Our Three Winners — Technician 2/12/18

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OUR THREE WINNERS

THEIR LEGACY AND LIGHT See Page 3

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IN BRIEF:

POLICE BLOTTER

A quick look at the headlines outside of NC State

Olympics begin after Pyeongchang opening ceremony

NEWS Three years after tragedy, Our Three Winners legacy lives on, pg. 3

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The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics officially began Friday evening after the opening ceremony, which garnered 27.8 million NBC viewers. Three North Carolina-related athletes will be competing for Team USA, including hockey player Bobby Sanguinetti, former member of the Carolina Hurricanes. As of Sunday afternoon, the United States stands fourth in medal count, with one gold and one silver.

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Silent Sam hammered by man, initiates legislation

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The News & Observer obtained a video this week of a man climbing up the Silent Sam Confederate statue at UNC-Chapel Hill and pounding the face with a hammer. Shot on Aug. 15, the act happened a day after a Confederate statue was toppled in Durham. Orange County elected representatives are discussing plans to protect the statue by permitting relocation.

NC shouldn’t wait for congress to invest in infrasturcture, pg. 6

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Durham restaurant seeks to employ refugees Sushioki, a new restaurant in Durham opening Feb. 19, is looking to employ refugees and offer stable, living-wage jobs. Co-owners Jeff Carter and Lawrence Yoo have employed four refugees from Rwanda, Congo and Afghanistan. Yoo, pastor at Waypoint Church, was inspired by his faith and immigrant parents, who moved from Korea.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Urban Bush Women defies boundaries through dance, pg. 10

10:56 A.M. | SAFETY PROGRAM King Village Community Center NC State University Police Department conducted safety program.

9:32 A.M. | FIRE ALARM Beaufort Hall FP responded to alarm caused by staff working in the area.

1:02 P.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Off Campus NC State University Police Department checked in with Raleigh Police Department while they took two robbery subjects into custody from an off campus location.

12:03 P.M. | ANIMAL COMPLAINT Dabney Hall Officers responded to report of a bat in the building. Facilities responded and removed the animal.

3:28 P.M. | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT Ligon Street/Method Road Officers responded to report of persons riding bicycles in the area. Unable to locate.

3:36 P.M. | ANIMAL COMPLAINT Dan Allen Deck Officers responded to report of a duck in the area.

Facilities responded and removed the bird.

4:56 P.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Partners I Nonstudent struck and damaged a parked vehicle.

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NC State fan ejected after contact with UNC-CH player SPORTS Hurricanes control their own fate, pg. 12

An NC State fan was ejected by security in the second half of the basketball game against Carolina on Saturday after making contact with UNC-Chapel Hill sophomore guard Brandon Robinson. Robinson had chased a ball out of bounds which is when the fan made contact. The fan was first moved to a second-level lounge before being ejected for continuing to carry on with his behavior. The name of the fan was not released.

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Three years after tragedy, Our Three Winners legacy lives on Mary Dare Martin

The canned food drive connects The Light House Project, the Islamic Association, NC State and other organizations to Marking the deaths of three Muslim help Food Bank of Central and Eastern students killed in February 2015, commuNorth Carolina. NC State also created a nities, organizations and students joined scholarship fund to honor Deah, Yusor together on Saturday to remember their and Razan in each of their fields of study. lives and continue to build their legacies “We worked with each of the colleges three years later. to say ‘How can we honor each of their “Our Three Winners” — Deah Baraindividual legacies in your college but kat, 23, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and Razan their collected legacy as three winners?’”

Abu-Salha, 19 — were shot executionWoodson said. “Our goal was to create style in Deah and Yusor’s home located endowments in each of the three collegin a Chapel Hill apartment complex by es that would fund a minimum of two Craig Hicks, 46. Hicks was the upstairs scholarships and we’re well past that now. neighbor of Deah and Yusor, who were We’re funding at least two scholarships recently married in December 2014; Rain each college.” zan, the younger sister of Yusor and a The NC State Muslim Student Associastudent in NC State’s College of Design tion (MSA) will be collecting cans and at the time, had been visiting. nonperishable foods at one of their prayer Deah and Yusor were graduates of NC spaces in D.H. Hill throughout the month State in the Poole College of Management for the food drive, but also did its part to and the College of Sciences, respectively. remember the legacy of Deah, Yusor and Deah was a second-year student at the Razan through a basketball tournament UNC-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry dedicated to Deah this past Saturday. where Yusor planned to attend in fall “We’re also doing the ‘Dunking for 2015. They both dedicated their lives to Deah ’ basketball tournament,” said service through NC State’s Muslim StuMoneeb Sayed, a fourth-year studying dent Association, the Islamic Association science, technology and society and the of Raleigh and their community. president of MSA. “We’re going “It’s very hard to describe beto be donating a portion of the cause you don’t get people like proceeds to the Our Three Winthat very often,” said Fiaz Fareed, ners Foundation … when we’re the director of outreach at the Isdoing events, we want to remind lamic Association of Raleigh. “Bethe community about the lives cause they were the cream of the that they lived and the good that crop, as they say.” they’d done.”

On the Thursday following the Sayed was also a student at the deaths of Deah, Yusor and Razan, university when Deah, Yusor and NC State came together with the Razan were killed. NC State held a Islamic Association of Raleigh vigil in the Brickyard the Thursto hold the funeral on Method day after the shooting occurred Fields. on Feb. 10. With more students “There was no parking all the who were present during the time way to Hillsborough,” Fareed of the Our Three Winners tragsaid. “It was an amazing sight. edy graduating, Sayed said that There were about close to 6,000 it’s become more important to that we counted, and then we gave remember their legacy. up because we could just not con“They were college students just tinue. There were easily, I think, like us,” Sayed said. “It could have more than 50 percent were nonbeen any one of us. That’s imporMuslims because they were so CAIDE WOOTEN/TECHNICIAN tant to learn from what happened, affected; they were so very well- Surrounded by the family members of slain students Deah Barakat, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and Razan to learn from the past and really Mohammad Abu-Salha, Chancellor Randy Woodson announces the University’s establishment of the “Our Three be more vocal about what we’re known.”

Winners” scholarship endowment fund on Feb. 20, 2015 at the Roy H. Park Alumni Center . The endowment Chancellor Randy Woodson will provide annual financial support to NC State students studying in the Poole College of Management, doing, who we are, because really said that NC State was there to College of Sciences and College of Design. we’re all in the world together.”

