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TECHNICIANRaleigh, North Carolina
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Elizabeth MoomeyStaff Writer
Author and lecturer Iyanla Vanzant spoke about how to evolve one’s life at the campus commemoration of Martin Lu-ther King, Jr. at the McKimmon Center Monday Jan. 14.
Warwick Arden, provost and executive vice chancellor, Sheila Smith McKoy, director of Afri-can American Cultural Center, Sandra Dubose, singer, and Joanne Woodard, vice provost for institutional equity and di-versity, welcomed Vanzant and noted the importance King had on his or her own life.
The event was created as a cele-bration leading up to the memo-rial of King, with the N.C. State community and a community as a whole and reflecting upon his life, according to Arden.
Community was mentioned early on by Vanzant as she re-called the connection the North had with the South when Afri-can-Americans were hosed down and attacked with dogs.
“We need to create a bigger community,” Vanzant said.
One of the ideas stressed by Vanzant with the beginning of the New Year was “you can get with this or you can get with that.” She relied on her experi-ences and King’s speeches.
“’Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step,’” Vanzant said, quoting King.
Vanzant also used “the great philosopher Jermaine Jackson” to stress the audience to make needed change with his song, “Let’s Get Serious.”
Early in her address she had the men in the audience stand up and encouraged them to keep pursuing in the current eco-nomic time. She also concluded her speech with the same idea, a quote from King:
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in
moments of comfort and conve-nience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy,” King said in his last speech in 1968.
McKoy started off the night by mentioning the accomplishment of African Americans with the second inauguration of Barack Obama, which is on the Martin Luther King holiday.
Woodard in-troduced Vanz-ant and spoke of her past, which was f i l led of misfortune, like the death of her mot her when she was three and how she was raped at nine, followed by her ac-complishments.
“Many ordinary people cannot tell tales of tragedy, struggle, strength, courage and triumph in the same way Iyanla Vanzant can, “ Woodard
said. “Much of what she has seen, heard and lived through would have devastated an ordinary person.”
Arden, who was raised in Austra-lia, spoke about his views of King as well.
“You are probably thinking that my knowledge of Martin Luther King began when I came to work in an American university, but in reality I learned about Martin Lu-ther King when I was a child,” Ar-den said, “I tell you that because it is important that you know that King not
only changed this country, but he changed the world.”
The event concluded with a ques-tion and answer session. A long time fan, Moses T. Alexander Greene, who met Arden 15 years ago, asked
her for advice about achieving his dream and gave her two books he wrote.
Arden also expressed to the audi-ence that the ideals of King are still important today.
“One of the key things we are try-ing to continually reinforce, we want everybody to live, work, play, learn on this campus to feel valued, to feel supported, to feel empowered in the way they achieve their goals every-day,” Arden said.
Arden mentioned the vandal-ism of the GLBT center in 2011, a community that has also received prejudice.
McKoy ended the night with a speech, happy to feature Vanzant and commemorate the life and death of King.
Taylor O’QuinnStaff Writer
2012 was the hottest year recorded in every state in the Continental U.S., and this year is expected to break more records.
Robert Bruck, professor of plant pathology, forestry, environmental science and technology, said for the first year in 34 years of teaching, he will use the word “fact” in relation to global warming.
“People need to wake up. This is not a political ploy, it is science,” Bruck said. “A global holocaust is what it will take for people to wake up after tens of thousands of people die.”
Bruck said mankind is a large con-tributor, if not the sole cause, for the excessive warming of the earth.
“Things are happening much faster than anyone anticipated in terms of global data analysis,” Bruck said. “It will be life-changing during the lifetimes of all of the students on campus.”
Michael Scanlan, a sophomore studying meteorology, said he too has studied a trend of rising tem-peratures since the industrial revo-lution when humans began using more fossil fuels.
Scanlan said that rising tempera-tures could lead to warmer oceans, creating stronger and more destruc-tive hurricanes and a rise in sea lev-els. Since 1990, sea levels have been rising at about 1.8 millimeters per year, according to Scanlan.
Higher temperatures and warmer global climates will lead to longer and heavier droughts as well, some-thing Scanlan said could affect the en-tire population. We could even be see-ing the effects close to home, including changes at Lake Gaston and Falls Lake near Raleigh.
“Winter doesn’t seem to exist any-more,” Bruck said.
Bruck said if the current pattern continues, popular tourist areas such as Wilmington may no lon-ger exist by the end of the century,
bringing the N.C. shore near New Bern.
