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Students express concern over campus life as COVID-19 spreads

WHAT YOU MISSED: A quick look at the headlines in and outside of NC State Six chapter houses under quarantine in NC State Greek Village On Wednesday, Aug. 19, Mick Kulikowski, NC State spokesperson, stated there are six chapter houses in Greek Village that are quarantined due to COVID-19: Alpha Delta Pi, Beta Theta Pi, Delta Gamma, Kappa Delta, Sigma Nu and Zeta Tau Alpha. The quarantines are precautionary.

This follows yesterday’s NC State safety notice that reported two clusters of COVID-19 in the AD Pi and Kappa Delta sorority houses. According to the notice, AD Pi has seven positive cases and Kappa Delta has six positive cases.

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UNC-CH announces move to online instruction starting Wednesday On Monday, Aug. 17, UNC-CH announced all classes will switch to remote instruction effective Wednesday, Aug. 19, after four COVID-19 clusters were identified on campus.

When classes started at UNC-CH last week, residence halls were at less than 60% capacity and less than 30% of total classroom seats were filled. When students started to move in at the start of the semester, videos of students at parties and large gatherings at UNC-CH circulated social media. In the first week of instruction, Aug. 10-16, COVID-19 positivity rose from 2.8% to 13.6%. As of Monday, 177 students were in isolation and 349 students were in quarantine on and off campus.

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On Aug. 17-20, the Democratic National Convention took place at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and selected Joe Biden as the 2020 Democratic National Committee presidential candidate.

The convention center was largely empty during the conference, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but was streamed through various news outlets. Speakers included newly-appointed vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, former presidential candidate and former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama.

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Students express concern over campus life as COVID-19 spreads Amber Detwiler Staff Writer

Following a rise in COVID-19 positivity rate from 2.8% to 13.6%, UNC-Chapel Hill moved all undergraduate courses to entirely remote learning Wednesday, according to the Daily Tar Heel.

The announcement by UNC-CH administration leaves many NC State undergraduate students wondering if and when they will hear the same and questioning whether campus should have opened to begin with.

Two clusters of COVID-19 infection have already been identified in NC State Greek Life housing this week.

According to a survey of 49 students conducted by Technician, 19 of the 39 students enrolled in at least one in-person class on campus for the fall semester do not feel safe attending class. Through the survey, Technician received several written statements from students.

“Students shouldn’t be back in Raleigh in the first place,” Sophie Ernest, a third-year studying political science, said. “We are going to have a huge mess in our hands in a few weeks.”

More than half of the students surveyed reported a preference for completely online instruction this semester, along with 16 students who preferred an online/in-person hybrid and seven students who preferred entirely in-person classes.

While the University announced all students would have an option to complete the semester completely online if desired during

fall enrollment, 30 of the students surveyed said they have not been provided enough options for instruction format.

Jan Fernandez-Castillo, a fourth-year studying aerospace engineering, said their MAE 480: Aerospace Engineering Senior Design professor was, at first, not accommodating to requests to complete the course online. “We were initially required to attend in-person classes, with the professor claiming it was university policy for [Senior Design] to be in person—it was not, as ISE, CSC and ECE are online—and said we’d have to postpone a year if we were uncomfortable,” Fernandez-Castillo said. “Only after sending many emails to the head of department and dean did he change his stance.”

Many students reported campus life, including housing, dining and common areas, to be of concern with regards to campus safety this semester. Only five of the students surveyed are living at home during the fall semester, with 26 in off-campus housing in Raleigh and 17 students living in on-campus housing.

A third-year communication major who wished to remain anonymous said they quit their RA job due to lack of enforcement of safety measures, especially in dining halls, after students started moving on campus.

“They are not providing a safe environment for the students and staff,” they said. “I don’t think campus should be open at all, and if they are going to, it should be much more limited than it is, and testing should be provided.”

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should be strictly enforced,” Grace Quinn, a third-year studying anthropology, said. “A mandatory quarantine period before moving on campus/attending in-person classes should have been required to reduce the spread of COVID-19. I’m especially afraid because of the carelessness of Greek life [members], some of whom have already

thrown parties.

“They should have canceled classes before the semester began,” one first-year architecture major who wished to remain anonymous said. “I feel cheated that I’m going to be paying full-price tuition when the University will probably cancel classes within a month or so.”

Self-report survey and contract tracing monitors COVID-19 at NC State Destry Adams Staff Writer

NC State has created a survey for students and staff to report if they have symptoms of COVID-19, test positive or come into contact with someone who has the disease.

People who complete the survey have the option to enroll in the contact tracing program, which can help NC State determine who may be at risk and find any potential hotspots for the disease.

The form asks students and staff for their name, identification number, whether they have COVID-19, are waiting for their re-

sults, have come into contact with a person who has the disease when the person began experiencing symptoms and if the person was on campus when they were ill. Then, the person will receive an email within a day with further instructions.

Dr. Julie Casani, director and medical director of Student Health Services, stated after a student or employee has filled out the survey, Student Health Services arranges for an interview with the individual.

After the interview, in which interviewees are asked similar questions to those on the survey, Student Health Services requests the person remain in quarantine. If the per-

son is a student who lives on campus, has a roommate and cannot return home, they will receive an email from housing detailing how they will be relocated to a single-person dorm and cannot leave until their period of self-isolation is over. NC State will provide food and other resources for students in self-isolation and quarantine housing.

Students and staff have the option to join the contact tracing program. The program is voluntary, and it helps NC State track down people who are at risk for being infected with COVID-19.

Maria Limmen, nurse practitioner and manager at the Occupational Medical De-

partment, described how the contact tracing program works.

“We contact their contacts,” Limmen said. “We then reach out to their contacts and then enroll them in the contact tracing program if they agree to it. This allows us to monitor if there are specific hotspots that are developing, and it helps us track if they develop the illness themselves or if they don’t.”

Limmen said Student Health Services determines that someone is a contact if they were within less than 6 feet of the infected

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Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration talks cuts, lay-offs and reimbursements • Auxiliary services, such as housing, dining, the McKimmon Center, parking and transportation, will experience shortfalls in revenue with reduced numbers of people on campus, especially if the University eventually transitions to online-only education.

“Those are the budgets that have the greatest pressure on them,” Maimone said.

Could the University moving to all distance education change what students are paying?

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According to the NC State academic calendar, Aug. 21 marks NC State’s census day, the last day for students to get tuition refunds if they drop a course or change from credit to audit. University administration typically begins finalizing department budgets for the semester after census day passes.

Technician interviewed Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Charles

What departments are cutting budgets?

By how much? Why?

