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Class disturbance leads to student arrest MEaGaN JORDaN Editor In Chief

A student was arrested and charged with resisting a police officer Thursday.

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University police responded to a class disruption call in Crosby Hall, regarding a student’s refusal to pull up his pants at the request of a professor, leading to the student’s arrest.

Jordan Baker, 22, declined to be interviewed for this story.

Journalism and Mass Communication professor Vanessa Cunningham-Engram asked the

student in her Thursday morning class to pull up his pants.

After much deliberate the student refused and she called the journalism department main office, which then called security.

“I literally had tears in my eyes, I care for all my students,” said Engram, who was pained by the fact that the situation was unnecessary. “It is important to respect our educational institution, the professors who care about their students and the right of every student to learn in an environment free of adversity and disrepute,” said Engram.

According to the warrant, the student was asked twice to step

into the hallway. After refusing to do so the officer went to detain him. Baker jerked away and walked to the back of the classroom. He was then placed in handcuffs and advised that he was under arrest.

“He wears his pants like that everyday,” said a classmate of the student who wishes to remain anonymous. According to the classmate, the student was sitting in the second row of the classroom, where only the sides of his boxers were visible.

According to the classmate, approximately 45 minutes into class the professor asked the student to pull up his pants. The

student began to explain that he was not doing anything wrong.

Baker refused to do as he was told and continued with his work. The professor then said she would call security. The student continued taking notes and the professor resumed teaching.

“Usually he is disruptive but this is the one day he wasn’t,” said classmate.

The professor asked the student to pull up his pants during previous class periods and he cooperated.

“I want excellence and integrity. There is a time, place and manner. We can disagree but we should respect. We (young

black men) are targeted, we don’t need to give them a reason to look at us in another light,” said Engram University officials want to clarify, that the student was not arrested because he did not pull up his pants. However, his disrupting class as a result of being asked to pull up his pants was against university policy.

“You cannot dictate how people dress, people have the right to express themselves. No state school in the UNC school system has a prescribed dress code for their student body,” said Dr. Melody Pierce, vice chancellor of student affairs.

In the N.C. A&T State University 2014-2015 Student Handbook pg. 87 letter L. the Disruptive Conduct Policy reads: “N.C. A&T has long honored the right of free discussion and expression, peaceful picketing and demonstrations, and the right to petition and peaceful assembly. Without question, these rights are a part of the fabric of the University, and they must remain secure. However, in a community of learning, willful disruption of the educational process, destruction of property  See aRREST on Page 5

N.C. A&T Student presents at White House MEaGaN JORDaN Editon In Chief

First year graduate student Brianna Benedict will be presenting at the White House today. Originally from Goldsboro, N.C., Benedict is an industrial and systems engineering student.

Research and Economic development sent two projects to the White House initiative. The White House chose the project from Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems challenged N.C. A&T, and Iowa state students to The Boeing Urban High Rise Rescue VTOL 42040. The sole purpose of the challenge was

to design an aircraft system to save people from high rises and emergency situations.

This challenge was designed in case of an emergency, in which stairways are blocked and there is a need to evacuate, one is able to do so out of the side of a building.

The solution provides a ramp in which allows people to be saved from places that one typically cannot be rescued from.

“Create the future, that’s the best part about it,” said Gaivorlor Borbor, senior electrical engineering student, who was Benedict’s team member for the challenge.

Students were split into teams of two, blue and white; Benedict  See White house on Page 3

Bluford Library receives Samsung Galaxy Nooks DOMiNiQuE MOODY Register Reporter

As innovative technology continues to change on our campus, Campus Enterprises, Bluford Library and Barnes and Noble bookstore contribute with their recent partnership. on Twenty Samsung Galaxy 4 Nook tablets are available for check out this week at Bluford Library.

According to Associate Vice Chancellor of Campus Enterprises, Angela A. Peter-

son, Barnes and Noble donated Nooks to the Campus Enterprises who then donated the Nooks to Bluford Library. The Galaxy 4 Nooks’ will be available in white or black, with protective cases for damage prevention.

“We thought that our library would be a great resource to take ownership of these recently developed 20 Galaxy tablets. They are the latest version and can be utilize by all students that have a need for technology,” said Peterson.

In the summer, Campus En-

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Family Weekend breaks registration record Family Weekend reached a new recording this weekend, with over 900 registered participants.

Last year, a total of 780 people registered making over a 100-person increase. According to New Student Programs Director, Jeremicus Porter, they also prepared to admit participants who decided to come on Saturday.

Over 1,200 participants were expected to come to help support the Aggie Football team as they took on Chowan University.

This year’s Family Weekend tailgate served as an attempt to encourage and get families and students involved around campus.

On Friday, Paul Robeson Theater and the Civil Rights Museum was open for visitation, for those who arrived early for the weekend festivities.

In the past, Friday served as family day followed by a

chancellor’s brunch on Sunday.

However, due to high registration, the program changed arrangements.

Student organizations, cheerleaders, the Blue and Gold Marching Machine and a live band were involved in Family Weekend.

The numerous performances gave families an opportunity to watch students perform in extracurricular activities and engage with administrators, faculty and staff.

“It’s good to know that the school can come together and have events for the parents.

It’s fun because I get to see my daughter and she’s in the band.” said parent, Regina Ruffin.

Many families come for this particular weekend to spend time with their student and to show Aggie Pride. “There are some students that are first generation.This is their opportunity to have their families come and say look this is what I’m involved in at A&T and this is what we do here at A&T

because some families never come down to visit their child once they drop them off during the first week of school, so this g i v e sthem the op-portunity to see the culture of our university first hand,” said Porter.

The events also helped the university find parents who wanted to get involved in building the structure for a new organization, Aggie Parent Association.