With more frequent and longer lasting droughts due to the rise in average tempera-tures, Scanlan said tourism could in-crease in cities and lakes as opposed to the beaches because of the heat from the
sand. Bruck’s initial interview to be a
professor at N.C. State was cancelled due to two feet of snow in Raleigh. Now, 34 years later, Raleigh has seen temperatures in the 70s during mid-
January. Bruck said Chris Christie, the
Republican Governor of New Jersey, was “screaming” about global climate change follow-ing Hurricane Sandy, behavior that is unusual of the party. He said that he believes it proves a widening acceptance of global warming.
“Two ex-PhD students of mine work for the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and they showed me their data,” Bruck said. “They’re scared.”
Humans are currently emit-ting 79 billion tons worth of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels into the atmosphere according to Bruck, something he said he believes is a significant contribu-tor to the warming trend.
“Higher carbon dioxide lev-els lead to higher temperatures which lead to a warmer climate,” Bruck said.
Bruck, Scanlan and global cli-mate scientists all agree global warming is quickly becoming a “fact” and deserves more at-tention.
Bruck said people need to start seriously considering alternative energy options such as wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy.
“We need to start thinking about how the future of our planet will be,” Bruck said.
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MLK-inspired speaker energizes students
AVERAGE HIGH TEMPERATURE, RALEIGH, N.C.GRAPHIC BY DERRICK FREELAND
CHRIS RUPART/TECHNICIANIyanla Vazant, author of multiple The New York Times Best Selling books speaks at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Campus Commemoration in the McKimmon Center Monday Jan 14, 2013. Vanzant encouraged attendees to “take the first step” saying that “You cannot continue to live your own dysfunctional history over and over, hypnotizing yourself into inactivity.”
Ravi ChittillaDeputy News Editor
In 1980, Gov. Jim Hunt, along with the former Gov. Terry Sanford and academic John Elhe completed an effort to open the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, or NCSSM.
The school, located in Durham, was the first of its kind—a public, residential high school where stu-dents studied a specialized cur-riculum emphasizing in Science, Technology, Engingeering and Mathematics (STEM).
NCSSM, which has gone on to generate thousands of living alumni since its inception, has seen those alumni give back to North Carolina in big ways. These distinguished in-dividuals have become tenured pro-fessors, teachers, physicians, entre-preneurs, filmmakers and university presidents.
According to the school’s website, alumni have generated an estimated $500 million just in North Carolina, and with the advancement of dis-tance and online education, that number will continue to grow.
Gino Lerebours, sophomore in statistics and graduate of NCSSM, said he has found that his STEM based education and experiences have complemented at NCSSM strongly complemented his educa-tion here at the University.
“I am constantly surrounded by innovators who look to shape and improve the world by understand-ing how it works. It has inspired me to look on how I can help further society with my area of expertise,” said Lerebours.
N.C. State benefits from NCSSM
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THROUGH RYAN’S LENS
Hitting the slopes
Riding down the slopes at Sugar Mountain in Banner Elk, North Carolina, Kenny Freeman, a freshman in management, carves on his snowboard. Freeman is a member of the N.C. State Ski and Snowboard Club which participates in weekend races against other colleges on the east coast during the months of January
and February. The club was supposed to be racing at Wintergreen Resort in Virginia, but due to warm weather the race was canceled and the club instead went to Sugar Mountain. Members of the club followed the N.C. State vs. Duke game on their cell phones and when they heard that the Pack had won, they started a Wolfpack chant at the summit of the mountain.
PHOTO BY RYAN PARRY
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POLICE BLOTTERFriday12:46 A.M.| TREPASSINGMetcalf HallReport non-student who had been previously trespassed was in the building. Officers located non-student in student room. Subject was arrested and issued another trespass warning. Student was referred for aiding and abetting trespassing.
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students as well. Accord-ing to a profile by NCSSM, between 2007 and 2011, 342 students from the school were in attendance at N.C. State, while aver-age enrollment at NCSSM totals 680 per year.
But NCSSM is not the only STEM school to serve the people of North Carolina. Centennia l Campus Middle School, a joint venture between N.C. State and the Wake County Public School
System, has been on the fore-front of education for the last 10 years.
Integrat-ing a strong science and engineering education w i t h t h e traditional Wake Coun-t y m idd le school cur-riculum, Centennial Middle is on the forefront of education management.
Michelle Woods is the STEM coordinator at Cen-
tennial Middle. Woods said students had a huge tech-
nological emphasis, including h a v i n g a one laptop per student in order to ensure that each student has the prop-er resources.
Woods s a i d t h e school bases much of its
curriculum from a national provider called Project Lead the Way, which uses a rigor-
ous STEM curriculum to educate middle school and high school students all around the nation. The school also offers pro-grams provided by LEGO Robotics, which provides a medium to teach stu-dents programming skills.
While students of N.C. State come from Ashe-ville to Wilmington and beyond, schools l ike NCSSM and Centennial Middle will continue to prepare students for N.C. State and other universi-ties alike.
