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Mark HerringEditor-in-Chief
Erika Cervantes, a sophomore at Meredith College, heard good news Tuesday after the White House stated DREAMers may earn citizenship on a faster track than other undocumented im-migrants.
However, reform tastes bitter-sweet to Cervantes, a Mexican undocumented immigrant who has been in the United States for 12 years. If Obama has his way, Cervantes would receive citizen-ship before her father, who has worked here for more than 20 years.
“Any feeling of getting closer to citizenship is a victory,” Cer-vantes said. “But the fact that I will become a citizen before the rest of my family doesn’t make me happy. For me, my family is everything, and once I have citizenship, I will support them.”
DREAMers, undocumented-immigrants in college or the Armed Forces, will receive an expedited path to citizenship, according to the president’s parameters of “commonsense” immigration reform. These im-migrants earned their name af-ter the DREAM Act, a bill that would legalize undocumented students, failed in 2010. Sen. Kay Hagan (Dem-N.C.) provided the final vote needed to kill the bill, sparking protests across the state.
Cecilia Muñoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said President Barack Obama wants Congress to act swiftly — in the next four to six 1995 2007 2009 2012
Ravi ChittillaDeputy News Editor
With “so much stress and violence in the world,” Vaneet Goyal believes “there needs to be some peace.”
Goyal and other members of the University’s Art of Living Club brought a moment of tranquility to N.C. State Saturday, Jan. 26, where students enjoyed and discussed clas-sical Indian music and meditated on messages of peace.
Goyal, a master’s student in In-tegrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering and president of the club, led the event.
“The classic instruments resonate with our body. The moment you hear the music, you immediately fall into a meditative state,” he said.
The event began in the early morning with an alap, the opening section of a classical performance, of a raag, or classical Indian melody, called “Ahir Bhariv.” A traditional composition, called a yaman, fol-lowed, accompanied by a table, a classical Indian drum.
Two artists performed on sitar following these introductory cer-emonies.
After the concert, Goyal led the 50 participants in a yoga and medita-
tion session.“Music and yoga allow us to reach
a deeper level of concentration. With the stressful lives we all lead, both music and yoga have the ability to relieve that stress,” he said.
The club will hold similar events on campus this semester.
Goyal leads an hour-long session of yoga and meditation in Wither-spoon 201 every Tuesday from 7:15 to 8:15 p.m.
Goyal hopes to reach more people at the University and in the commu-nity with more meditation events and classical Indian concerts.
Tyler GobinStaff Writer
A new study aims to provide safer ways to cross Western Boulevard, which advocates for the study say is dangerous for pedestrians and bikers.
The North Carolina Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organiza-tion coordinated the hiring of con-sultants to propose three possible solutions to the problem, according to Brian O’Sullivan, a representa-tive from The Western Boulevard Crossing Study.
The first proposal involved a pe-destrian and bicyclist tunnel with possible future improvements to allow transit vehicles. The tunnel would aim to serve the Avent Ferry Complex and would go under West-ern Boulevard, ending between Col-lege Inn and Avent Ferry Road.
The second proposal was a pedes-trian, bicyclist and transit tunnel going under Western. This propos-
al’s difficulties arise from allowing the transit vehicles to merge back with Avent Ferry Road and Morril Drive, said O’Sullivan.
The third possibility would re-quire total reconstruction of the intersection with Avent Ferry going underneath West-ern. According to O’Su l l ivan, t he University has no interest in a total interchange over-haul.
O’Sullivan said the University has not taken a formal stand on any of the alternatives.
Michael Ousdahl, transportation planner, said he recognizes the in-tersection of Western and Avent Ferry has room for improvement. He said the intersection is the sub-ject of most criticism for the trans-portation board.
“Students who have been around for a long time know [the intersec-tion] has been a problem,” Christine Klein, public communication spe-cialist, said.
Klein said she was once driv-ing eastbound on Western and al-most hit a student who ran from the bushes. Ousdahl said he had a simi-la r ex per ience , witnessing a Papa John’s car nearly hit a student.
Ac c ord i ng to O’Sullivan, no se-rious injuries have
occurred, but the University does not need an accident as incentive to take action.
O’Sullivan said there are other ex-amples around the country of col-leges creating pedestrian crossing locations to reduce risk. In North Dakota, for instance, a bridge was
constructed over a major archway creating a gateway for the college. The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia extended a campus walk, which expands a roadway for pedestrians only.
With other campuses illustrat-ing the possibility to make a safer transportation system, O’Sullivan said the University needs to push a little more.
According to O’Sullivan, N.C. State would not be the sole funder for the crossing project, but those in charge are waiting to hear what the University will contribute before taking the next step.
“We will face an uphill battle with getting it funded,” O’Sullivan said.
The University has yet to make a decision on which alternative it favors. According to O’Sullivan, the University could start to make progress by this June. For more in-formation on the project’s progress and more specifics, visit www.west-ernblvd.net.
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Victoria VesceCorrespondent
N.C. State will welcome three new sororities in the next six years. Set to be a part of Panhel-lenic on campus, they are Kappa Alpha Theta (ΚΑΘ), Kappa Kap-pa Gamma (ΚΚΓ), and Alpha Xi Delta (ΑΞΔ).
Their addition to the campus will be in 3-year increments beginning this year. The first sorority to join is Kappa Alpha Theta, or just “Theta,” which will be welcoming recruits in the fall 2013 PanHellenic Recruitment, which is September 6 through 11.
According to Carly Earp, a ju-nior in criminology and Execu-tive Vice President of NCSU Pan-Hellenic, the Executive Board chose these three sororities based on their overall presentations to the board and current sorority
Greek life prepared to grow in the next six years
KELSEY BEAL/TECHNICIANSenior in business administration, Akash Mahtani (left), and sophomore in electrical engineering, Iftekhar Hassan (right) run through the Bhangra Dance Team’s routine for their upcoming competition. “[We] compete at competitions along the east coast,” Mahtani said. “We’re usually in traditional clothing and have props,” Hassan added.
Club shows art of living through Indian music
GREG WILSON/TECHNICIANStudents cross a busy intersection on the corner of Western Boulevard and Avent Ferry Road.
