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THROUGH SORENA’S LENS

NEWS Grace Christian Life v. Woodson , pg. 3

FEATURES

Potter takes the wheel

Harnessing behavior: professor talks passion for dogs, pg. 6

PHOTO BY SORENA DADGAR

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ark Welker, a senior studying technology education, turns his pottery during his summer ceramics class. Welker has crafted with clay before, but this class has improved his skill and technique. He said, “It’s calming in some ways, but I like making things in general. I like pottery, and I really like wood-working.”

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Should groups be required to get permits to solicit on campus?

Fellow Christians, you are not oppressed, pg. 8

POLICE BLOTTER

BY SORENA DADGAR

“Yeah. When people come to solicit from students, it can get annoying, especially since there are already a lot of businesses shoving papers down our throats.”

Michaela Bate sophomore, civil engineering

June 4 10:35 PM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Weed Control Lab Report of suspicious subject checking door handles on vehicles. Officers located non-student who was issued trespass from NCSU property.

June 3 11:50 AM | COMMUNICATING THREATS Talley Student Union Staff member reported being harassed and stalked by student. Investigation ongoing. Student was issued referral and trespass from the area.

06:24 PM | FIELD INTERVIEW Varsity Drive/Sullivan Drive Officer conducted field interview with non-student regarding possible ticket scalping. Student was issued trespass and left the area.

SPORTS Baseball’s season ends in heartbreaker against Coastal, pg. 9

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Grace Christian Life v. Woodson JUDGE DELIVERS INJUNCTION TO HALT UNIVERSITY POLICY, FINAL RULING TO BE DETERMINED

Gavin Stone Staff Writer

A preliminary injunction has been issued in the case of Grace Christian Life v. Woodson, in which NC State has been ordered to halt its Free Speech Permit Policy until a final ruling has been made.

Grace Christian Life, one of the university’s 600 registered student groups, is suing NC State for what it views as the university’s violation of its right to free speech by requiring it to obtain a permit.

The defendants in the case Grace Christian Life v.

Woodson include Chancellor Randy Woodson, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Warwick Arden, Associate Director of University Student Affairs TJ Willis and Associate Vice Provost of the Division of Academic and Student Affairs Mike Giancola.

Executive Director of University Relations Fred Hartman said in an email that NC State protects and defends the rights to free speech of all groups regardless of the content of the speech.

“The implication that an organization has been treated differently because they are a religious group is simply not true,” Hartman said. “Grace Christian Life has been holding church services and soliciting on campus for many years.”

On June 4, a federal judge granted GCL’s request for a preliminary injunction, meaning that NC State must suspend its policy requiring students, student groups or off-campus guests sponsored by a student or student group to obtain a permit for non-commercial solicitation under University REG 07.25.12 until the case is decided. The judge explained that GCL is “likely to succeed on the merits of its claim” that the university’s non-commercial solicitation policy violates the First Amendment, and therefore an injunction was “in the public interest.”

Alliance Defending Freedom, the Arizona-based legal advocacy group dedicated to defending religious freedom that is representing the GCL, is seeking a revision to the university’s policy on solicitation on the basis that it allows “unfettered discretion” to the university when deciding whether to grant permission to speak, according to a letter sent by ADF to NC State’s General Counsel, Eileen Goldgeier.

The letter continues to argue that the university’s permit policy constitutes prior restraint on student speech, meaning that it allows the university to censor speech before it occurs, which is “the most serious and least tolerable infringement on First Amendment rights,” according to a lawyer from ADF. GCL made reservations for space on campus 198 times between Aug. 16, 2015 and Dec. 16, 2016, according to Student Involvement records submitted to the court and obtained by the Technician. Of those reservations, 67 are from June 10 to Dec. 16, 2016.

Chancellor Randy Woodson noted in his response to the lawsuit in his Chancellor’s Letter in April that over the past three years, NC State issued 2,280 permits to student and non-university groups to either speak or distribute information on campus. He added that of those issued, close to 500 were issued to faith-based

groups or individuals.

“None of these individuals or groups have ever been denied the right to speak or distribute materials based upon their message content or beliefs,” Woodson wrote.

In fact, within the last 10 years, no student or student group has been disciplined under NC State’s solicitation policy.

The incident that prompted the lawsuit occurred on Sept. 15 when TJ Willis, a defendant in the case, witnessed on multiple occasions GCL members Thomas Saunders and Todd Valentine “walk up to a single person or duo of persons, start with a hello and then start the conversation into religion, ending with giving them a card” according to an email sent by Willis recounting

“The university’s policy on solicitation, listed under University REG 07.25.12, requires that ‘groups or individuals wishing to conduct any form of solicitation on University premises must have the written permission of Student Involvement in advance.’ The policy defines non-commercial solicitation as “any distribution of leaflets, brochures or other written material or oral speech to a passersby, conducted without intent to obtain commercial or private pecuniary gain.” the situation obtained by the Technician.

Willis told the GCL members that by approaching students to engage in religious discussion, they were violating the university’s policy to speak on campus without a permit, but according to the plaintiff ’s version of events, GCL had obtained a permit and was told that its members “were not required to remain behind the table, but that they were allowed to walk around and engage students in conversation.”

The Technician could not independently verify whether GCL had obtained a permit specifically allowing them to hand out materials, as this is a disputed fact in the case which is ongoing, though the primary focus of the plaintiff ’s case is on the policy of requiring a permit in the first place.

The university’s policy on solicitation, listed under University REG 07.25.12, requires that “groups or individuals wishing to conduct any form of solicitation on University premises must have the written permission of Student Involvement in advance.” The policy defines non-commercial solicitation as “any distribution of leaf lets, brochures or other written material or oral speech to a passersby, conducted without intent to obtain commercial or private pecuniary gain.”

The policy includes that the university may deny a permit for solicitation on the basis of “reasonable time, place or manner limits” or if the solicitation is not consistent with the University’s “mission and purpose of the location.”

In their court filings, ADF is arguing that this policy is too broad and is thus inconsistent with the function of a university as a “voluntary and spontaneous assemblage … for students to speak and to write and to learn.”

