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Credit CARD Act takes effectNew legislation designed to prevent people under 21 from getting into debt enacted

Arth PandyaStaff Writer

Under the Credit Card Account-ability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, which took effect yesterday, no one under the age of 21 will be ap-proved for a credit card offer unless a parent, guardian or spouse is willing to co-sign, or the young adult shows proof of sufficient income to cover the

credit obligation.The new law also requires credit

card companies to significantly cut back on their marketing efforts to college students.

According to a recent study by Sal-lie Mae, a site which helps students

plan their financial future, the aver-age amount of debt carried by college cardholders is $3,173. The average number of cards per student is 4.6.

“The law should benefit most un-der 21 students by restricting access to credit at a time before most have

achieved financial literacy or can afford to manage the potential debt load,” Ben Woolsey, director of marketing and consumer re-search for CreditCards.com, said.

Woolsey said restricting stu-dents’ access to credit will prevent large amounts of student debt.

“Teens typically don’t under-stand all the potential pitfalls and responsibilities associated with credit cards and rarely have the in-come required to pay off balances

Board of Trustees welcomes chancellorWoodward introduced to Board of Trustees, endowment campaign discussed

Rachel Port Staff Writer

Chancellor William R. Woodson was warmly welcomed at the Board of Trustees meeting Feb. 18, held at the Dorothy Park Alumni Center, Student Body President Jim Ceresnak said. “It was really an introduction for [Woodson],” Ceresnak said. Ac-cording to Ceresnak, this was the first time Woodson was able to interact with the trustees and he attended ev-ery single meeting in a series which spanned two days.

Ceresnak said this served as an in-troduction for Woodson to the func-tions of the University.

“[Woodson is] beginning the pro-cess of understanding the grand scope of the University,” he said. Accord-ing to Ceresnak, one of the most sig-nificant topics discussed by the board, aside from Woodson’s introduction, was the next University fundraising campaign, which is being headed by Vice Chancellor Nevin Kessler. Kes-sler’s presentation to the Board of Trustees, entitled “Funding N.C. State’s Aspirations: The Next Cam-paign,” indicated there is an annual funding gap of $4 to $5 million be-tween what schools similar to NCSU, like Texas A&M, raise and what NCSU raises. Kessler’s presentation said N.C. State has never had a long-term plan for funding advancement.

Ceresnak said this next fundraising campaign would change that.

The presentation gave a rough time-line for the campaign and the goals the board is hoping to meet.

The campaign will begin with a si-lent phase to raise $1.5 to 2 billion for the school between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2021 with a different focus on building endowment than the previous campaign, “Achieve,” which raised $1.3 billion.

Kessler’s presentation said a goal for the campaign was to double the amount given to the school by donors from $90 million to at least $180 mil-lion.

The campaign also seeks to actively engage deans, faculty, staff and volun-teers in participating in the effort to raise money and in developing fund-

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health care reform

Caitlin Conway/teChniCiana guest of the School of Public and International affairs in their american Values speaker series Jon cohn discusses the need for american health care reform on monday, feb. 22, 2010. “this is probably the make or break week for health care reform” cohn states. he goes on to explain that although President obama’s new bill announced on monday is a “pretty then piece of legislation...we [must] go step by step.”

Insect Museum’s annual Haiku Challenge returnsInsect poetry competition increases awareness of importance of insects in everyday life

Mahmudul IslamStaff Writer

Submissions are open for the Insect Museum’s annual Hexapod Haiku Challenge. The challenge encourages participants to write Japanese poetry with a thematic focus on insects.

The challenge will accept poetry in the forms of haiku, haiga, or senryu. A haiku is an unrhymed poem broken into three lines of five, seven, and five syllables that has a nature theme. A haiga is a haiku that includes a pic-ture or graphic. A senryu is typically

a satirical poem on humanity.According to Andy Dean, an as-

sistant professor in entomology, the haiku style was chosen because of its short and somewhat standardized format. Dean also chose the style be-cause most people are familiar with it and it would be easier for the judges to critique them.

Dean said that hexapods, an insect species including springtails, diplu-rans and proturans, deserve recogni-tion for their impact on the ecosystem. One of the main reasons for this con-test is that hexapods are going unno-ticed, according to Dean.

“My hope was that a poetry contest would get people thinking about how they, and how nature interacts with in-

sects. I also wanted to raise awareness of the NCSU Insect Museum which maintains a vast and important collec-tion of insect specimens from around the world,” he said.

“People are too quick to fear or

loathe insects. Someone remem-bers the one time a bee stung him or her back in fifth grade but for-gets all the thousands of times bees

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Meet the candidatesOn March 9, the Student Media Board will be hiring the editors and managers for

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Through andy’s lens

A sense of accomplishment

Kim Kaltenecker, a senior in electrical engineering, and Josh Jodrey, a senior in computer engineering, try to get a thermal sensor for their senior design project to work in the Troxler Design Center in EB2. Kaltenecker described senior design as a “culmination of your college career when you put all of what you learned to work.” Jodrey said

he enjoyed senior design because it was “cool to have a class where it’s all your work. There isn’t a professor or TA to hold your hand.”

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Campus Calendar

todayHold on to your HAts!D.h. hill Library East WingAll day

discriMinAtion And HArAssMent Prevention And resPonseAdmin III, Room 1019 a.m. to noon

Quickbooks level 2McKimmon Center9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

university coPyrigHt coMMittee MeetingD.h. hill Library9 to 10:30 a.m.

FAces And MAzesGregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon to 8 p.m.

WitH lAtH And cHisel: nortH cArolinA Wood turners And cArversGregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon to 8 p.m.

Putting your teAcHing PortFolio onlineNoon to 2 p.m.

seAn belkA: leverAging eMerging tecHnologies to creAte custoMer vAlueEngineering Building II, room 12316 to 7 p.m.

exPeriencing cHinA: A generAl overvieW And introduction6:45 to 8:45 p.m.

concert bAnd invitAtionAlsteWArt tHeAtre7 to 9 p.m.

Feb. 24 Hold on to your HAts!D.h. hill Library East WingAll day

excel 2007 level 2McKimmon Center9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

cHinese neW yeAr scAvenger Hunttalley Student Center11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

FAces And MAzesGregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon to 8 p.m.

