Technician, March 19, 2009

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Information and animals brightened this week’s rainy days

Amber KenneyStaff Writer

This week, Alpha Zeta, through fundraising and donations from farm bureaus across the state, brought agriculture awareness to campus.

Students, such as Mallory Ker-nick, a freshman in fashion and textile management, instantly enjoyed the event.

“I loved hav-ing the oppor-tunity to be exposed to the department of agriculture,” Kernick said.

Heather Steelman, a senior in animal science and last year’s Agriculture Awareness Week director, said the main goal is to educate N.C. State and the surrounding community on agriculture, and what makes up agriculture as a whole.

“It is important people know the origins of the clothes they wear and the food they eat,” Steelman added.

The week-long event featured

livestock and equipment displays in the Brickyard as well as a tent full of displays from all clubs under the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

“None of this could hap-pen without the support of the clubs,” Steelman said.

She said each club had their own space to recruit members, answer questions and get the word out about the role they play in relation to agriculture.

“Not only was it interesting to learn about the various clubs, but

I also enjoyed playing with the animals,” Kernick said.

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units associated with the school, was Steelman’s favorite part of the event.

“I love seeing the people’s faces and reactions to the animals, and I enjoy answering their ques-tions,” she said.

According to Steelman, Hoover, the fistulated cow, was the most asked about.

“People were truly concerned about her [Hoover], when actu-

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High unemployment changing student’s focus and professors’ teaching strategies

John ClineStaff Writer

The economy has been on a downward slide and un-employment is sharply on the rise, especially in North Carolina, and students are feeling its effects.

According to the United States Department of Labor, North Carolina ranks 46 out of the 51 states with an unem-ployment rate of 9.7 percent. That number is almost double what it was in 2004 when it was 5.9 percent, and over tri-ple the number 10 years ago when North Carolina saw an all time low 3.1 percent un-employment rate. The state is approaching the highest rate its ever had which was 10.2 percent in February 1983.

“The numbers in North Carolina may be so high be-cause of how successful we [have] been in recent years,” Douglas Pearce, department head of economics at NCSU said.

“[North Carolina] had been the fastest growing area as of July 2008,” Pearce said. “When you’re growing fast that usually means you have a large construction industry, and they’ve been hit hard ev-erywhere. When that drops off quickly it’ll impact unem-ployment at a higher rate than some others.”

Pearce also said North Carolina’s unemployment may be so high because of our large financial sector, since those are failing around the country.

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Clubs raise awareness in Brickyard

BECKY BRULET/TECHNICIANOn the Brickyard for Agriculture Awareness Week, Natalie Wester, sophomore in agriculture business and livestock, Lauren Liles, senior in ani-mal science, and Molly the Cow react as they are tied up by Drew Pressely, freshman in agriculture business. “We’re out here to teach students about Rodeo Club, and promote the great sport of rodeo”, said Liles. Agriculture Awareness Week was hosted by Alpha Zeta and several Col-lege of Agriculture and Life Science clubs and it is meant to educate students about agriculture and its implications.

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ECONOMY continued page 3

Technician staff writer Jessica Hall sat down with Jeffrey Braden, newly announced dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences to discuss his goals and visions for CHASS.

Technician : How do you feel about receiving this job?

Braden: I am truly hon-ored. People know who I am and know what I do and have still decided I’m the person they want to manage the col-lege and it’s really both flat-tering and humbling at the same time.

Technician: When was the decision made?

Braden: It was announced at the University council meeting on Monday as a kind of ‘soft announcement’ but they had to wait for some paperwork to clear. So, the of-ficial word went out yesterday.

Technician : Were you ex-pecting the job?

Braden: Well, no. There were three other terrif ic candidates all of whom had more experience than I did, so I knew the competition was excellent and, as I say, I am honored to have had the opportunity.

Technician : How did you celebrate?

Braden: One is tempted to make a biblical reference -- ‘by sitting in sack cloth and ashes’ but, right, celebration is really more what is in line. My wife and my son and I went out and had a nice quiet dinner.

Technician : What are your short term goals?

Braden: The immediate plans haven’t really changed at all and that is how can I meet the obligations we have to cut our state appropriated funds and still offer instruction, still sup-port research, and still support extension and engagement and do that in a way that minimizes the impact first and foremost on students and secondarily on fac-ulty and our community whom we serve outside the University.

That’s a challenge. That’s going to continue to be a big challenge and I have to say I have just been so impressed with how people in our college, students, faculty, and staff, have stepped up and recog-nized that these are not fun times and that things will get worse be-cause of the funding challenges that State has.

Having said all of that, that is obviously the biggest issue and the question is what can I elimi-nate that is great to have but not necessarily core, and what can I reduce, but still keep alive, so that when the money comes back we haven’t lost something that’s really valuable to the col-lege and to the University. Those are struggles and those are the biggest challenges I face in the

Q & A continued page 3

Editor and publisher proves optimistic, advises students to develop well-rounded education

Jay RossStaff Writer

The Millennium Seminar Se-ries lectures concluded Thursday at Stewart Theatre with editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter and an expert on global financial markets, Dennis Gart-man.

Before becoming a full-time author of The Gartman Letter, a daily commentary on global capital markets, Gartman served as an economist for several in-ternational firms specializing in trading after receiving his gradu-ate degree from N.C. State.

Gartman advised students to develop a well-rounded educa-tion at the undergraduate level and then pursue financial sub-jects at the graduate level if they wish.

Throughout his presentation Gartman commented on the current financial meltdown and its causes, the effect on foreign markets and what steps inves-tors should take to minimize

damage. “This is a very serious reces-

sion,” Gartman said.Gartman admitted the econ-

omy is indeed witnessing a de-cline in growth but it has not yet reached a full-blown depression. Gartman also said the economy is far from a depression and was optimistic about the long-term outcome.

Gartman criticized investors for maintaining a “bullish” state of mind and ignoring a declining trend. This attitude prevented investors from cutting their fi-nancial losses early and resulted in investments that were un-sustainable. One example of an unsustainable investment that Gartman mentioned was using the housing market as a means of investing.

“You’re house is a shelter, not an investment,” Gartman said.

When referring to the natural pattern of decline and growth Gartman said, “economies ebb and economies f low.” He also said that brief and sudden in-creases, or bubbles occur peri-odically with disregard to the industry. The current housing bubble began its collapse when real estate investors created a

large deficit between the value of the home and the credit the mortgages were based on.

Bad decision-making on Wall Street has also resulted in a sig-nificant amount of the seventy-six million baby boomers to avoid traditional means of in-vesting such as stocks and bonds. The baby boomers are instead looking to put their income di-rectly into checking accounts as a means of saving, Gartman said.

