Standing with Survivors — Technician 4/4/19

TECHNICIAN APRIL 4, 2019

VOL . 99 | NO. 27

STANDING WITH SURVIVORS

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$15 MIN. WAGE CURRENT MIN. TOO LOW (Opinion) Current minimum wage insufficient to meet living needs.

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SERVICE

ALTERNATIVE FRATS

Organizations that provide social and service opportunities.

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CLUB SPORTS

MANDATORY BANQUET

Annual awards banquet requires attendence for the 43 club sports.

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IN BRIEF:

POLICE BLOTTER

A quick look at the headlines outside of NC State

4/2/19

N.C. GOP chairman steps down after a federal grand jury indictment

NEWS SG Banquet celebrating 98th session, funded by student fees, pg. 3

N.C. GOP Chairman Robin Hayes announced Wednesday he will step down following an indictment issued by the federal grand jury that stated the chairman used campaign contributions to bribe N.C. Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey. Hayes and three other political and business figures were charged with wire fraud, bribery concerning programs that receive federal funding, aiding and abetting and making false statements. The alleged scheme was to offer a significant amount in campaign contributions in exchange for actions that would benefit the business of another associate, Greg Lindberg.

Causey contacted federal officials in January 2018 about concerns regarding contributions he received. Hayes denied the allegations and pleaded not guilty but stepped down, citing health concerns.

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SOURCE: THE NEWS & OBSERVER, THE NEW YORK TIMES, CNN

Workers must continue to fight for $15, pg. 6

One wounded after gunfire outside Durham County Courthouse Two people were arrested on Wednesday after they opened gunfire that morning outside the Durham County Courthouse, sending a man to the hospital. Following a 10-minute police chase, the two men were later charged with assault with a deadly weapon, intent to kill inflicting serious injury and felony conspiracy. According to WRAL, the shooting was not a random attack; rather, the suspects knew the victim, and a fight occurred before the shooting. The incident occurred around 9:30 a.m., and police warned people to stay away from the courthouse at 9:35 via Twitter.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Underwater Robotics Club explores, learns beyond the classroom, pg. 10

SOURCE: WRAL, ABC11, THE NEWS & OBSERVER

Labor Commissioner Cherie Berry not running for reelection

SPORTS Club Sports addresses attendance requirements for end-of-year banquet, pg. 12

At an N.C. Council of State meeting on Tuesday, Cherie Berry, the incumbent commissioner of labor, announced she will not be running for reelection in 2020 after 19 years in the role. Berry became widely popular in North Carolina after putting her headshot in the 28,000 elevators the labor department inspects. “There was a popular 70s song with the lyrics ‘I’d rather leave while I’m in love,’ and that is exactly what I am doing. I love my job but most importantly I love the people of #NC!” Berry posted to Twitter on Tuesday after her announcement. Following Berry, Wake County Board of Commissioners Chair Jessica Holmes and Raleigh attorney Eva F. Lee will be running for labor commissioner in 2020.

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12:40 AM | MEDICAL ASSIST Bowen Hall Units responded to and transported student in need of medical assistance.

12:43 AM | FIRE ALARM Tower Hall Units responded to alarm caused by cooking.

8:55 AM | MEDICAL ASSIST Bagwell Hall Fire and Life Safety responded to and transported student in need of medical assistance.

9:00 AM | SUSPICIOUS PERSON Off Campus Officers responded to report of person walking toward McKimmon Center with what the reporter thought was a gun. Area checked. Unable to locate.

9:58 AM | LARCENY Aurora Hall Officers responded to report of stolen personal property.

1:12 PM | SUSPICIOUS INCIDENT Research II Staff member reported they received a suspicious phone call from an unknown person. Staff member was concerned about the nature of the call.

10:05 PM | TRAFFIC VIOLATION Main Campus Dr/Initiative Way Student was cited for speeding.

10:31 PM | DOOR ALARM - FORCED Caspian Hall Security responded to door alarm and secured door.

11:27 PM | FIRE ALARM Bragaw Hall Fire and Life Safety responded to alarm caused by person vaping.

2:13 PM | HARASSMENT Innovation Hall NCSUPD received a Campus Security Authority report which indicates a harassment incident occurred at the noted location. The survivor has been provided with resources and connected with pertinent university partners. Appropriate University Personnel have been notified. Police are investigating.

4:10 PM | FIRE ALARM Grove Hall Fire and Life Safety responded to alarm caused by vaping.

COVER PHOTO BY MARISSA MCHUGH Marchers at Take Back the Night march across campus to bring awareness to sexual assault and dating violence on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. The event concluded with a public forum where students spoke out and told their stories.

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SG Banquet celebrating 98th session, funded by student fees

to honor its seniors and reflect on the accomplishments made throughout the year.

At the event, Student Government members celebrate their accomplishments with food and receive awards for their efforts in Stu-

dent Government.

Carla Salas, a graduate assistant for Student Involvement, stated via email that the $2,500 budget was spent on food, awards, decorations and room rental.

According to the Student Government budget, this event cost about $2,500, entirely from student fees.

Thania Menjivar, a first-year studying sociology and communication, as well as the head of the banquet committee, stated the majority of the money was spent on food.

“We paid a lot for food; it took a big chunk of our budget,” Menjivar said. “But, we knew that was going to happen because we wanted a formal and nice dinner, so it was worth it.”

Menijvar said she began planning the event back in January with her planning committee.

“At this event, different awards are going to be distributed to the seniors, to those in Senate, the executive board, just as a recognition for the different triumphs that they accomplished throughout the entire session.” Menijvar said. “We begin with the welcome, special awards, then we move into dinner, and more awards will take place. After the awards are done, there will be closing remarks and we’ll be good to go.”

According to Menijvar, Jess Ericco, the former Student Body President, made a poll in March of the all the different awards that

could be won by Student Government officers. Every officer in Student Government could vote and nominate people for each award.