WitH lAtH And cHisel: nortH cArolinA Wood turners And cArversGregg Museum of Art & DesignNoon to 8 p.m.

diversity, discriMinAtion & AFFirMAtive Actiontalley Student Center, Brown Room1 to 4 p.m.

sMArt – sHoP series WorksHoP: eFFective coMMunicAtiontalley Student Center1 to 2 p.m.

soil science seMinArWilliAMs HAll3:40 to 4:40 P.M.

CorreCTions & ClarifiCaTionsSend all clarifications and corrections to Viewpoint Editor Russell Witham at viewpoint@technicianonline.com.

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Music of China The Music Center will be

presenting an event show-casing a variety of tradi-tional and contemporary pieces of Chinese music Feb. 24. Hosted by Jona-than Kramer as part of the Price Music Center Lecture Series, it will offer students a chance to experience the rich diversity of musical expressions from around the world. Music of China will feature Hsiao-mei Ku of the Duke Music Depart-ment and Jennifer Chang playing instruments such as the violin and guzheng. The program includes the world premiere of Mark Kuss’ “Sounds. Distant.” for violin and guzheng. The event will be held in Titmus Theatre of Thompson Hall from 7 to 9 p.m.

source: Ncsu campus caleNdar   

Concert band invitational 

The NCSU Wind En-semble, directed by Paul Garcia, will host what are considered two incredibly talented high school bands from across North Caro-lina: Cedar Ridge High School Wind Symphony from Hillsborough, N.C. and Scotland High School

Symphonic Band from Laurin-burg, N.C. The Concert Band Invitational was created by Music@N.C. State to connect high school students in North Carolina to the arts at N.C. State. The invitational will be held Feb. 23 at Stewart Theatre from 7 to 9 p.m.

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Discrimination and Harassment Prevention and Response 

A course will be held Feb. 23 dealing with how to respond to discrimination and harass-ment. In the course, attendees will learn how the terms “dis-crimination” and “harass-ment” are specifically defined in University policies as well as how to identify discrimi-natory or harassing behavior. The course will emphasize the rights and responsibilities an individual has as an employee and a supervisor if they expe-rience discrimination or ha-rassment, are accused of dis-crimination or harassment or someone reports an incident of discrimination or harassment to the individual. The course will be held in the Admin III building, room 101 from 9 a.m. to noon.

source: Ncsu campus caleNdar

World & naTionLarge Hadron Collider prepares for restart 

the Large hadron Collider is set to being operations again as early as thursday after a scheduled winter break. the LhC will be running only at half power due to the need for upgraded equipment to allow full power operation, but experts say the LhC is still capable of fulfilling its purpose of finding the higgs boson particle, nicknamed the “God particle.” this comes after more than a year of maintenance to repair electrical malfunctions which appeared during the initial run in September 2008 and first restart in November 2009. the LhC was shut down in the winter to save on electricity costs, but not before setting a new world record for high-energy physics by accelerating two beams of proton particles to 1.8 trillion electron volts each and smashing them together.

source: NatioNal GeoGraphic News   

Divers hunt for Madeira flood victims 

portuguese rescuers are using excavators to sift through mud and debris for victims of the Sunday floods and mudslides which killed at least 42 people on the resort island of Madeira. officials are worried many of the victims’ bodies may have already been washed into the ocean and deployed divers

from the mainland to search for those drowned. According to Regional tourism and transport Secretary Conceicao Estudante four people are still missing. the portuguese government has decreed a three-day period of mourning and called an extraordinary cabinet meeting for Monday to discuss what is considered the worst loss of life in portugal in recent history. officials said about 120 people were injured and around 300 spent the night in temporary shelters, with 240 losing their homes.

source: reuters   

Israel dismisses fallout from Dubai killing 

Israeli intelligence experts dismissed the idea Sunday there would be lasting diplomatic fallout for Israel or damage to its Mossad spy agency over the assassination of a hamas commander in Dubai. Uzi Dayan, an ex-general and former head of Israel’s National Security Council, said, “the bottom line is that an important deed was done, by whomever, in the war on terrorism.” Dubai police, however, have said they are certain a Mossad agent was responsible for the assassination and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed vowed Sunday to bring those responsible to justice. Israeli foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman could come under scrutiny by British and Irish officials over the alleged use of forged European passports used by the assassins.

source: reuterspoliCe BloTTerFebruary 18 10:36 P.M. | lArcenyCarmichael Gym Student reported bicycle stolen. 6:53 P.M. | utility ProbleMTri Towers Report of power outage. officers stood by during power outage. Facilities and housing notified. 8:37 P.M. | lArcenyDH Hill Library Student reported bookbag with computer and calculator taken. Bag was later recovered with only one item missing.

February 19 3:43 A.M. | dAMAge to ProPertyGardner Hall Student reported unknown

person break window to building and leave the scene. officers checked perimeter and surrounding area but did not locate subject. Building liaison was notified regarding window repair

10:59 A.M. | trAFFic AccidentMurphy Football Center officers responded to accident involving non-student driving into fencing. Subject was unlicensed driver and cited for same. 11:35 A.M. | dAMAge to ProPertyAvent Ferry Complex Student reported damage to vehicle by unknown person(s). tires were cut and raw eggs applied to vehicle. 11:36 A.M. | cHeck PersonDH Hill Library Report of suspicious behavior in restroom. officers canvassed area but did not locate suspect.

3:43 A.M. | dAMAge to ProPertyGardner Hall Student reported unknown person break window to building and leave the scene. officers checked perimeter and surrounding area but did not locate subject. Building liaison was notified regarding window repair. 9:12 A.M. | concerned beHAviorOff Campus Investigation initiated into off campus incident involving student. Student was transported for medical treatment.

10:13 P.M. | susPicious veHicleCapability Lot Report of suspicious vehicles in lot. Vehicles left prior to officer’s arrival.

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“I don’t think I should be penalized because of

someone who doesn’t know how to handle their finances.”Marc Metry, a freshman in

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Newsin full, which often results in growing and expensive card debt that can spiral out of control,” he said.

According to Woolsey, a damaged credit history can have a drastic impact on one’s future.

“Many employers con-sider job applicants’ credit scores when making hir-ing decisions so it can have far reaching implications to misuse credit while in college,” he said. “Late or non-payment of bal-ance can seriously harm their credit history and impair their ability to ob-tain credit in the future at affordable rates when it comes time to buy a car, rent an apartment, buy a house, etc.”