“We are in a recession, but we will get through this,” Gartman said.

He said the type of saving that has added to the economic de-cline would eventually make its way back into the market.

Gartman noted what separates a profitable investor from those who lose money is the ability to understand when an investment is a poor choice, openly admit to the error and change their course of investing.

Besides admitting when a de-cision is at fault, Gartman rec-ommended making investments into things in which the investor is knowledgeable. Commodities such as steel and copper were of-fered as beneficial examples over intangibles such as technology.

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TIM O’BRIEN/TECHNICIANDennis Gartman, publisher and market analyst, speaks at the Millennium Seminar Series Thursday in Stewart Theatre. “What separates the pro investors from everyone else is that they accept when they are wrong and then do something else,” Gartman said. “Don’t lose money– or at least don’t lose much.”

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Buggs puts up !ght at Agriculture Awareness Week

As a part of Agriculture Awareness Week, Lenn Stillwell, a junior in agriculture education, lifts Buggs, a female Boer goat, into a pickup truck at the end of her stay in the Brickyard Thursday. Buggs put up a fight, not wanting to leave her shaded spot where she had been every day this week. Alpha Zeta and several College of Agriculture and Life Science clubs spon-

sored the week of exhibits and events.

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ARBOR DAY CELEBRATION AND OPEN HOUSE Jordan Hall, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

NORM SCHULMAN: A LIFE IN CLAY Gregg Museum of Art and Design, 2 to 8 p.m.

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IN THE KNOW Forestry holds celebration

The Department of Forestry and Environmental Resourc-es is hosting an Arbor Day Celebration and Open House Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. in Jordan Hall. The event, which is open to the public, will include a tree seedling give-away, a plant adoption program for youth and tim-ber sports demonstrations from the Forestry Club. Fac-ulty will also lead a campus tree walk, provide tours of the environmental technology labs and the Turner House plant garden.

Presenters will discuss on-going research involving the importance of trees. Those interested in undergraduate or graduate courses that re-late to natural resources will be able to attend sessions in environmental technology, fisheries and wildlife sciences, natural resources, and forest management.

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Council hosts semi-formal

The Textiles Student Coun-cil ’s annual semi-formal event, Lint Dodgers, is to-night in the College of Tex-tiles beginning at 9 p.m. It is a tradition of the college to host a dance each spring.

The event wil l feature a masque-rave theme with a black lit dance floor and glow sticks. Attendees may partici-pate in a break dance competi-tion and best raver competition. Over 25 prizes will be given out to winners and guests. Tickets can be purchased in the student lounge at the College of Textiles for $5. Group discounts are avail-able for parties of 10 or more.

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Pan Afrikan tradition lives on

The Black Students Board will be holding the 39th annual Pan Afrikan Festival, March 28 through April 3. Events in-clude a Gospel Explosion, Pride Day in the Brickyard, modeling and fashion shows and a Greek Step Show on April 3 in Stewart Theatre. After the step show, students are encouraged to stick around for free food leading into a comedy show beginning at 10:30 p.m.

For a detailed listing of events including times, locations and ticket prices, visit the Union Ac-tivities Board web site at, http://uab.ncsu.edu/pan-afrikan, or call (919) 515-5198.

SOURCE: NCSU.EDU

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8:32 A.M. | ASSIST OTHER AGENCY Hillsborough/Watauga Club NCSU PD assisted RPD with traffic incident.

9:44 A.M. | VEHICLE LARCENY Wood Hall Student reported vehicle had been broken into and radio taken.

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5:02 P.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIOR REPORT Student Health Center Officers assisted with involuntary commitment of student.

7:14 P.M. | ATTEMPTED COMMON LAW ROBBERY D.H. Hill Library Student reported subjects attempted to take bookbag. Investigation ongoing.

7:54 P.M. | TRAFFIC STOP Dunn Avenue Student was issued citation for speeding.

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9:33 P.M. | DRUG VIOLATION Motor Pool Facility Non-student was arrested for drug violation in reference to ear-lier event. Subject was trespassed from NCSU property.

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ally, she is probably one of the healthiest animals in the unit,” Steelman said.

She also said the hole in Hoover’s side does not cause any pain and is used for research purposes. In addition, bacteria harvested from the stomach, by means of the hole, assist in the healing process of sick livestock, she said.

The livestock found in the Brickyard not only caused a stir on our campus, but it also had students at our rival school talk-ing.

“After talking to some friends from N.C. State and seeing people updating their Facebook statuses to be about animals on campus, even I wanted to figure out what was going on,” Taylor Burton, a freshman in business at UNC-Chapel Hill, said.

Steelman said people need to realize that the agriculture in-dustry provides people with en-vironmentally safe products in ethical ways.

“This is an awesome, hands-on way to connect students to agri-culture. I wasn’t even there to see everything, and I got word of the event, so they definitely made an impact,” Burton added.

After being deemed a success

by Burton, Steelman agreed. “It was definitely a success. Ev-

ery year it gets better and better, and every year there is more stu-dent interest,” Steelman agreed.

Kernick said this was a great

opportunity for students to come together and celebrate an indus-try that affects each and every-one of us.

short term.

Technician : What are your long term goals?

Braden: In the long term, the challenges, I think, are wonder-ful, and that’s why I was inter-ested in taking this job. As I said

during my interview, I think this job, for the next couple of years, is going to be very hard, but as the economy begins to recover, this will probably be one of the best jobs in higher education in the country. North Carolina is wonderfully supportive of its universities, the University is supportive of CHASS, and we have a real opportunity to de-cide who we want to be when we grow up, or as we get bigger, and I think that is going to be just a terrific opportunity.

So, I am not in agriculture but my sense is that you plan the spring planting during the win-ter; we are moving into an eco-nomic winter, we are definitely moving into a season where we are not going to be able to do a lot of new things, we are going to have to cut a lot of things, but that’s a good time for us to do strategic planning, so that when the funds start to come back, when the thaw comes, when we are ready to start planting in the spring, we know what it is we

want to do and we plant wisely.”

Technician : Where’s your fa-vorite place to be?

Braden: It would sound like I was really sucking up if I said work, so, I really enjoy interna-tional travel [in general].

Technician: Any other random facts people should know about you?

Braden: I have taught sign

language to chimpanzees, at one time I was a certified sign language interpreter. I don’t continue to hold my certifica-tion, but I am fluent in American Sign Language. I like to cook. I enjoy cooking Asian and Italian cuisine, and shellfish. I make bread pretty regularly.

