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Notre Dame trounces Tech No. 4 Fighting Irish did not hesitate to dominate the Hokies with a huge win, beating the Hokies by more than 20 points, 74-50.

RICKY LABLUE managing editor

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish didn’t need any luck Thursday night as they easily dispensed the Hokies 74-50.

Notre Dame’s leading scorer, Jewell Loyd, finished with 16 points and four rebounds. Kathryn Westbeld paced the Irish tonight however, scoring 17 points off the bench.

“We just played a very good team,” head coach Dennis Wolff said. “You’ve got to credit everything they did.”

Forward Hannah Young was the only Hokie in double-figures with 13 points. Guard Rachel Camp, who leads Tech in scoring for the season, scored just six points and fouled out midway through the second half.

“She was playing head-tohead against maybe the best 2-guard in the United States (Loyd),” Wolff said. “This is all part of learning and growing and all that.”

Though the Fighting Irish struggled from the field early on, Tech was worse. The Hokies started the game just 1-6 from the field, and Notre Dame led 10-3 with 13:48 to play in the half.

“I thought we were really tentative,” Wolff said. The Hokies had two turnovers on offense and three team fouls at that point.

Notre Dame went on long runs including consecutive threes by Loyd to open up a 22-6 lead with just under nine minutes remaining.

The Irish would continue their dominant half, ending on a 13-2 run to take a 43-17 lead into the break. Loyd had 14 points in the first half on just 5-6 shooting.

The Hokies showed much more fight after halftime, having surpassed their point

total in the first half before the 10-minute mark in the second half. Camp, who was held scoreless in the first, scored all six of her points during that run. Notre Dame was able to keep the pace however and led 64-39 with 8:19 remaining.

“In the second half we competed a lot better,” Wolff said. “The whole feel to the way we went about it was better.”

D espit e sho ot i ng a respectable 46 percent in the second half, the Hokies were never able to cut Notre Dame’s lead to less than 20 points.

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We just played a very good team. You’ve got to credit everything they did.”

Dennis Wolff Women’s Head Coach

Tech g ua rd Va nessa Panousis felt pressure all night long on the perimeter, logging just one assist and five turnovers.

“I need to deal with it better,” Panousis said. “Their inside players are very large so it made it difficult for us to finish underneath the basket.”

The loss for the Hokies comes just days after their first ACC win against Wake Forest. Tech will now play on the road for their next two games against Georgia Tech on Feb. 1 and Miami on Feb. 5. Their matchup against the Yellow Jackets is scheduled to tip off at 2 p.m.

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Honoring A Wake -through in sleeping technology Colin Tech graduates and siblings create a smartphone-controlled alarm clock to simulate a natural wake up.

ABBY CLARK news reporter

Virginia Tech alumni Sara and Taylor Mitchell are attempting to bring an unconventional wake-up call to the market.

A new take on the alarm clock, the smartphone-controlled Wakē device mounts on the wall and locates the user in their bed via an infrared sensor. The device then uses gentle beams of light and sounds that simulate sunrise, directing them so that sleeping partners are left undisturbed.

“Wakē changes the way people will start their mornings,” said Sara, communications director of Wakē.

“Unlike most other appliances and technologies, the alarm clock hasn’t evolved one bit in decades.”

In Blacksburg, residents experience less sunlight during the day for nearly half the year. Mitchell stressed the near impossibility of waking up naturally with the sunrise.

Earning his degree in computer science at Virginia Tech, Sara’s brother, Taylor, discussed how his hands-on experience with certain hardware motivated him to create something that exceeds standards.

Needing a brainstorming partner, Taylor teamed with Will Russell, founder and CEO of Lucera Labs in Los Angeles.

The idea did not come to fruition overnight, however.

“Every Wednesday we would get lunch at our favorite restaurant

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Colin MOORE Colin Campbell Moore, a 20-year-old Virginia Tech computer engineering junior, died earlier this week.

Colin was born on Feb. 22, 1994 and died on Jan. 26, 2015 of respiratory failure, according to his older brother, Michael Moore.

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Especially when I wasn’t real close to him and his other friends, he welcomed me in and took me under his wing and showed me around.”

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A program at Virginia Tech is preparing students for the new era of start-up businesses.

I-Corp is a national network of people who are teaching the NSF curriculum in several regional nodes across the country. Virginia Tech is part of a regional node that includes the University of Maryland, George Washington University and Johns Hopkins.