Woosley, however, said there was a negative ele-ment to the legislation.

“The potential harm is that there will inevitably be a segment of those in that age bracket that could have handled credit re-sponsibly and will now have to deal with greater restrictions in obtaining it,” he said.

Opponents of the law say the majority of Americans manage their credit well and the new restrictions will hurt those consumers more than help card users who default on payments.

Marc Metry, a freshman in biological science, said he doesn’t like the rule because it penalizes those who are irresponsible at the expense of those who are financial responsible.

“I don’t think I should be penalized because of someone who doesn’t know how to handle their finances,” he said.

Evan Mahoney, a fresh-man in computer science, said he thought the rule is problematic for those wanting to build up their credit for future car or

housing loans. “People won’t be able to build

up their credit as easily before the end of college,” he said.

Ryan Harris, a freshman in business administration, said he believes the regulation is in the best interest of students.

“I don’t think a lot of college students have the maturity to handle the financial responsi-bility. At this age, if you don’t have any income, you definitely shouldn’t have a credit line of $2,000.”

Harris said there are too many students carrying debt they shouldn’t have.

“Credit cards are a good idea if you have the means to sup-port it, but if you don’t have the means, you have no business having a credit card.”

The law will also affect credit card companies, as the new leg-islation will significantly ham-per the profitability of credit card business units.

According to Woosley, the new law will reduce card is-suers’ revenue to some extent since college-aged customers are more likely to carry bal-ances and pay higher finance charges and fees than older adults.

“College students tend to keep their first card for quite a while which further enhances the profitability of the relation-ship for the credit card compa-ny,” he said.

According to a fact sheet detailing the law released by the White House, the critical aspects in this legislation will ban unfair rate increases, pre-vents unfair fee traps, enforce credit card companies to dis-close credit card contract terms in language that consumers can understand, and ensure ac-countability from both credit card issuers and regulators who are responsible for preventing unfair practices and enforcing protections.

The new law, however, does not cap how high interest rates can go. Nor does it limit when APRs can be hiked on future purchases.

People with business or cor-porate credit cards will not have the same protections as people with personal credit

cards because the new law and the federal rules apply only to consumer credit cards.

Some industry estimates are that the new law could cost banks tens of billions of dollars in lost revenue from interest charges, late fees and penalties from all credit card users.

As a result, consumers will likely see significant changes in their cardholder agreements and have fewer credit cards available to them.

Consumers are expected to have to pay an increas-ing amount of annual fees as banks attempt to make up for the losses in revenue from fees, while other banks will try to push consumers to vari-able rate credit cards which are largely exempt from the inter-est rate limitations, according to americanbankingnews.com

Throughout his campaign, President Barack Obama called for measures to strengthen consumer protection in the credit card market.

He said that with this new law, consumers will have the strong and reliable protections they deserve.

“We will continue to press for reform that is built on trans-parency, accountability, and

mutual responsibility - values fundamental to the new foun-dation we seek to build for our economy,” Obama said.

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pollinated the strawberries and peaches he or she ate over the years,” Dean said. “People get creeped out by the cock-roach that crawls back i n t o t h e storm drain, b u t t h e y don’t realize that funda-mental dis-coveries in physiology and social-ity resulted from basic research on cockroaches. There are myriad reasons people should learn more about in-sects.”

Dean said in regard to the difference between this year’s

and last year’s competition, “There is no difference except that I’ve made more of an effort to promote the contest to kids under 13. Last year we didn’t get any haikus from kids.”

Dean began the competition in 2008. The first year there were 87 con-testants and last year there were 102 con-testants. Last year’s winner wa s Ma rek Kozubek of Zywiec, Po-land.

There a re three awards: Best Entry by

poet under the age of 13, Best in Show, and Runner-up. All submissions are due by March 20 at 11:59 p.m.

credit card accountability, responsibility and disclosure act Principles for long-term credit card reform

• there have to be strong and reliable protections for consumers

• all the forms and statements credit card companies issue must be in plain language and in plain sight

• We must make sure people can shop for a credit card that meets their needs without fear of being taken advantage of

• Must be more accountability in the system, so we can hold those responsible who do engage in deceptive practices that hurt families and consumers

Source: whitehouSe.gov

critical elements of reform: Bans unfair rate increases:

• bans retroactive rate increases

• first year protection: contract terms must be clearly spelled out for the entirety of the first year

Prevents unfair fee traps:

• ends late fee traps• enforces fair interest

calculations• requires opt-in to over-

limit fees• restrains unfair sub-prime

fees• Limits fees on gift and

stored value cards

Plain sight/plain language disclosures

• Creditors will give consumers clear disclosures of account terms before consumers open an account and clear statements on account activity

• real information about the financial consequences

Accountability

• Public posting of credit card contracts

• Holds regulators accountable to enforce the law

• Holds regulators accountable to keep protections current

• Increases penalties for issuers that violate these new restrictions

 act contains protection for college students and young adults, including a requirement that card issuers and universities disclose agreements with respect to the marketing or distribution of credit cards to students

Source: whitehouSe.gov

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ing priorities. Another goal is to increase the number of donors to the campaign from 66,000 to more than 130,000.

“We need to increase our endowment,” Ceresnak said.

According to Ceresnak, increasing the University’s endowment is important because it acts like a financial cushion when t i m e s a r e tight. Hav-ing a larger endowment allows the University to do more things like provide stu-dents with more scholarships and attract high-quality fac-ulty with better incentives,

he said. Currently, the Uni-versity receives more than 50 percent of its funding from the State, he said. The board wants to make NCSU less dependent on the state legislature. This is particularly relevant this year, according to Ceresnak, because

University finances are tight. Wood-son is expect-ed to be the champion of this next campaign to increase University funds. The b o a r d i s proud of stu-dent efforts in the HOWL f o r H a i t i campaign,

Ceresnak said. The board meeting minutes can be found online at the University Web site but have not been posted at the time of this report.

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“...a poetry contest

would get people

thinking about

how they interact

with insects.”AndyDean,assistantprofessor

inentomology

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grand scope of the

University.”JimCeresnak,studentbody

president

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At the nation’s birth, the founding fathers took it upon themselves to

enumerate the most basic of civil liberties. When the state’s first leaders crafted the N.C. Constitution, the issues war-ranted the first section of the article of rights, “We hold it to be self-evident that all persons are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor, and the pur-suit of happiness.”