Technician: Any thoughts you want to share with students?

Braden: I know we have tough times ahead, but I really welcome

[students] ideas and I have ap-preciated the support, but I par-ticularly welcome their ideas and their insight as we try and make some of the tough decisions we have ahead of us.”

Technician : What is your fa-vorite color?

Braden: Of course, red.

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said there’s not a lot they can do. “The policies of the federal

government and federal reserve are much more important than anything the state governments can do,” he said. “The state has to run a balanced budget, so it doesn’t have the flexibility the federal government has to raise spending and cut taxes.”

Students are feeling the crunch of rising unemployment, and in many cases it is altering their plans for graduation.

“School is the safest place to be right now,” Noel Keck, a se-nior in criminology, said. “I am going for further schooling be-cause I don’t think the economy is going to boost anytime soon. I’ll get a small job for now until I get into graduate school or law school, and hopefully by then the economy will come around so I can plan for a steady job later.”

John Potts, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, echoed Keck’s sentiments.

“[The economy] is not good. You might as well tough it out for a few more years until you can maximize your potential when you graduate,” Potts said. “Stay and work on another degree or minor, it’ll help strengthen your resume while you wait for the economy to improve. Otherwise graduates may have to be will-ing to start at a lower entry level position than usual.”

Kathy Gore, a senior lectur-er in the parks, recreation and tourism management program, teaches a senior capstone class that prepares seniors for gradu-ation and job preparation. She said she has seen major effects of the rise in unemployment.

“It’s affecting us greatly. For the first time I’m telling my stu-dents not to focus only on their abilities and marketability, but also on transferability of skills to other areas because they might

not be able to get the jobs they want,” Gore said. “People aren’t retiring like they would have before, and the jobs openings we thought would be there aren’t. On top of all that we have hiring freezes all over the place.”

According to NC.gov, the White House is expecting the $6.1 billion North Carolina is receiving as part of the stimu-lus package to create or save 105,000 jobs.

“It’s not all doom and gloom,” Gore said.

Pearce agreed that opti-mism is key.

“The thing to remember is we’ve had recessions before and we will again. This one seems to be almost as bad as in 1980-1982, but the econo-my and stock market will re-cover,” he said. “It can be hard sometimes to remember that we’ve gotten through these bad times before and not be pessimistic.”

BECKY BRULET/TECHNICIANAndrea Beals, senior in biological sciences, watches as ‘Precious’ the pig sni!s her hand. “I love animals, every time they have Agriculture Awareness Week I come out. They’re really sweet. The cows and pigs are my favorite.” Agriculture Awareness Week serves the purpose of educating students about agricul-ture and its importance in their community.

ECONOMYcontinued from page 1

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Libraries, summer courses directly affected

Anastasia Astrasheuskaya

Staff Writer

The University Budget Advi-sory Committee recommended a 5 percent budget cut for the 2009-11 biennium at N.C. State.

The Governor’s budget recom-mendation list, passed around at the Budget Advisory Committee on Thursday, became the start-ing point for the General Assem-bly’s work on the biennial appro-priation bill. The plan includes the decreased budget through reducing management flexibil-ity by 3.2 percent for 2010-11 and lowering the salaries and bene-fits budget by 2 percent. State’s section of the budget includes recurring operating budget re-quest reduction by 25 percent, the elimination of non-recurring budget, and the elimination of funding for repairs and renova-tions, typically consisting of $6 million.

“The budget cut of 5 percent is severe, as compared to the cuts the University had to make in the past twenty years,” Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Larry Nielsen said. “It is much lower than the 15 to 20 percent cuts in

most other states.” No salary increase is to be

expected for teachers and state employees. The University will also have a cut of instructor po-sitions and on-campus job op-portunities for students, as well as a lower temporary wage pull.

Ira Weiss, dean of the college of management, said the University should be pleased with the bud-get cut plan.

“It is the rosiest version we would see,” Nielsen said.

Student facilities will also take losses. Libraries will lose 10 percent of their journal sub-scriptions and 3,000 fewer books will be purchased.

“Student programs will be difficult to eliminate,” Nielsen said. “What may seem to be a good idea to me and the Chan-cellor may not be supported by students creating and running those programs.”

“Only if the consensus is achieved, will the elimination of the programs take place,” Nielsen said.

The presented budget plan is organized to have the least possi-ble impact on students and staff, according to Nielsen. University authorities are doing their best to protect students. Undergraduate students will receive most of the protection, while the number of graduate positions will fall, es-pecially among international

graduate students. Nielsen said summer school

will also be modified. “This summer will be the

first summer when decen-tralization will be complete,” Nielsen said.

Remedial and preparatory courses in math and English are likely to be offered only in summer. Summer courses are fully funded by tuition, which makes it problematic to pay for ones with only a few stu-dents in the classroom.

Nielsen said the number of students in the class will have to be high enough to balance out the instructors’ salary and students’ tuition.

In general, there will be more humanities courses, such as history, offered in summer, than engineering courses, simply based on student interest in courses. Also, because more students take 300-level courses than 400-level courses, one of the suggestions made in the meet-ing was not to offer 400-level courses in summer. Ideally, the committee wants the state to pay for summer school as it does for the normal year. The committee also suggest-ed converting two five-week summer sessions into one regular semester.

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BECKY BRULET/TECHNICIANA cow rests inside its pen on the Brickyard during Agriculture Aware-ness Week. The week aims to educate students and sta! about the importance of agriculture in their community.

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The campaign season for various Student Govern-ment offices opened two

weeks ago. Yet if it wasn’t for the few signs candidates have put up around campus, students might not even know an election was coming up.

This is ridiculous — students already believe Student Govern-ment has a minimal effect on University affairs, despite the fact they pay $8.85, soon to be raised to $10.85, to fund its efforts.

Using the estimates for the 2008-2009 Student Govern-ment budget and the assumption 26,000 students will pay the fee, that amounts to $282,100 under Student Government control.

Candidates for all offices need to show their commitment to the positions they are running for and get students to care enough

to vote, and no office should go uncontested. In particular, those running for major offices need to talk to as many students as they can and offer reasonable campaign promises that benefit students as much as possible.

This is not an unreasonable thing to ask of any of the can-didates — students will not care about the elections unless given reason to do so.

The candidates may wish to take some lessons from Whil Piavis, the Pirate Captain, who was student body president four years ago — he created a dynamic, engaging campaign that students paid attention to. He also gave them plenty of face

time. While some mayt not agree with what he did during his term, he did show his face during the camopaign. A better example would be last year’s campaign for student body president. John Mickey made shirts in the Brick-yard and invited students to talk with him, Bobby Mills ate dinner at dining halls and Student Body President Jay Dawkins drove the Farmhouse truck around cam-pus during his campaign — he estimated he spent about eight to 10 hours each day planning for his campaign and getting face time with students.