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help not only the mosque, but also the family, hold a funeral service for Deah, Yusor and Razan.

“On the day of the event, I went to the mosque and met with the family,” Woodson said. “We reached out to the family to see how we could help. The original service commemorating their lives was held on our campus at the soccer fields near Method Road across the street from the mosque, so that was big. We held vigils on both campuses.”

In response to the death of his brother, Farris Barakat, the executive director of The Light House Project, left his planned career path and devoted himself to renovating the 105-year-old house his brother had owned east of downtown Raleigh.

“When my brother was murdered, the idea was, this house had to be inherited by someone and he didn’t have kids, so I guess it went back to the parents,” Barakat said. “They decided that they wanted to do something with the house to kind of further his legacy.”

The house, which officially opened February 2017, was named after Deah, whose name means ‘light.’ Over the past year, it has served as a community center

for local youth and support system for startup nonprofit programs, all while educating people on what it truly means to be a Muslim American.

“To figure out how to best accomplish that goal we came up with a model of fiscal sponsorship,” Barakat said. “Essentially like an incubator for nonprofit programs … kind of [create] a second environment for companies to come get guidance, and it’s a good environment for them to learn and support their need.”

Along with the legacy it continues to hold for Our Three Winners throughout the year, The Light House Project has celebrated the lives of Deah, Yusor and Razan throughout the month with a spoken word performance, an award honoring those who have served their community and a canned food drive that goes until Feb. 24.

“The fact that people continue to do things in their honor, I think speaks so much about who they were and also good intentions,” Barakat said. “We can all get involved in something … they were doing good enough work that everyone else felt like they wanted to step up and take on something.”

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Trinity Road tunnel looks to make pedestrian crossing safer

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A 25-foot-wide pedestrian tunnel is in the works to be built this year under Trinity Road.

The tunnel will provide easy access from parking lots to Carter-Finley Stadium and the NC State Fairgrounds and should be completed by September of this year .

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Trinity Road will be undergoing construction after the North Carolina Department of Transportation granted a contract to build a new pedestrian tunnel under the road. The 25-foot-wide tunnel will connect the parking lots of Carter-Finley Stadium and the NC State Fairgrounds.

Steve Abbott, assistant director of communications for the North Carolina Department of Transportation, weighed in on the impact of the tunnel not just on NC State students, but on the local and campus police officers as well. “[The tunnel] will provide a safe way for students who park and tailgate on the fairgrounds side of Trinity road, to cross over to the stadium,” Abbott said. “The students will not have to wait until allowed to cross by a state trooper handling traffic control.”

The $4.3 million project was awarded to the Crowder Construction Company of Charlotte, which can begin on March 1 and has a completion deadline of Sept. 15.

The contract also outlines a financial incentive for the contractor if it is ready before the first home football game, which is scheduled for Sept. 1.

Currently, the Raleigh Police Department and State Highway Patrol troopers regulate traffic control at crosswalks to ensure safe pedestrian crossings.

“It will greatly increase safety for the students, and improve traffic flow on Trinity Road,” the NC State University Police Department said.

The new tunnel is also expected to ease traffic during big events, especially during football, basketball and hockey games hosted at

PNC Arena.

Ashley Andreasen, a first-year majoring in exploratory studies, tailgates on the fairground and frequently crosses Trinity Road to Carter-Finley Stadium when venturing to the football games.

“I go to every home game and have to cross [Trinity Road] to get to the football stadium,” Andreasen said. “The tunnel will make it less dangerous, less of a hassle and faster to get to the game for me and everyone else who has to cross. Cars will also not have to wait for us, making traffic less congested.”

Nathan Chen, a first-year studying mechanical engineering, gave some input on what he thinks the tunnel should look like.

“I think the tunnel is a great addition, but I hope the NCDOT themes it in a way that ties in NC State and the community,” Chen said. “I want the tunnel to be more than just a concrete slab.”

According to the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s news release, the pedestrian tunnel was one of 16 contracts awarded by the department, which had a total estimated cost of $138.6 million. The department first began the project’s feasibility study back in 2012.

Trinity Road will be closed between March 1 and Aug. 1 while the tunnel is being constructed. A detour route will be provided through Edwards Mill Road, Wade Avenue and Blue Ridge Road for vehicles to avoid construction and delay. Additionally, alternative entrances will be available for access to the stadium and fairgrounds.

Technician reached out to Crowder Construction Company of Charlotte, the company in charge of the construction, but it was not available for comment by publishing time.

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NC State graduate student makes Forbes’ 30 Under 30 with

Q&A Tyler Allen Georgia Burgess Correspondent

Tyler Allen, a graduate student studying comparative biomedical sciences, has landed a spot on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Science list for his research in cancer and tumor cells. Allen studied molecular/cellular biology and plant biology during his undergraduate years at NC State. Technician sat down with Allen to learn more about his work and what it means to him to be recognized by the business magazine.

Recently you have been named on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for your research.

Could you tell us a little bit about the research that you’re working on?

My most current research, which is what I was highlighted in Forbes for, was research that I do looking at cancer and tumor cells in the body. When a person gets cancer, they have a tumor forming in their body, and when this disease becomes very dangerous or deadly is when that tumor spreads to different parts of the body.

With cancer, this occurs through a process known as metastasis, which is when the tumor or cells from the cancer travel from one part of the body through the bloodstream and then exit and grow and form more tumors. I study specifically the process of how the tumor or the cancer cells, when they’re in the circulation, how they travel through and how they exit the blood vessels and then form these new tumors which are called secondary tumors.

What specifically got you interested in cancer research, especially considering your background in biology and plant biology?

I don’t have a specific anecdotal story where someone in my family had cancer.

It was for me, growing up, I saw cancer as this big entity because so many people have cancer and there are so many people who are affected by cancer. It is still such a problem or issue, even with all of the advances and information that we have in biomedicine and biology. There is still a prevalence with it being one of the leading causes of death worldwide. I got interested in the biology behind cancer, and that way,

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Tyler Allen, a Ph.D. student studying comparative biomedical sciences, gives his three-minute thesis in Hunt Library on Oct. 31. Allen came in second place and won $750.

