Pack Dances to Kansas — Technician 3/12/18

TECHNICIAN M ONTH D AY, 2018

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PACK DANCES

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IN BRIEF:

POLICE BLOTTER

A quick look at the headlines outside of NC State

3/8/2018 12:43 A.M | TAGLINE Main Campus Drive/Trailwood Drive Student was cited for speeding.

Raleigh bank robber on the run

NEWS

A man that robbed a Raleigh-area State Employee Credit Union on Thursday evening is still on the loose. The man, who was wearing a camouflage jacket and had his face covered by duct tape, robbed the bank on Hilburn Drive and fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of money. No injuries or damages were reported, but the suspect is still on the run.

Student body president-elect talks campaign and plans in new office, pg. 3

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Flu death toll rises to 276 across the state

OPINION

Another 12 flu-related deaths were reported this week in North Carolina by the state’s Department of Health and Human Services.

The 12 deaths were a slight decrease from 18 reported last week. The illness has claimed 276 lives this season.

Upperclassmen shouldn’t be dismissed by University Housing, pg. 6

SOURCE: ABC 11

Stanly County passes an act to allow armed volunteers in schools The Stanly County school board has allowed the Stanly County sheriff to use volunteers armed with guns to protect students from the threat of attackers. Four elementary schools will be in the county’s pilot program in April. Twelve armed volunteers, in addition to the eight school resource officers currently in place, are set to protect the county’s 21 schools by next school year.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Director of NC State LIVE talks creatively connecting community, pg. 10

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Teens arrested after illegally entering school West Johnston High School was on lockdown Friday morning because seven teenagers, ranging in age from 14 to 17, trespassed on the school’s grounds. None of the teens were students of West Johnston High, and the three oldest teens were arrested and the younger teens were released to their parents. No weapons were found and the lockdown was a precautionary action in response to the teens’ brief altercation with a school resource officer.

SPORTS Wolfpack goes dancing for first time since ‘15, pg. 12

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8:02 A.M. | FIRE ALARM Joyner Visitor Center Officers responded to alarm caused by an accidental activation.

8:13 A.M. | B/E LARCENY Williams Hall Staff member reported university property was stolen from location.

8:54 A.M. | HIT & RUN Monteith Deck Nonstudent reported parked vehicle was struck and damaged.

9:05 A.M. | SAFETY PROGRAM Off Campus NC State University Police Department conducted safety program.

12:54 P.M. | INFORMATION UNIVERSITY Off Campus Staff member reported a possible fraudulent transaction attempt. Matter referred to local law enforcement agency.

2:57 P.M. | FIRE ALARM Off Campus NC State University Police Department received an alarm activation at the Eastern 4-H center in Columbia, North Carolina. Staff member notified.

4:09 P.M. | FIRE ALARM Hudson Hall FP responded to alarm caused by cooking.

4:15 P.M. | DOOR ALARM - FORCED Hudson Hall Security responded to door alarm and determined door was secure.

4:22 P.M. | SKATEBOARD COMPLAINT Williams Hall Officers responded to report of skateboarders in the area. Contact made with two nonstudents who were advised of the university’s policy.

COVER PHOTO BY NICHOLAS FAULKNER Head coach Kevin Keatts high fives fans as he heads back to the locker room with a 76-69 Wolfpack win over Louisville on senior night March 3 in PNC Arena.

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Student body president-elect talks campaign and plans in new office with

Q&A Jessica Errico Katy Chappell Correspondent

After winning the Student Body President r unof f election against Alberto Quiroga and Zach Lewis, t he St udent Body President-elect Jess Errico, who ran alongside Student Body Vice President-elect Meredith Spence Beaulieu, sat down with Technician to discuss their campaign and plans in office.

What was the biggest strength of your campaign?

We rea l ly empha-

sized that our campaign platform was built in the same way we would like for our office to be run and our administration to be run. We reached out to different members of the community around campus that we don’t necessarily identify with to help get a more diverse, much f u l ler picture of NC State.

During cam-

paigning, you can only have 15 people on your team, so clearly that’s not going to encompass every community on campus. We did reach out to multiple different communities to kind of get an idea of what real issues are rather than what we think issues are facing that group or that community. I think that was the strength of our campaign is that that showed through and that that intention of it’s easy to say that you are going to go in the community, and you’re going to go out a make sure you’re listening to students, but we were able to say we’ve done it already. That’s how we built our platform. We know our platform. The issues in our platform are real, so we’re also going to do it in our office.

What was the hardest part of the campaign?

I think one of the hardest parts of the campaign was keeping that positive spin on everything. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of talking about why the other candidates aren’t going to be good for it or pointing out their faults. It’s one thing to do that with a platform and ask questions around the platform, but in terms of staying on topic and sending off a positive message of your campaign and your strengths as a pair and your st reng t hs a s a t e a m , t h a t ’s tough. I think that’s a daily challenge in campaigning,

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Jess Errico, a fourth-year studying mechanical and aerospace engineering, is student body president-elect . She has served in the judicial branch for four years.

but it’s one that, I think, we handled well, and we had the benefit of a strong team to help us stay on the message. Also coordinating such a large-scale thing in terms of teamwork, it’s tough. It presents a good challenge. I think it’s good prep work for office.

What is the first thing that you’re excited to get started on as president?

I am super excited to put together our cabinet. I’m excited to get the application together, get that out and get it advertised across campus rather than just within Student Government. I’m excited to get our team together since I know a lot of the capabilities of an administration come from the strengths of the team that they put together. I’m super excited to get started on getting that team together and making sure that it’s representative of the student body and more importantly, that it’s a team that is going to be willing to listen to students and is going to work hard so that together we can accomplish the things that we said we would accomplish. There’s a lot of aspects to the campaign that I think are going to be more long-term pieces, like Beyond the Box and gender-inclusive housing, where we’re going to need to be interfacing with the Association of Student Governments to accomplish. I’m looking forward to getting started on those because I know those are going to be more long-term battles, so getting started on those right away will be good. A couple smaller scale things in terms of can we be advocating for the first-year live-on requirement with exceptions to that, and while we work on gender-inclusive housing as a whole, can we get exceptions for students who don’t feel safe living in a designated housing situation?

