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Morgan Monday, a senior in business management, labels used books in the N.C. State Bookstore. “The week before exams is usually the busiest, and of course during exams,� Monday said of Bookstore’s Book Buyback program.
With the semester coming to an end, students are deciding the best way to their used textbooks and get the best deal on buyback prices. The campus bookstore offers 50 percent of the new price at the end of the semester for textbooks bearing a Guaranteed Buyback sticker. Tuyen Tran, textbook manager for the NCSU bookstores, said there has been a trend towards increasing the number of buybacks from students at the campus store. More information will be provided on buybacks via the bookstore Web site and e-mails this semester, Tran said. In-demand titles for buyback will be included in e-mails while a more comprehensive list will be included on the Web site, he said. “That information is going to change as books are bought back, so it’s a good source for students to be able to see what’s still needed, and then they can determine if it’s worth making the trip,� Tran said. Joshua Peavey, a sophomore in environmental technology, said he was more satisfied with the offers from other stores after shopping his used books around last summer. “Last semester I started selling them to the places up and down Hillsborough Street because they give you a little more cash,� he said. Peavey was unaware of the Guaranteed Buyback Program the campus book store offered and said he would investigate it next semester. Bobby Mills, a senior in political science and economics, said that even though prices are occasionally a little higher, he has supported using the
Students chalk football score around rival UNC campus Annie Albright Staff Writer
A group of students traveled to UNC-Chapel Hill early Monday morning to chalk “41-10,� the score of Saturday’s football game, all over campus. According to Kristin Brock, a sophomore in chemistry at UNC, the chalking was one more example of the strength of the rivalry between the two schools. “It was pretty hard to miss it,� Brock said. “The chalk was everywhere.� Brock said she noticed the chalk as she walked to her first morning class. “You know there’s a huge rift between Chapel Hill and N.C. State if a group of college students are willing to wake up before 7 a.m. to gloat,� Brock said. Student Body President Jay Dawkins, a junior in civil engineering, said he appreciated the Monday’s events. “Nothing says demoralized like walking out on a cold day and all you see is ‘41-10,’� Dawkins said. Earlier in the week, there were sightings of spray-painted N.C. State logos across the UNC campus, an act that is considered vandalism, Brock said. Dawkins said he approved of
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bookstore since he found out that its profits go to financial aid for NCSU students. NCSU Bookstores is a non-profit organization which benefits the University’s need-based Academic Scholarship Fund, according to its Web site. “I used to buy my books online, but ever since I found that out, I’ve purchased my books on campus because I want to do things that benefit students,� Mills said. Mills said he encouraged increased use of the Guaranteed Buyback Program while he was student body president last year, and said in recent years students have saved over $1 million as a result of the program. “The initial cost is still the same, but at the end of the semester you’ll get a lot more of your investment back in return and that saves you money,� he said. “It not only saves students money in that form, but it encourages more students to buy books on campus which also encourages more financial aid.� A key component of the Guaranteed Buyback Program and for ensuring higher prices paid on buybacks in general, Mills said, is making sure teachers put their textbook orders in on time. A mandate from Provost Larry Nielsen has increased the percentage of teachers who place their orders on time considerably, Mills said. The best time to sell books back to the campus store is at the end of the semester, according to the Web site.
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International students not concerned about dorms closing Exchange students make plans to travel Courtney Bolin Staff Writer
University Housing will be closing the dorms, including Alexander Global Village for Thanksgiving break Nov. 29 at 10 a.m. Initially, many faculty members were concerned that international students would be displaced by the closings. However, most students have planned vacations and home-stays during the break. “It was our hopes that the international students would be invited to go home with their American friends,� Susan Grant, director of University Housing, said. “We want them to have the opportunity to participate in the holiday.� Joe Evans, an exchange student from England, said he and about 10 other international students are planning to go to Miami beach over the break. “We are hopefully going to pick up some fly honeys,� Evans said. “It should be super mondo.� Evans, a junior in economics, said that he wasn’t invited to go home with anyone, but he didn’t ask either. He said that he had already made plans to go to Florida. “I know that Campus Crusade for Christ offers a program that gives exchange students an opportunity to go to a family’s home,� Evans said. Evans said that he can see how the dorms closing may be inconvenient to international students, but he thinks it encourages the students to travel. “The building closing forces the students to participate in something,� Evans said. “But, if the building had stayed open, I would have traveled anyway.� Yulisa Lin, a community director for University Housing, said she had been talking to the international students about their plans over the break. “All of the students I have talked to have plans,� Lin said. “They all have said that they have plans to travel or that they are going home with friends.� Lin said she was an exchange student while working on her undergraduate degree. “Going home with students was a good way to experience the culture,� Lin said. She said she thinks it was a good way to explore what an DORMS continued page 2
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Retailers will still use holiday weekend to push sales in spite of pessimism Derek Medlin Managing Editor
As the most important shopping weekend of the year approaches this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, retail stores in Raleigh and around the country will be looking for different ways to pull shoppers in despite recent economic problems. Chuck Milsaps, minister of culture for Great Outdoor Provision Company, said the goal this weekend will be to make sure customers have the best shopping experience possible.