And to say Student Government has not accomplished anything this year would be foolish —

Student Government has played a part in getting the WolfProwl night service to downtown run-ning, organized Campout and reformed the ticketing system.

This election has just as much promise, and may bring new ideas in, as only two candidates have prior involvement with Stu-dent Government. But unless the candidates show that students can use the various Student Gov-ernment offices for their benefit, then students have no inclination to care, much less vote.

Candidates: get out into the Brickyard, on Centennial and other major areas on campus. Put forth the effort and give students reasonable platforms for campus change and improvement. And don’t expect a small number of signs to cut it.

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 ISSUE:Candidates for various Student Government positions have been all but visible on campus thus far in the campaign season.

OUR OPINION:Candidates need both a substantive platform and engaging campaign to get students to care enough to vote.

THE SOLUTION:All the candidates need to get more face time with students and come up with reasonable platforms that benefit students.

Student body candidates need to show their faces!OUR VIEW"

Don’t be a drip! Check for leaks around the house!

Mark McLawhorn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

“Work hard to get people’s votes. There’s a lot of campaigning going on. I want to see more #yers, posters, pins, and stickers. They need to hold events out on campus.”

Jazzmine Smallfreshman, political science

“They put a lot of e$ort into campaigning.I see them passing out #yers, putting out signs, and coming around to talk to di$erent organizations. Elections are a great way for the students to have a voice.”

John Palumbojunior, engineering

BY ANDY MUSSELMAN

How much effort do you expect SBP

candidates to put into campaigning?

IN YOUR WORDS! "

The notion that athlet-ics is a wasteful en-tity of a university is

borderline absurd. Football, basketball and every other

spor t on campus a r e i n -valuable assets to our Uni-versity that should be supported whole-

heartedly. Yes, there are those that

will say it’s a $264.50 fee that’s forced on students for non-educational purposes, but anyone that chooses that path opens up Pandora’s box on general wastefulness of fees that only a small fraction of the University will ever see any benefit from during his or her collegiate careers. If you’re not taking advantage of rela-tively free tickets to games as an undergraduate, that’s your choice to make much like its your choice to go to the gym. Without getting into an ar-gument about fees, let me try and explain why athletics are important to a university, specifically to our university.

The University’s athlet-ics program provides a link between alumni and the University. Nothing else the university offers brings tens of thousands of alumni to campus on a regular basis that rivals a football game.

Colleges at NCSU put on their alumni events to coincide with football season because they un-derstand and embrace the tradi-tion and magnitude of Saturdays at Carter-Finley Stadium. Ask any student that went to school in 1983 and 1974 what some of his or her fondest memories were and they talk about winning a national title in men’s basketball. Sports give alumni something to talk about, something to take pride in when they succeed, and something to complain about when they’re not living up to our expecta-tions.

Education-ally, athletics are beneficial. W h e n y o u graduate, the value of your education is in your own per-sonal initiative as well as the perceived value of your degree. An alumnus or alumna’s hope is that his or her degree will continue to gain value over time. When an athlet-ics program does well, the school sees an increase in applications, which in turn allows the school to be more selective, and in turn improves the academic reputa-tion of a University. It’s called the “Flutie Effect” after former Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie’s “Hail Mary” pass led to a 30 percent increase in ap-plications to Boston College the

following year. The exposure that athletics give to a univer-sity through the media - espe-cially successful programs - is good for the academic reputa-tion of a university.

Incoming students should understand the place of ath-letics in our community. We compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference, a major Bowl Championship Series conference and arguably the best basketball conference in

the nation. Forbes

estimated that NCSU has the 18th most valu-able athletics program in the nation. We have a r ich her i-tage in bas-ketball with two national champion-

ships and a rabid fan base that gives millions of dollars annually to support the pro-grams through private dona-tions. Major college athletics aren’t bad for universities but quite the opposite — they’re beneficial. Sporting events build the undergraduate com-munity, bring alumni back to Raleigh and even help im-prove the school’s academic standing. A suggestion oth-erwise carries zero credibility.

Benton SawreySenior Sta! Columnist

Athletics is not a waste

“Major college athletics

aren’t bad for universities but

quite the opposite — they’re beneficial.”

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Hamilton takes wrong message from Watchmen

Joshua Hamilton’s letter on March 19 showed a remarkable lack of un-derstanding of the film Watchmen. He claims that the film supported rape because one of the protagonists raped another superhero. Mr. Hamil-ton shows no comprehension of the context in which the act was commit-ted and then proceeds to get up on a soapbox and talk about boycotting the film.

The character of The Comedian was meant to be a criticism of the traditional hero mold- namely that those attracted to such positions would have a tendency to become like The Comedian. After experienc-ing the tragic events he does, he becomes a stark contrast of what a hero should be. He becomes danger-ously amoral, nihilistic, cynical, and jingoistic; a parody of the ideal- hence the name Comedian. The rape scene was intended to be the most notable indicator of his corruption, a sense of undue entitlement for his protective services.

Yes, the movie is much darker and more serious than the standard fare of a comic to movie adaptation. It is deep and complex, and raises many moral questions. However, the film never advocated rape, and the sug-gestion that it did indicates a failure to grasp the meaning of the movie.

Samuel Seemanfreshman, nuclear engineering

Beauty is more than skin deepIn this society, women struggle

everyday with the discrimination of beauty and body image. Women are generally seen as sexual objects in magazines, TV, and film. These differ-ent types of media have influence on how people perceive women, which is usually nothing but physical beauty.

Being that this country is mostly controlled by men, their ideas and concepts have somewhat of an influ-ence over the media. We have to understand what type of society we live in order to cope and adapt, which is a male dominated culture. The re-cent Playboy ad is a reflection of that in which it has nothing to do with the women’s thoughts but always em-phasized on how they look, to men.

This particular ad is targeting col-lege students and trying to manipu-late the fact that these “beautiful” women are in college and getting an education. The fact is it really has nothing to do with education. Look-ing at the requirements and eligibility to apply basically gives that point away. Even though they ask for cam-pus involvement and activities, they require no GPA and they still require a full figured picture and a head and shoulders portrait. Obviously, educa-tion is not taken seriously, it is just used as an excuse.

Beauty should not just be judged by the outside appearance but by the

character of a person. This ad is go-ing against the fight that women face against discrimination and definitely should not be encouraged towards our college students in our newspa-pers.