• “At the beginning of the semester, we were really advised by the System office that tuition and fees would not be reimbursed once we started the fall semester,” Maimone said. “When I say fees, I mean mandatory fees, not all fees, but just mandatory fees. And so we made that clear when folks signed up for their classes, be they online, hybrid or in person, that the tuition and fees would remain the same.”

• In the event students have to vacate their on-campus housing, they will be reimbursed for various service fees, including housing, dining, parking and transportation.

• According to Maimone, academic budgets are not expected to be reduced.

Are people being laid off right now from the university?

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Maimone for information on the University’s budget for this semester and how COVID-19 may change NC State’s finances.

Here is a quick rundown of the information:

• “We have not laid anyone off,” Maimone said. “But, to be clear, we have not hired a lot of people back. So, we anticipated revenue shortfalls in a lot of areas and they have, in essence, come true: housing and dining, parking, transportation.”

• Budget plans are due from all departments to Maimone by the end of August.

Afterwards, their budgets will be finalized.

• Many contracts are likely to be renegotiated as a result of the budget plans.

• “My time frame for the auxiliary enterprises and rightsizing budgets is the August and September time period, to make all of our decisions about that for the fall,” Maimone said.

So, “auxiliary” would not include academic faculty?

• According to Maimone: “There would be no reason, actually, for us to reduce faculty positions at this time. And [with] many of the academic support programs that are funded by tuition — general tuition and state appropriations — again, there’s no reason to actually reduce those because we have the need. The demand is there for the courses.”

University Housing designates self-isolation and quarantine units Kathryn Ellis Correspondent

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University is taking precautions and designating housing units for quarantine and self-isolation.

Donna McGalliard, the assistant vice chancellor of the Division of Academic and Student Affairs and executive director of University Housing, gave details on what to expect.

“University Housing has set aside 166 units for quarantine or isolation housing for oncampus residents,” McGalliard said. There are currently 39 units in use on campus.

E.S. King Village and the Avent Ferry Complex house some of the 166 units which have been set aside for COVID-19 patients, according to Mick Kulikowski, NC State spokesperson. McGalliard said the units were intentionally designated in buildings that met the quarantine recommendations set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“These spaces have individual exterior doors, private bathrooms and individually

controlled HVAC systems,” McGalliard said.

There is a difference between quarantine and isolation. The CDC recommends that individuals who are not exhibiting symptoms but have been exposed to the virus selfquarantine for at least 14 days from the time of the last contact with an infected person.

Self-isolation is for those who are sick and experiencing symptoms. The CDC recommends self-isolation for at least 10 days from the onset of symptoms, or from the date of the test if there are no symptoms.

The units are available only for residents in on-campus facilities who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or come in direct contact with someone who has been diagnosed with the virus.

“They will be expected to self-isolate or self-quarantine and will be followed by the NC State COVID-19 contact tracing program conducted by the Student Health Service,” McGalliard said.

Students who need quarantine or isolation housing will be encouraged to go home or to an off-campus location if they have the

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E.S. King Village and the Avent Ferry Complex house some of the 166 units which have been set aside for COVID-19 patients.

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“Students [and their family unit] who do not have an off-campus location or home

for quarantine may be asked to relocate into predetermined spaces on campus,” McGalliard said.

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Preparing for the upcoming election: College Democrats at NC State Edition Caryl J. Espinoza Jaen

disrespect somebody; that’s kind of what we tend to emphasize.

With the 2020 elections drawing near, students on campus are preparing to vote for their preferred candidates. Various political organizations on campus are beginning to mobilize in order to increase voter turnout for their preferred party values.

This week, Technician interviewed Madison Mrzygod, a third-year studying criminology and president of College Democrats at NC State.

Technician: What are you guys planning to do for upcoming events?

Mrzygod: Right now, we’re just sort of getting settled. I’ll have a meeting with some of my members later today [Aug. 17] to try to figure things out. Obviously, we’re going to start getting some stuff out about the election and how that’s going to look with COVID-19, but hopefully, it’ll be more than just one mass email sent out because you can register to vote online now, so there’s no reason to not be registered to vote now.

It’s very simple.

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Technician: Let’s start with the basics: What is College Democrats?

Mrzygod: College Democrats, essentially, is pretty much a group of students whose main goal is to have Democratic officials elected. We do so by helping with voter registration, voter education and I know this year I, the president, want to try to work on getting our social advocacy project. Obviously, this doesn’t have anything to do with getting officials elected, but the Democratic Party tends to be more focused on the humanities side of things. With that, I want to do something positive.

Technician: Obviously there are different spectrums of progressiveness within the Democratic Party. Are you guys encompassing all of that spectrum or is College Democrats more specific?

Mrzygod: Yes, we want all Democrats to feel comfortable within our club. Obviously there are people who tend to be more liberal and people who tend to be more conservative-minded, but like, the main thing is just to respect one another’s opinions. You can disagree with someone, but you can’t

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person for at least 10-15 minutes.

Members of Student Health Services will then have a phone call with these individuals, where they ask these people questions, including their age or medical history, to determine how at risk they are for COVID-19.

These people will then receive an email about their last contact with the COVID-19 patient. The results are then sent to a secure medical record system at Student Health Services.

Limmen said if a student or staff member may have been exposed to someone with COVID-19, they must self-quarantine between five and seven days to reduce the possibility of a false negative from testing. NC State will not be testing students or staff un-

Technician: How are you guys planning to increase Democratic voter turnout?

Mrzygod: Well we don’t endorse any one candidate. That’s our biggest thing. Obviously, we don’t want my favorite representative to be our endorsement because that is not fair. We kind of just want our members to try to instead push the Democratic agenda, not full force because everyone has their right to take whatever position they want, but show the Democratic values which outweigh the values of the Republican party. That’s not true for everybody — some people would definitely disagree with that statement — but that’s what I hope will happen.

Technician: How are you guys dealing with recruitment for College Democrats?

Mrzygod: Personally, I’ve made a few Instagram story posts, and I’ve also done the equivalent of sending members out to find new people, and we’ve got like 25 new people who joined, which obviously is not less they exhibit symptoms or have been in contact with someone who has COVID-19.

Limmen also said Student Health Services is proud of the self-report survey and contact tracing program. They have worked on the program since March, and although specific data cannot be provided, Casani said 40-50% of people enrolled in the contact tracing program eventually left.

Casani recommends the best way for students and staff to prevent being infected with COVID-19 is to wear a mask both indoors and outdoors, practice social distancing, frequently wash their hands and stay at home when sick.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have a list of potential COVID-19 symptoms available on their website. NC State community members who may have COVID-19 can make appointments at Student Health Services for assistance.

huge, but that’s still a lot of new people. We’re also planning on going to talk to some organizations on campus, so there’s that.

