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Chancellor resignsThe controversy surrounding

Mary Easley claimed another top University position Monday, as UNC President Erskine Bowles ac-cepted the resignation of former Chancellor James Oblinger. Former Provost Larry Nielsen resigned May 22 because of the controversy link-ing him to her hire.

“Jim Oblinger has shared with me his decision to resign as chancellor of North Carolina State University, effective immediately,” Bowles said in a memo he sent out to the UNC Board of Governors. “I have accept-ed that decision with considerable sadness, but agree fully with Jim’s conclusion that it would be in the best interest of N.C. State and the entire University for him to step down as chancellor and return to the faculty.”

In his memo, Bowles said that Oblinger will be granted a six-month leave at his current salary before returning to the faculty as a professor of food science.

Oblinger’s resignation came the same day that e-mails linking him to the Easley hire were released to the public. Oblinger said in a press conference this May that he could not recall having had conversations with McQueen Campbell about the hiring of Easley.

Oblinger said in a written state-ment released on the University’s Web site that he chose to resign “be-cause that is what leaders do when the institutions they lead come un-der distracting and undue public scrutiny.”

He also said he hoped his resig-nation would serve as an example to Easley.

“The only reason I am announc-ing my resignation is that I am ap-plying to myself the same standards I have asked Mrs. Easley to apply to herself: I am doing it because it is in the best interests of N.C. State University,” Oblinger said in the statement.

BOT ends Easley’s contractFormer first lady Mary Easley was

fired from her post as executive-in-residence Monday during an emergency meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Board of Trustees members voted unanimously in favor of terminat-ing Easley’s $170,000 contract.

“I believe we now have to move forward. I think to do so we have got to do everything we can to bring sunlight to this issue. I have therefore fully supported the BOT recommendation that we terminate our relationship with Mrs. Easley,” Bowles said in a press conference following the meeting.

Bowles said he did not know how much it would cost the University to terminate Easley’s contract and that no talks with her lawyer had been conducted.

He said he saw the e-mails dealing with the hiring of Easley on Friday

while at N.C. State.“They were delivered to me on

Friday afternoon. Those e-mails made me feel sick. I had believed the chancellor,” Bowles said.

After the provost’s resignation, Oblinger said he did not remem-ber the specifics surrounding the hiring of Easley. He continued to assert that until the e-mails were made public.

Board of Trustees Chairman Bob Jordan said the media was “nitpick-ing,” especially since, in his opin-ion, there has been no criminal evi-dence surrounding the controversy.

“Knowing what I know, I still don’t believe there was anything wrong in those e-mails,” Jordan said. “I haven’t seen anything ex-cept maybe somebody didn’t use good judgement [that was wrong],” Jordan said.

Oblinger out, Easley terminatedCHANCELLOR RESIGNS, TRUSTEES END FORMER FIRST LADY’S CONTRACT AFTER RELEASE OF E!MAILS

The University’s troubles stemming from the 2005 hiring of then-first lady Mary Easley continued this week as the University released

documents that tied Chancellor James Oblinger to Easley’s hiring.

John Cooper EliasSenior staff writer

After serving as chancel-lor of UNC-Charlotte for 16 years, Jim Woodward said he had not intended to come out of retirement, let alone to become interim chancellor of N.C. State and fill the spot James Oblinger left vacant after he submitted his resignation Sunday.

“I had no aspirations to have a full-time job again,” Wood-ward said in a phone interview before he left Charlotte Mon-day afternoon. “It was nice to have the freedom and flexibil-ity of retirement. These are jobs that require full attention.”

UNC System President Ers-kine Bowles said he was “ex-

tremely grateful” that Wood-ward accepted the appointment on short notice in a memo an-nouncing the news Monday. At a press conference later in the day, he said Woodward would be given full control during the transition.

“I have asked Jim Wood-ward to become chancellor on an interim basis. Not interim chancellor but chancellor, and be fully in charge on an interim basis,” Bowles said at the press conference.

Woodward said Oblinger did a “superb” job while lead-ing the University, and that his performance was why he felt comfortable stepping in for

Woodward settles inFormer professor takes interim role

Budget, chancellor search on agendaJohn Cooper EliasSenior staff writer

In his first official meeting with Student Body President Jim Ceresnak and Student Senate President Kelli Rogers, Interim Chancellor Jim Woodward spoke about the impending budget cuts and the im-mediate search for a new chancellor.

Woodward said his focus will be to help guide the unprecedented cuts with as little disruption to the core of the University as possible.

“We want to minimize the impact on the education of our students,” he said. “But, there are other missions for this in-stitution. We have an extension service, a research program. We have other things we have to do, so you want to minimize the damage to all these core activities and

BRENT KITCHEN/TECHNICIANInterim Chancellor Jim Woodward meets with Student Body President Jim Ceresnak and Student Senate President Kelli Rogers on Wednesday. Woodward took over following James Oblinger’s resignation Monday.

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TWEETERS RESPOND:qntmfred: ncsu chancellor oblinger resigned today. can we somehow tie lee fowler to the mary easley scandal too?

mammalpants: Breaking News: NCSU closes doors forever over Mary Easley scandal. Considers offering Corruption major.

ginnyhuff: NO MORE OBLINGER!!! Now if only Fowler will resign too.

woozypoo: NCSU chancellor resigned today...Thanks again Mike & Mary!

jswh: Gotta believe Russell Wilson is next in line for Chancellor. Trustees should just make it happen (Right guys? Sports reference?......right?)

Kyle_B_Judah: @NCSUTJ Sounds like some hectic business going on at NCSU! Went through a similar situation at UMass Amherst

tubafrenzy: Wow, never thought Sidney Lowe would outlast Oblinger at NCSU.