I learned about it more. Then after I sought out research labs that were doing work with cancer as an undergrad, and that’s when I started working with Johnathan Horowitz, who is a professor here in cancer biology.

I started doing research with him, and then after that it was kind of just I found it interesting to learn more about the process, and it kind of stuck with me, so that’s what I’m doing now and what I am really interested in.

What does it mean to you to be recognized by Forbes, and what do you think you will get out of it on both personal and academic levels?

This is something I have been working really hard towards. This is research that I have been working on for the past few years actually, so this is a large portion of my dissertation research is this discovery that was being recognized. It is always nice being recognized for your work, especially when you’re so passionate about it and spend so

much time working on it. However, for the latter part of the question, you get recognition through their magazine by being on the list, but you don’t get anything. They just put you on the list. But, I mean, it is a great way for recognition, getting more people knowing about what you’re doing and gaining more interest in the work that you’re doing which is definitely good because, since I have been named on the list, I have had multiple opportunities where I have been either invited to talk more about my research or people have contacted me about potentially working with me on my projects or in the future. I think that’s a good benefit of this recognition, and hopefully I can utilize this momentum to further the research along and find more discoveries out to treat and prevent cancer.

Where do you see yourself going with this research? What are you hoping to do in the future with everything you are working on?

I hope to at least continue looking at the process that I am currently looking at and the discovery that was made, and hopefully, expounding upon this research for increased knowledge of what is happening when cancer spreads with the long-term hope of finding a way to prevent or mitigate cancer spread or metastasis.

Any additional thoughts on the research or the recognition for your future plans that you want to share?

I definitely owe a lot of my success to the university and how much it supports its students. As I mentioned before, I have been at State since undergrad so this is my eighth year at the university, so I have been here my entire adult life. I think it speaks a testament to the amount of resources and growth that NC State gives its students and allows them the ability to grow. The support team that I have had here in terms of professors, faculty, staff and even students has been amazing.

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NC shouldn’t wait for congress to invest in infrastructure In his State of the Union address, President Trump called upon Congress for “a bill that generates at least $1.5 trillion” in infrastructure spending, in a throwNoah back to one of his campaign Jabusch promises. However, his reStaff Columnist quest failed to inspire much confidence for me. Despite the high dollar amount, Trump failed to offer any specific proposals on how to raise or spend the money. Also, seeing as the Capitol has been unable to fund itself recently, it seems unlikely that such a large spending package will appear anytime soon.

To maintain the health of our state’s economy, North Carolina should act now to fund infrastructure repair and development. Especially in the Triangle region, investment in transportation, higher education and technological infrastructure could greatly improve the economy, providing jobs for NC State graduates and other North Carolinians.

In a recent news article, Technician cor-

respondent Georgia Burgess reported on NC State’s plans to upgrade several facilities starting in 2018. The construction, funded by the sale of government bonds, includes a new engineering building on Centennial Campus, the installation of a Student Services center in Harris Hall and improvements to Carmichael Gym. Projects like these are important to the student body because they ensure that our facilities are actively meeting our needs and improving ease of use.

Spending on infrastructure can stimulate the economy in excess of the amount of dollars used, but only when targeted to weak or underfunded areas, according to the Brookings Institute. So we cannot merely build miles of new roads, except where such construction will actively improve driving conditions.

For instance, Project Fortify, a project scheduled to finish this spring which has repaired sections of I-40 around Raleigh, is an example of impactful spending. This highway services 120,000 commuters each day and had degraded considerably, threatening driver safety. Although the past five

years of traffic congestion have been painful at times, the new roads will probably ease the daily commute for thousands of workers for a long time to come.

At its heart, good infrastructure spending aims to combat real issues and grease the gears of the economy. Regardless of whether Congress manages to pass a substantial infrastructure deal, North Carolina must commit to improving its infrastructure, in order to ensure that we remain a center for economic growth in the 21st century.

Raleigh has been chosen as a finalist for the new Amazon headquarters, but as the News & Observer notes, our “anemic transportation system” is a major shortfall in our city’s bid for the headquarters. Although our state has offered tax incentives to attract Amazon’s attention, some of that money might be better devoted to improving our roads and mass transit. In addition, NC State students would directly benefit from improved bus service to Raleigh and other cities in the area.

The article does describe key strengths of the Triangle region, including the proximity

to major universities and the existing tech environment of RTP. Preserving these advantages should also motivate the General Assembly to boost investment in higher education and technology start-ups.

In the information economy, reliable electricity access is crucial to productivity.

North Carolina has become a leader in solar energy production. However, as the News & Observer notes, incentives by the state legislature to encourage both Duke Energy and energy consumers to add renewable capacity would pave the way to a cleaner energy future, as well as boosting our profile across the nation. In his speech, Trump failed to mention the grave dangers posed by climate change to the American people.

By taking infrastructure into its own hands, North Carolina can grow the economy in a way consistent with our needs and goals. As adults poised to enter the job market, we must support infrastructure spending by speaking out in favor of economically focused investment, both at the polls and between elections, to safeguard our economic future.

Talley’s improvements have not gone unnoticed With the new semester has come new changes to Talley. In the past month there have been two important changes in the Pavilions, both improving the area in their own way. The Joseph Rivenbark first change is the addition of a Tapingo display screen Correspondent outside of Tuffy’s Diner and the second being the implementation of compostable cups to the area.

Admittedly, both of these changes have been small changes to how we as students each order and eat our food. But the effect that both of them have on the student body and the dining experience at Talley as whole certainly shouldn’t go unnoticed. These two changes alone are great steps in the right direction for the future of Talley.

The new screen at Tuffy’s is a clear example of the effort Talley is making to provide a

better experience and the services that Tapingo is willing to provide to make their process more efficient.

I’ve had my critiques of Tapingo in the past. Tapingo’s system of ordering food increased demand to a point of backlog during rush times (lunch and dinner) and it also punishes those who don’t want to order using the service by increasing their wait times.

However, their addition of a screen works to counteract what I see as the largest problems stemming from the nature of how the company views ordering food.

The screen at Tuffy’s addresses the rush times by visually showing customers what is in store for them if they place an order during that time. Imagine a scenario where you walk up to Tuffy’s and the screen shows that most orders haven’t even been started yet, you would be much more likely to just eat somewhere else or during some other time.