Technician: How are you guys tackling inclusivity and diversity within your organization?

Mrzygod: We’re really big on trying to expand who’s in our club.

Most of the time, college campuses are predominately white. Most clubs are represented by predominantly white people, unless it’s a specific club meant for people of color, which is not fair, so we’re really trying to represent a good variety of people, variety of backgrounds, variety of ethnicities, so that way, everyone is spoken for. That way, everyone is considered.

Technician: There’s a lot of inequalities when it comes to voting, so how are you guys tackling voter disenfranchisement and suppression?

Mrzygod: I think the biggest thing is that college students, especially at NC State, have had very easy access to go vote. It’s literally in Talley. Obviously not everyone can go vote there because they might be immunocompromised, but there are mail-in ballots, so our main goal is to educate voters on why their vote matters and why it’s important for them to go vote. In reality, not everyone gets

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those same opportunities, so we’re trying to make sure everyone gets those opportunities, if that makes sense.

Technician: Lastly, how can students get involved with College Democrats?

Mrzygod: Our GetInvolved page at NC State has my contact information listed.

Once they contact me, I add them to our GroupMe and pretty much from there you just chill, talk to people, attend meetings and I’ll tell you any updates and what to do. That’s pretty much it. We also have a new Twitter account, and we’re trying to figure out how to get our Instagram page back up and running. We’re not very social media active at the moment, but once we get our Instagram account back we’ll definitely become more active.

Contact tracing is available at Student Health Aervices.

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Desperate and despicable, the UNC BOG is exploiting students If by some miracle you haven’t heard, UNC-Chapel Hill moved all classes online Monday, just an hour before tuition was due. In completely unrelated news, NC State anJoey Rivenbark nounced a whopping 28 Social Media new cases all at once, but Analyiics you probably knew that Manager too. Did you also know it was a day after tuition was due?

Those two particular pieces of news seem quite curious to me. For one thing, the timing is certainly strange. What’s more is that I know very few people who do not think that, within two weeks, we will be exactly where UNC-CH is now, which raises a few questions.

For one thing, it makes me wonder what NC State seriously thinks will happen, other than a larger outbreak within our community in the near future. Nothing we are doing is appreciably better than what UNC-CH did, in fact much of it is appreciably worse. Students were unaware of the location of cases until yesterday, and a simple look at our dashboard, compared to UNC-CH’s, tells you all you need to know about how seriously our administration is taking our safety.

At first, I thought NC State must be better somehow because, after all, as far as I and the rest of the student body knew, we had only had 20 cases since March. Well, until we didn’t, all of a sudden. Now our cases count looks a lot more similar to UNC-CH, who also experienced a massive jump in the last week.

So if an impending outbreak on our campus seems likely, then why the hell is NC State continuing with in-person classes? What possible reason could they have to gather students up, get them sick and then send them back to their families?

First, I’m just going to be blunt and say the University is probably continuing classes for one reason: They are desperate for funding through sports and tuition. There, I said it. With the UNC-CH decision and NC State’s announcement of its first cluster, it seems clear to me that UNC System schools are following a playbook, and their hand is bleeding pretty badly right now.

They probably think they can get away with it too. So far as they care, once they have secured funding in the form of tuition and done everything they can for sports revenue — did I also forget to mention that UNC-CH is still having football — the next biggest issue is to get away with it looking the best they can.

By sitting on the fence twiddling their thumbs in regard to the issue of responsibility and enforcing safety guidelines, NC State’s administration probably figures they can make it out of this by placing the blame on students. Julia Marcus, an epidemiologist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and Jessica Gold, a psychiatrist and assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, even said so much in their Atlantic article “Colleges Are Getting Ready to Blame Their Students.”

I imagine NC State sees inaction as an

effective strategy simply because they fear the responsibility that would come with actually trying to keep students safe. Instead, whether truly intentional or not, NC State has effectively chosen a strategy of sitting on their hands until after tuition is due, and then doing the bare minimum so that they won’t face the consequences that come with having a truly flawed plan to running a university during a pandemic. It’s a decent strategy if you’re okay with being a scumbag; it increases revenue and subverts responsibility.

So what are students to do?

Practically nothing. The real decision for cancelling all in-person classes lies with the UNC Board of Governors (BOG), a group of people put in place by politicians elected through gerrymandering. The original idea is that the actions, or inaction, of the BOG is supposed to ref lect on the politicians who appointed them, and if the BOG messes up, the politician isn’t reelected, so politicians choose a good board.

But when you live in a state like North Carolina, the problem starts with gerrymandering. From there, politicians don’t have to fear responsibility. Add a little bit of big money into local elections, and politicians get a supermajority in the general assembly, from there they add people to the BOG who funded their campaigns, increasing their reach into the education system. Don’t believe me? How about you believe the fact that Art Pope, often called the “Koch” and the “Sugar Daddy” of NC, was just appointed

to the BOG. Oh, did I forget his role in the 2010 REDMAP project, a project aimed at politically gerrymandering states like North Carolina by funding local elections during a census year?

But never mind that. If the solution to safe higher education during a crisis relies on the resolution of gerrymandering in North Carolina, our best bet is trying some other state. A more realistic approach would be reforming the BOG so that they, oh, I don’t know, are an actual representative body. Crazy how, in 2018, I wrote about this exact issue — though, truthfully, I did not expect a pandemic — and argued that currently “there is no democratic check on their power.” I suggested that the president of the BOG should be a position that is elected by the people. Imagine what the call would have been in July had that been the case. Does any serious person think the same people running higher education should be running it next year, after this year’s disaster?

For this year’s tuition, it could very well be too late; the con is quite nearly complete. It is ruled by three defunct groups: the school administration, the BOG and the North Carolina General Assembly.

The system students are currently subjected to provides no real leverage whatsoever. So, when crises happen, it seems we have no choice other than to beg, write snarky opinion pieces and protest. In the past, that last one has been taboo. Though taboo to an extent on NC State’s campus, it seems that, if students actually want any sort of change, they need to learn how to make their voices heard, immediately.

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Who told Ratio Christi it was cool to spread misinformation about a pandemic?

We are all familiar with Christian campus groups like Chi Alpha and Cru who continue to advocate for Christian teachings on campus. They are quite popular on campus, with Caryl J. their ever-present signs Espinoza Jaen and efforts to continue Opinion Editor Christian fellowship being objectively commendable, regardless of where you fall on the religious spectrum. However, one particular group on campus has recently been sharing malignant misinformation regarding COVID-19, and that, my friends, cannot be tolerated.