Dana Dixonsophomore, political science

Playboy ad uncalled forToday in the Technician I saw a dis-

turbing advertisement of a half naked woman encouraging students to pose for Playboy as if it were a won-derful opportunity. Seriously?

Playboy’s denigration of women contributes to our rape/sexist culture where women are seen as sexual objects for the pleasure of men, and sexual assault is widespread. In fact, every academic year as many as 480 N.C. State women will experience a rape or attempted rape. I am appalled that at a research I institution, where women study to be engineers, teach-ers, journalists, etc. they would be encouraged to pose for a corporation that could care less about education or anything beyond physical appear-ance.

I was disgusted as I investigated the Technician’s coverage of Playboy’s presence in 2004. Quotes from repre-sentatives about how they were glad no “fat women” showed up made me sick, and the nearly nude photos of students on the front page were even worse. N.C. State values diversity and individualism and is a University where everyone is encouraged to be who they are, where academics come first and involvement is not far behind.

Yet the Technician is advertising for a corporation that reiterates the message that women are only worthy if they are tall, skinny and large-breasted. Case and point: to be con-sidered for an audition women have to send their photo (then property of Playboy) and measurements instead of say their GPA or resume. I hope students will acknowledge the nega-tive implications of Playboy recruiting here and resist its presence.

Krista Princesenior, psychology

Don’t hide the crossword answers

Tuesday’s crossword had a couple of the clues that were hidden by your “clever” scheme to try to get more people to visit your Web site. 36D and part of 48D were hidden by your box that covers the answers to the previous crossword. Please, for the sake of all your readers, just remove the box permanently and allow us to view the answers easily — then you will not have to update your Web site everyday. On that point, if you leave the box, please keep the Web site updated with the answers and maybe a archive of past answers. And while I’m at it, spend some time and print the crossword with a little quality — the numbers can be pretty difficult to distinguish.

CJ Huelsmansenior, civil engineering

Elisabeth Brown graduate student, civil engineering

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FOR TALLEYSTUDENTS HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE THE FUTURE OF TALLEY STUDENT CENTER

STORY BY CHEYENNE AUTRY

Talley Student Center is a stop for many students on their way to class, the gym and those trying to get home. Students can always be seen dining at Taco Bell and Lil Dino’s and lounging in chairs in between classes.

However, the University has grown tremendously since Talley was first con-structed in April of 1972 and some think it’s time for a spruce up.

“It’s very hard to peg where is the center of campus life,” Student Body President Jay Dawkins said. “We know it’s not what it should be but I think a lot of students are just really hopeful for what Talley could be.”

Construction and renovation possibili-ties are currently under discussion, but the decisions are being left in the hands of the students.

“This is going to be a student led push for changing the entire face of the student center and making it a better place for students,” Dawkins said. “They are really putting this to the students saying if you want this, we can make it happen.”

Though no definite plans or figures have been made yet, Dawkins said the expan-sion work needed is obvious. When it was first completed, N.C. State was home to about 12,000 students. The University now has more than 31,000 students en-rolled and nearly 8,000 faculty and staff. Expansion and space is a major factor in planning new designs for Talley, but the main focus is also on what students want and need.

But should millions of dollars be spent on a student center while the economy is down and the University is facing a massive budget cut? Some students say absolutely not.

“I think it’s absurd that they are trying to renovate Talley in this economy,” Nan-cy Boyce, sophomore in environmental technology, said. “I think we should put our money toward something that will be more beneficial to students directly.”

Other students like junior in engineer-ing Kurt Wolff and sophomore in aero-space engineering Elliot Willis agree.

“Honestly, I would rather have my tu-

ition cheaper and have Talley be the same way. We are in a terrible recession and we are having budget cuts and they should not be spending millions on renovations,” Wolff said.

Dawkins agrees that the state of the economy is a major concern when consid-ering a multi-million dollar construction project but, he says, that decision is being left up to the students.

“If it’s something students just don’t want right now then we will put it off,” Dawkins said. “But a lot of construction materials and costs have fallen through the basement so there might be some savings in there, some glimmer of hope.”

Wi l l is bel ieves that there are many other places and buildings on cam-pus that could use the attention and money rather than Talley.

“Some of the labs are old and many of the buildings are outdated,” Willis said. “They’d probably be a lot better off spending the money somewhere else.”

Other students, like junior in biological science Kim Spence, just feel left out of the loop when it comes to discussions about Talley renovations.

“I don’t really know a lot about it and I’ve tried to find information about it and I can’t,” Spence said.

But that will soon be changing.Rally for Talley, a campaign geared

toward making Talley a bigger and bet-ter place for students, will be kicking off late next week. Dawkins said once the campaign gets rolling and students start voicing their opinions, there will be movement with the project one way or another. According to the Rally for Talley Web Site, the campaign is call-

ing for students to come together in support of a new bu i ld i ng on campus that truly belongs to the student body and provides ev-eryone on cam-pus with a place to “refresh the mind, energize ideas and cel-ebrate unity”.

The campaign may do l it t le,

however, to convince students like Kim Spence.

“I know that we are having to cut a lot of classes all around and that is-sue should be a priority,” Spence said. “There is no reason why we should be spending millions of dollars when all of our classes aren’t even offered.”

It’s a bus stop, a quick place to grab some lunch and has some of the cheapest ice cream around. It hosts the Wolves’ Den, Stewart Theatre, the Gallery of Art and Design, the

Women’s Center, the Union Activities Board and several other organizations on campus. Every new student on campus vis-its it during orientation and tickets to most any event can be picked up there.

“We know it’s not what it should be but I think

a lot of students are just really hopeful for what Talley could be.”

Jay Dawkins,

Student Body President

‘Godot’ intends to befuddle, tickle audiences

NINEONENINEPark master plan revisions approved

Revised master plans for the Horseshoe Farm Park and Strickland Road Park were approved by the Raleigh City Council at its meeting on March 17. Horseshoe Farm Park is located off Ligon Mill Road near the Neuse River with 146 acres of undeveloped land. The revised Strickland Road Park master plan removes a dog park, changes the description of a neighborhood center to a staffed facility, installs additional pedestrian trails and designates an area for youth activities. The Strickland Road Park site is a 37-acre stretch located on Strickland Road between Leesville Road and Ray Road. The plan also preserves natural areas of mature wood, flood plains and uncommon plant species. Water quality and stormwater management will be integrated into the design as well as environmentally friendly. A contract amendment with Little & Little Landscape Architect to begin Phase 1 design of Strickland Road Park was approved by Council members. Construction is expected to start this summer and be completed in 2010.