SwampMerchant: Oblinger resigns. Great job News and Observer and Andy Curliss! Our university system is a feather bed for the connected. Get real jobs!

amandala: @nsj Yes, I’m an NCSU alum as well and I hope that today’s news will finally be the end to all the drama

nsj: @bethanyvsmith No kidding. It’s sad for us alums -- and leaves me seeing red. Righteous indignation!

bethanyvsmith: @nsj I wonder who will be next to leave at NCSU - or is there anyone left....

frontstack: @frijole it took the chancellor, provost and BoT chair resigning in order to get that bitch fired. i’m embarrassed to be agraduate of NCSU.

GOV. BEV PERDUE’S STATEMENT ON RESIGNATION“Today’s announcements are the appropriate steps to enable the University to keep its eye on the prize -- education, collaboration, discovery and leadership,” Perdue said in a statement. “Recent events have become a distraction from the core mission of N.C. State faculty, staff, and students. I’m confident in Chancellor Emeritus Woodward’s ability to lead the University on an interim basis and to maintain its focus on excellence in education and innovation.”

SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

BOT to review former provost’s salary, documents showing package larger than originally thought inspire state amendment

Ty JohnsonEditor in chief

A severance package that allows for-mer Provost Larry Nielsen to continue to earn his $298,700 yearly salary over the next six months while “he is pre-paring himself to resume his faculty responsibilities” has brought more scrutiny to Holladay Hall as the Board of Governors, Board of Trustees, and a State Representative are seeking to change the way these academic deals are struck.

BOT chairman asks for review of Nielsen package

Board of Trustees Chairman Bob Jordan has asked the University to review Nielsen’s contract due to pub-lic scrutiny of his severance package while the University is facing 18-per-cent budget cuts. The contract would continue to pay Nielsen at his pro-vost salary while he is on study leave. Nielsen will teach one class beginning in January.

“This type of transition package is widely used in academia,” Jordan said, “but these are extraordinary budget-ary times. I am asking the chancel-lor to review the contract to ensure compliance with university policies, rules and regulations.”

Oblinger sweetened deal before Nielsen’s resignation went into effect

The University hastily called an emergency Board of Trustees con-ference call in Holladay Hall Sunday

night, where the Board approved the re-lease of personal documents in relation to the hiring and resignation of former provost Larry Nielsen.

The documents released were two let-ters addressed to Nielsen from former Chancellor James Oblinger. The letters showed Nielsen’s original severance pack-age and how it was altered before his res-ignation in late May. 13, 2009 outlining “the transition of your salary in accor-dance with the terms of your initial ap-pointment as provost” and a letter from Oblinger to Nielsen dated June 22, 2005 informing Nielsen he had been selected as permanent provost.

Oblinger told the News & Observer last week Nielsen would receive his provost salary until Nov. before it was reduced to that of a tenured professor. The docu-ments show the package will actually step down Nielsen’s salary over the next three years.

Interim Provost Warwick Arden could not be reached for comment. Arden is in Australia until June 18.

N.C. Republican House leader aims to strike down “golden parachutes”

Rep. Paul Stam has drafted an amend-ment to Senate Bill 202 which would end what has become referred to as “golden parachutes” for high-ranking officials who resign from their posts.

A statement released Tuesday said the recent publicity of universities giv-ing outgoing officials hefty severance packages is irresponsible as budget cuts threaten education.

“Recent revelations of pay retention for NCSU Provost Larry Nielson and now for Chancellor James Oblinger cannot stand as historically tight budgets for education and other essential human services go

Nielsen package plot thickens

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IN THE KNOW New students learn campus

As summer session I comes to a close, New Student Orien-tation will be getting ready to introduce new students to the N.C. State community.

Orientation Counselors will start preparations on June 20. Starting June 29, the campus will be buzzing with new mem-bers of the Wolfpack.

The last orientation session will wrap up on July 31.

SOURCE: NCSU.EDU

Quilts displayed in Gregg Art Museum

Starting Thursday, June 11, the Gregg Museum of Art and Design will feature a selection of over forty quilts.

The quilts range from patri-otic themes to rich silk, and an-tique quilts. Each quilt is said to display graphic design elements found in quilt making.

The Gregg Museum of Art and Design is open from 10 am to 5 pm on all weekdays and is free to students.

SOURCE: NCSU.EDU

Gracin and Wicks to headline Friday Fest 2009

Country music artists Josh Gracin and Chuck Wicks will headline the annual Friday Fest event sponsored by the Union Activities Board.

The event will take place on Lee Field from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Aug. 21. Admission is free for students and $25 for the general public.

SOURCE: UNION ACTIVITIES BOARD

University announces Dean’s list

6,253 undergraduate stu-dents were named to the spring semester Dean’s List, the University announced Wednesday. Students must earn an academic grade point average of 3.25 or higher if they are carrying 15 or more hours of course work, or a 3.5 GPA if they are carrying 12 to 14 hours. Students with a perfect 4.0 average are noted on the list.

SOURCE: NCSU.EDU

POLICE BLOTTERJune 71:27 AM | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY2500 Hillsborough Street Officers responded to assist Raleigh Police with a possible fight and damage to property. Subjects involved left the scene prior to Officers arrival. 12:55 AM | VEHICLE STOPDan Allen Drive A non-student was issued a ci-tation for a stop sign violation on Dan Allen Drive at Sullivan Drive. 7:59 AM | ACTIVITY REPORT-SPECIAL EVENTMorrill Drive Checkpoint was conducted for two hours. Police officers is-sued two verbal warnings, fail-ure to carry a driver’s license and improper display of a tag. 9:34 AM | VEHICLE STOP - TRAFFICMorrill Drive Officers stopped a student at the checkpoint and issued a verbal warring for failure to carry an OL.