On Aug. 9, NC State’s Ratio Christi, a Christian apologetic organization, sent out a mass email to their student followers, discussing the director’s experiences with COVID-19 and their beliefs on the current political landscape surrounding the pandemic. The email was lusciously decorated with misinformation and called for the readers to contact their representatives and fight against the guidelines recommended by professionals. The email goes as far as to discuss the director’s analysis of Ephesians 5:11-13, calling for readers to expose these heinous evils.

So, following the advice of the quoted Ephesians verse, I’m going to shed some light on some of the misinformation served by Ratio Christi:

First, there’s the claim that hydroxychloroquine is effective in the treatment against COVID-19. It is not, and multiple studies have already proven that.

While the COVID-19 death rate is going down, that doesn’t necessarily mean our current situation is improving. New cases are still rising in North Carolina, already implying that we’re seeing more cases among younger crowds because of schools reopening in Orange, Wake, Durham and Mecklenburg counties. And hey, would you look at that, we’re back on campus, and to no one’s surprise, surrounding campuses are finding out the same thing.

Contrary to the email’s claim, lockdowns work, and we have nations such as Germany to prove it. Masks also work, whether we like them or not. To be honest, if Ratio Christi actually cared about avoiding another lockdown, they should’ve included the simple analysis that mass-scale mask requirements solve that exact issue.

Hospitals are probably not lying about COVID-19 for a quick buck, and if they were, we should honestly be advocating for a health care system that is not exploiting patients for profit instead.

At least half of Americans trust Dr. Fauci, including the well-renowned Association of American Medical Colleges.

I’d rather bet my money on the AAMC than some fringe conspiracy sites.

There is evidence that kids generally get

milder symptoms when contracting COVID-19, but I’m gonna go out on a limb and say I’m pretty sure we don’t want any parents and teachers contracting the virus, especially if those parents and teachers happen to be older folks. I am 100% certain they would not have a fun time.

The COVID-19 vaccine, contrary to popular belief, does not need to be 100% effective in order to be successful in mitigating deaths, and no vaccine is. Might I remind you guys that the yearly flu vaccine is 40-60% effective and the measles vaccine is 95% effective. Might I also add that the whole purpose of a vaccine is to reach herd immunity without needless deaths. That’s quite literally what the email advocates for.

Let’s also process the fact that most of their sources come from far-right conspiracy blog ZeroHedge. I just really don’t think that a pseudonym with a “Fight Club” profile picture mansplaining COVID-19 is a credible source.

We’re living in an era where we have to arduously fight against misinformation and propaganda, and it should go without saying that all institutions should be held accountable. As commendable as a Christian group on campus might be, there is no reason why we as a student body should excuse such behavior. We just had UNC-Chapel Hill go back online because of limp management from their reckless institution. Do we really want to

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replicate that?

If Ratio Christi’s goal is to elevate Christian discourse and point of views, it shoots itself in the foot by spewing brain-dead misinformation. Not only are they actively undermining their goals as an organization, they are making all Christian organizations on campus seem equally as inept by association. The popularity of Christianity is rapidly falling in America, and any genuine attempts at regaining followers is rapidly shut down if your rhetoric includes worms-for-brain analysis.

Many students on campus get a positive experience from attending Christian organizations on campus, and I’ve been lucky enough to attend some meetings in the past and stand by that statement. So many of my fellow students are passionate about their faith and having conversations about their beliefs, and it would be a shame to see these students and organizations further discredited because of the ineptitude of a singular organization. To keep it short, I’m disappointed.

Moving forward, however, does not have to be so muddy and cumbersome.

Ratio Christi members should hold their leadership accountable for the spread of misinformation, and leaders should at minimum attempt to correct information mistakes in the next newsletter they release. That is accountability at its simplest form. It’s not that hard to ask for it.

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Students need to put the safety of others first and stop partying All students were aware of the risks of returning to campus this fall before they moved in. Many students who chose to return to campus came with masks, cleaning supplies and the Caitlyn understanding that they Mahoney had to follow university Correspondent guidelines to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Unfortunately, not every student is doing this, and their refusal to follow the rules is putting everyone else in danger. As an underclassman living on campus, I am begging my fellow students to stop going out to parties and exposing their friends, classmates and roommates to the virus.

This year is nothing like any of us were hoping for. We’ve all had to make changes within our lives in order to stay healthy and sane. Normally, going to a party and dancing a little too close to a bunch of strangers

is not only socially acceptable, but encouraged in some social circles. However, this year is not normal. When you choose to go to a party, you are choosing to expose anyone who shares the same facilities as you to any pathogens you were exposed to at the party.

Let me give you an example of why this matters. On the second day of school, a big group of girls from my dorm went out to a party. They came back late and were not wearing masks. I ran into one of these girls in the bathroom, during which she touched the sink faucet, the soap dispenser, everything in the first stall and the wall. It wasn’t until 1 p.m. the following afternoon that the bathroom was cleaned.

That meant, for a 12-hour period, every girl from my residence hall ran the risk of unknowingly touching an area possibly contaminated with COVID-19. Everyone knew this situation was a possibility when they decided to move back on campus, but

knowing it could happen and being the cause of it are two very different things. By going out to a party and breaking the basic rules regarding how to stop the spread of COVID-19, you are breaking the unspoken promise to your community to fight COVID-19, while also putting the whole student population in danger.

If the virus wasn’t already on our campus then this wouldn’t be a problem, but it is.

Within the week of Aug. 12-18, 424 students were tested for the coronavirus. This statistic excludes all standard COVID-19 tests run on Student Health Service student patients—which would bring the total number of tests to 502—and all students who went to an off-campus testing site to be tested for the virus. What these 424 tests represent is how many students specifically on campus had a legitimate reason to consider themselves exposed to the virus. Exposure to COVID-19 is a real risk on campus.

If you choose to possibly expose yourself

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to the virus by prioritizing a party over your own health, then that’s your choice, but it is not right to expose your friends, classmates and those who live with you to it without their knowledge or consent. We all agreed to do our best to reduce the spread of the virus when we returned to campus. The people around you are giving up more than you may know in order to do that. Going out to a party just to return to campus and expose others is downright selfish, inconsiderate and irresponsible.

The parties will be here next year, but your friends, classmates and roommates might not be if we continue to spread the virus. For their sake, please take a break from going to parties and do your part to stop the spread of COVID-19. After all, parties are not the only way to have fun with friends. Going out to eat, having a socially-distanced game of spikeball and hanging out with a small group of friends are all valid ways to have fun and not contribute to the pandemic.