SOURCE: CITY OF RALEIGH

CAMPUS SPOTLIGHTUniversity researchers !nd keys to faster healing

A team of N.C. State researchers have found that using the natural glue that marine mussels use to stick to rocks and a variation on the inkjet printer, a new adhesive can be made that could replace traditional sutures and result in faster healing. There have traditionally been two ways to join tissue together: sutures and synthetic adhesives. Both options have concerns such as discomfort, inflammation and tissue damage. According to the study conducted by researchers, the “glue” produced by marine mussels may be used in place of synthetic adhesives because they are non-toxic and biodegradable. Furthermore, the mussel proteins can be placed in a and applied using inkjet technology, according to co-author Roger Narayan. The study was performed in collaboration with Jon Wiler, professor in the department of chemistry at Purdue University, and will be published in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research B entitled “Inkjet printing of adhesives,” in April.

SOURCE: NCSU NEWS RELEASE

Student produced play ‘Waiting for Godot’ opens Friday, plays through weekend.

Taylor McCuneFeatures Editor

Who is Godot? A god, death, something, a who, a what, a life or a nothing?

The question arises from Samuel Beckett’s play “Waiting for Godot,” which some reviews called the most significant play of the 20th century. It’s a play, in two acts, featuring four men and a boy during which nothing happens.

That’s right, nothing. Those wondering how a play

about nothing works need not wonder too hard — the students of Student Studio Productions are bringing the two-hour tragicomedy to campus for four shows this weekend.

Curt Kirkhoff, who plays the role of Estragon, explained the gist of play.

“The synopsis is really,” – he paused, “waiting.”

And there certainly is enough of that. The title character never actually makes an appearance. Instead Estragon and his friend Vladamir, who go by “Gogo” and “Didi” wait at an undisclosed location for an undisclosed amount of time for Godot to appear. Their only interactions are with each other, a messenger boy and two passers by.

The play is one that has forced literary theorists to pull out their hair. Beckett left almost no guidelines for what his play means, even leaving out charac-ter descriptions. The sparseness

of “Godot” was not a point of frustration for the student thes-pians. Instead, they saw it as a chance to explore the bounds of the play.

Kirkoff, a lifelong education student, said the cast and pro-ducer wanted to make the play even more “ambiguous” than it already was.

“We took out lines in the play that reference time and space,” he said.

And that includes when things happened and how long the characters have been waiting for Godot. The audience knows only one thing for sure – Gogo and Didi stand in front of a tree with a mound nearby.

It seems like a story with so few parameters would be dif-ficult to grasp. But, according to Kirkhoff, that made the play even more exciting.

“It’s been a challenge. It’s been fun to figure it out,” he said.

As the cast and crew were set-ting up the staging area Thurs-day afternoon, that excited en-ergy could be felt. The cast spoke of the nonsensical play with a sort of glee. Cast members rolled things into place and fixed the lighting with a purpose.

Liz Cervantes, who plays the role of “Boy,” was enamored by the philosophical freedom of meaning in the play.

“There’s nothing! There’s a

tree,” she said with a smile. For Cervantes, a sophomore

in communication, “Godot” is about the constant struggle to understand existence.

“We search for the meaning of life, and that’s all we do,” she said.

Kirkhoff ’s interpretation was a little less existentialist.

“We are all waiting for some-thing in our lives,” he said. “Nothing is ever good enough, and that’s why we’re waiting.”

But despite their own opin-ions, both Cervantes and Kirk-hoff insisted that the point of “Waiting for Godot” is allowing the audience members to inter-pret meaning as he or she sees fit.

And to help them out, as Cer-vantes said, there is a tree. And that’s really about all the set is comprised of – but that tree is pretty spectacular. A two-foot wide trunk made up of multi-colored cloths twists toward an expansive canopy covering the stage. It has a Dr. Seuss feel, like a Truffula Tree out of the Lorax’s forest.

Cory Livengood, an alumnus in communication and film, was one of the tree’s co-designers. The tree trunk was originally supposed to be made of “found objects,” he said, but the crew found the colored fabric and decided it would be a good sub-stitution.

“The tree has a very organic feel,” Livengood said. “But we kind of wanted it to look arti-ficial.”

The only other set piece is the previously mentioned “mound,” which is actually an I-beam found at a materials lab on Cen-tennial Campus.

The found objects are meant to echo the character’s feelings.

“The objects just kind of ex-ist,” Livengood said.

“Waiting for Godot” is a com-pletely student-run production. The only help the cast crew of about 15 got was a $100 budget from University Theatre.

Theatergoers can expect an evening of laughs in addition to a heavy dose of existential confusion, according to David Hook, a senior in materials sci-ence and engineering who plays the part of Pozzo.

“It’s a little depressing,” he said. “But it’s a funny show. We still laugh and we have rehearsed it 20 or 30 times already.”

MEGAN MYERS./TECHNICIANScott Heath, a senior in computer and electrical engineering and Curt Kirkho!, a lifelong education stu-dent, support David Hook, a senior in material science and engineering, during the dress rehearsal for Waiting for Godot. The play opens tonight at 8 p.m. in the Talley Ballroom.

OR NOT?

CAST:ROLE ACTOR

Vladimir Scott Heath

Estragon Curt Kirkhoff

Pozzo David Hook

Lucky Blake Sharrits

A Boy Liz Cervantes

CREW: ROLE

Andrew Payne Director/Producer

Tiffany Alemany Stage Manager

Liz Cervantes Assistant Stage Manager

Randy Rehfuss Technical Director

Cory Livengood Assistant Technical Director

Casey Watkins Costume Design

Caroline Sea-brook

Make Up Design

Morgan Grail Stage Crew Manager

Bryce Davis Stage Crew

Sarah Albright Stage Crew

Betsy Newsome Costumer

Sarah Wood Costumer

Chris Cioffi Publicity Manager

Eilene Hansen House Manager

Mary Guthrie Dramaturge

Location: Talley Ballroom Dates:- Friday 8 p.m.- Saturday 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.- Sunday 3 p.m.All Tickets $5

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McKnight continues to play music, but desires to write again in the future

Sonya DeulinaStaff Writer

Day in and day out students and passers-by hear the sound of a f iddle or guitar down Hillsborough Street. This is Da-vid P. McKnight, known to some as the Hillsborough fiddler. But who is this man really?

McKnight said music started out as a hobby for him, but be-came a life’s pursuit after he left the newspaper business. He has been playing music around N.C. State campus for many years.

McKnight calls his sound “contemporary” with a variety of “acoustic rock, country blues, jazz, folk and some R&B.”