Below are the awards and the SG officers who won: Outstanding New Senator: Paul Cray Outstanding Senator: Christine Brugh Outstanding Cabinet Member: Jake Petrillo Outstanding Department: Diversity Outreach Department New Board Member of the Year: Tre’ Ricanek Board Member of the Year: Nikhil Millind Hearing Assistant of the Year: Kiera Jonson Jenny Chang Award for Outstanding Student Service: Angel Bowers Larger Obelisk: • Molly Mueller, student body treasurer • Jess Errico, student body president • Meredith Spence Beaulieu, student body vice president • Jodi Svetaketu, student body chief justice • Adam Schmidt, student senate president Half Obelisk: • Lilly Neal, board of elections chair • James Withrow, student senate president pro tempore

the cost increases to $9.50. Using Dining Dollars decreases the price by $0.25, according to Randy Lait, senior director of administrative services within Campus Enterprises.

Lait says that because Dining is part of NC State and not an outside company, they are able to charge the lowest possible price for the services provided on campus.

“In general, setting the cost is based

on the cost of providing the meal,” Lait said. “You’ve got the cost of the food on the plate, the employees in the building and overhead costs such as electricity and water. If you add all that and divide it by the number of people coming through and eating it gives you an idea of what you would need to charge in order to cover all those costs.”

Shawn Hoch, associate director of NC State Dining and interim director of Hos-

pitality Services, said that the change to meal plans with all-access to the dining halls was to facilitate more availability of food on campus.

“We want students to stop thinking about their meal plan in terms of swipes -- it’s all about going when you need to,” Hoch said. “If you want a salad and 30 minutes later your friends are all coming

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Outgoing Student Body President Jess Errico, a fifth-year studying aerospace and mechanical engineering, speaks as she gives out awards at Student Government’s banquet on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 at Talley Student Union. Errico will be replaced

by Emma Carter, a third-year studying sociology and international studies, for the 99th session of Student Government.

Rachael Davis

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On Wednesday, the 98th session of Student Government gathered one last time

NC State Dining strives for value in pricing your plate

George Willoughby Correspondent

In order to meet student needs and create value for student dining options, NC State Dining must consider many factors when setting dining hall prices and meal credit rates across campus.

For a student without a meal plan or dining dollars, the cost to eat lunch at Fountain Dining Hall is $9.10. For dinner,

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Wolfpack To Go, Pack&Go offering quick meals to students in a rush Sofia Gonzalez Bertello Correspondent

The Wolfpack To Go and Pack&Go services allow students who are in a rush to bring food back to their dorms and all throughout campus. The two services are different, yet have the similar end goal of providing students an alternative choice to dining.

According to the NC State Dining website, Pack&Go is an option at all campus dining halls. With this service, students can store food from the buffet directly into a plastic container they can take with them throughout campus.

Keith Smith, the director of board operations and sustainability, expanded on the Pack&Go service in the dining halls.

“The students pay a onetime fee of $3.50 for the reusable container and bring the dirty container back when they’re done to either pick up a new container or get a wooden token to save until the next time the student comes back to get a new container,” Smith said. “We like to clean the container here because we

know that when we put it through our machines they’re not only clean but sanitized which makes it safe for everybody.’’

According to Smith, the Pack&Go containers were originally intended to be temporary but ended up being permanent because of its usefulness to students.

“We originally didn’t use the to-go containers,” Smith said. “When we renovated the student center, this service was put in place to provide for the students that were eating here in dining halls because of the increase of students in the dining halls. They were allowed to take it back to their room and we just kept it going since then.”

Students are able to choose from the variety provided in the dining halls that they might not see elsewhere, Smith stated.

“For us, the reason we let the Pack&Go containers in the dining halls is because you can get a lot of healthy options here, not that you can’t get them at any other locations, but this really allows students to be able to get salad and fruits that you can’t get in other locations,” Smith said. “It allows the students to have the

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Wolfpack To Go provides easy access to food items such as sandwiches, salads, wraps and fruit to students who are on the go throughout the day. A wide variety of Wolfpack To Go options are available at the Atrium food court.

freedom to come in and get what they’d like, and also allows them to eat healthier too.”

Another option for students is Wolfpack To Go, a plethora of packaged foods students

can grab without any wait time. This service is most commonly found in The Atrium, as

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Los Lobos where we’re roasting our own barbacoa and making fresh ingredients which cost a little more to produce so it command a little higher price point,” Lait said. “We want to set the equivalency rate that will allow students to eat where it’s convenient for them and be able to get a reasonable meal within their meal equivalency so that you don’t have to go all the way across campus to a dining hall to eat.”

One of Dining’s goals when the remodel of Talley was complete was to be able to offer better ingredients, according to Hoch.

“We make an effort to slow smoke our brisket 12 hours every time we do a batch to making fresh salsa to using scratch made sauces — we’re putting more effort and emphasis on higher quality ingredients,” Hoch said. “Our culinary skill that we’ve brought in the past couple years has gone up immensely. At one point earlier this year, we had the most certified chefs on a college campus in the country.”

Hoch said that the entire intent of Dining’s effort is to offer students value for the food that they acquire on campus.

To learn more about the various meal plans and prices per meal period, students can visit Dining’s website.

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down to eat before you couldn’t go back in because you just spent your swipe. That’s off the table now.”

Hoch added that a meal plan allows students access to food that would not be possible to get without one.

“Years ago, we had an engineering stu-

dent that looked at what it really cost to use the full meal plan and when you do the math, you can’t feed yourself for it,” Hoch said. “If you fully utilize every meal period and the equivalency, you can’t go to restaurants or make food cheaper than what we’re able to provide.”

NC State offers 35 meal periods per week where students can use their meal credits at campus dining locations. The meal credit rate varies based on the meal period and dining location.