“Students who
have been
around for a long
time know it has
been a problem.”Christine Klein, public
communication specialist
Fix transit guideway, pedestri-an/multi-modal tunnel
Add bicycle lanes and greenway trail connections, Add bicycle connection between campuses
Lower speed limit, pedestrian signal phase
Pedestrian/multi-modal tunnel
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THROUGH CHRIS’S LENS
Dinosaurs: not an extinct science
Michelle Sclafani, a senior in biology and geology glues together the vertebrae of “Nancy”, an edmontosaurus a duck-billed dinosaur. Sclafani has wanted to go into the field of paleontology since she was young, “just as a little kid I wanted to know how everything started and how everything fit together. I like puzzles and this is like one big puzzle.”
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Brittany Bynum Staff Writer
Students interested in understanding life pro-cesses and in depicting the mathematical details can now enroll in a new undergraduate program to earn a degree in bio-mathematics.
The new program – offi-cially known as Integrated Undergraduate Training in Mathematics and Life Sciences – aims to attract and train undergraduates in mathematics and life sciences for jobs in math-ematics, computational science and life sciences.
The National Science Foundation funds the program, a collabora-tion between the biology and mathematics depart-ments, although the Uni-versity hopes to find more funding.
University officials want to create permanent bio-mathematics courses and turn the program into a
concentration for mathemat-ics and biology majors.
“In this [program], we work in groups of both biolo-gists and mathematicians. So we are learning more about the ways different people think,” Laura Paog, a junior in mathematics, said.
Mathematicians get to learn from biological ap-plications, and biology stu-dents gain more background in mathematical research, Paog said.
Professors H.T. Banks, Alun Lloyd and Hien Tran, all from the mathematics department, and Professor James Gilliam, from the bi-ology department, have de-veloped two courses:• Differential Equations for
the Life Sciences – MA 493.• Mathematical Modeling
Techniques for Biological Systems – MA 493 or BIO 495. “The Differential Equa-
tions for the Life Sciences, offered last fall semester and taught by Professor Alun Lloyd, provides students in
biological sciences with ad-ditional math background from the quantitative side,” Tran said. The departments will offer the course again in the fall.
The courses teach students how to use mathematical techniques to explore and understand models described by differential equations. The courses use real-world exam-ples drawn from many areas of biology, such as ecology, evolution, epidemiology and virology.
They also include topics of math and biology that are interrelated. They model biological processes, such as enzyme-mediated reactions and population growth, using mathematical concepts.
“From the program, I’ve gotten a big perspective on how mathematicians typi-cally approach biology prob-lems, but the biggest thing has been learning how to work with biologists,” John Nardini, a senior in math-ematics, said. “I certainly wouldn’t call biologists and
mathematicians oppo-site of each other, as we usually have similar end goals. But our approaches to these end goals are very different as we look for different details to draw conclusions.”
At the end of the cours-es, faculty members will choose eight students – four from mathematics and four from biology – to work in a summer re-source program. Faculty will split the eight into two teams and supervise their research.
Lloyd led the 2011 sum-mer project, Modeling the Epidemiological Impact of Wolbachia-infected Mosquito Releases on Dengue Virus Transmis-sion. Banks supervised the 2012 summer project, Cell Proliferation and Immu-nology.
Biologists and mathematicians collaborate for new degree program
members on “why and how they plan to make a
good contribution to the N.C. State Greek life.”
Each of the new sororities is set to have housing in Greek Village, even during their inception phases, said Earp.
Theta was founded in 1870 as the first Greek letter soror-ity for women, according to KappaAlphaTheta.org. Gar-nished in yellow and black and symbolized by the kite
and twin stars, Theta will bring to campus their philan-thropy called The Friendship Fund, a service of sisters help-ing sisters financially.
For more information on
the newest sororities or in-terest in Fall Panhellenic re-cruitment, visit the website www.ncstatepanhellic.org or contact the Greek Life Office at 1104 Pullen Hall.
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Video games: a blend of learning and funYoung LeeAssociate Features Editor
How many shapes would you use to replicate the pic-ture of the classic game refer-ence above? Four? Six? Think again. One square makes up the background. One trian-gle creates the yellow image. And one small upside-down triangle completes the com-position.
This little puzzle is just one exercise that Acey Boyce used to demonstrate how games can be used to teach certain concepts. As a graduate re-search assistant in computer science, Boyce’s studies in educational games represent some of the ways that com-puter scientists are pushing capabilities of games as part of a growing field called gam-ification -- the use of game el-ements in non-gaming con-texts to guide behavior.
Examples of this include leaderboards and medals in forums and special titles awarded to frequent users of iPhone applications. How-ever, Boyce is particularly interested in using gaming concepts to create new and exciting games that teach players practical skills as they progress through the game.
The games Boyce is in-terested in differ from the typical educational com-puter games many students
are familiar with — games such as the JumpStart series, Mathblasters and Number Munchers.
“Those games were fun and you remember them fondly, not for the learning but be-cause of the minigames that revolved around the learn-ing,” Boyce said. “You would be playing a game, and then you’d be asked a math ques-tion. You’d answer the math question and then get back to your game. It was awesome because there was a game in-volved but it was no different than sitting down and play-ing a game of monopoly and then stopping and saying, ‘You can’t go any further un-til you answer this multiple choice question.’”
Instead of operating in the manner of these older edu-cational games, Boyce said that he wants to completely integrate the learning and the gameplay elements in his games so that the only way players can get better at the game is to get better at a skill such as math or program-ming.
While teaching at a sum-mer camp, Boyce created a puzzle game to help teach his students. As a computer game that challenged stu-dents to try to create several images using the least num-ber of shapes as possible, the triangle puzzle was just one
image the game featured.The game also allowed
players to create their own puzzles to challenge their peers. Complete with a point system and a leaderboard, Boyce found that the games were popular among many of the campers and many of them chose to devote their free time to solve the most complex of puzzles.
And to top it off, Boyce could show that the students were learning.
For example, while students worked to solve the puzzles the game presented, they learned basic computer pro-gramming concepts.
“[The triangle] puzzle ba-sically teaches the computer science concept of layering or ‘The Painter’s Algorithm,’” Boyce said. “Basically if you’re going to be drawing a picture on a screen or a can-vas even, it is computation-ally less expensive to start with the background. It also teaches players about optimi-zation, to cut out moves that just aren’t present in the final solution.”
With this data supporting the idea that his games are good learning tools, Boyce said he is excited to tap into the potential for education that gaming holds.
