Technician - September 18, 2009
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Raleigh, North Carolina TECHNICIAN mb 8 NC State Bookstores ? Student T-Shirt Design Contest Call for Entries! 2nd Annual Proceeds benefit: packpromise DEADLINE FRIDAY WIN $300 & SUPPORT STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS! Game Day Specials Friday 8am - 6pm | Saturday 10am - 4pm Soffe Tees 3 for $20 Water Bottles $3 NC State Bookstores Declining revenues are to blame for closing Allie Landry Staff Writer Another victim of the failing economy, University Graphics closed its doors on Aug. 31. The center provided printing, binding and copying services to various departments on campus for over seventy years. Bob Wood, interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus En- terprises, and Ernie Murphrey, Associate Vice Chancellor for Fi- nancial Services, made the deci- sion to close University Graphics due to declining revenues. Every month brought a loss of $40,000, and Wood says that the center was going to run out of money within the next few months. “You can’t lose $40,000 a month and still stay in business,” he said. According to Wood, a failing economy has resulted in fewer printing jobs across campus. “As our budgets have gone down, peo- ple have tightened up. Printing jobs are the one of the first things that al- ways fall victim.” University Graphics received no state appropriated funds, meaning any income came directly from printing jobs they completed. Charles Leffler, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Business, approved Wood and Murphrey’s recommendation to close University Graphics. He says that increased use of computers and online publications have been hurting the printing busi- ness for the past 15 years. Local copy centers have been able to fill the role previously held by central printing services. “With the steady change in the technology and options for printing, [University Graphics] has struggled through several downsizings to adjust and attempt to stay financially stable,” said Leffler. “This latest economic cri- sis, with the resulting printing busi- ness decrease, confirmed the direc- tion for a deficit operation.” Future printing responsibilities will be taken over by the Copy Center, a subset of University Graphics, along with three other printing vendors not associated with the University. Wood says that besides a short adjustment period as jobs are trans- ferred to new ven- dors, University administrators and professors will not be incon- venienced. Sara Cohen, a junior in food science, sees the closing of Uni- versity Graphics as one of many signs of how the economy has af- fected N.C. State this year. “Almost all my teachers gave us a speech at the beginning of the school year about how budget cuts would be affecting our class,” said Controversial speaker visits Community gathers to hear civil rights leader Angela Davis speak Joanna Banegas Staff Writer Students, staff and local communities gathered Thursday in the Stewart Theatre to hear activist, educator and author, Angela Davis speak about civil and human rights. During her speech Davis spoke from the rights of individuals to the health care reform to the access of free education. She said movements of ordinary people are the movements that have brought about change. “We need to go out there and do what it takes to create communities of movement, communi- ties of resistance,” Davis said. Matt Woodward, a sophomore in applied so- ciology, said Davis engaged the University com- munity to promote social justice around campus. “We chose to bring her here for students to hear her talk about social justice and diversity in both the modern and historic light,” Woodward said. “She reached out at the younger generation to get involved.” Davis is known for being involved in the na- tion’s social justice as an author of eight books, and was on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List” list for criminals in the 1970’s. Davis said punishment of imprisonment predicated on the fact that people have rights and liberties that can be taken away from them. “I am in favor of abolishing imprisonment as the primary mode of punishment,” Davis said. According to a press release the N.C. State Col- lege Republicans reject the idea that the Univer- sity allowed a once Communist Party nominee for Vice-President to come to campus and teach students about civil rights. Chairman Ches McDowell said the line needs to be drawn when students are forced to support a communist and radical exhibitionist with stu- dent fees who advocates for closing the prison system and abolishing American values. “Angela Davis represents all that is wrong with the leftist mentality of using violence to solve problems, clearly shown when she purchased guns used to kidnap a federal judge and evaded law enforcement numerous times,” McDowell said in a press release. “How the University can support this is beyond me and frankly pathetic.” Tracy Hipp, a graduate student in psychology CHRISTIN HARDY/TECHNICIAN Rula Saffouri, a sophomore in business, and Reem Saffouri, a senior in computer science, break their fast at Fast-A-Thon, an event held in Riddick Hall. The Muslim Student Associationran the event and invited non-Muslims to learn about Islam and practice the ritual of fasting. “ Sometimes we will wake up at 5 a.m. to eat before the dawn because after that we can’t eat anything or even drink water,” Saffouri said. BREAKING RAMADAN FAST University Graphics closes as costs exceed profits Rally4Talley campaign will ramp up efforts Student Body President, Student Centers President will work to inform students, say referendum will determine future of project Ty Johnson Editor-in-Chief The next phase in the Rally4Talley campaign will begin Monday as stu- dent leaders seek to inform students about the $83 fee before the Oct. 5 referendum. Campaign will seek to inform Student Centers President Mary Cobb Randall said after the summer lull in campaigning, the Rally4Talley team wants to make sure students understand the project beyond just recognizing the campaign’s adver- tisements. “Students see the signs, but there’s a disconnect between the logo and what’s behind the Talley and Atrium project,” Randall said. “We’re trying to get out the info about the project to as many students as possible.” The student center expansion fee, which will appear on the fee referen- dum for consideration as an $83 fee increase, would include funding for Atrium renovations that would be complete by fall 2010 as well as capi- tal to begin the Talley Student Center renovations. Randall said she and other student leaders will be sharing images of the amenities available at other student centers across the country with stu- dents to “give them a point of per- spective.” “It’s not like student centers on other campuses,” Randall said. Randall said the student leaders won’t be hiding facts, and that they look at it as their duty to educate stu- dents on the pros and cons of it. “We’re going to lay out all the info,” Randall said. “Obviously we believe in this project and we want others to be- lieve in it, but we want them to come to their own conclusion.” Randall said one of the objections to the project was that the timing of it was poor. She said she felt circum- stances made the timing for the proj- ect appropriate. “Construction costs are down right now,” she said. “We can get more bang for our buck.” Randall said the $83 fee and other college cost increases, like the $200 state-implemented tuition increase, couldn’t all be viewed as the same funds. “Tuition and fees go towards dif- ferent things at a university,” Ran- dall said. “Normal students may not be able to distinguish what’s what but the cash flows go to different parts of GRAPHICS continued page 3 insidetechnician viewpoint 4 business & money 5 classifieds 7 sports 8 Overdraft 101 Banks benefit at college students’ expense. See page 6. Transfer making impact Michael Lemon, who just joined the team in August, is already having an impact on the front four. See page 8. “You can’t lose $40,000 a month and still stay in business,” interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Enterprises Bob Wood DAVIS continued page 3 TALLEY continued page 3
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Declining revenues are to blame for closing
Allie LandryStaff Writer
Another victim of the failing economy, University Graphics closed its doors on Aug. 31. The center provided printing, binding and copying services to various departments on campus for over seventy years.
Bob Wood, interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus En-terprises, and Ernie Murphrey, Associate Vice Chancellor for Fi-nancial Services, made the deci-sion to close University Graphics due to declining revenues. Every month brought a loss of $40,000, and Wood says that the center was going to run out of money within the next few months.
“You can’t lose $40,000 a month and still stay in business,” he said.
According to Wood, a failing economy has resulted in fewer printing jobs across campus. “As our budgets have gone down, peo-
ple have tightened up. Printing jobs are the one of the first things that al-ways fall victim.”
University Graphics received no state appropriated funds, meaning any income came directly from printing jobs they completed.
Charles Leffler, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Business, approved Wood a nd Mur phrey ’s recommendation to close University Graphics. He says that increased use of computers and online publications have been hurting the printing busi-ness for the past 15 years. Local copy centers have been able to fill the role previously held by central printing services.