The program works on a national and regional level with varying program durations.

“We have had great success working with VT teams in the past and just recently accepted a team from VTRC-A in our upcoming ‘I nt ro duct ion t o I- Cor ps’ two-week workshop that will take place in late February,” Lindsey Mitchell, the VT Rep with the DC I-Corps program said. “The involvement of Virginia Tech has played a pivotal role in expanding commercialization opportunities to teams all over the Greater Washington D.C. region.”

Brian Jorgensen

The program is based on curriculum that was developed

by Steve Blank of the University of California-Berkeley. Blank worked with NSF to create a national curriculum based on start-up methodology.

“The purpose is to get technology teams to figure out whether or not their idea would support a scalable business model in a way that the market would actually want to buy what they’re building,” Mike Abbott, an NSF instructor and leader in I-Corps efforts at Tech, said.

People who are interested in I-Corp on a national level must apply directly to NSF. They may then be awarded a $50,000 grant and sent to a national cohort that is hosted by one of the nodes.

The nodes themselves will execute cohorts of team where locals and neighboring universities are trained in teams.

“At the regional level there is no grant money, but we think it’s important enough that you will go and do it,” Abbott said.

According to the familyprovided obituary, Colin is survived by “his loving parents, Lynn Leslie Moore and Michael Alder man Moore; older brother Michael Alderman Moore, Junior; grandmother, Wanda Ann Bissell; and a large extended family of friends, uncles, aunts and cousins.”

Moore’s mother, Lynn, said Colin was sincere — “never a petty bone in his body.”

“I often looked out at him in the yard playing and wondered where he came from. I thought maybe he was dropped off by fairies, and loaned to us,” Lynn wrote in a Facebook message. “He had the ability to make hundreds if not thousands of friends and maintain them.. this is not a trait of our family and we thought he was so special.”

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The Tech junior died earlier this week. His family and friends shared memories of the computer engineering student.

Tech develops an entreprenuer class ALISON CUEVAS

Hannah Young (4) draws a foul in the paint from Kathryn Westbeld (33).

in Los Angeles and talk about the future,” Russell said.

Russell was inspired by his own morning routine, saying it was impossible to wake up on his own terms due to the schedules of his wife and three daughters.

Taylor, having a strong background working with infrared sensors to track missiles, used his knowledge and experience to turn their idea into reality.

However, Wakē is more than just an alarm clock.

“Our aspirations go beyond waking people up,” Taylor said.

The Mitchell siblings put emphasis on their business being family-oriented and working together in order to succeed in their startup.

Nonetheless, creating a revolutionary new device and making it accessible and known to the public are two different tasks.

Sara, having studied political science at Virginia Tech, has taken on the equally important media and communications work for Wakē. Together, Sara and Taylor are launching a Kickstarter on Feb. 6 with a goal of reaching $100,000 in funding in order to begin getting products out to the public.

“We’ve worked for over a year, every night and weekend, to bring this idea to life,” Taylor said.

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U.Va. sisters warned against fraternity bid night

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Thursday, leaders at t he Nat iona l Panhellenic Conference issued letters to every sorority president at U.Va. warning every sister that they could face social probation for going downtown.

Prior to this, sorority and fraternity rush in Charlottesville had surprisingly gone on without a hitch despite Sabrina Rubin Erderly’s Rolling Stone article “A Rape on Campus,” which accused members of the Phi Kappa Psi brotherhood of an initiation-related gang rape.

The rather reactionary letter comes as a result of the controversy surrounding upcoming fraternity “bid night,” which will occur this weekend.

“We believe the activities on Men’s Bid Night present significant safety concerns for all of our members and we are united in our request that the 16 NPC sororities not participate,” the letter reads.

A petition, posted by “anonymous female” on change.org, calls for the National Panhellenic Conference to revoke their decision and has garnered over 2,000 signatures.

“Instead of addressing rape and sexual assault at U.Va., this

mandate perpetuates the idea that women are inferior, sexual objects.

It is degrading to Greek women, as it appears that the NPC views us as defenseless and U.Va.’s new fraternal policies as invalid. Allowing the NPC to prevent us from celebrating (what used to be) a tight-knit community sends the message that we are weak,” the petition states.

While the council’s letter was stamped with good intentions, the only people who are getting punished are their fellow sisters.