Furthermore, the visual queue helps

show to customers who place their orders in-person the wait that they have in front of them. Previously, the only way for these individuals to know how many people had placed a Tapingo order ahead of them was to have the app themselves, which in-person customers would likely not have. In short, this screen provides a visual representation of a virtual line; that’s helpful information.

Combined, these two effects help make sure that food is ordered and prepared in a way that doesn’t so severely backlog the orders which is something that neither the customers nor the employees want to deal with. With more of these screens around Talley, the effects could be increased even more, benefitting both all parties involved.

The second change happens to have even less of an impact on how you eat, but an even larger impact on NC State as a whole. The introduction of compostable cups in Talley Pavilions is likewise something that should

not go unnoticed by the student body.

The cups require little participation for each individual and, according to reporting

by Marco Valencia, are estimated to reduce the waste created by Talley Student Union by 15 percent.

This is by no measure a small impact; the addition of these cups show NC State’s push to become more environmentally friendly and demonstrate Talley’s willingness to be part of the movement.

Combined with the visual queue, this could mean that an increased number of students use more environmentally friendly methods of eating food. These two changes combined will help make sure that Talley moves in a more efficient and environmentally friendly direction. It’s because of this that these changes should not go unnoticed.

These are steps by the NC State administration to provide a better place for students, and they work.

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My inbox is not your marketplace Sta nhope Student Apar tments. NC State Di n i ng. Tapi ngo. A lt hou g h a l l t h re e a re seemingly unrelated, they share, along with many other organizations here Colin on campus, an extremely McKnight negative and annoying Correspondent flaw: spam emails.

Now, I completely understand that many probably view spam email as nothing more than a very minor nuisance.

Still, it’s a very widespread phenomenon amongst college students that is very prone to getting on our nerves, and thus is worth discussing.

Leslie Godoy, a first-year studying accounting, and Jordan Hahn, a first-year studying electrical engineering, stated that they did receive emails that they would classify as “spam.” Godoy stated that, on average, she receives “like five [spam emails]” daily. “Not just Tapingo,” she added, “[but also] the career emails that I don’t care for.”

Aggravating advertisements are definitely not some sort of new ordeal. From funny jingles on TV to ads on Facebook

that are creepily targeted towards our specific interests, Americans are very much used to the omnipresent salesperson constantly urging us to whip out our credit cards. However, f looding inboxes with spam is where the line should be drawn.

The inbox is extremely important for the average college student. It’s where we get vital, immediate communication for school, work and extracurricular activities. I always have my notifications volume up so that I can stay up-to-date, and I’m sure plenty of other students do too.

Therefore, when we’re anxiously checking our email all day for results back on an exam, it can be extremely annoying to hastily pull out our phone after we hear a “ding”, only to see a “25 percent off ” here and a “buy one, get one free” there.

“Research shows that just looking through your inbox can significantly increase your stress levels,” wrote Emma M. Seppälä in an article for Psychology Today, in which she went on to list some of the specific effects of spending too much time in your inbox, such as stress, decreased productivity and lowered selfcontrol. Following this logic, I’d argue that these effects would be intensified if

that inbox was full distracting and annoying spam.

Others find that the number of ads they receive daily differs little from the number they receive in personal or work emails. “I have two personal emails, [the amount of spam] is a little less than my main email where I do most of my stuff, but it’s more than my email where I keep all of my information,” said Brenden Sledge, a firstyear studying plant and soil sciences.

Of course, getting rid of the incoming stream of spam is not the most difficult thing in the world. Users can easily block and mute accounts, continuously mark all as read or make several email accounts to at least divide up the stream of spam.

While many might just not be bothered by spam, there are some that are, that view spam as a constant irritant that disrupts the stream of actually important messages.

I’m definitely not suggesting some sort of legal deterrent for dealing with spam, because the very definition of “spam” is far too abstract to be put down on legislature. The boundaries of what is and isn’t would vary from person to person, and legal teams from hundreds of corpora-

tions would pop up left and right to get a bill like that shut down.

Rather, I believe that organizations should be much more conservative with how often they flood inboxes with their sales pitches. Not a new thought, for sure — I’m certain we all have wished the same thing at some point. But my argument here is similar to the argument against the constant barrage of television commercials: just like how interrupting my show makes me want to do anything but buy your product, flooding my email with ads makes me want to have nothing to do with your product. By sending advertisements in moderation, it might make someone actually stop and spend time viewing the message.

Students already have a lot of information coming at them on a daily basis. We would expect that the email, the method of communication through which most instructors and university organizations can easily communicate with students, would be free of promotions like these.

The truth, though, is that they definitely are not, and it makes the common student question what right these companies have to clutter our accounts.

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Du’Bois A’Keen, Tendayi Kuumba and Courtney J. Cook, performers in the Urban Bush Women company, list words used to describe black hair in the “Hair & Other Stories” show in Stewart Theatre on Friday. The mission of the Urban Bush Women is to “bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance.”

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Tendayi Kuumba, Du’Bois A’Keen and Courtney J. Cook, performers in the Urban Bush Women company, listed words describing Black hair in the “Hair & Other Stories” show in Stewart Theatre on Friday. The mission of the Urban Bush Women is to “bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance.”

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Tendayi Kuumba and Courtney J. Cook, performers in the Urban Bush Women company, began the “Hair & Other Stories” show singing and dancing on stage in Stewart Theatre on Friday. The mission of the Urban Bush Women is to “bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance.”

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Courtney J. Cook and Tendayi Kuumba, performers in the Urban Bush Women company, began the “Hair & Other Stories” show singing and dancing on stage in Stewart Theatre on Friday. The mission of the Urban Bush Women is to “bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance.”

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Tendayi Kuumba, a performer in the Urban Bush Women company, interacted with the audience during the “Hair & Other Stories” show in Stewart Theatre on Friday. The mission of the Urban Bush Women is to “bring the untold and under-told histories and stories of disenfranchised people to light through dance.”

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The Urban Bush Women performer Tendayi Kuumba sang during the Urban Bush Women’s performance of “Hair & Other Stories” at Stewart Theatre on Friday. Urban Bush Women was founded 30 years ago by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, who was hoping to establish a company that captures the energy of the African-American community and would inspire others.

