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Students are becoming more opinionated about Amendment One as May 8 draws nearer.
Lindsey RosenbaumStaff Writer
With April drawing to a close, many students’ thoughts now turn to the prospect of exams. But be-tween exams and the summer, May 8 stands as a day of political awareness with Amendment One, the race for governor, and the GOP primaries requiring votes. However, early polls have opened, and stu-dents have already begun sharing their opinions on Amendment One.
As the voting date draws nearer, students on campus are becoming more educated and opinionated on the legislation.
“I am against it [Amendment One],” Alex Lowe, freshman in aerospace engineering, said. “[This is] due to my belief that every per-son, whatever their lives be, should have a choice about what affects them personally.”
Early voting began on April 19, and while the numbers won’t be revealed until May 8, many are looking towards the general cam-pus opinion to predict the outcome.
“Well I think that most folks, if I had to hazard a guess, are more knowledgeable and educated about the amendment now and under-stand the harm it has, not just against the GLBT community,” said Justine Hollingshead, direc-tor of the GLBT Center.
Many of those in favor of the bill focus only on the Defense of Mar-riage stance.
Promotions urging people to vote for the bill have been circulating on Twitter and Facebook for months now. Some of the points they have
Nature research center opened to the public this weekend.
Shawn ThompsonStaff Writer
The Museum of Natural Sciences celebrated the opening of the Nature Research Center with a 24-hour fes-tival that began on Friday, April 20 at 4 p.m., at the Main Museum and Bicentennial Plaza.
Visitors were able to take part in activities and presentations and in-teract with exhibitors and vendors during the 24 hours. Many of the activities and performances were held at the SECU Daily Planet Stage, adjacent to the Bicentennial Plaza Stage. Contributors to the events included NASA, the N.C. Science Festival and Burt’s Bees.
A pre-show concert, which in-cluded Shaw University Jazz Band, began the festivities. Afterwards, Beverly Botsford, a cross cultural percussionist and educator, called forth all drummers and participants to begin the Grand Procession.
The Grand Procession started at 4:30 p.m. at the Executive Mansion and ended at the SECU Daily Planet stage, located beside the Nature Re-search Center.
The official Natural Research Center opening ceremony started at 5 p.m.
The Opening Ceremony fea-tured many special guests, includ-
ing Chuck Davis and the African American Dance Ensemble, an in-ternationally famous troupe based in Durham. Chuck Davis gave a speech during the ceremony focus-ing on positive change and unity, during which he greeted the crowd in several languages.
“Peace, love and respect for every-body,” Davis said. “I ask everyone to give hugs to three people who they don’t know here at the ceremony. I also ask everyone to partake in the performance which represents seven different ethnic groups.”
Waters collected from different sources around the world were then brought to the stage to symbolize the global theme of the Nature Re-search Center.
Specially commissioned vessels,
created by Seagrove clay artists, and a single large pottery piece, created by Mark Hewitt, were used to connect culture with nature in the ceremony.
Following Davis were speak-ers Betsy Bennet, director of the N.C. Museum of Natural Science, Meg Lowman, director of the Nature Research Center, John Grunsfeld, associate ad-minister for the Science Mission Directorate, and many more.
“What we’re gathered here to celebrate today is bigger than what we are. This is the new home of our department of re-search. We know the people of North Carolina, who will real-ize the benefits of this new center
This morning, nearly 100 students will start their last Monday of regular class donning newly-
shaved heads and buttons informing readers to ask why they are bald. The answer to that question, and also the reason behind the sudden outbreak of baldness on campus is yesterday’s St. Baldrick’s event.
Sigma Nu Fraternity hosted the third annual head shaving in the Carmichael Gymnasium bas-ketball courts, and 97 participants, most of whom were N.C. State students, offered their time and hair in support of the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
St. Baldrick’s Foundation is a charity which sponsors similar events across the country to raise money for research dedicated to curing childhood cancer.
According to the foundation’s website, St. Bal-drick’s has raised more than $117 million and is now the world’s largest volunteer-driven fund-raiser for child cancer research.
Yesterday, the University helped the organi-zation to raise more than $12,000 in what Dre Antono, N.C. State alum and volunteer coordi-nator of the head shaving, believed to be a very successful event.
Antono first heard about the foundation three years ago, and saw the student body of N.C. State as an audience that had great potential to help the cause.
Though he graduated in December, Antono plans to make sure St. Baldrick’s is one thing that does not leave with him. Antono worked with his brothers in Sigma Nu to ensure they will be able to continue what he started in 2010 in the years to come.
“I want to come back next year and see that this thing has grown,” Antono said.
Antono attributed the success of this year’s fundraiser to a more active marketing campaign that featured fliers, word-of-mouth communica-tion, a Facebook page and, for many brothers of the fraternity, unusual haircuts in hopes of drawing attention to the cause.
For Nicholas Weight, a sophomore in psychol-
ogy and first-time participant, it was the fliers that attracted his attention.
Weight has a family member who is cur-rently battling cancer, so when he saw there was an on-campus opportunity for him to join the fight against cancer, he leapt for it.
“I figured ‘I give blood, so why shouldn’t I give my hair too,’” Weight said, to the watch-ing crowd.
Zac Fagan, a sophomore in sports manage-ment and brother in Sigma Nu, served as both a volunteer and a participant in the fundraiser yesterday and was excited he was able to help.
According to Fagan, who was a second-time participant, some of the brothers in Sigma Nu began to grow their hair out as early as No-vember in anticipation of what many broth-ers see as one of the most important service activities the fraternity engages in.
When Fagan was asked why he will continue to shave his head in years to come, he said “Even the smallest actions can have a positive effect on somebody’s life.”
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New research center opens to public
Tyler Andrews/TechniciAnChristopher Nighorn partakes in the festivities of the 2012 Planet Earth Celebration by learning about static electricity from a Van de Graaf generator on Friday.
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College of Sciences to be added to University.
Elise HeglarNews Editor
On Friday, the Chancellor an-nounced the creation of a new College of Sciences that will include the merging of Physi-cal and Mathematical Sciences and the undergraduate biology program.
With this decision, the newly modified version of the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences will become more com-prehensive, according to Chan-cellor Randy Woodson. In a staff report, Woodson explained how the change will help N.C. State.
“The college will be positioned to provide much of the core of undergraduate instruction in these disciplines, while building on N.C. State’s growing expertise and reputation in the quantita-tive biological sciences and the national trend in convergence science,” the report said.
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Summer Crafts Classes Registration for summer crafts classes for NC State students begins TODAY, Monday, April 23; registration opens to everyone else on Monday, May 7. Info on classes is available on the Crafts Center website at ncsu.edu/crafts.