“With the steady change in the technology and options for printing, [University Graphics] has struggled through several downsizings to adjust and attempt to stay financially stable,” said Leffler. “This latest economic cri-sis, with the resulting printing busi-
ness decrease, confirmed the direc-tion for a deficit operation.”
Future printing responsibilities will be taken over by the Copy Center, a subset of University Graphics, along with three other printing vendors not associated with the University. Wood says that besides a short adjustment period
as jobs are trans-ferred to new ven-dors, University administrators and professors will not be incon-venienced.
Sara Cohen, a junior in food science, sees the closing of Uni-versity Graphics as one of many
signs of how the economy has af-fected N.C. State this year.
“Almost all my teachers gave us a speech at the beginning of the school year about how budget cuts would be affecting our class,” said
Controversial speaker visitsCommunity gathers to hear civil rights leader Angela Davis speak
Joanna BanegasStaff Writer
Students, staff and local communities gathered Thursday in the Stewart Theatre to hear activist, educator and author, Angela Davis speak about civil and human rights.
During her speech Davis spoke from the rights of individuals to the health care reform to the access of free education. She said movements of ordinary people are the movements that have
brought about change.“We need to go out there and do what it takes
to create communities of movement, communi-ties of resistance,” Davis said.
Matt Woodward, a sophomore in applied so-ciology, said Davis engaged the University com-munity to promote social justice around campus.
“We chose to bring her here for students to hear her talk about social justice and diversity in both the modern and historic light,” Woodward said. “She reached out at the younger generation to get involved.”
Davis is known for being involved in the na-tion’s social justice as an author of eight books,
and was on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted List” list for criminals in the 1970’s.
Davis said punishment of imprisonment predicated on the fact that people have rights and liberties that can be taken away from them.
“I am in favor of abolishing imprisonment as the primary mode of punishment,” Davis said.
According to a press release the N.C. State Col-lege Republicans reject the idea that the Univer-sity allowed a once Communist Party nominee for Vice-President to come to campus and teach students about civil rights.
Chairman Ches McDowell said the line needs to be drawn when students are forced to support
a communist and radical exhibitionist with stu-dent fees who advocates for closing the prison system and abolishing American values.
“Angela Davis represents all that is wrong with the leftist mentality of using violence to solve problems, clearly shown when she purchased guns used to kidnap a federal judge and evaded law enforcement numerous times,” McDowell said in a press release. “How the University can support this is beyond me and frankly pathetic.”
Tracy Hipp, a graduate student in psychology
Christin hardy/teChniCianRula Saffouri, a sophomore in business, and Reem Saffouri, a senior in computer science, break their fast at Fast-A-Thon, an event held in Riddick Hall. The Muslim Student Associationran the event and invited non-Muslims to learn about Islam and practice the ritual of fasting. “ Sometimes we will wake up at 5 a.m. to eat before the dawn because after that we can’t eat anything or even drink water,” Saffouri said.
bReAkIng RAMAdAn FAST
University Graphics closes as costs exceed profits
Rally4Talley campaign will ramp up effortsStudent Body President, Student Centers President will work to inform students, say referendum will determine future of project
Ty JohnsonEditor-in-Chief
The next phase in the Rally4Talley campaign will begin Monday as stu-dent leaders seek to inform students about the $83 fee before the Oct. 5 referendum.
Campaign will seek to informStudent Centers President Mary
Cobb Randall said after the summer lull in campaigning, the Rally4Talley team wants to make sure students understand the project beyond just recognizing the campaign’s adver-tisements.
“Students see the signs, but there’s a disconnect between the logo and what’s behind the Talley and Atrium project,” Randall said. “We’re trying to get out the info about the project to as many students as possible.”
The student center expansion fee, which will appear on the fee referen-dum for consideration as an $83 fee increase, would include funding for Atrium renovations that would be complete by fall 2010 as well as capi-tal to begin the Talley Student Center renovations.
Randall said she and other student leaders will be sharing images of the amenities available at other student centers across the country with stu-dents to “give them a point of per-spective.”
“It’s not like student centers on other campuses,” Randall said.
Randall said the student leaders won’t be hiding facts, and that they look at it as their duty to educate stu-dents on the pros and cons of it.
“We’re going to lay out all the info,” Randall said. “Obviously we believe in this project and we want others to be-lieve in it, but we want them to come to their own conclusion.”
Randall said one of the objections to the project was that the timing of it was poor. She said she felt circum-stances made the timing for the proj-ect appropriate.
“Construction costs are down right now,” she said. “We can get more bang for our buck.”
Randall said the $83 fee and other college cost increases, like the $200 state-implemented tuition increase, couldn’t all be viewed as the same funds.
“Tuition and fees go towards dif-ferent things at a university,” Ran-dall said. “Normal students may not be able to distinguish what’s what but the cash flows go to different parts of
GRAPHICS continued page 3
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viewpoint 4business & money 5classifieds 7sports 8
Overdraft 101Banks benefit at college students’ expense. See page 6.
Transfer making impactMichael Lemon, who just joined the team in August, is already having an impact on the front four. See page 8.
“You can’t lose
$40,000 a month
and still stay in
business,”interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Enterprises Bob Wood
DAVIS continued page 3
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Flippin Burgers
Elena Nicolescu, doctoral student in electrical engineering, serves a burger to Stephane Henrion, senior in electri-cal engineering, at the Eta Kappa Nu start of semester picnic Thursday in the EBII oval. Eta Kappa Nu is an honor society for electrical and computer engineering. “We do lots of service events, but this is one of the fun events we
do every semester,” Nicolescu, president of the chapter, said.
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poliCe BlotterSept. 141:36 a.M. | daMaGe to propertYBowen HallStaff reported damage to property. officer did not locate any damage to property.
2:23 a.M. | fire alarMVet SchoolUnits responded to alarm. No problems found. System reset.
3:49 a.M. | Medical assistBerry HallUnits responded to student in need of medical assistance.
4:54 a.M. | breakinG & enterinGCentennial Park & Rideofficer located vehicle with window broken out. Student was contacted regarding damage.
9:07 a.M. | investiGationD.H. Hill Libraryofficers arrested nonstudent on outstanding warrant regarding earlier incident.
11:01 a.M. | fire alarMDaniels HallFp responded to alarm caused by contractors working in the area.
11:53 a.M. | fireEB II Fp responded to trash can fire. Fire was extinguished prior to their arrival.
3:14 p.M. | larcenYBrooks HallStudent reported bicycle stolen.
4:48 p.M. | Medical assistWolf VillageUnits responded to nonstudent in need of medical assistance.
5:37 p.M. | investiGationThurman Driveofficers communicated conditional trespass to nonstudent.
5:50 p.M. | safetY proGraMWitherspoon Student Centerofficer conducted program for panhellenic Council.
7:09 p.M. | welfare checkPoe Hallofficer checked on welfare of faculty member.
8:46 p.M. | traffic stopSullivan DriveNonstudent was issued citation for speeding.
9:59 p.M. | check personColiseum DeckReport of suspicious subjects. officers checked area but did not locate anyone.
11:21 p.M. | Medical assistSullivan HallUnits responded to student in need of medical assistance.
Sept. 151:15 a.M. | traffic stopDan Allen DriveNonstudent was stopped for speeding. Subject was arrested for DWI.
2:02 a.M. | suspicious vehiclePesticide ResidueReport of suspicious vehicle. officer located vehicle but did not find any problems.
10:59 a.M. | Medical assistScott HallUnits responded to student in need of medical assistance.
1:34 p.M. | suspicious incident Partners DeckReport of bag lying in parking space. officers checked area but did not locate bag.