“What I would love to see is homework assignments becoming gameplay,” Boyce said. “I don’t know if we can ever get to the point, and I’m not sure if we ever want to get to the point, where we com-pletely remove the teacher from the equation. But as-signments where you’re do-ing problems on a sheet of paper to master concepts are barbaric and outdated and we have so much better ways to teach. I want students to play games for homework, but even more than that, I want students to play them for fun but learn while they are playing.”
Boyce said that he wasn’t always this excited about educational games. Instead, like many other students who dream of creating video games, he wanted to try to get into the video game industry as fast as possible.
“I was originally thinking about going to UNC Char-lotte for two years,” Boyce said. “I planned to go in, get out and get into the game industry. Call it a day. I had no interest in research. Zero. I just wanted to make games. However, there came I time that I was doing an outreach [program] for [UNC Char-lotte] and we had a problem. My advisor asked how we can improve it and I said, ‘We can make a game.’ So, I made a
game.”However, when he present-
ed the game that he had de-veloped to a group of middle school students, Boyce said he was shocked to see how receptive his students were to his educational game. Boyce said he knew his game could be fun, but he was completely unprepared when two stu-dents came up to him after playing with his game with one request — to get a copy of the game so that they could play over their winter break.
“Students were asking for my educational game and I had data to show that they were learning from it,” Boyce said. “It was such an amazing feeling ….That’s when I knew I wanted to go into research. It was because I knew that I could make a difference.”
PLAY ONLINEOne of Boyce’s games — Beadloom — is hosted on his research group’s website. he objective of the game is to replicate an image with the fewest number of moves. The game is available at www.community.game2learn.com however a free account is required to access it.
GRAPHIC BY GREG WILSONHow many shapes would you use to create the image above? This mock-triforce can be created with three main shapes: a blank background, a large triangle, and a smaler triangle as an overlay.
STUDENT RESEARCHER WORKS TO MAKE GAMES INTO EDUCATIONAL TOOLS
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With the rise of blog cul-ture on the
Internet, talent requires only a few clicks to get noticed.
Gavin Aung Than was a graphic designer for eight years. Dur-ing that period,
he published two comic strips in Australian daily newspapers. In his own words, that was when he was “moonlighted” as a cartoonist. Gavin is now a freelance cartoonist and illustrator. He is better known for his blog, Zen Pencils.
Zen Pencils is a clas-sic instance of the rise of comics on the Internet. The comics have become a significant form of inde-pendent media. They give the author freedom to ex-press themselves without restrictions and stir up a tribe of followers on the Internet.
“Cartoon quotes from inspirational folks” – Zen Pencils upholds its motto quite brilliantly. Aung Than illustrates famous inspirat iona l quotes. The illustrations carry a subtle personal touch as he chooses quotes from people who have made a difference in his own life. He takes suggestions from his followers and often gives credits to the people who suggested the quote to him on his blog.
Matthew Inman writes a popular blog called The Oatmeal mostly consist-ing of gory humor and an inordinate amount of bias in favor of cats. The Oat-meal became a quick suc-cess with Internet dwell-ers. His aggressive style of comic and general disre-gard for decency proved to be the trump card for him.
Inman has a huge fan following and with his loud, unsophisticated humor and has received his quota of attention from mainstream me-dia. Questions have been raised about his work eth-ics and general negativity generated by his comics. There is no better proof of
how the Internet is a place for freedom of speech than the responses Inman gives to his critics on his own blog. In one such post, Inman responded to criticism from Jack Stuef, a writer for Buzzfeed. In-man ends his long-winded response to Stuef with “Stop being a writer, you bitter, un-inspired, bottom-feeding ass.”
Personal touch to comics seems to have struck a nerve with the Internet users. His personalized comic of Nikola Tesla, a Serbian inventor, be-ing the greatest geek on the planet went viral. Through his comic, he successfully raised $1.3 million for the Tesla Museum, bought the site of Tesla’s old laboratory in a New York City auction and is now in the process of building a museum on it.
There are two major rea-sons for the rise of this type of comic. First, the Internet has become a f lexible medium for reaching out to people. It provides a quick personal reach to the customer base and freedom in the choice of media.
Secondly, the display tech-nology evolved, with high resolution media becoming common. From HD display to LED screens, personal computers can now carry high-resolution images and media.
Behind every successful venture, there has to be a successful revenue model. Aung Than publishes his designs on the Internet for free. That generates the kind of attention that corporations spend millions to exploit for advertisements. He also sells his designs under the name Zen Pencils. His fans can buy Zen Pencils prints on t-shirts, posters, pillow covers and more. Similarly, fans of The Oatmeal can buy post-ers of Inman’s comics. In-man wrote a full comic book titled, “How to Tell If Your Cat is Plotting to Kill You”.
Online comics seem to be the logical evolution of the traditional printed comic strips. Bill Waterson, the creator of Calvin & Hobbes, would be proud of the way comics have evolved and thrived in a highly digital media world with 3D mo-tion pictures and HD video. The graphic comics are now a significant cog in the wheels of media and entertainment.
Davis Leonard, junior in science education
Advertisements and the digital invasion
When it comes to the Inter-net, I usu-
ally accept that more ad-vertisements are going to
pop up as companies continue to invest i n t h e i r online presence. Facebook’s sidebar is goi ng to
have ads that know me just a little too well, and any YouTube video I want to watch will be preceded by a commercial.
For the most part, this kind of stuff that doesn’t really bother me, and whining about it seems like a waste of time. How-ever, I also realize that there comes a point where ads become too intrusive in the online experience.
Last weekend I had a clarifying moment when I was browsing one of my favorite news sites. I opened an article that seemed interesting and started to read it. After a couple of seconds, the
text faded and the top im-age of the article turned into a video box. Before I could read the story, I had to watch a 30-second advertisement.
It was one of those mo-ments when I didn’t quite believe what I was seeing. I was being forced to endure a video ad in order to access written content. The thought had never occurred to me that this could happen because it just seemed so ludicrous.
It’s not as if this is an en-tirely new concept. Com-mercials are everywhere online, including rollout ads and before other videos. The same is true of articles, with various pop-ups and preload ads standing between users and content.
Still, this latest evolution made me realize just how intrusive online advertising has become. It really is ev-erywhere now, but it man-aged to do it at such a slow, calculated rate that we rarely think about it. In a way, it is kind of ingenious and shows just how talented marketing executives are.
Advertisements evolved, even outside of the online realm. As I write this, I’m
watching the Super Bowl – an event celebrated for the creative, funny commercials that debut. Millions of people gather around their televi-sions to see what exciting new ways they can be sold every type of product from car in-surance to beer.