NCSU Jazz CombosTuesday, April 24 at 7pm • Stewart Theatre One evening, three great combos! The NCSU Jazz Combos will dazzle your ears with a variety of music from upbeat salsa to swingin' ballads.
Wind EnsembleWednesday, April 25 at 7pm • Stewart Theatre The Wind Ensemble is devoted to perfor-mances of the richest and most varied tra-ditional and contemporary music written for wind band. This concert will include music by Mendelssohn, Bach, Alfred Reed, Percy Grainger, Vincent Persichetti, and Leonard Bernstein.
NCSU Choirs ConcertThursday, April 26 at 7pm • Stewart Theatre Vox Accalia, the Singing Statesmen, and the State Chorale all perform in this con-cert of glorious choral music. Selections range from classical works by Schubert and Bach, to spirituals, folk songs, and a sampling of Parker-Shaw arrangements.
NCSU Jazz EnsembleFriday, April 27 at 7pm • Stewart Theatre The NCSU Jazz Ensemble returns for the spring semester with classic works by un-forgettable jazz artists, including music by Horace Silver, Cole Porter, Charles Min-gus, Dizzy Gillespie, and Billy Strayhorn. One of the country’s foremost woodwind artists, saxophonist Chris Vadala, joins the ensemble for this evening of great music.
Gregg Museum exhibitions close on May 12 Don’t miss the two wonderful exhibitions now on display at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. Barkcloth, Bras, and Bul-letproof Cotton: The Powers of Costume (the name says a lot... but the visuals are stunning) and Textiles of Exile, which features fiber arts made by immigrants, refugees, and displaced persons.
POLICe BLOTTeRApril 132:40 p.m. | HarassmentPublic Safety BuildingStudent reported receiving unwanted electronics messages from unknown person.
5:11 p.m. | skateboard ViolationPhytotronReport of skateboarder in area believed to be dangerous to skate. Officers checked area but did not locate anyone.
5:41 p.m. | damage to propertyColiseum DeckStudent reported vehicle had been scratched while parked in the area.
7:16 p.m. | larcenyBrooks HallStudent reported bicycle stolen.
8:28 p.m. | suspicious personPartners III DeckReport of someone throwing things from the deck. Officer did not locate anyone but found remains of two printers on the ground.
April 1411:46 a.m. | breaking & entering - VeHicle Dan Allen DeckStudent reported vehicle had been entered and iPod stolen.
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Monday“green Fire” documentary screening and discussion6-8 p.m.2010 Biltmore HallThe Leopold Wildlife Club invites you to a showing of the documentary Green Fire about the life of Aldo Leopold, who is considered the father of modern wildlife management, and one of the early leaders in conservation. Discussion will follow the one-hour film.
Tuesdaymoodle 2 preVieWNoon-1 p.m.D.H. Hill LibraryMoodle 2 will soon be available in courses at NCSU! Attend this informational session to preview some of the features of the latest version of Moodle, NCSU’s primary learning management system.
englisH conVersation club3:30-4:30 p.m.Port City Java - Centennial CampusThis is a great way to meet people from around the world
and help others with the English language. There is no registration required for this program, just show up.
ncsu Jazz combos7-8:30 p.m.Stewart TheatreNCSU Jazz Combos, directed by Wes Parker and Jason Foureman, will dazzle your ears with the smooth sound they will be producing in Stewart Theatre. Playing a variety of music from upbeat salsa to swingin’ ballads, this will be an evening not to miss. See playbill for complete details.
ebony Harlem aWards7-9 p.m.Witherspoon Student Cinema
WednesdayUniversity Courses & Curricula Committee12:30-2:30 p.m.
Wind ensemble/concert band7-8:30 p.m.Stewart TheatreDirected by Paul Garcia, the Wind Ensemble is devoted to performances of the richest and most varied traditional and contemporary music written for wind band. This semester they have prepared to amaze you with Percy Grainger’s Molly on the Shore with select other works by Mendelssohn, J. S. Bach, and many others.
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Corey Reid, an undeclared sophmore, takes a much-needed break from the excitement of the Shakori Hills grassroots festival in Pittsboro and plays carrom in the billiards tent on Saturday. “I’ve been moving around pretty
much nonstop since I arrived this afternoon, but trying to experience all Shakori has to offer in one day is like riding every ride in Disneyland, it’s just impossible,” Reid said.
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According to the report, the changes came about after a recommendation from Provost Warwick Arden. In May 2011, Arden formed the Academic Science Program Task Force, which is made up of faculty from all 10 colleges, the Graduate School and the Division of Undergraduate Programs.
The task force reviewed the administrative structures for academic science programs at the University, especially in the colleges of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nat-ural Resources and Agricul-ture and Life Sciences. “The task force was challenged with determining the best
ways to enhance the natural synergies between the science programs at N.C. State and promoting interdisci-plinary col-laboration and research while reduc-ing admin-istrative overhead,” the report said.
While the Col lege of Sciences will be a change for the Uni-versity, some things will remain the same. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Natural Resources still be distinct colleges, and
the search for new deans for both is still underway.
Jane Lubischer, director of under-graduate programs in biology, stated in an email that the evolu-tion of the University is very im-portant.
“N.C. State, l ike a n y o u t-standing institution, needs to be
able to evolve over time. I will do everything I can to make sure that students in all of the biological sciences notice little disruption and, even-
tually, great improvements as a result of this change,” Lubischer stated in the email.
Lubischer also said she ex-pects to see improvements for undergraduate students as a result of these changes.
“I am confident that we will increase our faculty and in-crease our ability to offer the courses you need, when you need them,” Lubischer said.
She encouraged people to be skeptical of any rumors about the new departments for now, as everything has not been finalized.
“The details remain to be worked out over the next few years, so if you hear that department ‘X’ is definitely going to ‘whatever,’ you can be sure that the decision has not actually been made,” Lubischer said.
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and round out the on-cam-pus experience.”
Moreover, according to the University Housing website, between 2005 and 2010 the number of returning students
also saw an increase of about 34 percent. Also, when the statistics are broken down, the occupants of residence halls and Wolf Village consist of about 47 percent freshmen.
However, the 2020 enroll-ment plan, sponsored by both Chancellor Woodson and Provost Arden, will be
seeking to steadily decrease freshmen enrollment.