This will help establish a strong relationship with families, getting them actively involved with N.C. A&T. “I love the energy. The fact that Aggie land has embraced families and especially for students that are far away. Luckily, I’m local and only a few hours away but I hear students are from Kansas and Maryland, so it’s a great opportunity for families to come in,” said Alumni Christopher Harris.

Originated out of the Office of Student Development, Family Weekend has been around for the last seven years, but not

to the extent that it is now.

Since New Student Programs has taken over Family Weekend, the numbers have expandedfrom the pasttwo to three hundred-attendance rates.

The general support of students has increased the attendance. “I am very excited. Our staff has worked very hard to ensure that this event goes great,”said Porter.

“I just want to again thank everyone that supported the event. We are looking forward to doing this event every year because that’s what Aggies do,” said Porter.

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and Borbor were on the white team. The teams consisted of both N.C. A&T and Iowa students, who met on social media from media outlets such as Skype, in order to complete the project. It “taught [us] to work in teams and interdisciplinary to combine all of our skills,” said Benedict.

The White House presentation is not a competition, but rather a show and tell initiative.

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terprises was told that a small amount of Galaxy tablets would be sent to the university for circulation. Once the information was disclosed, Bluford Library was the first department to notify the Campus Enterprises of their eagerness to get the tablets for the students.

Peterson, who wants to make sure that students are getting a high caliber education as well as quality resources, said “Our partnership was designed to help enable our technology and create added value to a student’s education while at A&T.” Dean of Library Services, Vicki Coleman is also a strong advocate for the partnership.

“In the past, we circulated iPads to the students and faculty, which is our most popular technology resource that is circulated. We were informed that the library will be receiving the new Samsung Galaxy Nook, to add to our technology resources,” said Coleman.

Coleman believes the partnership will allow a variety of resources for students.

The Samsung Galaxy Nook has a 7-inch display, with measurements rounding out to be 7.36 x 4.25. The Nook weighs 0.6 lbs., allowing access to the Google Play store, and survives

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close to 10 hours and 45 minutes.

“Since we are a technical school, we should embody that the to the fullest. This also means that we should be the paragon for technical and nontechnical schools. The new improvements to the library reassures me that the university is doing what they need to do to remain competitive,” said senior, computer science student Brandon Veal.

The checkout policy of the Samsung Galaxy Nooks’ will be similar to the Apple Ipads.

Samsung Galaxy Nooks are available for checkout by current N.C. A&T students, faculty and staff on a “first come first served” basis. A current N.C. A&T ID must be presented at the time of checkout. Nooks must be returned in person to the Circulation Desk. Those who utilize the Nooks, will be responsible for any damage.

Overdue Samsung Galaxy Nooks will be reported to the police.

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Q&A with SGA VPEA James Brown 1.How was it growing up in Miami? How were you able to adjust to living in a slower area such as Greensboro?

Growing up in Miami was an awesome experience; very diverse, fast pace and fun. I lived there all of my life. My parents still live there so that’s where I go home to on breaks and take my friends home with me for spring break. I think Miami is in the top 5 best cities in the world, because there is no place like it.

When you are there you can feel the energy and fun in the air.

Once I moved to Greensboro I was able to adjust after a while once I got comfortable. The hardest part of my freshman year was not having a car and adjusting to the cold.

2. You started your own DJ and event/marketing company at the age of 15. What is it called? Have you made any revenue? Describe it to me; this is an amazing thing to start at age 15.

My company is called JBrown Entertainment. My DJ name is DJ Erratic. I have made a great amount of revenue and also lost revenue. The concept came in high school. DJing run’s in my family. My father, uncle and cousins were DJs. I have always been around music.

I have played three different instruments; piano, baritone, and cello. So around the age of 15, I worked at Cold Stone Creamery.

I liked it at first because it was my first job, but after a while I hated it. I saw my older cousin running his own sound and lighting Company, and I was interested in DJing so I started learning November 2008. Once I was ready, I started advertising myself around school and got book for my first gig. I did not start throwing parties until later that year. I started off doing my

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annual birthday party and from the success of that I started charging to DJ at events.

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What has having your own business taught you?

Having my own business has taught me how to run a business in a professional way, made me a stronger individual, and not to trust everyone. I really love what I do.

4. As VPEA, so far homecoming seems to be a hit.

Did you have a hand in getting certain artist here due to your many connections?

Yes! Homecoming sales and feedback has been great so far.

None of my connections had a hand in getting any of the artists, but my music knowledge helped. N.C. A&T works with a company called Diamond Life Concerts. Through the president, Tony Williams, we contacted the artist’s agents. We started this process as soon as the survey results were collected in early June.

5. How does it feel to be VPEA? It feels awesome to be VPEA. It’s always been a goal of mine to be in this position. I am having a lot of fun. I do not see it as a job or a burden because I am enjoying what I am doing. I remember who I am doing this for; the students of N.C. A&T. 6. Homecoming is coming up pretty fast. Are you excited, stressed, anxious? Describe your emotions towards homecoming now that you are in a position of power?

I am excited and anxious. I have known the lineup since about July, so all of that excitement has been building up. I am anxious because we don’t want anything detrimental to happen; for example, a cancellation or an artist getting sick. But things like that are out of your control, so that makes you anxious for it to get here.

7. What’s your major?

What do you plan on doing once you graduate?

I am a supply chain management student. It’s a business major. Once I graduate, I plan on working for a fortune 500 company. While I am working keep expanding my entertainment company, I plan to save up my money and eventually become a full-time entrepreneur with real estate development, franchises, investments and anything else I can get my hands on.