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Culture shift: from frat parties to the new, college-aged ‘nuclear family’ I like to think that I don’t shame people. Whether it be kink-shaming, shaming someone’s awkward moments or anything else, I don’t think it’s appropriate for someone to draw attenZack tion to a choice someone’s Jenio Staff Colunmist made just to make them feel bad. However, I will drop those morals and say from my chest that I will publicly shame anyone I know who willingly attends large parties or events right now.

Without dwelling too much on it, we’re in the middle of a global pandemic with an easily transmittable virus. It is now common knowledge that precautions such as wearing a mask and staying socially distant help slow the spread and prevent spikes, but it’s apparent, via a video posted by Twitter user @laylaana_ on Aug. 14, that many people are not avoiding mass gatherings. College-aged people were packed in a small room for a house party, which was claimed to be at The Republic at Raleigh, hosting both NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill students.

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fully remote after four clusters of COVID-19 were reported on campus. Could this have been prevented? Possibly, but to put all of the blame on students would be a gross oversimplification and ignores the negligence of the administration. However, that isn’t to say that these large events that have been happening both at UNCCH and NC State don’t contribute. Hence, if we want to actually protect ourselves in addition to the greater community, there needs to be a shift from large, traditional parties and events to small gatherings of nuclear and extended families.

The idea of gatherings in COVID-19 terms is loosely based on the original connotation; it is a small “kickback,” or hangout, of a set group of friends who all know each other. However, in this case, a gathering should imply an even smaller group of select friends who are still taking safety precautions. Ideally, this gathering of people should be kept to the nuclear family and possibly extended family. I recently heard a program director use the term “nuclear family,” and I feel it accurately describes the spheres of influence we are living in.

Nuclear families, for students living away at college, refer to the set of people you live with

every day. This is your immediate roommate(s) or flatmate(s) and that is it. Extended family, like your actual extended family, are people who you have made a deal with or had a conversation with, implying your nuclear families are exclusively hanging out with each other in order to limit interactions with too many people.

Beyond that, the spheres get bigger as we look at circles of friends; large groups, like villages; and the entire community. Socialization shouldn’t occur past the extended family right now, it’s too dangerous and too high of a risk.

Just like STIs, the only way to be sure you won’t contract COVID-19 is to be abstinent from all socialization or interaction with others. But if you’re going to have some inevitable interactions or actively choose to interact, then it gets into what extent you’re willing to be put at risk. Is it five miles over the speed limit? 10?

15? Just like driving, you have the autonomy to increase the risk, but at the same time, the risk of negative consequences increases accordingly.

It is irresponsible and, for lack of a better word, stupid, if you’re hanging out with people beyond your college extended family or going to mass gatherings or large events. I agree, it

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isn’t the most fun college experience. I, like many other NC State students, would love to be out socializing with all of my friends that I haven’t seen in five months, but now is not the time for that. We aren’t in the “new normal” yet, so we shouldn’t socialize like we are. We are still on an uphill battle, and 30,000 people returning to a single campus catalyzes the speed of transmission.

At least for the next two weeks, with positive cases already starting to appear in some circles around campus, it’s best not to interact with anyone you haven’t deemed as nuclear or possibly extended family. NC State could be heading in the same direction as UNC-CH, regardless of preventative measures the student population takes. But on a basic level, it should be your priority to want to stay safe and healthy and prevent yourself from spreading it to others who could be affected by it.

A genuine question for those who went to or hosted large parties and events this past weekend: How would you feel if you knowingly spread COVID-19 to peers and friends who ended up being severely impacted by the disease? Is it truly worth it?

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Assistant Professor Katie Mack talks Twitter fame, new book and the end of the world Dr. Mack: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept the End of the World Austin Dunlow

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Who do you think of when someone is described as down-to-earth, funny, entertaining, inf luential on social media and has a Hozier song written about them? Chances are, it isn’t a physicist.

However, Katie Mack, assistant professor of physics at NC State, is breaking those stereotypes.

Mack studies cosmology, or, as she describes it, “the big questions about the universe, beginning to end, and all of the stuff in it.” Even though she has a Ph.D. from Princeton University in astrophysics, she doesn’t look at telescopes all day. She approaches cosmology from a theoretical standpoint and has recently been focusing a lot on the end of the universe. This focus has led to her most recent book, “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking).”

“The parenthetical is to emphasize that it really is about everything,” Mack said. “We’re being quite literal there. It’s about the end of the universe and how that might happen, what it might look like, how physicists and astronomers are trying to figure out what the end of our cosmic story will be.”

According to Mack, the book discusses five possibilities for what the end of the universe may look like while also discussing the methods, techniques and re-

search that physicists use to even think about these possibilities.

“It’s a fun thing to study because you get to study these big, powerful, destructive forces, but it’s also enough removed from everyday life that it’s not depressing,” Mack said.

Physics, and astrophysics in particular, has long been thought of as something illusory unless you have a college degree, but Mack can almost be thought of in a similar way to big physics names like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan. She is working to bring physics into the homes and everyday conversations of readers.

As a member of the Leadership in Public Science faculty cluster at NC State, Mack works to bring science “out into

“As a member of the Leadership in Public Science faculty cluster at NC State, Mack works to bring science “out into the open” and make it accessible for nonscientists. She writes her book assuming the reader has minimal knowledge of physics.” the open” and make it accessible for nonscientists. She writes her book assuming the reader has minimal knowledge of physics.

Mack believes the end of the universe is

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an interesting topic for everyone because of humanity’s innate curiosity about where we came from and where we are going. She also feels that being able to explain the end of the universe may give scientists more insight into the beginning of the universe. However, she does feel like there is a bit of a metaphysical aspect to the curiosity, too.

“There’s this sense that the end of the story may give us this idea of what it all means or how we should live,” Mack said. “That’s a very common idea in religious thinking and a very common idea in just the way that we think of the future. What’s it all going to mean at the end, and what’s that mean about how we should be living now? Is there meaning in life if it will all be over some day?”

Mack’s success at connecting science to the public can be evidenced in her, at the time of this writing, 368,500 Twitter followers. She has even attracted a follow from some celebrities and other Twitter

blue checks, including Rachel Maddow, Hank Green, Hozier, Chrissy Teigen and many verified scientists, but the follow that most excited her was Ava DuVernay. Mack felt that DuVernay’s follow showed she was no longer just popular in her field.

Hozier referenced Mack in his 2019 song, “No Plan.” The lyrics, “As Mack explained, there will be darkness again,” allude to the short amount of time the couple in the song have together, so they must make the most of it. Hozier’s lyrics seem to encapsulate the exact metaphysical ideas Mack said drew her to the study of the end of the universe.