Off-campus opportunities are approximately the same price per month as off-cam-pus opportunities, consid-ering the estimated cost for housing for N.C. residents in the 2012-2013 year is $5,434, translating to $543.40 per
month for 10 months.“I thought living in a dorm
was sort of not really nice,” Le said. “Most of my friends are living in apartments now. They’re in ones like Campus Crossings; some of them are in University Woods. An apartment is a huge upgrade.”
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With more and more off-campus locations being built for students, dorms have more competition than ever before.
Lauren VanderveenStaff Writer
Lee, Bragaw, Tucker, Alex-ander. Some of N.C. State’s residence halls that for years have provided students with living space and quick access to classes. That’s all changing with the addition of more and more off-campus apartments which cater to modern-day student needs.
Pauleena Le, an undeclared freshman in management, is one such student opting out of returning to a dorm next year. Instead, she will be moving to University Woods, located just off of Avent Ferry.
Her perspective on why students choose to move into these apartments deals with
finances and space.“I think because...they have
more room, it’s just a lot bet-ter than living in a dorm,” Le said.
According to the Campus Prowler website, 66 percent of N.C. State undergrads are living off campus in places like Valentine Commons, located off of Hillsborough Street. This location will in-clude a fitness center, aerobics room, game rooms and tan-ning beds by the end of its construction.
Pat Postal, director of leas-ing, maintains the construc-tion will be done by the time of the opening in August and that they’re still actively leas-ing every day.
Their rates, which start at $645 for a 4-bedroom, are all-inclusive, including elec-tricity, water, sewer, cable and Internet.
“You don’t have to worry about driving to campus,
since it’s right outside your front door,” Postal said.
Campus Crossings’ 4-bed-rooms, however, are $490, according to Calvin McDon-nell, lead keystone.
Their motto is, “Live on your own, but not by your-
self.”Some of Campus Crossings’
amenities include volleyball and basketball courts, a pool, a clubhouse and a recreation center.
“It gives you freedom with-out the constraints that a
dorm has,” McDonnell said.The Retreat, another stu-
dent housing community being built on Hillsborough Street, will be about 9,000 square feet. Some of its ex-pected features include a golf simulator, tanning beds, a pet
spa and cardio space.Their website also boasts
cottages that have “classic, Craftsman-style architec-ture” and extensive greenery.
Overall, the housing com-plexes surrounding N.C. State provide similar services that can’t be found in dorms.
As a result, it would be rea-sonable for students to think the number of individuals in dorms is decreasing as off-campus apartments appear more attractive.
In fact, that is not the case, according to Susan Grant, di-rector of University Housing.
For the past two years, there has actually been a 5 percent increase each year in students who have decided to return to on-campus living, Grant said.
“No one has to live on cam-pus,” Grant said. “But our halls and apartments offer leadership opportunities
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megan farrell/TechnicianSigns at the construction location of the Retreat at Raleigh advertise some of the Retreat’s many strengths as a new student living option.
put forward include, “The union between one man and one woman has been the definition of marriage since before N.C. has been a state and U.S. has been a country,” and “Marriage between one man and one woman is in public good. History shows kids do best when raised by a married mom and dad.” These have been promoted by #4MarriageNC.
Because of the reliance on the Defense of Marriage aspect of the bill, many of those against Amendment One feel that their opposition isn’t very well educated on the material at hand.
“I believe most remain unaware of the damage this amendment would have on unmarried heterosexual cou-ples, children of divorce, and elderly couples whose spouses
have died,” Wyatt Barnes, sophomore in environmen-tal design, said. “I feel the bill has been poorly publicized, hiding many of the underly-ing sections in order to gain support from voters.”
Hollingshead explains that many don’t even realize the full impact the passing of this bill could have on UNC System students. As of now, health insurance policies allow for domestic partner benefits for students, but this would disappear should Amendment One pass.
There might also be adverse effects on the job market for graduating students.
“We know that from a busi-ness perspective that there are companies who have said that, if this passes, they will have to seriously consider if they want to continue to stay in North Carolina,” Hollings-head said.
Students are encouraged to
vote now, as the actual voting date is right in the middle of exam week.
As for students who are still unregistered, the Wake County Board of Elections has paired with the Univer-sity, so that a list of all Uni-versity students has been pro-vided at every voting site. All students have to do is show up at a voting site, present an ID and fill out a form. Those in running the voting sites will verify the residence and let students vote.
Starting on April 27 and running through May 5, shuttles will be on campus to transport students to and from early voting sites.
As for those students stuck on the fence that say they probably won’t vote?
“I would tell them they should vote,” Lowe said. “Because it indirectly affects every one of us.”
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through each child of our state,” Bennet said.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, the doors of the Nature Research Center opened with the cutting of a native plant. Visitors took tours on pre-deter-mined routes through the new wing.
Inside, visitors had the opportunity to try science activities in investigation labs, explore research col-lections in the Naturalist Center and view the SECU
Daily Planet, a three-story presentation space.
“The museum has always answered what we know in natural sciences. Now, the new research center will be able to answer how we know things in the natural sci-ences,” Ira David, master of ceremonies, said.
The walk-through tours continued until 4 p.m. on Saturday. Other festivities also continued through the night for visitors of the Na-ture Research Center.
Later that evening, Hop-scotch Music Festival pre-sented a Gang Gang Dance
— an experimental dance band — which took place at the SECU Daily Planet Stage at 11:30 p.m.
Daily Planet Café also extended their hours from midnight until 2 a.m., in conjunction with the open-ing celebration. There, sci-ence comedian Brian Malow hosted late night interviews.
Other local business also hosted events until the late hours.
N.C. State design students also took part in the events during the ‘Sustainable Style: Reduce, Reuse, Restyle’ seg-ment of the opening.
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Cursing, kids, the end
A f r iend of m i ne , Adam, had one job to do when parking
for Saturday’s Spring Game: don’t park next to a tail-
gate with a baby—he failed.
Why didn’t we w a n t t o be parked around ba-bies/small children? Isn’t it ob-vious? We
were tailgating—that’s no place for the ears of a child. Every time someone brought up a group project gone hay-wire, their finals schedule or UNC, the carpet f-bombing that would occur after left us all uneasy. Our language was fine in the collegiate at-mosphere we were used to but, in the nursery in which we were parked, it was not an appropriate mix.
We have a desire to protect not only our own children but the children of others. There is something sacred about the thoughts of a child. The purity and innocence they possess is not only due to their age, but our societal efforts to shield them from knowledge we deem not ready for them.
It’s absolutely astonishing the ideas of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy take hold of a child for so long. It’s amazing the ideas of sex, drugs and even some-thing less intense like cursing are kept out of a child’s mind frame for so long. It’s not that they have some abstraction present about these things, they simply have no idea, I believe this speaks volumes of our group efforts to keep them in the dark.