“Traffic and foot traffic is not what it was last holiday season,” he said. “That requires us to really focus on what we should be doing anyway by making sure every customer’s experience is positive and meaningful to them.” Great Outdoor Provision Company, an outdoor activities retailer with nine locations in North Carolina, relies more on weather conditions throughout the shopping season than economic trends, Milsaps said. “If the weather is cooperative, we’re very fortunate,” he said. “It’s like the sixth man in the crowd. The weather has a great influence on what people need to stay warm and comfortable.” Douglas Pearce, economics professor and depart-
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ment head, said he believes this holiday shopping season and sales on Black Friday will most likely be down compared with other years. “It will be hard for me to believe this year will be a good year,” Pearce said. “All the signals, the stock market, housing prices and uncertainty about people’s jobs contribute to that feeling. I’m not pessimistic in the long run, but in the short term I am.” Pearce said he doesn’t think there is much that can happen to improve the outlook for the holiday season. “The stock market needs to rebound a good bit
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he Philadelphia police coined the term “Black Friday” to describe the traffic on the Friday after Thanksgiving and the cliche that Black Friday is the day retailers finally get into the black ink and turn a profit is widespread. But with the economic turmoil that has some throwing around the words recession and depression, Black Friday may have people
he word “black” can have several connotations for the upcoming after-Thanksgiving sales put on by retailers around the nation. Is it black because they need Friday’s sales in order to get out of the red from the rest of the years lagging sales in the face of the economic slowdown? Or is it really a symbolic dark black of the storm gathering on the economic horizon after shoppers stay home Friday fearing a deep recession? Historically, the day after Thanksgiving has been one of the biggest revenue days for retailers. After getting along Benton Sawrey with meager profits or just breaking Senior Staff Columnist even, Black Friday is the moneymaker that delivers the cash that stockholders love to see out of their investments.
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thinking more about Black Tuesday, the day of the 1929 stock market crash. Yet students may wish to throw the conventional wisdom aside and head to retail stores after Thanksgiving. With the bigger economic picture forcing businesses to take extreme measures to
draw in consumers and stay afloat, the discounts will be better than usual. But students may want to keep in mind the discounts may get better — so don’t do too much shopping on Black Friday. Jonathan Bohlmann, an associate professor in mar-
managed to avoid Black Friday for the first 20 years of my life. It was one of those things I had read about in newspaper inserts and seen on the news. As a young teenager, I remember asking my parents to “please take me to the sales!” The response was always something along the lines of, “You don’t want to do that, there are too many people.” But that’s what excited me: that and the amazing price cuts and buy-oneget-one-frees. So last year I went. I woke up with my Taylor McCune sister at 4 a.m. and went to Morehead Senior Staff Columnist City’s largest shopping area, Cypress Bay. Once there, we had to decide to stand in line at Best Buy or Belk, the only two stores worth shopping at, and ultimately settled on Belk, since Best Buy’s line was about a mile long. After 30 minutes of freezing our butts off, we got inside where a nice, exhausted looking Belk employee gave us each a free gift card with a surprise amount of money MCCUNE continued page 4
keting, said Black Friday is important in terms of volume. He compared the overall trend in purchasing patterns to trading down in stock and buying the safer, less expensive stocks. Similarly, people are buying less of the more expensive goods and looking more for the better bargain, which forces the high-end
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Editor’s Note: Boyette is a current employee with Circuit City.
very year after Thanksgiving, families wake up from their tryptophan-induced comas at inhumane hours. At the same time, employees working at retail stores are also waking and preparing to be overcome by families beginning another Christmas shopping season. Many of us understand the feeling of waking in the early morning hours. However, waking to customers who are wired from three cups of coffee, cold from waiting for two hours outside and Len Boyette angry that their advertised products are sophomore, business sold out is something much fewer of administration BOYETTE continued page 4
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saving on gas because they don’t know what may happen with the economy down the road.” continued from page 1 Milsaps said Great Outdoor Provision Company will battle the negative holiday shopping outlook so people feel more confident,” he said. “There has by making sure its customer service is top notch. to be a sense that we have seen the worst of [the “Our feeling is that our products and our shopeconomic problems] and people don’t feel that.” ping experience is probably the best stress reducer One strategy some retailers have been using is to out there,” he said. “We’ll be eager and smiling at give bigger discounts and better deals to customers the door Friday morning.” in an effort to get people out to shop. Another key for Great Outdoor Provision, MilJenna Gabriel, a senior in history, said she has al- saps said, is to make sure customers know they are ready noticed stores tryappreciated. ing to fight the economic He said Great Outdoor slowdown. Provision will be giving “I’ve noticed there are a thank you cards to cuslot more before Thankstomers and a $10 discount giving sales this year,” off of purchases of $100 or Gabriel said. “I’ve nomore. Jenna Gabriel ticed more stores staying “It encourages people to open later too, even become back,” Milsaps said. senior, history fore Black Friday. I went “If you have a positive exto Kohl’s last week and it perience in a place you felt was open until midnight.” good about, then you will be apt to go back.” Amber Combs, a junior in business adminisPearce said the conservative nature of consumtration, said one positive effect of the economic ers now and during the holiday shopping season downturn heading into the holiday season has been will continue until the economy becomes more lowering gas prices. normal. “[The economy] hasn’t really affected me, but “If there is a sense that the financial sector seems it’s definitely a big deal,” he said. “With gas prices to be closer to normal, then that will have a positive going down, I’d probably be more inclined to take effect,” he said. “But when people are uncertain, a trip during the holidays.” they tend to get more conservative.” Pearce agreed that lower gas prices have been a Gabriel said she and her family will not stop good thing, but said he questions how much impact shopping this year but will be more careful about they will have. how much they shop. “That’s definitely been a positive,” Pearce said of “My family has decided to keep Christmas small the prices. “But I’m not sure if it’s a large enough this year,” she said. “It hasn’t deterred me from positive. People might save the money they are shopping, I’m just shopping on a smaller scale.”