9:41 AM | VEHICLE STOP - TRAFFICMorrill Drive A student was stopped at the checkpoint and issued a verbal warning for improper display of license decal. 11:22 PM | VEHICLE STOPVarsity Drive A non-student was issued a ci-tation for no operators license at the above drivers license/seatbelt checkpoint.

WORLD & NATIONHolocaust Museum shooting led to guard’s death

On the morning of June 10, a gun-man identified as an eighty-eight year-old white supremacist named James von Brunn entered the mu-seum and immediately shot a guard. The gunman was then shot and sub-dued by other guards.

The museum released a statement saying that the victim, Tyrone Johns, died heroically in the line of duty.

After the shots were fired, the mu-seum was evacuated and closed for the remainder of the day.

SOURCE: CNN.COM

U.N. will enforce tougher North Korean sanctions

Following North Korea’s long-range missile testing from earlier this year and its plans to test another one in the near future, the United Nations Security Council has agreed to tough-en sanctions on North Korea.

The United States’ goal is that the increased sanctions will force North Korea to return to “six-party talks.” These talks, between the United States, China, South Korea, Japan, and Russia, include nuclear negotiations.

The Security Council will take a final vote on the matter at the end of the week.

SOURCE: CNN.COM

Air France bodies to undergo DNA testing

According to reports, The first 16 bodies to be recovered from the crash of Air France 447 are due to arrive at a Brazilian Air Force base in Recife, Brazil for identification at a medical institute.

France is leading the investigation into what caused last week’s accident when the Paris-bound flight crashed into the ocean off the Brazilian coast with 228 passengers and crew on board. Another 25 bodies have been found and will go through the same proce-dure starting Thursday.

SOURCE: CNN.COM

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the time being.“N.C. State is an extraordinarily im-

portant University,” Woodward said Monday. “It is not a troubled Univer-sity.”

After arriving in Raleigh Tuesday morning, Woodward immediately be-gan meeting with administrators and faculty leaders. Wednesday, he met with Student Body President Jim Ceresnak and Student Senate President Kelli Rog-ers.

Between those meetings, he kept his promise of being “open and honest” with the media and stayed busy with a whirlwind of interviews.

“I have enjoyed meeting with people throughout the University. I have actu-ally enjoyed meeting with the media be-cause I think there is such a great story

to tell,” he said.Early in his career, Woodward taught

engineering classes at NCSU. He said the return to the University has been “heartwarming.”

“I’ve seen and confirmed what I be-lieved before I got here and that is that this is a great University that will get past this cur-rent trouble,” he said. “I would not have ac-cepted this appoint-ment unless I felt that I could do this job and unless I felt as if I would commit the time and energy necessary to do the job well. This is a worthwhile thing to do, and it’s important.”

Although he was willing to accept the interim position, Woodward said the hardest part of being here is “personal.”

“It’s being separated from my wife and my dogs, and in that order,” he said.

Woodward married his high-school sweetheart and the two have been to-gether for 53 years.

He said a sense of responsibility to the students and the University is what will motivate him to come to work each day.

The interim role“My role is to be

the chief executive of f icer of North Carolina State Uni-versity,” Woodward said when asked what his main job is as the fourth interim chan-cellor in the history of the University.

He said he knows the UNC system, the North Carolina government and many of the supporters of the Univer-sity. What he said he doesn’t know is the campus itself.

“The learning is mainly on the inside of the campus,” he said. “One of my first

tasks is to get to know the campus.”Dean Emeritus Robert Barnhardt,

who served as interim chancellor in 2004 after the departure of former Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, said the normal role of an interim chancellor is to keep any positive momentum going that the University has.

“You need somebody who can keep driving the University in a positive di-rection,” Barnhardt said. “You don’t want to lose any grounds. You want to make sure you leave the place better than what you found it.”

Barnhardt called Woodward “a quick learner” and said other issues like the budget — which has been a topic dis-cussed at most of Woodward’s initial meetings — are more important than the negative publicity the University received the past month.

“He knows exactly what has to be done,” Barnhardt said. “That has to receive a tremendous amount of atten-tion.”

Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford said the appointment of Woodward brought a positive and op-timistic outlook to the campus because “he conveys a high sense of confidence and he conveys a very positive tone.”

Woodward said the internal public re-lations efforts are important, especially in the message he conveys to students.

“What I want the students to know is the reasons you came to North Carolina State are still the reasons you should be a student here, and that is the faculty and staff,” he said.

On the other hand, Woodward said he would focus on external public relations in an attempt to make the inner work-ings of the University more transparent. He said the lack of transparency is what so often gets elected and appointed of-ficials in trouble.

“I can promise you that during the time I am here, I will do something stu-pid,” he said. “But I won’t try to cover it up.”

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principles.”Woodward told Ceresnak and Rog-

ers that cuts would not be made with-out consulting the appropriate people at the right hierarchy levels within the University structure. He did warn that students will see the cuts impact the University, primarily with class offer-ings.

“You can’t deal with a budget cut that large without impacting the core mission,” he said. “You can’t deal with it by making cuts on the margin, so the impact will be seen by the students in that there won’t be as many classes offered. I worry a lot about that.”

Ceresnak and Rogers expressed their concern that students be included in the budget cut process, and following the meeting, Ceresnak said he was en-couraged by the chancellor’s willing-ness to communicate openly with the student body.

“I was encouraged that he was very willing to include students in the conversation. That was really my first

concern,” Ceresnak said.The student leaders also questioned

Woodward about the process for finding a permanent replacement for chancel-lor. Woodward said until he meets with the Board of Trustees, nothing is set in stone. However, he did ex-press his preference to the search being closed and confiden-tial.

“This is a distin-guished University that will attract the interest of successful sitting presidents and chancellors,” Woodward said. “Unless you are at a third-rate university, you will not let your name go into an open search. If you do, you destroy your cred-ibility. If you want to get really good candidates, you have got to have a closed and confidential search.”