The new Credit Card Ac-countability and Disclosure Act, which took effect Tues-day, champions these rights for many citizens, but limits those of many others — including

students. The protections the act offers

most Americans assure trans-parency from credit card com-panies and are a real victory for consumers. Advanced notice of interest rate modifications, better billing practices and eq-uitable balance management are logical and truly do fall into the category of good business practices. But the act also has several notable downsides — particularly for students.

The Credit CARD Act makes it significantly more difficult for Americans younger than 21 years old to secure a credit card. The act requires people

in that age group to provide a co-signer or significant proof of means to repay debt.

While many people — par-ticularly those 21 years old and older — have heralded the change as a parenting simpli-fication for adults who should be teaching their children good spending habits, it is really nothing more than another ex-ample of ageism.

The maturation process most American youths encounter between 18 and 21 years of age does not eliminate bad spend-ing habits. Just as with alcohol or any other age-controlled “privilege,” credit card respon-

sibility is an issue of education, not of age.

The fundamental problem is that Americans are not learn-ing good credit habits. It’s not an issue easily cured by raising an arbitrary set age and making credit more difficult to procure for students who need it.

While it is a good idea to take credit card companies off col-lege campuses, as the act will require, that should be a sec-ondary consideration to the real issue of inadequate educa-tion from parents and the edu-cational system.

Simply taking credit away from students, though, is wrong of the government and sets a bad precedent for young Americans’ civil liberties.

The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board excluding the news department and is the responsibility

of the Executive Editors.

An inequitable credit card denialThe FacTs:The Credit CARD Act, which took effect Tuesday, will have a profound effect on many students’ ability to procure credit. All students younger than 21 years old will be required to have a co-signer or provide significant proof of debt repayment ability.

Our OpiniOn:The new federal act sets a bad precedent for young Americans’ rights and fails to address the real problem — education.

Government problems, closer to home than one might think

I get to hear a lot of dif-ferent views and argu-ments about how people

feel towards the effective-ness of our government in

my politi-cal science classes.

I’m a l l f o r people’s r ights to their poli-cy prefer-ences, but t he re i s one com-

ment I am sick of hearing, “The system is broken and needs to be rebuilt.” More often than not, this is re-ferring to the president, Congress and the system of checks and balances.

The system is not what is broken; it is the ordinary citizens who elect the leaders. The framers of the U.S. Constitution took into account Hobbes’ ideas of human nature. People are naturally selfish and the government is necessary to maintain order and jus-tice. What people really mean when they say the system is not working is that it is not working for them.

We like to blame our government officials for being corrupt and only looking out for them-selves, but we as voters are just as guilty; we vote for those who will best rep-

resent our own self-interest. We like to complain and moan that nothing ever gets done in Washington. These men are not stupid; they know that one in 10 Americans is jobless and they do not want to be a statistic anymore than you or me. Our government system was designed to deter tyranny coming from both the execu-tive and legislative branches. Yes, our government is slow, but when so many people are self-interested, compromise tends to be the last resort.

In the Federalist No. 51, James Madison wrote, “But what is government, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” The govern-ment is a reflection of how people act. Human nature does not have to be selfish in the sense that we tradition-ally think about the word. Throughout our daily lives, if we look hard (in some places more so than others), we can almost always find that one oddball acting morally.

We should act selfishly, but not in the traditional sense; Ayn Rand’s idea of selfishness is what I am referring to. She believed that human moral-ity lies in the true interest of a person’s own well-being. Selfishness does not have to be a negative virtue. Look at the Golden Rule; if I open up a door for you, it is because I would like to have the door opened for me if the situa-

tion was reversed. There is an underlying value of selfishness, but imagine a world in which everyone actually had manners and mutual respect for one an-other. It’s crazy!

As humans, we want se-curity, happiness and com-fort. If we can focus on long-term goals opposed to short-term pleasures, we may start to see gov-ernment in a more positive light.

The media presents us with a world of lavish life-styles full of nice clothes, fancy cars and mansions. We want these things so bad it hurts and as a result we end up acting immor-ally. If people ever do get the material possessions, they are often dissatis-fied and feel the need for more. True happiness, comfort and security can never come through these actions. This phenomenon explains why so many ce-lebrities wind up in rehab. In order to fix the govern-ment, we must fix our-selves. Strong moral indi-viduals will create strong family units, which will create strong communi-ties — you see where I am going here. It would never be an easy task and one bad apple could spoil the whole bunch, but it’s one possible explanation to the problems we face.

Chad RhoadesStaff Columnist

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Students are overly critical about University’s robbery response

I feel that the N.C. State administration and Campus Police are being reprimanded by some students for their “poor” response to the robbery at SECU last Tuesday for a poor reason. The half-hour it took the University to respond about the robbery, including detailed information about the suspect, is relatively quick. We lose sight sometimes of events like the horrible massacre that took place at Virginia Tech, where three students were murdered in their dorms at 7:30 a.m. and no response of any kind was issued. Then less than two hours later, 29 more were murdered while attending classes across campus. Not until after the shooter had ceased firing and committed suicide were the students sent e-mails. With this tragedy having only occurred three years ago, we as a student body should be grateful that only 30 minutes after an off-campus incident occurred, we received an e-mail with details about the crime and the suspect. I feel pretty safe to know that the University is doing its best to keep us informed and safe. Donald Spiers junior, biological sciences

Adrian’s claims are outlandish

I am writing this letter concerning Derek Adrian’s Thursday column, “Why should we let them smoke?” I will start out by saying that as a social smoker myself I found this article completely absurd and utterly offensive. I have no issue with how the writer starts off his argument and much of the first part of the article is well written and informative. Although he sites his source, Adrian brings very few actual facts to the table about an issue that appears to be in its infantile stages of research and is not a definitive fact at this juncture. What bothers me so much about this article is not the opinion of the writer, but the great length he goes to portray those who smoke as wicked and murderous. The entire last half of the article is devoted to comparing smokers to murders and racists, an issue that I am baffled even made the cut at the final print. Knowing that this is a small-time publication, I

understand that most of what you write is more opinion based than factual due to a lack of space, but if a writer is going to blast an entire group of American society with such extreme comparisons, I expect there to be a distinct and factual reason behind his or her outlandish claims. I could go on and on about how radon in old buildings, coal fired power plants, car exhaust and even the radiation straight from our loving friend, the sun, is slowly killing everyone on this planet. Granted, I am not speaking of these sources of offhand radiation and chemical toxins as absolute truths, but neither did Adrian when he proclaimed smokers as murderers and slave owners indifferent to the lives of other human beings. I would personally like to see a public apology for the way this man has openly slandered a large group of people with wild and extraneous accusations of poisoning the entire American culture. Joseph D’Addeziojunior, meteorology

What’s the deal with all these potholes?