2:45 p.M. | assault Clark Dining HallNonstudent reported vehicle had been broken into and stereo equipment stolen.
2:56 p.M. | assault Clark Dining HallStaff member reported being struck by another staff member several days earlier. Investigation ongoing. Appropriate personnel notified.
2:56 p.M. | concerned behaviorWolf Village WayReport of student accessing restricted areas of campus.
3:24 p.M. | traffic accidentAdmin IIofficer responding to call backed into stationary bench. Appropriate notifications were made.
World & nationGray wolves back on endangered species listGray wolves in the Upper Midwest are once again officially endangered.The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a rule today that formally returns about 4,000 gray wolves in the Upper Midwest to the federal endangered species list.Wednesday’s rule seals a deal made with environmental groups earlier this summer, when the agency promised to reinstate the wolves’ protected status while considering its next move.
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Jobs may be slow to returnpoliticians, pundits and even the Federal Reserve chairman have declared the recession over, but what’s coming next is likely to prove as vexing as the deep economic crisis that Americans hope to leave behind.As the economy begins to grow again, the nation faces a huge challenge: Consumers drive roughly 70 percent of U.S. economic activity, but job growth is expected to be quite slow even as the recovery gains steam. Without a rebounding job market, consumer spending is unlikely to return to robust levels, slowing a return to full employment.Think of it as America’s chicken-and-egg dilemma: The economy needs a big
jump in consumer spending to spur exceptional growth, but that won’t happen as long as unemployment remains high.source: mctdirect.comBush Interior secretary under investigation for potential corruptionThe Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell pLC, the company that later hired her, according to officials in federal law enforcement and the Interior Department.The criminal investigation centers on the Interior Department’s 2006 decision to award a Shell subsidiary three lucrative oil shale leases on federal land in Colorado. over the years it would take to extract the oil, according to calculations from Shell and a RAND Corp. expert, the deal could net the company hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Bush Interior secretary under investigationThe Justice Department is investigating whether former Interior Secretary Gale Norton illegally used her position to benefit Royal Dutch Shell pLC, the company that later hired her, according to officials in federal law enforcement and the Interior Department.The criminal investigation centers on the Interior Department’s 2006 decision to award a Shell subsidiary three lucrative oil shale leases on federal land in Colorado. over the years it would take to extract the oil, according to calculations from Shell and a RAND Corp. expert, the deal could net the company hundreds of billions of dollars.
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in the KnoW CSLEPS will honor student leaders
The Leader of the Pack award will be given to two student leaders who display leadership, scholarship and community service at the Nov. 7 homecoming game against Maryland.
To apply, students must have a cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher and be free from academic integrity probation and previous disciplinary probation. Applicants must also have completed two semesters, be enrolled as an undergraduate and intend to return to the University
in fall 2010.
Applications are due Friday, Oct. 2 at 5 p.m.
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General to speak on Iraq
Brigadier General H.R. McMaster, who commanded the 3rd armored calvary regiment in Iraq from 2005 to 2006, will discuss his experiences overseas Monday in Stewart Theatre at 1:30 p.m.
McMaster pioneered a counterinsurgency strategy to retake the city of Tal Afar in Iraq which inspired the model which future operations were based on.
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Tim O’Brien/TechnicianGiving tips for inspirational leadership after her talk in Stewart Theatre, Angela Davis, civil rights leader, responds to a question from Salena Wright, senior in political science and nutritional sci-ence, in Talley Student Center Thursday. Davis spoke on racism and many other important issues that effect students today and on how to continue to fight for reform. “You have to figure out how to make these issues exciting,” Davis said. “Civil rights are important, but they are not the whole story. In the 1960’s it was called the freedom struggle. Freedom is more important.”
Final remains of lost trees over summer have been removed
Philip Meilleur,Correspondent
Students walking past Poe Hall through the Court of North Carolina may notice something missing. The tree trunk of a Willow Oak that laid there for almost a month was taken out earlier this week. It was one of the for trees critically damaged in a storm that hit campus and Pullen Park July 17.
Jeffrey Kisch, the local manager of Bartlett Tree Experts and ISA board certified master arborist, described the storm as “a major down-burst of 65 mile-per hour winds that blew through many large trees.”
Kisch said the winds caused many trees to lose branches, in some cases splitting in half.
Pullen Park was also hit, Kisch said, though he said there was no tree damage at his home in North Raleigh.
Kisch said his company, Bartlett, was called as an emergency response to all the mess. He said it was placed in charge of remov-ing two water oaks, one lin-den and one willow oak tree due to the heavy damages.
“It was done in probably three to four days,” he said. “It was basically just down and dirty tree removal.”
Sarah Elsaesser, second-year masters student in landscape architecture, remembered her husband
calling her on his way home to tell her about the storm.
“I was going to drive to cam-pus and get a picture of the downed tree, but I remember hearing a tornado warning on 88.1,” she said. “The sky was really dark over there, so I de-cided to turn around.”
Elsaesser said the cleanup started two days later.
“The day after the next, they were already picking up the pieces,” Elsaesser said. “That tree was probably as old as the school. It was a huge, iconic tree.”
Elsaesser remembered one tree distinctly.
“I remember standing under-neath and learning the scientif-ic name of the american bass-wood in my plant identification class,” she said. “Nowadays we walk by where it was when we get food. It’s just a reminder of what used to be there.”
Bartlett tried to be conserva-tive in the removals according to Kisch.
“We tried not to make deci-sions while people were still emotional about the damag-es,” he said. “We tried to slow it down and come up with a solid plan.”
Kisch said some people want-ed to cut down the chancellor’s tree, but he wanted to wait.
“We thought it would be better to look at its response and see how bad off it really was,” he said. “We wanted to make sound, scientific deci-sions,” he said. “It wasn’t as bad off as it looked from the ground, so we did some reme-dial pruning.”
Barry Duncil, a second-year student in landscape architec-ture and certified arborist, said this is a good opportunity for
expanding the species around campus.
“They should try to coor-dinate with the Hillsborough Street project and prepare and area for tress to thrive,” Ducill said. “Right now, there’s a huge disconnect between the cam-pus side and across the street.”
Elsaesser said she thought it would be nice to commemorate the vasswood tree.
“It would be nice if there was a ceremonial replanting around there,” she said. “May-be they could put up a plaque or something.”
Tree cleanup after summer storm wraps up
WHY THE TREES SPLIT:The branch forks had bark tissue growing into the tree, compromising stability.A lack of solid structure in the tree’s canopy and co-dominant main branches stressed the fork.The trees were allowed to grow a sprawling canopy, instead of a centralized one -– the heavier the branch the weaker the attachment point. As the branch grows the branch has to maintain more resistance, leading to an eventual break.
SOurce: Barry Duncil, Jeffrey KiSch
campus.”Randall said student fees
typically fund student center projects.
“We understand it’s tough financial times but the fee wouldn’t go into place until next fall,” Randall said. “Stu-dents now are basically paying for the Atrium. By 2013 when the fee’s going to be at its high-est level, that’s when you’ll be paying for what you get.”
Randall said the fee had been fought down all summer, and said if the measure doesn’t pass, it could lead to higher meal plan costs from what she has heard from Dining.
Student leaders say Wood-ward will seek student sup-port
Though Chancel lor Jim Woodward released his rec-ommendations for the fee committee Tuesday, Student Body President Jim Ceresnak said this does not discount the job the fee committee is doing.
“Fitting [the Talley fee] in with the other fees is something I think the chancellor wanted,” Ceresnak said. “So he provided a recommendation of what he thought was best for the com-mittee to consider. It doesn’t render the fee committee im-potent. It will do its work like it does any other year.”