“I’ve noticed there are a lot more before Thanksgiving sales this year.”
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It’s the beginning of the Christmas season, the beginning of the boycotts by Christian groups over companies who use the term “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas” and it’s the ultimate showing of A merican consumerism that drives our economy. Black Friday is a good thing. It props up one of the largest sectors of our economy and it’s a one day economic stimulus package as people spend money they’ve saved (or will be paying back on credit cards) all year long on gifts for the Christmas season. Unfortunately though, this year’s stimulus package probably won’t be as big as needed. If there’s any year
when we need people to unload on cash to the retailers, it’s this year as our economy fluctuates between growth and recession. Fear has an uncanny way of driving a recession. When news outlets start publishing doomsday scenario stories in their efforts to sell more and more newspapers, people sit on their money. When money stops flowing from the consumers to the retailers - indicators on consumer confidence and retai l sales plummet, trumpeting another horn that a recession is imminent. The trickle-down effect will be in full effect if consumers stay home Friday. Retailers won’t have the cash to buy more inventory, manufacturers won’t receive the orders to produce the inventory, and suppliers won’t receive the raw materials orders from the
“Don’t let the media hype keep you home, but don’t spend beyond your means.”
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us can relate. The excitement seen in a child’s face when he receives his first iPod on Christmas morning is surpassed only by his mother’s adrenaline as she rips that very iPod from another mother’s hands on Black Friday. I’ve seen the faces of these mothers first hand at Circuit City, and I expect to see some new faces this coming Friday. What these mothers don’t know is that Black Friday serves only to push most major retail chains further into bankruptcy.
manufacturers. Already this year we’ve seen the bankruptcy of two major retailers, and if shoppers stay home on Friday and over the course of the Christmas season then we could see a new round of reorganizations and store closings after the dust settles over the New Year. Black Friday is fundamentally good for the economy because it drives the retail section of the economy and in turn drives the manufacturing section as well. Don’t let the media hype keep you home, but don’t spend beyond your means. There’s a happy median between the two that America has had trouble finding recently, but it’s a healthy place for the economy to be. Regardless of what you do, remember to be thankful over break for the opportunity to even be able to unload unsightly sums of money on Friday. Send in your thoughts on Black Friday to letters@technicianonline.com.
A common misconception about Black Friday is that companies make a lot of money on this particular day, when in fact that’s not always the case. Many retail chains use this time to rid themselves of old stock in place of the new. Their method is simple — they lower the price well below its normal retail price to increase demand. Clothing stores, for example, can still effectively make a profit because the wholesale price of the product is significantly less than retail. Alternately, the products sold at your local electronics retailer have a much higher initial cost to the company, thus reducing the profit margins by many orders of magnitude.
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the next, even lower deal to come. Black Friday may be a day of reckoning continued from page 1 for the economy. On one hand, a strong turnout may deliver a shot of economic retailers to reconsider their strategies. good news, something that has been sorely The solutions are obvious — sales, dis- lacking in the past three months. Yet the counts and lower prices. general economic outlook may convince The discounts will be there for the tak- more people it is prudent to save for later ing, and students should take advantage hardships, leading to more bad news from of the reduced prices. But they should the retail industry keep their receipts “Now is not the time to and more bad news and spend in moderfor the economy as ation — depending make the extravagant a whole. on the outcome of Regardless, stupurchases you dream Black Friday, prices dents can definitely may go down furof making — it is the take advantage of ther. Friday this Bohlmann said this time to spend wisely.” Black year, but they will year discounts look need to be prudent. like they are coming Now is not the time in earlier, as retailers have been pushing to make the extravagant purchases you sales forward in an attempt to draw in dream of making — it is the time to spend more customers. wisely, find bargains and prepare for posBut this may just be a sign of the econo- sible discounts in the future. my as a whole driving down retail shopping, and people might be waiting for
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on it. That surprise was to the tune of five measly dollars. Oh, and there were so many people there it was hard to move. And on top of that, Morehead City’s Belk is worthless and I ended up with nothing but a 50 percent off bra. Merry effing Christmas. By 6:15 a.m. we were both back home, in bed. There’s no way around it. Black Friday is miserable. Too many people pack i nto to o l it t le space. Too many overinflated, over-advertised deals t hat don’t deliver. Too much hype. Too little sleep. I know I’m not going out there again, and I would advise the entire world to not participate, but in this economy, I’d feel guilty doing that. Retail sales went down 2.8% in October, which is the biggest drop since someone