8. Anything else you would like to tell the student body?

I appreciate everyone who voted me into office and believed in me. Also, to always give feedback positive and negative, be patient and understanding. SGA as a whole is striving to improve and keep raising the bar. We are about the student needs and wants. If it’s feasible we will try our hardest to make it happen. Also to follow @ncat_davissga on Twitter and Instagram, @ghoe14 on Twitter and Instagram and also follow my personal pages at @ dj_erratic on Twitter and @djerratic on Instagram.

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In celebration of the 227th anniversary of the signing of the United States Constitution, students and faculty gathered on Thursday for a teach in, focusing on the 50th year anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The event hosted by the political science and criminal justice, history and journalism and mass communication departments, allowed students and faculty to share and reflect on memories involving Civil Rights.

Civil rights activist, Bob Zellner, also a former member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, better known as SNCC, was a guest speaker. Zellner who comes from a family line of Ku Klux Klan men was influenced to become involved with the Civil Rights Movement.

Zellner’s father a Methodist preacher and former Klan man was the main reason he became involved.

Zellner recounted his en-

counters with Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks. “They were normal people, who just wanted to make a difference,” said Zellner. According to Zellner, if Dr. King was still alive today he would be proud of the advances made; however, he would say that there is still a lot of work to be done. “People need to be able to take a risk. Pay attention to those who are still poor and give back for changes to happen,” said Zellner.

Students and guests were also encouraged to speak about the rights of minorities, as well as future initiatives. Of these people was civics and economics teacher Demonte Alford.

“The system does not value us as people, so it’s our duty to value the system and change the system.” Both men agree that the best way to change the system and make a change is by voting and encouraging others to vote.

“We want them to know about their history, to feel compelled to learn about their history,” said Dr. Vanessa Cunning-

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ham- Engram, a professor in the journalism department and coordinator of Constitution Day. Students and faculty members were encouraged to vote and be informed. “Know what they are voting for and to inform other people who do not have the knowledge they have,” said Cunningham-Engram.

For further involvement attending the 3-3-3 Democracy/ Voter Empowerment Campaign, on Sept. 28, 2014 will be beneficial. The campaign is designed to make use of all resources and tools to inform, inspire, and maximize Guilford County voting in the November 2014 elections.

The next gathering will take place at Shiloh Baptist Church, 1210 Eugene St. Greensboro, N.C., at 4:00 pm.

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sities in attendance. Benedict and Borbor were two of six students who worked on the project. When the presentation to the White House was proposed, Benedict was the only one considered. With majority of her teammates graduating they thought she was the only team member who will be enrolled in Fall 2014.

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CAMPING FOR SIRI Chris Anderson, 20, right, sleeps around the corner from the front doors of the Apple Store on the 600 block of North Michigan Avenue at about 3:15 a.m. Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, in Chicago. Anderson was the second person in line (his work boss was no. 1), having arrived at 3:00 p.m. Wednesday, to purchase an iPhone 6.

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Across the Bay Area and beyond, the Apple faithful rose before dawn Friday, lined up on the cold, hard concrete and then forked over hundreds of dollars — all so they could be first to own the iPhone 6.

What they might not have realized is that Apple needs them just as much as they feel they need the latest versions of its iconic phone.

Seven years after its debut, the iPhone has become the lifeblood of Apple. The pocketsize powerhouse already drives more than half of the company's sales, and that figure is likely heading north. Outfitted with the larger screens that consumers crave, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus sparked record preorders last week and flew off

the shelves Friday. With sales for the rest of Apple's gadgets largely flat, the company's fortunes will rise and fall with the iPhone, analysts say.

As Colin Gillis of BGC Financial put it: Apple is the iPhone company.”

It's an ironic turn for a company that began as a computer maker determined to be known for more than its flagship Mac. Apple dropped “Computer” from its name in 2007, the year the original iPhone was released, to cement the shift to a broader array of personal electronics.

To be sure, the iPhone is a great device to lean on _ it yields huge profits for Apple, and the global smartphone market is red hot. Nevertheless, analysts say, companies generally try to draw their sales from various products to hedge against risk.

“It’s dangerous to have all your eggs in one basket,” said Roger May of Endpoint Technologies Associates.

What's more, growth in the smartphone market is increasingly coming from the lower end, but the iPhone is getting pricier.

The iPhone 6 Plus starts at $299 with a two-year contract ­— $100 more than Apple’s marquee device last year.

“If the premium space slows down, that would be negative for Apple because they are so dependent on the iPhone,” Gillis said.

Yet for some consumers, Apple must simply name its price.

The company announced that it received a record 4 million preorders for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus on the first day they were available, twice the volume it reported for the iPhone 5.

Some of those sales may be

coming at the iPad's expense.

As smartphones expand and tablets shrink, analysts suspect that many consumers will not see the need to lug both devices around.

The iPad Mini seems particularly vulnerable, measuring 7.9 inches diagonally, compared with the 5.5-inch display of the iPhone 6 Plus.

Yet Apple probably isn't afraid of cannibalizing sales of the Mini, said analyst Gene Munster, noting that the company gleans much more profit from sales of its premium iPhone.

“They would rather sell you one iPhone 6 Plus than an iPhone and an iPad,” said Munster, who is a managing director at research firm Piper Jaffray.

And strong iPhone sales could bode well for other gadgets in Apple's portfolio. The iPhone is designed to work best

with other Apple devices, perhaps enticing consumers who start with the smartphone to rack up more products.

After introducing the latest iPhones last week at a flashy event in Cupertino, Apple executives rolled out Apple Pay, a mobile payments service, and the Apple Watch, a timepiece that tracks users’ fitness.

Yet despite the new offerings, the iPhone's dominance doesn't seem to be letting up anytime soon. The Apple Pay service is built into the latest iPhones as well as the smartwatch.