Eventually, the dam breaks and the burdens we wished to hold back come rushing
forward. Think about your youth, think about when you started slinging swears. You didn’t just one day start dropping four-letter words during show and tell. You were likely exposed to the words, the concepts, and were a bit fearful of using them, perhaps, even nervous when others used them. After some time, you decided to put your foot in and test out the waters for yourself.
While your initial efforts in expletives may have been tentative, soon the floodgates opened. You had a new tool and the only way to f igure out how it truly worked was to use it on everything. During mid-dle school, if you’re any-t h ing l i ke m e , y o u probably pioneered a change in English syntax by replacing all commas with some pro-fane word.
There came a time, some-time in high school, when the great western frontier of swearing became confined. You figured out in what con-texts the words were appro-priate and when they weren’t. You went from no knowledge to mastery, but it took time, it took trial and a lot of errors.
When you entered for col-lege, you were given a new tool: freedom. Removed from your parent’s roof you could be whoever you wanted and do whatever you wanted to do. You could go out seven days a week or stay in sev-en days a week. You could choose to be the nicest person anyone will meet, or not. You could take the advise of oth-
ers or choose to ignore it.No doubt, one choice
you will make, I know I did, is to abuse your free-dom. Just as the middle school you slung around swears with a reckless abandon so will you use your freedom. This explo-ration into the confines of this new tool is neither good nor bad, even if it includes several walks of shame and an empty bank account, because, in the end, it will yield a mastery of it.
For all t he ap-parent dangers o f t h i s journey, there’s no better a place to explore your freedom than in college. You have mini-mum
responsibilities and a mi-crocosm set up for your success. Graduating in May, I leave with some progress made in my exploration, but it is not complete.
As I leave, I ques-tion: What are the Santa Clauses and Easter Bun-nies we’re currently under the guise of? Did I do it right? What will I come to know that is currently unknown? What’s next? I may not know the an-swers, but, I am blessed in that my time here has developed the tools within me to not fear diving right in to whatever is next.
Send Josh your thoughts on innocence to [email protected].
Josh LucasDeputy Viewpoint Editor
What fuels your fire?A while ago, I remem-
ber someone asked what motivates me.
What is it that drives me to do my best? What fuels my fire?
This seems like a simple question, but for me, it is
actually quite com-plex. There isn’t real ly one specific thing I can pinpoint that motivates
me.Instead, my
motivation is dependent on several fac-tors—the people around me, the responsibility I am given and the level of trust that I can get the job done.
The answer to this question is different for everyone. For example, some people are better athletes when their coach yells at them, but oth-ers will essentially shut down and not try.
However complex this question may be, after some think-ing I finally c a m e u p with a cou-ple of things that never fail to get me motivated.
The first is the belief I will fail. Rather than allowing this to be a self-fulfilling proph-ecy, I use it as ammunition to complete the task at hand and do it well.
Take my motivation be-hind writing, for example. Six years ago, if you had told my English teacher I would be writing columns for Tech-nician, she probably would have laughed. She didn’t even think I was capable of taking advanced courses in high school English.
Yet here I am, six years later, doing everything she thought I would never do. I made some of my best grades in English classes and I love writing.
While the memories of my eighth grade teacher are now distant, they gave me the spark to do every-thing I could to prove her wrong. My next point leads to what motivated me to keep the fire going.
Sometimes, it is not the belief I will fail that moti-vates me—rather, it is the belief I have the ability to be successful.
I don’t think I would have pursued writing any further than the occasion-al essay for class, had it not been for English teachers supporting and believing in me to produce great work. I’m not saying they thought I would be the next Shakespeare, but the way they supported and improved my writing in the early stages gave me a reason to keep doing it.
It is a little easier for me to be motivated with posi-
tive rein-force-ment, rather than having someone tell me I will fail. I t y pi-cally find it easy to
give up when someone says I can’t do something. However, knowing there is someone who would be disappointed in me if I were to fail is enough motivation for me to get the job done.
I have found there are plenty of people in so-ciety who believe I will fail. There is certainly no shortage of motivation from that area. What is most important, though, is that you find what fuels your fire so you can keep your motivation burning.
Send Kaitlyn your thoughts on motivation to [email protected].
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Staying in Lee or Sullivan halls is a rite of passage for any N.C. State stu-
dent. Whether it be the brief night of New Student Orien-tation or a full academic year, all students have experienced the cramped living-space of the two buildings at one time or another. As a part of University Housing’s project to revamp student living on West Campus, the buildings will begin renovations this summer.
Sullivan Hall will be the first building to undergo ren-ovation, which is projected to conclude in early August, right before the move-in pe-
riod. Lee Hall will be reno-vated next summer. The issue with the renovations will be the possibility of them not finishing up on time. Future Sullivan and Lee residents can only hope the changes will be finished on time.
This fear aside, these build-ings are overdue for a spruc-ing up. The $3 million plan to increase the quality of student living on West Cam-pus consists of replacing fur-niture in the two halls and finishing renovations to the
lobby and computer lab. It also aims to maximize space in the B and C rooms.
We must maintain flexibil-ity. With this project, Uni-versity Housing is striving to help both current and future students, so we must deal with the challenges that may come with it.
Resident Advisers for the two buildings will relocate to Bragaw Hall, with the pro-jected end date of renova-tions being fall move-in day. A lack of prepared resident
advisers will pose logistical problems and provide fewer resources for move-in. Stu-dents will need to band to-gether to make this a smooth transition, while also enjoy-ing the new living spaces.
Lee and Sullivan house nearly 14 percent of on-cam-pus students, and under the current conditions, they’re not an ideal place for student living. By giving the rooms a new look and providing bet-ter facilities to current and new students, University Housing will be contributing to a better student experi-ence.
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responsibility of the editor-in-chief.
Renovations to student will helpThe FacTs:Over the summer of 2012, Sullivan Hall will be renovated to better accommodate student needs.
Our OpiniOn:While the renovations will cause many issues for a time, the end result will be far better than what we currently have. Students should be patient and positive during this transition, which will positively impact our campus.
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Solace through exposureRobert Kochersberger, an associate professor of English, lost his son Charlie to suicide in the summer of 2007. Kochersberger is writing a book about dealing with his family's struggle with Charlie and his addiction.
It was not an ordinary day in Paris. While rid-ing in a bus, two men watched the sky darken as they made their way to the Champ de Mars,
the grassy park in front of the Eiffel Tower. The father and son, both music fans, had just visited the grave of The Doors’ Jim Morrison at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. As they looked out of the win-dows, they saw people standing outside wearing sunglasses, watching the solar eclipse.