We just accept that there’s no way to get around being sold things when we’re watch-ing a football game, messing around on our phones or just trying to watch a cute kitten video online. But where is the line being crossed?
A year from now, will I be used to watching a short vid-eo before I can read the news? Two years down the line, will a Google search require the same? It’s hard to imagine where advertising will spread to next, but the new ways it continues to surprise me makes it clear that no matter what the medium, it’s only a matter of time.
There’s just no getting around the fact that to enjoy the digital age, you have to deal with the digital ads. For now, I can only hope those 15-second clips have some relevance to the site I was try-ing to visit in the first place.
Jordan AlsqaAssociate Features Editor
The rise of graphic comics
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BY CHRIS RUPERT
Should undocumented students be able pay
in-state tuition?
{ }IN YOUR WORDS
“I don’t see why not, because they’ve already stayed here.”
Norman Downerjunior, art studies
“Yes, because education is kind of a right, and if they live here they’re paying for it. An option might be to pay higher taxes.”
Alejandra Rodriguezfreshman, communication
“No I don’t think so. If they can’t prove they’re a citizen they shouldn’t be able to pay in-state tuition.”
David Hughessenior, biology
“No, I think it’s unfair because they’re probably not paying state taxes and they’re still getting the benefit of having state tuition.”
Matthew Chapmansophomore, accounting
Saydiel Reyes, 20, and his family came to North Carolina when he was 11, looking for “a better future, more op-
portunities, and a better life.” For now, Saydiel works 40 or more hours a week for his father, who owns a small construction company. Saydiel helps his family pay its bills with some of the money he earns and saves the rest — hoping one day to use the money for tuition at a four-year university.
Though imbued with a mason’s skill with stone and brick, he dreams of designing the buildings themselves. “I don’t have to be the one laying the bricks,” Reyes said Tuesday.
The college-age worker aspires to become a civil engineer. He has visited with admissions officers at ITT-Tech and UNC-Pembroke, both of which denied him because of his un-documented status.
Today, Reyes will – once again – meet with admissions officers at Wake Technical Com-munity College and try to enroll in a two-
year program — a stepping stone to his goa l of at-tending N.C. State or Montana State University. Several months ago Wake Tech accepted Reyes, but because of his undocumented status, the col-lege made him wait at the end of the line for class registration. He was unable to enroll in any of the classes he needed.
Though Saydiel’s life in North Carolina is far from unproductive, the immigration laws in place today stifle his potential. The United States, a country marketed as The Land of Op-portunity, is hardly that for those like Reyes.
Supporters of immigration reform and un-recognized residents saw a sea change in the debate in the past year. No more talk of walls with barbed wire. We’re hearing less from Mo Brooks types, a representative from Alabama who said, “I’ll do anything short of shoot-
ing t hem,” a n d m o r e productive discussion about how to
structure the path to citizenship.President Barack Obama’s plan to fix the
broken immigration system would give un-recognized residents who want to attend uni-versity, like Reyes, a faster path to citizenship. That would, as the White House facts sheet puts it, “[Bring] these undocumented immi-grants out of the shadows.”
The reform can’t come soon enough. Even the most jingoistic citizens should support this sort of reform, because it would restore the country’s economic growth. Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, co-leaders of Harvard Business School’s United States Competitive-ness Project, co-authored an article in The Economist, providing their well-substantiated suggestions to restore American competitive-
ness. Their first (and most visually dominant) suggestion is: “Staple a green card, giving resi-dence, to every new graduate degree in maths science, engineering and management.”
Even now, the U.S. uses its resources to edu-cate international students with temporary vi-sas. When their student visas expire, the rules force them to return to their home countries, and our economy enjoys no benefit from the brilliant minds our schools strengthen.
If given the choice, undocumented students and international students would elect to stay in the U.S.
“I really like it here” in North Carolina, Reyes said, who, after graduation, would re-main in the state, pursue his dream of start-ing his own company and, eventually, earn a graduate degree in civil engineering.
The quickest path to economic recovery is a quicker path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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speech. Rivers spoke about his passions and what motivated him in life. One of those things happened to be his faith in God. Rivers spoke from the heart about what he thought was important in life and wanted to share that with the graduates. Who can fault him for that? We came to N.C. State to be faced with challenging subjects, and sometimes, there are subjects that make us uncomfortable or that we don’t agree with. But I have learned that, out of respect, sometimes you have to
put your big boy/big girl pants on and suck it up. You don’t have to agree, no one is forcing you to, but the least we can do is be respectful and listen. It’s called the real world, folks. We can’t be sheltered in our thinking forever. I respect Rivers for talking about his faith in God and that he had the audacity to share it with so many people on such a public stage.
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weeks — to draft a bipar-tisan bill.
The president did not in-clude the detail on DREAM-ers in his speech about im-migration reform last week in Las Vegas, Nev., leaving undocumented-immigrant students in North Carolina discouraged.
Even now, América More-no, a sophomore at Meredith, said she won’t be fooled into lifting her hopes.
“I was really disappoint-ed that the DREAM Act failed [in 2010], especially since North Carolina voted against it,” Moreno said af-ter Obama’s Jan. 29 speech. “Even in Obama’s speech, he said there would be a path to citizenship, but I’d be put at
the back of line. I’m tired of waiting.”
Muñoz clarif ied during Tuesday’s press conference that the president is trying to handle reform with a greater sense of urgency than he did in his first term.
“He wants this to be done expeditiously,” Muñoz said Tuesday. “He welcomes the work of a bipartisan group, but he also makes it clear that principles are not a bill. [The reform will grant] folks who would have qualified for the DREAM Act an expedited path to citizenship … they won’t be at the back of the line.”
Immigration reform may have come too late for María Ramírez, a former sopho-more in computer engineer-ing at N.C. State. Ramírez, like all undocumented immi-grants who must pay out-of-state tuition in North Caro-
lina, had to discontinue her studies this semester to take on a job.
Though DREAMers have endured a decade of political inaction, Cervantes said she has seen change in the past months and hopes for more.
For instance, a Homeland Secur it y memora ndum called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals has al-lowed immigrants older than 21 to apply for drivers’ licens-es. Now with comprehensive reform under way, Cervantes said she can afford patience.
“Deferred action was the first grain of sand for us, and now with this news, that [DREAMers] will be priori-tized, it’s a small win.”