He said he understands that a closed search goes against the transparency he believes in the University having, but he said the benefits outweigh that negative aspect. He said one way he will combat that problem is by focusing on selecting

a strong and diverse search committee.“If it’s a closed search, the search com-

mittee must have the voices of the key constituents represented,” he said. “If you are a student on the search com-

mittee, it is important early on that they talk to students and com-municate about what they want in a new chancellor, and then you bring that back to the full committee. Those views are then sought and welcome by the full commit-tee.”

Woodward said to expect a search committee to be formed by early in the fall semester, and he expects a search firm to be used to contact potential can-didates. He said it is unlikely a candidate would be announced until the end of the academic year next May because a candidate would not want to leave a university in the middle of a year. He did say that it is possible to find a former ac-ademic professional working in a senior governmental agency and that could re-sult in a decision coming sooner.

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“It was nice to have the freedom and flexibility of

retirement.”Interim Chancellor Jim Woodward

“He was very willing to include

students in the conversation.”Student Body President

Jim Ceresnak

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wanting,” the release reads.Stam, the primary sponsor of the

amendment, said tax dollars should be going toward education instead of into former administrator’s pockets.

“At a time when we are experienc-ing unprecedented reductions in state program spending, teachers and other employees are losing their jobs, and tu-ition for college students is being signifi-cantly increased, we cannot allow this irresponsible waste of taxpayers’ dollars to continue,” Stam said in a statement.

Sen. Phil Berger said the amendment would make it illegal for severance packages that continue to pay admin-istrators at their administrative salaries while they remain on the faculty.

“It would be contrary to state law for there to be a severance package of that sort—a golden parachute is the generic term for it,” Berger said.

Berger said the recent controversies involving NCSU have brought these packages into light, but that there could be many others taxpayers have paid for

and not known about.“Apparently a practice exists wherein

an administrator in the University sys-tem, if they lose their job—and it seems like for whatever reason the adminis-trator has left the job—continues to receive his or her salary for a period of time,” Berger said. “And that just strikes us as wrong.”

Berger said severance packages are understandable, but that there should be regulation to protect taxpayers from paying former administrators higher salaries while they take on lower-paying jobs.

“I don’t think anybody would be-grudge someone who loses their job having a two-week’s pay or something of that nature but what we’re seeing is that, for instance in the Oblinger cir-cumstance, he was a tenured professor so once he resigned as chancellor he goes back to being a professor but the salary that he receives is his chancellor’s salary which is significantly higher than the professor salary,” Berger said. “The taxpayers are ending up on the hook for these things and most people don’t think that’s right.”

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TECHNICIAN

The University is in the midst of one of the most challenging times in its

history. A potential 18-percent budget cut sits like a set of spikes on the road before us, and the resignations surrounding the Mary Easley scandal litter the road behind.

It makes our autobahn of in-novation look like the New Jersey Turnpike.

And despite former Chancel-lor James Oblinger and former Provost Larry Nielsen’s supposed efforts to do what is best for the University, the two have once again embroiled us in scandal.

The controversy and bad pub-licity has now extended to the severance packages they are purported to receive after leav-ing their executive positions.

Oblinger’s contract, due to his

duration as chancellor, entitles him to full pay at $420,000 for 12 months before returning to his faculty pay grade. Although, this will probably be reduced to six months due to pressure from UNC system President Erskine Bowles.

Nielsen’s deal calls for full pay at $298,700 for six months before returning to faculty salary.

According to sources, including Hannah Gage, chairwoman of the Board of Governors, this sort of policy is standard amongst university administrations and was enacted in 2005 as a way to stay competitive in the market for executive candidates.

This situation gets more bi-zarre. At the time of Nielsen’s

resignation, the severance deal was sweetened so that Nielsen’s pay would be progressively tiered down to his base salary over three years. That additional ben-efit does not alter the six-month period in which Nielsen will con-tinue to receive full pay.

Thankfully, the NCSU Board of Trustees has not yet accepted the additional three-year provision. If the board members have any sense of self-preservation they won’t allow it.

While these relatively small sums are truly incomparable to a budget cut of $93 million, they represent another stab in the back from our former cam-pus leaders.

The contracts that support

these pay outs were written dur-ing a completely different eco-nomic time. They are hardly relevant during today’s economic crises.

Additionally, what causes our former leaders to think they de-serve “study leave” while they “retreat” back to teaching posi-tions?

Oblinger and Nielsen each spent a lifetime teaching. Why should it cost the students and other members of this University hundreds of thousands of dollars to brush off the cobwebs?

If Oblinger and Nielsen have any sort of honor, they will give back that money and save the jobs of others that will otherwise be cut due to budgetary constraints.

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

editor-in-chief. THE FACTS:The former chancellor and provost are set to receive plush severance packages following their resignations. The University will have to pay out hundreds of thousands of dollars to officials who have left this institution with a blemished reputation.

OUR OPINION:Oblinger and Nielsen should voluntarily give back their severance pay packages as a sign of good will toward the University.

Nielsen, JLO, give it back!OUR VIEW"

Ladies and gentlemen, let me welcome you to the cor-rupt world of Easleygate.

We’ve got insider, back-room deals, corrupt administrators,

and the parade of disgraced resignations that accom-pa ny ever y scandal.

Ou r Un i-v e r s i t y i s bogged down in a quagmire w i t h t h i s

budget. Administrators have to cut 18 percent of the budget, a $92,622,776 reduction, while at-tempting to maintain the quality and breadth of our education.