How do you plan on understanding and receiving the student body when you’re putting things in place?

Our general plan is to be present at community events. That’s a big piece of it, to just be present and be available.

Also, knowing we are not going to be able to be at every general body meeting for every student group, nor are we going to

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Survey finds student attitudes on gun laws and ownership Isaac Bjerkness

Assistant News Editor

Recent surveys taken by NC State students about NC State students have found shifts in gun attitudes after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

The Pack Poll, a research group which conducts representative surveys on campus, have posted statistics in two recent articles on the topic of gun ownership and gun laws. Intriguing findings from those surveys stated that nearly 47 percent of NC State students come from a household with a gun and 67 percent are in favor of a national semi-automatic weapon ban.

“This survey was very timely after the recent Parkland shooting,” said Daniel Dulaney, a fourth-year studying statistics and economics and writer for Pack Poll.

“Pack Poll in the past has done multiple surveys trying to figure out the gun attitudes of State students. We wanted to see if there had been any significant attitude shifts from what we have seen in the past.”

In the days that followed the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida on Feb. 14 that killed 17 people, Pack Poll wanted to record student opinion as soon as possible even though very few polls had been run on the subject of guns following the particular shooting.

“The gun survey was a little unexpected [and was] immediately after the Parkland shooting happened,” said Celeste Chapman, a third-year studying political science and Pack Poll writer. “We didn’t want to wait. We went through past polls from the Las Vegas shooting and shootings before to guess which questions were going to be the most pertinent. We guessed pretty much right on a few. So we knew we had a few data points to compare with other polls.”

After compiling about 13 questions on their latest survey, the poll was sent out to a sample of 3,500 undergraduate students and 3,500 graduate students and approximately 21 percent of those students

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be able to interact with every club at every moment they’re meeting. I think one

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responded to this study between Feb. 22 and 25.

“We asked questions about gun ownership, parent gun ownership and student ownership,” Chapman said. “We asked a few questions about gun attitudes and more specific policy-related questions.

Then we asked basic demographic questions, Republican or Democrat, male or female, undergrad and grad students. …

There was a huge difference there [between undergraduates and graduates].”

Upon tallying the results, there were a few elements from the survey that stood out to the researchers.

“I thought it was interesting that attitudes about specific gun control policies among people with different social ide-

ologies were as polarized as those who identify with different political parties,” Dulaney said. “I thought it was interesting that there was such a big divide between students in different parties.”

Chapman found the gun policy change to be among the answers that stood out as it marked a shift in NC State attitudes.

“I was shocked at the level of support for certain policy proposals such as the semi-automatic weapons ban,” Chapman said. “We have polled on this in the past, and it was not near 67 percent which is in line with public opinion nationwide. That is something that has been reported on is the huge difference in response to the shootings compared with jumps in public opinion from other shootings. There is

always a leap, but it has never been like this.”

Following this study, Pack Poll aims to continue finding what students think about certain topics as an overall unit in addition to following up and building upon the research they have already done.

“I would incline people to explore our website to stay alert for stuff that we are doing in the future because there is a lot of interesting topics that we cover,” Dulaney said. “It is interesting to know what your peers believe as a whole on interesting topics like gun safety and control. I would implore people to stay up to date with what we are doing and get excited about the different results we’ll come out with the next eight months.”

strength of Meredith and I, and one thing that we plan on doing, is saying, ‘We want to be present, we want to be going to these things as much as possible,’ but at the same time knowing that if a specific issue is coming up or if administration is hav-

ing a certain conversation that would affect any population more than any other then making sure that they’re a part of the conversation and bringing them into the room to be a part of that conversation rather than just defaulting the speech on

their behalf. That’s one way we plan on staying accountable to students is when we can’t be at every club meeting, at least being sure that as conversations are being had around campus that the people being affected are always part of it.

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Controversial pipeline brings economic promises, environmental justice concerns Holden Dometrius Correspondent

Proponents of The Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) claim that the 600-mile fracked gas pipeline will create new jobs, lower energy costs, promote cleaner air and meet urgent energy needs; however, critics contend that energy bills in North Carolina will increase, North Carolina’s crucial ecosystems may be in danger and climate change could be exacerbated.

The ACP is a project led by Dominion Energy and Duke Energy. The pipeline will transport fracked shale gas from West Virginia through Central Virginia to southern North Carolina, where the pipeline will connect to Dominion’s existing infrastructure.

According to Duke Energy, the pipeline is a necessity and will stimulate economic activity in eastern North Carolina while lowering costs for Duke Energy customers. Tammie McGee, a spokesperson from Duke Energy, said customers will enjoy savings of $134 million annually once the pipeline is in service.

“The ACP is actually going to give us more advantageous pricing, so we’ll be able to pass that on to customers in the state” McGee said.

McGee also said that the pipeline will not only be beneficial for customers, but also is a necessity for the state.

“Over the next 20 to 30 years, North Carolina is going to have increased population, and the Transco line that comes up the western part of the state is not going to have the ability to serve the growing population that we are seeing” McGee said.

However, opponents of the pipeline have brought up multiple arguments against the ACP. Ryan Emanuel, associate professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at NC State and a member of the Lumbee Native American tribe, discussed some of the negative aspects of the pipeline.

“If we want sustainable energy in North Carolina, we need to push back against this thing,” Emanuel said. “If you pay electricity bills in North Carolina, the energy company plans to recoup the $5 billion they are spending on this pipeline. They are going to get that from us. We are paying for this pipeline, whether we want it or not.”

According to Emanuel, Native Americans and other minorities in eastern North Carolina will be disproportionately impacted by the pipeline. He said that the proposed route

cuts through economically depressed regions of the state, further decreasing already low property values.

Hope Taylor, executive director of the environmental watchdog group Clean Water for North Carolina (CWFNC), discussed who would be affected by the pipeline.

“It’s a major environmental injustice,” Taylor said. “It will disproportionately affect African-American and Native American Communities, and poor communities.”

Pipeline supporters believe that natural gas will provide a transitional source to more renewable energy sources.