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When they finally arrived at the Eiffel Tower, it was about 2 o’clock in the afternoon. It was so dark, however, the tower’s flashing lights were turned on. Robert Kochersberger, an as-sociate professor of English, witnessed the spectacle with his son, Charlie.
“It was just a magical sight,” Kochersberger said. “That’s a really great memory that I have.”
This memory of his son, from the summer of 2000, is one of many Kochersberger loves to recall. For nearly five years, however, recalling memories has been one of the few things he can do to be closer to his son. In July 2007, after a long battle with bipolar disorder and substance addiction, Charlie took his own life.
“This is an unusually difficult stew, especially when you look at an upper-middle class family like mine,” Kochersberger said. “You just never would imagine in a million years that this kind of thing would happen to us.”
Charlie was a bright and talented young man. He was a gifted guitar player, according to his father. He had an amaz-ing sense of humor and wonderful friends. At the time of his death, Charlie was halfway done with his master’s degree in counselor education at N.C. State. When Charlie started col-lege, his family realized he was having trouble with depression.
“He was starting to be pretty depressed, at times, when he was in college, probably starting around 18 or 19,” Kochers-berger said. “Then it was on and off.”
Kochersberger and his wife Janet tried to get Charlie to take various antidepressants to help ease his condition. But Charlie wasn’t responding well to the medication.
“The person has to want to get better,” Kochersberger said. “That is like the basic, universal truth. If the person, himself or herself, is not committed to recovery, from anything, it’s impossible to impose it from the outside. We tried. Charlie just wasn’t ready to get well.”
Later on, the darker of Charlie’s demons came to light. In May 2004, Charlie told his parents about his heroin addiction.
“We immediately tried to get on the case,” Kochersberger said. “We did everything that we thought we could do.”
Charlie went through a rollercoaster of methods to clean up his heroin addiction. Methadone therapy. Suboxone. Talk therapy. Twelve-step programs. He even went through three separate 28-day rehab programs.
“He only made it through one of them,” Kochersberger said. “He got kicked out [of the other rehabs] for breaking the rules.”
It was during a group counseling session in Greensboro’s Fel-lowship Hall that one of the most shocking details of Charlie’s childhood was revealed. On his way to elementary school, he was lured into a truck with the promise of candy and was then sexually abused. For being a “good boy,” Charlie’s captor gave him a pocket knife.
“Charlie just stuck it in his pocket and went to school and got in trouble,” Kochersberger said. “When I questioned him about [the knife], he said that he found it. We just said ‘Don’t do it again’ and that was it.”
The nightmarish reality of Charlie’s childhood memories were not uncovered until his days at Fellowship Hall, where, during a word association exercise, Charlie’s instant response to the word “chocolate” was “knife,” which uprooted the re-pressed experience. However, the recovered memory provided no catharsis. He immediately began seeing a therapist for post-traumatic stress disorder, who was absolutely sure the recalled memory was genuine.
“I’m skeptical about these kinds of ‘new memories’ of things, but I think the fact that we know about the knife makes it pretty real,” Kochersberger said.
Then, on July 3, 2007, Kochersberger experienced what he describes as the most traumatic moment of his life.
Around 10 o’clock on a hot summer night, after having gone missing for a couple of days, Charlie showed up at his family home in Raleigh. His mother was out of town, visiting family, but his father was there to welcome him. To Kochersberger, it seemed like a miracle.
Incoherent and stumbling, Charlie agreed to let his father take him to the hospital. After Kochersberger called and told Janet their son was home, Charlie asked his father if he could clean himself up before they left.
“He said that he wanted to brush his teeth,” Kochersberger said. “Well, that sounds like something normal. So I said fine, and he went upstairs and brushed his teeth.”
When he came back downstairs, Charlie wanted to have a smoke. When at home, he had always gone out on the porch and sat on the wicker sofa to have a cigarette. He went out and closed the door.
“About 10 seconds after he walked outside, an alarm bell went off in my head,” Kochersberger said.
From the front door, he saw his son darting for his car.“He was taking off,” Kochersberger said. “And I chased after
him. I was too slow. Too late.”He pounded on the windshield while Charlie put the car
into reverse.“Stop! Stop!” Kochersberger screamed to his son.With an extremely blank expression on his face, Charlie
took a last look at his father before driving away.“That was the last I saw of him,” Kochersberger said.Two days later, Kochersberger drove to the Wake County
courthouse on Fayetteville Street, hoping Charlie would show up for a court appearance due to a probation violation. The family had posted a hefty $25,000 bail to guarantee Charlie would return to court. He did not. The judge said the bail was forfeited and issued a warrant for Charlie’s arrest.
In the foyer of the courthouse, Kochersberger’s phone buzzed. It was a message from a Raleigh police officer. After returning his call, Kochersberger asked him what had hap-pened, but the officer would only say, “I need to see you at your house.”
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“[My book is] not going to give me any closure on the loss of my son. I miss him desperately and I think of him repeatedly every day. And that’s going to continue as long as I live.”
-Robert Kochersberger
Robert Kochersberger holds a photo of himself and his son Charlie years before Charlie chose to take his own life. Kochersberger tells his students every semester about the struggle of losing a loved one to such tragedy, but continues to do so because many students deal with similar issues in their own lives.
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“And I knew,” Kochersberg-er said. “I knew. My insides were ice cold.”
Charlie had died just a few blocks from the family’s home that same day. He had pulled his car into a park-ing lot, run a hose from the exhaust pipe to the interior of his car, and killed himself with carbon monoxide poi-soning.
“Moments like that—you just can’t believe what has happened,” Kochersberger said.
The next month, Kochers-berger was back in the class-room. What he did not expect was the impact his English 214: Introduction to Editing class would have on his life.
“And that class that I had, I really think they saved me, in a way,” Kochersberger said. “It was a wonderful group of people. The students had hope. They had hope in a way that Charlie had lost his hope.”
At the very end of the se-mester, Kochersberger con-fided in his class the story of the worst summer of his life.
“I felt like I kind of owed it to them because they had been so helpful to me.”
To this day, he has told Charlie’s story to all of his classes. Kochersberger waits until later in the semester, af-ter connecting with his stu-dents, to share this personal aspect of his life. His goal: to encourage people to seek help if they have a family member or friend that is in trouble.
“By golly, every single time I have done it, people have come up to me after class and said, ‘Let me tell you about my brother,’ ‘my mother,’ ‘my father,’ ‘my boyfriend,’ ‘my girlfriend,’ ‘myself,’” Kochersberger said. “I think a lot of us don’t realize there is tragedy in the world.”