So naturally, we worry about Mary Easley’s five year, $850,000 contract. Screw worrying about $92 million and change — let’s focus on her .917 percent of that budget cut! All we need now is for investiga-tors to find a recording of former Chan-cellor Oblinger with 18.5 min-u t e s s u s p i -ciously missing when discuss-ing Mary Easley and her new po-sition as executive-in-residence.

Ah, but subpoenaed e-mail re-cords from April and May 2005 indicate that former Gov. Mike Easley helped facilitate his wife’s hiring with former Chancellor James Oblinger, former Provost Larry Nielsen, and former Chair-man of the Board of Trustees McQueen Campbell.

Here’s a particularly juicy e-mail Campbell sent to Nielsen May 19, 2005 regarding Mary Easley:

“Great! The meeting obvi-ously went well and I chatted with the Gov late last week and he says she’s very excited about it and he said if we take this se-riously, which I assured him we were, this could really be a great program for everyone involved. I think she can really take this program to a new level! Thanks for all your help to make this happen!”

This is just a small sample of the sort of cozy, insider deals that helped Mary Easley land her po-sition at the University. The rest

of the correspondence released in response to the federal subpoena is even more damning.

The e-mails released include a bevy of angry messages from various people calling for Ea-sley’s resignation and talking points justifying her initial em-ployment and subsequent raise.

My favorite part? The part of Mrs. Easley’s hiring packet that covered nepotism and the big checkmark in the box indicating that no, the applicant did not use family ties to secure the job.

Still, while these e-mails indi-cate an excessively cozy relation-ship between the administrators at the highest level of the Uni-versity and the former governor, it is all but a layer of slime that rests atop the rotting heap of our institution’s problems.

Yes, Mrs. Easley is getting $850,000 over the next five years

and legislators have cut fund-ing for more than half of her stated respon-sibilities. Yes, former Provost Larry Nielsen got a sweet-heart deal for his resignation. And yes, for-mer Chancellor

Oblinger happened to resign on the same day that subpoenaed e-mails revealed former governor Mike Easley’s direct inf luence in his wife’s employment at the University.

But the big issue remains: $92,622,776. The Easleys may have pulled a fast one on all of us, but now we have to face a budget crisis that makes alchemy look easy. Instead of turning common metals into gold, we have to find a way to keep the value of an N.C. State degree and education up while cutting away 18 percent of our budget.

I’m not saying Easley should have stayed — she needed to quit before she could cause fur-ther damage to the University’s reputation. But we need to get down to the real business: the budget.

Send your thoughts on Easley and the University budget cri-sis to letters@technicianonline.com.

The saga of Mary Easley and her job at the Uni-versity continues to get

more and more muddied by the day.

Even after her departure she continues to drag N.C. State through the dirt in the realm of public relations.

The situation jetted past a p o i n t w h e r e a clean solu-tion could easi ly be deter-mined as bad mem-ories and confusing contract

policies create more distrust between the University com-munity and its leaders.

With the recent revelation of Larry Nielsen’s proverbial three-yearlong golden para-chute, it adds another twist to the debate in regards to waste at the University.

First, we’re paying Mary Easley an exorbitant sum to run a non-existent center and now we’re paying a tiered pro-vost salary for three years to someone on tap to teach one class and do some research.

As per the pattern of the Easley situation, no one in the administration seems to know why Nielsen is get-ting a three-year retirement package.

The pay agreement between Nielsen and the University would be bad enough under normal circumstances. In these tough economic times, the agreement is magnified even more by the fact that the University is staring an 18-percent funding cut square in the face.

Granted, Nielsen’s extra pay won’t cov-er the whole gap in fund-ing, but I bet it’d buy sup-plies needed for s c ienc e courses to meet or cover the cost of a few class sections that have been cut in various colleges.

What’s scarier is the unknown in this situation.

I shudder to think about what each and every administrative contract entails in terms of benefits and pay should one step down or be fired.

On top of that, it is truly amaz-ing how no one seems to have clarity on contractual issues such as Nielsen’s.

This breeds cynicism from stu-dents, faculty, and alumni alike.

When students are asked to pony up more in tuition, how ea-ger will they be with the prospect that it’ll be funding the golden parachute of a fired administra-tor?

When alumni are asked for

donations, how many more second thoughts do you think will be given in lieu of the re-cent mismanagement of per-sonnel?

Students though, don’t have a choice on whether or not to

donate funds to the uni-versity.

This situa-tion has and will continue to reverber-ate through t he ent i re system and hopefully it’ll result in some people

reconsidering the way things are run at this school.

It is my hope that the Uni-versity will develop a bottom line and that Nielsen and Oblinger don’t become scape-goats – but rather serve as a wake up call for a detrimen-tally wasteful policy.

I hope that the entire system of doing things is changed and that the University can begin the long painful process of cleaning up after this disaster.

Send your thoughts on gold-en parachutes to letters@tech-nicianonline.com.

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“With all the budget cuts, everyone should be equal. If there’s cuts they shouldn’t be paid more for severance and they should re#ect more on how the University is su$ering.”

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Jackson Autry and Greg Arrington participated in the Gary Kirby Triathlon last Saturday

Jen HankinFeatures Editor

Since their freshman year of high school, Jackson Autry and Greg Arrington have been friends, graduated from N.C. State together and are now tri-athletes. Last Saturday morning, Autry and Arrington partici-pated in the fourth annual Gary Kirby Triathlon for Cancer Re-search at the Bedford Falls River Recreation Center in Raleigh.

The Gary Kirby Triathlon con-sisted of a 300-yard swim, a 12-mile bike ride, and a 5k run. Ac-cording to Scott Kirby, the race ‘s creator, this triathlon is a tribute to his late father Gary Kirby.

“My father and I did triathlons together for about 10 years,” Kirby said. “In 2003, he was diagnosed with cancer and we couldn’t do races together any- more. We came up with an idea

to put on a triathlon to give back to the people who treated him.”