NCSSMcontinued from page 1
“I am constantly
surrounded by
innovators who
look to shape
and improve the
world... ”Gino Lerebours, sophomore in
statistics and NCSSM alum
Technician was there. You can be too.
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Katie SandersDeputy Features Editor
A group of four people sat furiously typing at computers in front of a raging space bat-tle that was projected onto a wall. A small crowd watched, and Dan Smidler, a junior in anthropology, stood behind them excitedly giving orders.
“Shield up, shield up, don’t fire!” Smidler said, just before a large explosion destroyed most of the starship onscreen. He paused for a second. “You know, we can mourn for them later. Warp engines to 300 percent!”
They were playing Arti-mis, a bridge simulator vid-eo game, while around them people discussed apocalyptic novels and argued over the intricacies of time travel. A dashing spaceship captain conversed with a man carry-ing a long bow and quiver full of arrows, and an elementary aged Punisher with Nerf guns ran underfoot.
This was the second year of the now annual North Caro-lina science fiction conven-tion Illogicon. While last year it pulled in about 200 people, this year was even grander. An estimated 300 partici-pants showed up to celebrate all forms of science fiction, be it comic books, video games, table top games, television or
the main focus of the conven-tion, literature.
All these forums allow their participants to escape reality, and it was a common reason cited for a love of the genre.
“To me it’s all about the lasers – killing and asking questions later. I’m a space opera kind of guy,” Smidler said.
However, many people that attended said they also enjoy science fiction’s ability to comment on the human experience in a unique way.
“I like the source material. I’ve always been fascinated by, ‘What if?’” Cerine Hill, a
computer engineer and N.C. State alum, said.
“It allows me to postulate a future that I would like to see,” said Martin Van Name, a science fiction author and spoken word artist. For ex-ample, he writes about a fu-ture where gay marriage is routine and there has been so much racial intermarriage that issues regarding race are all but obsolete.
“Some situations are set up by authors to question the cultural defects of the time,” said John Kessel, a professor of English at N.C. State and science fiction novelist.
For instance, Kessel sug-gested, Star Trek was trying to break the prejudices of its time, though it didn’t always succeed, by making their crew multicultural. They in-cluded an African American woman, a Japanese character and a Russian character dur-ing the Cold War.
The convention also sup-ported activities like a the-atrical lightsaber battle, a talent show and panels cover-ing everything from “Science Fiction and Ethics” to “ZOM 501: Advanced Zombies.” Esteemed guests included Tim Powers, author of On
Stranger Tides, on which the forth Pirates of the Carib-bean movie was based, and Garth Graham, a cyberpunk and steampunk artist.
“It’s fan based and run – it was time to have a local sci-fi convention by fans for fans,” said Sara Cheney, a senior in fashion and textile manage-ment and volunteer at the convention.
Although this is only its second year, organizers of the event like Chris Ross, one of the founding members and assistant convention man-ager, think Illogicon was a roaring success. While the science-fiction convention at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Stel-larcon, has been going for 37 years and had 50 people sign up in advance, Illogicon had 107 early registrations this year.
Organizers are hopeful that the convention will continue to grow, as part of Illogicon’s charm was how welcoming the participants were.
“You really do know most of the people here. When you do local cons it’s a very community oriented scene,” Reese Adams, operations di-rector of the convention, said.
“I have a bunch of friends I haven’t met yet,” Smidler said.
Illogicon marks year of growth
GEORGIA HOBBS/TECHNICIANArchitecture senior Alyssa Torres attended Illogicon to vend costume props with fellow crafters.
White van scams studentsStaff Report
Two students have been scammed on campus by people in a white van selling fake home theatre equipment, according to an email by student hous-ing Monday night.
The “scammers” have created a story, explaining they have finished a job and had leftover supplies, but following payment of speakers, projectors and other equipment, custom-ers reported it faulty, ac-cording to the email.
“White van” scams similar to this one have occurred in several parts of the country, according to the email.
Student housing re-ported that “cheap or faulty” electronics were being sold as a trick, and to be wary of vendors on campus.
The email also encour-aged students to make “smart, informed buying decisions.”
Technician will report further as more informa-tion is released. Students are encouraged to report any activity resembling the scams to Campus Po-lice.
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Some students are grumbling about Chancellor Randy
Woodson’s new $63,000 raise (and one-time re-tention bonus of $112,630 paid by N.C. State Uni-versity, and $50,000 per
year re-tirement plan). But Chan-cellor Woodson is an hon-orable man, and s o , I ’m
untroubled.Last Monday, Techni-
cian published an edito-rial urging Chancellor Woodson to voluntarily give 10 percent of his sal-ary to financial assistance for students. As of that editorial being written, Woodson’s annual sal-ary was just $432,000. 10 percent of that would have been $43,200, enough to pay in-state tuition for 15 undergraduates. But 10 percent of his new salary, $495,000, will be $49,500, enough to pay in-state tu-ition for 17 undergradu-ates.