He has accomplished much in the past 10 years, including five CDs with his band Cleaver Smith Swenson & McKnight and duo Emery & McKnight.

Even though his current music style has shifted to a more con-temporary sound he said that he still holds on to his classical musical roots.

“I play a lot of fiddle, but violin is my favorite instrument still.”

The University campus has been a nurturing environment for McKnight’s musical aspira-tions.

“I’ve spent a lot of time on Hillsborough Street practicing different string arrangements. N.C. State be-came a place that I could play on the street, so I could try out new materials and get people’s reactions,” he said with a smile on his face.

McKnight has been play ing music from a very young age, but what came before that?

McKnight received his un-dergraduate history degree at Duke University. He said that he mainly focused on European and Asian history, but was very interested in learning about the history of North Carolina.

Duke was not all that McK-

night thought it would be and he said that he was disappointed at the way they taught.

“I feel like Duke wanted us to unlearn the history of North Carolina. If I had to do it over again I would have gone to State,” McKnight said.

From high school until the age of twenty nine McKnight pursued his endeavors in jour-nalism.

His first summer internship was in his hometown of Char-lotte, North Carolina for The Charlotte Observer followed by an internship with Greensboro Daily News. After leaving for a six month trip to Europe, McK-night took on his first newspa-per job at The Durham Herald in the 1970’s where he worked as a writer.

He then went on to work for Raleigh News & Observer and The Fayetteville Observer for two years where he held a position as an editorial writer.

“My favorite newspaper work that I did was as an editorial writer in current issues,” McK-night said.

As a former professional jour-nalist, McKnight had some things to say about current news-paper writing.

“The press has a vital role to play in accessing issues. They need to cover their local scene more fully and not spend all their time covering national events,” McKnight said.

He even went on to say that college news-papers like he Technician and the UNC’s Daily Tar Heel did a better job of cover-ing local news than some our bigger newspa-pers.

After leaving the newspaper business, McK-

night decided to try out politics.“I was interested in law and

journalism in high school,” McKnight said.

He said that for a while he thought about being in domes-tic politics or having a career as a foreign correspondent. So, at age twenty-nine McKnight ran for statewide office in the 1978

U.S. Senate Democratic Primary in North Carolina.

Being only age twenty-nine, McKnight was the youngest candidate and had the least ex-perience. He ran against former Republican senator Jessie Helms with a focus on family farms and small businesses.

“I was motivated to run to see if I could challenge him,” McK-night said.

Though he lost the primaries, McKnight said that he gained valuable experience.

“I’m glad I ran in that cam-paign, because I got to learn my state backwards and forwards,” McKnight said.

McKnight added, “I had a re-ally cool girlfriend and she came out and took pictures of me.”

Ten years later he ran in two more races for Congress in Char-lotte. The first was in the 1988 Democratic primary for Con-gress in the ninth District of North Carolina where he won three out of four counties and lost the general election by a single count.

McKnight then ran again for Congress in the general election in the ninth District as a Demo-cratic nominee.

“It was the best experience of my life in terms of meeting people,” McKnight said.

After his trial in politics McK-night wanted to go back to the newspaper. Unfortunately that never happened.

“JoJo get back to where you be-longed,” said McKnight, quoting a Beatle’s song.

Since then, McKnight’s life has gotten harder.

“I’ve been counting my bless-ings. It’s been rough and rocky.”

Currently McKnight has many aspirations and pursuits.

“My vocational life is not yet fulfilled,” McKnight said.

Along with writing waltzes for each of North Carolina’s coun-ties, McKnight said he is hoping to teach music to pupils.

“I’m hoping to teach a class for playing the violin in other

forms other than classical in the future,” McKnight said.

Though McKnight has many musical aspirations in sight, he still describes himself as a writer first and a musician second. He said he is mainly trying to get back into the newspaper busi-ness and has written about 1000 columns as a free lance writer over the last 20 years.

“I’m still pursuing the same things I was,” McKnight said.

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Local Fiddler continues to write, play

LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANDavid McKnight, also known as the Hillsborough Street Fiddler, plays the violin at the Irregardless Cafe on Morgan Street. McKnight plays in the cafe with his friend and alumnus, Bruce Emery, when he is not playing with di!erent bands in the Triangle area or outside Global Village. “What I enjoy is taking all the fundamentals and practice and to share the music at a sit-down setting or like at Global Village with people get-ting co!ee.” McKnight said.

“My favorite newspaper work that I did was as

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LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANFreshman Brooke Barr does a "ip during the "oor excerise March 13. Barr tied for third place during this portion of the meet against George Washington. N.C. State beat George Washington 195.475 to 193.050.

engineering, notes that mon-ey from the tournament will benefit both the club and the Association of India’s Devel-opment of Duke University. However, he also noted that the event has an underlying more important cause.

“We would really like the students to just come and learn about the game,” Ud-din said.

“In the past, we have been able to invite people from Australia, South Africa, and England, basically the cricket playing nations. We also cur-

rently have one player who is from the U.S.”

In addition, the team noted that the tournament hopes to provide publicity for the sport far beyond the reaches of campus.

“We are inviting teams from all over the Research Triangle Park,” Devineni said.

“We’re trying to promote the sport all over the state.”

Another member of the club, Bhavaniprasad Brahmavar Hegde, a 2008 graduate in indus-trial engineering, is optimistic about the sport’s future.

“I think it’s improving because they are making stadiums and the U.S. even had an interna-tional team that played in the [cricket] world cup,” he said.

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“Being able to practice in [Reynolds] a couple of days be-fore the meet is going to help us get to be a little more comfort-able on [the equipment],” Hardi-man said. “The set up is different and the equipment is different so you get a chance to kind of feel what is going on. Because the set up is different than our normal home meets we get to see it, so when we come in for the meet, we are not surprised.”

The team enters this weekend coming off its two best meets of the season and looks to carry that momentum into the com-petition tomorrow. The team is second in conference stand-ings behind the Mountaineers of West Virginia. According to Hardiman, the team feels good going into EAGL and are ready to perform at their bests.

“We are really coming together — our last two meets have been the best meets of the season. We feel really comfortable going into the last meet,” Hardiman said. “We are peaking at the right time of the year which is good. I feel really comfortable going in.”

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THE BASICSCricket is played by two teams with 11 players each. A formal game of

cricket can last from a simple afternoon or as long as a couple of days. Though the game play and rules differ the main concept is very sim-milar to baseball. Teams bat and attempt to score runs while the other team fields. The game is broken up into innings and the fielding team attempts to end the batting team’s innings. The game is over after both teams have batted an equal number of preset innings. Just like in base-ball, the team with the most runs at the end wins.