Meanwhile, bid night will still go on around a campus where there are more independent female students than sorority sisters.

Yet again it seems the important issues have been forgotten. Why are we punishing the innocent parties?

Messages like these re-affirm that women must protect themselves against rape instead of teaching people not to rape. It is not an inconceivable idea to teach young adults that no means no, what exactly constitutes rape and as a general rule of thumb: don’t do it.

Instead of trying to build a better bulletproof vest, why can’t we take the bullets out of the gun?

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Media pressure too great on ‘Deflategate’

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must be a slow news week if the New England Patriots have stood out as the top story as according to Google News.

However, it wasn’t the 45-to-7 blow-out handed to the Indianapolis Colts the AFC Championship game, but investigation surrounding allegations deflating the footballs for the game — a violation of NFL rules.

Now k n ow n as ‘Deflategate,’ this story has been pumped with hot air from virtually every news outlet.

Frankly, I’ve never seen such a backlash on a scandal that had absolutely zero impact on the end result of the game.

If the NFL spotted the Colts three touchdowns, they still would have lost.

Deflategate never had implications regarding the results of anything.

Media adds the “–gate” suffix at the end of any given buzz-word associated with the controversial story, making the issue appear more scandalous than it truly is.

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This Deflategate scandal is a waste of air time on all major networks.

The Patriots will not change their stance...”

Alongside its predecessor, the Watergate scandal in the 1970s that eventually led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation, Deflategate falls a bit flat. Wikipedia chronicled 121 scandals over the past four decades that provide the suffix

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“–gate,” including some of last year’s favorites: Bendgate, Gamergate, Fangate and Bridgegate.

The Watergate scandal was named after the hotel where several of President Nixon’s high of f icia ls c onduct e d illegal wiretaps on the D emo c r at ic Pa r t y’s headquarters.

Alluding to this event in U.S. history, we add the suffix “–gate” whenever iPhones bend a little too far, when Jimmy Carter’s brother legally aides the Libyan government as an agent (Billygate) and when the New England Patr iots get caught videotaping other teams (Spygate).

The New England Patriots never overcame the 2007 Spygate scandal.

According to ESPN, a New England Patriots staff member was seen videotaping defensive signal calls of a New York Jets practice, which Bill Belichick said he believed

wasn’t against the rules.

He was fined $500,000.

W hen you watch Belichick’s Deflategate press conference, you will have déjà vu when he claims that they always operate within the rules.

“Once a cheater, always a cheater,” a fan wrote in the comments of an NFL. com story.

This D ef l a t ega t e scandal is a waste of air time on all major news networks. The Patriots will not change their stance, and it seems Fox News will be investigating New England Patriots’ attendants for as long as CNN looks for a fallen airplane.

National news needs to move on to more important matters, but since that is unlikely, grab your popcorn everyone; it’s going to be a long ride!

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he main story over the next few days will certainly be the bitter cold temperatures that have returned to the Blacksburg area.

We’ll then focus eyes towards a system set to bring another chance of wintry weather from Sunday into Monday.

For today, a few clouds during the morning will give way to mostly sunny skies as high pressure builds into the region. Winds gusting 20 to 30 mph will keep wind-chill values in the teens and 20s most of the afternoon. Clear skies overnight will allow temperatures to quickly plummet with lows dropping well into the low teens and single digits across higher elevations.

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MOORE: Memorial services to be held on February 7 from page 1

a c c o u n t i ng junior at University of Mary Washington and one of Colin’s friends back home, also found Colin’s ability to keep up with friends special.

“I’ve met a lot of people over the last 10 years, and I haven’t kept up with one like I kept up with Colin,” Maguire said. “I’ve had a bunch of people come and go these past 10 years, but Colin was the most consistent out of all of them, I’ve gotta give it to him.”

Maguire said Colin was a “Snapchat extraordinaire” who, when Maguire had ACL surgery last year, spent two weeks with Maguire playing FIFA since Maguire was unable to move.

Colin attended James River High School under the Leadership Program and was a member of the school’s two-time state champion volleyball team.

When he was in middle school, Colin became friends with a closeknit circle who came to be known as the “Brew Crew,” which consisted of Colin, Ben Coleman, Brian Jorgensen and Paul Gerard.

C olem a n — who lived five houses away from Colin — remembered Colin for being

supportive and having a positive outlook on life.