Hoch said t he earliest rates were based on prices at Chick-Fil-A, but were changed to a variable equivalency rate meaning that the dollar amount covered in a meal swipe varies at different campus dining locations.

“At Chick-Fil-A that rate worked and that model worked for years, but when you go to a couple locations like Los Lobos where you could get queso and always be $0.75 over we had to look at how we could make it work,” Hoch said.

The rates have been tweaked over the years but are reliant on the offerings of the location.

“In the pavilion where you’ve got Jason’s Deli, Red Sky, Los Lobos and Tuffy’s — Red Sky is pizza which is inexpensive to produce, so you can get two slices and a drink for less money so we can set a lower rate there and allow more over at

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Behind the product: 3D printers Abbie Davies - Cutting Correspondent

Since the opening of the Hunt Library Makerspace in 2014 and D. H. Hill Makerspace in 2015, 3D printers have been available for use to all students, faculty and staff.

Justin Haynes, university library technician, said that the D. H. Hill Makerspace has 20 3D printers, but only 10 are available in the space and 10 on reserve so that the library is able to switch them out. At Hunt Library, there are six.

To use the D. H. Hill Makerspace, students just have to attend a Makerspace orientation to familiarize themselves with the safety protocols for using the 3D printers and other machines in the space. Hunt Library operates a little differently and functions as a 3D printing service whereby students submit their file and pay a fee to have their model printed.

“We are open to students, faculty and staff so anyone on campus can come in and use these machines,” Haynes said. “To use the printers at D. H. Hill Makerspace, you have to go through a safety orientation first which takes about 40-45 minutes, and we teach you about the safety of the space, and then after that you have access to the space any time we are open. For the Hunt Makerspace all you have to do is take them your file, and they print for you, so that’s a 3D printing service.”

With each machine costing anywhere from $1,200 to $1,250, and the Hill and Hunt Makerspaces housing upwards 26 3D printers, these machines serve as a tremendous but expensive resource for the NC State community, according to Haynes. NCSU Libraries fund the majority of their Makerspace purchase through the technology fee that students pay through tuition. However, donations were accepted in the past since these spaces are new on campus.

“We have a few different areas of funding,” Haynes said. “The first is your tech-

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mentioned on the Campus Enterprises website.

Kitty Lewis, the director of retail operations, explained the benefits of the Wolfpack To Go line offered in the Atrium.

“The Atrium food court is so busy and we felt like we needed to set up “grab n go” items

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3D printers sit in D.H. Hill Library on the first floor Makerspace on Feb. 26, 2019. Makerspace is a collaborative space that gives students and faculty access to a wide range of technologies.

nology fees that students pay that pays for all the technology across campus. We get a portion of that for the libraries, and a portion of that goes to the Makerspace.

We have had donors and grants that have been given to us because we are such a new space, but most of the fees for buying printers comes from students.”

Many students take advantage of these machines for both academic and personal project creation. This space is perfect for first year STEM students who do not yet have access to departmental machines and non-STEM students whose colleges are unable to provide 3D printing resources to them.

“We see a lot of humanities, freshman engineering, and a lot of chemistry and other sciences,” Haynes said. “Humanities usually don’t have these spaces at all so this is the best space for them to come and use these machines. Some of the coolest projects I’ve seen came from English and communication classes. Then all these students are coming back for personal reasons and printing project of their own.”

Offering 3D printing as a resource for students academically and recreationally has allowed students of all disciplines to reinforce classroom concepts in new ways. Krystin Gollihue, CRDM graduate extension assistant, explained the effects

that utilizing the 3D printers for projects in her class and recreationally had on her students.

“I watch my students come in here and make things and code things and print things and they have this whole new literacy,” Gollihue said. “They get to feel a part of the campus community in ways that they don’t often get to feel because it is a very S.T.E.M. heavy community, but at the same time it’s kind of recasts what they think they are as professionals and as students.”

To learn more about 3D printing on campus, students can visit the NCSU Libraries website.

that students can pick up in between classes if they were in a rush,” Lewis said. “Most other things in the Atrium take a few minutes to make so we thought having items that were convenient for students to take was a good option.”

According to Lewis, not only does Wolfpack To Go offer food on the go, but the packaging allows more specialized foods for students who have dietary restrictions.

“They were able to offer some of the things

they can’t offer on the service lines such as gluten free foods,” Lewis said. “We’re looking for more gluten free items which have to be specially handled and individually wrapped which the Wolfpack To Go area helps us do.”

The food is ordered from the U.S. Foods distributor, packaged by the Atrium employees,and is priced according to the portion size, packaging, and what the item is, Lewis stated. There are other similar services offered on campus, but they are prepackaged

by separate companies.

To Lewis, the benefits of this service are clear and will continue as long as the Atrium is open, as anywhere from 300 to 350 Wolfpack To Go products are picked up daily at the Atrium.

“I’ve seen the Atrium grow a lot and to me it’s a benefit to the students, especially if they are in a really big hurry,” Lewis said. “The menus and packaging can change but we’ll always have Wolfpack To Go at the Atrium.”

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Workers must continue to fight for $15 As wages continue to stagnate across the country, many are seeking government policy as a method to increase their wages. Politicians like Bernie Sanders and Kevin Moye Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have championed the Fight Staff Columnist for $15 movement to increase the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. The movement has been active in North Carolina for a while now, but it has just been given a degree of legitimization with the N.C. House of Representatives introducing a bill to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024.

A $15 minimum wage in North Carolina could help bring economic justice to those who have been stripped of it for so long. Despite having cities with relatively high costs of living like Raleigh and Charlotte, the minimum wage in N.C. remains one of the lowest in the nation at $7.25 — the federal minimum wage.

The state minimum wage has been this way since 2009, when the federal minimum wage became $7.25.