Sin embargo, la reforma saborea agridulce a Cer-vantes, una inmigrante mex-icana indocumentada quien ha sido en los Estados Uni-dos por 12 años. Si Obama lograra, Cervantes recibiría la ciudadanía antes de su pa-dre, quien ha trabajado aca por más que 20 años.
“Cualquier sentamiento de acercamiento a la ciudada-nía es una ganancia,” dijo Cervantes. “Pero el hecho de que seré una ciudadana antes el resto de mi familia no me hace feliz. Para mi, la familia es todo. Cuando ga-naré la ciudadanía, los voy a apoyar.”
Los DREAMers, inmi-grantes indocumentados en la universidad o las Fuerzas Armadas, recibirán un cami-no acelerado a la ciudadanía, según los parámetros de la reforma migratoria “de sen-tido común.” Estos inmi-grantes ganaron su nombre después del DREAM Act, un proyecto de ley que legal-izaría a estudiantes indocu-mentados, fracasó en 2010. Sen. Kay Hagan (Dem-N.C.) era el voto final que mató a la ley propuesto, que incitó protestas y demonstraciones en el estado.
Cecilia Muñoz, la directora del Consejo de la Política Domestica de la Casa Blanca, dijo que Obama quiere que el Congreso actúe en una manera rápida — entre las próximas cuatro o seis se-manas — para redactar un
borrador del ley bipartito.El presidente no incluyo
ningún detalle sobre los DREAMers durante su dis-curso sobre la reforma mi-gratoria en la semana pasada en Las Vegas, Nev. La falta de reconocimiento de los DREAMers dejó a muchos latinos indocumentado en Carolina del Norte desilu-sionados.
Aún ahora, América More-no, un estudiante del segun-do año en Meredith, dijo que las noticias no se le engañará.
“Estuve muy decepcionada que el DREAM Act fracasó [en 2010], especialmente porque Carolina del Norte votó contra la ley,” Moreno dijo después del discurso de Obama en 29 de enero. “Sin embargo, en su dis-curso, Obama dijo que sería un camino a la ciudadanía, pero me podrían al final de la cola de eso, que tendría que esperar aún más. Me canso de esperar.”
Muñoz clarificó durante la rueda de prensa que el presidente trata de dirigir la reforma con un sentido más urgente, comparado a su primer mandato.
“Él Quiere que se logra con toda prontitud,” Muñoz dijo el martes. “Da la bienvenida al trabajo del grupo bipar-tito, pero quiere clarificar que los principios no son leyes. La reforma dará a la gente que cualificó por el DREAM Act un camino rá-pido a la ciudadanía … no se
pararán al fondo de la cola.”La reforma migratoria
quizás llegó demasiado tarde para María Ramírez, un ex-estudiante del segundo año en la ingeniería informática de N.C. State, Como todos los inmigrantes indocumen-tados que tienen que pagar la matrícula “fuera-del-es-tado” en Carolina del Norte, Ramírez tuvo que abandonar sus estudios este semestre para encontrar trabajo.
Aunque los DREAMers han aguantado una década de inacción política, Cer-vantes dijo que ha visto cambio en los últimos mese y espera más.
Por ejemplo, un memo-rádum de Homeland Secu-rity, la Acción Diferida, ha permitido a los inmigrantes mayor de 21 años a solicitarse licencias de conducir. Ahora con reforma comprensiva en marcha, Cervantes dijo que puede esperar paciente-mente.
“DACA fue el primer granito de arena para nosotros y ahora con esta noticia, de que nos van a pri-orizar, es mucha ganancia.”
CORTESIA DE THE COLLEGIAN AT FRESNO STATE UNIVERSITYinmigrantes indocumentados protestan el fracaso del DREAM Act en Califorinia el 19 de noviembre de 2010.
COURTESY OF WHITEHOUSE.GOVCelia Muñoz, immigration council director.
El hemísfero de los viajes
Obama da a los DREAMers un camino a la ciudadaníaCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
Las ruinas históricas de Machu Picchu, declarado UNESCO sitio del patri-monio mundial, se encuen-tra en la parte superior de nuestra lista de lugares para visitar mientras estar en América Latina. Los visitantes pueden caminar o tomar un tren hasta el sitio pero durante la tem-porada alta, el número de visitantes por día a el sitio tiene su límite, y caminatas son a menudo reservado con
meses de antelación. El programa de estudiar en el extranjero por el verano de N.C. State, con sede en Lima, Perú incluye un viaje corto a este hermoso lugar para complementar el apre-ndizaje en clase. Si usted está interesado en estudiar en el extranjero en un país de habla española y le gus-taría ver una de las ruinas más famosas del mundo, considera este programa, y considerar Machu Picchu.
PERÚ
Chile, al sur de Perú, se encuentra el desierto de Atacama, considerado uno de los desiertos más secos del planeta. Algunas estacio-nes climáticas en el desierto nunca han visto la lluvia, y la NASA ha utilizado esta ubicación dispersa de los equipos de pruebas de ex-ploración de Marte, debido a sus similitudes con el Planeta Rojo. El desierto de Atacama es uno de los mejores lugares del mundo para mirar estrel-las, debido a la falta de cobe-
rtura de nubes y la contami-nación lumínica y la alta el-evación. Abigail Armstrong, un estudiante de primer año en la UNC-Chapel Hill, fue a visitar a su hermana en Chile, cuando decidieron tomarse unas vacaciones de seis días a el Atacama. El viaje en autobús desde Val-paraíso tomó 24 horas.
“Sin duda lo recomiendo! Fue increíble. Mi parte favor-ita fue los lagos de sal,” dijo Armstrong. “El cielo estaba tan claro que podíamos ver
todo, y nos miramos en un telescopio y vio los anillos de Saturno.”
Las salares son tan densas que las personas pueden flo-tar en el agua, muy similar al efecto en el Mar Muerto en Israel. Su viaje incluyó visitas a los geysers, una gira mirar las estrellas, aguas termales, y una visita a las salinas. Si usted está buscando un des-tino de otro mundo, el de-sierto de Atacama en Chile es un lugar ideal para visitar.