Gary Kirby passed away in 2006, and the Kirby family de-cided to make his dream a real-ity. Since the triathlon’s creation in June 2006, the triathlon has raised over $60,000 to Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, where Kirby was treated.

According to Autry, participat-ing in a charity triathlon was an added bonus.

“My uncle is a cancer survivor,” Autry, who served as chapter president for Chi Psi Fraternity, said. “I just really enjoy do-ing stuff for charity and giving back.”

With this triathlon, Autry will have competed three triathlons. He started training over a year ago and hopes to continue.

“I typically have double work-outs everyday, working on bik-ing, running and swimming three times a week,” Autry, who graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, said. “Greg and I decided to do this when we graduated as an end of college goal.”

Like many participants in the Gary Kirby Triathlon, this was Arrington’s first triathlon. Ac-cording to Kirby, the intention of the triathlon was to bring in beginners.

“The idea is to get people intro-duced to the sport,” Kirby said. Almost 40 percent of our partici-pants are first timers.”

Arrington struggled with most of the triathlon, participating while injured. He hurt his knee

while training about a month ago and his only goal for Satur-day was to finish the race, which he did.

“I struggled with the swim, I didn’t know how to swim com-petitively until about two weeks ago,” Arrington, a mechanical engineering graduate, said.

On the other hand, Autry had high expectations for finishing his triathlon.

“I really wanted to break an hour and 20 minutes and I did

it in an hour and 15.” Autry said. “I’m happy, I don’t really think I could have done much better.”

Finishing college together, training together, and finishing a triathlon together was a great way to end a chapter in Autry’s life.

“It has been a great experi-ence,” Autry said. “Greg and I have been friends for nine years, and we have been train-ing together everyday for the past year.”

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LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANGreg Arrington, a 2009 alumnus, bikes his third of four laps during the biking leg of the triathlon Friday in North Raleigh. He started with swimming, followed by the bike ride, and ended with the running portion. “We should have practiced running with bikes, I started running one way and my bike went the other then my chain fell o!,” Arrington said. “It took me about 5 minutes to get back together.”

LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANJackson Autry, 2009 Alumnus, does the swimming portion of the triathlon in North Raleigh on Saturday. Autry has competed in three other triathlons before this including one. “The swim was my worst part, I didn’t really care about my time in the pool I just wanted to get out as far as possible,” Autry said.

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WKNC takes runner-up honors from INDY

May F. Chung WKNC DJ

The French quartet’s fourth studio album rips off not only Mozart’s namesake, but also his unadulterated style. Wolf-gang Amadeus Phoenix is a composition of catchy ballads, orchestrated with dance-pop ditties and heavy synths. The throwback to German romantic composers is the sort of puckish impudence that moves a limb or two, as it should.

Arguably, the album’s opener, “Lisztomania” is this summer’s belting roll-down-the-car-win-dow hit for the Vampire Week-end crowd. “Darling, I’m down and lonely” Phoenix’s front man, Thomas Mars croons in his ever-disaffected manner. Gloriously infectious, it is this kind of me-lodious case of the travesties that defy (or perhaps reinforce?) “The Strokes” comparisons. It only takes one spin to know why.

The use of falsettos (none more prevalent than in “Fences”) doesn’t seem to hurt either. They seem to be very popular in recent indie releases (think MGMT, Passion Pit). Still, they didn’t just land on SNL on high octaves alone. “1901” and “Rome” add to the ridiculously vivid guitar melodies. Both warrant continu-

ous plays: the first, grandeur of hooks and likely successor to the season jam; the second, complete with snare hits and a riveting outro. So encouraging, it almost seems a shame not to live it up.

But the album’s best hit yet is “Lasso”. From a whole album de-voted to the eternally lovelorn, this one tears a new heartache. “Where would you go with a lasso?” Mars inquires, “Could you go and run into me?” Is he wooing a cowgirl? No matter, the nostalgia is enough to encourage any silly old unpretentious fool to try his hand at love—only to be left listless and unfulfilled.

“Love Like a Sunset” has a rem-iniscent Air-like quality, which not surprising since it was Mars who was the voice behind “Play-ground Love”. (Incidentally, the song was used in The Virgin

Suicides, directed by Thomas’s domestic companion and baby momma, Sofia Coppola). Over three-quarters through, the song diverges into a dreamy territory, though it is quite satisfying. It’s actually the sultriest bit of fun to come from the French since Charlotte Gainsbourg.

Dance me, Amadeus. Though Phoenix has been a staple in in-die rock for quite some time, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is an innocently new beat, and is a craft in its own right, having been already labeled by many as one of the best records of the year.

Reports of their death have been greatly exaggerated. This Phoenix refuses to die.

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‘Independent Weekly’ names campus station as finalist for Best of Triangle Bobby EarleArt and Entertainment Editor [Editor’s note: WKNC is a division of Student Media.]

Wednesday morning, John Martino, a represen-tative of Independent Weekly, entered WKNC 88.1 FM’s suite on the third floor of the Witherspoon Student Center. There he met with Kyle Robb, the former general manager of WKNC during the 2008-2009 year, to present the radio station with an award for being named a finalist in the annual “Best of the Triangle” reader survey.

While on the air during his radio program, Robb interviewed Martino, who commended WKNC for their great effort and for going up against some of the Triangle’s heavyweights like G105, 96 Rock, and QDR.

Independent Weekly has awarded WKNC with Best Radio Station award back in 2006, 2007, and 2008. Before that, Independent Weekly awarded WKNC with Best College Radio in 2004 and 2005, as well as Best Radio for Music in 2005.

This year WUNC 91.5 FM, the NPR-affiliated station from University of North Carolina at Cha-pel Hill, earned the top award while WKNC was a finalist alongside with G105 and Mix 101.5.