Ceresnak said while he is a supporter of the project, he will support whatever decision the student body comes to through the referendum.
“At the end of the day, the referendum is going to be my deciding factor on whether I support or don’t support the Talley fee,” Ceresnak said.
Ceresnak said he felt Wood-
ward was using his authority wisely and with students in mind.
“The chance has used his best judgment,” he said. “As chan-cellor, it’s his responsibility to do that and understanding the politics and economic reality we’re in. He has to make that hard decision. His job is to make those tough calls.”
Ceresnak said he couldn’t speak for the chancellor in a situation where the referendum didn’t pass, but said he didn’t think he would go against the student opinion.
“If the fee doesn’t pass I don’t believe the chancellor will move forward with the project if the referendum doesn’t pass,” Ceresnak said.
Randall echoed Ceresnak’s sentiments.
“He said that we won’t make a decision without student in-put,” Randall said.
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said Davis was very empower-ing.
“The big thing that took me away from Davis’s speech was the importance of building solidarity,” Hipp said. “Youth is looking for a push towards social justice, she’s such a men-tor in that sense.”
DeMonica Gentry a sopho-more in biological sciences said it is inspirational and en-lightening for Davis to be on campus.
“So many people that need-ed to be here weren’t here and didn’t take advantage from hearing someone that actually lived and made a difference in the freedom struggle,” Gentry said.
Colette Williams, a junior in
biochemistry said, “Most of the time we don’t realize other is-sues until we finally go through it. It is important to keep an open mind.”
Williams said, “She helped us get started on developing a community and inspire to get out there and take care of the issues that need to be taken care of that’s dividing our na-tion right now.”
Cohen. “I’ve definitely noticed a change from freshman year.”
Warwick Arden, Interim Provost, says that the admin-istration is attempting to lessen
the impact on students by di-verting budget cuts towards administrative facilities rather than classes. For students like Cohen, this could help ensure they get the most out of their education at N.C. State.
Unfortunately, this means that facilities like University Graphics must shoulder most
of the burden of budget cuts, resulting in loss of jobs. To date, seven employees of Uni-versity Graphics have become unemployed.
“It’s a phased closing. That’s a very painful process for ev-eryone,” Wood said.
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How to please the postman
Here’s a quick way to build harmony: write home. Here’s some-
thing to write home about: your grades.
T h e n e x t time you get a grade above a B, write 3 sen-tences on loose leaf about how you got i t and maybe if you’re feeling bashful, you can say to the
person you write to that he or she inspired you. Tell your loved ones you are working hard and thank them for their continued support (this is the crucial point).
The gut instinct is to send it off to your parents. This is spot on. Those of us who are close to our grandparents, you could think of them too. Write to the teachers in high school y o u w e r e close to (talk-ing especially t o f r e s h -men here). Those of us involved in local church, synagogue or mosque groups could write to those groups at home. Those of us involved with community organizations such as the Ma-sons, the Lions Club or Rotary International could write to them.
You never know; the last time I sent my grandma a letter about an A I received, she sent me a letter of congratulations and $20 back.
The reason that we cannot usually tell our friends about our grades is because of the natural differences between us. It is overly competitive to say that you got higher than someone else, like holding it over his or her head. On the other hand, it is harsh if they score higher than you do. So people generally keep to mum about this kind of thing.
If you fail or are failing a course, seek help, but also rec-ognition. These two are depen-dent and correlated. Writing home about this kind of thing should not hurt either. Say you
work for five hours on a paper and the professor still fails you — you might gain some much-needed support.
I have a three-page paper worth 20 percent of the entire course grade due today, for ex-ample. Any grade for this paper less than an A minus hurts me significantly.
Fairness and justification are important parts of admin-istrators jobs. Make it easier for them by sending your pa-pers in. Parents are also likely to side with you if they realize what your side is, in this case your paper, test, homework and so on.
Furthermore, say that you’re taking a course on nuclear physics and you take a test. Seeing that you got a nuclear physics grade that is a B plus for some ruthlessly hard test is more impressive if parents, grandparents and organiza-
tions actually see the test.
Sending an A plus to the chancellor’s office might of fer t hem encourage-m e n t a n d remind them why they are
here. You do not have to go that high though. You could send a paper to a dean or a particu-lar professor you are close to. This can help with the recom-mendations that they have to write for you later, as they will see some of the variations and nuances of your work. For example, if you are an engi-neering major who is getting an English minor, seeing your other work will help them write a well-rounded recommenda-tion for you.
Lastly, instead of throwing out old papers, you could mail them home. Have your parents put those letters on a shelf in a closet back home. You can then use this portfolio of graded pa-pers on resumes or graduate school applications.
School should be an occasion to write home about — do it.
Send Jake your thoughts on letters to home to [email protected].
“The gut instinct
is to send it off to
your parents. This
is spot on.”
Jake GoldbasStaff Columnist
Patriotism through dissentIf you were to walk into
an English or philoso-phy classroom on cam-
pus you’d be likely to hear discourse like this: “I don’t
understand people who get so worked up about their country. Patriotic people are just sheep, blindly fol-lowing their
leaders without questioning their motives or decisions.”
There are people who would say that the phrase “proud to be an American” is arrogant, offensive, exces-sive and divisive.
But as soon as these people have uttered their disdain for the United States, they have unintentionally done something quite amazing. In exercising their right to free speech, they have done exactly what a proud Ameri-can would do: they have confidently declared their opinion out loud without worrying about repercus-sions. In some countries this is called “treason.” In the US, it is “free speech.”
As it turns out, commit-ting treason against the US is pretty difficult (if you wanted to sell secrets to Iran, how would you even begin?) which means that most hate speech is really
patriotism in disguise.Having a fondness for one’s
country isn’t something to be ridiculed for. And neither is healthy dissent.
America-bashing has always been a confusing thing to me. The kind of engagement that is required to think of and voice problems with a country takes an immense amount of patrio-tism — one has to be passion-ate about an issue, be willing to take a stand, a n d v o i c e their opinion among dis-sent. So how about we call anti-Amer-ican Ameri-can citizens w h at t h e y rea l ly a re : unabashed patriots.
On the flip side, it is pe-culiar to listen to people cate-gorize anything which deviates from the flag-waving variant of patriotism “offensive.” That seems like exactly the kind of stuff that a newspaper ought to print: things that make us riled up about our beliefs.
The point is that we ought to be proud Americans, and the best way to express that is to disagree, argue and step on each other’s ideological toes.
People spend their lives dedi-cated to different things. Some people dedicate their lives to academia, others to making
cars and a large number to government through their services and expertise — which provides all sorts of opportunities for citizens to practice their trade. I really have a hard time believing that the latter is any worse of a calling than anything else.
We recognize that there are problems. American cit-izens might do well to take
o n l e s s debt, eat less sugar, demand higher ethical standards from our corpo-rate lead-e r s a nd expect our con-gressmen to ma ke
clear-headed choices. As it turns out, our nation is made of people who are try-ing to wing it and do what seems right, just like the rest of us. We make mistakes too. But the fact that we “make mistakes” is a poor argument against the idea that American values are removed from reality.
Send Jay your thoughts on patriotism to [email protected].
Jay GoelStaff Columnist
N.C. State versus Gardner Webb
Mark McLawhorn, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
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Angela Davis, one of America’s most promi-nent political activists,
spoke last night at Stewart Theater in Talley Student Center.
Davis has been on the FBI’s most wanted list, run for vice president with Communist Party USA and served as a life-long advocate for civil rights in its many forms. Few other credentials are required to tes-tify to the contentious nature of her life’s work.