CHILE
Si está buscando un destino tropical lleno de actividades y oportunidades para explorar, Costa Rica es uno de los destinos turísticos más populares en América Central. Costa Rica es cono-cida por sus bosques y animales como el perezoso de tres dedos, monos aul-ladores, y anfibios como la rana arbórea de ojos rojos. Chris Bond, un estudiante de primer año en la biociencia, visitó Costa Rica por dos semanas con su fa-milia y se considera que es el viaje de su vida. “Cultura? Es mucho más sen-cillo “, dijo Bond. Pura Vidael eslogan de Costa Rica que significa vida pura o bien, representa el ritmo más lento
y relajado que representa la vida tropi-cal latinoamericana. Las actividades más populares para la gente que visita está tomando Zipline Tours, paseos a caballo y senderismo por la selva por el día y aprender a bailar salsa con la gente en los bares junto a la playa por la noche. Costa Rica es ideal para per-sonas que no han aprendido español pero quiere experimentar la aventura que América Latina ofrece. El país es particularmente accesible para los es-tudiantes, con un montón de hostales y tarifas bajas de conversión.
COSTA RICA
Imagínate respirando el aire puro y cristalino cuando llegue a la Puerta del Sol y obtener su primera vista de Machu Picchu. Usted ha estado yendo de excursión de
cuatro días en los Andes por el Camino Inca, pasando por el bosque de niebla y el aumento de más de doce mil metros de altura para llegar a su destino, el hogar de una de las civilizaciones más antiguas.
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DREAMcontinued from page 1
Erika Cervantes, una estudiante del segundo año de Meredith College, se enteró buenas noticias el martes cuando la Casa Blanca declaró que DREAMers pu-
eden ganar la ciudadanía más rápido que otros inmigrantes indocumentados.
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Mapping the brains of ancient beasts Arjun PuriStaff Writer
Ever wonder how the dino-saurs of hundreds of millions of years ago lived — how they moved about, how they smelled, how they thought or if they even thought at all? Scientists at N.C. State University are collaborating with experts in the United Kingdom to study the brains of dinosaurs in order to gain better insight into the daily lives of these reptiles.
Recently, the group has been studying the computed tomography (CT) scan of a rare species of theropod di-nosaurs known as Erlikosau-rus andrewsi – a 10-foot-long, feathered, bird-like animal that existed about 90 million years ago in the region that is now Mongolia.
Lindsay Zanno, professor of biology at the University and one of the main researchers of this project, said the group is particularly interested in the andrewsi sub-species because typically the Erlikosaurus lineage consisted of fearsome hunters but this specific di-nosaur was actually an her-bivore.
“In creating a 3-D model of the brain, we were able to look into the depths of the brain structure as well as inner ear to determine the significance of areas such as hearing, sight and smell,” Zanno said.
With only a few remain-ing skulls of the Erlikosaurus andrewsi known to exist, the team of researchers seized the opportunity to scan the skull
that was in the possession of a Mongolian scientist, who had kept it locked away in a safe. That opportune moment when the scientist visited the U.K. with the skull marked the beginning of this research two years ago.
“We were primarily inter-ested in the sensory toolkit, which also gave us some understanding of the intel-ligence level of the animal,” Zanno said.
While predators tradi-tionally have strong sensory systems that are necessary to survive, researchers were shocked to find that the Er-likosaurus andrewsi, an herbi-vore, also had strong sensory receptors, which was very atypical of non-hunters.
“Our results suggest that [these dinosaurs] would have used their well-developed sensory repertoire to their advantage, which, for her-bivorous animals, must have played an important role in foraging, in the evasion of predators or in social com-plexity,” said Stephan Laut-enschlager, another main re-searcher from the University of Bristol.
Zanno agreed, saying that once an animal develops an advanced sensory toolkit, it is hard to lose and definitely worth hanging on to, wheth-er you are hunting or being hunted.
Although reptile brains are far different and underde-veloped compared to mam-malian brains, studying the cavities allowed the scientists to digitally regenerate parts
of the brain in order to infer which regions of the brain dominated the rest.
“Of course the lack of brain tissue inhibited us, but tech-nology is so far advanced now that we feel that the 3-D model we built of the brain is likely accurate,” Zanno said. “One thing that would help us be more sure would be a larger sample because although there isn’t much differentiation between simi-lar types of dinosaurs, larger sample size could help us to see something we possibly missed the first time.”
One thing that is still un-known is the actual reason as to why the Erlikosaurus andrewsi had such advanced sensory intuition. Lauten-schlager postulates that the dinosaur developed superior intelligence possibly due to inheritance from older an-cestors or even for the abil-ity to smell plants for dietary reasons. Realistically, Laut-enschlager knows that it is probably a combination of several things that are going to remain uncovered until they study more skulls.
“This study has important ramifications for our com-plete understanding of how sensory functions evolved in different dinosaur groups and it sheds a new light on the evolution of dinosaur senses proving that these animals may be more sophisticated and complex than we origi-nally thought,” Zanno said.
CHRIS RUPERT/TECHNICIANLindsay Zanno, a research assistant professor in biology, examines the foot bone of a yet-unnamed dinosaur at the Paleontology and Geology Research Lab in the Nature Research Center at the Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh.
CHRIS RUPERT/TECHNICIANLindsay Zanno, a research assistant professor in biology examines the brain casing of a therizinosaur at the Paleontology and Geology Research Lab in the Nature Research Center at the Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh.
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can help guide State to vic-tory.
And with that, he helped me kill a stereotype in my own head about short, scrawny white guys. If you’ve got the skill, you’ve got it. In that way, he has sort of become a hero for me. If I ever have a son that is my height, I hope he sticks with it and proves everyone wrong like Lewis
has.Unfortunately, the Pack has
dropped both of its games since Brown went down. De-spite Lewis’ efforts, Brown is still the better point guard right now. The team needs him back on the court soon if it wants to be a contender in March.
But for now, N.C. State couldn’t ask for a better re-placement in the backcourt.
Tyler Lewis is the hero N.C. State deserves—especially for the short white guys—but he’s not the one it needs right now.
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weighs 240 pounds. Scout has Burton listed as verbally committed to State while Ri-vals lists him as undecided. Burton will decide between the Wolfpack and the Cin-cinnati Bearcats on signing day.
Of the recruits that have committed, Scout has listed 16 as three-star recruits and five as two-star recruits. Head coach Dave Doeren’s staff has burned up the re-cruiting trail to secure old commitments and seek new commitments since he was introduced as head coach.
Doeren wil l announce his first recruiting class on Wednesday afternoon after the recruits have faxed in their signed Letters of Intent.