Workers are finding now that this wage is simply unsustainable for them to live adequate lives in today’s economy. When adjusting for inflation, the actual amount people are earning is less now than it was for workers in the late 1950s-80s. Actual wages are far smaller

“Workers are finding now that this wage is simply unsustainable for them to live adequate lives in today’s economy. now than what they were at the peak of the country’s middle-class boom in the 60s. In 1968, the inflation-adjusted minimum wage was $11.76 per hour, far above the current minimum.

This period of wage stagnation comes at a time when worker productivity has been skyrocketing. Over the course of a 44-year period from 1973-2017, worker productivity increased by about 77%. Hourly pay paled in comparison, growing at a rate of about 12.4% over the same period. This disparity between worker productivity and hourly pay is a direct result of trickle-down economics failing to help the working class. Instead of reaping their rewards for hard work, the working class saw their

earnings consolidated by the wealthy class.

An increased minimum wage could have significant effects on beginning to reverse the years of disparity workers in the United States have seen. Workers cannot continue to be put on the backburner for wage increases any longer.

The biggest case studies on the effects of a $15 minimum wage originated from the minimum-wage policy introduced in Seattle.

Researchers at both the University of Washington and the University of California Berkeley have critically analyzed the effects of raising the minimum wage to $15. The Berkeley study, while limited in its scope, found that the policy did lead to increased wages without any

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surges in unemployment.

The University of Washington study was much more negative in its assessment, finding that Seattle’s minimum wage increase led to higher unemployment and decreased working hours. However, follow-up studies have disproved the findings of UW’s paper, explaining that the higher rate of unemployment was not caused by increasing wages.

While the results of the study may not apply to all cities because of varying demographics and labor markets, studies have shown that an increase in wages is a step in the right direction. Raising the minimum wage will act as the rising tide we need to lift the proverbial boats of many Americans.

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Elitism within engineering is a problem “If you’re at NC State for anything other than engineering, you’re wasting your time.”

I reca l l t hese words from one of my Intro to Engineering classmates Cat Cobb during my early days as a Correspondent first-year engineer. Even now, two years later, I hear variations of this statement consistently from my engineering colleagues and professors, and all of them center around the supposed uselessness of every non-STEM major on campus.

I understand that NC State is primarily known as a technical university, and this is by no means an attack on the College of Engineering. As of spring 2018, approximately 26.5% of the undergraduate student body is enrolled in some form of engineering discipline. The engineering program at NC State is wonderful, and yes, the work engineers do is important.

However, trying to claim that engineering is the most important major is incredibly arrogant, perpetuating an attitude that creates rifts within the student population and damages the mindsets of incoming non-STEM students.

I’m sure these comments escape students without much thought, and I’m sure they don’t think about the implications of these statements and don’t truly mean harm. However, the level of comfort that students have reached with these claims is disturbing. Many seem to have incorporated these arguments to a point where it’s almost a college-wide belief.

Claiming that non-STEM majors serve little purpose degrades our sense of NC State community. Statements like these can cause young engineers to internalize these statements and form a sense of superiority. This lack of respect makes them unable to effectively collaborate with students from different disciplines, in turn diminishing their efficacy as engineers. Through participating in this elitism, these students negatively affect their own performance.

However, non-STEM majors suffer from this culture far more than engineers. While these claims inf late the egos of our engineers, they diminish our non-STEM students’ sense of self-worth and importance. They may internalize these statements and even start to believe them, degrading their confidence and love for their studies. Ridiculing a student for pursuing their passion in a non-STEM area of study should be completely unacceptable.

Ostracizing the 73.5% of NC State students who don’t study engineering creates a divisive environment and implies that there’s a hierarchy of usefulness among majors — and therefore a hierarchy of usefulness among students.

Yes, engineering is an important area of study — but so is everything else. Who are engineers to claim that studying STEM makes them more valuable than a writer, a performer, an educator or a farmer? These studies all contribute in crucial and meaningful ways to our lives, and where would we be without them?

The notion that some students are more valuable than others based on their majors is deeply troubling, and the fact that some engineers think nothing of throwing around these statements is upsetting.

Creating an environment such as this on NC State’s campus is not the NC State way.

Writers, performers, educators, farmers and everyone else: Your place at NC State matters. Your presence greatly enriches the community, and you deserve a spot on campus. Without you, NC State wouldn’t be the wonderful place it is today, and you deserve to feel proud of your studies, regardless of what some engineers may say.

I believe that everyone at NC State is here because they want to change the world. Non-STEM students are just as valuable as engineers, and they deserve far more respect than they’re given. We’re here to make the world a little better; shouldn’t that be important enough for us all?

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Marchers at the Take Back the Night March rally together to bring awareness to sexual assault and dating violence on campus on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. The event concluded with a public forum where students spoke out and told their stories.

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Bradford Hill, a therapist and professor at NC State, speaks to the students in attendance at Take Back the Night in Talley Student Union on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. He spoke on building community and shaping campus culture.

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Cara Greene, a sophomore studying history, writes her reason for taking back the night at the Take Back the Night event in Talley Student Union on Tuesday, April 2. The event brought awareness to sexual assault and dating violence.

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Kat Kirby, a fourth year majoring in women’s and gender studies, addresses the students in attendance at Take Back the Night in Talley Student Union on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. Kirby is the president of the Movement to End Interpersonal Violence student group on campus.

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Students march through Talley Student Union at Take Back the Night on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. The annual event brings awareness to sexual assault and dating violence.

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Elnora Nesbit, a sophomore studying communications and art studies, and Juniper Nie, a junior studying communication media and graphic communication, chant into megaphones at Take Back the Night on Tuesday, April 2, 2019. The annual event empowers sexual assault survivors across campus.

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Students gather in Talley Student Union at Take Back the Night on Tuesday, April 2, 2019.