Coleman said Colin was the only one of their close circle of friends to give out Christmas gifts to the group last year.

“He was the greatest man I’ve known and my best friend,” Coleman said in a Facebook message.

Jorgensen, a junior communication major at Randolph Macon College, had been friends with Colin since middle school.

“Just as a kid, he was one of the most hospitable people you’ve ever come across — always offering things at his house,” Jorgensen said.

“Esp e cia l ly when I wasn’t real close to him and his other friends, he welcomed me in and took me under his wing and showed me around.”

Gerard, a junior anthropology major at University of Oregon, said Colin was “the most loyal friend anyone could have ever asked for.”

“I grew up with him. If I wasn’t with my family, I was with Colin. He halfway lived at my house — one of those kind of friends,” Gerard said. “He was the kid I literally grew up with.”

Michael, Colin’s older brother by a little under two years, said Colin recently got into records (his dad had recently uncovered some of his

records from the ‘70s for Colin to use in his new record player) and would host bonfires to catch up with friends.

“He was very social, always going out; and had just an unbelievable amount of friends and somehow still managed to have a really good connection with all of them, I don’t know how he did it,” Michael said.

Michael said when he thinks of Colin, he remembers when the two were younger and would play with the kids in the neighborhood — “(going) to the lake in the summertime, playing football whenever we could in a big group, playing bike tag, building forts, stick fights, what all little kids do.”

Michael said Colin had a saying: “If you’re happy, I’m happy.”

An open service for Colin will be held at Re d e em e r E pis c opa l Church in Midlothian, Virginia on Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. The family has asked family and friends to cont r ibute photos of Colin to their Colin Moore Memorial Flickr slideshow, which will play throughout the service.

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Tech announces transportation and parking plan AASTHA BATRA news reporter

It has become increasingly challenging for pedestrians, bikers and car and bus drivers to make their way around campus without encou nter i ng pa rk i ng obstacles.

“There are going to be changes as the university grows. It’s always going to affect parking,” said James Edwin Frazier, assistant ma nager of pa rk i ng services.

Although promising, growth at a university will inevitably cause parking and transportation-related inconveniences around campus. As a result, Virginia Tech is launching

a proactive planning effort to identify and resolve longterm parking and transportation issues.

“I think it’s important that we are looking at where we are now, the anticipated growth of the campus, the best practices across the country and making these changes,” said Bob Spieldenner, communications manager for the administrative services division.

The first step to improve campus parking and transportation was to conduct a survey accounting for the current flow of traffic on campus and the means by which people were commuting to campus.

9,800 members of the

community participated in the survey, conducted

by Virginia Tech Center for Survey Research. The results showed that a greater number of students and other active community members commuted to the university with a vehicle. 21 percent of these community members used the bus, 11 percent walked and five percent rode a bicycle.

Future studies will also examine how community members feel about the current parking system and if additional parking is needed.

“We will be hiring consultants, who are traffic and parking experts, to study traffic in other universities and campuses,”

Spieldenner said.

He added that the consultants would conduct other traffic studies, including analyzing intersections, traffic flow patterns, the number of vehicles and the fee structure available for the passengers. After analyzing the information and identifying pertinent issues, they will research solutions and make recommendations to the university to improve the overall traffic system.

The study will be completed by next spring, and the parking and transportation plan will be completed sometime in 2016. Some of the ideas could be long-term recommendations that won’t likely

be implemented for another decade, while others will occur immediately.

Spieldenner mentioned plans to place a transit facility on the north end of campus. According to him, it will reduce the conflict of traffic between buses, vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians.

“The trade-off is that it’s going to make the Drillfield much safer,” Spieldenner said. “When you have that interaction with vehicles on the Drillfield, it leads to safety issues. The facility is built in that area as part of the efforts to make it a little safer for folks.”

On the other hand, Frazier, who manages the two parking garages and

all the lots, said the garages are “fully utilized” but not lacking in parking. He said that the construction on Perry Street for the Classroom Building that will be built in the Derring parking lot has created some changes.

“This is an overall planning process the university will be going through. We are looking at where the campus is going to go 10-15 years down the road. We have had that plan in the past. This planning process is really the first step in that,” Spieldenner said.

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I-Corp uses teams of people to evaluate opportunities and finds students and faculty researchers to help them bring their innovations to the market. The program will create a bridge between researchers and students and real-world application of their technology.