Driving along Avent Ferry the other morning I happened to glance across the road only to see an innocent cyclist vanish into the bottomless pit of an enormous pothole. Enough is enough — it’s time for action. I am tired of driving to class avoiding holes like I am driving through a minefield. Two cracked rims is the limit for me. Raleigh roads look like a scene from an old World War II movie, pock mocked and battled scarred. With each freeze comes another hole ready to swallow the unsuspecting commuter, while the more ancient ones have been known to consume school buses full of young children. One particularly nasty hole on Western would rival the Sarlacc pit from Star Wars. Avent Ferry should be renamed Avent Scary, while a more appropriate name for Hillsborough would be Holesborough. Each day they grow wider, deeper and stronger. The potholes are taking over our city. If you are reading this you are the resistance; you are all that’s left.

Patrick Applejunior, history

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symptoms, or it can be more than that,” Bengtson said.

One of the common symp-toms, according to Bengtson and the CDC, however, is a fever.

“A lot of students will not actually check their tempera-tures, but they’ll say they felt hot or cold or had chills or sweats,” Bengtson said.

Extending from the fever, Bengtson also said that many students exhibiting symp-toms of the norovirus find themselves feeling tired and fatigued.

Part of this is because of the draining of the body’s fluids through vomiting and bowel movements.

Making matters worse is the fact that each time an in-dividual secretes bodily fluid – particularly fecal matter and vomit – the virus is given a

vehicle to travel, which could lead to further contamination of other people.

Before this becomes the case, Bengston said students should seek immediate help.

“If someone is really sick, they shouldn’t be afraid to come in and get help. We can fix it quickly often times,” Bengston said.

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The world’s most powerful atom-smasher will begin experiments again over the next few days at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The $5.8 billion venture was run for the first time in December after a 14-month breakdown. The purpose of the machine is to gather more information about the origin of the universe by recreating conditions that may have led to atmospheric conditions that could cause the Big Bang.

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Endeavour space shuttle lands safely in Florida

The last construction mission of the International Space Station was completed Sunday with the safe landing of the space shuttle Endeavour. The two-week project took six astronauts 5.7 million miles to install a new space station room. NASA will wrap up the shuttle project this fall, after which Russia, Japan and Europe will supply the space station room.

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University researchers create better biomedical implants

A new generation of biomedical implants are being engineered by University researchers using metal foam that has similar properties to bone makeup. The foam is lighter than solid aluminum and can be made of both steel and aluminum or 100 percent steel. This development will work well in human bodies because of its likeness to bone, which will prevent the body from rejecting the new material.

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Dolphins have abilityto turn diabetes offNew research suggests that dolphins have type 2 diabetes, but are able to regulate it because of an evolutionary adaptation that correlates to their brain size. Humans may have developed diabetes because of similar reasons, so there is hope that the dolphin on-off switch could be a way to cure type 2 diabetes in humans. Both species need high amounts of glucose for brain functioning.

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Plan to repair damage to Great Lakes unveiledA five-year blueprint to repair contamination, loss of habitat and overpopulation by invasive species in the Great Lakes was unveiled by the Obama administration Sunday. The plan allocates $2.2 billion towards cleanup of the lake, including a zero tolerance policy towards invasive species, improvement of wetland and habitats and reduction of pollution from runoff.

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From the WISE program (Women in Science Education) to the women’s and gender stud-ies course Women and Gender in Science Technology, encourage-ment of women’s participation in these fields can be seen through-out the University curriculum. While some students and faculty believe women are well represent-ed in the STEM fields, others be-lieve society is still not up to par.

Elizabeth Davis, a junior in ac-counting, said she thinks women are sometimes left out in the tech-nology industry and that men are more interested in the field.

“In general, men are more in-terested. The field of technology is men-driven and it may deter many females from pursuing a career in that field,” Davis said.

Remembering that the Univer-sity holds a large interest in the fields of science and math, the percentages of male and female students in these fields has shown to be widely disproportional. Shannon Johnson, director of the Women’s Center, cited fall 2008 enrollment statistics.

“Our College of Engineering has the smallest percentage of fe-male students, only 16.6 percent. The next largest, the College of Natural Resources, is 28.6 percent based off fall 2008 data,” Johnson said. “The College of Engineering is the largest academic college at N.C. State, but it only has 16.6 percent women.”

Johnson continued by pointing out that not only student numbers show a difference, but faculty rep-resentation does as well.

“The percentage of women

faculty overall is 36.6 percent but for engi-neering faculty 12.5 percent are women. It’s definitely an area that inequality still exists,” Johnson said.

Shanna Hayes, a sophomore in biomed-ical engineering, said she has noticed there are fewer percentages of women in her classes than men.

“There’s a stereotype in society that little girls don’t need to be in the engineering field. They’re just not being exposed to the en-gineering aspects of the world,” Hayes said.

Davis said many of the Univer-sity classes show an unbalanced ratio of men to women.

“I’ve heard that most of the classes, specifi-cally the engi-neering classes, are male-dom-inated,” Davis said.

Hayes men-t i o n e d s h e learned in her psychology class that studies have shown women and men per-form the same in math and sci-ence, yet she said society seems to project the opposite idea.

“It’s sort of a catch 22 because society thinks women aren’t in-terested in the field and they are not presenting opportunities to them in school,” Hayes said. “They don’t have the exposure to

it. I think there are not as many women trying to get in the engi-neering fields as men.”

B. Jasmine Adams, director of undergraduate advising in the department of computer sci-ence, said women are becoming increasingly more represented in the technology industry and are making great strides in the tech-nology industry.

“I think they are fully repre-sented to the extent that they are majoring in these careers,” Adams sa id. “What can the academia do to attract more women to tech-nology-related majors? That’s

the real question.”Evan McConnell, a junior in

mechanical engineering, said the reason there are fewer women in technological areas of work and study is because of a lack of inter-est and a large male population.