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Tendayi Kuumba (left) and Courtney J. Cook (right) dance, sing and entertain during their performance of “Hair & Other Stories” from the Urban Bush Women on Friday at Stewart Theatre. Urban Bush Women was founded 30 years ago by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, who was hoping to establish a company that captures the energy of the African-American community and would inspire others.

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Tendayi Kuumba (left), Du’Bois A’Keen (center) and Courtney J. Cook (right) pose during their performance of Urban Bush Women’s “Hair & Other Stories” on Friday at Stewart Theatre. Urban Bush Women was founded 30 years ago by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, who was hoping to establish a company that captures the energy of the African-American community and would inspire others.

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The Urban Bush Women are renowned dancers. They’re also active advocates for social change. Most prominently, however, they are storytellers. The all-female dance group has been telling the stories of women of color through the art of dance since 1984. The New York-based contemporary ensemble made its way to Stewart Theatre Friday night to perform “Hair and Other Stories,” and was welcomed by a thunderous applause as students, faculty and community members settled into the darkness for a performance that brought social injustice to light — through dance.

Friday’s show was unapologetic in exposing the systemic racism that boils beneath our nation’s current reality. By highlighting the extreme lengths that African-American women are expected to go to in pursuit of hair resembling whiteness, the Urban Bush Women showed just how deeply white superiority is embedded in the brains of AfricanAmerican women of all ages. Working to alter the predisposed idea that black hair needs to be “tamed,” as it’s not beautiful in its natural state, is representative of the work the company is doing at large — altering predisposed ideas. Ultimately Urban Bush Women are telling their own stories and, on Friday evening, all of Stewart Theatre was listening.

Chanon Judson, associate artistic director and dance member of Urban Bush Women, has been dancing for as long as she can remember. She explained the company’s empowering mission.

“The work of the company has always been to tell stories from what we say is ‘the lion’s perspective instead of the hunter’s,” Judson said. “Because of the racial context of our country, because of social and political [issues] and for a number of reasons, that becomes a political standpoint. The makers and the tellers of the stories are seeking to be political, because they’re seeking to tell their truth. Because [of] the nature of our country, that truth is met with resistance and opposition.”

The award-winning dance group originally performed at NC State back in 1993. This year, the group returned to campus with a bang, hosting multiple events in honor of Black History Month in correspondence with the Women’s Center and the African American Cultural Center.

This is all in an effort to directly combat racial, social and economic injustice by putting on educational events and workshops across the nation. Additionally, the group regularly participates in research. For Urban Bush Women, research comes in many forms — think museum visits, reading books on current social movements and policies and attending talks put on by key advocates in the community. Research can also come in the form of personal reflection on one’s experience, and sharing that experience with others. Judson elaborated on the inspiration behind “Hair and Other Stories.”

“We wanted to create work that people would be able to see themselves reflected, impacted, convicted and inspired [in],” Judson said. “We wanted to create an account that was saturated enough to really be able to feel a personal impact.”

Samantha Speis, also an associate artistic director and dance member of Urban Bush Women, was first drawn to the company after watching them perform. For Speis, watching the dancers embrace their individual identities proved particularly powerful.

“I was really drawn to being in a community with people who looked like me, and what I mean by look like me is women of color, black women, who all had their own distinct, physical voices,” Speis said.

Speis’ daughter, a charming toddler who sported a fashionable shiny-gold jacket, was a hit at Friday’s performance. Dancing along with the rest of the group, she acted as a reminder that women are truly expected to do it all: maintain a career, a family and their own personal well-being.

Urban Bush Women portrayed women’s strength, particularly that of women of color, in a way that was fierce, bold and hon-

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A taste of Asian food on Hillsborough Street Carolyn Thompson Staff Writer

Hillsborough Street is a multicultural thoroughfare with restaurants that will take your taste buds everywhere, especially around Asia. Students can have a hard time deciding where to go with all these available options, especially in a group of people. Below is an overview of local Southeast and East Asian restaurants on the western side of Hillsborough Street.

MAMA JEE Mama Jee is a new restaurant on Hillsborough Street that is less than a year old.

Entering the restaurant, there is a noticeable warm ambience with its mix of reds, dark wood and low lighting. Mama Jee offers a neat and accommodating bar as well as BOGO sushi rolls, sashimi and nigiri. There’s a variety of Thai entrees from panang curry and hot pots to drunken noodles and tom yum soup.

There was another restaurant called Thai House before Mama Jee that has been open for thirteen years now. Jeerawan Bessinger, or Mama Jee, is the owner of Thai House and Mama Jee. Irene Peebua, the manager of Mama Jee, tells the story of how Bessinger started the restaurant.

“She emigrated from Thailand to New York back in the 1970s — came here with $30, lived the American dream, built her own restaurant which is Thai House and then we brought a new dream alive and that was Mama Jee,” Peebua said. “We decided to expand. We built a full bar. […] We built a sushi bar.”

Mama Jee serves lunch and dinner and is located between Zaxby’s and CVS on Hillsborough Street. The restaurant is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday

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est. Whether it was from the phrase “I am a strong black woman” booming through the speakers or from the dancers’ physical movements that seeped physical, emotional and personal empowerment, the idea of

through Saturday and from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays.

“What it has to offer Hillsborough Street — pretty much nice atmosphere with good prices,” Peebua said. “Nice ambience to where college students or anybody really can come and have a good time and not expect to pay for like a $50 or $60 meal.”

PHO VIETNAM Pho Vietnam is an airy, clean space with dark wood contrasting against light walls and tabletops and a lot of natural light coming in through the big windows. The restaurant offers a variety of Vietnamese food like pho, banh mi sandwiches and vermicelli noodle dishes.

Anirudh Bhateja, a fourth-year studying mechanical engineering, talks about eating at Pho Vietnam.

“I liked the decor and food there,”

Bhateja said. “The portion sizes are great.

However, there could be improvement in the service and handling of checks — having to pay at the desk takes away from the fine dining feel despite the high quality food and portion sizes for the reasonable price.”

Pho Vietnam is located on the corner of Dan Allen Drive and Hillsborough Street and is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day except Sunday.

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A serving of chicken curry rests on a bed of rice from Oishi Japanese Restaurant on Hillsborough Street on Feb. 5. The restaurant is open daily till 9 p.m. and offers a variety of Asian foods, such as noodles, fried rice and sushi.