ADF claims that the policy’s requirement of advance notice restricts “spontaneous and anonymous speech,” which is often “the most effective kind of expression.”

They further contend that the act of letting the government know before being able to speak can discourage citizens from speaking freely.

Woodson commented in his Chancellor’s Letter that the lawsuit is “without merit” and that the limits placed on permits depending on time, place and manner are necessary to manage the large numbers of requests by speakers or those wanting to distribute materials.

The permit application only requires an explanation of purpose, but the stated purpose of the group in question is the only limiting factor regarding the content of the speech, aside from the time and place limitations depending on availability.

“Obviously, individuals can engage others in conversation about their faith on campus,” Hartman said.

Zainab Baloch, a 2013 alumnus of NC State and former president of the Muslim Students Association, said in a Facebook message that his group never felt restricted by the permit process. “[We had to] just make sure we had the permit displayed and not to like bother people,” Baloch said. “Basically stay near the table and don’t like force people to talk.”

Baloch said his experience being approached by groups who were pushing a message was a deterrent for him as a student, so as president he wanted to take a different approach.

“We let students approach us,” Baloch said. “We didn’t approach students. Unless we were doing a service event and selling like baked goods or something. The purpose of any outreach tables was to defy stereotypes and let people have a chance to ask questions to counter what has been said about Muslims in the media.”

In response to the injunction, the university released a statement maintaining that the ruling does not mean there is any concern over the university’s application of its policy, which is applied neutrally.

“The university remains an environment that fosters and enables the healthy and free exchange of ideas and viewpoints by our students and academic community,” the statement read.

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Professor makes data privacy public Hessa Al Maghlouth Staff Writer

Jessica Staddon discussed one of her most recent projects at NC State, a database for privacy incidents, in a lecture highlighting issues concerning privacy and private data collection on Monday, June 6.

Staddon, an NC State associate professor of computer science and the director of Privacy, spoke about her project during the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences/ College of Humanities and Social Sciences Seminar Series at Hunt Library.

The event, titled “Privacy Incidents, News and News about Incidents,” attracted attendees from governmental, industrial and academic fields.

According to Staddon, there is a pattern in privacy incidents, as they share certain attributes and certain causes. However, without a database with which to refer, people could repeat the same mistakes.

“Now, no one can make statements about what the root causes are, so it’s hard to build better products,” Staddon

said. “It’s hard to design better regulation without understanding what hasn’t worked.”

Staddon highlighted how the lack of publicly accessible databases of privacy incidents, such as accidental data collection and cyberbullying, makes analyzing behavioral trends difficult. She gave examples of privacy incidents, presented a new database of privacy incidents that is available to the public and spoke about developing that database.

One of the incidents currently included in the database is one from a Philadelphia school district that remotely activated cameras on school-issued laptops to locate them when they’re lost or stolen, which raised concerns of privacy.

She described the database as an ongoing work in progress and welcomes suggestions. For suggestions, questions or comments, students can fill out a form available on the database website.

As for concerns of misuse of the database, Staddon is afraid that a resource like this might discourage companies from investing in minefields of privacy

incidents such as social media.

“I do worry it could have a stif ling effect on innovation, but that’s certainly not our goal,” Staddon said. “Our goal is to encourage innovation, to encourage good privacyware design.”

Staddon worked as a research scientist and manager in Google. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of Computer Security and the advisory board of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, William Boettcher, a member of the organizing team, said that this series is organized because of the growing interest in the area of privacy and security, especially after the Snowden controversy in 2013.

“We find that a lot of students, faculty and members of the public don’t really have an understanding of their right to privacy and the extent to which this privacy may be violated by corporate actors or potentially by government actors,” Boettcher said. “We try to bring speakers who talk about different approaches to privacy and ensuring privacy for the

population.”

This seminar series is interdisciplinary, focused on analyzing patterns in behavior and their relation to society. As Boettcher pointed out, many students and even parents are interested in this issue and how it affects their lives.

“I think that this is an important issue [for students] particularly because so much of their lives are spent online and in social media, and they’re giving away a lot of their private information and they may not understand the extent to which they’re giving away,” Boettcher said.

Earlier this year, David A. Hoffman from Intel Corporation spoke about privacy at surveillance agencies as part of this series. More information on the LAS/H& SS Seminar Series and slides from event can be found on https://ncsulas.org/getting-involved/lashss-seminarseries/.

Staddon’s database can be accessed at research.csc.ncsu.edu/privacyincidents.

Agriculture groups lobby against trade deal Randy Jaouhari Staff Writer

The North Carolina Food and Water Watch, an organization that keeps track of agricultural practices within North Carolina and around the world, is lobbying congress to reject the Trans-Pacific Partnership along with over 160 other agriculture based organizations.

The TPP is a trade deal between the United States and many countries along the Pacific Ocean, including Japan and Australia. The Food and Water Watch said the TPP hurts independent farmers and the Agricultural Industry in America.

Renee Maas, a senior southern region organizer with Food and Water Watch, says the trade deal would hurt independent farmers.

“Independent families and farmers are the losers in these trade deals,” Maas said. “What happens is it allows these big transnational companies to work all around the world for agricultural products to find the cheapest [goods].”

According to the Food and Farmers Institute, independent farmers earn 16 cents for every dollar spent at the grocery store buying products grown on a farm and only seven cents after covering the expenses they have.

Most of the money made by selling these products goes to bigger corporations, making it harder on independent farmers because they don’t receive sufficient money to cover the costs of constantly producing products.

Thomas Grennes, an economics professor at NC State, disagrees. According to Grennes, trade deals tend to only benefit economies as a whole, and the TPP would help the growth of the U.S. economy.

“What can you do to make the economy grow faster?”

Grennes said. “More trade is one of the few things you can do, because all you’re doing is starting off with all these barriers, quotas, tariffs, it’s a mutually profitable trade so if you just take away some of those you have a really low cost way to improve the economy.”

Trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement have promised a boost in exports of agricultural products, as well as many past trade deals. For the past 30 years, despite an addition of about 15 trade agreements, the export of U.S. corn, soybeans and wheat exports has stayed at approximately 100 million metric tons, showing there hasn’t been a huge boost in exports as promised.