“We see natural gas as continuing to help grow renewables by providing that 24/7 backup power when solar is not available” McGee said. “At the moment we’re not there with the technology, that we could provide 24/7 power with solar or wind. Natural gas is cleaner-burning, and it also has the ability and reliability when renewables are not available. It’s certainly a great partner with renewables and they go hand-in-hand.”

Taylor contends that the new pipeline is unnecessary for the state.

“There is no justification for the pipeline; there is no shortage of energy in the Southeast,” Taylor said. “There will be increased costs for Duke and Dominion Energy customers, and there is going to be significant climate impact from methane, a much more climate-forcing gas than CO2.”

Matthew Starr, Neuse riverkeeper, discussed how water and specific species in North Carolina will be threatened by the pipeline. The pipeline will cross multiple waterways, including the Neuse and Lumbee rivers.

“It will have a tremendous impact on our streams, rivers and aquatic environments,” Starr said. “The pipeline route crosses numerous aquatic habitats that support rare, threatened or endangered species, including the Neuse River waterdog.”

Starr mentioned how the pipeline’s potential impact is not restricted to endangered wildlife species.

“The pipeline does pose a risk to surface water, and there are a number of communities downstream that get their drinking water from the Neuse River,” Starr said. “The whole thing is concerning.”

Another contentious aspect of the ACP is the social and cultural impact it will have on Native American Tribes along the pipeline route. The Lumbee Tribe in Robeson County

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Ryan Emanuel, an associate professor within the College of Natural Resources and a member of the Lumbee Tribe , talks about the planned Atlantic Coast Pipeline while in his office in Jordan Hall Addition on Feb. 15. If completely approved, the natural gas pipeline will start in West Virginia and run through Virginia and into eastern North Carolina.

According to Emanuel, the addition of the pipeline would adversely affect nearby lowincome residents, especially people of color and Native Americans.

has deep ties to the Lumbee River, one of the water sources crossed by the pipeline route.

According to Duke Energy, they did attempt to speak with the Lumbee people, and the pipeline won’t harm their environment or sacred sites.

“We sought an audience with them for a couple of years, without success,” Mcgee said.

“But lately, in the past six months, we’ve had much better [ways] to get with some of their leaders and talk about the benefits. The project has seen some dialogue with the tribes.

We’ve worked really hard to ensure that this environment and those historical and cultural resources are protected.”

The Lumbee Tribe filed a resolution on Feb. 22 opposing the ACP that directly contradicts Duke Energy’s claims. The resolution claims that the pipeline will harm the environment and sacred lands integral to Lumbee culture.

Furthermore, the resolution requests mean-

ingful consultation and expresses concerns about desecration of burial grounds.

“If the Lumbee River is damaged or altered, that destroys part of my identity as an indigenous person,” Emanuel said. “To some people, these areas near the pipeline route may just look like farmland. To us, it is where our ancestors are buried. We have a collective memory of this place.”

According to Emanuel, the social justice impact is the most egregious aspect of the ACP. “When you talk about Native American tribes, these are original peoples of the land,” Emanuel said. “Their culture and identity is tied to specific places. You can’t pick up someone’s culture and move it from one river basin to another.”

According to Duke Energy, ACP construction is expected to begin in the spring of 2018 and is expected to be completed in 2019.

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Upperclassmen shouldn’t be dismissed by University Housing I lived in Lee Residence Hall my first year. I won’t say that the process of adjusting to a new home was a walk in the park. But when I think about it as an aspect of settling down into colShivani lege life as a whole, it was Shirolkar a very convenient and logiStaff Columnist cal option to have my first year, so it’s understandable why housing requires first-years to live on campus.

A recent Technician news article discussed the woes of returning upperclassmen who are finding it tough to secure a space with University Housing for the 2018-19 school year. Currently, preference is being given to incoming first-year students, who must fulfill their requirement to live on campus, and current students under 61 credit hours.

In the article, Katrina Pawvluk, the associate director of housing operations, assignments and conference services, mentioned research that shows first-years “do better academically and socially by living on campus their first year and are more likely to stay in school.” The article recounts that due to more spots being re-

served for first-years, most of the older students have no choice but to look for off-campus housing.

The article also quoted several secondyears stating that it seemed unfair for the incoming students to get their top choices in residence halls while the upperclassmen weren’t even guaranteed a housing assignment. I think upperclassmen, too, would benefit from on-campus housing in the same social and academic ways, and shouldn’t be made to look for housing elsewhere.

When you live right in the middle of campus, the radius of your world is greatly shortened. While some people potentially wouldn’t want this, on-campus housing means being closer to your classes and wasting less time on the commute. Most academic buildings and bus stops are walking distance from the residence halls on main campus. This even encourages you to find your own way around the place — I wouldn’t know half as much about the university and its inner shortcuts as I do now if I hadn’t been forced to find my way to my classes by foot.

There’s also the new venture of the LimeBikes that NC State introduced last year,

which students have at their disposal, but this resource is found only on campus. If upperclassmen were made to go apartmenthunting off campus, leaving for classes merely 10 or 15 minutes in advance would be a lost luxury.

Being within close proximity of the university at all times also opens doors for spontaneous plans, like a quick visit to a professor’s office hours when you find yourself free for an hour, a group study session you hadn’t intended on attending at first, or even just a social get-together two minutes away. Your classes, bus stops and, of course, Talley Student Union being a stone’s throw away certainly goes a long way.

Not to mention, the friends made and connections formed in the first living arrangement can be lifelong, and abruptly switching housing can disrupt that pattern and be frustrating if moving wasn’t your choice in the first place. You’re made to readjust to a new place all over again, which can be tough.

Living on campus constantly offers students new environments to study in: the study lounges in the residence halls, the study lounges in academic buildings, and both of the libraries on campus, especially

D.H. Hill Library, since it’s the nearest to the main campus housing options. Having immediate access to a campus library can also prove to be an advantage during long exam seasons — this may not be an easy or on-the-way option for all of those who live off campus.