And Apple Watch users must have an iPhone on their person to take advantage of most of the timepiece's features.

“You can’t have either of them without the iPhone, plain and simple,” said Ramon Llamas, an analyst at technology research firm IDC.

Mexico a major force in world’s auto industry and Audis. Many Nissan vehicles that roll out of the existing plants in Aguascalientes AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico­ are bound not for domestic —­ It might be a stretch to de- showrooms or to auto dealers scribe Aguascalientes in north- in the United States but for Bracentral Mexico as the new De- zil, Colombia, the United Arab troit. But it wouldn't be a huge Emirates and dozens of other markets. stretch.

The huge growth comes not Mexico's automotive sector is at full throttle, and Aguas- just because of Mexico's good calientes is one of several cities highways and railways, its primed by foreign car manufac- healthy steel industry and its turers to rev its engines. Once cheap wages. It's also because a sleepy railway crossroads, of plentiful engineers and the Aguascalientes now has two skill of global automakers at massive auto plants and a third keeping quality high, wherever on the way. This is making it their cars are built.

"The quality and cost of Mexwhat one national newspaper ican (automotive) products have called a "mini-Detroit."

"We're going to produce 1.1 no equal in Latin America," said million vehicles just in Aguas- Luis Lozano Soto, automotive calientes by 2020," said Rod- team leader at the Mexico City olfo Esau Garza de Vega, head offices of PricewaterhouseCooof economic development in the pers, a global consulting firm.

There's another key factor. state.

Nearly every major global President Enrique Pena Nieto, automaker now either builds in announcing in August that in Mexico or plans to erect an the South Korean automaker assembly plant in the country. Kia would build a $1 billion Billions in investment have ar- plant outside Monterrey, noted that Mexico has free-trade rived.

Mexico has leapfrogged agreements with 45 nations. other auto producing nations. In The United States, in contrast, 2009, Mexico was the world's has free-trade accords in force 10th largest auto producer. with only 20 countries. Brazil But it's soared past Spain and has only eight free-trade agreeFrance, and earlier this year it ments.

"We have a unique geographsurged by Brazil to become the world's No. 7 automaker and the ical location with privileged acfourth largest exporter. Experts cess not only to North and Latin say Mexico is one of the most America markets but also those dynamic hubs of the global auto of Europe and Asia," Pena Nieto said. industry.

About 66 percent of MexiGone are the days when Mexico produced only compact co's auto exports currently go sedans and pickup trucks. Later to the U.S. market, 8 percent to this decade, new plants will be Canada, 11-12 percent to Latin producing premium vehicles, America, 8.3 percent to Europe BMWs and Mercedes, Infinitis and the remainder to Asia and Tim Johnson

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GLOBAL MARKET Nissan’s factory in Aguascalientes is the third plant built in Mexico, and part of the explosive growth that is turning the country into the world’s fourth largest exporter of cars.

the Middle East, Lozano said.

The history of Nissan, the Japanese automaker, in Mexico reflects the growth of the auto industry as a whole.

More than half a century ago, Nissan chose Mexico as the site for its first assembly plant outside Asia. Now it dominates the Mexican market, with a 26 percent share. Five of the top 10 best-selling vehicles are Nissan models.

Nissan built its first plant in Cuernavaca, near Mexico City. It built a second plant in Aguascalientes three decades ago. Then in November, it inaugurated a second Aguascalientes plant, which it had built in a record 19 months. Now, its two Aguascalientes plants

produce a car every 38 seconds during working hours.

Nissan exports cars it produces in Mexico to 50 countries, said spokesman Herman Morfin Ortiz.

At the new plant, a stamping facility that molds rolled steel into fenders and chassis parts clangs and hisses. But overall, the rest of the factory has little of the racket of older auto assembly plants. Each chassis moves along the assembly line on a silent robotic vehicle that follows a magnetic strip. It's a major advance from the noisier overhead rails that pull a vehicle at the other Aguascalientes plant.

All workers wear gloves.

"The idea is that no worker

touches the vehicle directly until the new owner takes possession," said Irvin Herrera, who led visitors through the plant.

Next to the Nissan plant is the Douki Seisan industrial park, home to three component manufacturers. Shuttle vehicles deliver components, like new seats or engine hoses, to the Nissan plant, often more than once an hour.

The direct investment of automakers in cities like Aguascalientes has been huge. But Mexico also benefits from an incoming tide of auto parts manufacturers.

Nissan has about 300 suppliers today, 39 of them Mexican-owned companies, said spokesman Morfin.

Larry Ellison, among the last of the old lions who transformed a fruit-and-nut-growing backwater into Silicon Valley, is stepping down as chief executive of the company he founded, Oracle Corp.

Ellison, 70, won't be retiring to Lanai, the Hawaiian island he owns, or to his Malibu estate or to roam the oceans racing yachts. He'll stay on at Oracle as "full time" executive chairman and chief technology officer, trying to navigate the company through massive technological change that threatens Oracle's future.

The CEO reins go to coPresidents Mark Hurd and Safra Catz, and "all the other reporting relationships will remain unchanged," Ellison said in a statement.

"He's not going anywhere," said Tim Bajarin, tech analyst and president of Creative Strategies.

Some analysts believe that Ellison will still be running the show. Rob Enderle, principal analyst of Enderle Group, suspects that Ellison's move is designed to hide the full breadth of his Oracle pay package, because CTO salaries don't need to be disclosed.

Some institutional investors have complained about his outsized compensation, from which Ellison has built a personal fortune estimated by Forbes at $51.3 billion _ making him the fifth-richest person in the world.

"When you're dealing with someone like Larry, you figure he's dealing with some problem creatively. He already doesn't work a 9-to-5 day now, so what more would he need to cut back?" Enderle said.