“I think there are plenty of op-portunities for women to advance

in the field. They’re in the minor-ity,” McConnell said, “but I don’t think there’s anything holding them back from reaching those majors.”

McConnell also believes there will be more of a balance in the future between men and women in the technology industry.

“I think eventually down the line you’ll see more balance. It will become more accepted and more common,” McConnell said.

According to Davis, the issue is quite relevant in today’s society and it is an issue that should be addressed.

“It is an issue in society — wom-en have made great advancements in technology. I think that having an equal balance in the workforce is important,” Davis said.

Johnson said there are pro-grams on campus, such as WISE, whose intention is to work on re-tention of females in science.

“When they come in,” Johnson said, “keep them in.”

Women gain opportunities but lack representation in STEM fields

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Women’s roles in society have changed dramatically over the 20th and 21st centuries as women become more

involved in traditionally male-dominated fields. The STEM professions, which include science, technology, engineering and math, are more open than ever to women. Studies show, however, that women still lag behind men in representation in these fields.

treatmentThere are a number of treatments readily available to students affected by the norovirus. To help with nausea and vomiting, Dramamine (dimenhydrinate) and phenergan (promethazine) can be prescribed. Zofran, a medicine that does not cause tiredness, is often prescribed to sick persons. As far as fever reduction, the best option is generally acetaminophen. In order to control diarrhea, Imodium can be used as directed.

Source: ncSu Student health center

PreventionAt the end of the day, hand washing remains the most important activity that people can do to prevent getting infected. Especially when out in public, be sure to wash your hands before eating food and after visits to the restroom. Remember to wash your hands for at least 15 seconds and use the paper towel to turn off the faucet.If you are unable to wash your hands on a regular basis, alcohol-based hand sanitizer may be used. It does not, however, take the place of washing your hands. Hand sanitizer should be used as a supplement between times you wash your hands. Immediately after an episode of illness, be sure to remove and wash all clothes and linens that might have been contaminated. Ideally, potentially contaminated surfaces and objects should be disinfected using a bleach-based household cleaner.

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balance.”Evan McConnell, junior in mechanical engineering

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Student Health Center sees a rise in number of patients exhibiting norovirus symptoms, encourages students to take preventive measures

Justin CarringtonCampus & Capital Editor

At a YMCA conference held in down-town Raleigh two weekends ago, nearly 150 conference-goers fell ill with what state health officials said was possibly norovirus. Now, it seems that some stu-dents on campus are suffering from the same virus.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, noroviruses are classified as a group of viruses which triggers the stomach flu-like conditions or gastroenteritis in individuals.

Dr. Mary Bengston, medical director of the Student Health Center, said she has been paying particularly close at-tention to the number of norovirus-like cases coming through the center and she said she feels as if there are no patterns to cause any major alarms.

According to Bengtson, students should instead be worrying about ways in which they can prevent contract-ing the virus – and other illnesses, for that matter.

“A person has some control over whether they do or do not get this,” Bengtson sa id. “The person needs to take charge of their own health.”

Echoing t h i s p o i n t A n d r e P i e r c e , Wa k e County’s environmental health and safety director, who said that norovirus is very easy to spread.

“Norovirus is very easy to transmit really quickly with a small infectious dose,” Pierce said.

Scientifically speaking, these small infectious doses that Pierce mentioned refer to the amount of microscopic par-ticles required to contaminate. In the case of noro-viruses, merely 10 particles are required for con-tamination.

For this reason, Bengtson recom-

mends that students view items they encounter in public areas as potential carriers for the virus.

“If you’re out in public, assume that stuff other people touch could have been handled by a person contaminated with the virus,” Bengtson said.

According to Pierce, the ultimate goal is to keep the virus outside of your body.

“Outside the body it is not growing, unlike a food pathogen that maybe grows when left out,” Pierce said. “It needs a host to replicate. As such, it’s transmitted on contact surfaces, but it can also be aerosolized.”

While mentioning that there’s no par-ticular reason for students or faculty to be fearful of a mass outbreak, Bengtson said the center treated more students ex-hibiting norovirus symptoms this past week than in the last month or so.

Some of these symptoms include di-arrhea, nausea, headaches and stomach cramps.

This list is not exhaustive, however.

In fact, despite what some may believe, Bengtson said that symptoms actually vary by individuals. “It can be one or two

Protecting against Norovirus

Common SymptomS Symptoms for noroviruses can last anywhere from 24 to 60 hours. Some of the most common symptoms reported include: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramping, fever, headache and fatigue.

If you are exhIbItIng SymptomS of the norovIruS, what Should you do?The most obvious thing is to rest.Be sure to hydrate. Diarrhea and vomiting are very common with this particular stomach bug, and as a result of these two things, the body loses a lot of fluids. Be sure to take frequent small sips of non-dairy, non-caffeinated liquids.• gatorade• Water• decaffeinated tea• ginger Ale• sprite/7UP• popsicles and ice chips

adhere to a bland diet. You will want to limit yourself to things like chicken broth, Jell-O and popsicles. Once you are able to retain liquids for six to eight hours, you should be able to advance to other food items like:• Crackers• Noodles• toast• bananas• rice• Applesauce

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handled by a person

contaminated with the

virus.”Dr. Mary Bengston, medical director of

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Norovirus is easily transmitted through public areas and human contact. The student health center has seen a rise in symptoms of this virus in the last month.

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three states in the country, I think, as far as high school and club vol-leyball, but it’s not a different style of play from over here. In football, you have west coast offense and stuff – in volleyball, it’s pretty simple. You have to control the ball to win, and that comes from serving and passing. It makes your life pretty easy as a setter if you’re controlling the ball, so that’s what we’re working on right now. We need to make sure we can serve hard, return the serve and play defense, because without that, it doesn’t matter how good your hit-ters are. West Coast, East Coast, Midwest, Southwest – it doesn’t matter.

Technician: You’re taking over a program that has had just four conference wins in four seasons. How are you going to get it back on the right track?

Bunn: We need to change the culture of the program. We’ve got to turn it around about 180 degrees right now. They need to learn how to win. They need to be confident in themselves. We try to keep ev-erything super positive. I believe in building people up positively, not tearing people down. We’re going to outwork everybody, outhustle everybody and we’re going to be tougher than everybody, because those are the things we can con-trol. We’re going to work on those things.

Technician: What are your goals for the near future?