“I was already a fan of his work,” Mack said. “I enjoyed his music before I even got to know him. Now to be in a position where he’s clearly a fan of my work, that’s just odd, but in a good way.”

This large platform comes with pressure to be a good role model, which is stressful, Mack said.

“It’s a huge responsibility,” Mack said.

“I feel a great deal of pressure all of the time to be a positive inf luence and to make sure that I’m being fair and considerate and not saying anything that would adversely affect people who might look up to me in some way. It is something that I’m always wrestling with: how to best fill that role.”

Mack is grateful to NC State for allowing her, a nontenured professor, to focus on writing a book instead of writing a large amount of research papers, as professors without tenure are generally encouraged to do.

For readers who are worried that the book may be too heavy, Mack wants them to know that her book may deal with big topics, but she doesn’t feel like it’s depressing.

“It’s very lighthearted,” Mack said.

“It can be used as beach reading if you want.”

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Delta Phi Alpha, a German honor society, invites German speakers of all levels to their virtual kaffeeklatch.

This event is a social gathering centered around coffee and conversation. Participants will converse in German.

The University Activity Board’s W.O.L.F. Committee will show “Little Women” in the Witherspoon Student Center Campus Cinema as part of its Friday Films program. Contact uab-wolfcommittee@ncsu.edu for disability-related event accommodations.

As part of the Black Students Board’s Welcome Black Week, the African American Cultural Center is hosting their weekly What’s on the Table session. Participants are welcome to attend to discuss the biggest issues affecting the Black experience in the past week.

The Park Scholars Class of 2021 will present the William C. Friday Award to Bree Newsome Bass. Newsome Bass is a filmmaker and anti-racism advocate, who gained attention in 2015 after removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House, following the Charleston church shooting.

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North Carolina State University’s Memorial Belltower under construction on Sept. 9, 2019. The construction on the Belltower began two weeks ago and is scheduled to wrap up right before the Belltower’s 100 year anniversary in 2021.

Not your great-grandaddy’s bell tower: new bells to ring in Belltower renovations Abbie Davies-Cutting

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The NC State Memorial Belltower, which has served as an iconic symbol for NC State since it was erected, received the first of two bell installations earlier this year. The renovations to the tower, which began in August 2019, are working to bring the original vision of the tower to fruition.

According to Tom Stafford, former vice chancellor for Student Affairs, until recently, operations to put bells in the tower were at a standstill. However, in the summer of 2018, alumni Bill and Frances Henry brought their son, William Henry, to campus for orientation where they learned the Belltower lacked bells. This realization eventually led to their pledge to renovate the Belltower, put a staircase in it that leads to the carillon room and to fulfill the tower’s intended vision: to add real bells.

The family’s generous contribution came with the request that construction would be completed in time for the bells to be chimed when William Henry graduates in the spring of 2021.

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Stafford stated there was not enough money to install real bells at its inception in 1937, and instead, an electronic carillon system was adopted, which included the speakers the Belltower used until now.

The original construction of the Belltower was initiated by NC State alumni after World War I ended to honor the alumni and students who died in the war.

Stafford emphasized how meaningful the tower is, stating it is the most sacred and iconic place on campus.

Of the 55 bells scheduled to be installed to the tower, the 37 that have already been installed are the largest. The Henry family was honored for their gift with inscriptions of their names on some of the bells. Other individuals were honored too, including Stafford himself.

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SOURCE: NC STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES honor of the class of 2010 who, spearheaded by Matt Robinson, a student at the time, began the original campaign to install bells in the tower, Stafford said.

“Every member of that class that made a contribution to that bell campaign, their name is on that bell,” Stafford said.

The remaining bells are scheduled to be received and installed by the end of this month. According to Stafford, the 18 smaller bells will be carried up the newly-built staircase so they can be installed.

Previously, the tower’s sound system played electronic chimes automatically, but with the installation, there is an opportunity to have people play real bells, Stafford said.

“As far as I know, the University has not yet made any decisions about who will be playing the carillon,” Stafford said.

“The cool thing is there are lots of things we could do. We could have somebody go in and play a concert every day at 5 o’clock. The opportunities are virtually unlimited.”

Stafford is excited about the renovation of the tower given its importance to the student body, mentioning specifically his involvement with the tradition of class rings spending the night in the tower.

Stafford also mentioned how he has been personally involved in more than a few surprise engagements that have taken place at or in the Belltower.

“When you think about NC State, most of the time the first thing you’ll think about is the Belltower,” Stafford said.

“It is the one and the only thing on our campus that is so closely identified with our great university.”

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Volleyball adds three coaches, five players for 2020 Rachel Umbach Staff Writer

Whenever the NC State volleyball team takes the court again, it will be managed by quite a different coaching staff, including a brand new head coach, as well as five new additions to the team.

Luka Slabe: Head Coach Slabe joins the Wolfpack after working with USA Volleyball since 2018, most notably as the assistant coach for the USA Women’s Volleyball National Team, where he helped them qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games and take home a silver medal at the 2019 FIVB World Cup. Before work ing w it h t he nationa l team, Slabe spent four years as an assistant coach at BYU, where they finished as NCAA runners-up in 2016 and 2017 and reached the final four in 2018. BYU also won the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Championship in both 2016 and 2018. From 2013-2015, he was the head coach of the Slovenian National Team, where he helped to increase its world ranking after winning numerous national and international championship titles.

“Our team will be dedicated to the pursuit of mastery both on the court and in the classroom,” Slabe told NC State Athletics. “We will play hard for our fans across the country, and represent NC State with pride and honor. We will strive every day to be the best versions of ourselves and create an environment where our players continue to learn and prepare themselves for life after college.”

Leo Durk in: Volunteer Assistant Coach Durkin is a former BYU athlete, where he played under Slabe for four seasons. At BYU, Durkin earned three consecutive AVCA All-American honors and MPSF All-Academic accolades, all while accumulating 3,282 career assists, which ranks second in BYU rally scoring history and fifth all-time. He has also played professionally for SVG Lüneburg in Germany before joining the Pack.

Megan Wargo-Kearney: Associate Head Coach Wargo-Kearney joins NC State following four years at Arkansas, where she had a very similar position. She was an assistant coach for three seasons and was promoted to the associate head coach of the Razorbacks ahead of the 2019 season.

Under her leadership, four Razorbacks earned AVCA All-South Region awards as well as All-SEC recognitions. She also spent eight seasons as an assistant coach at Truman University, guiding them to six NCAA Tournament appearances, along with two conference titles.