Without the $49,500, Woodson’s new salary would be $445,500, still $13,000 more than his original salary — a 3 per-cent increase. Compare that to the recurring 1.2 percent raise that all state employees and teachers will receive. Of course, there’s no reason to as-sume that the Chancellor should be held to the same standard as ordinary state employees, but still, if he thinks he should be, per-haps he should consider forgoing even more, now that he has more. How about giving 15 percent of his salary to student fi-nancial aid? If he did that, he’d be able to pay in-state undergraduate tuition for 25 undergraduates! Imagine that. Twenty-five people just like you and me and Woodson going to college who wouldn’t be able to otherwise. And if he did that, Woodson’s annual salary would be $420,750, still $31,950
more than he would have been left with, were he to have given up 10 percent of his sal-ary before the raise.
Of course, one might come up with the irreverent argu-ment that no chancellor is as important as the 39 potential disadvantaged undergradu-ates who could have their in-state tuition paid with the $112,630 “retention pay-ment” we’re giving him. But the University of Florida is reportedly out to get him as its new president, and we need him to stay. Otherwise, he’d go away to Florida, with-out being able to get $50,000 every year in retirement ben-efits that would make it easier for him to go to Florida after retiring. And what would we do with that $50,000 every year? Help out people with their education? Are we a university that just gives hand-outs to people?
The UNC Board of Gov-ernors has for once pleased me beyond measure. By be-stowing Chancellor Wood-son with bonuses and good-ies not in the cards for other university employees, it has done the students a great service. Now, we’ll be able to see our chancellor give 15 percent of his annual salary, amounting to $74,250, for the good of students. It’s not like they would have used the money that’s gone to Wood-son for something as hid-eously socialist as financial aid, anyway. But by giving it to Woodson, who no doubt deserves a 14.6 percent pay raise of $63,000 more than faculty and staff do, with their abundant annual sala-ries which could actually be as high as the raise he got, the Governors are promoting the good doctrine of trickle-down economics.
Sreason he won’t only a selfish person wouldn’t. Some may call me ambitious, but Chancellor Woodson is an honorable man.
Send your thoughts to [email protected].
Tony Hankerson Jr., junior in arts applications
Stars not aligned for Galaxy
In the near future, The Galaxy cinema will collapse on it-
self. Its high celestial ceil-ing dotted with fiber optic stars will plummet to the ground, likely resulting
in a thick cloud of dust that will sur-round the lot in the heart of Cary. But from the rubble a
Harris Teeter will be born — thank the heavens for that, Cary needs a tenth Harris Teeter. But where there’s despair, there’s ar-bitrage opportunity.
The theater had nar-rowly escaped the guil-lotine months earlier in July 2012 when its land-lord chose not to pursue legal action (totaling $160,000 in overdue fees and lease payments). After the landlord, York Prop-erties, finally reclaimed the building in Novem-ber (bringing about the death of the cinema), the bits and pieces were left for deal scavengers to fight over remains, to be picked apart and ripped out of the skeleton of the theater — vultures, hy-enas, ravens … call them what you want, I was one of them.
Despite the thrill of f ighting others for the right to some of Galaxy’s
remains, I couldn’t help but feel a bit guilty. I had never once visited the cinema, but I couldn’t help but feel grimy for so willingly profiting from someone else’s demise. But the immediate gratification of winning a $300 projector for $55 and a row of four the-ater seats for $8 outweighed any feeling of guilt or wrong-doing, and that speaks to the more large-scale American mindset.
While The Galaxy was pre-paring to be gutted, earlier this month AIG Inc.’s board of directors were contemplat-ing joining a lawsuit against the federa l government (filed by former CEO Mau-rice Greenberg) claiming the stipulations of its $125 billion bailout package were unfair and detrimental to the firm’s success.
AIG’s board eventually decided to not join the suit — but the fact that they even sat down to listen to someone make a case for it is offensive to all taxpayers. For the price of $125 billion, we could have bailed out 781,250 galaxy cin-emas which, at the very least, would accept it with sheer gratitude.
Why is it that an ungrateful insurance giant, deemed “too big to fail,” gets helped, while the tiny Bollywood cinema that, for some people, was a place filled with cheerfulness is allowed to go under?
It has been proven debt in the private sector contrib-uted largely to the financial meltdown in 2007-2008. Ac-
cording to the International Monetary Fund, household debt is at 86 percent of GDP, lower than it has been in the past six years, but it’s nothing to be proud of.