We should remember that with an offcampus apartment comes great responsibility. All services like laundry, meal plan options and campus Wi-Fi that seemed so simple and easy to deal with in a dormitory will be chores that need to be taken care of. Though living on your own also has its benefits, it seems easier to be able to worry only about academics and college life rather than weekly grocery shopping and paying monthly electricity and water bills. Living on campus takes on those responsibilities for you, for the most part.

Most students agree that living on campus has helped them adjust to life at university by just being immersed in the college environment. It’s also the key to having the complete college experience.

Students should have the option of living in residence halls and on-campus housing arrangements for all four of their undergraduate years if they want to.

The country needs a vote, not a walk-out As we all know, on Feb. 14, another high school was subjected to the unthinkable violence that is a school shooting. The lives of the students and their Kevin Moye families at Marjory StoneStaff Columnist man Douglas High School were forever changed by the brutality of one heinous student and his gun.

On the one-month anniversary of this shooting, a national walk-out has been planned as a means to protest gun violence in the United States. The walk-out, which was planned by the group Women’s March Youth Empower, is an attempt to “demand Congress pass legislation to keep us safe from gun violence at our schools, on our streets and in our homes and places of worship.” While the original intent of

this walk-out is of course in good faith, it seems like this is the most ineffective way of pursuing the gun reform we want.

If executed successfully, a walk-out would have the effect of creating solidarity among those seeking gun reform in the country and also drawing a decent amount of media attention. However, a school walk-out would not be able to provide any tangible changes to current gun legislation in the U.S. If the almost yearly scene of innocent children being murdered in school shootings is not enough to make Congress reform gun legislation, then it is highly unlikely that a few thousand kids walking out of school will suddenly make the legislators see the error of their ways.

The only way to attain the legislative changes that the majority of Americans want is to install people into office who

support these ideas. As it stands right now, we are dealing with a Congress that seems to mainly be concerned about the interests of high-spending lobby groups like the National Rifle Association or Gun Owners of America.

Members of Congress like Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have more incentives than just the Constitution to uphold loose gun regulations when they are receiving $362,103 and $176,030, respectively, from gun lobbyists groups. The financial connection to these lobbyists makes it nearly impossible for us to get the changes that we want to see within the gun debate. The only way to circumvent this problem is through the electoral process.

This advice comes as especially true for anybody in higher education who is considering the walk-out. Walking out of class is a relatively easy and passive way

of protesting the current state of politics.

It does not take very much effort to walk out of class, and because of this, the action provides very few tangible effects.

If millennials would like to truly make a difference in the political landscape, we must drop the slacktivism and actually put people out of office. By going to the polls in force, we could force legislators to heed our political demands or install new public servants.

Primary elections for North Carolina are rapidly approaching, and they are one of the best tools we as citizens have to voice our opinions. On May 8, we will have the opportunity to shift the debate around gun legislation by choosing who we want to select from during the general election.

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Opinion The sports culture of the States is substantially different from India

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Sports are an important part of an individual’s life.

However, the distinctions in number and type of sports across regions can help us in studying the development of cultures and Paritosh society in a specific region Gaiwak Staff Columnist or country. India and the United States are different in a lot of respects, but I feel that the biggest difference is between the sports cultures in these two great nations. These differences are also reflections of the socio-economic conditions present in the two countries.

In India, sports is almost synonymous with cricket. Just how popular cricket is in India can be judged by the simple fact that if the Indian cricket team loses any important game, many of the zealots break their TV sets. Sadly, such fanfare and support are not seen for most of the other sports. Field hockey, in which India has won eight gold medals in the Olympics, does not even get a quarter of the attention of what cricket gets.

Football, basketball and boxing have very small fan bases, if any. Baseball is almost non-existent.

This contrasts with the prevalent culture in the United States. In the U.S., although cricket does not have much of mass appeal,

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about the candidates already through their campaign websites and sources for collective candidate information like Ballotpedia. In our district, NC-04, two

many other sports are recognized like baseball, basketball and soccer, at both the national and local levels.

A prominent factor that separates the sports culture in India and the U.S. is the kind of facilities afforded by educational institutions and the state to athletes. The quality of facilities offered in the U.S. is way better than those is offered in India. I was a basketball player in high school and participated in several tournaments as a part of my school team. The facilities provided were sub-standard and minimal, which was partly why I gave up playing the sport.

I am mesmerized by the facilities NC State provides for its athletes. A simple comparison to the institution from which I completed my undergraduate degree reveals stark differences in the facilities provided.

While we did have some sports facilities, they were nothing compared to what NC State has to offer.

Consider the case of the gymnasium, for example. What we called a gym was simply a large room with basic exercise machines.

I was quite pleased with what the NC State gym has to offer. A single room at the gym here was effectively the space of our entire gym back in India.

Sports are encouraged in the U.S. by providing facilities to kids from a very young

age. From what I have seen and experienced in my brief stay here, even in the primary school, knowledge regarding sports and proper facilities is imparted to the students.

This approach is much more practical than what is adopted in India by a majority of schools, which involves mostly teaching theoretical aspects of sports without providing proper facilities.

There are many other points of difference.

Our university collaborates with public and private organizations and strives to constantly upgrade the level of sports as well as to provide the best possible facilities to host large-scale events. Here again the two cultures differ. For example, Reynolds Coliseum alone can host up to 5,500 people. I cannot think of a single venue in my college where such an elaborate arrangement could have been implemented.

This is a manifestation of the differences in the overall economic situation and social perception regarding sports in both the countries. In India, sports are mostly seen as a hobby and even today, many Indian families do not see it as a career choice. In the U.S., the situation is different. Not only is there a more liberal view regarding sports as a career, there is also a lot of admiration for athletes, regardless of their fame.

The distinction offers proof of the fact that

the standard of living of an average household in India is not sufficient for families to allow their children to pursue sports, even if it is their passion. I have seen this kind of thing happen to one of my close friends in India.

My friend was a very good soccer player.

He was very passionate about it too. However, he belonged to a family with a modest financial background and, to add to his woes, he was the eldest of his siblings, and had more responsibilities. He had to give up his passion in favor of a more lucrative career option. He still plays, but now it’s merely a hobby, and the fiery passion he used to have is all gone.