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started keeping records of such things in 1992, according to the Wall Street Journal. November isn’t likely to be much better, if the Dow is any indicator. It seems that retailers are still holding out hope for Black Friday, though. I’ve seen a multitude of advertiseme nt s on ever y network a nd cable T V station and The News & Observer is heavy with inserts. Bfads.net is loaded with promotional and sale information from Walmart, Banana Republic, GameStop, Best Buy and a few dozen others. It’s like the retailers have one last shot at ending 2008 in the black. (Interestingly, an increase in sales is not the origin of the name — it actually comes from a 1960s Philadelphia Police De-
Large electronics retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City have had to reduce margins by as much as 10 percent in order to compete with online stores, especially on computer sales. An Internet retailer doesn’t have to pay for brick-and-mortar or nearly the number of employees to sustain business, enabling them to afford the price breaks they offer. This problem is only exacerbated on Black Friday when these stores have to lower their prices even more to give the appearance of a deal. So why would a company participate in Black Friday if it isn’t profitable? The same could be ask of a company that pays a portion of its profits to their stockholders even as the company starts to
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fail. One answer is consistency. If a stock holder trusts a company to pay a dividend, that trust can easily be lost if a company does not meet those expectations. Retailers are expected to participate in Black Friday. Without their participation, retailers appear unconcerned with the customers’ needs — a lower price. Customers are sensitive to when businesses appear unconcerned, and this decreases consumer loyalty. An evident lack of care will make consumers weary and will heavily affect retailers’ success this holiday season. Send in your thoughts on Black Friday to letters@technicianonline.com
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Many bands these days have a niche that they seek to fill or be placed into. They modify their music, looks and lives to portray a certain image that their target audience is looking for. While the music they play may be catchy or relatively “original,” the tragedy here is the death of originality. There’s something to be said for standing on the shoulders of giants to be sure. However, simply putting a fresh coat of paint on “Guernica” by Picasso wouldn’t be considered art, so why does it fly in the music industry? In 2005, Dramatic Oil Company, or Doco for short, formed with the express purpose of avoiding the aforementioned scenario. The band consists of three friends from Winston-Salem: John and Trevor Booth and Dave Burkart. Dave and Trevor played together in Bigger Than You and brought in Josh to play bass. Originally, while Josh was at Columbia University in New York, he would come back to play with the band on breaks. Josh eventually left Columbia and the band decided to take their music more seriously, deciding upon a name change. The name of the band is an allusion to Josh and Trevor’s ancestor, John Wilkes Booth, the now infamous assassin of Abraham Lincoln. The association has nothing to do with John Wilkes’ politics or beliefs, but rather it is used to show the fickle nature of fate. John Wilkes was originally a successful actor known in the South for interpreting Shakespearean villains. The Dramatic Oil Co. was a failed oil venture in Pennsylvania headed by the actor, which failed due to an inexperienced prospector who supposedly knew how to “open” oil wells. The result of this hire was a collapsed well (due to misused dynamite) and complete loss of John Wilkes’ investment. When asked about the meaning of the name, Josh said, “It is interesting to see in history who wins, who loses and where they would be if things had turned out differently.” Truly, it is an interesting thought, es-
pecially considering if the well had been a success, the actor would have ended up with an oil fortune to supplement his acting career. The trio got into music to make their own individual mark on music. As Josh said, “We got into Rock & Roll because it’s fun to stick your middle finger up at authority.” The band has played in Raleigh and the surrounding areas at places like The Brewery, The Pour House, Lincoln Theatre and Cat’s Cradle. Dave, a 2007 alumni, also mentioned that the band enjoys playing at Farmhouse Pizza since “[Farmhouse] has kind of a close-knit group of people that hang out down there.” The band’s style changes from song to song and can be anywhere from reggae to
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hip hop to rock. “It’s gotten a lot more hip hop and less reggae,” Trevor said. “[We] find a good beat and write a song over it.” Dave also added, “When we try to come up with a song, what I’m into at the time influences the song. We try to make it pretty diverse.” Dave, Josh and Trevor have always sought to invent their own style of music, but originally played a lot of covers at their shows. “We started out playing a lot of covers,” Josh said. “Our sound kind of showed that, and we started getting offers to play specifically cover shows.” When the cover offers started coming in, the band reacted against the offers because they wanted to play their own