She is a polarizing figure, but few would argue that she lacks passion in her advocacy.
This is a trait most students at N.C. State lack, and one that they must find within themselves.
Within the past year, Presi-dent Bill Clinton and now Angela Davis have ardently encouraged students to get out
and make a difference.Many students are at college
for their majors and those alone, the aspects of diversity and well-roundness have been lost in the educational expe-rience and students seem to have developed severe apathy towards their surrounding environment.
The University, and colleges across the country, have sys-tematically phased out general education requirements to the point that many students lack awareness to the basics of the western civilization they inhabit.
The Davis speech on civil rights and activism drew a large audience the room was almost entirely occupied. But how many students knew
the complete story of Angela Davis? Several students in the audience were unaware of her life’s occupation and admitted they were only attending for Scholars or political science credit there were at least 50 Scholars program attendees.
Students must inform them-selves on the history of this country and its many his-torical figures, if for no other reason than fundamental civic duty.
A college education no longer requires a mandatory western civilization style class. But this doesn’t mean students are exempt from the burdens of advocacy and involvement.
Davis and other revolution-aries like Che Guevara, Huey Newton and Stokely Carmi-
chael were vocal and some-times violent protestors for civil rights and liberties. This isn’t the norm and certainly isn’t right for all people. But this style of advocacy certainly has merits for its passion something which many U.S. students lack outside their majors.
In many parts of the world, students are the major cata-lysts of change, the protestors in the street and the force in front of the iron fist of gov-ernment. That student activ-ism has fallen out of favor on this campus and country is a social ill.
Students should, and must, attempt to educate them-selves. If nothing else, use this generation’s technologies, open Wikipedia every once in awhile and learn the people and the issues around them.
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.
Awake from apathy and advocateThe FaCTS:Student activism and advocacy has steadily declined since the American Civil Rights Movement the freedom struggle. Angela Davis, a lifelong activist, challenged students to stay active and participate actively in society, a truly universal message.
Our OpiNiON:Today’s students are increasingly apathetic toward their surrounding environment. Students must take it upon themselves to advocate and be the catalysts for change.
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This week’s poll results: Should throwing away plastic bottles be illegal?
Next week’s poll question:
If the Talley fee referendum was held today, would you approve the project?
• yes• No• i don’t care because it doesn’t
affect me
Visit www.technicianonline.com to cast your vote.
By ERICA HELLER
Do you think students receive a well-rounded
education?
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“Definitely, I think taking a variety of classes is important for getting you prepared for the future.”
Arejay Martingraduate student, accounting
“Yeah, I feel like it would be vary for each person, but for me, I think I do.”
Gladys Sarabiasophomore, film studies
No
yes
i don’t care because
it doesn’t affect me.
“In exercising
their right to free
speech, they have
done exactly what
a proud American
would do...”
Mandatory budget cut drastically reduces salaries, jobs, classes, academic resources
Ashley T. PeeleCorrespondent
The University is making a 10-percent budget cut as mandated by the North Carolina General Assembly in all areas, but is working toward making the major-ity of the cuts from admin-istrative costs in response to an e-mail from UNC System President Erskine Bowles Aug. 17 to system chancellors.
According to an e-mail from Charles Leffler, vice chancellor for finance and business, Chancellor James Woodward said the Univer-sity would be looking at this issue on “a continuing basis.”
Leff ler also said in his e-mail that the budget re-duction will equate to a $53 million loss in state fund-ing to the University.
Every year in July, the University submits a bud-get proposal to the North Carolina General Assembly for approval. But with the country in an economic crisis, North Carolina Gov. Bev. Perdue also signed ex-ecutive orders 11 and 20 in an effort to restrict state spending in order to bal-ance the budget.
As a result, all Univer-sity employees received a 0.5-percent reduction in their annual salaries, along with reductions in spend-ing on many administra-tion processes.
Administrative cutsAs the University con-
tinues to make budget reductions in all areas, administrative cuts are a focus because of Bowles’ ultimatum. And Leff ler said that is definitely not being ignored.
“To reduce administra-tive costs, you also have to reduce the administrative processes and tasks that drive that cost,” Leff ler said in his e-mail. “The chancellor directed a num-ber of initiatives be under-taken to address this, such as, streamlining process to have fewer steps, looking at organization structure that could reduce duplication
and other effectiveness and efficiency strategies.”
According to the chancellor’s statements on the University Budget Central Web site un-der the proposed budget, 440 positions will be lost, 176 of which are currently filled. The positions include 117 EPA fac-ulty, 117 EPA professional and 206 SPA jobs. Many of the jobs eliminated are vacant faculty, non-tenure-track faculty and instructional support posi-tions.
Millions of dollars were also lost in Business Affairs, Aca-demic Administration, Centers and Institutes, Funding Re-sources, Campus Safety, Pro-fessional Development, Opera-tion and Management of the Physical Plant, and Fundrais-ing and University Relations, according to the statements.
Student/faculty effects: The University Budget Cen-
tral Web site also states that there will be a loss of 300 classes, 9,750 seats, and many study abroad, leadership, ser-vice learning and research op-portunities.
“There is and will be a re-duced course availability which will slow students’ progress toward their degree and pos-sibly increase the number of semesters needed to graduate on time,” Woodward said in a statement on the Web site.
It also stated that there will be “ a reduction in faculty productivity in research, ex-tension, and engagement ac-tivities which ultimately low-ers the national rankings of our academic programs.”
Tuition has increased $200
along with increased costs to students in the form of dis-tance education and summer school fees, according to the University’s Budget Central Web site.
Some students said they do not really see the benefits in increased tuition.
“I have to pay more in tu-ition, but I don’t necessarily get better quality,” Michael Questell, a junior in biology, said. “I don’t want to pay more for less.”
Class sizes are also larger re-sulting in higher student-to-facutly ratios.
“Enrollment has increased but no sections have opened. So classes may not be cut but there are so full that in the first few weeks of classes students were sitting on the floor, and still are in some classes,” Chris Gorman, chemistry professor, said.
Some students like Jessica Carey, a junior in psychology,
said the decrease in class avail-ability is frustrating.
“ I had a really hard time reg-istering for classes this semes-ter because there weren’t any sections available it was really stressful,” Carey said.
The chancellor statements on the Budget Central Web site re-ported millions of dollars lost in funding for Academic Sup-port, Information and Tech-nology and Student Support.
Despite all the cuts being made, Carey said she had a positive outlook.
“There are a lot of things in-volved and that the University did well in terms of spreading the budget reduction evenly so that one program doesn’t take the full impacts of the cuts,” Carey said.
Technician friday, september 18, 2009 • page 5
As UNC System President Erskine Bowles, the General Assembly and Gov. Bev Perdue mandate more cuts to the state, each of the
UNC System schools must make its own cuts as well. N.C. State is no different. Technician’s Ashley Peele sat down with Chancellor Woodward to get some of the specifics.
Budget cuts impact University
Chancellor discusses budget reductions
Brent Kitchen/technician file photoChancellor Jim Woodward meets with Student Body President Jim Ceresnak and Student Senate President Kelli Rogers at the beginning of the year.
Q&a withJim Woodward
Technician: How did the University revise and cut the budget by 10-percent?
Chancellor: The budget pro-posal is a lengthy process and not an easy one. The priorities of what to cut first and where to cut it from are based on a set of Budget Principles. A large por-tion of the budget was cut by looking at each administrative process and costs and getting rid of unnecessary and inef-ficient steps.
Technician : What plans or ideas are being implemented to ensure progress and devel-opment of the University?
Chancellor: Looking long-term at the University’s future is important to progress — this University will be around 50 years from now — not just this fiscal year.