Take Back the Night is an annual event that is part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

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Underwater Robotics Club explores, learns beyond the classroom Emily Hench Arts & Entertainment Editor

In fictional versions of the future, the omnipresence of robots are an integral part of the science fiction genre. However, robotics is not only an idea of the far future. Teams across the world are working to construct new robots meant to fulfill an ever-widening set of tasks, including here at NC State. One team at NC State is taking their projects to new depths: underwater.

The Underwater Robotics Club is a group of NC State students who work together to build robots capable of operating in an aquatic environment.

Amalan Iyengar, a third-year studying computer science, is the club’s current president.

“The club was formed in 2004,” Iyengar said.

“The first tests [for the robots] were done in the founding member’s apartment’s pool. We’ve grown a lot since then, we have our space in EB2 now, but the club has been active for fifteen years now.”

The club is comprised of four sub-groups, with each specializing in a different aspect of the project. These groups include the electrical, mechanical, software and acoustics teams.

“This is a pretty unique club, because everyone has to work within their sub-teams, and then the sub-teams all have to work together,” Iyengar said. “Our electrical sub-team doesn’t matter if it’s not in a waterproof hull that the mechanical team makes; without electronics, our mechanics don’t do anything, and without software our electronics are never told to do anything.”

Of these four groups, Iyengar works with the acoustics team.

“There are a bunch of beacons that [we put] in the water, and we have to make our robot listen to them, figure out which one to follow and follow it in an efficient way,” Iyengar said.

“I’ll work on the circuits and the programming to make it follow those beacons.”

Though explanations of what the club’s robots are designed to do are somewhat simple, the process of creating a robot is another matter, and often has some bumps along the way.

Jake Keller, a fifth-year studying electrical engineering and vice president of the club, is also the electrical team lead for the club. Keller spoke about how the group approaches problems in their projects.

“It depends on the problem,” Keller said.

“A lot of times, it’s shutting everything off, making sure everything is good to go, then checking the easiest stuff first. There have been

countless times where we’ve spent hours trying to fix something, and if we would have just taken two seconds to probe something with the multi-meter, we would have figured it out. So easy stuff first, then the most likely problem. Usually those two are intertwined, then going through a step-by-step process of ‘Hey, let’s try this; okay, that wasn’t the cause, keep going.’”

Over the course of each year, the group focuses on building their robot with the intent to compete in the RoboSub international competition, held each summer in San Diego.

“There’s a lot of tasks within the competition,” Keller said. “Most of them are based around vision processing and a passive sonar-system, so that’s how we navigate and feel our way around. We’ll interact with obstacles by either bumping into them, driving through a gate, shooting torpedoes, dropping little bomb things, all sorts of different tasks.”

In these competitions, according to Keller, points are awarded based on these various tasks, with points being awarded for completion and attempts to solve obstacles, among

other factors.

This year, the team is focusing on the critical systems of their robots to make sure everything is functioning optimally, with hopes of securing a top-15 finish in RoboSub’s competition by 2020, as mentioned by Iyengar.

“We spend all year doing it in some form or another, Iyengar said. “We’re always improving, making repairs on the last one. In the summer, things typically kick into high gear, and we’ll get right down to it with our actual preparations for the nitty-gritty things that have to happen, doing our final test runs and making sure everything is in order before it’s time to go [to compete].”

In preparing for their annual competition, the club’s members must often take what they have learned in their classes and apply it to the group’s current projects.

“It’s nice to have something to work on that’s technical but outside of a professor’s control,” Keller said. “We kind of have the guardrails off and have both the privilege and the pain of having to figure out things on our own.”

Keller also said that when working on proj-

“We. . . have both the privilege and the pain of having to figure out things on our own.”

ects with the club, a good amount of what they do extends past what they learn through coursework.

“A lot of what we do goes a lot further and beyond what we learn in the classroom,” Keller said. “It gives us a starting point, with a lot of the circuit stuff and designing the basic PCBs [printed circuit board] but we tend to help new members go past what they’re learning in classes, kind of accelerate things a bit, but it lays the foundations for a lot of the things we do.”

Through both their competitions and advancement outside of their standard coursework, Iyengar said that the group has two main goals.

“What we’re trying to do from the leadership perspective is two things,” Iyengar said.

“We’re trying to build a competitive robot that does well at the competition; we are a club that competes and a club that teaches our members. We teach our members how they can apply their technical skills that they learn in the classroom, to go beyond that disciplinary environment, and we teach them how to apply leadership skills and interpersonal skills to become the best functioning members of the industry and academia that they can be.”

For more information on the Underwater Robotics Club, the group can be contacted on their website.

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The Underwater Robotics Club is an organization on Centennial Campus that was created for students of any major to build robots and compete in the RoboSub competition. The club was founded in 2004.

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Alternative fraternities, sororities provide unique experiences STUDENT GROUPS ALLOW FOR OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE THE TRADITIONAL REALM OF FRATERNITY AND SORORITY LIFE Abbie Davies-Cutting Correspondent

With over 700 student-led organizations available to NC State students, many students overlook this plethora of opportunities to get involved on campus. Students searching for a sense of community within NC State often join fraternities and sororities organizations as a way to meet new people and be a part of something bigger than themselves.

However, traditional fraternity and sorority life is not everybody’s cup of tea. Many students who don’t feel their ideals or personalities align with traditional fraternity and sorority life have found alternative organizations that coincide with their ideals.

Kaley Cross, a third-year studying environmental science founded and acts as scouting vice president for NC State’s chapter of APO which has a strong focus on volunteering.

“Alpha Phi Omega, or APO, is a national co-ed service fraternity that’s foundation is built on leadership, friendship and service, so we do a lot of service on campus and in the community of Raleigh as a group,” Cross said. “I really liked the service aspect of it; I don’t necessarily see traditional Greek life promoting that aspect of their organization as compared to other aspects.”