Bunn: Our vision is to get com-petitive in the ACC and it’s going

to take about three years to get there. We’re not going to be in the top part of our conference right away, but it’s our goal to get there. Teams need to be afraid to play us. I don’t think they’ve been afraid of us in a while, but next year they’re going to know that they’re going to have to play well to win. We have what we need. The players have to believe that they have what they need, and I’m not sure they’ve done that before.

Technician: Who are your assistant coaches?

Bunn: Stevie Mussie is one of the other coaches. She was a four-year outside hitter at University of the Pacific for two years and University of Washington for two years and an All-PAC-10 player and the Seattle Re-gional’s most valuable player. She was on a team that won a national cham-pionship and had been to the Final

Four. She has great experience and I think she’s going to give the girls a good role model because she knows how hard you have to work to be suc-cessful, and it’s been pretty recent for her. The other coach is going to be Pete Hoyer, a longtime friend. He has 17 years of Division I coaching and he was head coach at Dayton for nine years. He got out of college coaching for a number of reasons but is ready to get back in, and he is a great worker, great recruiter and a great person.

Technician: You’ve said the team you have provides a solid foundation, but it is predominantly made up of upperclassmen. How will recruiting build a strong base for the future of the program?

Bunn: There have been some great, great people coming out of this area recently, and I think you can best re-cruit locally. We need to foster good

relationships with the local clubs and high schools so they trust that they can send players over here. I think that’s going to go a long way in helping us get better. We have to attract the players that are going to help us get to the top. If we get some better players from around here, we’re going to get better support and the atmosphere is going to be better. Our facilities are great. We have what we need to be successful in this conference.

Technician: Have you enjoyed the time you’ve spent in Raleigh so far?

Bunn: My wife and my puppy are back home, and I miss them. But I’ve been here three weeks and the city’s great. I love the area. I’m excited about being in Raleigh, being in the ACC, being in charge and getting this pro-gram headed in the right direction.

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when the team traveled to Dallas to take on No. 2 Oklahoma. She posted what was her career high at the time in the all-around with a score of 39.200, which was high enough to place her first amongst all competitors. Her contributions allowed the Wolfpack to stay reasonably close to Oklahoma and fall a little more than a point be-hind the Sooners.

“I am really happy with how the sea-son is going, but there is always room to improve,” Panza said.

This past weekend, the Wolfpack pulled off a historic upset over No. 10 Nebraska in the Sweetheart invi-tational, and once again Panza had a hand in the outcome of the meet. She posted a new career-high all around score of 39.225, which placed her sec-ond behind only Christine Nguyen of UNC-Chapel Hill. Panza also contrib-uted to the season-high beam score for the Pack, as she secured a season-high individual beam score of 9.875.

“She has done what it takes to elevate her performance and especially with her bar performance,” Stevenson said.

Panza will look to continue utiliz-ing her strong work ethic during both the practices and meets ahead in her career. She will also look to best her career marks as she continues to be a top performer and contributor for Wolfpack gymnastics. As the season progresses, the Pack will look towards Panza to bring her top scoring per-formance during some tough meets ahead, against opponents like Geor-gia, and into the EAGL champion-ships.

“She is just a great kid and doesn’t stop working,” Stevenson said.

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photo courtesy matthew minardBryan Bunn oversees practice at Baylor University, where he coached for three years. The N.C. State Athletics Department announced that Bunn would be its new volleyball coach after Charita Stubbs was dismissed last fall.

COUNTDOWN• 54 days until the football team’s spring game

INSIDE•Continuations of the stories on

volleyball and gymnastics SportsTechnicianPage 8 • tuesday, february 23, 2010

Coach Bunn adds to volleyball staffNew head coach Bryan Bunn announced that Stevie Mussie will be added to the staff for the 2010 season as an assistant coach. Her last coaching stint was in 2008 when she was an assistant at the University of Colorado.

Source: N.c. State athleticS

N.C. State football holds junior dayOn Sunday, Feb. 21, N.C. State held its official junior day. This signaled the start of the new recruiting season for the Pack, as it worked out members of the recruiting class of 2011.

Source: NorthcaroliNaState.Scout.com

Softball takes three of five at La Quinta Inn & Suites Tourney

The softball team traveled to Tampa, Fla. over the weekend and won three of its five games. The Pack finished the tournament with a 4-0 shutout of Michigan State Sunday morning. On the weekend, State also defeated South Florida and North Dakota State, but lost to Hofstra and Wright State.

Source: N.c. State athleticS

Second baseman named ACC Baseball Player of the WeekDallas Poulk, a senior from Fayetteville, earned the award after a dominant weekend at the plate in the Pack’s season-opening series against La Salle. Poulk drove in 10 RBI’s and recorded a slugging percentage of 1.182 and an on-base percentage of .667 in helping the baseball team set a school record for runs in a three-game series with 65.

Source: N.c. State athleti cS

athletic schedule

TodayMen’s Golf at Mardi Gras intercolleGiate tournaMentNew Orleans, La, All Day

BaseBall v. caMpBellDoak Field at Dail Park, 3 p.m.

WednesdayMen’s swiMMinG and divinG acc chaMpionshipsChapel Hill, N.C., All Day

ThursdayMen’s and woMen’s track and field acc indoor chaMpionshipsBlacksburg, Va., All Day

woMen’s tennis v. dukeDurham, N.C., 4 p.m.

woMen’s BasketBall v. wake forestWinston-Salem, N.C., 7 p.m.

men’s Tennis

volleyball

Veteran duo climbs rankingsThe No. 54-ranked men’s doubles team of Frideric Prandecki and Rob Lowe has shown success already this season

Jen Hankin Deputy Sports Editor

Teamwork, playing to your partner’s strengths and communication are the core foundations for any successful doubles team. Senior Frideric Pran-decki and junior Rob Lowe, who form State’s No. 1 men’s tennis doubles team, are doing each of those things well.

“A lot of playing doubles is knowing who you’re playing with and knowing what kind of shots they’re going to hit and [Prandecki and Lowe] have a good grasp of that,” coach Jon Choboy said. “They know how to pick each other up. Some doubles teams can turn on each other but they are always covering each other’s backs. They bring out the best in each other.”