Along with the honor of being a finalist for the

Best Radio Station in the Triangle, Kelly Reid, who graduated with a creative writing degree back in December 2008, won a finalist award in Best Radio DJ alongside Kitty Kinnin of 100.7 The River, and Salt & Demetri the Greek of 96rock. Independent Weekly awarded Bob and the Show-gram of G105 with the top award.

When asked about WKNC receiving the honors of being a finalist, Kyle Robb, a chemistry alum, said, “We are disappointed that we didn’t win but in the grand scheme of things we are satisfied that our fans came out and voted.”

Jamie Lynn Gibert, WKNC’s station adviser, attributed some of the fault for WKNC not being awarded the top award to the fact that WKNC had its transmitter’s power reduced to 10 percent.

She said, “It’s unfortunate that we reduced our audience during the voting period because of the transmitter issues but we are back to 25,000 watts and rockin’ the Triangle.”

The current general manger, Mike Alston, a se-nior in civil engineering, was disappointed for not winning the award for Best Radio Station for this past year. He said, “We obviously don’t have the resources as other radio stations, but we pride ourselves in our listener base.”

Alston invites all listeners to visit wknc.org and send any and all feedback to him or his staff. Lis-teners can also follow WKNC on twitter or they can request songs on AIM: wkncrequests or call the request lines.

NCSU students and faculty revive dead pig hearts

Eleanor SpicerCorrespondent

An NCSU student is bringing pig hearts back to life. No, it’s not a description of a scene from the new “Terminator” movie. Andrew Richards, graduate student in mechanical engineering, actually has designed a ma-chine that gets defunct swine tickers ticking again. His machine is not as crazy as it first seems. “It basically pumps a solution through the valves of the heart in a life-like way,” Richards says of the Dynamic Heart System, which is helping to improve heart surgery tools and techniques by providing a “living” heart for research. The pig heart is suspended between a series of pumps and valves that are connected to a computer. Pig hearts are ana-tomically simi-lar to human hearts, and most prototypes for

cardiac surgery tools are developed using live animals for testing. Using hearts from deceased pigs saves many live pigs the fate of being victims of research in addition to saving money. “You can easily spend $2,500 per animal when using live animals,” says project director Dr. Greg Buckner, “With the Dynamic Heart System, we buy hearts from the meat processor for about $5, and we have the added benefit of being able to precisely control heart rate and blood pressure.”

Reviving pig hearts has not always been Rich-ards’ plan. Richards grew up in the small town of Irmo, South Carolina, and received his un-dergraduate degree in computer engineering from Clemson University. “I got a computer engineering job doing mostly programming

stuff out of college,” he says. “It wasn’t a bad job, but it wasn’t what I wanted

to do every day, so I decided to go to grad school.”

Richards first learned of N. C. State because his brother came here for undergraduate work. Richards was admitted into the biomedical engineering graduate

program, and during his Masters’ work, he first stumbled on the idea

of the Dynamic Heart System.“It just kind of makes sense to have a system

like this,” asserts Richards. As for his role in developing the heart: “I basically just started from scratch and built the whole thing,” he says.

Now working on his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, Richards develops prototypes of machines like the Dynamic Heart that can aid in biomedical research. He plans to continue developing medical devices for his career.

The potential of this machine is not lost on students here at N.C. State. “It is interesting how this heart from a dead pig is saving live

pigs and can save people too,” says Parks and Rec major Michael Green. “Richards’ work

is an amazing achievement.”

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“This is one represen-tation of why our style is called Cuong Nhu,” Parsons said. “[Cuong Nhu] literally translated from Vietnamese means ‘hard-soft’.”

Since the first IATC was held at the University of Florida in Gainesville under the Redwood Dojo in 1994, attendance has increased annually, matching and sur-passing its record numbers while held in Raleigh.

“What brings people to training camp from all over the world and has kept me coming back for nine train-ing camps now is to recon-nect with our Cuong Nhu family,” Parsons said.

According to Parsons, the friendly and familiar faces of training camp have a tenden-cy to leave a greater impact on students than any physical training.

“While there are classes offered from masters and instructors from a variety of martial disciplines, I learned new joint locks, new katas, new weapons, [and] sparred people from all over the world,” Parsons said. “Each Training Camp is like a fam-ily reunion… those friend-ships will last a lifetime.”

Tinsley has been struggling throughout the past year to re-cover from a nagging injury. In the summer of 2008, Tinsley went down with a stress reaction in her hip that caused her to sit out for the entirety of the cross country season.

Nonetheless, Tinsley has argu-ably had the best track season of her career in 2009, finishing sec-ond in the 10,000m and fifth in the 5,000m at the ACC Outdoor Championships. Her previous

best ACC Championship finish in the 10,000m was sixth at the 2008 meet.

Tinsley, Blackmon, and Henry will look to continue their suc-cess when they join a field of 544 student-athletes all vying for na-tional titles in various events.

The final two days of the June 10-13 meet will be televised live on CBS College Sports starting at 7 p.m. June 12.

TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTOLawanda Henry, a redshirt freshman, throws shot put at the Raleigh Relays track meet March 27 at the Paul Derr Track.

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field said. “The field will drain 13 inches

an hour, and if we drain [more than] 13 inches an hour, we’re going to be somewhere other than playing football.”

The field will also continue to be covered during thunder-storms before games.

“When we played William & Mary, it rained solidly up until about noon before the game. We covered it with a tarp, and we will still do that,” O’Brien said.

Carter-Finley Stadium is also being fitted with a synthetic sideline consisting of a layer of gravel, a rug, and a sand-and-rubber surface.

“I think it’s a good move be-cause that’s where the most wear-

and-tear is, along the sideline,” O’Brien said of the synthetic surface.