Some independent farmers feel that big corporations will benefit most from the trade deal, as they tend to only look for the cheapest products from all around the world. Independent farmers believe the trade deals should benefit the environment and protect American farmers rather than help big businesses.

“In 2015 we had a 1 billion-pound beef trade deficit with TPP [countries], and we think we’ll see more of the same with this trade agreement,” Maas said.

Trade can benefit the U.S. by helping the country receive products that aren’t grown in America such as coffee beans and bananas, according to Greenes. However,

Maas sees trade as more competition for U.S. farmers, namely due to differences in labor practices.

“We need to make sure that other countries where we do business there are some comparable labor-environmental standards, and make sure we’re not getting cheap imported food at the expense of workers in other countries and at the expense of environmental protection in other countries as well,” Maas said.

Some critics compare the deal to past trade deals such as NAFTA, but unlike NAFTA, the TPP does not include China or Russia, two economic superpowers.

The TPP features countries such as Japan, Canada, Vietnam and Australia, whose economies are growing rapidly, creating potential for them to be major trade partners with the US. Grennes described how different and complicated it is to work with trade partners with growing economies.

“It’s a completely different region, it’s a vastly growing region and the other point is it’s a region that starts with very high trade barriers,” Grennes said. “Japan being an extreme case, the argument they use in Japan is, ‘We suffered after World War II, some of our people starved to death, so we must be food independent.’”

The Obama administration has also claimed that this will lessen the economic inf luence of China in the region of Southeast Asia, as they are not part of the trade agreement.

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Primary results: Holding ousts incumbent Ellmers Staff Report

Congressional incumbents from North Carolina and a sitting Supreme Court Justice advance to November’s general election after winning their primary elections on Tuesday, June 7.

Rep. Renee Ellmers, however, lost her primary to Rep. George Holding from North Carolina’s 2nd congressional district, which includes Wake county. Ellmers was first elected in 2010 when the tea party took over the House. She is considered Donald Trump’s first endorsed candidate.

“I’m just really pleased with the result, really thankful for all the support,” Holding said in a victory speech to reporters.

As for his campaigning style, Holding said that it was in response to Ellmers negative campaigning.

“My record as a member of Congress was attacked. My votes were attacked and I had to respond to them,” Holding said.

He also thanked his supporters and volunteers.

“I try to vote in a conservative manner,” Holding said. “This primary gave me the opportunity to learn that people do notice. I’m just really pleased at the result, really thankful for all the support.”

According to abc11, voter turnout was low at two Wake Forest polling sites June 7. In the 2nd district, Holding brought in 53 percent of the 16,000 votes, Ellmers brought in 24 percent of the votes, with 7,527 votes, and Greg Brannon brought in 23 percent of the votes, with 7,320 votes, according to CBS North Carolina and Associated Press. All three incumbents are republican.

Edie Benchabbat, a Holdings supporter, told WNCN that she thinks Washington changed Ellmers, and was unhappy with Ellmers support for Trump.

In a statement, Ellmers thanked her supporters and voiced her support again for Donald Trump.

“My loyalty is, and has always been, to my constituents, not to the Washington special interest groups or their d e e p p o c kets,” Ellme r s s a id .

“I have sought to be an effective legislator, providing common sense conservative solut ions to everyday problem s. Tod ay t he special interest groups, super PACs and their deep pockets won. However, their days are numbered as I roll up my sleeves to help elect Donald Trump as our next president to shake up the status quo in Washington.”

The court-ordered redistricting in February moved Ellmers’ 2nd District to the north and east, absorbing much of the 13th district, Holden’s District. Holden is expected to win the Republican leaning district in the November general elec-

tion, where he will go against Democrat Raleigh attorney John McNeil.

A federal court panel invalidated maps of two North Carolina districts and ruled them unconstitutional due to racially discriminatory and unnecessary voter ID law and other unfair electoral restrictions. A three-judge panel barred elections in North Carolina’s 1st a nd 12t h Congressional Districts until new maps are approved.

These maps have been previously challenged in cour t for gerrymandering, according to the News & Observer.

Ot her w inners for U.S. House of Representatives on June 7’s primary include District 3’s Republican Walter B. Jones, and Democrat Ernest T. Reeves. As for District 5, Sue Googe, Republican, and Virginia Foxx, Democrat, won the US House of Representatives primary for their parties. In District 8, Richard Hudson, Republican, and Robert Pittenger, Democrat, won their U.S. House of Representatives primary.

“For years, partisan gerrymandering

has led to costly litigation and deprived North Carolina voters of having a real choice and a voice in our elections,” said Bob Phillips, the executive director of Common Cause North Carolina, according to the News & Observer. “Fortunately, a growing number of citizens and leaders across the political spectrum agree that North Carolina should adopt an independent redistricting process.”

Common Cause North Carolina is a group that advocates for government transparency and accountability.

Election results for can be found on the North Carolina State Board of E l e c t i o n s we bs it e o r b y fol low ing this link : ht t p : //e r.nc sbe . gov/?election_dt=06/07/2016&county_ id= 0&office=FED&contest= 0.

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Harnessing behavior: professor talks passion for dogs Samuel Griffin Features Editor

Features Focus is a biweekly spotlight highlighting a member of the Wolfpack. Professors, researchers, students past and present, anyone with a great story.

“I can’t explain it, but ever since I was a little kid I’ve always been inexplicably drawn to dogs,” said David Roberts, an assistant professor in computer science engineering.

Roberts has been working with dogs for more than six years. His current research involves a computerized dog harness that monitors dogs and uses the data it collects to train dogs autonomously, with the computer effectively responding to a dog based on the dog’s body language.

His own dogs can be heard barking in the background as he discusses behavioral analysis, B.F. Skinner and olfactory perception.

“The work that we are doing with the harness is really about laying the foundation for a new field of study in animalcomputer interaction,” Roberts said. “The work that we’re doing is focusing primarily on monitoring dogs, what I would refer to as leveraging some of their untrained capabilities. For example, teaching computers how to quickly and accurately discern a dog’s postures so that dogs can operate computers with their postures.”