“There are a lot of different people across the university that create research. I think a lot of people assume that it’s just for people with that technical skill set, but really anybody could be a part of I-Corp,” Sherry Walker, director of NuSpark, said.

“If you have an idea, even if you didn’t think of the idea yourself but you’re working with a friend who created it, this is an opportunity for you. It’s really not just for engineers.”

The teams are typically made up of three people: an

entrepreneurial lead who is usually a grad or PhD student; a principal investigator, usually the professor or person who first came up with the technology; and a mentor with business experience who can help guide the team through the whole process.

“Teams learn how to do customer discovery and go out in the real world and get coached by the teaching staff throughout the program while they figure out and change what their business should look like,” Abbott said.

The program strives to find a better way to develop startups that will be less expensive but still attract customers. The business model used emphasizes the consumer and their needs through new technology.

The model focuses on the ecosystems where the product will ultimately reside and how to market the products to more consumers.

“The two pieces of

feedback that we are getting are from a couple people that are not creating businesses that would have otherwise probably failed and people who are creating businesses that are successful because they understand what they should be doing,” Abbott said.

“But more importantly, we have a lot of researchers from the university changing the way that they view their own research in terms of how they design their research. They are changing their perspective towards what people actually want.”

This approach is already being applied in classrooms across campus and will change economic opportunities for students and researchers for the better. The “startup class” helps students create business models and develop the next steps to execute it. The class emphasizes interdisciplinary teamwork while assessing how entrepreneurs learn.

Students can use this low-risk

classroom environment to learn from their mistakes and find the right strategies for success in the future.

“The thing to understand is that this is not a lecture class,” John Lesko, the associate dean for Research & Graduate Studies for the College of Engineering, said. “Students are actively engaging and interacting with customers and ultimately finding solutions to their problems. The program uses problem based learning to make products that appeal to consumers.”

One of the best resources for this program is in Arlington, Virginia, at the Office of Economic Development, creating a gateway from Blacksburg to the National Capital Region. NSF and the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency are two main funding agencies that are located in Arlington.

“We ran one (a cohort) last year during the summer that met once a week here in

Blacksburg for the Roanoke/ Blacksburg region,” Walker said.

Since it began, the program has tried to appeal to more people who want to commercialize their products and in an attempt to do so has tried several different versions of the program. The VT Research Center in Arlington will be trying a two-week long program instead of the typical seven-week curriculum that is established nationally by I-Corp. At the local level, the program usually takes five weeks to complete.

I-Corp is also starting to develop program outreach on an international level.

“We will be running a cohort in Mexico that will be starting in March. We are currently in negotiations with several other countries like Korea and Egypt,” Abbott said. “A bunch of different places are interested in having this type of outreach from the program.”

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There is now an opportunity to apply because I-Corp will be holding a cohort here in Blacksburg in May. There are also plans to run another regional cohort this summer after the spring term ends until early July. Anyone who’s interested and needs help forming a team should reach out to the D.C. regional node.

“This program is important because the academic culture in a lot of universities, including Tech, are shifting more towards entrepreneurialism to get technology out of universities and into the real world,” Abbott said. “The more people that are aware of it and trained in it and have been through this program, the better we will be as a university in defining how we interact and transfer our technology to the real world.”

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“Meet Your Bartender” is a weekly column that runs every Friday and features profiles of just a few of the people pouring your drinks downtown.

SAM SMITH lifestyles staff writer

From Fr iday unti l Sunday, Mellow Mushroom is one of the busiest restaurants in downtown Blacksburg. Most customers are there simply for the pizza, missing out on the often-overlooked bar.

Emily Suiter, from Melbourne, Florida, has been working at Mellow Mushroom since opening day and plans to go to Tech once she finishes her associates degree for hospitality elsewhere.

“I like specifically Tech students because they all seem incredibly smart, and this whole community is really special in that way,” Suiter said. “It’s cool to be in a town like this because it’s easy and the people are young and it’s cool.”

According to Suiter, what sets Mellow Mushroom bartenders apart from the rest is their training.

“During our training week, it was very thorough,” Suiter said. “They had a group of trainers teaching us how to pour liquor and everything about different kinds of liquors and the origins of them so that way we can actually know what we’re selling.”

Aside from serving bar patrons, Mellow Mushroom bartenders are responsible for serving the entire dining room.