I have heard of many such cases in which a person had to give up their passion just for the sake of their responsibility.

Sports reflect the socio-economic conditions of a country, which is visible by a simple comparison between India and the United States. While there is room for improvement in the overall sports culture in the United States too, it is still far better than that of India. If India wishes to properly channel its vast reserve of talent in sports, it has to adopt a more conducive approach towards sports as well as provide better opportunities and facilities at both domestic and national levels.

remarkable candidates — Michelle Laws and Richard Watkins — are currently in the running in addition to the incumbent who is already a strong supporter of gun control, David Price.

It already seems as though 2018 is trending to be a huge year for people on the left side of the political spectrum, with a

Washington Post midterm forecast showing Democrats seizing control of the House of Representatives.

In addition to the early forecasts, many have been buoyed by the results of special elections in the country, with much enthusiasm being drawn from the attainment of a Senate seat in Alabama by Doug Jones.

Furthermore, the sudden surge of Republican retirements — three in the Senate and 35 in the House — has opened even more opportunities for change.

The path to reforming America’s gun legislation has been clearly defined. It will not be through walking out of class, but rather walking to the polls.

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Director of NC State LIVE talks creatively connecting community with

Q&A Sharon Moore Alexis Riddick Correspondent

Whether it be for entertainment or education, NC State LIVE offers events year-round to students, staff and the community. The program hosts musicians, dance companies, visual artists and more to bring the community a plethora of entertainment and variety of performances.

NC State LIVE Director Sharon Moore sat down with Technician to talk about her experience in the arts, working at NC State and goals of the program.

Tell me about what you do as the director of NC State LIVE. NC State LIVE is a professional performing arts series. I work with a team of two other people to bring this to life. We book and bring artists from around the world to campus and the community. They perform in one of our theater spaces, as well as engaging in different ways beyond the stage. They can provide educational opportunities, casual conversations and projects that can impact students, faculty and staff.

In order to ensure those things happen on campus, we are administrators with multiple hats. We see a large number of work and performances, talk to people on campus about issues and ideas that can correlate to concepts that artists are dealing with in their work. We do that research to see who we should be bringing to campus that is relevant and accessible.

We try to figure out ways to connect the artists that we bring with the students and make sure that students are aware that NC State LIVE is here with artists they can enjoy and learn from. We also try to engage with our audience.

The three of us also do marketing for the program, write up contracts, fundraise and write grants to bring in money to support the works we bring in.

What got you into arts? What is your background in arts? Where did your passion for the arts stem from?

My mother was a musician as well as her whole family and my father was a visual artist with watercolors so I grew up with the arts in my life. I played piano from an early age and in high school I wanted to be engaged in music in some way so I played the clarinet and was in the concert and marching band. I knew that music

was the path I wanted to go down, so I started as a music major at East Carolina University.

Because I had such an amazing experience with band in high school, I was interested in going into instrumental education.

I realized early on that teaching was not in my blood and I definitely did not want to be on stage with no interest in being a performer.

I was fortunate enough that East Carolina offered a degree in arts management and administration. That was the perfect major for me because it could keep me engaged and working with artists, but especially allowed me to connect artists with the community and audiences.

are serving the diversity of our community, reflecting our community and providing the needs of our community.

Why should students come out and support the arts?

I think this is the moment in your life as students that you should explore and try new things. You should be inquisitive, step outside your comfort zone and take advantage of things that are here for you. We have made efforts to

make events affordable.

They are 75 percent off for students, so our ticket prices range from $6 to $8, whereas out in the real world tickets could be $50. Students should strive to see artists express things in different ways, from different worlds, different cultures and different perspectives. I know that students are busy; they are working, studying and socializing all the time. I think our artists have a lot to offer that students would be surprised how much they enjoy.

What is it like directing an arts program at a predominantly STEM school?

It is pretty exciting because NC State as a STEM school is all about innovative and creative critical thinking. The key there is creative.

In research, engineering or any STEM curriculum, there has to be a creative component to think outside of the box. NC State LIVE supports that creative thinking. We have had a great amount of success with faculty and other programming units realizing that the artists we are bringing in work in areas that support math and science curriculum. When faculty make that connection with the arts, it is can be really powerful.

While creating those connections can be invigorating, it is not without its challenges.

At a large school like NC State, with upwards of 35,000 students and almost 2,500 faculty members, it can be hard to make enough people aware of the work we are doing here. I think once we can get in and develop that relationship, then it can amount to something great.

What are your goals for the future of NC State LIVE? For us, it is about finding the resources to engage our artists here for extended periods of time and have that opportunity to really connect in meaningful ways. My hope is that we will be able to grow our ability to fundraise to make that possible and be able to explore with different artists for campus and to plan projects that are mutually beneficial to support the artist’s creativity and process as well as reinforcing our campus’ goals and philosophies.

People tend to think that growing your program means doing more and more, but for us it means learning how to better make an impact. Things like growing staff in order to better make relationships with artists and departments on campus and learning the needs of the community are essential to the growth of NC State LIVE. We want to ensure that we

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Interdisciplinary Studies professor talks volunteer work, teaching philosophy, social movements Bryan Cambra Correspondent

Students scramble to make a decent resume, constantly work on LinkedIn profiles and pump out internship applications, all while the fear of choosing the wrong career path loams in the backs of their minds.

However, it’s easy to forget many people who are successful in their fields had those same thoughts at one point. Patsy Sibley, an interdisciplinary studies professor with a Ph.D. in psychology, talked about her fascinating journey with volunteer work after graduating from University of Alabama that caused her to end up where she is now.

“I had no idea what I was going to do during my junior and senior year [of college],” Sibley said. “When I wasn’t in school, I lived in Atlanta and worked with a group there that helped trans kids find housing. It’s hard to be trans anywhere, especially at around 16, but it’s really hard to be all of that in the Deep South, so we had a lot of kids who would come out and their parents would disown them and, not knowing what else to do, they’d end up on a bus and come to Atlanta without anywhere to go. The group I worked with used networks and community resources to house these kids, and while I was there I realized I wanted to study gender in a way that was more official.”