“That withstands the traf f ic much better than a nor-ma l g ra s s field would.”

The transi-tion between t he g r a s s f i e ld a nd synthetic sideline will not be noti-cable to fans, and will have not effect on players run-ning out of bounds, according to Brincefield.

“I don’t think anybody will notice anything,” he said.

“The synthetic will meet the grass all the time exactly the

same. They’ll never notice.”

T h e c o n -struction start-ed April 20 and is expected to be completed August 1.

“I think be-cause of our access to the turf manage-ment school here, which is number one in the country, we’ll probably have the best grass f ield in

the ACC,” O’Brien said.

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BRENT KITCHEN/TECHNICIANConstruction crews work on installing a new !eld at Carter-Finley Stadium. Construction began April 20 and is expected to be completed August 1.

“...if we drain [more than] 13 inches an hour, we’re going to be somewhere

other than playing football.”Ray Brincefield ,

assistant athletics director for outdoor facilities

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Club hosts annual training camp, which features students of martial arts from all over the world

Elliot BormanStaff Writer

The Cuong Nhu Inter-national Annual Training Camp is a place for students of the martial art Cuong Nhu to come together in peace, friendship, and combat. Spe-cialized instruction in Sho-tokan, Judo, Aikido, Chung, Tai Chi, Vovinam, Grappling, Yoga, Pressure Points, Ken-do, and training in Kung Fu weapons were featured from May 22-25 in Raleigh.

Thoug h uncontrol led martial arts could be used for vicious brutality, it has become something else en-tirely through intertwining the philosophical teachings of Cuong Nhu with the phi-losophies of martial arts as a whole.

“We train hard all week-end, learning techniques that, if applied incorrectly, could cause serious injury,” State martial arts club sensei Cameron Parsons said. “The weekend itself is the epitome of friendship and camarade-rie.”

This year, despite the drain-ing effects of an economic downturn, the 2009 IATC saw an increase in atten-

dance. Students traveled from all over the continental United States and from as far away as Germany.

“This year we had around 350 attendees with representation from forty-seven [dojos],” Par-sons said. “[This is huge] given that even with the severe decline

of the economy we had a dramat-ic increase in participants.”

The training camp gave stu-dents the opportunity to receive hands-on training from the most distinguished masters of Cuong Nhu in the world, with over

Track athletes advance to Outdoor Championships

Daniel EllisSports Editor Emeritus

Three women’s track and field athletes are currently competing in the NCAA Outdoor Track & FielAd Championships at the John McDonnell Field in Fayette-ville, Arkansas.

Redshirt senior Angelina Blackmon and redshirt ju-nior Brittany Tinsley received qualifying bids to the meet on June 1 and are joined by freshman Lawanda Henry. Henry automatically quali-fied for the event, that began yesterday, with her perfor-mance at the NCAA Outdoor Regionals.

Henry added a third place finish in the shot put at the regional level, with a distance of 52’08.75”, to her list of ac-complishments this season.

Henry is seeded 18th going into the multi-day national meet. In addition to her suc-cess at the regional meet, Henry boasts four school throwing records in her first year.

Meanwhile, veteran run-ner Angelina Blackmon will run in the fourth heat of the preliminaries as the 14th seed in the 800m run. Blackmon is no stranger to the spotlight, having competed on the na-

tional level in cross country and at the USA Championships dur-ing the indoor season.

The Rock Hill, SC native also broke the school record in the 800m at the 2009 Reebok Raleigh Relays last spring with a time of 2:07.58. The previous school re-cord of 2:07.66 was set by Mary Ann Carraher in 1989.

Blackmon went on to improve her time by nearly two seconds at the UNC Elite Meet where she finished in first with a time of 2:05.78.

Blackmon returned as a lead-ing runner after sitting out dur-ing the indoor season due to a lack of eligibility. Blackmon red-shirted during the 2008 outdoor season, which allowed her to re-turn for a fifth year of running.

All-ACC runner Brittany Tinsley will participate in the 10,000m run as the 21st seed af-ter hitting a provisional quali-fying mark and career-best of 34:22.25 at the Cardinal Invite in early May.

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Campus dojo hosts training camp

LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVE PHOTODaniel Joe, senior in biology, and Mike Shoup, senior in mathematics, warm up with other members of the Martial Arts Club in September.

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Carter-Finley turf construction set to be completed by August

Brent KitchenStaff Writer

When Wolfpack football returns to Carter-Finley Stadium in the fall, a familiar feature will be miss-ing. The 2 1/2 foot crown which helped with drainage will be gone,

replaced by a completely flat field.The $1 million project is the first

rebuilding of the stadium field in Carter-Finley’s 43-year history.

Crowned fields have been favored by many coaches of the option of-fense because it allows the ball-car-rier to be running downhill towards the sideline. While fans of the op-tion offense may miss the crowned field, the new flatter field should aide

N.C. State’s aerial attack.“Certainly the biggest change will

be for our quarterbacks,” coach Tom O’Brien said.

“One of the things we wanted to do is make sure the game-field re-flected the same gradient that our practice-field has so that everytime we throw a ball on the practice-field, it’s the same as when we step into the stadium to throw a pass.”

The new field will comply with USGA specifications for golf greens it and will have a synthetic sideline.

And for those worried about how a flat field could cause trouble on a rainy Saturday, Assistant Athletics Director for Outdoor Facilities Ray Brincefield says not to be concerned.

“You won’t notice it at all,” Brince-

Football facilities !nally on level playing !eld

BRENT KITCHEN/TECHNICIANContruction continues at Carter-Finley stadium, as shown here on June 9. The 2 1/2 foot crown of the !eld is being removed and a synthetic sideline is be-ing installed. The new sidelines will withstand the wear and tear of a long regular season better than the ones previously in place.

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