Roberts said that the harness relies on two types of sensors: positional sensors, similar to the tilt sensors in a smartphone, and physiological monitors, designed to monitor a dog’s heart and respiratory rates.

Using this data, Roberts and his collaborators can get a better understanding of how dogs interact with their environments. The respiratory information is especially important because dogs primarily interact with environments using their noses.

“Understanding how the dog’s respiratory processes relate to different stimuli in an environment will enable us to create more species appropriate interactions with computers,” Roberts said. “If you teach a computer to identify what dogs are doing with their noses the computers can respond and react accordingly.”

Roberts said that this technology has a wide range of applications from improvements in the dog training industry for better performance in military or police use to casual, playful interactions at home with a family pet.

“If you think about the way technology has created new ways for humans to communicate and interact, I envision

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the right technology having similar implications on the ways that humans and animals interact,” Roberts said. “We are never going to replace the human-dog bond completely but we will provide new avenues for interesting and meaningful interactions.”

Roberts was unable to have a dog of his own when he was a kid because his parents were busy with their careers as college professors and mathematicians.

Roberts cited his parents’ careers as a big inf luence on his career and his way of thinking.

“Many of the explanations about the world that I got growing up were explained using math,” Roberts said. “That is how I started seeing the world as a very young kid. Fast-forward to grad school and I was going through a rough patch when it finally hit me.”

Roberts said he had told himself his entire life that he would eventually get a dog but had not yet done so, prompting him to finally purchase his first dog in grad school, a Shiba Inu named Lucy.

“I like to refer to that as the best bad decision I ever made in my entire life”

Roberts said. “I had no idea what I was getting myself into and was not prepared.

I started looking for help. How to train dogs. How to interact with them. How to understand them.”

Roberts said that he found an online forum with which he began to discuss and debate dog behavior and training theory with other enthusiasts.

“I found myself in these debates doing what I had been taught to do by my parents, constructing mathematical arguments for why certain things made sense to do with dogs and certain things didn’t,” Roberts said. “It finally hit me that there was probably something a little deeper connecting my understanding of dogs through mathematical modeling and technology.”

When Roberts reached NC State, he contacted Barbara Sherman, a clinical professor of veterinary behavior with the College of Veterinary Medicine. Together, with Sherman and Alper Bozkurt, an assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering, they began what would become six years of animal behavioral research with computers.

Roberts currently owns three dogs which often serve as volunteers for research. In addition to Roberts’ own dogs, his research team uses dogs from the community.

“For pilot studies, our own dogs frequently ‘volunteer’ to be subjects,” Sherman said. “Dr. Roberts has a brilliant and enthusiastic yellow Labrador Retriever named Diesel who has become our mascot. Diesel has been trained by Dr. Roberts to be a successful field trial competitor. For the actual clinical studies, we recruit dog owners from the community who bring their dogs to the College of Veterinary Medicine to participate.”

Roberts said that it is very important to him and his team to keep the volunteer dogs happy and the lab environment fun.

“Everything we do is force-free,” Roberts said. “There’s no punishment, there’s no aversive stimuli used. There is no more powerful tool for shaping behavior than reinforcement. It’s very easy to avoid any punishment. It’s not even a consideration.

We tell volunteers only feed your dog half your treats in the morning because we make sure they leave with full bellies.”

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TheatreFest tackles mystery with Agatha Christie

Samuel Griffin Features Editor

There’s a mystery about, and it’s not Colonel Mustard in the ballroom with the candlestick, it’s NC State’s TheatreFest, and the theme is Agatha Christie.

TheatreFest, put on annually by University Theatre, is a three-show event this year, all centered on classic crime novelist and playwright Agatha Christie. The first is a theater adaptation of Christie’s murder mystery novel, “The Hollow.” The second show is “Something’s Afoot,” a musical satire that pokes fun at murder mystery stories and features English music hall-styled songs from the 1930s. The third is a reading of Christie’s works, featuring British high tea and a backstage tour, titled “Tea with Agatha.” Unfortunately, “Tea with Agatha” is already sold out, but for those wishing to attend “The Hollow” or “Something’s Afoot,” both shows still have tickets available and they can be viewed in the same week.

“We are a staff that is dedicated to production as our main goal,” said John McIlwee, director of University Theatre. “Doing one show in the summer time would be OK. It would be normal. But why not do something unusual? Why not do three?”

McIlwee said that because of Thompson Hall’s renovations in 2009, University Theatre can now run multiple different shows in the same night. “The Hollow” began run-

ning June 2 and will continue to run Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and every Sunday at 2 p.m. until June 26. “Something’s Afoot” begins Thursday, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. and will run Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and every Sunday at 2:00 p.m. until June 26.

“We put those shows in June so that we would have July to recoup and prepare for the first production when students return,” McIlwee said. “Our auditions are held the first two days of school so we have a lot we have to get ready for.”

Rehearsals for the shows began on May 1.

McIlwee said that the turnaround for a TheatreFest production can be quick but that the students involved with the productions are usually freer to work with spring classes being over. University Theatre also has other alternatives when it comes to filling a cast.

“There aren’t a lot of students available during the summer, so we opened it up to professional actors who came in and worked with our really good students members of the group, cast and crew,” McIlwee said. “They get to work with much, much more experienced performers, and that has proven to be a very healthy relationship.”

McIlwee said that approximately one-fourth of the actors for the productions are students and three-fourths are professional theater actors or experienced locals. The stage crew is made entirely from students.

“I worked it last year, and I loved it,” said Allison Stilwell, a senior studying middle grades English. “I learned so much about professional theater, and can now have connections all around Raleigh of actors and stage managers who enjoyed working with me.”

McIlwee said that it is not uncommon for students who participate in TheatreFest to go on to find “professional jobs” with other venues and theaters in Raleigh thanks to contacts made during the summer productions.

“We hire all our students, cast and crew, and provide them a small stipend for doing the summer shows,” McIlwee said. “We don’t do this during the school year because it is all students season but we try and make the summer a little more professional, a little more slick, a little more what they might get if they go somewhere else.”

McIlwee said that Agatha Christie was an easy choice for this year’s theme.