“It can get hectic,” Suiter said. “Say we have thirty people at the bar and however many people in the restaurant, there’s tickets

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Hailing from Melbourne, Florida, Emily Suiter recently began her bartending career at Mellow Mushroom. popping out of our printer for them as well because people sitting down want beer too.”

If you’re looking for a mellower place to pick up a drink, you may want to consider stopping into Mellow Mushroom.

Because of the soothing dining room atmosphere, customers rarely get rowdy at night.

“People getting too drunk and me having to tell them they have to be quiet is the most I’ve had to do,” Suiter said. “Since it’s Mellow Mushroom it’s classy so people don’t get too crazy or weird and I actually get to talk to some cool people who sit at the bar.”

Suiter’s favorite drink to make is the Black Berry Breeze.

“It’s got old smoky apple pie moonshine in it and blackberries,” Suiter said.

“And it comes out looking purple and it’s delicious.”

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When Suiter is having a drink off the clock, whether it’s at Mellow Mushroom or one of the other bars in downtown Blacksburg, her drink of choice is an IPA. “I personally love beer, so as far as Mellow Mushroom is concerned we have a lot,” Suiter said. “I’m a really big beer connoisseur so I can’t really pick a favorite.”

According to Suiter, Mellow Mushroom is a great fit for her.

“The Mellow Mushroom in general has incredible food, awesome beer and really cool people working here,” Suiter said. “I’m just really grateful to have this job and to be able to start my bartending career doing this. I’d like to be able to do it more, try (working at) other places.”

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“The Interview” was by far the year’s most controversial film. Of course, this is to be expected considering it is about the assassination of real-world dictator, Kim Jong-un. Seth Rogen and frequent writing partner Evan Goldberg have never been ones to shy away from offensive material, and “The Interview” is the epitome of this behavior. After Sony was hacked and theaters across the United States were given threats of violence if they showed the film, “The Interview” was pulled from several big-name theater chains, destroying what would have probably been a successful Christmas Day release.

The movie was still released on many VOD platforms and shown in select theaters (including our local Radford Theatre); unfortunately, the movie underperformed by millions of dollars due to its lack of a wide theatrical release. With all of the controversy behind us, the question remains: does “The Interview” live up to the massive hype surrounding it?

Si mply put, “ T he Interview” does not live up to its controversy. However, I doubt any movie could live up to that kind of hype. In order to properly review the film, it must be separated from the events surrounding its release.

“The Interview” is definitely a funny movie, and in the end it is a little bewildering that an entire nation would threaten war over a comedic film from the guys who brought us “Pineapple Express.” This is probably indicative of just how ridiculous of a country North Korea is, but this is a movie review, not a political editorial.

In case you’ve been living

under a rock for the past few months, “The Interview” is about Seth Rogen and James Franco assassinating Kim Jong-un. Rogen plays Aaron Rapoport, a producer of “Skylark Tonight,” a popular talk show hosted by Franco’s Dave Skylark. After being mocked by a colleague at a party for not reporting relevant news, Rapoport demands that Skylark report on more serious matters than Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s love of puppies. Skylark agrees, and when the two realize that Kim Jong-un is a fan of the show, they quickly secure an interview with him.

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Is ‘The Interview’ anywhere near as funny as Rogen and Goldberg’s directorial debut, ‘This is the End’?”

Upon hearing of this historic interview, the CIA makes contact with the pair and asks them to assassinate the Supreme Leader. The two accept, and it all goes about as well as one would expect from Rogen and Franco. The premise itself is funny, and anyone who has watched these two in a “bromantic” comedy can guess at the immature antics and bodypart humor that will ensue.

At its core, “The Interview” is merely another Rogen-Franco buddy comedy, which is by no means a bad thing, as the two are absolutely hilarious together. It does have some satire on both North Korea and the media, but this comes second to the belly laughs induced by watching Rogen and Franco screwing up in

CIA training sessions and arguing about “pulling out” of the mission. Its humor is definitely more of the gross-out, politically incorrect variety than the satiric.