Oishi has a cozy feeling to it and has contrasting green, yellow and red walls against the dark f loor and furniture.

There is a space near the front of the restaurant with a lot of natural light from the windows.

Oishi offers Japanese cuisine that includes foods like sushi, sashimi and nigiri, hibachi entrees and different kinds of Asian noodle dishes. The restaurant also serves bubble tea, a Taiwanese tea-based drink that has a tea base mixed with fruit or milk to which tapioca balls are often added.

Claire Christopher, a fourth-year studying computer science and Japanese, describes the experience at Oishi.

“I enjoyed the food I had there,” Christopher said. “I’m not sure on the authenticity, but it was tasty and decently priced. They used to be one of the only places on Hillsborough that had bubble tea so that was a huge plus for me. Plus, it is in walking distance from central campus — one of the only ones, unless you’re determined.”

Oishi is situated between Wells Fargo and Target and is open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

women’s strength was consistent throughout the performance.

At heart, Urban Bush Women is made up of fierce women who are unapologetic in their fight against oppression. They are women who are working tirelessly to bring up other women.

“This is Urban Bush Women, and this is a women-centered company and women have

babies,” Judson said. “That’s part of life. In order to sustain a healthy company, you have to sustain healthy women within it.”

A related project, the “Politics of Black Hair,” will be exhibited in the African American Cultural Center for the rest of February. The exhibit will share the hairrelated experiences of African-American women right here on campus.

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THE RADAR Events to keep an eye on for the week of February 12 “MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI” SCREENING AUDITORIUM AT THE HUNT LIBRARY, 1070 PARTNERS WAY, RALEIGH MONDAY, 7 - 8:15 P.M. Free As part of the Tournees Film Festival, French stop-motion animated film “My Life as a Zucchini” will be screened with English subtitles.

THE POLITICS OF BLACK HAIR EXHIBITION OPENING AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE CENTER, 355 WITHERSPOON STUDENT CENTER TUESDAY, 7 - 9:30 P.M. Free This opening reception will preview the #PoliticsofBlackHair exhibit being shown in the African American Cultural Center’s Gallery. The exhibit is centered on stories relating to Black hair.

FORTUNATE TO BE IN LOVE TALLEY STUDENT UNION, 2610 CATES AVE, RALEIGH WEDNESDAY, 11 A.M. - 2 P.M. Paid All-female We Run the World Running Club will be selling fortune cookies for $1 in celebration of Valentine’s Day.

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Hurricanes control their own fate

Andrew Schnittker Sports Editor

With 26 games to play, the Carolina Hurricanes find themselves in unfamiliar territory.

Saturday night’s 3-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche vaulted the Canes into the Eastern Conference’s final wild card spot, with their 61 standings points one ahead of the Columbus Blue Jackets and New York Islanders*.

While Carolina has found itself in playoff position at different points this season, this is the first time the team has been in that spot this late in the year since the 2010-11 season.

With under a third of the regular-season schedule left to play, Carolina is in a good spot — but staying there is another story.

The team has made its way into that spot before during this year, but ended up quickly falling back out.

So, what do the Canes need to do to ensure they play more than 82 games this year? On paper, it’s relatively simple: win divisional games. The Metropolitan Division is going to get five playoff teams, its customary top three and both Eastern Conference Wild Card spots.

That leaves five spots for eight teams. The Washington Capitals are in. They lead the division with 70 points in the standings, and are nine points clear of the Islanders on the outside of the playoff picture. The Pittsburgh Penguins will also likely make it. They sit second with 66 points, and while they have played more games than a number of teams, they are the two-time defending Stanley Cup

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Champions and have a talented core led by forwards Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin.

So, that leaves six teams fighting for three spots, the Hurricanes, Islanders, Blue Jackets, Philadelphia Flyers and New York Rangers.

For the purpose of this exercise, we’re going to say the Rangers miss. While it’s foolish to count out a team with Henrik Lundqvist in net, the Rangers currently sit last in the division with 59 points, and general manager Jeff Gorton recently sent a letter to fans hinting that the team is looking at blowing up its roster.

Down to five teams for three spots. The Blue Jackets would appear to be a likely playoff team as well. Columbus is right outside the playoff picture with 60 points and struggles to score, but has a Vezina-caliber goalie in Sergei Bobrovsky. Goaltending counts the most this time of year, which should propel Columbus into the postseason.

Four teams for two spots. That leaves the Canes, the Devils right ahead of them at 62 points* (albeit with two fewer games played), the Islanders right behind them at 60 and the Flyers two points ahead at 63 (with one fewer game played)*. In order to make the playoffs, the Canes need to finish better than two of those teams, and they control their ability to do that.

The Canes have yet to play a single game this year against the Devils, with the four-game season series (two at home, two away) coming up. The Canes have played one game against

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Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal gets into the zone before a faceoff into the third period.

Canes drop the Game to the Blues 2-1 at PNC Arena on Oct. 27 for a home record of 1-2-1.

The Hurricanes are currently 7th in the Metropolitan Division.

the Flyers (an overtime loss at home on Feb. 6) and have one game at PNC Arena and two games in Philadelphia remaining. The team has split one home and one away game with the Islanders this year, with one of each left.

Next weekend will be a big one for the Canes, with three games in four nights Thursday to Sunday, with two (home and away) with the Devils and one at home against the Islanders.

That’s nine crucial games remaining on the schedule that will go a long way towards determining the team’s playoff fate. Carolina will need more of the same from both of its last two games, with balanced scoring throughout

the lineup, good special teams play and strong goaltending from both Cam Ward and Scott Darling.

The door to the postseason is open for the Carolina Hurricanes. With so many headto-head games left against fellow wild card competitors, the team controls its fate. The Canes themselves are the ones who control whether or not they will be able to end the NHL’s longest active playoff drought. *This story was written and published before the final results of Sunday’s Islanders, Devils and Flyers games.

Club Hockey looks to bring Admiral’s Cup back to Raleigh

Staff Writer

The NC State club hockey team is heading to the Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League (ACCHL) postseason tournament this weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia as the No. 3 seed to compete for the Admiral’s Cup. The Wolfpack (14-6, 7-2 ACCHL) is set to take on James Madison University at Main Street Arena in Charlottesville for the quarterfinals.