Investment is a large part of the University’s development. The goal is reorganizing and restructuring fundraising op-portunities and private gift processes for revenue.
We have an obligation to continue to conduct research — which precedes develop-ment and progression. We have a particular responsibility to conduct research programs of importance to today’s soci-ety such as sustaining life and reducing the dependence on
foreign oil.Many departments are losing
or giving up faculty positions that once contributed special-ized knowledge to undergradu-ate and graduate students, re-search programs and service opportunities. So we need to focus on making sure our cur-rent faculty has the expertise to continue to serve those pur-poses.
We will continue to add un-dergraduate and graduate pro-grams when we need to.
There is also a plan for the restoration and expansion of Talley Student Center in effort to better serve students. Talley was originally built to serve a smaller population of students that has now exponentially in-creased.
Technician : How do you feel the University overall has handled the budget reduction process?
Chancellor: Of course ad-ministration spending cuts will always affect the Univer-sity and they were necessary. But I am very pleased with the way the University, the Budget Advisory Committee and ev-eryone involved has handled the situation. I feel that we have protected General Education to a very large degree.
All departments feel effects of struggling economy
bad he wants it. He has all the intangibles, on record and on paper. But he now has to prove it, and he’s well on his way to proving it after his first two games.”
Lemon arrived in Raleigh with a troubled past, includ-ing the loss of his mother to murder-arson at the hands of her fiancé in 2007 and an assault charge in the summer of 2008, for which he was dis-missed from the UGA football program.
According to Scout.com, Georgia coach Mark Richt said dismissing Lemon was the hardest disciplinary de-cision of his career.
“My goal for Michael as he leaves this program is to go somewhere where he can continue his education and play football,” Richt said. “I hope for him that it can be at Georgia (in the future) be-cause that’s what he wants, and I love him very much.”
Coach Tom O’Brien said he received more than enough
reassurance from everyone with whom he discussed the young man’s case to make him feel comfortable giving Lem-on, who played one season at Georgia Military College before coming to Raleigh, a second chance to play college football.
“We’ve done extensive work with him and we’re very satis-fied with the issues that he had when he left Georgia,” O’ Brien said. “We’ve had a lot of conver-sations with coach Richt and a lot of people and we are very satisfied with the individual we are getting.”
Thus far, it looks as though O’Brien has done the right thing in giving Lemon a sec-ond chance. Though Lemon is not yet ready to face the Tri-angle football media frenzy, his coaches and teammates are willing to speak out on his behalf.
“You see him off the field and he is just a sweetie. He is just the nicest guy,” Young said. “I can’t even explain how nice he is, he just got here not too long ago and it already feels like he is a natural brother, a great team-mate.”
FOOTBALLcontinued from page 8
COre PrinCiPLes:Our budget should be “transparent;” that is, it should be readily accessible and understandable to the entire University community.Our budget should be tied to our University vision and goals as articulated by the chancellor and expressed in strategic planning documents.All budget reduction strategy decisions should reflect the University’s mission, merit and performance.d. All budget decisions should be justified in terms of these principles and the University’s stated vision and goals.All N.C. State faculty, staff
and students should have the opportunity to offer suggestions and report situations that could improve our budgetary condition.The University Budget Advisor Committee should be the faculty and staff’s primary vehicle for receiving information and fostering understanding as well as for offering advice about the budget and budgetary principles.
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Supplies and materials 11%
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UNC system will offer plan for those without coverage
Edward MarkusCorrespondent
Students in the UNC System will be required to have health insurance before enrolling for classes in the fall of 2010.
Due to rising numbers of people going without health insurance across the nation, all of North Carolina’s public col-lege students, roughly 215,000 people, will be required to have coverage.
The UNC System will of-fer a plan for the estimated 16 percent of college students who cannot provide their own health insurance. Students who do not opt out of the plan by showing proof of insurance will be billed for the plan automati-cally.
This will simplify things for the 16 UNC system campuses, which use different health in-surance plans with a wide va-riety of coverage and cost. For instance, maximum basic ben-
efits for different plans range from $5,000 to $250,000.
The plan offered by the UNC system was made to be afford-able, accessible, and high-qual-ity. In a move designed to save students money, the system conducted a search of insur-ance providers to determine which has the best value.
A request for proposals docu-ment, developed by UNC Sys-tem health professionals, was issued in November of 2008 to test whether better rates and coverage could be obtained for all UNC students using the common base student health insurance plan developed in conjunction with the cam-puses.
Bids were sought under the assumption that all schools would enforce participation with the beliefs that rates would be lower for most students un-der this alternative. The results of the RFP proved this to be true, with bids for claims in the $549-$679 range.
Under the new plan, students will pay half of the health in-
surance premium each semes-ter, with coverage continuing through the summer whether or not the student is enrolled in summer school.
If a student graduates in the spring, then coverage will con-tinue until Aug. 1. Coverage will be in effect until Jan. 1 for students who graduate at the end of the fall semester.
There will drawbacks to us-ing the plan provided by the UNC system. While dental needs resulting from an acci-dent or injury are covered un-der the plan, basic preventative dental coverage is not. How-ever, there are plans to explore preventative dental insurance coverage as a separate policy for voluntary purchase across the UNC system.
Students have mixed opin-ions on whether or not health insurance should be manda-tory.
“I have health insurance, but I do not think that it should be mandatory for everyone else. I think students should get it vol-untarily, if possible, because it
is necessary in a setting where sicknesses are likely, such as the close living quarters of campus life,” Ian Rogers, a freshman in First Year Col-lege, said.
Peter Terrio, a freshman aerospace engineering, said health insurance should be mandatory because students who do not have it and cannot afford treatment can infect the whole population.
The development of a com-mon UNC System student health insurance plan is the foundation step for an ongo-ing review of campus health centers.
After the RFP is released, the directors of student health centers will collect and dis-cuss information about their centers such as the number of doctors, hours, size of the pharmacy, and which services are offered.
Additionally, the directors will continue to explore fis-cal models which provide the highest levels of quality while maintaining affordability.
Mandatory health insurance on horizon
For some reason, college students seem to bear the brunt of overdraft fees according to Robert Hammond, an assistant professor of economics.
“We think of people who are often hit by overdraft fees as those who are likely to have small amounts of money in their account at various times and people who are less likely to keep up with their account regularly,” Ham-
mond said. “College students would fall into both of those catego-
ries.”Jessica Williams, a junior
in economics, said she has yet to overdraw her ac-count. However, she said she does agree that college students are particularly at
risk.“Most college students don’t
really pay attention to their bank accounts, and they spend and
spend,” Williams said. “Often, they don’t have enough money in their ac-counts to pay for food, rent, tuition and books.”
And when this happens, banks are there to benefit.
Tai Seay, a sophomore in aeronauti-cal engineering, learned this lesson the hard way when he overdrew his bank account and was charged $300 in over-draft fees during his freshman year.
Seay’s reasons for overdrawing his account — small purchases at Quiz-no’s, Blockbuster and the movie the-ater.
Upon receiving notification that his subs and movies had caused him to overdraw his account, Seay immedi-ately sought the assistance of his bank, which he said was vital.
“I went to Wachovia and spoke with someone, and they explained how and what I overdrew on, and actually got my fee reduced,” Seay said.
Some students though are not as fortunate as Saey, however.
Hammond said he believes the econ-omy is playing a huge part in causing these overdraft fees to increase, and in their unwillingness to dismiss, or even reduce such fees.
“Banks are looking for new sources of revenue given that the old sources are not working as well,” Hammond said. “Fees are going up and a num-ber of traditional fees are popping up in credit cards companies and now banks.”