Because we have easy access to credit, American’s devel-oped bad purchase habits. We buy bigger houses and nicer cars because we can get a loan. But because the house is bigger than we need, we can’t keep up with payments on mortgage or home insur-ance (how we fed the AIG monster). And because that Mercedes is a depreciating as-set, it was worth more when we bought it than it is now — not a good investment. But, being the consumerist, capitalism-loving people we are, to us, having something now is better than later.
No, AIG had nothing to do with The Galaxy closing its doors. But the market we’ve created allowed a beloved cinema to be demolished and another Harris Teeter to take its place, while also per-mitting ungrateful financiers and insurers to bite the hand that fed it. Is it more impor-tant to nourish the soul, or consumption?
Send your thoughts to [email protected].
Why I support welfare for Woodson
Taking a breath of fresh airThis past weekend, according to a re-
port from the U.S. Embassy, the air pollution levels in Beijing, China, were
at 886 micrograms per cubic meter. That’s a meaningless figure, unless you also know that any level above 300 deems a warning of “emer-gency conditions” from the EPA. New York City, in contrast, had a level of 19.
China has always been there for the anti-climate-changers as a buffer, protecting them from the need to enact further legislation to-wards sustainable practices. “At least we’re not China,” they say.
Then again, are we really blame-free when it comes to climate change? Our iPhones, our shoes, our computers, our car parts, our cloth-ing — they’re all made in China. Our obses-sive craving for the next “new thing” is indi-rectly causing China’s abhorrent pollution.
Knowing this, should we all turn to hum-mus as our only source of protein? Should we join the ranks of Greenpeace in droves and only shop at Goodwill? That may be a bit of an overreaction, and it’s also impractical. The groups that burn down development projects
in the name of the environment are not that different from the groups that threaten to bomb abortion clinics. Extremism is not the answer.
It’s easy to get caught up in the rhetoric of both sides, losing our way in the ever-chang-ing reports on the ozone lay-er. The sustainability debate should take a lesson from the gun control talks — minus the contributions from the NRA — and look at a reason-able solution.
North Carolina is making progress in the sustainability arena. Asheville houses the National Climatic Data Center which seeks to record climate data, ranging from the less-than-an-hour-ago recent all the way back to the paleo-era. The data provides researchers, scientists and government the information needed to enact
appropriate sustainable changes. In 2010, N.C. State launched a master’s pro-
gram in environmental assessment, which teaches students how to bridge the gap be-tween research and policy change. Many of the new buildings and additions, such as the
recent Student Health Center addition, are LEED certified, having passed a test which measures them in areas such as energy efficiency and air quality.
And yet, not everyone in North Carolina is for adapt-ing. The progress our legis-
lature is making toward sustainability seems to be inversely proportional to the rising temperatures. In June, the General Assem-bly proposed a bill that prohibited any stud-ies on rising sea levels, essentially outlawing the information coastal governments need to
prepare for the expected 1 meter rise in those sea levels by 2100.
But back to avoiding hummus as our new food staple. What can we as students do? We can petition our government to avoid getting stuck in the past. Based on recently inaugu-rated Gov. Pat McCrory’s election campaign, there will be a lesser focus on sustainability issues and climate change over the next four years. Most scientists have accepted that the answer is not to deprive ourselves to the ex-treme, but to make rational changes and enact rational policies that would reduce our impact on the ever-rising temperatures.
North Carolina may be beating China in the air pollution arena, but not when it comes to actual concern over environmental issues. Places like the Asheville Climate Center and N.C. State are leading the way in sustainable change. We demand that our government get on board.
Send your thoughts on sustainability to [email protected]
Ishan Raval Deputy Viewpoint Editor
BY BRETT MORRIS
Do you think Chancellor Woodson
should take a 14.6 percent pay increase?
{ }IN YOUR WORDS
“That’s ridiculous. I could live off that increase. ”
Thomas Arndtsophomore, physics
“Personally, if it was a smaller increase and it wouldn’t hurt anything that’s fine, but if it’s a big increase then we should save that money for more important things.”
Leanna Hippssophomore, zoology
“If it’s for a very good reason, then it’s fine. ”
Casey Reepsophomore, English
“He deserves it, and I agree with it.”
Josh Alrutzsophomore, middle school education
Ahmed AmerViewpoint Editor
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and is the
responsibility of the editor-in-chief.
“It’s easy to get
caught up in the
rhetoric of both
sides...”
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Kaitlin MontgomeryStaff Writer
Many who worked at and attended N.C. State still re-member the thousands who rallied and demonstrated during the political and so-cial movements that char-acterized the ‘60s and ‘70s. During the ‘80s, the sight of hundreds of students gather-ing in makeshift shantytowns in the Brickyard protest-ing apartheid and nuclear weapons was commonplace. Thousands followed the call from political leaders such as Louis Farrakhan and gath-ered at cities around the na-tion during the ‘90s.