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terminals, and she’s not afraid to talk about it. Frustratingly, it’s about the only thing she is willing to talk about, and she functions as a chain-smoking dramabomb just itching to go Three Mile Island. The bride is going to pieces, the mom who divorced the dad is treating the ceremony like a social call, the step-mom is trying to choose strategic moments to play referee, the in-laws and cousins are in the way and the fiancé and father of the bride are just trying to keep the pot from boiling over. And if this all sounds like the makings of a madcap romp down awkward Thanksgiving Lane, you’ll find Rachel Getting Married much darker fare than it sounds. This is not an easy, breezy movie. Quite the opposite, it will beat the emotional crap RACHEL continued page 6
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Rachel Takes You Home During the holiday Hollywood blockbuster season, I find it’s best to retreat to your local independent cinema every now and again for a little perspective. I’m not expecting Transporter 3 or Beverly Hills Chihuahua to offer me a lot of insight into my life, and that’s fine. They’re not supposed to. I hesitate to use the word “family drama” to describe Rachel Getting Married, though I really only hesitate because the term scares people away. So let’s call it “kinship-oriented social introspection cinema” instead. No, too scary? Family drama it is, but before you head for the safe, warm bosom of Tweenpires: The Movie and Hugh Jackman Getting
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music. “We always try to make it something different,” Dave said. “I’ve embraced the strange because it’s a good way to spawn originality.” Josh agreed and said, “Reaction against convention is what we play for.” “There’s a graveyard of songs that we’ve recorded that don’t really sound like Doco,” Josh said. On The Fossil Record, the band added a voicemail titled “Rock N Roll Eulogy” to emphasize their efforts at originality. “That’s what we are trying to do; take DOCO continued page 6
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When I popped Story Teller’s newest release, Riding the Stars, into my CD player and heard the first few measures of their Swedish version of hard rock, I was skeptical. Looking at the band’s photo didn’t quell my trepidation either — the boys and their Euro fashion sense aren’t too pretty on the eyes. However, the music they make is, by and large, pretty on the ears and a refreshing break from what you might be hearing lately. T he a lbu m starts out fairly epic, with “The One I Can’t Live Without.” Don’t be fooled by the title. The song is a nice progression. It’s more than seven minutes of hard rock that gets just heavy enough to show technical prowess and metal credibility. The front man, Agust Orn, and his vocals remind me a lot of James Hetfield from Metallica, only Orn comes off a bit deeper in tone than his hard rock peer. This works pretty well to complement what Story Teller has going on musically, a perfect blend of Jimi Hendrix and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I know it sounds strange to liken a Swedish hard rock band, with definite metal tendencies to a psychedelic rock god and California’s favorite radio stars, but the sound doesn’t
Four Christmases Studio: New Line Cinema Synopsis: A Christmas comedy about a couple trying to find time to visit their parents during the holidays. This would be a simple task, if not for the fact that both sets of parents are divorced, resulting in the pair having to make time for, you guessed it, Four Christmases.
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lie. Proof lies in tracks like “Sunrise” and “Babe, I’m Losing My Mind.” Orn’s trippy guitar intros and solos are from the Hendrix school of shred, so much so that I honestly began to question whether these guys used some sort of Viking magic to resurrect the late 60s rock star. By the sound of it, they may have also kidnapped Anthony Kiedis and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, too. The choruses and interludes, among ot her bits, all have that consistent shimmery, cool vibe one would find on “Californication” or “Stadium Arcadium.” There’s a few other stops Story Teller pulls out as well. One is the Southern rock inspired “C’mon Baby”, with its straight bluesy style and honest, albeit cheesy, lyrics about a sassy lady friend. The other is “When I Died,” which has all the musical happenings of Atreyu or Alexisonfire. They manage to pull these off decently though, making the whole album a fairly well-rounded work of hard rock. While it isn’t perfect, the vocals do tend to detract from the instrumentation, it’s pretty solid Swedish rock ‘n’ roll music. Riding The Stars is a perfect soundtrack for both the flower child and Viking warrior in all of us.
Riding The Stars is a perfect soundtrack for both the flower child and Viking warrior in all of us.
Nov. 26 The Gibson Brothers w/ No Strings Attached doors: 8 p.m. show: 9 p.m. Nov. 27 Closed in order to EAT!! SOURCE: THE-POUR-HOUSE.COM
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At Volume 11 Tavern Nov. 28 Bloodsoaked, Deterioration, Inbryo, Predominant Mortification and Malebolgia Nov. 29 Jucifer, Black Skies, Transient and Sloburn Dec. 1 Annihilation Time, Double Negative, Logic Problem, Tooth and Sir Arthur & His Royal Knights SOURCE: VOLUME11TAVERN.COM
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‘Twilight’ Quenches Thirst
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Rock & Roll in a new direction,” Josh said. “People don’t necessarily like that. They want to hear what they know.” One thing that the band emphasized was that they are a live band. To get the true Doco experience, listeners need to be at their shows. “Raleigh has a fantastic live music scene and everyone should get involved in that,” Josh said. “Live music is the solution to the isolation caused by technology. You have to bump into sweaty people at shows, show everyone that you got your hand stamped. You only have one life, why not do something with it.” Dave also added, “Everyone is more than welcome to join the Doco party.”