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MEN’S GOLF @ CHRIS SCHENKEL E-Z-GOStatesboro, Ga., All Day

WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING @ NCAA CHAMPIONSHIOSCollege Station, Texas, All DAY

MEN’S TENNIS @ BOSTON COLLEGEChesnut Hill, Mass., 3 p.m.

BASEBALL @ WAKE FORESTWinston Salem, N.C. 6 p.m.

SATURDAY WOMEN’S TENNIS @ BOSTON COLLEGEChesnut Hill, Mass., 12 p.m.

SOFTBALL V. VIRGINIA The Curtis & Jacqueline Dail Softball Stadium, 1 p.m.

GYMASITCS @ EAGL CHAMPIONSHIPSReynolds Coliseum, 3 p.m.

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For the third time in a decade, the Wolfpack will serve as the host of the championships as it hits the f loor of Reynolds Coliseum tomorrow. The team will try to better its previous scores as host as they finished second in 1997 and fourth in 2005.

But competing isn’t the only thing on the mind of coach Mark Stevenson who said being the host of the Atlantic Gym-nastics League Championships, a meet with eight schools from as far away as New Hampshire, is always a challenge.

“The largest challenge of hosting a meet is how much support you are get-ting from your department. Whether you actually can coach your team or you have to actually set up and run the meet, which means you are out of the gym and you don’t get the time with the kids you need,” Stevenson said. “The school has been awesome this year as far as help. They have literally taken most of it out of my hands. That makes my life a lot easier because I can focus on coaching my team.”

With the Athletics Department han-dling a majority of the set up for the event, the gymnasts said they feel that come Saturday, they will have an advan-tage over the other teams. According to junior Lauren Deuser, the team will use the home meet atmosphere and personal equipment to its advantage.

“It is a huge advantage [to host EAGL]. Basically we are at home so more people

will be here for us. Also we haven’t com-peted against West Virginia all year and we feel like we are going to be in a fair environment,” Deuser, a textile engi-neering student, said. “Floor is probably the biggest advantage for us because a lot of schools don’t know how to use our floor — they are going to go too hard and go out of bounds.”

The team has gained another ad-vantage by practicing in Reynolds as opposed to their normal location in Carmichael Gym. According to sopho-more Brittney Hardiman, utilizing the time to practice in Reynolds will allow the team to adjust to the environment.

State outlasts Fordham despite shaky seventh inning

Sean KlemmStaff Writer

After trailing 2-1 through three innings, the Wolfpack exploded with three runs in the fourth inning and two in the fifth, managing a 6-4 vic-tory. The win was State’s first in three games and pushes the Pack to a 11-9 record. The vic-tory came at a great time — just days before its first ACC series against Virginia.

“It’s a big win for us. It gives us a little momentum,” junior Claudia Cooper said. “Going in with a win is really going to help us and give us a little bit of confidence going into ACC play, which is huge.”

Fordham notched one run in both the second and third innings to start on top, lead-ing 2-0. The Pack was able to get one back in the bottom of the third off two Fordham errors. Then the Pack took the lead in the bottom of the fourth with three more runs off of four hits. A single, a stolen base, back to back RBI doubles followed by an RBI single put the Pack up 4-2. Then in the fifth the Pack notched two more runs to increase thier lead.

NC State led 6-2 going into the last two innings and looked like they would cruise to an easy victory. However, after a solo home run in the sixth inning and a run on an error in the seventh, Ford-ham came within two in the top of the seventh. With the bases loaded and a full count,

Senior pitcher Mendy McKenzie was able to force a pop out to disarm Fordham and secure the victory for the Pack.

“Every win is key for us right now,” coach Lisa Navas said. “It’s just a little disappointing how we played in the seventh inning but hopefully we’ll keep cleaning up our little mistakes and continue to get better.”

Cooper led the Pack offensively going 2-3 with two doubles, an RBI and one run while sopho-more Alyssa Allbritten contrib-uted with an RBI and a run of her own. McKenzie threw a complete game allowing four runs, three earned off six hits, striking out

and walking three. ‘It was a team effort,’ McK-

enzie said.”Our team came out and scored six runs, so it was all about or team playing good de-fense and hitting the ball.”

Despite the seventh inning adversity, State was able to take away many positives from the game.

“We hit the ball well. We had a few little defensive mishaps in the end but overall I thought we played pretty well,” Cooper said. “As we put all the good things together that we’ve been doing we’ll end up winning a lot more games.”

The event is designed to bring interest and awareness to the sport

Daniel EllisSports Editor

Club Cricket, coming off of its best season last year, will be hosting their 11th annual Six-a-Side Cricket tourna-ment on Lee f ield from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

The team at-tributes their 11-2 record last season to t he h ig h ly-skilled players they recruited at the season-opening tour-nament.

“The team i s f o r m e d based on this tournament,” Naresh Devineni, a doctoral student in civil engineering, said.

“From this event we had five or six players that we re-cruited last season that really made a big difference for us.”

Cricket, a ball-and-bat sport that relies on teamwork, coordination, and practice, plays a major role in the lives of many individuals around the world.

“In India it is like a reli-gion. Everybody plays,” Hi-ren Badel, a master’s student

in industrial engineering, said. “It’s basically like football or

basketball is here.”By promoting a social interac-

tion through a shared interest, the sport has prompted individu-als of different backgrounds to come together.

“We are all united and feel at home when we play cricket,” club cricket captain Sami Uddin said. “We don’t all speak the same lan-

guage, but we are one when we play the game.”

T h e C l u b Cricket team, which partici-pates in the Mid Atlantic Cricket Conference (MACC), antici-pates about 16 teams compet-ing in the two-day fundraising event, up from the eight teams that participated last year.

In the 2008 MACC Championships, N.C. State defeated the top-ranked team from Virginia en route to the semi-finals.

The team would ultimately lose, but finished third overall out of the 24 competing teams.

“We were the best of the East-ern [division],” Badel said.

“Fifty people came just to watch the game, with many of the Eastern team players cheer-ing for N.C. State.”

Uddin, a doctoral student civil

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DAVID MABE/TECHNICIANJunior Taylor Seaman leaps onto the high bar during the uneven bars competition in the meet against George Washington March 13.

DAVID MABE/TECHNICIANCatcher Alyssa Allbritten runs to !rst base after hitting the ball in the game against Siena Feb. 25. The softball team beat Fordham 6-4 on Thursday. Allbritten had one hit and an RBI in the game.

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Pack holds on against Fordham Club Cricket tournament expands in 11th year

“We had five or six players that

we recruited last season that really made a big difference

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