Although the Arab Spring touched many students at NCSU, for more than a year, the student organization around social and political problems has lacked cohe-sion. However, according to Dick Reavis, an associ-ate professor of English, the nature of riots and protests have evolved over the years and has taken on different forms as new social issues have emerged.
Student advocacy groups such as Occupy Raleigh
and the N.C. Student Power Union continue to make their voices heard. Yet students re-main fractured in their opin-ions regarding tuition hikes, disgraced Mary Easley’s pen-sion and Chancellor Randy Woodson’s salary increase. And although, student advo-cacy groups have met during the past few weeks and con-tributed to online discussions about activism, they have yet to publically demonstrate about these latest issues.
After the Arab Spring in December 2010, along with the organization, Sacrificial Poets, Mohammed Moussa, a graduate student in com-puter science, travelled with his friend, Sameer Abdel-Khalek, a graduate student in environmental technology, to Egypt and Tunisia.
Abdel-Khalek said it was not until he made that jour-ney to document the protests in the Middle East as part of the Poetic Portraits of a Revo-lution project that he gained what he considers to be a very small understanding of what it means to protest.
“For someone who hasn’t even seen [a protest], it’s so hard to fully know all about them,” Abdel-Khalek said.
“Now that I’ve been there, I’ve seen that it’s extremely complex.”
Since Moussa and Abdel-Khalek have returned, they have found that many stu-dents have misunderstand-ings about protesting, and the two suggested that apathy re-mains preva-lent among American students.
Moussa s a i d t h a t many stu-dents have a significantly less amount of pressure to speak up about t he problems di-rectly affect-ing them compared to those in the Middle East.
“The media usually fo-cuses on main events to try and understand huge groups of people, and usually this platform fails,” Moussa said. “[Abdel-Khalek and I] inter-viewed a wide spectrum of people: old, young, protes-tors and spectators. There is a concept that more than one person spoke about, this idea of a personal revolution. Not
only was there a big change in government but a personal change.”
Reavis said many students are invested in several so-cial problems and said he remains confident that stu-dents have the ability to take action. However, many is-
sues have yet to hit home to unite the student pop-ulation.
Reavis, w h o p a r-ticipated during the Civil Rights Movement and the pro-tests against the war in Vietnam,
said no generation is free of flaws.
“It’s the generation that’s said to be so idealistic and pure that created the medi-
ums that distract you now from politics or what popu-larize them,” Reavis said.
Once this current genera-tion is finally tired of being pushed around, then it will eventually find its voice and take action in accordance to what it feels should be changed, Reavis said.
“People don’t become polit-ically active because of what they read in books or see on the TV,” Reavis said. “They become politically active be-cause something about their daily life irritates them. We opposed the Vietnam War, we in the anti-war move-ment because we didn’t want to fight in that thing because we had career plans, we had families or because we read in books about Vietnam once we realized we might too be drafted. Students ask me why they should care about the war in Iraq or Afghanistan when they don’t have to go,
you couldn’t say that in the ‘60s.”
As time has progressed, protests have dwindled, caus-ing the current generation to differ from the previous one, Reavis said. What was once driven by a desire for social reform can now be seen as a romanticized idea.
However, Moussa said that many students could still use some inspiration.
“In a way we have become apathetic towards certain things,” Moussa said. “We are pessimistic to bring about change to certain issues. Certain people will like the revolution on Facebook or re-tweet it, and others will go out and push for it. The pro-tests don’t necessarily have to happen on the street. We’ve come to a point where all we need is a platform and a voice to speak up for the things that matter to us.”
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Previously occupied by Shakedown Street, a bar and music venue, the building on the corner of Horne and Hill-sborough streets has changed, once again, into a hookah bar.
Since its opening Dec. 1, Nara Lounge, a coffee and hookah café, has attracted crowds of students and casual customers through its patio and into the Middle Eastern-themed establishment.
Inside, patrons indulge on tea, coffee, pastries and a kind of f lavored tobacco called “shisha.” Owner Refaat
Soboh can oftentimes be seen sitting playing table games and smoking with friends and family.
Tareq Alakhras, man-ager of Nara Lounge, said he finds the atmosphere both engag-ing and re-laxing.
“For some reason ev-erybody that comes in here be-c o m e s a friend,” Al-akhras said. “I can sit with anybody. It gets hard some-times because I’m friends
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“Some-t i me s i t ’s really quiet, sometimes there are a
lot of people,” Alakhras said. “I really enjoy being here no matter how busy it gets.”