Data from a study completed by Moebs Services in July 2009 revealed that the median overdraft fee has in-creased by approximately one dollar to $26 this year. Many larger banks, however, are charging more, with some overdraft fees reaching up to $35.
“They’re taking money from people who don’t have it, and I just don’t agree with it all,” Williams said.
Overdraft fees now account for ap-proximately 75 percent of service fees that consumers are charged, according to the same study.
For this reason, and many others, Hammond believes that banking poli-cies should be questioned.
“If I go to use my credit card and there’s not enough money and I’ve exceeded my credit limit, my credit card will be declined,” Hammond said. “So the question is, if I go to use my check-debit card, and there’s not enough money, why isn’t my debit card declined?”
For years, people have debated this very matter. “If credit card companies can do it, why can’t banks do it?” is the
question that many have raised.Bank executives, however, have a
slightly different opinion.Marcus Elliott, assistant branch
manager at the Wachovia on Hills-borough Street, said that the ultimate responsibility comes down to the con-sumer.
“I feel that it’s the responsibility of the consumer to make sure that they’re keeping track of the money that [they] have in [their] account,” Elliot said. “We serve as a place where you can store your money.”
Some legislators, how-ever, are siding with con-sumers. The Federal Reserve is considering making it man-datory for banks to acquire the per-mission of consumers to enroll them in overdraft protection programs, so that consumers are not slammed with ridiculous fees.
However, Hammond said he thinks that the best way to avoid overdraft is to check accounts regularly.
“I check my account at the Bank of America on a daily basis,” Hammond said. “It’s a part of my morning rou-tine. I’m aware on a daily basis of what amount of money is in there. That’s the one obvious thing, but that’s the best advice.”
Technicianpage 6 • friday, september 18, 2009 FeaturesBusiness & Money
101[Banks benefit at college students’ expense]
Story By Justin Carrington
For years, debit cards have been marketed by banks as safe, convenient choice for consumers – especially col-lege students. Essentially, they functioned just as credit
cards without the penalty fees. However, this is no longer true as banks and credit unions continue to raise overdraft fees for excess spending.
tips for avoiding overdraft feesAlthough it may sound quite simple, the easiest way to avoid overdraft fees is to make sure you’re keeping track of your purchases. Develop a system that works for you and no matter what, remain consistent.
1
Check your statements online on a regular basis. Also make sure that you understand the difference between your available balance and current balance. Confusion between these two items is what often leads to overdrawing accounts.
2
While this may be hard for some college students to do, it is important for one to try to keep his account balance as high above the minimum as possible. If you see that your account is getting close to the minimum, it may be time to give mom and dad a call.
3Link your checking to a savings account or credit card. By doing so you will avoid overdraft fees, as money that is not present in your existing count will simply be circulated from your savings account or credit card.
4
Lastly, if none of these things work, consider opting out of your overdraft protection services. If the money is not there, you simply will not be able to make the purchase. Even better, if you’re not able to make the purchase, you’re not able to overdraw.
5How
mucH is your bank cHarging?
Wachovia charges $22 for the first overdraft in a 12-month window of time. overdrafts after this point
will result in a $35 charge.
Bank of America charges $35 per overdraft. However, the will reduce the fee to $10 per item if one day’s overdrafts amount to
$5 or less. If your account remains overdrawn after five business days, the bank charges an extra $35. BB&t: $35 per overdraft.
Suntrust: For free checking accounts, $25 for the first overdraft over the account lifetime; $36 afterward. the
bank charges an extra $36 fee if the account remains overdrawn after seven days.
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Debit carD HistoryIn 1966, the first debit card pilot program
was completed at the Bank of Delaware.In 1968, Don Wetzel conceived the idea of
an automated teller machine. Widespread use of AtM’s, however, did not come until the 1970s.
the City National Bank of Columbus, ohio is the first to market a card with a debit feature in 1972.
Visa introduced its branded debit card in 1975.
there were approximately 130 million cards in circulation in 1985, with debit features.
In 1994, William H. Strunk, a banking consultant, created a program that would provide bank customers with what would come to be known as overdraft coverage.
today, more than 280 million cards with debit features are in circulation
In 2009, banks are expected to make more than $38 billion from overdraft fees consumers’ overspending with their debit cards.
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Grand Slamwinner
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Hills”14 Sitcom named
for its countrystar
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largest city2 San __, Italy3 Peek-__
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After dropping game to No. 3 Carolina last week, State will face Maryland Saturday
Jeniece JamisonStaff Writer
The No. 24 ranked Pack is ready to get its first ACC win of the season against the Univer-sity of Maryland Terapins Sat-urday at Dail Soccer Stadium.
This will be no small task, as the Terps are the defending ACC and College Cup champi-ons and is currently ranked No. 4 in the nation.
Maryland holds a record of 4-1 and 1-0 in the ACC. The team will go into this game with momentum, as it is com-ing off a 7-0 win this past Tues-day over Duquesne, which was highlighted by a hat trick by sophomore Casey Townsend. Townsend was named to the All-ACC tournament team last year.
This means defense will be critical in the game plan for the Pack and senior goalkeep-er Christopher Widman, who ranked third in the ACC in saves per game at 3.50 in 2008, will need to have a big game.
“[We are] excited — it’s a challenge,” Widman said. “We lost a close game to them last year [2-1], and they went on to be national champions. So we’re excited to have another shot at them.”
N.C. State played its last game on Wednesday night against the Campbell Univer-sity Camels. In that game, the team’s own offensive prowess
was on display in the form of five goals.
The team feels that this win will be an excellent source of confidence going into its next contest against Maryland.
“Whenever you get a win, you definitely have more con-fidence going into the next game. We know we did what we needed to do tonight, and hopefully it will carry on to the next game,” midfielder Chris
Zuerner said. The team also believes that
familiarity will be its main ad-vantage going into this game, as the Pack faces this ACC op-ponent every year.
“[Maryland is] one of those opponents that we play every year, it’s always a hard fought battle,” Zuerner said “We’re ready to see if we can come out there with a win.”
Zuerner said though the
Pack is 0-1 in ACC play after dropping its first game to UNC, the team is ready to prove its worth in this conference.
“After that loss, we we’re ob-viously disappointed, but we had to focus on the next game,” Zuerner said. “We won’t let the Carolina game affect the other games, and we’ll be ready for Maryland,” Zuerner said.
Widman said the Pack can draw on the close match against
Carolina for inspiration. “We lost to Carolina, but
we felt like we had a chance to beat them,” Widman said. “The game in the middle of the week between [playing last year’s] national runner-up and the national champion is always a tough game. I think we did well and we got through Campbell. We’re definitely ready to take on Maryland.”
Pack takes on defending champion Terapins
Caitlin Conway/teChniCian File photoJunior midfielder Chris Zuener attempts to control the ball in a game against Winthrop University on Tuesday. Zuener had one shot and one assist throughout the night as the Pack won the game, 3-1.
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play, but to actually get out in the open, to run and show a little speed – that felt good.
A 65-7 finish might make some ask why there isn’t a mercy rule in football, but we didn’t stop. Our coach wouldn’t let us do that any-way. We needed to get some work in, so we just kept go-ing.
There was a really positive feeling in the locker room and the next few days on campus, which is great. I don’t think I’ve ever been a part of a team here that’s scored that many points, so that was my first time doing that here.
Up next is Gardner-Webb, another team we didn’t know much about before this week. Their defense is a lot better than Murray State’s and the top in their conference, I believe. It’ll be a good test for us to get out there and see what we can do on offense. It’s just another step.
We’ll see you at the game.As told to Kate Shefte the
ACC after Saturday, with Duke and Virginia both go-ing down. The division has got to pick it up as a whole, and we can do our part by taking out Murray State this weekend.