Sibley has worked with numerous nonprofits over the years and is currently involved in Girls Rock NC, a youth organization that runs rock camps for girls and non-binary youths. The program uses music to help its members find their voice within society.

“I wanted to understand the social development of the kids I worked with,” Sibley said, “so I came here and studied social development with Dr. Amy Halberstadt in the Psychology Department. Once I finished my Ph.D., I changed departments to teach gender studies and science, technology and society.”

During her time at NC State, Sibley has taught a wide range of classes, from Psychology of Emotion and The Art & Science of Happiness to Gender and Science Fiction (WGS 293) and Women and Gender in Science and Technology (WGS/ STS 210, which she currently teaches).

“I didn’t want to just ask questions in the way that traditional developmental theory would lead you to ask those questions,” Sibley said. “I also wanted to know, ‘what does feminist theory say about this?

What does critical race theory say about this? What do sociological theories say about this?’ It always felt intuitive to me that we couldn’t answer big questions unless we looked at all of those perspectives.

And interdisciplinary studies […] that’s kind of the whole deal.”

As she spoke, Sibley tackled every question with an enthusiasm one could only imagine is reflected in her teaching. When asked about her favorite courses to teach, she regarded WGS 293 as a highlight. “[Gender and Science Fiction] was pretty small, which helps because we all got to know each other pretty well,” Sibley said. “We all had a shared interest because it was kind of a niche topic for everyone to be really interested in feminist theory and also science fiction. For me, it was a really refreshing way to engage in and use feminist theory. To get to teach text that I would normally just read for fun is pretty exciting.”

On the subject of WGS 293, Sibley stated that her curriculum for the course was partially inspired by Margaret Simon, head of the English Honors program who taught a similar course — Studies in Gender and Genre. “[Sibley]’s done similar work in gender and science fiction using comics and we have talked a bit about utilizing visual narratives more in our courses,” Simon said. “Her work in interdisciplinary st udies let’s her bring a wide range of perspectives into the media she approaches, which I really value.”

Sibley said her favorite aspect of her Gender in Science, Technology & Society class is its large range of students, ironically the opposite of why she enjoys Gender and Science Fiction.

“My WGS 210 class is a GEP class,” Sibley said. “Lots and lots of people take it to meet their interdisciplinary perspectives and U.S. diversity requirements, so I have a lot of people in that class who otherwise probably never would’ve taken a gender studies class. I see my challenge and goal in that class as to make sure that those students are just as engaged by the end of the semester as the ones who started off knowing they wanted to be there.”

Sibley is also the scholar in residence for WISE (Women In Science & Engineering), located in Lee Residence Hall. Her position allows her to reside in the building and engage with students in a more holistic manner.

“I work with the women over there to help them develop their scientific identities. Our goal over there is to support

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Professor Patsy Sibley teaches Introduction to Science, Technology, & Society on March 1 in Tompkins Hall. Sibley teaches a variety of courses in interdisciplinary studies and psychology. Sibley’s research interests include representation and diversity experiences in STEM fields and women’s development of scientific identity and gender stereotypes, roles, and powers.

them in whatever way we possibly can so that they have the best STEM education experience imaginable, which for women and underrepresented minorities is not always the norm. I do research on STEM initiatives and what works in trying to incorporate identity in STEM education.”

Sibley’s interests and research delve into civil issues as well. The “March for Our Lives” and the “Me Too” movement have garnered a lot of attention from her. In the former’s case, Sibley said she’s fascinated by the sudden pushes in legislature led by the adolescent leaders who emerged from the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, especially after America spent so much time in a place of stagnation.

“There are a couple of very high profile cases of sexual assault and sexual harassment that came to the floor all at the same time and fueled this movement,” Sibley said of the “Me Too” movement. “But also the technology is here; it exploded because the right person tweeted about it. All of those forces came together to create this space in which this movement emerged. That’s the kind of stuff I want students to be able to critically analyze and think about because it’s an interesting question from any of those theoretical perspectives.”

Dr. Sibley will be teaching a new course under WGS 293, Feminist Social Movements, in the fall 2018 semester.

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Wolfpack goes dancing for first time since ‘15 Jake Caccavaro Staff Writer

In its first year under new head coach and the 20th coach in program history Kevin Keatts, the NC State men’s basketball team has earned a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

The Wolfpack (21-11, 11-7 ACC) far exceeded expectations this year, finishing fifth in the ACC after being projected by the ACC Operation Basketball 2017-18 Preseason Poll to finish near the cellar at 12th.

“I’m excited for my players and staff to make the NCAA Tournament,” Keatts said to NC State Athletics. “This is the greatest tournament in the world and I’m thrilled my players get to experience it. To go from being preseason picked 12th in the ACC to an at-large selection for the tournament is a great accomplishment. It has been a very rewarding season, but we still have a golden opportunity to build on it. We’ve been given an opportunity to compete for the greatest prize in our sport and we look forward to the challenge.”

NC State will be squaring off against No. 8 seed Seton Hall in the Round of 64.

The Wolfpack will be traveling to Wichita, Kansas to play in the Midwest Region. A win over Seton Hall would likely pit the Wolfpack against the No. 1 seed Kansas Jayhawks.

The Pirates (21-11, 10-8 Big East) finished third in the Big East and boast six wins over tournament teams. In its one game against a common opponent, the Pirates narrowly edged then-No. 17 Louisville, 79-77.

With four wins over RPI Top 15 teams and six over RPI Top 50 wins, the Wolfpack boasts arguably the greatest resume of wins

for a nine seed.

NC State knocked off then-No. 2 Arizona in just its fifth game, setting the tone for an upset-heav y season.

The Wolfpack went on to upset then-No. 2 Duke at home before going on the road to knock off then-No. 10 UNC-Chapel Hill at the Dean Dome. Throw in a home win over thenNo. 19 Clemson and the Wolfpack beat four different teams that were all ranked in the top 20 at the time.