"The only problem he's got is that some stockholders have been screaming about his salary being excessive."

The shift "doesn't really change things," said Scott McNealy, former Sun Microsystems CEO and current chairman of social media marketing start-up Wayin. "He's going to continue to do the things he's going to continue to do."

Whatever Ellison's continuing role at Oracle, his move marks the end of an era.

Contemporaries like McNealy, Andy Grove of Intel and Jim Clark of Silicon Graphics have moved out of the spotlight. The founders of Hewlett-Packard, Bill Hewlett and David Packard _ the original start-in-the-garage entrepreneurs _ died years ago. Apple founder Steve Jobs died in 2011.

"Larry Ellison is one of the top technology CEOs of all time," said John Chambers, Cisco Systems' chief executive.

Ellison's move is similar to the one that Bill Gates made when the Microsoft founder stepped down as CEO in 2000.

He moved into a newly minted role of chief software architect and let new CEO Steve Ballmer run the company. It didn't work well. Microsoft lost out to new innovators on the Internet, in smartphones, tablets and more.

Ballmer resigned as CEO and bought the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team this year.

Although a profitable behemoth with $38 billion in annual sales, Oracle faces similar struggles as nimble young innovators nip at its heels.

The biggest threat to Oracle's core database business is cloud computing. Apparently, Ellison figures that the best chance to safeguard his company is to focus on its technological challenges, letting others handle the day-to-day grunt work.

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Life Skills: Finding balance in college LACI OLLISON Word Editor

Monday: Class from 9:00 to 9:50 a.m,, work from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and then I spend the majority of the evening in the newsroom working on this newspaper, leaving at around 8:00 or 9:00 p.m. at night, sometimes later.

Tuesday: Classes back to back from 9:30 a.m. until 3:15 p.m., after which I stay in the newsroom until at least 8:00 p.m. finishing up the newspaper.

Wednesday is a repeat of

Monday, except I usually have two meetings after work at 5:00 p.m..

Thursday is a repeat of Tuesday, with the addition of the college bible study that I teach at my church.

Friday consists of class, work, rehearsal with my youth choir, which I direct, and editing a few papers.

Saturday I am back at my church once again for rehearsals and meetings. I arise early on Sunday morning to teach Sunday school, then to direct our choir during regular worship service. In addition to this busy schedule, I also fit in time

to attend events and addition to the fact that I meetings held by my have hereditary chronic job after hours, do migraines, my headaches my homework, go are more frequent beover my lessons for cause of my hectic life. bible study and SunI have moments where I day school, mentor want to quit everything the students in my and just go to class, eat, ministry and manage sleep, and hang out like a to have at least a few normal college student. hours a week to deBut I stop myself and vote to my personal Laci realize that this is the OLLISON life. life that I chose. I could This is my life not imagine it any other every week. At times I wonder way. Everything that I do brings what I am doing with my life. me such fulfillment and joy. The I experience a roller coaster of late nights and early mornings, emotions throughout the week; headaches, high blood presfrom stress, to excitement. In sure, sore feet, and stress are all

worth it.

Finding balance has been one of my goals since I took on these responsibilities within the past few months. Recently I was in a conference for young professionals when one of the session facilitators made a statement that lit up every light bulb in my brain, and removed some of the weight from my shoulders. She simply said, “Finding balance is impossible.”

This statement gave me reassurance. It made me realize that I can have this life, run around all week like I have my head cut off, and that is okay. It ceased the search for balance and sta-

bility that I was on. I began to realize that no matter what, life goes on. And if all of these responsibilities are things that I want to do, then I can do it.

I do not have the life of an average college student, and that is alright. But what I do have is a life full of fulfillment. I have a life that is meaningful in which I am able to serve and give back to those around me.

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A message to YouTube: Don’t be rude KARIN CHENOWETH MCT Campus

Google’s YouTube is such a rich repository of material from so many sources global news broadcasts and TV shows, short films, live performances and amateur recordings that it has become the Internet’s unofficial video archive. That’s why the company’s threat to remove videos uploaded by independent record companies because of a dispute over a forthcoming YouTube service is so alarming.

YouTube is no longer an upstart in a crowded market; it’s a dominant player whose decisions have enormous consequences for its users. And the threat it has leveled against indie labels suggests that the company has lost touch with that reality.

YouTube ranks as one of the world’s most popular online destinations for music. The site has countless official and unofficial music videos, covers, clips from concerts and karaoke performances of the work of practically every artist to use a microphone. Over time, the vast majority of the industry has teamed up with YouTube to try to turn fans’ interest into cash by adding advertisements to their uploads. The main shortcoming is that the ads yield a microscopic amount of revenue per video played.

To generate higher per-song royalties, the music industry has long urged YouTube to launch a service such as the ones Spotify, Rhapsody and Rdio offer, charging users a monthly fee to play an unlimited amount of music.

The company is now preparing to do just that, and says that 95% of its label partners have signed on to the new service, in-

cluding all three major record companies. Among the holdouts, though, are some smaller labels and notable artists. And in order not to have the current free service compete with the new subscription-based one, YouTube has told these labels and artists that it will take down their music videos and no longer provide a home for advertiser-supported uploads.

That means if fans upload videos using these labels’ recordings, the labels will be able to ask YouTube only to remove them, not monetize them.

The holdouts have complained to regulators on both sides of the Atlantic that the terms YouTube is offering are skewed in favor of the big labels. That’s an issue they’ll have to resolve in private negotiations. But YouTube shouldn’t be able to use its dominant position in advertiser-supported video to coerce labels into supporting a new product, even if it would understandably prefer not have that new product compete with its current offering.