“All you have to do is throw ‘Agatha Christie’ up and you sell out,” McIlwee said. “It is the most popular type of program that we have ever done. Any time we do Agatha Christie, there’s standing room only.”

McIlwee said that University Theatre ran three Agatha Christie plays in one summer after TheatreFest had been on a two-year hiatus for renovations. Despite fears over lost momentum, TheatreFest sold out that year, which McIlwee credits to the power of Christie.

“This year we decided that we wanted to in-

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Daryl Ray Carliles and Carly Prentice Jones, who play Geoffrey and Hope Langdon in University Theatre’s Theatrefest 2016 production of “Something’s Afoot” -- a parody murder mystery musical in the style of Agatha Christie.

clude a musical,” McIlwee said. “One of our directors liked this really fun musical called ‘Something’s Afoot,’ and it was a musical satire of Agatha Christie’s ‘Ten Little Indians.’ So we thought, ‘Let’s do that,’ and it turned into a theme.”

NC State lab makes big data manageable Carolyn Thomson Staff Writer

Some of the brightest computer scientists, mathematicians and analysts spend their days working in a multidisciplinary laboratory environment that focuses on the art and science of analysis, creating solutions to challenges related to big data and the intelligence community.

The Laboratory for Analytic Sciences, located on NC State’s Centennial Campus, was created by NC State’s partnership in 2013 with the National Security Agency.

Michael Bender, the director of LAS, works with government, academic and industry partners to find and implement these innovative solutions.

“We decided to take away the notion of ‘You’re going to work toward a contract,’” Bender said. “Instead, you’re going to work toward an outcome, and that outcome is going to be based on mutual interest.”

In the process of finding solutions to problems, it’s not always possible to completely and fully apply a solution from one area or discipline to another without some alteration in how it is applied, and that is where the collaboration in the lab comes in.

The intelligence of the LAS community alone is not why one would be at LAS, according to Bender. One must be able to express the relevance of a problem to produce a usable solution in the end.

“You want to have something that’s relevant, that’s valuable and is usable to an end customer,” Bender said. “By getting people that come from the different domains, you put the problem on the table. All the people from a variety of different domains — and you don’t have to play mathematician or computer scientist or anything — first it’s like ‘How will we go about solving this problem?’ Then after we do that, then it’s like, ‘Hey I have some expertise in this, I have some expertise in that,’ and now you can put it together to be able to actually solve the problem better than you probably would have been able to do before.”

This intersectional collaboration in the lab often produces some of the most unique and innovative solutions from people who are outside of that particular domain since they won’t have the biases that people in that domain may have, such as a ‘We’ve always done it this way’ mentality, according to Bender.

The lab still faces some challenges from working in this kind of immersive, collaborative environment with partners in differ-

ent domains, but learning how to articulate ideas and concepts outside of an individual’s domain can make communication easier.

“When you realize that they were talking about the same concepts just using different terms, there is an ‘a-ha’ moment of ‘oh, this field that has 30 years of research behind it in communications is actually applicable to a problem domain in machine learning or a problem domain in mathematics or something,’” said Matt Schmidt, big data and analytics solution manager at LAS. While the lab is sponsored by the NSA, about 80-90 percent of the work is completely unclassified and the remaining 10-20 percent of work discussed is classified, according to Bender. In the beginning, researchers in the lab would focus on what they couldn’t talk about, but now they focus on what can be talked about.

The way the lab is structured in how work flows and how people collaborate is significant to how LAS functions: more like a living organism with the right people rather than a larger organized structure separating individuals by specialty.

Personal resources are likely to be expended in an individual’s own research, and when that person wants to work with someone else on

a problem he or she could allocate more resources to that problem, gather some other friends to help or choose to make a mutual pitch to see if there’s some funding available, according to Bender.

“I’m learning, for what we do, it’s better to have the right 20 people than to have 200 people,” Bender said. “Two hundred people get to be very bureaucratic, and there’s a lot of processes that go into it that don’t allow the type of free flow exchange of ideas that we have.”

The immersive side-by-side collaboration, integrated innovation, melding of the art and science of analysis and usable solutions are significant to what makes LAS what it is today and aid in its effort to effectively use and make sense of enormous amounts of data.

“It’s interesting to watch, because it’s almost like the birthing of a new cultural dynamic of how people interact and how they communicate and how they actually collaborate,” Bender said. “They [lab workers] actually get to talk with people that are different than they are and they start to find out there are pretty interesting ideas that people have. Their experiences are very interesting, and when you mix it all together we’ve been able to actually demonstrate some results.”

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Fellow Christians, you are not oppressed A

s a result of Grace Christian Life’s recent lawsuit against the university involving freedom of speech on campus, I have done a bit of thinking as Luke Perrin of late on the notion of religious liberty and what it Correspondent means to be a Christian in today’s society. While the lawsuit is centered on freedom of speech, it’s founded upon the perceived hindrance of requiring a Christian group wanting to share the gospel to apply for a permit before soliciting individuals, as all groups seeking to solicit individuals on campus must do.

This isn’t meant to argue against free speech or the group filing the lawsuit but rather to examine the reasoning behind actions. Across the United States, some Christians perceive that the government and societal institutions are oppressing them.

While it certainly is different in other parts of the world, Christians in the United States are not being oppressed. But even if we were, hypothetically, we should understand that this is a part of our faith. The Bible tells us to turn the other cheek to our enemies and love and pray for them instead of publicly lashing out and whining about our own mistreat-

ment. Just as “no servant is greater than his master,” we as believers should understand that the world isn’t inclined to be particularly kind to us, just as it wasn’t to the Son when he lived on Earth.

Here in the United States, Christianity is by far the largest organized religion. Approximately 70 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians, with the next highest percentage coming from those who identify no religion at 23 percent. If we are systematically being undermined for our beliefs, then the other 30 percent of all citizens are doing a horrendous job. This is quite the lackluster war being waged on our beliefs.

Certain groups do hate Christians, but there isn’t any group in the world without enemies. In large though, Christians are more than tolerated, and it’s difficult to find another any other segment or group of the country that has as much power as we do and gets very little push back. Evangelicals are a massive voting group, representing a quarter of the population. We say “under God” in our pledge. As it turns out, we can use our religious beliefs to deny certain groups basic goods and services.