Rival’s class rankings have listed N.C. State’s 2013 re-cruiting class ranked as 46th
in the nation and sixth in the ACC. Virginia Tech leads the ACC in recruiting class rank-ings and is ranked at 17th na-tionally.
Running back Matt Dayes currently highlights the Pack’s 2013 class. According to Rivals, the Weston, Fla. native is ranked as the 27th running back in the nation. Dayes rushed for 1,878 yards and scored 31 touchdowns during his senior season of high school.
State also picked up a junior college prospect before sign-ing day. Ali Kassem is a 6-7, 350 pound offensive tackle. Kassem switched his commit-ment from Rutgers to State.
State’s signing class will be the start of a new era in Wolf-pack Football. Doeren and his staff are known as strong re-cruiters. While there are no commitments in the recruit-ing class of 2014, the pros-pects that State is recruiting next year are at a much higher level than previous years.
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JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIANN.C. State fans attempt to distract Rasheed Sulaimon, Duke’s freshman guard, as he attempts a free throw in PNC Arena Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. The No. 20 Wolfpack defeated the No. 1 Blue Devils 84-76.
Hype Team leads student section, team to successTy PrenticeCorrespondent
The days with Sidney Lowe and the RBC Center are his-tory. PNC Arena is louder this year than the RBC Cen-ter ever was. The rebranding of the arena marks the begin-ning of a new era.
During the first half of the N.C. State vs. North Caro-lina game, Dan Shulman, a commentator for ESPN, said, “If anyone would’ve blown a whistle, we wouldn’t have heard it.” CBS basketball in-sider Jeff Goodman tweeted that the overall atmosphere in the PNC Arena was “top-10 for sure.”
The group behind the mad-ness is the new and improved student section, led by the Hype Team. Created this year, the group helped con-
quer national powerhouse Duke and State’s good ol’ rival UNC.
You’ve seen them before. They are the ones in the red, “Pack Power” windbreakers, striving to make the N.C. State student section a defi-nite top-10. They hand out the giant heads to the student section, make sure everyone stays safe and create the loud-est possible environment.
“There are 10 of us total right now,” Zach McGee said, a junior in agricultural busi-ness management and Hype Team member. “There are five to six of us per game for the coordination of the stu-dent section.”
“It all started with Rickey [Smith]; he was the original hype man,” McGee said. “A few of us, including myself, were a few of the loudest
students that showed up at all of the games. And Carrie Althoff, a student in charge of the NCSU Student Athlet-ics Commission, decided to make us all a team.”
N.C. State has only lost one home game this season, dif-fering greatly from the previ-ous year.
“The status of our basket-ball team has definitely in-creased the student section’s population,” McGee said. “I cannot recall any university that has all four sides of the court covered in students, rather than the usual two sidelines.”
“Coordination of the stu-dent section has been one of the keys in the close home games,” McGee said. “The other key in these games is the status of the team of course.”
The amount of celebrity, in the form of giant heads provided by the student section, can hardly be matched by the Oscars. From a young Steve Urkel to “He Who Must not be Named” himself, the gi-ant heads get the crowd going.
“The gigantic C.J. Les-lie is definitely the student favorite,” McGee said. “Word on the street is that there’s another player to accompany C.J. shortly.”
Anyone interested in joining the Hype Team should contact Carrie Althoff or the N.C. State Student Athletics Com-mission.
INSIDE• Page 7: Ty Prentice catches up with the
Hype Team
Nolan EvansDeputy Sports Editor
When I first heard N.C. State recruited 5-foot-11-inch point guard Tyler Lewis, I was a little on edge. Then I found out he was white. Immedi-ately, I thought head coach Mark Gottfried had lost his head. The ACC just doesn’t have successful point guards at that height, especially with my own skin tone.
Little did I know, Lewis would soon break a stereotype I had created in my own head and possibly one that many fans of basketball have created themselves.
Growing up, I played basket-ball in my front yard. My hands and face would get filthy from the dirt court mixing with my sweat. I eventually took to the hardwood and stuck with bas-ketball until I made it to high school.
I loved playing the game, but I had to deal with an unfortu-nate reality.
All of the great sub-6-foot NBA players were black. A for-mer Wolfpacker, Spud Webb, and a Wake Forest Demon Deacon, Mugsy Bogues, are among the best under-6-foot players of all time, along with the likes of Tim Hardaway and Nate Robinson.
I was 5 feet 3 inches, scraw-ny and white. I couldn’t match up against the other guys, so
I focused my attention on my tennis game, the sport I played throughout high school. Basket-ball was my favorite sport to play, so it wasn’t the easiest decision to make.
I’m 20 years old today. I’m still scrawny, I’m just 5 feet 9 inches and, of course, I’m still just as pale. Not exactly your ideal pro-file for a basketball player, but my love for the sport contin-ue s t o this day.
During t h e f a l l 2012 se-mester, I had a class in the s a me bu i ld-ing as Lew is and frequently passed him before class. I took careful note of his stature. His listed 5-11 is a bit generous as I nearly stood eye to eye with him, and his frame wasn’t much larger than my own.
I remained skeptical of Lewis throughout most of his fresh-man year til this point because of that. Plus, he hadn’t played a lot of minutes and when he was in, he didn’t create the plays that the taller, more experienced ju-nior Lorenzo Brown did. Lewis wasn’t necessarily playing poorly, he just didn’t do anything.
Then I watched from the stands at John Paul Jones Arena as Brown
went down with an ankle injury 10 minutes into the game against Vir-ginia.
Freshman shoot-ing guard Rodney Purvis end-ed
up running the point much of the game and Lewis received just 15 minutes, rais-ing my doubts about Gottfried’s trust in him as much as my own.
However, Lewis showed some positive signs when he was in. He frequently pushed the ball up court to offset Virginia’s tempo and dished out a couple of assists.
Four days later, Lewis came off
the bench against the ACC’s first place team, Miami. That was the day he proved me and countless
other doubters wrong.He played 36 minutes,
scored 16 points and had five assists on just one turnover. He drove in the lane, made
passes that raised eyebrows and created plays that I believe
surprised his own team-mates.
The away game at Duke is quickly ap-proaching and Brown doesn’t appear ready to play. Surprisingly, I’m not as apprehen-sive about that as I
would have been a week ago. Lewis has shown what he is capable of
and I have full faith that he
Jacob PaikoffCorrespondent
If you have been to a game at the PNC Arena this year, you surely have dealt with the nu-merous long student lines. It seems to be a bigger issue this year than in years past, prob-ably due to the improvement of the N.C. State men’s basketball team.