Similarly, Amazon’s apparent bullying of Hachette Book Group raises hackles because the e-commerce king seems to be using its huge share of the printed book market to force the publisher to accept its terms for e-books. The lesson the tech world should have learned from the Justice Department’s pursuit of Microsoft in the 1990s and 2000s is that a different set of rules applies to companies once they start wielding enormous power in a market. Those rules now apply to YouTube, whether the company likes it or not.

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Understanding the difference between curriculum and standards KARIN CHENOWETH MCT Campus

Fanning the firestorm over Common Core State Standards is the fear that by adopting common standards, states are signing onto a national curriculum and thus undermining the decisions of local school boards and educators.

But before going too far down that road, an important distinction needs to be made between standards _ which outline what students should know and be able to do at each grade level, and curriculum, which is what happens day to day and week to week in classrooms. Standards remain constant, but curriculum can be altered year-to-year or classroom-to-classroom to ensure students are meeting the learning goals.

Let me illustrate with examples from three high-perform-

ing, high-poverty schools in three different states.

I asked them to share with me lessons they had developed to meet three of Common Core’s reading and language arts standards, which say that fifth-graders should know how to: -Use a dictionary and other reference materials.

-Identify the main ideas and supporting details of a text.

-Cite evidence to support an answer.

The first lesson, from George Hall Elementary in Mobile, Ala., is on the human circulatory system, part of a larger unit on major body systems, including the respiratory, excretory and reproductive systems. During the lesson, the teacher introduced particular terms the students would encounter in their reading, such as capillaries and white blood cells and asked the students to look up and record the defini-

tion of those terms in their science journals. Students then read “The Circulatory System,” the fictional “A Journey through the Digestive System with Max Axiom,” and consulted other non-fiction books. At the end of the lesson, students were asked to describe the function of the circulatory system in three to five sentences, citing evidence from the texts.

The second is from Finlay Elementary in Miami and is part of a three-week literature unit on “Hatchet,” a story of wilderness survival. The teacher discussed the genre of realistic fiction with the students and then introduced vocabulary words such as hatchet, vibration and rudder. Students read along as the teacher read aloud, modeling fluent and expressive reading. Every couple of chapters, they wrote an analysis of the main ideas of the chapters along

with the supporting details and an analysis of how the chapters fit together. This unit was paired with an environmental unit they were doing in science that culminated with a field trip to the Biscayne Bay where students learned about the kind of conditions in which the “Hatchet” protagonist found himself.

The third is from De Queen Elementary in southwestern Arkansas and is part of a large interdisciplinary English and science unit on the environment that has as its core question, “Why is it important to protect and preserve the Earth?” Before the students read “The River Ran Wild” by Lynne Cherry, a non-fiction account of the pollution and subsequent restoration of the Nashua River, teachers introduced vocabulary that students would encounter, with a focus on multisyllabic words with prefixes, suffixes, root

words, and inflectional endings such as industrial and migration. After reading the book, they read about the Dust Bowl, which helped bring about the Great Depression, and other environmental effects of industry and farming. Students were then asked to write essays using complex sentences about Marion Stoddart, the woman who sparked the restoration of the Northeast’s Nashua River in the 1960s.

This is just a taste of these lessons, which are much more nuanced and sophisticated than there is room to describe. And I should note that these are not the only lessons designed to help students meet those standards; kids don’t learn complicated skills from one lesson.

But the point is that Common Core standards merely provide goals or benchmarks for learning to be filled by science, his-

tory, and literature lessons _ all determined by local educators.

The idea behind the standards, which are in place in 43 states, is that no matter where students live or what their life circumstances may be, they should all have to meet the same expectations for learning _ such as being able to use a dictionary and cite evidence from a text.

Those common expectations can be met in a whole variety of ways, leaving all the most important decisions about curriculum, lessons and classroom activities in the hands of local schools and districts.

But by having a common set of expectations to measure their decisions against, school boards and educators will have a lot more information about how well they are serving all their students. That doesn’t undermine them; it supports them.

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AGGIES RUNDOWN football TEAM

PhotoS by symone’ austin • The a&T register Celebration Tarik Cohen and Desmond Lawrence celebrate one of the eight touchdowns they scored. The Aggies kept the Hawks scoreless throughout the entire game. The Aggies are now 3-1.

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Aggies start off season 3-1 after win aganist Chowan Alexis Wainwright & Janay Boone

Register Contributor & Sports Editor

The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University football team faced Chowan University Saturday at the Aggie Stadium for Family Weekend.

In the opening minutes of the game, kicker Cody Jones scored a 24-yard field goal to take the lead in the first quarter.

Chowan struggled to make it through the Aggies’ defense.

With only 2:45 left in the first quarter Aggies running back, Tarik Cohen completed a 4-yard run for a touchdown.

The Aggies jumped to a 10-0 lead in the first quarter. Jones and Cohen’s field goal and touchdown was followed by a nine-play, 63-yard drive.

In the second quarter, the Aggies did not waste time getting more numbers on the board.

At the 12:50 mark, starting quarterback Kwashaun Quick had a 12-yard run. Quick had a career night finishing with 15 of 21 for 215 yards. He also con-

Photo by symone’ austin • The a&T register Tarik Cohen runs for one of his three touchdowns . It was his second career three-touchdown game in his career.

nected with 10 different Aggie receivers and accounted for 3 touchdowns.

Quick’s 12-yard run made for a touchdown followed by a field goal from Jones that made the score 17-0. Quick had a 55-yard pass to wide receiver, Xavier Griffin. That gave the Aggies a 24-0 lead.

Sophomore Anthony McMinn II and Jones combined to

ATHLETESPOTLIGHT

Mattocks, Quick set A&T records Janay boone

Sports Editor

Donald Mattocks and Kwashaun Quick shined on the football field this weekend against the Hawks. The Aggies rolled past the Hawks 59-0.