While I certainly am disgusted with the actions of Kim Davis and bakers that refuse to bake wedding cakes for gay weddings, a

large percent of the population would cry “religious liberty” when the government even thinks about passing a law that contains anything that counters two words in the Old Testament.

Our religion and beliefs aren’t the only ones. By giving other groups the privileges that we have held dear for hundreds of years, it might feel like oppression. Just two months ago, a Sikh-American Army captain named Simratpal Singh received a specialized turban and was allowed to retain his beard to continue serving his country, while remaining in accordance with his religion. Uproar began, as a plethora of Christians, many lacking the courage to enlist, began to attack the man on social media and demanded that he be forced to remain in accordance with the military requirements just like the rest of the servicemen and women.

The United States military, as it turns out, is predominantly Christian. Any attempts to deny individuals of the ability to serve their country due to their religion not being in accordance with mainstream American religious beliefs is utterly blasphemous and oppressive.

Using religion to deny the rights of others legitimately undermines the notion of religious liberty as a whole. If we start crying

out every time an action even slightly doesn’t follow what the hundreds of interpretations of scripture states, then we are setting a dangerous precedent for liberty in the United States. Remember, the First Amendment protects all religions and individuals just as much as it does Christians.

Starbucks choosing not to include religious insignias on cups during the Christmas season doesn’t threaten your religion. Having someone tell you “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” doesn’t threaten your religion. Forcing a non-church employer to provide birth control to employees as part of the Affordable Care Act doesn’t threaten your religion. Having to get a permit to speak about Christ to students in Talley Student Union doesn’t threaten your religion.

Using religion as an excuse to gain more influence and have precedence over other groups does threaten your religion. The single biggest undermining factor for Christianity in America is a reliance on the government to protect our religion at a greater extent than the beliefs and non-beliefs of others. This is how a theocratic government comes into fruition, and I urge you to look at Iran if that even slightly sounds appealing.

It’s almost as if we want to be publicly oppressed.

Having privilege is OK; abusing it is not I

have privilege. I come from an upper class family. My mother and my father, who immigrated legally in the eyes of the government, work hard to give me and my sister the best Aditi possible quality of life, to Dholakia put us in the best schools in Correspondent the area, to make sure that we are able to grow up sheltered and happy.

You have privilege too. I know this because you have the ability to read and possibly access to a computer to find this piece on the internet. Most of this world’s population is privileged in some way or another; privilege manifests itself through age, beauty, ability (both physical and mental), race, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education and any other identifier that puts one population in a higher position of power than another.

You are not a bad person for having privilege. Often, privilege is not a choice but rather a fact of life. White people did not choose to be white, and therefore, did not choose the privilege that is automatically comes with being white. Similarly, physically or mentally disabled people did not choose to be physically or mentally disabled, and therefore did not choose to be at a disad-

vantage in society compared to able-bodied and neurotypical people. What determines the quality and integrity of people is not the privilege they inherently have, but rather how they choose to live their life with that privilege.

Brock Turner, rapist from Stanford University, has the privilege of being a heterosexual, cisgendered white male athlete from a fairly wealthy family. While none of these identifiers seemed significant when he was raping an unconscious girl behind a dumpster at a fraternity party, they’re important identifiers now, one year later, when they gave him an advantage in the court proceedings during which he was sentenced to six months in county jail. He is only expected to serve three of those months.

Of course, the argument can be made that Turner can’t help the privilege he has, nor how it affects the way people view and treat him. This argument isn’t necessarily wrong; Turner plays no part in the privilege he is afforded. However, instead of owning up to his actions and taking the punishment given, Turner has decided to turn the tables and blame the survivor, thereby painting her in a negative light for supposedly ruining his life in court proceedings while coming across as a victimized All-American athlete himself.

Rape cases have been stigmatized and mis-

construed for decades due to media bias and the portrayal of the perpetrator versus the victim-turned-survivor. Rape culture in this country encourages the public to put the blame on the survivor rather than the rapist, and most often, the rapist does nothing to own up to his or her actions, or change public opinion.

The judge presiding over the case, Aaron Persky, was also a Stanford athlete in his day, captaining the university’s lacrosse team during his undergraduate studies and assisting in coaching during his graduate studies at Berkeley. Persky supposedly specializes in presiding over sexual assault cases, specifically in ensuring the perpetrator is put away soundly; it is apparent that despite this background, media bias and bias based on privilege influenced Persky’s ruling.

I’m not going to go into the race factor in this case, nor am I going to talk about the heterosexual male aspect of Turner’s identity, although those both play roles in the way the public views Turner in the proceedings of this case. When it’s all said and done, the important thing to remember is that Turner’s so-called “20 minutes of action” have irrevocably ruined the life of the anonymous survivor, and yet another young white male athlete was essentially pardoned for committing one of the most heinous

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crimes imaginable.

I have privilege — it is not a bad thing for me to acknowledge and admit that. You have privilege too, and it’s important for you to acknowledge and admit that. Our privilege may not have been in our power, but it is important for us to make a conscious choice every day to use the privilege we have to make a positive impact — to help those who have less privilege than us, and to educate other privileged people on their privilege, and what they can do with it.

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Baseball’s season ends in heartbreaker against Coastal Christian Candeloro Staff Writer

David Kehrli Assistant Sports Editor

Facing an uphill battle June 6, the Wolfpack won one of two games it needed against Coastal Carolina, before ultimately falling to the Chanticleers, 7-5, in a rain-delayed, dramatic contest that stretched over two days.

“They’ve done everything we could have possibly asked of them and more, it just didn’t turn out the way we wanted it to today,” Wolfpack associate head coach Chris Hart said. “What they have accomplished throughout the year is incredible. They’ve stuck together and played hard from day one until now.”

The Wolfpack entered June 6 needing to win both games to advance, while a loss in either would send the Chanticleers to the next round. After dispatching the Chanticleers in blow-out fashion earlier in the day, the Wolfpack nearly pulled out a victory that night, but rain postponed the game with the Chanticleers down 5-3 with the bases loaded and one out in the ninth inning.