Cross also appreciates APO’s focus on inclusivity and diversity as a means of meeting different people who share her love for service.

“We are very inclusive, so there is not a very selective process.” Cross said. “Anyone who completes the requirements of pledging and rushing APO are then voted into the fraternity, and I would say the majority of the time people are accepted. We definitely try to promote diversity and inclusivity into our organization. The nice thing about APO is there are people from all the different colleges, majors, backgrounds ... I appreciate that a lot.”

APO services the local Raleigh area by participating in river cleanups and invasive species control as well as partnering with the Brentwood Boys and Girls Club, the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle and the Carolina Tiger Rescue.

Paige Swanson, a third-year studying sci-

The Fraternity and Sorority Life office is located in room 5261 at Talley Student Union.

ence technology and applied nutrition and the leadership director of Omega Phi Alpha, a national service sorority, also sought a group friends who valued service as much as she did when she came to NC State.

“When I got to college, I had decided that I really wanted to make friends with people who really care about volunteering and school,” Swanson said. “I wanted to find a g roup of people that I can be friends with that do similar things as me.”

Omega Phi Alpha serves the community through various means, focusing their primary areas on service.

“We have five primary areas of service: the university community, community at large, members of the sorority, and the nations of the world,” Swanson said. “We have a 5K that we started; this is our third year... and it’s for mental health, and the proceeds go towards the National Alliance on Mental Illness, so that’s like our biggest project we do.”

Like APO, Omega Phi Alpha strives to be

the most inclusive organization they can be and are actively seeking ways to broaden their policy of inclusivity.

“We are trying to get safe chapter certified, which is a certification that Greek organizations can get where... students who identify as GLBT can know that it is a safe place to identify in that way. We have to have 60 or 70 percent of our chapter certified, and it has to be recertified every two years.”

Nolan Cambio, a third-year studying accounting and supply chain management and director of fraternal relations for NC State’s chapter of Alpha Kappa Psi, a national co-ed professional business fraternity, joined Alpha Kappa Psi with the goal of improving his professional development.

“I was looking for a way to get involved on campus, and someone from AKPsi came into one of my business classes and told me about it, and I thought it was really interesting, so I decided to join,” Cambio said.

“Before I joined, I did not have a resume,

“Students searching for a sense of community within NC State often join fraternity and sorority organizations as a way to meet new people and be a part of something bigger than themselves. ”

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did not have a LinkedIn, did not own a suit, but since I’ve joined, my resume has improved a lot, because I’ve been able to get tips from people who have already been interviewing.”

While Alpha Kappa Psi is often referred to as the business fraternity on campus, you do not need to be majoring in business to rush.

“Any major can join, so you don’t have to be in busines. You can be male or female.”

Cambio said. “It’s mostly focused on finding a job, they give you tips just in general when you’re looking for a job.”

Cambio also enjoys the social aspect of his fraternity. Like traditional organizations, APO, Omega Phi Alpha, and AKPsi have participated in many events.

“We have formal, semi-formal, beach weekend, mountain weekend, alumni weekend, and we have fundraisers but those depend on the semester,” Cambio said. “We are a fairly new chapter. Other chapters have something called the Yellow Rose Gala, where you choose a charity and have a gala to raise money and donate. Next fall we are going to have one for the Jimmy V Foundation.”

If you are interested in joining an alternative fraternity or sorority, you can learn more about the organizations mentioned in this article by visiting the fraternity and sorority life website.

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Club Sports Council addresses attendance requirements for end-of-year banquet Amber Detwiler Staff Writer

With the end of the academic year quickly approaching, the Club Sports Council and professionals within club sports are planning the annual Club Sports Banquet.

Ben Strunk, assistant director of sports programs, said the reservation and food are paid for through the club sports program at Wellness and Recreation.

“The Club Sports Banquet is our endof-year celebration for ou r 43 club s p o r t s ,” S t r u n k said. “It is an opportunity for us to celebrate t he accomplishments of the clubs and to recognize some of the award winners and graduating seniors.”

Strunk said some awards presented at the banquet include Athlete of the Year, Club of the Year, Community Service Club of the Year and Club Event of the Year.

“Depending on the year, the room we are in determines how many members we limit each club to bring,” Strunk said.

“We would love to invite everyone if we could.”

As it stands, clubs are required to send at least two club officers to the banquet, said Emerson Grubbs, a third-year studying business administration and presi-

dent of the Club Sports Council.

“You get allocated a certain amount of money, and then at the end of the year if there is any other money that is not collected by clubs, or we receive any extra funds, we reallocate that money towards teams going to nationals, and you pick up the rest of that money at the banquet,” Grubbs said.

Grubbs said this reallocation of funds is what makes club attendance so important.

“In the beginning of every semester, the clubs receive all of the dates for the Leadership Development Series, due dates of budgets, all of the things that give you or don’t give you compliance points,” Grubbs said. “You want to have zero [compliance points]. You get a compliance point if you don’t turn something in on time, or there is an ethics violation, things like that.”

Strunk and Grubbs said that compliance points can be avoided by informing the council of any issues in meeting the attendance requirement beforehand.

“If a club lets us know ahead of time that… there are extenuating circumstances, that is not a problem,” Strunk said. “We have definitely had cases in the past where clubs haven’t come.”

The past year’s banquet didn’t see

“As it stands, clubs are required to send at least two club officers to the banquet. . .”

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any significant absences, according to Grubbs, but even that wasn’t an overly significant problem.

“Last year only one club didn’t come, and the club that didn’t come wasn’t receiving reimbursements for nationals anyway,” Grubbs said. “It was a bummer that they didn’t come, but they didn’t lose any money.... They probably received a compliance point for the following year.”