Wins over RPI No. 38 Louisville at home and RPI No. 45 Syracuse on the road in the Carrier Dome also helped bolster a Wolfpack resume full of “great” wins but somewhat sparse on NICHOLAS FAULKNER/TECHNICIAN Head coach Kevin Keatts yells to the team in the second half. The Wolfpack fought desperately in the second “good” wins.

A handful of bad half to overcome their first-half woes, shooting a blazing 73 percent including 7-10 from deep. The comeback was not quite enough and a technical foul and turnover in the final 10 second to sealed the game for a 91-87 losses likely knocked loss to Boston College on Wednesday, March 7 in Barclays Center in Brooklyn, NY. the Wolfpack down a few seeds. The Wolfpack Had the Wolfpack not lost its opening tively, in his last two NCAA Tournament lost on a neutral court to Northern Iowa, at game of the ACC Tournament, it likely appearances as the head coach at UNChome to UNC-Greensboro and on the road could have been looking at a seven seed — Wilmington. against Georgia Tech. A 30-point drubbing Joe Lunardi, ESPN’s “bracketologist,” had 2018 is the Wolfpack’s first appearance in at the hands of a Notre Dame team that was the Wolfpack as a nine seed heading into the Big Dance since 2015 when the Wolfmissing two of its best players, Bonzie Col- conference championship week. pack knocked off No. 1 seed Villanova on son and Matt Farrell, for all or half of the Keatts will surely be looking to pick up his its way to the Sweet Sixteen. game, respectively, certainly didn’t help the first NCAA Tournament win after falling The Wolfpack will start dancing on Pack’s seeding either. short against Duke and Virginia, respec- Thursday at 4:30 p.m.

Wolfpack men’s, women’s tennis have strong spring break outings Shrijan Tallury Correspondent

Women’s Tennis The No. 40 NC State women’s team found itself in Raleigh for the first weekend of spring break as it took on the Boston College Eagles in a noon matchup on March 4.

This was the third ACC match of the season for the Wolfpack (8-8, 1-2 ACC), who was looking to pick up their first conference win after losses against Duke and UNC Chapel Hill, ranked third and first in the country, respectively.

The match began with the Wolfpack taking

doubles with no trouble. The No. 12 ranked duo of junior Claudia Wiktorin and sophomore Anna Rogers defeated Boston College’s (6-5, 0-4 ACC) Kylie Wilcox and Jackie Urbinati, 6-3, at the No. 1 position. Then the No. 2 pair went even smoother as junior Amanda Rebol and sophomore Adriana Reami shutout Dasha Possokhova and Elene Tsokilauri, 6-0.

Singles play was similar to doubles as the Wolfpack took five out of six matchups. Rogers defeated Asiya Dair 6-3, 7-5, while Reami struggled a bit in her matchup, losing the first set, 3-6, but then coming back to win the match with a score of 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.

At the No. 3 position Wiktorin defeated

Natasha Irani 6-3, 7-5 while freshman Taylor Bridges and senior Tayla Stenta picked up wins in the fifth and sixth matchups. Bridges defeated Possokhova 6-3, 6-1 and Stenta won a tough one against Tsokilauri 6-4, 6-3. The only Wolfpack player to lose was junior Bianca Moldovan who suffered a 6-4, 6-2, defeat against Urbinati.

Overall the Wolfpack played a great match and finished with a 6-1 victory over the Eagles. It then followed this victory up by travelling to Lake Nona, Florida to face Oklahoma and South Dakota in a doubleheader on Friday.

The first match was against Oklahoma

and did not go as NC State hoped. Coming in ranked No. 40, the Wolfpack suffered a close loss, 3-4.

The Pack started by sweeping all three doubles matchups as No. 13 Wiktorin and Rogers defeated Jasmine Asghar and Christana Brigante 6-2, Reami and Rebol earned a 6-4 win over Camila Romero and Simran Kaur Sethi, and Stenta and Moldovan picked up a 6-4 win over Lily Miyazaki and Malene Stripp.

Unfortunately for the Wolfpack, they could not muster more singles victories, as Moldovan and Bridges were the only ones to pick

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Track trio competes at NCAAs

Garrison Rountree Staff Writer

This weekend the NC State track and field team completed its indoor campaign on a high note. The Pack sent a trio of athletes to compete at the NCAA Indoor National Championships in College Station, Texas.

The trio of sophomore Elly Henes, junior Gabriele Cunningham and redshirt senior Joshua Davis all garnered AllAmerican honors.

Henes, who competed in the 5,000-meter run, finished seventh with a time of 16:00.80. In addition to holding the school record in the event, the Cary native also garnered All-American honors during cross country season.

Meanwhile, Cunningham competed in the 60-meter run hurdles. Her time of 8.21 placed her 15th overall and secured her spot as a second-team All-American.

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up wins.

The second match of the day was much easier for the Pack as it swept South Dakota, 7-0.

The difference between this match and Oklahoma was the singles play though, as the Wolfpack took all six matches. The closest came in the number one position where Rogers was taken into a tie-breaker against Jana Lazarevic, but managed to pull out and complete a 4-6, 6-4, 10-8 victory.

The Wolfpack finished spring break going 2-1 and pulled their overall record to .500.

The next matchup involves NC State traveling back to Florida to take on No. 16 Florida State

paign, setting a school record of 8.05 in the 60m hurdles event earlier in the season. Additionally, she lowered her school record time in the 60-meter dash down to a swift time of 7.31 this season.

On the men’s side, the team was represented by Davis. The Pelham, North Carolina, native took bronze in t he weight throw event, recording a throw of 75’ 3.25”.

His effort was enough to secure his third All-American finish in the event.

He is also the only NC State male weight thrower to ever finish All-American in the event.

Closing out his final indoor campaign in style, the school record-holder also set an ACC record in the event earlier this year.

Up next, the Pack will regroup and preKAYDEE GAWLIK/TECHNICIAN pare itself for the outdoor track and field campaign that kicks off on March 24 in Joshua Davis, a redshirt junior, competes in the men’s hammer throw at the second day of the Raleigh Relays on Paul Derr Track, Saturday, March 25, 2017. Davis set a season best Winston-Salem at the Wake Forest invite. of 202’0” and finished fourth in the event. Davis currently holds the school record for the hammer throw and weight throw.

on Friday at 5 p.m.