“It was raining pretty hard to that first hitter in the ninth, and I tried to go out and talk to the umpires about it at that time, but the decision was to keep playing,” Hart said.

“We’re not making excuses by any means; it’s just an unfortunate way to play a last inning before a Super Regional. Obviously, we’d all like to play in good conditions, but it’s baseball and sometimes weather plays a factor.”

The game resumed June 7, and sophomore reliever Evan Braband induced a run-scoring ground out to bring Coastal to within one out of elimination. However, he hit the next batter on a 0-2 count and suddenly found the bases loaded when he was one strike away of the Pack advancing.

The next batter, second baseman Seth Lancaster, singled into right field on a sinking liner that sophomore Brock Deatherage nearly snagged on a diving attempt. The hit gave the Chanticleers a 6-5 lead, and they would add another run in inning before senior closer Mike Morrison shut the door on the Pack’s season.

It was a gut-wrenching way to lose the season for the Wolfpack, especially because it seemed as if the game would’ve gone its way if it had been finished the night before.

“It was a roller coaster of emotions, the whole weekend pretty much. We scored and took the lead, and it kind of felt like that was the break that we needed,” junior first baseman Preston Palmeiro said. “Not saying that the rain had anything to do with it, but sometimes after a 12-hour break things

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Senior designated hitter Chance Shepard sits in the batters box after the team’s heartbreaking 7-5 loss to Coastal Carolina in the Wolfpack’s fifth game of the NCAA Raleigh Regional against Coastal Carolina at Doak Field on June 6. The loss ends the Wolfpack’s chances of a Super Regional berth and closes out its season.

can change a little bit. It’s disappointing, but that’s baseball and that’s how it goes sometimes.”

Trailing 3-2 in the sixth inning, the Wolfpack loaded the bases with no outs off of sophomore reliever Bobby Holmes. After a strike out, sophomore third baseman Evan Mendoza hit a one-hopper to short that nearly ended the inning. Instead, first baseman Kevin Woodall’s foot was off the base, allowing the tying run to score and the inning to continue.

Immediately after, Palmeiro laced an RBI single through the left side, giving the Wolfpack a 4-3 lead.

The Wolfpack added an insurance run in the eighth inning on an RBI single by Mendoza, who finished 1-5 but had two crucial RBIs that appeared to have propelled NC State to the victory.

However, as torrential rain fell on the players in the ninth inning, sophomore reliever Cody Beckman couldn’t get a grip on the ball, and the bases were loaded by the Chants on two walks and a weak infield single before the game was suspended. The rest is history.

“I’m not going to make excuses for anything, but it does have an effect on the game,” Beckman said. “It’s harder to get a

grip on the ball, and it’s hard to make good pitches.”

Coastal Carolina took the lead on a tworun home run by junior shortstop Michael Paez in the top of the first inning, a shot to right field that seemed to carry well farther than it should have.

The homer came off of sophomore lefthander Brian Brown, who was making his second start of the Regional on only two days’ rest. Brown lasted four innings, giving up three earned runs off of seven hits.

The Wolfpack struck in the bottom of the second inning on junior catcher Andrew Knizner’s RBI single through the right side of the infield, drawing the score to 2-1.

Coastal pushed that lead to 3-1 in the fourth on an RBI ground out and State would bring it back to a one-run deficit with a clutch two-out double by sophomore center-fielder Josh McLain down the third base line.

From there it was a battle of the bullpens and NC State’s bullpen was dominant until the final inning. The combination of sophomore Beckman, senior lefty Travis Orwig and freshman right-hander Austin Staley combined for four innings of scoreless relief, holding Coastal to just one hit while striking out seven batters until the ninth.

Weather and NCAA rulings again reared its head in the contest as the game was delayed an hour and 35 minutes prior to the first pitch and then another 40 minutes in the fifth inning. The final rain delay was the most inconvenient, with the bases loaded and one out in the ninth inning.

Wolfpack head coach Elliott Avent was not in NC State’s dugout for the contest and will not be eligible to coach next year’s opener after he was suspended two games by the NCAA for his outburst in Game One of the doubleheader. Avent was ejected for arguing balls and strikes and the NCAA ruled his prolonged arguing after his ejection caused his suspension.

Avent commented about his suspension, stating, “I’m disappointed for my players that I wasn’t able to lead them in tonight’s game. I love my players, and I couldn’t be more proud of how they responded earlier today. They know I’ll fight for them, and I regret not being in the dugout tonight.”

So ends the 2016 campaign for the Wolfpack, who went down for the secondstraight year in heart-breaking fashion.

So begins a long and tortuous offseason of what-ifs for players and fans alike. Coastal Carolina will play on, with a berth to the College World Series on the line.

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SPORTS COMMENTARY

Don’t panic — Hurricanes are here to stay

Andrew Schnittker Staff Writer

Location, location, (re)location. That seems to be a big buzz around the Carolina Hurricanes lately, and something fans have had to deal with.

With owner Peter Karmanos Jr. looking to sell the team for multiple years and the team operating at a loss every year since 2009, coupled with numerous other “intriguing” developments, these rumors have been picking up lately. The recent news that Karmanos is being sued by his three sons for $105 million because he stopped making payments on a $101 million promissory note has sent these rumors into overdrive.

Yes, Karmanos is looking to sell the team, but he is looking for a succession plan with a local owner, where he remains in control of the team for a period of years as he transitions out. Karmanos has said repeatedly, he will not sell the team to someone who would move it.

The Hurricanes have a very expensive arena lease at PNC that runs through 2024, widely considered to be one of the best arena deals in sports. To buy that out would be unbelievably expensive, to say the least.

Speaking of PNC, Tom McCormick, the chairman of the Centennial Authority, the entity that owns and operates PNC Arena, recently told Chip Alexander of The News & Observer that he has personal confirmation from Karmanos that the team will be going nowhere. Alexander also reported that the Centennial Authority will spend $80,000 in 2017 for a feasibility study for an on-site practice facility for the Hurricanes. Seems like an odd move for a team destined to be packing its bags in the next couple years.