Grubbs said that failure to attend the banquet could not just result in receiving a compliance point, but create problems

in distribution of reimbursement checks as well.

“It is more of an awards ceremony, and where you can pick up your reimbursement check,” Grubbs said. “That is why it is so important that you attend, so you have someone to pick up that reimbursement check. If they don’t pick it up there, it can get lost in the translation, so to speak.”

The banquet will be occurring April 15 in the Coastal Ballroom in Talley Student Union, Strunk said over email.

Wolfpack prepares for Wildcats in NCAA Regionals

Kailee Jurnak Staff Writer

The NC State gymnastics team heads to Athens, Georgia for the NCAA Regional Championship on Thursday at 3 p.m.

The No. 31 Wolfpack’s first opponent will be No. 34 New Hampshire in order to move forward in the tournament to the second round, which currently consists of No. 1 Oklahoma and California and Maryland, who are tied at No. 16.

Earlier t his season, t he Wolf pack competed against the New Hampshire Wildcats during a quad-meet that also included Rutgers and Brown. The Pack came in second with a score of 195.850 to

the Wildcats’ first-place score of 196.000.

Although the Wildcats placed first, the Wolfpack outperformed them on the vault (48.900-48.875) and bars (49.10048.775).

The Wolfpack faced a similar fate during the EAGL Championship. With a finishing score of 195.275, the Pack placed third. Once again on their home turf, the Wildcats placed first with a final score of 195.950.

Last season, the Wolfpack placed third in the NCAA Regional Championship, scoring 196.050, which was the highest score the Pack has achieved at regionals in program history. Junior Drew

Gra nt ha m placed tent h a l l-a rou nd (39.200) and helped to lead the Pack to this achievement. Grantham scored 9.850 on the vault to finish eighth and 9.775 on the beam.

Seniors Paris and Alexa Phillips scored 9.825 and 9.800, respectively, on the vault. Teammates senior Maggie Tamburro and sophomore Lauren Kent tied on the bars with a score of 9.800.

The Wolfpack has a tough challenge ahead in order to make it to the second round. This year, the Wildcats have consistently proven to be a high-performing team, but they may not fare as well in regionals without their home advantage.

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Junior Drew Grantham performs her floor routine against Western Michigan and William & Mary on Friday, Feb. 22, 2019 at Reynolds Coliseum. Grantham was first in the vault and last in the all-around. The Wolfpack won with a score of 195.350 to Western Michigan’s 193.675 and William and Mary’s 190.800.

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Pack baseball travels to Boston College to fly with Eagles Camden Speight Assistant Sports Editor

The NC State baseball team is heading north to Boston College for a three-game series this weekend after giving up a walk-off home run in a 10-8 loss to South Carolina in its midweek matchup.

The Pack (27-3,10-2 ACC) came back from another deficit to tie it up on Tuesday against the Gamecocks after being down 7-4 in the first inning but couldn’t complete the comeback, failing to get a run in the ninth inning despite getting two runners on.

It marked the third loss of the season for head coach Elliott Avent’s team after losing one game each to ACC opponents Virginia and Florida State. Even Avent said that no team is able to keep up the pace they have been, but it’s still a little shocking when this team loses.

This weekend, the bounce-back opportunity is with the Eagles. Boston College is 14-14 overall and 5-7 in conference play, taking one game of each series from Clemson, Wake Forest and Louisville. However, they did take two out of three from Florida State, outscoring the Seminoles 21-11 in three games.

NC State is coming off a series win over Virginia last weekend after losing the Friday game 4-3. Junior Jason Parker wasn’t quite as

sharp in that game, giving up four runs on eight hits in 4.1 innings but junior Andrew Blake came in and pitched excellently. He went 4.2 innings and gave up just four hits.

On Saturday, sophomore Reid Johnston had the best outing of his career, pitching a six-hit complete-game shutout in a 3-0 NC State win. Freshman Tyler McDonough and senior Evan Edwards both had two hits while no other player had more than one hit.

In the rubber match, NC State used seven pitchers, a theme that the Pack has seen a couple of times this year, including in the loss against South Carolina, where it pitched eight. Fortunately, junior Will Wilson led the Pack with three doubles and two RBIs. McDonough and junior Jonny Butler both collected two hits.

It will be really interesting to see how the pitching staff, particularly Parker, bounces back. Parker has had two rough starts in a row, but before those, he was dominant.

Johnston almost certainly won’t have the same sort of success from last weekend, but it does seem like he is starting to get it together.

On the other hand, the Wolfpack is still looking for its Sunday starter. In past series, it’s been sophomore Canaan Silver and junior Alec Barger, but both of them struggled against South Carolina, recording one out each. The Sunday starter for this week is

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Junior infielder Will Wilson celebrates after hitting a triple and allowing the Pack to score two runs to tie the game against South Carolina on Tuesday, April 2, 2019 at BB&T Ballpark in Charlotte. Wilson had four hits, one of which was a home run. The Wolfpack lost to the Gamecocks 10-8 on a walk-off home run.

completely up in the air.

There is no worry about the offense, especially against an Eagles team with a 5.19 ERA which is tied for 11th in the ACC. For reference, NC State is second in the ACC

behind Louisville with a 3.62 ERA. NC State starts the series on Friday at 4 p.m., followed by a Saturday game at 2 p.m. and Sunday at 1 p.m.

Pack men’s tennis falls to UNC-Chapel Hill Tyler Stocum Staff Writer

On Wednesday night, the NC State men’s tennis team was swept by UNC-Chapel Hill 4-0. With the loss, the Pack falls to 14-8 (5-3 ACC), while the Tar Heels move to 14-4 (6-2 ACC).

In doubles, the Pack fought hard with two of the three courts going into tiebreakers. The Tar Heels took the doubles point with victories on court one and court three.