Senior Donald Mattocks won MEAC Defensive Player of the Week honors. Mattocks intercepted three first-half Chowan passes and returned them for a total of 80 yards. He returned one of his three interceptions in the second quarter before it was called back for excessive celebration.

Mattocks leads the nation in interceptions per game (1.3) and had five INTs this season.

Mattocks (5-8, 178, Burlington, N.C., Eastern Alamance) is in his first season as a starter after serving mainly on special teams

and as a reserve. N.C. A&T leads the nation in interceptions with 10.

Kwashaun Quick, a junior from Laurinburg, N.C. put on a show finishing the game with 15 of 21 for 215 yards. Quick’s completions, percentage (.714), and passing yards were all career highs.

His 55-yard touchdown pass to Xavier Griffin was the longest completion of his career.

This was the third time this season he has rushed for more than 80 yards in a game. Quick stunned the competition by connecting with 10 different Aggie receivers and rushed for 82 yards and one touchdown on seven carries.

-Email Janay at @jlboone@ aggies.ncat.edu and follow her on Twitter @Ayo_IsThatBoone

make the score 31-0. With five minutes left in the 2nd quarter, Cohen had an 11-yard run scoring a touchdown to bring the score to 38-0.Quick ran for a touchdown and threw two touchdowns – a connection with Xavier Griffin and Anthony McMinn.

Cohen scored his second and third of the day. Quick found Desmond Lawrence for a 15-

yard score. Cohen rushed for 100-yards and finished with seven carries. It was his second career three-touchdown game in his career.

Offensive lineman Donald Mattocks intercepted a school record of 3 first-half passes.

Mattocks would have returned one of those interceptions for a touchdown. It was later called for excessive celebration before he stepped into the end zone.

The Aggies scored a total of 42 points alone in the second quarter. Chowan remained scoreless throughout the second quarter. Making the score to 52-0 by halftime.

Head coach Ron Broadway said in a press conference, “Like always it’s good to win, and as you can see they were somewhat overmatched and I know the feeling because our first couple of years here when we were down scholarship wise, I felt so overmatched playing Coastal Carolina, Appalachian State and now were starting to play. We look forward to going up to D.C. and hopefully playing our best game of the day.”

In the third quarter, the Aggies and the Hawks went scoreless.

In the fourth quarter the Aggies intercepted Chowan’s quarterback, Dain McFarland five times and forced two fumbles, and recovered one for a touchdown.

It was a 51-yard fumble return by the Aggies defensive back, Marquis Boyan. Jones kicked the last field goal of the game, making the final score 59-0.

The Aggies will face Howard University Saturday, Sept.

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Janay boone

The North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University women’s swimming team has started a petition to prevent the discontinuation of the team.

N.C. A&T will drop women’s swimming after the 2015-16 season because there aren’t enough teams in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference to compete for championships. Out of the 105 Historically Black Colleges in the country, N.C. A&T and Howard University are the only active swimming programs.

Due to the lack of swimming programs in the MEAC conference, the Aggies are forced to play in the Coastal

Collegiate Swimming Association against very elite teams such as Liberty University and Florida Gulf Coast University The petition started online last year, but recently the swim has started a campus petition. The determination to keep the program has earned them more 2,000 signatures to keep the Aggie women’s swim team from leaving.

“We want to eliminate the notion that “black people can’t swim” and that we work hard just like any other sport,” says junior Niya Ross. If reinstated, Ross and her teammates will keep their scholarships and be able to compete for the remainder of their college career.

As for the current freshman on the team, they will be in jeopardy of losing their scholarship if the team is dis-

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THIS WEEK’S GAME vs NC Central Moore Gym 7 p.m.

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THIS WEEK’S GAME vs. HBCU Challenge Cary, N.C. TBA

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Gia Wright, assistant coach and former swimmer said, “Drowning is the leading cause of death amongst youth, and we want to be the pioneers in our community.”

Swimming is not the most common sport in the MEAC conference, which is one of the reasons why the Aggies are fighting to keep this athletic program on campus.

Sign the petition to help the Lady Aggies save the swimming program.

For more information, please contact Gia Wright at gcwright2008@gmail.com -­Email Janay at @jlboone@ aggies.ncat.edu and follow her on Twitter @Ayo_IsThatBoone

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AROUND SPORTS Mercury finish sweep of Sky for third WNBA title Chicago (AP) — ­ Diana Taurasi scored 14 of her 24 points in the fourth quarter.

The Mercury beat the Chicago Sky 87-82 Friday night to complete a three-game sweep of the WNBA Finals for their third championship.

Braves fire GM Fran Wren after missing playoffs Atlanta (AP)­— The Atlanta Braves fired general manager Frank Wren on Monday, less than 24 hours after being eliminated from the National League playoff race.

Browns thought trick play was legal Cleveland (AP)­ — The play Johnny Manzel ran in the Cleveland Browns’ 23-21 loss to the Baltimore Ravens was called back by penalty. It should have been flagged for another 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct, according to the NFL office.

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Good Hair?

Aggie surveys local students to get to the root of “good hair”

Survey Says....

Which type of hair is the best?

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Straight - 18% Straight – 6% Curly - 44% Curly – 46% Long - 26% Long – 6%

Females Straight -8% Curly – 42% Long – 18%

Males Straight – 14% Curly – 48% Long – 14%

Kinky - 4% Short - 2% Wavy – 6%

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Register Contributor

Natural hair has been a rising trend for the past couple of years. Women of color are foregoing relaxed hair in favor of curly styles. Brands best known for their relaxed line of products, like Motions and Pink, all have lines of styling products for natural hair now. Even nonethnic brands like Pantene have released products for natural hair, showcasing how massive a shift the black beauty industry has had.