If that’s not enough assurance for you, the NHL itself has commented on the situation. At his media address prior to the beginning of the Stanley Cup Final, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said, “The Carolina Hurricanes are fine.” Deputy commissioner Bill Daly also recently said on Sportsnet’s Hockey Central that the lawsuit is a family matter and the league is unconcerned with both it and the “entire situation of what’s going on in Carolina,” and that the league knows more about both situations than the public and media.

But even with all that being said, let’s imagine for a moment that the lawsuit is a big issue. Let’s say it hits Karmanos like a ton of bricks, bankrupting him and forcing him to sell the team, but no local

buyer steps up. It’s still likely not going anywhere.

The current NHL regime is not a fan of relocation except as a last resort. It is very committed to growing the game in southern NHL markets. Since Bettman took over in 1993, only five teams have relocated, two of which came from Canada, and two from Hartford (who became the Hurricanes) and Minnesota, all four of which were sent to southern markets.

In fact, in Bettman’s tenure, the Atlanta Thrashers in 2011 were the only southern team to be relocated to a northern market, Winnipeg. Even if the Hurricanes’ situation became that dire, the NHL has a history in these situations.

In 2009, the Arizona (formerly Phoenix) Coyotes declared bankruptcy. The NHL stepped in and owned and operated the team for several years until stable ownership could be found. History suggests they would do the same for the Hurricanes, who have a better arena deal, and would be the first NHL team in such a situation with a Stanley Cup Championship on its resume. Bettman’s history suggests he would have to be dragged, kicking and screaming before he moved one of his biggest nontraditional market success stories.

While the attendance numbers are trou-

bling, the problem can easily be fixed. The Hurricanes’ poor numbers can likely be attributed to a poor on-ice performance.

The team came in last in attendance this past season, but missed the playoffs. However, Triangle hockey fans have proven in the past that they will support a winning team, as in 2006-07 coming off the Stanley Cup win the team was 15th in average attendance. The direction General Manager Ron Francis and head coach Bill Peters have the team moving in suggests these numbers will quickly improve.

On top of all these other strikes against relocation is that the League is likely on the verge of expansion, with Las Vegas and Quebec City the two rumored targets.

Each expansion team pays a $500 million fee that all 30 current owners split. Why would the League pass that up in favor of relocation when only Karmanos would pocket anything?

While as a southern NHL franchise there will unfortunately probably always be talk about the Carolina Hurricanes finding a new home, these rumors have proven to be unfounded and, frankly, don’t make sense. For a multitude of reasons, it is much more likely the team is here to stay and will continue to call Raleigh its home for years to come.

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U.S. women’s soccer deserves equal compensation

Garrison Rountree Correspondent

Formed in 1985, the U.S. Women’s National soccer team has already raked in a wealth of accolades. During its 31-year span, the team has been crowned World Cup Champion on three separate occasions: 1991, 1999 and 2015, and has won gold in the last three Olympic competitions.

However, despite an abundance of achievements, a large disparity in salary between U.S. women and U.S. men’s soccer players remains. Members of the women’s team take home a salary that’s roughly one quarter that of the men’s national team.

The U.S. Soccer Federation distributes its pay based on World Cup matches, World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly games contested. Yet, on average over the most recent World Cups, the U.S. women’s squad earned only 44 percent of what their male counterparts did.

Despite dating back to the late 1800s, the U.S. men’s national team has never won a World Cup or Olympic gold medal. The team’s highest World Cup result was a third-place finish in 1930. At the time, the competition only featured 13 teams as opposed to 32 today.

While some raise the point that the men’s World Cup tournament is a more demanding competition because it features a field of 32 teams instead of 24, this isn’t a truly relevant factor.

It can be argued that the men’s team has had more opportunities to earn a World Cup title as well. Due mostly in part

to its longer history, the men’s program has made 10 World Cup appearances as opposed to seven by the women.

When tallying the number of failed World Cup qualifications by the men’s side, the number is significantly greater than that of the women’s squad. The women have participated in every World Cup tournament since its inception.

The U.S. women’s team rarely has to compete with popular sports like American football when it comes to attracting potential American soccer stars. But there are factors that work against the successful development of players to join the national team.

In addition to having far less history in the international soccer world, the women also have a shorter history of domestic club soccer as well. While Major League Soccer celebrates two decades of developing young male soccer prodigies, the current National Women’s Soccer League is only in its fourth season of existence.

Serving as a successor to the Professional Women’s Soccer League, the NWSL features a small field of 10 teams. On the other side, Major League Soccer (the professional men’s league in the U.S.) boasts twice as many franchises and is looking to expand to 24 teams by 2020.

To further compound the issue, the women’s team frequently plays many of its games on artificial turf, a surface notorious for producing cuts and “turf burns” on the bodies of players. The men’s team hasn’t competed on a turf field since early 2014, while the women played 30 percent of its matches on turf in that time span.

Even though the U.S. men’s team averages higher attendance at its matches — 29,751 fans versus 16,229 for the women — the women still garner as much, if not more, public support.

The 2015 Women’s World Cup final between the U.S. and Japan was the most-watched soccer match in U.S. history with 26.7 million American viewers tuning in to watch the action.

To put that number into perspective, more Americans tuned into the Women’s World Cup finale than the 2015 NBA Finals.

However, the most convincing numbers are present in the amount of revenue each program generates. During 2015, the U.S. women’s team generated over $16 million in revenue, while the men lost $2 million for U.S. Soccer as a brand. This trend is predicted to continue as well.

According to the most recent U.S. Soccer budget predictions, the women’s team is on pace to net more revenue than the men’s team this year and is projected to earn $8 million more in revenue than the men during the 2017 competition circuit.

Just like it’s logical for English Premier League players to earn more than Major League Soccer players, it only seems fair that members of the U.S. Women’s Soccer program actually earn more than their male counterparts given the disparity in revenue earned.

Lack of female representation in the U.S. Soccer administration also poses yet another large hurdle in the programs push for equality.

Hopefully the 2015 team that made the U.S. all believe will be able to at least achieve a salary that’s equal to its male counterparts.

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