The lounge opens at 7:30 a.m. and closes at roughly 2 a.m. each day. Marissa Mor-gan, a junior in English and an employee at Nara Lounge, doesn’t mind the long hours.
“It’s not much like work at all,” said Morgan. “It’s more like hanging out. Hookah is a very social thing and creates a sort of bond.”
Use of the hookah started in Turkey after the Turk-ish occupation of the Arab world and gradually gained popularity, spreading to more parts of the globe.
Shisha typically contains tobacco, molasses, nicotine and tar, and still poses health risks.
The lounge recently started offering free WiFi for stu-dents to work while they are there. People can book the lounge for parties or even presentations. Morgan said it’s a very popular place for students to come after a night out.
“The mix of the atmosphere and the hookah is appealing to customers,” Morgan said. “It’s a chill place.”
On the menu, Lavazza cof-fee, which has been supply-ing businesses with Italian beverages since the 1800s, compliments Middle Eastern pastries and pies. If diners are feeling a little less adventur-ous, Pop-Tarts and Nature Valley granola bars are also available for purchase.
Along with the worldly
collection of coffees, Nara’s menu boasts a selection of 16 different types of green tea as well as seven variations of black tea.
Other than a few excep-tions, the employees are open to modifying orders to fit a customer’s specifications. They prepare custom drinks
and mix shisha flavors for the hookahs as new combina-tions are a welcome addition to the already diverse menu.
“We want to make sure everyone who walks in here leaves happy,” Alakhras said. “If they want something, they can have it.”
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website, State ranked No. 20 in the nation in attendance in 2012, averaging 13,560 through 19 games.
There is something uncan-ny about Reynolds. Legends were made. NCAA and ACC championship teams assem-bled. It’s time we pay homage to the “old barn.”
Head coach Mark Gott-fried may want to create a “new history” with the team
at PNC, which may come to fruition under his watch, but hopefully the university takes a strong look at revamping the game selection going into next season.
Why not create a new tradi-tion at the team’s old stomp-ing grounds, while continu-ing to move forward with the program at PNC? The buzz surrounding the basketball program is not only being felt within the Triangle, but na-tionally, and Reynolds could be used to the Wolfpack’s advantage.
Wolfpack fans that have been in hiding are coming
out of their slumber and are ready to rival any fans in the country. In order to move forward we must honor our past.
Students were giddy about the Cleveland State game, but imagine the thought of three games at Reynolds with the current squad, or the moving forward.
It’s time—time to give the team the ultimate home court advantage. Opponents need to fear the Pack when they come to Reynolds. It’s time to turn Reynolds into a relevant place on campus again.
team on the court,” she said.Regardless of where she
stands as a player and a lead-er, Burke knows that basket-ball is a team sport. And in a team sport, it takes more than one player to make a difference.
Although Burke attributed the team’s inconsistency to her own, she realizes that ev-ery player on the court must stay focused on the game. If
they do that, she believes the team can still be a factor in the ACC.
“If we have the same men-tality every game and play every opponent like we did against Duke, we have the potential to be an amazing team and be a major force in the ACC,” Burke said. “It’s just that inconsistency fac-tor that’s slowing us down right now.”
Until the team begins to play on a higher level, Burke will continue to look for ways to improve her own game and
develop into a leader that can put the team on her back.
“I definitely feel like I have what it takes (to ta ke that leadership role),” Burke said. “It’s just a matter of doing it. I’m pretty sure there’s go-ing to come a time, maybe just one play, where I just have to step outside myself to step up and be a leader.”
BURKEcontinued from page 8
REYNOLDScontinued from page 8
JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIANJunior forward C.J. Leslie drives into the paint during the men’s basketball game against Cleveland State in Reynolds Coliseum Saturday Dec. 8, 2012. The Wolpack defeated the Vikings 80-63.
JOANNAH IRVIN/TECHNICIANJunior forward Kody Burke fights to gain possession during the season opener against Wofford on Friday Nov 9. The 111-39 win improved the Wolfpack record to 2-0.
INSIDE• Page 7: Continued commentary on the
men’s basketball team’s history in Reynolds Coliseum.
COUNTDOWN• 1 day until men’s basketball takes on Maryland in
College Park, Md. SportsTECHNICIANPAGE 8 • TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2013
Clark finishes second in HawaiiTim Clark, former All-American golfer at N.C. State, was the runner up at the Sony Open in Hawaii. Clark birdied the final four holes in the last round but still came up short to Russell Henley. Clark shot 21-under 259 total for the weekend.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Pack jumps to No. 14 in AP pollAfter defeating No.1 Duke, 84-76, the men’s basketball team jumped from No. 20 to No. 14 in the AP top-25 poll. The Blue Devils fell to No. 3. Duke held the top-spot for four weeks after a 15-0 start. Louisville took over the No.1 spot in the poll.