Along with her coaching position, she also serves as the Pack’s recruiting coordinator.

Mmachi Nwoke: Middle Blocker Nwoke has been with the Wolfpack for a season now, but 2020 will be her first opportunity to play. She started her college career playing for Arizona State and then Kansas but transferred to NC State prior to the 2019 season where she redshirted, allowing her to use her last year of eligibility in 2020.

Nwoke hails from Grand Prairie, Texas, where she is a former Grand Prairie Offensive Player of the Year. She has 146 blocks so far in her college career.

Makenzie Taylor: Outside Hitter Taylor started her freshman year a semester early and joined the Pack in the spring of 2020. Hailing from Mooresville, North Carolina, she was a threetime offensive player of the year for Lake Norman High School. In just a three-year period, she accumulated 721 kills and 579 digs to her name.

When asked why she chose NC State, Taylor told NC State Athletics, “I loved the campus and the team culture. I knew from my first visit here that NC State had everything I was looking for in a college environment. Everyone on the team was so welcoming and I could tell I liked the team chemistry from the start.”

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Riley Shaak: Middle Blocker Shaak will also be a freshman at NC State this upcoming season. She previously attended the Academy of Notre Dame in Pennsylvania, where she was a four-year starter and the first player in her high school history to reach 1,000 career kills. A 2019 Under Armour AllAmerican Honorable Mention as well, Shaak was a two-time first-team member for Delaware County and was a four-time All-Intreac and All-Main Line conference member.

With the many new additions to the roster and coaching staff, the 2020 season is sure to be exciting.

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Sydney Ferguson: Outside Hitter Ferguson transferred to the Wolfpack in the spring of 2020 from Penn State.

Highly recruited out of high school, she was ranked the No. 44 senior ace by PrepVolleyball in 2019 and was a four time all-conference honoree. Ferguson will join the team with four years of eligibility left as she redshirted her freshman year in Pennsylvania.

Hartley Myers: Outside Hitter Myers will join the Pack as a freshman this season. She comes from Greer High School in Greer, South Carolina, where she was ranked in the top 15 in her 2020 graduating class. Myers is a two-time All-Region honoree and was a 2019 Under Armour Girls All-American Honorable Mention.

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Women’s soccer adds five new players to roster for 2020 season Nicholas Schnittker Assistant Sports Editor

For now, the ACC is set to forge ahead and play in 2020. According to the ACC’s current plan, the NC State women’s soccer team will play a minimum of six conference games, plus any additional games against conference or nonconference opponents the program chooses to add. The schedule for those games has not yet been released, but what has been released are the new players who will be joining the Pack this fall. Here is some information about each of the Wolfpack’s five new players.

Denae Antoine/Junior/Forward The lone transfer in head coach Tim Santoro’s new group is a forward from the University of California, Denae Antoine.

Despite limited minutes due to injuries, just under 700 in her two years at Cal, Antoine scored four goals in 21 games, three of which came in the 2019 season.

With the departure of Tziarra King to the NWSL, the Pack will need to turn elsewhere for its goals this year. While the sophomore duo of Jameese Joseph and Leigha Hall-Robinson both showed a lot of promise last season, depth in the attacking line is something you can never have enough of.

“Denae is someone I’m very familiar with from her recruiting process,” Santoro told NC State Athletics. “She’s recovered from a few unfortunate injuries to get back to the explosive player she was.

We’re excited she’s joining NC State and believe she’ll prove to people the striker she wants to be.”

Maria Echezarreta/Freshman/Goalkeeper There have been plenty of international players featured at Dail Soccer Field in recent years, and Maria Echezrreta is another example of the Pack bringing in talent from Europe. Hailing from Asturias, Spain, Echezarreta played for Real Oviedo FC and has played for the Spanish national team at the U-17 and U-19 levels.

In 2018, she was named to the Team of the Tournament for her role in helping Spain win the 2018 UEFA U-19 Championship.

“Maria brings a lot of international experience with Spain, in addition to her club resume,” Santoro said. “The goalkeeper position has been a focus in our recruiting, and we believe Maria adds quality to the program. She’s a good shot stopper, is excellent with her feet and has a mature and confident demeanor you want in that position.”

Cara Elmendorf/Freshman/Forward The second forward of this new group, Cara Elmendorf, played at club level for both the Florida Krush Kraze and Jacksonville Armada, the latter of which sophomore midfielder Jaiden Thomas also played for. Elmendorf was a part of a United States Youth Soccer Association (USYSA) Region III champion and national semifinalist team.

“Cara is technically clean, can play a variety of positions and is a tremendous, left-footed ball striker,” Santoro said. “We enjoyed working with Cara in the spring and will maximize her strengths and get her to a point where she can fill a few different roles next fall.”

Krista Peterson/Freshman/Midfielder The only midfielder in Santoro’s new group, Krista Peterson is a product of the Houston Dash’s youth program. Peterson played for the youth team, but during her time at the club, she also trained with the first team, who just recently won the NWSL Challenge Cup. In addition to her time in the Dash’s youth program, Peterson spent two years in Texas’s Olympic Development Program (ODP) and was a captain at both Elite Club National League and Developmental Academy levels.

With Ricci Walking finishing her four years in Raleigh and returning to Germany to play professionally, the Pack is in need of a new midfield maestro and while there are plenty of options in the squad already, Peterson will be able to compete for a spot.

“Krista is the technical, soccer-minded type midfielder that we like to find and make flourish in our system at NC State,” Santoro said. “She’s got a tremendous opportunity to come in and fill some holes that we’ll be addressing in our midfield.”

Mia Vaughan/Freshman/Forward The fifth and final addition to Santoro’s new group, Mia Vaughan, is yet another forward who will be competing in a young and exciting attacking lineup for the Pack. At club level, Vaughan played for three-time Virginia state champion Beach FC and was a member of VUSYSA Region I ODP team. Vaughan was also featured on the Generation Adidas AllStar Team that played in Lyon, France in 2017.

“Mia is another one of the left-footed players we targeted in this class,” Santoro said. “She is athletic and strong, with good technical ability, and we’ll have her play in different roles on the f lank, depending on our formation. We feel Mia will have an impact on our left side.”

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Knight, Houston and Person head the Wolfpack’s best position group

game, but you’ll miss getting in his own head about his expecthe running backs. them when they’re tations and disappointments,” Doeren “The depth at running back, it’s fun to Multimedia Managing Editor gone—and NC State watch,” Doeren said. “[Redshirt fresh- said. “Right now he’s just consistent. He’s c ertainly missed taking it one day at a time.