One of these students, who
wishes to remain anony-mous, shared her story with Kochersberger in the fall of 2009.
“It was really cool to hear a professor talk about such a personal thing and share it with people in such a good way,” she said. “I’ve had the same thing; I’ve had an issue with addiction. It was re-freshing to feel like I wasn’t alone. It was my first semes-ter there, so I felt kind of like I had been thrown into this situation where nobody re-ally knows me or knows my personal past.”
The former student, who overcame her cocaine ad-diction shortly af ter Charl ie died, said after trying the same month-long re-habs as Charlie, it was a long-term, t hree-month program t h at f i n a l l y helped liberate her from drug dependency.
“It was bitter-sweet because I survived what his son did not survive,” she said. “But [Kochersberger] helped me in a sense that I felt a connection with him, and I felt connected to something at State besides my interests in my studies.”
Since realizing the po-tential his son’s story has to help others, Kochersberger has printed multiple works in various media. He’s had two essays in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which describe the first class he told his story to and the story of an intervention he had with a student with an opiate ad-diction. He’s also written an op-ed regarding suicide in The News & Observer.
Within a few months of his son’s death, Kochersberger began writing a book about Charlie’s struggles and how his family has handled it all. It also includes a section on
practical ways to find help.“I’m not writing a caution-
ary tale,” Kochersberger said. “I don’t want to do that. I do want to write something that could be helpful to families in similar situations.”
His former student, who re-fers to him simply as “Dr. K,” thinks the story will establish a level of connection similar to the one she felt with him in the classroom.
“If somebody reads Dr. K’s story, they’re probably going to have some more motiva-tion to help the people in their lives that are struggling with these issues, and they’re going to have more hope,” she
said.Kochersberg-
er wishes he had approached his son’s addiction head-on, and hopes to en-courage other families in sim-ilar situations to do the same.
“I would say go at it fu l l strength,” Ko-
chersberger said. “If we were doing it again, I would go for a long-term residential rehab immediately and not dick around with any of the lesser stuff. I think the most important thing that some-one can do is really take the illness seriously and attack it full bore, instead of trying to do things gradually.”
Kochersberger’s book is still in a state of revision. He expects to be done with it by the end of this summer. He is hopeful a publisher will ac-cept the piece. By wrapping up the book, Kochersberger only expects to experience a small feeling of solace.
“It will give me closure on the book,” Kochersberger said. “It’s not going to give me any closure on the loss of my son. I miss him desperately and I think of him repeatedly every day. And that’s going to continue as long as I live.”
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Raleigh is surprisingly friendly to passionate pic-nickers, offering several set-tings close to campus that are sure to leave the eyes pleased while also entertaining the taste buds.
First, there is the Rose Garden and Raleigh Little Theater. This spot is right off campus, between Pogue Street and Everett Avenue, and is perfect for a bike ride with that special someone. The Rose Garden offers 56 varieties of roses, according to Charles Phaneuf, executive director of the Rose Garden and Raleigh Little Theater.
The Rose Garden is a public park and is also free, unlike the Raleigh Little Theater, which charges students $16 for plays and $18 for musi-cals. If you do plan on going to a play, Phaneuf recom-
mends getting there an hour or two early, having a picnic in the Rose Garden, and then enjoying the play in the am-phitheater. As you can tell, it’s possible to make an en-tire evening out of these two locations.
Another prime picnic lo-cation is the Arboretum, which is only a mile away from campus. According to Barbara Kennedy, volunteer coordinator at the Arbore-tum, N.C. State professor J.C. Raulston founded the plant sanctuary in 1976. The Arbo-
retum consists of 10.5 acres of land, teeming with a variety of both woody and flowering plants. Ornate plants with woody trunks are the Arbore-tum’s specialty, according to Kennedy. Since North Caro-lina has a similar climate to Southeast Asia, many of the plants are from that region.
The Arboretum is also free, but closes at 5 p.m. during the winter and at dusk dur-ing any other part of the year. There are benches and lots of spaces to lay down a blanket for a picnic. Kennedy also
noticed that couples enjoy taking pictures of all of the flowers. Morgan Traynham, a freshman in First Year Col-lege, said this was something she enjoyed.
“A good free date is walking around the Arboretum; my boyfriend and I went there and took a lot of pictures,” Traynham said.
If you want to learn some-thing new on your date, a picnic near the North Caro-lina Museum of Natural Sci-ence and the North Carolina Museum of History might be
the best spot for you. You can start by going on an easy two-mile bike ride from campus. Passing through the green-way to get downtown, you can relax and lay out a blan-ket on the lawn of the North Carolina Capitol Building, located right next to the mu-seums. Both museums are free, so you can keep your wallet fat and happy in this setting as well.
To enjoy some f ine art while on a picnic, check out the North Carolina Museum of Art’s Museum Park, also
known as the Art Walk. The park consists of 160 acres of land and features outdoor art, different en-vironments and plenty of space to spread out a big quilt. This free lo-cation is popular among students,
“I t h in k my perfect free date would be doing something out-side, something active,” Maddie Kosman, a fresh-man in interna-t iona l studies, said. “I would like to go to the Art
Walk at the North Carolina Museum of Art because it’s really close and it’s cultural.”
Finally, the hill looking over Lake Raleigh on Cen-tennial Campus is another great picnic location. A walk or bike ride around the lake makes a great start to the date, followed by laying out a blanket on the hill. If you are feeling active, you could first kayak or canoe around the lake before eating. The Lake Raleigh location offers a pleasant picnic space that’s close to campus.
Picnics offer a spontane-ity and creativity that allow couples to explore and relax. They’re low-key but special—and that’s the way casual col-lege dates should be.
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There is some-thing beautiful about spring-
time that seems to pull couples out of the movie theaters and set them in the midst of nature. The flowers be-gin to bloom, the birds start to chirp and the grass becomes greener. Although springtime temperatures are sub-ject to temperamental changes, they last long enough for picnic dates to take over the hilltops, fields and parks.
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Almost half of Glennon’s yards came on one play. Play-ing from the shotgun, Glen-non threw a quick screen pass to junior tight end Asa Watson, who was lined up in the slot with the wide receiv-ers. After the catch, great up-field blocking and remarkable speed from Watson led to a 74-yard gain. It would’ve been a touchdown if not for junior All-American corner-back David Amerson, who chased down Watson and tackled him at the 1-yard line.