See you at the game. -As told to Kate Shefte
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A moment to remember
After losing the season opener against South Carolina, we real ly
didn’t have anywhere to go but up. “Up” wound up being a 65-7 win over Murray State, which set or tied a whole slew of records.
For this game, I was more confident and relaxed – the entire team was. I wasn’t so jit-tery before t he ga me, which was good. Being out t here , having suc-
cess personally and find the end zone three times, felt fan-tastic. It was great to take it in, after all that work, and just know that I’m back.
I finally broke through a few seconds into the second half when I took the ball one yard into the end zone to make the score 28-0.
A lot of my linemen were wondering why I wasn’t go-ing crazy in the end zone, cel-ebrating or getting a penalty. As soon as I got to the sideline, they were like, “T.Bake, why weren’t you jumping around, getting a call?” They definitely wouldn’t have blamed me for it if I had. But really I just want-ed to turn to my family – my teammates – and just celebrate with them and enjoy that mo-ment with them. Keep it within the family, show a little class.
They told me it was the first time I’d scored in 1,022 games, which was a crazy statistic. An-other thing I heard was that James Washington had three touchdowns in the second game of his career – the exact same thing happened to me my first year. In fact, that’s the only other time I’ve done that. Now we have that in common.
But with all the crazy scor-ing plays and the records and the crazy stats, there’s one mo-ment in the game that stands out to me. After I scored that f irst touchdown, I hugged my linemen, of course, and gave my running back coach, Coach Swepson, a big hug. Coach O’Brien was waiting for a hug as well, just welcom-ing me back. That’s something I’ll probably remember forever.
As you all know, the scor-ing didn’t stop there. With Russell Wilson giving us such great feeds, how could it stop? He had a great game as well. When you’re doing good things on offense, both running and throwing, you’re going to be tough to stop.
My final score, which came with a few seconds remaining in the half, was off a 39-yard screen pass. My receiver did a great job blocking down the field. It was a good offensive
Michael Lemon, who just joined the team in August, is already having an impact on the front four
Tyler EverettDeputy Sports Editor
Despite not practicing with the Pack until August 15, Michael Lemon, a red-shirt junior defensive line-man, found himself on the two-deep going into the 2009 season opener Sept. 3 against South Carolina.
On a defensive line many consider the strength of the team, Lemon, a trans-fer from Georgia, had tak-en just two weeks to crack the depth chart coach Tom O’Brien released August 28.
Defen-sive l i ne coach Keith Wil-lis thought Lemon’s arrival so close to the start of the season might make for a difficult adjustment in learning the defense, but said once Lemon adjusted to the new playbook, he be-gan displaying the talent the coaching staff had noticed from his game tape from Georgia.
“The good thing about him is he’s played at the top level at Georgia and there was no question he could play,” Willis said. “He came here on short notice so there were questions – could he actually pick up the system in a short span of time? He proved that he could do that and once he got into the sys-tem, he was able to go out and play well.”
A little more than a half into his first game with
the Pack, Lemon made a play representative of the athleti-cism Willis first noticed while watching Lemon’s video from his time at UGA.
Late in the third quarter, Lemon dropped back into coverage and created the de-fense’s first turnover of 2009 on a highlight reel diving in-terception that set up the of-fense’s only points of the South Carolina game.
The pick had many in the crowd of 57,583 frantically searching their program to find a name to match Lemon’s jersey number, 94, and many of those fans were left scratch-ing their heads in uncertainty upon seeing Michael Lemon, No. 94, listed as senior defen-sive end Shea McKeen’s backup.
The inter-cept ion in the Thursday night opener did not come as a surprise to redshirt senior defen-sive end Wil-l ie Young, who said he h a s ne ver
seen anyone catch on to a de-fense quite so quickly.
“Mike Lemon catches on to stuff so fast, which has allowed him to play faster, faster than I’ve probably seen anyone come in and play,” Young said.
Lemon followed up his Wolf-pack debut by recording two quarterback pressures and a tackle for loss against Murray State last Saturday.
Willis said he is pleased with Lemon’s play so far and feels his newest defensive lineman is capable of an All-ACC caliber season.
“He’s doing some really good things out there. His potential could be second team, first team [All-ACC] perhaps,” Willis said. “It all depends on how bad he wants it. He has all
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SPORTSFootball FridayGaRdneR-webb
GaRdneR-webb?what happened the last time State played
for the second week in a row, two teams that have never faced each other will meet at Carter-Finley Stadium. Gardner-Webb will be the
first Big South Conference school State has faced since the league first started competing in 2002. However, the Runnin’’’ Bulldogs have faced off against another ACC opponent, narrowly losing to Georgia Tech in Atlanta, 10-7, on October 11, 2008.
Players to watch for:N.C. State
Russell Wilson, quarterback: Ever the game-changer, Wilson’s play will go a long way in sealing the game early, especially if he finds the rhythm he did against Murray State. Wilson completed 15 of 21 passes for 228 yards Saturday and has gone 293 without an interception, just short of an NCAA record.
James Washington, halfback: Washington’s game time could end abruptly at any time with the return of Jamelle Eugene, so look for the true freshman fill-in to prove he belongs against Gardner-Webb. He had three scores against Murray State, one running and two from passes.
GaRDNeR-WeBBStan Doolittle, quarterback: The 6’3, 224 pound senior totaled 295 offensive yards and two scores against Western Carolina last Saturday. The final score for that game was 27-20, a Bulldogs win. He was named the Big South Conference Offensive Player of the Week for his efforts.
Marty Patterson, linebacker: The 6’3 junior has had 94 career hits in 12 starts and currently leads the Big South with two sacks. He was named the Big South Conference Defensive Player of the Week after the Western Carolina win.
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injury reportN.C. State: TE Mario Carter, OL Denzelle Good, LB Nate Irving, FB Colby Jackson and QB Everett Proctor are out for the season. HB Jamelle Eugene (knee), S Clem Johnson (thigh), DE Jeff Rieskamp (hip), WR Jay Smith (flu), OT Jake Vermiglio (lower leg), DB Javon Walker (knee) and OT Julian Williams (flu) will sit out against Gardner-Webb.
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Swine flu hits PackState’s student health center has reported over a hundred cases of the H1N1 virus on campus and it appears athletes are not immune. Starting left offensive tackle Julian Williams and redshirt sophomore wide receiver Jay Smith, a reserve, will miss the Pack’s game against Gardner-Webb and could possibly be out longer.For the immediate future, Williams will be replaced by redshirt freshman Andrew Wallace while Smith will have his spot taken by either freshman Brandan Bishop or sophomore Justin Byers.
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david mabe/teChNiCiaN file photoRedshirt junior Michael Lemon, wearing No. 94 for the Wolfpack, readies for a play against Murray State Saturday, Sept. 12. Lemon, a transfer from the university of Georgia, has made an immediate impact on the team, according to teammates and coaches.
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Sept. 2005commits to UGa
feb. 21, 2007mother murdered at family’s home outside macon, Georgia
aug. - Dec. 2007plays in seven games at de for UGa
Dec. 10, 2008indicted on battery and aggravated battery
Dec. 12, 2008recruiting visit to NCsU
Jan. 2009signs with the Wolfpack
aug. 15first practice with NCsU
Sep. 3makes debut with state in season opener vs. UsC
apr. 2008wins award for most improved de at conclusion of 2008 spring practice
June 26, 2008altercation with fellow UGa student
July 13, 2008dismissed from Georgia football team for summer battery charges
aug. - Dec. 2008enrolls, then plays one season of football for Georgira military College
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