Black women are embracing their natural beauty and redefining what it means to be black and beautiful but the question “what is good hair?” is still floating around the community.

Black beauty has not always been recognized or rewarded and what it meant to be black and beautiful has been redefined time and time again.

In the early 20th century African-Americans used heavy styling creams like Dax and other pomades to “tame” their hair into slick styles that were thought to be more presentable.

Madame CJ Walker brought the hot-comb, a hair straighntening tool, to the masses in the early 1920’s, forever changing black hair care.

In the 40’s it was considered more presentable to wear your hair processed and from that time forward most of the African-American community adhered to the belief that our hair wasn’t “good” enough to wear in it’s natural state and that it was only presentable after processing it.

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Chris Brown “X” Album

After a series of delays, Chris Brown’s long-awaited sixth album “X “finally hit storeslast week. The album is star-studded, with 10 appearances from artists including Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Brandy, Usher, Rick Ross, and Trey Songz.

The album features a duet with R. Kelly on “Drown In It” and a classic Breezy ballad “Autumn Leaves” with Kendrick Lamar. This album really highlights his diversity as an artist.

But did X mark the spot? Not quite, in my opinion. The album wasn’t very ambitious. What I expected to be another classic Chris Brown album was watered down by pop-beats and club mixes.

-S.C.

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MCT Campus

Freshman Dominique Williams conducted a survey of 100 students from North Carolina A&T State University on what they thought “good hair” was. Dominique runs an Instagram page to promote and celebrate natural hair on campus called @Aggie_AfroStyle.

When asked “What is good hair?” 42% of females answered curly, 20% kinky, 18% of girls answered long, 8% accounted straight hair and wavy hair while only 4% answered short (it is important to know these answers were the only options with which they could choose one).

In addition, Dominique asked these same girls which hair is considered best – weaved, permed, or natural?

Seventy-eight percent of females said “natural” and the remaining 22% was just about split between weaved and permed.

The male’s answers did not change drastically – curly hair was chosen 48% of the time, while wavy hair was received with 20% approval. Straight and long hair had 14%. Kinky was considered good hair

from 4% of boys. When asked if permed, natural, or weaved hair was “good” a whopping 88% answered natural. Boys answered weaved 4% of the time and permed was the remaining 8%.

Out of curiosity, he gave the same survey to 50 men and 50 women from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. For females, the highest rated answer for good hair was curly at 44% for girls and 46% males.

And like A&T’s campus, the most common form of good hair was natural. The only difference was, 98% of guys thought natural hair was the best hair, and similarly, 92% of Spartan females picked natural. Over all, by these standards curly hair was “good hair.”

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ONLINE ICLOUD HACKED AGAIN! CELEBRITY NUDES LEAKED. Three weeks after hackers posted stolen nude photos of celebrities, another batch of intimate pictures surfaced on social media over the weekend.

Stars affected by this latest breach include actresses Gabrielle Union and Meagan Good, singer Rihanna and reality personality Kim Kardashian. Gabby and Meagan confirmed that their photos were stolen.

Gabrielle Union released a statement “[It] has come to our attention that our private moments, that were shared and deleted solely between my husband and myself, have been leaked by some vultures,” Union said. “I can’t help but to be reminded that since the dawn of time women and children, specifically women of color, have been victimized, and the power over their own bodies taken from them. These atrocities against women and children continue worldwide.”

Gabrielle and her husband Dwayne Wade have contacted the FBI to investigate.

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WHITE HOUSE FENCE JUMPER had 800 rounds of ammunition, a machete and two hatchets in his car.

“See Me On Top 4” Mixtape

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Big K.R.I.T.

Big K.R.I.T. hardly ever abandons his style, usually displays persistence and consistency in his music.

He’s been releasing mixtapes since 2005. All of his tapes, like his 2011 Return of 4 Eva mixtape, carry the torch for an older tradition of southern rap with hints of funk. But on his latest tape, See Me On Top Vol. 4, Krit strays away from his usual template.

Billboard said the mixtape sounds “post-Drake.“ Krit definitely tried out something new with this mixtape. I prefer his usual sounds and southern-fried flow. Eh. This mixtape wasn’t what fans wanted from Big K.R.I.T. His album Cadillactica is set to release in November. We will see if we get the new Krit or the old on the album.

-S.C.

UPCOMING

DOMINIQUE WILLIAMS

HBO Airs On The Run On September 21st HBO premiered Jay-z and Beyonce’s On the run tour. The Beyhive was alight on Twitter and Instagram to swoon over Queen Bey. HBO announced Sunday that it would be airing re-runs of the concert for 24 hours straight on HBO Zone starting at 11:30 p.m.

When On The Run faded to black on HBO, fans could immediately flip to HBO Zone to watch it all over again. As if one could even handle that much Beyonce greatness!

If you were not able to be in front of your TV at 9 p.m. Sunday, noworries! You’ll have another 10 opportunities to watch!

Omar J. Gonzalez, managed to jump over the north fence of the White House on Friday and escaped capture until he was inside the North Portico entrance of the presidential mansion.

The event led to an evacuation of much of the White House.

The Presidnet his family were headed to Camp David when the breach occurred Friday evening.

ONLINE TERRIBLE RAPE JOKE Several NY high school seniors are facing disciplinary action after they tweeted out an insensitive rape joke.

Immediately after taking their class photo, five high school seniors at Commack High School posed in black shirts with “RAPE?” spelled out in duct tape. A second photo shows a sixth person wrapped in the duct tape from the question mark, with the shirts now spelling out “RAPE.”