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I won’t deny it: I am a Twilighter. I ravenously read all four of Stephanie Meyer’s pageturners, better known as the Twilight series. When I heard that a movie was in the works, my heart skipped a beat. Would they cast it right? Would the chemistry be right? Would the characters look like I imagined? It’s a feeling that I’m sure many Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings fans felt when they first learned of the films. Somehow, a book that you love can become something that you’re very protective of, like a diary or a memory, and it can become almost private and secret. It’s hard not to feel personally invested; there’s a lot at stake when a favorite book gets made into a movie. I have to admit that I wasn’t optimistic. The trailers for the movie are spastic and ill-formed, probably designed to target an audience of 12-year old girls who shop at Hot Topic. I wasn’t sure about the choice of the very pretty Kristen Stewart (Panic Room, Into the Wild) to play the clumsy Bella Swan. I was worried that the movie would lose the love story amidst the action-packed scenes that dominated the trailer. Bella, a shy and clumsy high school girl from Arizona, moves to small town Forks, Wash., to live with her father. As Bella starts settling in to her new life in Forks, she becomes enthralled with the Cullens, a “foster family” of five devastatingly beautiful, palefaced (you guessed it) vampire teenagers. She falls in love with Edward, the ridiculously handsome Robert Pattinson (Cedric Diggory from Harry Potter). But the Cullens aren’t ordinary vampires. They don’t feast on human blood, but have decided to live a “vegetarian” lifestyle, surviving off animal blood instead and trying to blend in with the mortal population of Forks. The Cullens aren’t the only vampires in town though, and the villainous nomadic vampires James, Victoria and Laurent throw
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the small town of Forks for a loop. This film was definitely made for the fans of the book, sometimes even quoting lines between Bella and Edward directly from the novel. Die-hard Twilighters will appreciate the brief cameo by Twilight author, Stephanie Meyer. The chemistry that Stewart and Pattinson have is undeniable (although, I propose that Pattinson could have chemistry with a brick wall). Stewart surprised me in this film, especially since she’s relatively new to Hollywood and this was her first starring role as an adult. She portrayed Bella as complex and multidimensional. Robert Pattinson was exactly what I had pictured Edward Cullen to be: beautiful, secretive, haunted and yet charming. I’ve read a lot about how seriously Pattinson took this role, and the character development he did definitely showed. Immediately drawn to the scent of Bella’s blood, yet ironically madly in love with his prey, Pattinson showed great depth as an actor by walking that fine line. The make-up artists did a really great job with Pattinson’s character, his deep red lips juxtaposed by pale white skin. Unfortunately, some of the other characters weren’t as lucky with make-up and costume. Taylor Lautner, who plays Jacob, wore a very obvious wig,
and Dr. Carlisle Cullen (played by Peter Facinelli) looked almost cartoonish in his vampire make-up. The movie was cast well on the whole, and the high school students portrayed actually looked like high school students. Director Catherine Hardwicke proves that she can portray casual and real high school experience just as well as she did in Thirteen in 2003. The villains, however, came off as wooden and one-dimensional. Cam Gigandet, who plays James, the nomadic vampire who develops an unquenchable thirst for Bella’s blood, doesn’t quite fit the part. I would have liked to see more of the courtship between Bella and Edward. The film, unlike the book, glosses over the long, drawn-out sexual tension between the main characters. Director Catherine Hardwicke did some really beautiful things visually, as well. The scenes of Edward showcasing his amazing speed with Bella on his back, practically flying through woody forests and stopping only to perch atop trees, is particularly reminiscent of the book. Twilight will appeal to fans of the books and fans of the vampires in general, and it will leave audiences hungry for more.
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It was there that he came to grips with what he was doing to his own life, where he realized that fooling around could be costing him his future. But even at Hargrave, the staff saw leadership potential in Brown, naming him a lieutenant and making him responsible for getting his fellow classmates in line. The Hargrave experience humbled Brown, he said, as he realized he can’t just use his talents for his own benefit — they have to be utilized as part of a team. Now, set to graduate, Brown plans to work with kids to make sure they don’t make the same mistakes he did. “I want to make sure there’s not another Andre Brown who ends up too big-headed and then ending up in a situation he should have never been in if he had just gone to school and did what he had to do,” Brown said. From star freshman to senior leader
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out of you. But this is where a lot of the film’s quality lies, in that it skillfully lures you into their world and their struggles without feeling melodramatic or clichéd. The characters are rich and complex. And Kym’s addictions are only a red herring for something so much more painful in the family’s past. It’s really an expertly woven tale that knows how to hit with bulldozer force. Speaking of Kym, Hathaway’s nuanced performance is easily my favorite of hers to date. Kym is at times so frustrating that you’ll wish her bodily harm, and at other times, especially during her court-mandated 12-step meetings, so sweet and tortured you’ll be debating the feasibility of hugging that big ol’ silver screen. The best part about the cast
Brown felt on top of the world after the Florida State game his freshman year. Wolfpack fans labeled him as the next great N.C. State running back, in the bruiser mold of Ted Brown and Joe McIntosh. “I wanted to be that big back that carried the team,” Brown said. “I wanted to live up to everything.” The offense sputtered badly his sophomore year — former coach Chuck Amato’s last — and after starting the first half of his junior year on pace for a 1,000-yard season, Brown fractured his foot, derailing his season and clearing the way for his current backfield counterpart, Jamelle Eugene. “I’m not going to lie, if I had a 1,000-yard season last year, who knows, I may not have come back for my senior season,” Brown said. “But that was God’s sign to say that I’m not ready yet.” It paved the way for him to become a senior leader who players credit for rallying the team to a win over ECU early in the season by encouraging them both from the sidelines and on the field. And now, ready for his final home game, Brown needs just 73 yards to move into eighth
TECHNICIAN The band’s new album, The Fossil Record, is their first studio CD and is available at local CD stores and on Itunes. It is a great addition to anyone’s music library who enjoys a fresh look at rock, reggae and hip hop. Also, 96 Rock has recently added some of their songs to their local playlist and 88.1 WKNC has the album in archives for any fans that want to request a song. On Dec. 11, the doors will open at 8 p.m. at The Pour House Music Hall, hosting Doco with Grove Stain. For fans of their music, this will be a must-see show as The Pour House is the band’s favorite local venue. Until then, do yourself a favor and check out The Fossil Record and get ready for the show.