“The Interview” is downright hilarious at times, often thanks to the excellent chemistry between Rogen and Franco. The two are the perfect comedic pair, with Franco giving his all in an over-the-top, goofy performance and Rogen playing the “straight man.” One of the best characters in the film, surprisingly, is the Supreme Leader himself–Randall Park gives a truly side-splitting performance as Kim Jongun. He plays Jong-un as a star-struck dork, making him a humorously adorable antagonist. Lizzy Caplan is also phenomenal as the CIA agent who guides Franco and Rogen through their North Korean misadventure, and Diana Bang is wonderful as Kim Jong-un’s right-hand advisor, Sook.

Is “The Interview” anywhere near as funny as Rogen and Goldberg’s directorial debut, “This Is The End”? No, absolutely not. In terms of laughs, this film is definitely more on the level of “Pineapple Express,” which, while a great comedy, does not compare to the joys of watching Jonah Hill passive aggressively mess with Jay Baruchel. But, because of the controversy, this movie has become a part of history, and as an American it is probably your patriotic right to watch. You’ll have fun with it for sure, and making Kim Jong-un upset just makes the enjoyment that much sweeter.

I give “The Interview” four out of five stars.

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Football 2015 Schedule Monday, Sept. 7 vs. Ohio State (14-1)

Saturday, Sept. 12 vs. Furman (3-9)

Saturday, Sept. 19 @ Purdue (3-9)

Saturday, Sept. 26 @ ECU (8-5)

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The Virginia Tech wrestlers are hoping they won’t have to depend on their closer, heavyweight Ty Walz, in their second match of the year against Virginia on Sunday.

“We need to separate ourselves a little bit,” said head coach Kevin Dresser.

“Last time was 16-15. I hope we don’t make it that close this time. They are 13th-ranked, we are ninthranked. Any time you throw two top 15 teams out there, anything can happen. You just have to be ready to go.”

In their last meeting, the Hokies beat the Cavaliers 16-15 in the final of the Virginia Duals. The match came down to the last weight class. U.Va. had the 15-13 lead when No. 7 Ty Walz beat Pat Gillen 3-2 to seal the title for Tech.

This will be the first official ACC meet of the season for the 9-2 Hokies.

The team is coming off a 21-12 loss at No. 13 Iowa State on Jan. 18.

Dresser wasn’t pleased with the team’s performance against the Cyclones.

“I think that we stumbled a little bit (against Iowa State),” Dresser said. “The environment was tough, but that’s why we went there.

We had to get it done in a tough environment.”

“It will make us better in the end, but we had some guys that failed a little bit because they weren’t used to traveling and grinding and wrestling in a hostile environment, and it showed,” Dresser said.

The Hokies had two weeks to return to full

strength. One of the biggest concerns was the team’s health.

“We are getting healthier, but we have a few minor injuries that we need to recover from in this week,” Dresser said. “Austin Gable is a huge question mark. We are not sure right now what his availability will be. The good news is that we have Nick Brascetta back after being out for two months.”

Brascetta, a redshirt junior at 157 pounds, is returning after injuring his elbow in November, and Dresser expects him to give Tech a big boost.

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us from fighting our butt off to not getting bonus points against us to getting bonus points,” Dresser said. “In the dual meet atmosphere he is an eight-point swing.”

Sunday will be the Hokies’ first of three matches that are scheduled to meet in the Moss Arts Center. The U.Va. meet has sold out and the team is excited to get to wrestle in the special venue.

“It’s going to be amazing,” Walz said.

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many people are going to be there. It’s my favorite event that we have had so far.”

Dresser hopes that the MAC will be a challenge to the other teams.

“I hope when opponents leave here, they think this is the hardest place they have ever wrestled in,” Dresser said.

The match against the Cavaliers will start at 2 p.m.

Tech’s last match against U.Va. was not the first in which Walz had to close out a Tech victory. The redshirt sophomore had chances to win four meets for the Hokies and has come away victorious three times.

Dresser compares Walz to a closer in baseball.

“Well, Ty has stepped up to the plate many times and usually delivered,” Dresser said. “He is like our Mariano Rivera: he don’t miss much.”

However, Walz is fast to point out that his points are no more important than the rest of the team’s.

“If I was the first match or the last match, we all do our part whether we win or lose,” Walz said. “I’m not really coming up in the clutch, it just kind of looks like that.”

Walz says he hopes the U.Va. meet won’t come down to the match.

“I think we are going to beat them worse,” Walz said. “That’s the plan, to take all their hope away from them. Our mentality going into it is to get more bonus points and win by a lot more. We are raising the bar for ourselves a little bit.” @RachelReports

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