He’s having man] Delbert Mimms had a really good With 24 days until NC State travels to Autenriet h when it Blacksburg, Virginia to face off against day today. He’s a name that we haven’t fun; he’s very aggressive in practice. lost him to seasonVirginia Tech, the Wolfpack began prac- really talked about, [out of ] the ones He’s been very consistent. And ending injury. tices in full pads Wednesday. As the team that have been out there. It’s just fun to it’s just part of the process of O f fe n s i ve L i n e and coaching staff gels together ahead watch the rotation and guys come in, and growing up and dealing with High of its 11-game schedule, here’s an early there’s a lot of pride in that room to not all things that you have, and Of fensive line coach [I’m] proud of the growth that look at causes for optimism and concern let the level of play change.”

John Garrison is ver y Doeren singling out the No. 4 back on he’s made.” in the form of a confidence index for the happy with the group Between R iley or the roster as a surprise is no accident. offense: he’s work i ng w it h NC State returns a proven commodity redshirt sophoQuarterback - Low t his yea r, a nd for in its three-headed rushing attack of m o r e D e v i n There are not a lot good rea son. Si x sophomores Zonovan Knight and Jor- Ca r ter, Emezie of positives that can returning offensive dan Houston and junior Ricky Person. and redshirt junior be said here outlinemen have starting Knight, despite fighting through in- Thayer Thomas, NC side of knowing experience, and sophomore Ikem jury for much of the year, turned St ate won’t f ield redshir t sophoEkwonu, an Athlon second-team in a team-leading 745 yards and the scariest startmore Devin Leary preseason All-ACC pick, has serifive touchdowns on over five ing wide receivwill be the starter ous potential. Redshirt sophoyards a carr y, and scatback er g roup t h at for the Wolfpack. more Derrick Eason, who didn’t Jordan Houston provided a tea ms w i l l go A yea r ago, NC play much last year while tranmuch-needed change u p a g a i n s t , State was running sitioning from defensive to ofof pace, a speed- but t he y do a three-man race for fensive line, is also a player to ier and more ag- have signif ithe top spot, but head watch. ile a lternative c a n t g a m e coach Dave Doeren “Derrick Eason was a guy to Knight and experience. has been behind Leary that maybe struggled with Person. Factor in A n d y o u n g as t he star ter since [t he t r a n sit ion] Mimms and red- receivers like spring ball. As far as sh i r t sophomore sophomore what Leary has shown ADITYA PENUMARTI/TECHNICIAN a little bit, early o n ,” G a r r i s o n Trent Pennix add- Keyon Lesane Redshirt freshman quarterback Devin Leary on the field, his best performance was said. “Now he’s toing depth, and re- and freshmen throws a pass versus Wake Forest on Saturday, ironically his first real action: a 15tally gung-ho. He’s C h r i s S c ot t Nov. 2, 2019 at BB&T field. Leary had 17 complecruiting for-33, t hreetions in 45 attempts. The Wolfpack lost 44-10.

ADITYA PENUMARTI/TECHNICIAN stars aside, grasped it and he’s and Anthony touchdown day Freshman running back Zonovan Knight rushes versus another guy that is NC State’s S m i t h a d d against Boston UNC on Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019 at Carter-Finley Stagonna be a big time player for us.” some serious speed to this group. running College. Af ter dium. Knight had 56 rushing yards in the 44-10 loss.

Along with the young guys causing exTight Ends - High backs it s e eme d he Between redshirt senior Cary Angeline citement, a couple veteran players return would end the year on a high note, Leary room rivals any team in the ACC. and graduate Dylan Autenrieth, NC State from season-ending injuries: graduate Wide Receivers - Medium had a dreadful 7-for-20, 98-yard and twohas pass-catching and blocking covered. Tyrone Riley and redshirt senior Justin L a st yea r, t h is g roup interception performance to close the Angeline stands 6 feet, 7 inches tall Witt. Riley and Witt will factor in heavily year against UNC. Leary had problems wou ld ’ve received high and should be any quarterback’s to play at tackle giving Garrison a good last year with accuracy, decision-making marks, but that was before best friend, but only averaged problem to have: figuring out how to get graduate C.J. Riley tore and dropping the football.

3 0 r e c e i v- so many talented players on the field.

With a new quarterback coach and of- his ACL and junior Emeka Kicker - Very, very high ing yards fensive coordinator in Tim Beck, Leary Emezie underwhelmed in his Junior Chris Dunn has never missed a ga me. certainly may take a huge step forward first year as a starter. NC State’s Still, An- a PAT, is already fifth in school history, this year, but that’s not a bet many would wide receivers group had to deal geline made the most of his with 44 made field goals, and has the happily take. Beck’s system is challeng- with spotty quarterback play, targets with a team-leading fourth-highest field goal percentage in ing at times, but he’s teaching the quar- sure, but you’d be hard-pressed f ive touchdow ns despite school history at 88%. Enough said. terbacks the why behind the way their to find many examples of it makBonus: Offensive coaches - Medium only having the fifth-most ing plays last year. Emezie wore calls work.

Much of this designation hinges on “They’re not just memorizing; there’s a Kelvin Harmon’s No. 3 last year a single new hire: offensive coordisystem that goes with it, and he teaches it but after a disappointing camnator and quarterbacks coach Tim well,” Doeren said. “The words have good paign returned to his more faBeck. The rest of the staff inspires word association with them so that guys miliar No. 86 for this year. confidence, but Beck’s reputation is in can understand the why behind why it’s Filling Harmon’s shoes need of rehabilitation as stops at Ohio named [what it’s named]. It’s been fun is a heavy load to place NICK FAULKNER/TECHNICIAN State and Texas ended up with offensivewatching Tim and the staff work with the on one’s shoulders, and Freshman kicker Christopher Dunn goes for an extra point during the 52-10 rout of Louisville on minded coaches taking the reigns away players. They’re very comfortable with it. that was what wearing Saturday, Nov. 17 in Cardinal Stadium. from him. It appears he thinks the elixir He’s put a lot on them; he’s really chal- No. 3 meant no matter is coming to NC State, a smaller program lenged them mentally… They want to be how much Emezie argued the receptions. Autenrieth doesn’t fill up a where he will have more freedom. While challenged; they want to be pushed.” stat sheet but he opens up running lanes, undoubtedly a good quarterback coach, opposite.

Running Backs - High “I think he’s re a l ly h a rd an invaluable service for the aforemen- this season will make or break the ruWhen asked during Wednesday’s Zoom think, at times, tioned running backs corps. These two mors about Beck’s coordinating ability. whether there was a particular position on himself, and I group that stood out, Doeren singled out he’s been his own worst enemy that way, are safety blankets: They don’t break the

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