is the simple normalcy in their performances. Every person has clearly built up walls around the things they don’t want to think about, and the coming down of those walls is what gives the film most of its punch. The music is of special note as well, mainly because, as a family of musicians, there is always someone, somewhere playing something, eventually to the point of annoyance. But they wouldn’t be family if they weren’t getting in the way of something. Director Jonathan Demme does a great job creating not just an environment of objects but an environment of people and things for them to do in it. The house is alive. Kym isn’t going to magically turn her life around. She just gets a little more steam to run on, and often, that’s all we ever get. Rachel Getting Married isn’t perfect, but there’s love, and there’s hope. That seems like enough.
on State’s all-time rushing list. This season, Brown has turned into a consistent power back to compliment Eugene’s shiftiness. After recovering from surgery in the offseason, Brown says he wasn’t at 100 percent until the Duke game. But coach Tom O’Brien has seen improvement in him each week. “As we went into the second and third game of the year he started to run inside with a little more power,” O’Brien said. “He found out he was pretty good at it and has gotten better as the year’s gone on.” Before he test the NFL waters, Brown is yearning for a bowl game to cap off his career. It would give him the chance to spend a few more weeks with the players that have worked with him and encouraged him through thick and thin. “You realize that this is going to be my last time running out of that stadium, touching the wolf, waking up with them and being around them all the time,” Brown said. “This is the last goaround and you can’t help but get emotional.”
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Players to watch for: N.C. STATE Anthony Hill, tight end - The senior will be playing in the final home game of his career in Carter-Finley on Saturday. Hill grabbed just two passes in the win against UNC-Chapel Hill and will likely be aiming to make his final game in Raleigh more memorable than his last game against the Tar Heels.
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Halfback Andre Brown takes a moment of reflection before the Sept. 6 game against William & Mary. State won the game 34 to 24.
The evolution of Andre Brown Fighting through injuries and high expectations, Brown has become a senior leader, set to cap off his career Saturday Josh Harrell Deputy Sports Editor
As his teammates celebrated on the field last year after a dramatic win over rival North Carolina, Andre Brown stood on one leg in Carter-Finley Stadium’s tunnel with crutches underneath his arms. Brown had waited for this moment, fighting through morning regiments at Hargrave Military Academy, injuries, and, at times, unmet expectations. The Greenville native yearned to be on the field with his teammates celebrating a long-awaited win over a bitter rival. Instead, Brown
didn’t feel a part of things. “I was there, but I just didn’t feel I was one with the team,” Brown said. This year, he was rewarded for his work. Brown has become one of the team’s senior leaders, rallying his troops from a 2-6 hole to his own win over UNC this year and a chance to become bowl eligible with a win Saturday. Now, as Brown sets to step through that tunnel for the last time at Carter-Finley this Saturday as the team’s leading rusher, he looks back on a career that has had as many twists and turns as any N.C. State player in recent memory. But Brown thanks God for it and plans to take it all in. “I’m playing Division-I ball on Saturdays in front of 60,000, 80,000 people, national TV,” Brown said. “Every time I take a knee in that stadium before the game, I think about that. And
this time it will be my last time here.” The PARADE All-American As a high school All-American, Brown received star treatment growing up in Greenville. He and everyone else in Eastern North Carolina knew he was going to do big things. “I was smellin’ myself, walking around like my stuff don’t stink,” Brown said. Add to his resume a 248-yard performance against Southern Miss in only his fourth collegiate game, followed the very next week with a 179-yard game at Florida State. And don’t forget his highlight reel plays. Brown was arguably the originator of the defender hurdle, now made popular by highly-publicized running backs like Georgia’s Knowshon Moreno and Ohio State’s Beanie Wells. “I’m not even going to lie to
you, I’ve been doing that on national TV for years now,” Brown said. “I mean I respect [Moreno], but I’ve been doing this for a while.” But for every instance of greatness in Brown, there seems to be a roadblock. In his senior year of high school, it was his own ego. Lessons at Hargrave Being “the guy” — as he puts it — in high school admittedly got to Brown’s head. He was receiving offers from some of the top schools in the country. But when it came time to qualifying for NCAA play, Brown didn’t meet the standards. Instead he was off to Hargrave Military Academy — a prep school in Chatham, Va. BROWN continued page 6
CROSS COUNTRY
Men’s cross country places 21st out of 31 Pack suffers “disappointing” finish at National Championships
hind William & Mary and the University of Virginia, Martinez admits that the team hasn’t had the sort of momentum needed Daniel Ellis for a national championship. Deputy News Editor “There’s always some sort of confidence that we have to have The men’s cross country team to be successful,” Martinez suffered a “disappointing” 21st said. place finish at the NCAA Cross “All week we talked about Country Championships on things that could’ve been done Monday. and what people could’ve run.” The team qualified for the Sixth-year runner Bobby Mack, Championships after gaining an a former all-American, led the at-large bid following their third way for the Wolfpack running place finish at the NCAA South- the 10K Terre Haute, Ind., course east Regional last weekend. in 30:24.4, good for forty-seventh “The team place. Martinez performance followed with a sucked,” redshirt forty-ninth place junior John Marfinish (30:25.6). tinez said. “When we “I’m really dishave two guys appointed in the in the top 50 and team this year.” our third guy at Martinez said one-hundredthere is an unand-fourth you derlying probwould think that lem within the we’d do better team that must than we’ve done be addressed if in the past, but it the team wants just didn’t work to rebound next out for our four, season. five, six and sevredshirt junior “There wasn’t en guys,” MartiJohn Martinez a total commitnez said. ment there from Even w it h a few of our guys,” Martinez their gloomy perspective on the said. outcome of the race, the runners “Next year that will be differ- did take note of one positive outent. It has to be. If coach doesn’t come of the meet. say something, then I will. This “Ryan Hill had a great race as year was disappointing for the a freshman,” Mack said. program and for the school.” “He had a higher finish than Since last Saturday’s finish be- any freshman we’ve had in the
“We really needed to be about six or seven seconds quicker this year to snag that all-American award.”