Men’s Tennis The No. 25 NC State men’s tennis team took on No. 22 Tennessee Friday at the Goodfriend Tennis Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, in its only game over spring break. This was a huge matchup for the Wolfpack as it was looking to show off its skill against top competition.

The match was a back-and-forth affair that came down to the last shot, and saw the Wolfpack (10-1) secure a 4-3 victory.

The Volunteers (12-4, 2-1 SEC) began the match by taking the doubles point in a close fashion, foreshadowing the rest of the match.

The No. 73 Volunteers duo of Preston Touliatos and Luis Valero defeated junior NC State twins and No. 45-ranked Igor Saveljic and

Ivan Saveljic handily on court one, 6-3.

The second matchup was close as junior Georgiy Malyshev and redshirt junior Michael Ogden faced Tennessee’s Timo Stodder and Adam Walton. The match went into a tiebreaker, which Stodder and Walton won by a score of 7-4 to swing the doubles point in favor of the Volunteers.

If the Wolfpack had pulled out a victory in this, then it would have most likely won the doubles point as freshman Tadas Babelis and sophomore Alexis Galarneau were up 4-0 in a tiebreaker before their game was stopped.

The singles matchup started badly for the Wolfpack as it dropped the number one position quickly, Tennessee’s No. 20 Stodder defeated No. 22 Galarneau by a score of

6-3, 6-4. This gave the Volunteers an early 2-0 lead, but the Wolfpack pulled through by winning three of the next four to tie the game at three apiece.

This meant it all came down to Babelis, who faced off against Walton. Babelis won the first set 6-4, but Walton came back to take the second 7-5. The match was then decided in the third set where Babelis broke Walton’s serve to be put into place to serve for the match, where he held up and won 6-4, 5-7, 6-4.

The Wolfpack has only lost one game this season and is looking to keep the momentum going as it opens the ACC season this Wednesday when it takes on UNC-Chapel Hill at the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center in Raleigh.

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Anna Rogers dives to return a volley at the NC State vs Appalachian state women’s tennis match in the J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center on Saturday Feb. 10. In the morning game the Wolfpack beat the Mountaineers with a final score of 6-1.

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Softball sumbles over strong spring break

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Sophmore outfielder Jade Caraway runs towards first base after a bunt during the game against ECU. The Wolfpack defended their home, winning game one 8-1 and tying game two 3-3 in Dail Softball Stadium on Friday, Oct 6.

Kailee Jurnak Correspondent

The NC State softball team was hard at work last week, playing in seven of nine scheduled games against Pittsburgh, Gardner-Webb and Notre Dame — the game against Winthrop this past Tuesday and this Sunday against Notre Dame were both canceled. The team only managed to secure three wins, one from each team.

To kick off the break, the Wolfpack (14-9, 2-3 ACC) played against Pittsburgh, March 2-4 at Dail Softball Stadium. The Wolfpack’s first game was a shutout 7-0 win, succumbing to Pittsburgh for the following two days 9-1 and 7-5.

At a stalemate for the first four innings, the Pack picked up the pace during the fifth with four runs. After a run from freshman Chandley Garner to break the drought, freshman Timberlyn Shurbutt hit a homer to left center with teammate freshman Sam Russ and sophomore Jade Caraway on base. The Pack began the sixth inning with a four-run advantage.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, the Pack

ended the game with an added three runs.

This came from Garner, who hit a home run to bring sophomore Haylee Kobziak and senior Alyssa Compton home.

The freshmen duo Shurbutt and Garner both hit home runs that resulted in three RBIs which contributed to six of the Pack’s seven runs.

The following day was a turnaround from the previous game. Pittsburgh had a fast opening in the first inning, scoring three runs. The first inning set the scene for the rest of the match as the Pack’s opponent was able to score one run in the fourth inning, three runs in the sixth inning and then followed by two more runs in the seventh.

The Wolfpack only managed one run in the fourth inning from a home run hit by Shurbutt before falling silent to Pitt. The team only managed three hits in seven innings, but a positive for the Pack was the 10 putouts by freshman Lily Bishop.

The final day against the Panthers was a close fight that reflected a middle ground from the previous two matches.

After the first three innings passed with no runs from either team, Pittsburgh scored a to-

tal of four runs in the fourth and fifth innings.

The Pack easily made up the difference in the sixth inning, tying the score.

The break happened in the seventh inning when Pittsburgh slipped past the Pack with three runs. The Pack only decreased the lead by one run in the bottom of the inning.

After a few days of rest, the Wolfpack went on the road against Gardner-Webb. The team played a doubleheader, losing the first game 6-5 and winning the second game 10-0.

The Wolfpack went into the second inning with no runs, but that all changed when Garner opened the inning with a home run.

By the end of the third inning, the two teams were tied 2-2. Yet, the Pack lost some ground as the Runnin’ Bulldogs scored two additional runs in the fifth inning. The Wolfpack fought back in the seventh inning with three runs.

Russ and Caraway stole second and third base respectively which led to two runs when junior Cheyenne Balzer hit a triple, bringing the two home. Balzer soon found herself to home plate before the third out.

Gardner-Webb also scored two runs in the seventh inning, causing the Pack to face a close

loss 6-5.

The loss didn’t deter the team in the second match as the Pack closed the game in six innings, completely shutting down GardnerWebb’s offense. By the bottom of the fifth inning, the Pack had control of the game 6-0.

With spring break coming to an end, the softball team returned to Dail Softball Stadium to face Notre Dame. With another doubleheader, the Pack managed one win but was first dealt another loss.

The first game was a crushing defeat for the Wolfpack, 15-0. Following a quick opening, the Irish gained six more runs in the second inning.

The other portion of the Irish’s runs came in the third and fifth inning. The Pack’s opponent was able to score 15 runs, three of the hits being home runs.

Even though the Pack won the second game on the first day 4-1, it wasn’t as deafening as the first game.

The Wolfpack picked up a run in the second inning and three runs in the fifth inning, only giving up one run to the Irish in the third inning.

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