his 23 total points in Wednesday’s 88-74 victory over the Duke Blue Devils.
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sity they showed in the Duke game and focus on not losing steam after such an emotional win. “We can’t have a letdown,” senior forward Dennis Horner said. “Going into Saturday, it is a big game for us and with this win we feel confidence and have a little swagger with our team, knowing we can play with anybody.” Lowe said he hopes the team is able to learn how to duplicate the upset win over Duke. “You can learn from losing a ball game, but you can really learn from winning a ball game if you pay attention to the things you did to win the game and try to set out and do that every time,” Lowe said.
need the encouragement if the team plays as well as it did against Duke Wednesday night. He can remember his “good face paint” and “bad face paint” days and the one time he was featured on the Jumbotron. He uses the persona to prod fairweather State fans and to make them ask themselves the Joker’s mantra: “Why so serious?”
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State will look to bounce back from a two game skid against Wake Forest this weekend. The Pack is 58-8 all time against the Demon Deacons and 30-3 at home. State has forced a leaguehigh 70 turnovers in its three ACC games this season. Senior guard Nikitta Gartrell is just 13 points away from becoming the 26th Wolfpack woman to score 1,000 points in her career. The game will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Reynolds Coliseum. Source: N.C. State athletics
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Today Men’s Tennis vs. Vanderbilt J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 4 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Wake Forest Reynolds Coliseum, 6:30 p.m. Saturday Men’s and Women’s Track & Field @ The North Carolina Meet Chapel Hill, all day Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving vs. Clemson Casey Natatorium, 11 a.m. Men’s Basketball @ Maryland College Park, Md., 6 p.m. Wrestling @ Maryland College Park, Md., noon Wrestling @ Navy Annapolis, Md., 7 p.m. Sunday Men’s Tennis vs. Michigan J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 11 a.m. Gymnastics @ West Virginia Morgantown, W. Va., 1 p.m.
Did You know? Junior forward Tracy Smith ranks third in the ACC in field goal percentage at .553.
Junior’s cartoonish get-up “lucky” during football season Kate Shefte Sports Editor
Mitch Learish, a junior in creative writing, has taken to painting his face like Heath Ledger’s character “the Joker” for athletic events in an attempt to convince fans that, as he puts it, “making people realize that being crazy and being a good fan isn’t a bad thing.” “Some people think it’s dumb,” Learish said. “Others will yell out stupid crap, probably because they’re jealous they didn’t think of it first. But a lot of people love it.” Learish said he came up with the idea because his roommates were painting themselves red for a game against Murray State and they had some extra paint left over. The Pack won, and the tradition continued. Shane Ferrara, a junior in
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Mitch Learish, a junior in creative writing, strikes a pose for the camera during a break in play as the Pack football team took on Duke at home Oct. 10. Learish’s habitual game-time makeup job has drawn praise from some fans and strange look from others.
business administration who went to most games with him, said the first time his friend dressed up as the Batman villain, he wasn’t sure what to think.
“The first time he did it, I was just sort of unsure,” Ferrara said. “I was like, if that’s what you want to do, that’s totally cool. I’m a big fan of Batman myself.”
Soon, people walking into Carter-Finley Stadium were taking notice. Ferrara said that wasn’t always a bad thing. “We get a lot of attention from it,” Ferrara said. “Some
people stare and get really weirded out, but for the most part, it’s good. Once, at a game, there was a guy dressed up as Batman and he and Mitch had a joking fight. Tons of people were taking pictures.” “The Joker” can remember at least one incident in which his sense of humor wasn’t appreciated. “There was one college-aged girl who took one look at me at a tailgate and ran away,” Learish said. Learish had a decent success rate in football games last season, as the Pack had most of its only five wins of the season with him in attendance and in costume. The first game the team won without him was its season finale against Carolina. Learish was on his way to the game, but couldn’t get through the gate because someone pickpocketed him and stole his ticket. Learish has yet to dress out for a basketball game, but said he thinks Pack fans may not
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Wave Girl’s legend builds speed
Hard Hats group expanding its range
One athlete uses her enthusiasm to support fellow athletes
“Hard Hats” group tries to change fan culture through unique helmet idea
Jeniece Jamison Senior Staff Writer
When it comes to State’s fan following, most can be categorized as being solely spectators that are a part of the student body, alumni or other members of the community. But one athlete, Allison Hofmann, a freshman distance runner, can see the experience of being an enthusiastic State fan from both sides of the spectrum. Around most of the men’s and women’s soccer matches, she is known as the “Wave Girl.” She is the fan with high spirits who starts the famous “wave” that one would see at an arena at every match she attends. “The stands were completely filled. I figured with so many fans that it would be the perfect atmosphere for a wave,” Hofmann said. “I just took the initiative and went down to the bottom of the stands, closer to the field. I just yelled to
everyone that we should start a wave. And so I just ran across and everyone pretty much cooperated and it took a couple of times, but it worked really well.” This first game would only be the beginning of her developing legend. “Then it was the next game, a men’s soccer game where they recognized me again and said ‘Wave Girl, go!’ So they started calling me Wave Girl and I think everyone just kind of caught on,” Hoffman said. She also began to be noticed as being the “Wave Girl” outside of Dail Soccer Stadium and out in the community. “I didn’t really think anything of it until a week later, and I went to Harris Teeter. The produce worker there, I asked them were the tea leaves were [because] I couldn’t find them. He looked at me and he asked me, ‘Are you the Wave Girl?’ So that’s when I really figured out that it was catching on,” Hofmann said. But, according to Hofmann, the most important aspect of her “Wave
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by Amanda Wilkins
What is the craziest thing you have ever done as a fan?
Chadwick O’Connell Staff Writer
The 1970s were kind to N.C. State athletics, as it included N.C. State’s first national championship in men’s basketball and introduced All-American players David Thompson and Ted Brown to the collegiate world. During this era, there was a special group of students known as the “Hose Squad,” made up of members who wore firefighter helmets as a unique way of showing their dedication and support towards the Wolfpack. Fast forward about 40 years and today you will find a group of enthusiastic students known as the “N.C. State Hard Hats” who are trying to recreate the fanatic behavior introduced during the 1970s. The group, lead by Alex Andrason, a sophomore in business administration, and Cooper Reid, a sophomore in accounting, have eight members who represent State’s various colleges.
“We are trying to change the culture of the fans and get them to stand up for entire games,” Andrason said. The group can be found at every home football game patiently standing in the front of the line four hours prior to kickoff. By getting to the gate hours early, the members all but assure themselves a front row seat. They also attend every home basketball game and arrive an hour early to cheer on the home team during warmups and to pump up fellow students surrounding them. “We are willing to do anything to get people louder, and especially try to keep momentum up during breaks of play,” Reid said. The idea for the hard hat fanatic group came from Reid’s father, who described the “Hose Squad” to his son. Reid and fellow members decided going with hard hats would be easier and would put their own spin on a fun tradition. “We came up with the idea over the summer and it all started at the South
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“They won’t let you storm the field. I was running around drunk in 40 degrees, pouring rain.”
“Snuck around police offiers and jumped down one of those concrete walls to sit with my friends.”
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