past few years.” Hill (eighty-third, 30:56.7), senior Gavin Coombs (one-hundred-and-forty-second, 31:31.2) and redshirt-freshman Andrew North (one-hundred-and-seventieth, 31:54) rounded out the 473 point team score for State. Oregon, a cross country powerhouse, secured the title for the second straight year finishing with a team score of 93. This year, Oregon senior Galen Rupp (29:03.2) held off Liberty runner Samuel Chelanga (29:08) to lead his team to yet another national championship with his first place finish. Rupp managed to overcome Chelanga’s attempt to take the lead with a starting line sprint. “Going in, we knew it was a real possibility that he might do that,” Rupp said. “I knew I was going to have to run smart and stay focused on what was going to be the best plan to be successful.” Martinez recalled meeting Rupp when they roomed together during the USA Cross Country Championships in the summer of 2005. “He’s kind of someone that you either love or hate, like the New York Yankees of running,” Martinez said. “I like him, though. He’s a really humble guy who works hard in all that he does.” Like Rupp, both Mack and Martinez were hoping to gain All-American accolades. “We were gunning for allAmerican,” Mack said.
BY THE NUMBERS ACC 14 Championships 9
National Top 10 Finishes
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All-Americans All-ACC performers
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
“Un f or t u n a t e l y, t h e y changed the format this year where it’s the top 40 without taking out foreigners, so we really needed to be about six or seven seconds quicker this year to snag that all-American award. “ Nonetheless, Mack is happy to finally have closure in his final season “Overall, I never would’ve thought I would’ve been back on the team this year running so well,” he said. “I’m glad to finish out the season rather than ending back in 2004 as a sophomore with an injury.”
Hurricanes defense - The Hurricanes defense will need to step up its game to stop a Wolfpack team that racked up 466 yards against Carolina less than a week ago. The Canes are coming off a 41-23 loss to Georgia Tech as the Yellow Jackets ammassed 472 yards rushing alone and 518 yards overall.
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Gametime: Noon Television: Raycom Radio: Wolfpack Capitol Sports Network
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS AND WEATHER.COM
Caldwell falls short in NWCA All-Star Classic Wrestling against national champion Brent Metcalf, Caldwell loses 18-3 Jen Hankin Staff Writer
BY THE NUMBERS 149 lbs. wins this season 8 losses this season 0 ranking in the 4 preseason poll
Last night junior Darrion national ranking Caldwell was invited to comSOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS pete in the National Wrestling Coaches Association All-Star Classic, hosted this year by Ohio thing like this,” Jordan said. State University. “Darrion didn’t want the outThis is the first time any wres- come to be like this, but that’s tler from N.C. State has compet- the way it goes sometimes.” ed in the NWCA All-Star Classic Caldwell has been training since Sylvester Terkay in 1993. for this tournament for the past Terkay participated in 1992 and week and said he was displeased 1993, winning both times. with the way the match turned The NWCA All-Star Classic out. matches up the top two wres“I know what I’m capable of tlers in each weight-class. No. doing, and that wasn’t my best 4 Caldwell, wrestling in the 149 match,” Caldwell said. “But weight-class, [Metcalf] is a lost to No. 1 good competiBrent Metcalf tor and I can’t of Iowa 18-3. take anything This is not the away f rom first meeting bethat.” tween Metcalf Metcalf is the and Caldwell. reigning nationMonday night a l cha mpion marked t he and, according anniversary of to Jordan, the Caldwell and best wrestler Metcalf ’s first in the nation wrestling coach meeting, a dual under age 25, Carter Jordan match in Lakeregardless of wood, Oh io, weigh-class. where Caldwell pinned Metcalf Jordan also said he is disaplate in the first period. pointed for Caldwell’s defeat According to coach Carter because he knew how much it Jordan the match was pretty meant to him. intense. “He’s got no where to go but “It was pretty hot and heavy up from here,” Jordan said. for the first period,” Jordan said. “[Metcalf] went out there with “Unfortunately Metcalf got a pin something to prove tonight and combination and turned Dar- that’s what he did. Now we have rion on his back, [gaining a five some film on him and we can point lead]. The match kind of learn a lot from this match for got away from us at that point.” next time.” Although Caldwell lost the The wrestling team will commatch, it is considered an exhi- pete next on Nov. 29 in Newberbition and doesn’t count towards ry S.C. before competing in the official standings. Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational According to Jordan the point Dec. 5-6. of Monday’s match was just the fact of being invited to wrestle in a high profile tournament. “It’s a huge thing for our program to be involved with some-
“It’s a huge thing for our program to be involved with something like this.”