If the Pack advances past the quarterfinals, it has the potential to face the No. 2 seed University of Virginia, who defeated NC State in last year’s Admiral’s Cup Finals.

NC State’s two league losses were an away loss against Charlotte and the only home loss of the season to Virginia. The season was highlighted by two wins in PNC Arena over UNC-Chapel Hill and an away win against the No. 5 tournament seed Wake Forest.

State is on a five-game winning streak heading into the tournament and is looking for another run to the championship game after having two consecutive appearances, both ending in losses for the Pack. The last time State won the Admiral’s Cup was back in 2011.

NC State is led by seven seniors, including forward Luis Gimenez who has 16 goals and 21 assists. Senior forward Sam Banasiewicz leads the team with 25 goals and 18 assists.

Freshman defenseman Cam Mazikowski will be a big factor for the Pack defensively and offensively heading into the tournament as he has scored 10 goals and has nine assists.

Mazikowski recently received the league’s Rookie of the Year honors.

Junior forward Tyler Alfonzetti also received ACCHL Scholar Athlete of the Year and has contributed six goals and two assists.

In net, junior goalie Joey Hall has played the most games for the Pack and has a .893 save

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Sam Banasiewicz, a fourth-year majoring in public relations, hits the hockey puck during the club hockey game against UNC-Chapel Hill on Jan. 29 in PNC Arena. The Wolfpack beat the Tar Heels 6-5 for its second Brickyard Brawl win this season.

percentage and has allowed only 3.60 goals per game.

Puck drop against James Madison is set

for Friday at 4:30 p.m. and can be viewed on PackTV’s YouTube channel, campus cable channel 32.2 or in Talley Student Union.

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Wolfpack sweeps season series over rival Heels Shrijan Tallury Correspondent

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Sophomore Aislinn Konig scored all of her 18 points in the second half to help lead NC State women’s basketball team to a huge victory over rival UNCChapel Hill, 73-54, Sunday in Reynolds Coliseum.

Despite only making 34 percent of its shots from the field, the Pack (20-6, 9-4 ACC) used free throws and perimeter shooting to bury the Tar Heels (14-11, 4-8 ACC). The Pack hit nine 3-pointers and drained 16 free throws in the game.

The Wolfpack had a great second quarter after being down by one at the end of the first. State held UNC to only 6 points, while pouring in 20 in the second frame in a balanced effort.

“A little sluggish start,” head coach Wes Moore said. “After the first quarter, we settled down and did a much better job

taking care of the ball, getting back in transition defense.”

Redshirt sophomore Kaila Ealey scored all 9 of her points to lead State in the opening half. The scoring was spread around though, as senior Chelsea Nelson and redshirt junior Armani Hawkins had 8 points each, while redshirt junior Kiara Leslie poured in 7.

The second half belonged to Konig as she came out on fire, going 4 for 7 from the field with two 3-pointers in the third quarter. She continued the trend into the fourth going 3 for 6 with another two shots from distance. Konig ran the offense during this time, racking up three assists as well.

“I had a lot of opportunities to shoot the ball today,” Konig said. “Fortunately my teammates found me and I had prepared myself and let go of the past. Today it was a good day, Miami was a bad day, hopefully we have more good days than bad days.”

The Tar Heels were dangerous in the paint against the Pack and dealt some

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Sophomore guard Aislinn Konig drives to the basket against UNC on Sunday at Reynolds Coliseum. Konig scored a team-high 18 points, leading the team to a 73-54 victory. The win pushed the Wolfpack to 20-6 overall and 9-4 in the ACC

Pack softball starts 3-2 Ethan Barry Staff Writer

The NC State softball team finished 3-2 in the FGCU Kickoff Classic in Fort Myers, Florida, to open the 2018 season.

The season started with a 12-2 mercyrule victory over Georgetown. Freshman third baseman Timberlyn Shurbutt started the scoring with a three-run double in the first inning. Freshman shortstop Chandley Garner led the offensive attack by going 2-3, including a grand slam in the third inning to help break open the game.

Also, freshman pitcher Kama Woodall threw a complete game, only allowing two runs in five innings. She walked one and struck out two to get the first win of her collegiate career.

Friday night, the Pack faced host Florida Gulf Coast and fell 7-2. Garner and sophomore left fielder Angie Rizzi led State at the plate with two hits apiece. Senior second baseman Alyssa Compton scored both runs for the Wolfpack. Sophomore pitcher Devin Wallace got the start and gave up five runs in five innings and took the loss.

Saturday afternoon the Wolfpack faced

the Blackbirds from LIU-Brooklyn. Junior first baseman Cheyenne Balzer opened the scoring with a three-RBI double in the third inning, and State had 14 hits total.

Including two each from Rizzi, Shurbutt, sophomore second baseman Haley Finn and freshman right fielder Sam Russ.

Russ scored three runs for the Pack on the way to a 10-1 win in five innings. Wallace got the win on the mound for State, throwing four innings and giving up one run.

The fourth game of the weekend was against the Ball State Cardinals. Woodall got the start for the Pack and pitched well until giving up five runs, two of them unearned in the sixth inning which broke the game open, as the Cardinals went on to win 8-2. Woodall fell to 1-1 on the season.

Russ had three hits to lead the way for State and Compton went 2-3 at the plate as well. The Pack combined for eight hits, but only had one extra base hit, a double from Russ.

State finished the weekend Sunday morning against Memphis and Wallace threw six excellent innings, allowing one run on two hits, while walking zero and

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Sophmore outfielder Angie Rizzi rounds second base as she watches the ball go into the outfield during the game against ECU. The Wolfpack defended Dail Softball Stadium winning game one 8-1 and tying game two 5-5 on Oct 6.

striking out seven.

Offense was hard to come by, but Rizzi provided all the Pack would need with a two-run triple in the third inning. That was all the help Wallace and Woodall, who pitched the seventh, would need. The Tigers scored a run in the seventh, and had the tying run on second with none

out, but were unable to tie it up against the Wolfpack. State won 2-1 and finished opening weekend with a 3-2 record.

State now enters the Big 10/ACC Challenge next weekend with a 3-2 record. The Pack will face Ohio State and Northwestern two times each at Dail Softball Stadium.

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Takeaways from Wolfpack’s tough week Jake Caccavaro Correspondent

On the heels of a three-game winning streak that saw NC State beat then-No. 10 UNC-Chapel Hill in the Dean Dome, and an 18-point home win over Notre Dame, the NC State men’s basketball team has now dropped two games in a row.