In singles, the Tar Heels came out firing, winning all four of the first sets, and the Pack was unable to overcome the beginning deficit, ultimately leading to their loss.

UNC’s Blaine Boyden took down sophomore Robert Turzak quickly by a score of 6-0, 6-2.

The Tar Heels’ Brian Cernoch cruised in the first set, but senior Igor Saveljic battled back in the second set, taking it to a tiebreaker before losing 6-0, 7-6 (4).

The final singles match that finished was a top-30 matchup between No. 29 William Blumberg and 22nd-ranked Junior Alexis Galarneau. Blumberg defeated Galarneau 6-3, 7-5.

The Wolfpack will be back in action this weekend on the road, taking on Georgia Tech Friday and Clemson Sunday.

“In singles, the Tar Heels came out firing, winning all four of the first sets and the Pack was unable to overcome the beginning deficit. . .”

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Junior Alexis Galarneau reaches for the ball during his singles match in J.W. Isenhour Tennis Center on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. He lost the match 7-5, 6-1 as the Wolfpack lost 4-2 overall to Wake Forest.

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Hurricanes to play final home game of season against New Jersey

Ryan Henkel Correspondent

The Carolina Hurricanes will play the final home game of their season Thursday night as they take on the New Jersey Devils at PNC Arena.

The Canes have the potential to clinch their first playoff berth since 2009 with a regulation or overtime win over New Jersey coupled with any loss by the Montreal Canadiens who are playing Thursday night in Washington. If the Hurricanes win in the shootout, they would need Montreal to lose in regulation to clinch.

The Pittsburgh Penguins, who sit third in the Metropolitan division and two points ahead of Carolina, are also in action Thursday as they take on the Detroit Red Wings.

The Devils have been decimated by injuries in what has certainly been a disappointing season for the New Jersey team which qualified for the playoffs last season and which could now

finish this season as low as 30th.

Star winger and reigning Hart Trophy winner Taylor Hall has been out from the Devils lineup since Dec. 23 with a knee injury, and current New Jersey team points leader, Kyle Palmieri, will not be available for the game at Carolina after being held out against the New York Rangers on April 1 with a lower-body injury.

In goal for the Devils will most likely be rookie netminder, Mackenzie Blackwood, who has set himself as a potential number-one goalie moving forward for New Jersey. Blackwood won his only career game against Carolina in a shutout performance in December.

For Carolina, the question of netminder is a toss-up, as both Petr Mrazek and Curtis McElhinney have put up exceptional seasons for the Hurricanes. Head coach Rod Brind’Amour will either stick with the hot-hand of Mrazek who backstopped the Canes to a 4-1 win over the

“For Carolina, the question of netminder is a toss-up, as both Petr Mrazek and Curtis McElhinney have put up exceptional seasons for the Hurricanes.”

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Left winger Warren Foegele bails to celebrate after scoring on Washington Capitals goaltender Braden Holtby during the second period in PNC Arena, Thursday, March 28, 2019. Despite an equally matched hustle throughout regulation, the Canes fell to the Caps, 3-2.

Toronto Maple Leafs Tuesday night, or he will continue his rotation and go with the cool head of McElhinney.

The Hurricanes have also relied heavily on their depth and defensive scoring as of late in the absence of goals from their top line. Sebastian Aho, Justin Williams and Nino Niederreiter have combined for only five goals in

their last 12 games, but despite this, the top line has found success being paired against and shutting down the other top lines around the league.

Still, with the possible return of playoff hockey to Carolina, a big offensive game from the number-one line would be a welcome sign for the Canes postseason potential.

Offense stalls out, Pack falls on the road to UNC-Greensboro Jake Caccavaro Staff Writer

The NC State softball team lost 2-1 on the road at UNC-Greensboro Wednesday night, halting its three-game winning streak.

The Wolfpack (20-16, 2-7 ACC) was stifled on offense all night and couldn’t provide enough run support for junior right-hander Devin Wallace, who twirled a complete-game gem but was handed the loss.

The Spartans (21-12) struck first, plating a run in the bottom of the third inning after a wild pitch and passed ball put a runner on third base with two outs. A two-out single to left field by first baseman Marisa Sholtes put UNCG up 1-0.

Just a few minutes later, sophomore left fielder Sam Russ struck right back for NC State, launching a solo home run to right field and evening the score at 1-1. With the heart of its lineup following Russ, the Pack struck out in order, fanning three straight times to

end the inning.

UNCG answered in the next half inning, with infielder Hanna Kincer taking advantage of a rare Wallace miscue and ripping an RBI double to center field, giving the Spartans back a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.

The Wolfpack threatened to come back in the top of the sixth inning, as Russ stayed hot with a double to left field, putting a runner on second base with just one out. Russ’ double was to no avail, though, with junior right fielder Brigette Nordberg and sophomore third baseman Logan Morris each popping up in the infield to kill the rally.

Russ and sophomore infielder Chandley Garner were the only Pack batters to reach base, with Russ going 2 for 3 with a home run and a double and Garner reaching base on two singles. Continuing a recent trend, Russ was one of the offense’s lone contributors. The Pack’s star leadoff hitter has now reached base 13 times in the Wolfpack’s last five games and has been putting the team on her back as of

late.

After coming alive in a series win over Boston College, NC State’s bats fell silent. The Pack struck out 12 times and didn’t draw a single walk, rarely getting runners on base to start a rally.

Wallace turned in one of her best performances of the season in the loss, striking out nine batters and allowing just two hits and one earned run in a six-inning complete game.

NC State returns to action on Friday at 6 p.m. when it kicks off a three-game series against Syracuse at Dail Softball Stadium.

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Sophomore outfielder Sam Russ rounds first base against Virginia Tech on Saturday, March 16, 2019 at Dail Softball Stadium.

Russ went 1-2 with one double and one walk in the Wolfpack’s 2-1 loss to the Hokies.

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