Before the Pack’s home game against Duke, students began to line up almost 12 hours before game time. The PNC staff nor-mally prohibits students from lining up on the property prior to five hours before the game to prevent students from missing classes. With the game being on Saturday, that wasn’t a problem.
Two weeks ago against UNC-CH, students lined up along Trinity Road during the broad-cast of College Gameday and then sprinted over to the Arena
at 2 p.m. when they were allowed on the property. During the stampede a couple of students were trampled and the seating was determined by how fast you can run and not when you arrived at the arena.
I believe that this is a serious issue, and I have come up with an idea to fix it.
Reward students who attend most games and show up early, prevent mob scenes which can lead to un-necessary injury to students and eliminate cutting in line.
Bring back the group system with some modification. Student would create groups of between three and eight people.
The group leader would apply for a specific section in the arena, baseline, lower level, upper level and the tickets would be awarded to the entire group based on the cumula-tive loyalty points of everyone in the group. As part of this process the lottery system would try to rotate different groups through the base-line and lower level seats so that ev-
eryone gets to chance to be seated down there.
It would be nice if NCSU Athlet-ics added more seating in the lower level to bring students closer to the court. Students would still print off a generic ticket and receive an actual ticket once inside the Arena. The generic ticket would be marked with the section that the group was assigned for that game.
At the Arena, there would be sepa-rate lines for each section and stu-dents will be directed to the correct lines by signs and the PNC staff. It still will be advantageous to arrive as early as you can to secure the best seats in your section and receive the extra loyalty point which will help you get the best seats possible at the next game.
I believe that the modified group system would improve the entire basketball game experience for stu-dents and give them more energy to cheer even louder during the games.
COUNTDOWN• 1 day until the Wolfpack travel to Cameron Indoor
Stadium to take on the Duke Blue DevilsSportsTECHNICIANPAGE 8 • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Daniel NealStaff Writer
On Wednesday, college foot-ball recruits around the country will have the chance to sign their National Letters of Intent. N.C. State is anticipating 21 verbally committed recruits to sign on Wednesday.
Once signed, the National Letter of Intent binds a student athlete to the university that they signed for. The signed letter also prevents other coaches from talking to recruits that signed for a different university.
Part of the intrigue of signing day is the unpredictability. Ver-bal commitments don’t mean that they will be attending your school.
Former Georgia Tech commit, JuMichael Ramos, committed to the Wolfpack two days before signing day. Last year, a five-star prospect switched from Florida State to Florida on signing day. The recruit was listed as verbally committed to FSU for 14 months before he decided to switch.
Many recruits around the country lengthen the recruiting process and wait to commit and sign on National Signing Day. The Pack is on the lists of sev-eral recruits that have not ver-bally committed yet. These re-cruits could surprise the Pack by sending in their Letter of Intent.
One of these recruits is Asanti Woulard. The Winter Park, Fla. native is the only four-star pros-pect that State has a chance to land this year. Woulard commit-ted to South Florida earlier in the year, but re-opened his recruit-ment after Skip Holtz was fired.
Along with Woulard, another recruit to watch on signing day is tight end Chris Burton. The Danville, Va. native is 6-3 and
Senior divers earn weekly ACC honorsN.C. State senior divers Hannah Hopkins and Hudson Rains have been selected as the ACC Female and Male Divers of the Week, the conference office announced on Tuesday. Hopkins tallied the highest score on the three-meter board with a 318.52 at the meet versus UNC on Saturday. The Greensboro, N.C., native finished second on the one-meter with a 277.80, just shy of fellow Wolfpack diver Rachael Mumma for first in the event. For the men, Rains claimed the top-spot on the one-meter and three-meter springboards on Saturday against the Tar Heels. The native of Houston, Texas, posted a 366.75 in the one-meter competition, claiming the top score by more than 60 points. He also won the three-meter board with a score of 385.95. The selection comes as the second of the season for Rains, as he was also named Male Diver of the Week on Oct. 9.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Lorenzo Brown likely a game-time decision against DukeN.C. State may be without junior guard Lorenzo Brown Thursday night at Duke. Brown tried to practice Monday but was cut short to give his ankle more time to heal. “Lorenzo could not practice yesterday,” head coach Mark Gottfried said. “He tried to some, but I think he’s still a few days away. We’ll just have to wait and see and go day-by-day. It’s hard for me to imagine that he’s going to be 100 percent by Thursday night, but again, I don’t know that.” Brown injured his ankle Jan. 29 at Virginia and had an X-ray taken, but nothing serious was found. He is continuing around the clock treatment on the ankle. The Wolfpack won the previous meeting against Duke at PNC Arena with Brown, 84-76. The decision for him to play at Cameron Indoor will likely be a game-time decision.
SOURCE: THE WOLFPACKER
The hero N.C. State deservesCOMMENTARY
LEWIS continued page 7
PNC lines: a proposed solution
RECRUITS continued page 7
Wolfpack prepares
for signing day
ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
ThursdayWOMEN’S TENNIS V. UNC-GREENSBOROJ.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 4 p.m.
MEN’S BASKETBALL V. DUKEDurham, N.C., 9 p.m.
FridaySOFTBALL AT PANTHER INVITATIONALMiami, Fla, All Day
MEN’S TENNIS V. ELONJ.W. Isenhour Tennis Center, 4 p.m.
GYMNASTICS AT MARYLANDCollege Park, Md., 7 p.m.
TRACK AT VIRGINIA TECH ELITE MEETBlacksburg, Va., All Day
WOMEN’S TENNIS AT ITA NATIONAL TEAM INDOORSCharlottesville, Va., All Day
SaturdaySOFTBALL AT PANTHER INVITATIONALMiami, Fla., TBA
WRESTLING V. MARYLANDReynolds Coliseum, 5 p.m.
TRACK AT TYSON INVITATIONALFayetteville, Ark., All Day
WOMEN’S TENNIS AT ITA NATIONAL TEAM INDOORSCharlottesville, Va., All Day
TRACK AT VIRGINIA TECH ELITE MEETBlacksburg, Va., All Day
TRACK AT HUSKY CLASSIC Seattle, Wash., All Day
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GREG WILSON/TECHNICIANStudents gather outside the PNC Arena’s student entrance in anticipation for the home game against UNC-Chapel Hill Saturday, Jan. 26, 2013.
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