Apart from that play, the White offense was unable to move the ball downfield against the Black defense, which featured Amerson, senior cornerback Earl Wolff and senior linebacker Sterling Lucas. Lucas led the team in tackles with five on the day, while Wolff had four tackles and a pick-six after intercept-ing backup quarterback Brian Taylor’s pass.
Amerson also provided some excitement for the 24,000-plus in attendance. As Glennon dropped back and chucked the ball to Palmer, Palmer slipped while mak-ing the cut on his out route. Amerson was on the scene immediately, acrobatically diving head first over the downed Palmer to snatch Glennon’s pass. Amerson, the
nation’s leader in intercep-tions last year, held on to the ball through his tuck-and-roll routine after the catch to give the Black team one more chance to score before halftime.
“I think the game went real good,” Amerson said. “We were all out there compet-ing. I think everybody got better and we got better as a football team and we’re look-ing forward to camp. This definitely gives [the defense] confidence.”
The star of the day was un-doubtedly sophomore backup quarterback Tyler Brosius, playing for the Black team. Brosius was impressive as he consistently found his re-ceivers, checked down in his progressions accordingly and hit his targets in stride to pick apart the White defense. He and sophomore running back Tony Creecy were key factors in consistently propelling the black offense downfield.
Brosius finished the day after going 15-27 for 184 yards, including a 54-yard connection with sophomore receiver Bryan Underwood, but Brosius’ most impressive throw on the day didn’t end in a completion.
Freshman wide receiver Hakeem Flowers ran a go route and got behind his de-fender. Brosius saw Flowers and threw a perfect 50-yard back-shoulder strike, the only place the defender couldn’t
get to the ball, to hit Flow-ers running in stride on the sideline. Even though Flow-ers was unable to haul in the catch, Brosius put the crowd on notice that he will be a force to be reckoned with in the coming years.
“As I say with Tyler, I’m excited. He’s starting to look like a quarterback,” head
coach Tom O’Brien said. “That’s what we want to see. I think he really had a good spring and I think it showed today with all the work he’s done.”
Other stars of the game included the members of the Wolfpack secondary, whose experience and athleticism made for a frustrating after-
noon for Glennon.After their summer
camp concludes, the Wolfpack’s first game is the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game against Tennessee on August 31 in Atlanta, Ga. It is also the first col-lege football game of the 2012 season.
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Alex SAnchez/TechniciAnRedshirt sophomore halfback Tony Creecy pushes off sophomore defensive back Josh Stanley during the Kay Yow Spring Football game Saturday. Creecy led both teams in rushing yardage with 45 in 16 carries in the black team’s 32-7 win over the white team.
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hitters for State, said he was looking for a ball located over the plate he could drive, but ended up flying out to shal-low right field.
“They fought hard,” Mat-thews said. “They battled all game. [I] give them credit. I don’t think we played as we could have.”
Avent was encouraged by the team’s resilience.
“The biggest positive is how much we were able to battle back,” Avent said. “We just didn’t have it on the mound tonight. Our guys kept fighting back time and time again.”
Avent believed fatigue wouldn’t affect his team in Saturday’s doubleheader.
“The will to win will over-take any amount of lack of energy and tiredness,” Avent said.
Avent turned out to be right. The Wolfpack won the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader 9-0, led by freshman left hander Carlos Radon’s eight-inning, ten-strikeout gem. N.C. State won the second game 16-9 coming back from being down 8-7 in the sixth. After the series, the Wolfpack improve to 26-12 overall and 13-8 in the ACC. The team will host Charlotte next on Wednesday.
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TeChniCian PAGE 7 • MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
COUNTDOWN• 130 days until the Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game in
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INSIDE• Page 7: More on football’s Kay Yow Spring
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athletic schedule
WednesdayBaseBall vs. CharlotteRaleigh, 6 p.m.
Thursday-SaturdaytraCk at Penn relaysPhiladelphia, Pa., All Day
Friday-SundayBaseBall vs. DukeRaleigh, 6:30 p.m. (Fri. & Sat.) & 1 p.m. (Sun.)
Saturday & SundaysoftBall at virginiaCharlottesville, Va.; Noon, 1 p.m. (Sat.) & Noon (Sun.)
SundaytraCk at Payton JorDan invitationalPalo Alto, Calif., All Day
football
Black team takes Spring Game
tennis
baseball
Glennon’s White team loses 7-32 to backup quarterback Tyler Brosius’s team.
Andrew Schuett Staff Writer
The Black side, wearing the black-and-pink uniforms from last season’s Central Michigan game, defeated the White team led by senior quarterback Mike Glennon.
Despite his statistics on the day (12-20, 153 yards, 1 INT), Glennon struggled to get into the rhythm of the game.
“I need to just keep on throw-ing and improve on my mechan-ics, my footwork, my accuracy and everything will be fine,” Glennon said.
Glennon’s struggles were evi-dent early on in one of the first plays of the game. The White offense ran a flea-flicker play to perfection. Senior wide receiver Tobias Palmer was wide open for an easy touchdown on the 10-yard line, but Glennon shock-ingly underthrew the 40-yard pass. Palmer had to turn around and track back to try to make the catch, but by then senior safety Brandon Bishop was on the scene and broke up the pass.
N.C. State drops Friday slugfest, wins Saturday doubleheader.
Brian AndersonSenior Staff Writer
N.C. State baseball defeated Boston College in a three-game series hosted at Doak Field at Dail Park, sweeping a Saturday doubleheader.
The first game Friday started out scoreless for the first three and a half innings and turned out to be an 11-10 shootout win for Boston College.
Right fielder Ryan Matthews led the Wolfpack with three RBIs, two coming off the red-shirt senior’s sixth home run of the season. Junior shortstop Chris Diaz went 3-for-4 with two walks and an RBI.
The Wolfpack got on the board first in the bottom of the fourth when freshman center fielder Jake Fincher hit a two-out single.
Boston College scored in the top of the fifth, forcing coach El-liot Avent to take starting pitcher Ethan Ogburn out. The junior allowed three runs, two earned over 4.1 innings. Sophomore D.J. Thomas relieved Ogburn and ended the inning without allowing any more runs.
Matthews’s home run would tie the game in the bottom of the inning. However, the Eagles scored three runs for a second consecutive inning and Thom-as failed to record an out before being replaced by right-handed pitcher Vance Williams. A third
Boston College player scored and al-lowed Boston College’s Marc Perdios to come home from third. After the game, Avent said, there was a com-munication issue between Williams and freshman catcher Brett Austin on the pitch.
“Brett [Austin] had called a slider and Vance [Williams] wanted a fast-ball and [Williams] threw it and it got away from [Austin] and they scored the sixth run,” Avent said.