The duo is ranked 54th in the Inter-national Tennis Federation poll and the season is just getting started. Prandecki and Lowe are 6-2 overall and have won two upset matches thus far this season, with victories over the No. 27 duo of Diego Cubas and Ivan Machado from South Carolina as well as the No. 1 doubles team from No. 33 Michigan.

“The reason why we have excelled this year is we have worked on little aspects of our game,” Lowe said. “We widened our boundaries of what we can do.”

The doubles team has been playing and practicing together for the past three years, yet Lowe said it still has not met all of its goals.

“I don’t think we have accomplished what we have set out to accomplish,” Lowe said. “I think there’s a lot more work we need to do, and a lot of things we need to work on. Our goal is to re-

main consistent. “ The goal for any doubles team is to

make the NCAA tournament at the end of the season, where only the top teams complete. But for Prandecki, the tour-nament and rankings are not his main concerns.

“My expectation is not really the end result but the journey itself,” Prandecki said. “When we get to the end I want to look back a few years from now and say that it was awesome.”

In order to get to that point, the pair needs to keep its mental focus, accord-ing to Choboy.

“If they don’t beat themselves they will be tough to beat,” Choboy said. “The matches that they’ve lost, they beat themselves. If they don’t make those mistakes then they win. They both have really big serves and help each other hold serve. They just got to go out and do it.”

Strokes and talent aside, the duo’s chemistry on the court radiates throughout the rest of the team.

“We know each other’s game and we know what servers we’re going to hit and what ball we’re going to hit,” Lowe said. “We have a lot of chemistry on the court.”

Prandecki and Lowe, as well as the rest of the team, spend hours on the court, yet they also spend quality time with each other off the court.

“We all hang out together in whatever we do,” Prandecki said. “It helps. We’re a lot closer and we’re playing for each other. No one is playing for himself.”

Supporting the team is all that Pran-decki was able to do in the past. Dur-ing the majority of his first three years with the Pack, he was watching from the sideline, waiting for his turn. Now, after hard work and determination, his time has come in his fourth and final year, and he is stepping up effectively.

“I have been on the sidelines the past three years and now this is my time to

shine,” Prandecki said. According to Choboy, Prandecki’s

consistent effort has made him a good leader.

“He’s worked hard to get to this po-

sition,” Choboy said. “People respect him for busting his hump in order to get where he is, and that’s the best lead-ership.”

Technician sports editor Kate Shefte sat down with Bryan Bunn, who was named N.C. State’s head volleyball coach Friday afternoon. Bunn was the associate head coach at Baylor University under Jim Barnes and helped lead the Bears to a 24-10 record in 2009 and a Sweet 16 berth. He talked about his arrival in Raleigh, his expectations for 2010 and how to turn around a program in distress.

Kate Shefte Sports Editor

Technician : Can you tell us a little about your back-ground?

Bunn : I was born and raised in San Antonio and basically lived there until I was 35. For the last three years I was at Baylor Univer-sity as associate head coach. We made the Sweet 16 this year, so it was a good run. Prior to that I was the head coach at North Florida Uni-versity for seven years. We were Division I the last three years I was there. We had a 60-game conference win streak and went to Region-als all five years and we were ranked in the top 15 the last

three years.

Technician: What attracted you to the State head coaching position?

Bunn: One of the biggest was that it was a head coaching po-sition in the ACC. I’ve always felt that the program under-performed and that somebody could come in here and make this program competitive. It’s baby steps. First we want to be competitive in the ACC, then we want to be competitive in the region, then we want to be competitive nationally. But it’s going to take a while to get there.

Technician : Have you met the team yet?

Bunn: We’ve been working out. We have individual work-outs, which are two hours per week per person, and they’ve been doing their strength and conditioning, which is about six hours per week. I’ve had individual meetings with all of them. They’re learning new things and a new system so it will take them a little time to get adjusted, but they’re all working hard right now so we’re in good shape.

Technician: There’s sup-posedly a wide berth between “West Coast” and “East Coast” volleyball. Which category does your coaching style fall

gymnasTics

Panza achieving excellence early in collegiate career Sophomore’s work ethic and skill shine brightly during sophomore season

Chadwick O’ConnellStaff Writer

Before stepping foot on campus to begin her fresh-man season as a member of the gymnastics team, sophomore Jess Panza had already accumulated acco-lades, including being named the number one gymnast in the whole state of New York in 2008 and being ranked first in both the vault and the all around in her region before entering college. At her gymnastics club back in New York, Panza was the only higher-level gymnast and never had any team-mates reach her level of skill and competition.

“I was the only older gym-nast, and all of my other teammates were younger,” Panza said. “It is great being in an atmosphere with people doing the same things you are doing.”

Panza has built upon those early accolades in the early stages of her career here at N.C. State by being named EAGL rookie of the week after competing in her first ever meet as a member of the Wolfpack during her fresh-man season. Also during that year, she was named to the EAGL all-tournament first team for her performance all season on bars and to the EAGL second team for her performance on vault.

“She brings a lot of effort

in practice and we can always count on her, especially when it comes to beam,” freshman Rachel Fincham said.

Panza’s freshman season wasn’t as successful as she would have hoped, as a high ankle sprain kept her out of competition for four weeks. She did not let that injury stop her, though, as she went on to post her second highest score of the season on beam during the EAGL championships. Her score of 9.85 was the highest of all her teammates and it helped the team capture the 2009 EAGL championship.

“The injury was hard because the season is so short,” Panza said. “My goal over the summer was to come in and be in the best shape I could be for this season.”

In her sophomore season Panza has only built upon the foundation of strong performance she laid during her freshman season. She has been an instrumental part of the team this season, as it has had to face some of the top programs from across the country. In the quad meet at West Virginia, Panza secured the top score for her team in floor exercise, beam and all around.

“Jess has made tremendous strides,” coach Mark Steven-son said. “We are real proud of her high work ethic.”

The success this season didn’t end at the meet in West Virginia, as Panza had one of the best meets of her career

Q&a with

Bryan Bunn

amaNda KarSt/techNiciaNsenior Frideric Prandecki and junior Rob lowe, upperclassmen on an n.c. state men’s tennis doubles team, often keep their communication about plays secret by using balls as barriers so the other team cannot easily read their lips

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breNt KitcheN/techNiciaN file photosophomore Jess Panza poses during her floor routine during the team’s meet against Florida Feb. 5, 2010. Panza scored a 9.800 in the event. The Wolfpack lost to the no. 3 gators 195.475-194.450.

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