The Wolfpack (16-9, 6-6 ACC) dropped a road game against Virginia Tech, 85-75, on Wednesday in a game that saw the Wolfpack keep trying to creep back into the game after trailing by as many as 18 points in the second half.

On Saturday, the Wolfpack lost a close home game against the Tar Heels, 96-89. NC State led by as many as 9 points in the first half, but UNC closed out the half on a 7-0 run to cut the deficit to 2, and the Tar Heels quickly took the lead in the second half and never looked back.

After peaking at fifth in the ACC standings, NC State now sits in eighth place and is hoping to finish out the season strong in order to keep its tournament hopes alive. Here are four takeaways from the Wolfpack’s last two games:

his three best games of ACC play against NC State’s biggest rivals, Duke and UNC. Dorn led the Wolfpack past then-No. 2 Duke at home earlier this season, scoring 16 points on 55 percent shooting from the field.

What Wolfpack fans will likely remember forever, was Dorn’s game-clinching, and-1 3-pointer he hit in the final minutes of the game to propel the Wolfpack past Duke.

In the first matchup against UNC, Dorn scored 20 points on 53 percent shooting to go along with four rebounds and three assists. In the same game, Dorn also hit a season-high four 3-pointers on seven attempts.

On Saturday against the Heels, Dorn oneupped his previous performance. Dorn scored 21 points on 67 percent shooting and was a terror for the Tar Heels on the defensive end, nabbing three steals and helping force the Tar Heels into 19 turnovers.

Markell Johnson seems to be the only player capable of creating shots for teammates.

In each of the last two games, sophomore guard Markell Johnson has had more assists than the rest of the team combined; against Virginia Tech, Johnson had 10 assists to the rest of the team’s seven, and against UNC, Johnson picked up nine assists with the rest of the team garnering just eight.

Johnson has emerged as one of the best point guards in the ACC, but the Wolfpack will need guards Al Freeman, Torin Dorn and Braxton Beverly to pick up some of the playmaking duties when Johnson is on the bench or is ineffective

Defense needs to step up if the Wolfpack wants to go dancing.

NC State’s defense has struggled as of late, allowing 85 points to Virginia Tech and 96 to UNC in what has been a season-long trend.

The Wolfpack defense was only able to force Virginia Tech into 11 turnovers on Wednesday and allowed guard Justin Robinson to explode for 32 points on just 17 shots. The Hokies shot over 63 percent from the field as a team and took the Wolfpack to school inside the 3-point line, shooting 71 percent from inside the arc.

UNC forward Luke Maye took his turn abusing the Wolfpack on Saturday, scoring a career-high 33 points, 27 of which came in a second half that saw NC State allow 61 points. UNC had its way with NC State, shooting 56 percent from the field and 36 percent from the 3-point line. If not for the Wolfpack forcing the Tar Heels into 19 turnovers, UNC likely would have put up 100 on the Pack.

Torin Dorn is officially the Tobacco Road Killer.

Dorn, a senior guard from Charlotte has had

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tough blows. The Heels managed to go on an early 6-1 run. The Pack’s offense broke down a little when Konig received an unexpected pass before throwing it down low and out of bounds. This allowed the Tar Heels to maintain a five point lead 10-5.

The second quarter had a change in momentum as the Pack went on the offensive and quickly took back the lead and kept it for the rest of the game. State held UNC to only 6 points in the second quarter.

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Redshirt junior guard Torin Dorn drives the baseline against No. 21 UNC on Saturday at PNC Arena. Dorn scored a team-high 21 points, along with three rebounds and three steals in the Wolfpack’s 96-89 loss.

Yurtseven not playing up to his size Sophomore center Omer Yurtseven struggled on the boards against Virginia Tech and

the Tar Heels to the tune of just five rebounds per game for the 7-footer from Turkey.

Yurtseven has never been the most prolific rebounder, and this problem reared its ugly head in a big way on Saturday against the Tar Heels. Yurtseven mustered just five rebounds, only one of which came on the offensive glass, and was constantly pushed around by Maye and forward Theo Pinson.

Maye dominated Yurtseven on the glass in

the Wolfpack’s loss to the Tar Heels, bullying Yurtseven for 17 rebounds, eight of which were offensive rebounds. Maye was consistently able to box out Yurtseven for easy offensive boards, leading to second-chance opportunities for the Tar Heels.

The Wolfpack is going to need Yurtseven to play up to his size and assert himself on the glass if it wants to make a run in the ACC Tournament or the NCAA Tournament.

Hawkins found her rhy thm on the f loor, scoring two perimeter shots and a jump shot. Nelson got a rebound for a put back, and made her free throws for an 11 point advantage, 32-21.

“I’m happy to contribute any way I can and today was shooting,” Hawkins said.

“I have to give it to my teammates for finding me and making a good pass and I’m glad I could hit the shots for them.”

Hawkins tied her career high with 14 points, and hit a personal record four three-pointers.

The Pack was able to go into halftime with a 13-point lead, 34-21, after preventing the Tar Heels from scoring in the last three-and-a-half minutes.

Returning to the court, the Wolfpack was challenged by the Tar Heels, but for the entire second half, the team managed to easily keep its lead.

Part of the reason was that the Wolfpack slowed down and chose better shots to take. Instead of pulling up, Ealey bounce-passed the ball down to Konig who was cutting along the baseline for an easy layup.

The amount of fouls the Pack was able to draw out from its opponents was also a big factor as both Cassell and Nelson were able to shoot bonuses from the foul line and broke 50 points for a 20-point lead over UNC. Now up by 21 points in the start of

the final quarter, the Pack still refused to loosen up on offense as Konig and Hawkins hit a couple of perimeter shots.

Three-pointers weren’t the only focus for the team as Ealey and Konig made a fast break down opposite lanes for Ealey to assist Konig in a layup, putting the Pack up 70-45.

“I’m proud of this group,” Moore said.

“Proud of them as any team I’ve had because as you said, not a lot was expected.

They’ve got my back so far. And we’re not there yet, still some work to do.”

The Wolfpack will return for its final home game Sunday at noon for the annual Play4Kay game against Wake Forest in Reynolds Coliseum.

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