In the game, the Wolfpack al-lowed two passed balls and two wild pitches. State retook the lead in the seventh inning to make the game
7-6. The Eagles scored five runs off a wild pitch, a two-out, three run RBI double by Matt McGovern, and Blake Butera’s double scored McGovern to make the game 11-7 in Boston College’s favor.
The Pack would cut the deficit by two in the bottom of the eighth. Trea Turner got to base with a sin-gle and the freshman third base-man reached second after stealing second, his 40th stolen base of the season. The next batter, Diaz, hit a double to drive in Turner. Diaz was able to score from second after a ball four went off the catcher’s shin
guard.State held Boston College to a
scoreless top of the ninth and when the Wolfpack took bat, Turner hit an RBI down the left field line with runners at the corners to make the score 11-10. Diaz was intentionally walked and put N.C. State in a prime position to win the game with the bases loaded with only one out. The Eagles retired the following two bat-ters and ended the four-hour game with the final score 11-10.
Matthews, one of the final two
Men’s, women’s tennis suffer losses at hands of Blue Devils in semifinals.
Nolan EvansSenior Staff Writer
The N.C. State men’s and women’s tennis teams suffered losses at the hands of the Duke Blue Devils Friday.
In the morning, the women had a less than impressive per-formance against the Blue Dev-ils, as they were quickly swept.
Duke jumped out to an early lead, w inning the doubles point with little com-petition. The No. 27 ranked duo of Duke’s Beatrice Capra and Rachel Kahan took the first match 8-1 over State junior Tatiana Illova and freshman Ni-cole Martinez.
Shortly after, junior Chloe Smith and freshman Elisha Hande dropped the second match, 8-2, clinching the doubles point for Duke.
The Blue Devils didn’t back down in singles, as the Pack’s sit-uation went from bad to worse.
Smith showed little opposition to No. 49 Hanna Mar when she lost 6-1, 6-1 to give the Devils a 2-0 lead. Duke’s No. 74 Mary Clayton followed behind her teammate, defeating sophomore
Christy Sipes 7-5, 6-0.No. 31 Joelle Kissell, who was
named to the All-ACC Women’s Tennis Team yesterday, dropped the game-deciding match 6-0, 6-2 to ACC Freshman of the Year and ACC Player of the Year No. 2 Bea-trice Capra.
Duke would go on to defeat UNC 4-2 in the championship match.
Scores can be deceptive in tennis, and Illova assures that the Devils still had to work for the win.
“Everybody played great against Du ke ,” I l lova said. “Just be-cause we lost 4-0 doe sn’t me a n it was easy for Duke. Everybody was playing really hard and Duke’s just a really good team.”
Despite a disap-pointing turnout
on Friday, Kissell is looking forward to the future of Wolfpack tennis.
“We have a very young team this year and we’re getting so much ex-perience throughout the season,” Kissell said. “I’m excited for the next year to see how far we can go.”
No. 38 Wolfpack men’s tennis put up more of a fight against the No. 5 Blue Devils, but still managed to come up short of the win.
In doubles, all three matches were highly competitive. Seniors Julian Sullivan and Dominic Hodgson dropped the first match 8-6 to give Duke the edge early on. After tak-ing a 6-4 lead, junior Dave Thom-
son and sophomore Sean Weber dropped the second match 9-7 as the Devils took an early 1-0 match advantage.
Freshman Robbie Mudge and se-nior Jaime Pulgar held an 8-7 lead when the doubles point was decided, but their match resulted in a DNF.
Mudge had a stellar showing against the Blue Devils in the Pack’s ACC home opener, but it was a dif-ferent story Friday as he dropped the first singles match 6-1, 6-1. Almost immediately following Mudge’s fin-ish, sophomore Ivan Sanchez Go-mez lost 6-1, 6-0 to make it a 3-0 lead for Duke.
No. 35 Pulgar lost 6-2, 6-2 to No. 4 Henrique Cunha, sealing the match for Duke 4-0. The match was the first time the Wolfpack has been swept this season.
Duke was the eventual tourna-ment runner-up, losing to Virginia 4-1.
“Those guys came out swinging,” Sullivan said. “It shocked me.“
State is 19-0 when the team wins the doubles point and 1-9 when it has lost. Pulgar acknowledged the importance of winning the open-ing point.
“The doubles point is key,” Pulgar said. “At this level, winning four out of six singles matches is very dif-ficult.”
Selections for the NCAA Tourna-ment will be held on May 1. Coach Jon Choboy is confident that his team will be prepared for the big stage.
“I’m looking forward to it,” Choboy said. “This isn’t the end.”
Wolfpack claim series against Boston College
Ryan PaRRy/Technicianbunting the ball, freshman trea turner makes a sacrifice bunt to get junior Matt bergquist to second base. the Wolfpack beat boston College 16-9 in their second game of the day saturday.
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ACC Championship run ends for State tennis
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Hill highlights State’s results at ACC Outdoor ChampionshipThe men’s track team took seventh while the women placed eighth at the ACC Outdoor Championship in Charlottesville, Va. Junior All-American Ryan Hill, who broke the four-minute mile earlier in the season, claimed his fifth career individual title on Saturday. Hill ran the 1,500-meters in 3:41.02, giving him his first title in the event. Senior Brittany Hampton and sophomore Nathaniel Williams both claimed All-ACC honors in women’s and men’s discus, respectively. Other All-ACC performers include redshirt junior Andie Cozzarelli (10,000m), redshirt freshman Tremanisha Taylor (shot put) and redshirt junior Brian Himelright (3,000m steeplechase.)
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Men’s golf takes ninth place in ACC ChampionshipThe men’s golf squad placed ninth in the ACC Championship at Old North State Club on Sunday. The team shot 11-over 299 in the final round, resulting in a 8-over par 872 overall score. Junior All-American lead the team with a 1-over par 217 individual score, tying for 21st place.
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Softball drops weekend series against MarylandAfter claiming a 5-4, 10-inning win against the Terrapins on Senior Day, the Pack lost the third game to Maryland on Sunday, resulting in a 2-1 series loss. State lost the first and third games of the series, 5-3 and 4-3, respectively. Softball ends their season this weekend with a three-game series against Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
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on this dateIn 1969, Willis Casey became the N.C. State Athletics Director, a position he kept until 1986. Casey was also the swimming coach from 1946-1969. Willis hired coaches such as Lou Holtz, Bob Guzzo, Jim Valvano and Kay Yow. He was inducted into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame in 1985 and the Carmichael Gymnasium swimming complex was named after him in 1992.