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Howell named ACC Player of the WeekMen’s basketball forward Richard Howell averaged a double-double in State’s two wins last week. Howell scored six points and grabbed 12 rebounds against Georgia Tech and picked up a double-double against Duke, going for 16 points and 18 rebounds.
SOURCE: WRAL
After moving off-campus following the 1999-2000 season, home games for
the Wolfpack have been different. Since moving from the “Old Barn,”
the Pack has won memorable games, m o s t r e c e n t l y this past weekend against No. 1 Duke, but the atmosphere isn’t there.
Maybe this past weekend’s events w i l l ma rk t he change in stability
the program needs.Can the team move back to
Reynolds Coliseum? No, but fans and players alike would like to see more games played in “The house that Case built.”
In its annual Reynolds game, the Pack defeated Cleveland State 80-63 in front of a sold out arena filled with rabid fans. Honestly, it was louder than any game I’ve attended this year, minus this past weekend’s triumphant victory.
The loudest point came when the walk-ons and players who get lim-ited to play entered the game with under two minutes to play. Fresh-man guard Chase Cannon drilled a three-pointer and the crowd went wild.
“Reynolds is definitely a whole different experience then PNC en-tirely,” Cannon said. “It’s a much more personal environment with the crowd because it’s so small and everyone’s packed in so tightly. It’s just insane how loud it got.”
There’s something about playing on that court that brings the team to life—everything about Reynolds that fills fans, players and coaches with a fire for the game. The team plays with an unstoppable passion and fans scream louder. The sound bounces off the walls and feels as
though the foundation and walls are shaking, ready to crumble when the Pack plays there.
Following the win against Cleve-land State, junior guard Lorenzo Brown and senior forward Richard Howell both said they would like to play more games at Reynolds.
Howell said he enjoys feeling the crowd “on top of you” and closer to the court, rather than the more spread out setting at PNC Arena.
With less than 10,000 seats, Reyn-olds Coliseum presented a challenge for fans. Over 30,000 students at-tend North Carolina State and an arena that size can’t hold the num-ber of students who want to attend games. Thus, the Pack moved its games to the RBC Center, now PNC Arena. PNC has the capacity for luxury boxes and 19,722 seats for basketball games, an attractive option for the university.
Last season the Pack played Elon, North Carolina Central and Camp-bell at Reynolds—all three wins. Three games a season would be a great chance for fans to see what was used to be considered one of the toughest venues to play in the ACC, maybe the country, in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
Imagine this: three games a season at Reynolds. An ACC opponent, one in-state school and a team from the old ACC “Big Four” tournament, either Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill or Wake Forest.
Yes, these are big games and PNC Arena would probably be filled for a solid ACC or “Big Four” opponent, but it would bring back memories for older fans and students would become acquainted with what it used to be like in Reynolds.
If nothing else, it would honor the coaches and players of the past who gave everything they had for
The women’s basketball team began its season with one goal in mind
— make it back to the NCAA tournament for the first time since the 2009-10 season.
This goal was personif ied through a motto that simply states, “Our time.”
The Wolfpack has not lived up to its own expectations so far this season, dropping its first five ACC contests.
Despite the disappointment, there have been several posi-tives for State this season. These bright spots have served as the silver lining around the cloud, giving the team a measure of hope as they move forward.
One of these bright spots has been junior forward Kody Burke.
Burke has shined during her junior campaign. She leads the team in scoring and rebound-ing with 15.4 points per game and grabbing 7.8 rebounds per contest despite playing just 29.6 minutes a game.
She is also atop the conference leaderboards in many statistical categories, in-cluding scoring (7th), rebound-ing (9th), field goal percent-age (12th) and blocked shots (3rd).
Despite all of the attention she receives on the court, it is clear that Burke is not
satisfied with her play. Her meek spirit has her constantly looking for ways to improve her game and
her presence on the court.
Any person that speaks to Burke about this season’s basketba l l team would quickly dis-cover that she is humble. She doesn’t like to talk about the positive sides of
her gameplay and is quick to criti-cize herself while never criticizing
her teammates.“I feel like I haven’t done my part
in being consistent,” Burke said. “Part of that contributes to my team’s inconsistency.”
Burke is also able to easily recog-nize her weaknesses. Some of the things she notices that she needs to work on include being more vocal, staying focused and holding her head up high when things are not going her way.
In basketball, most winning pro-grams have players that are able to step up as leaders. Burke identifies this area of her game as a weakness,
as well, but has tried to improve it this as the season has progressed.
“I keep saying it, but I really need to take on that leadership role, espe-cially now when we’re almost right in the middle of ACC (play) and our time is very limited,” Burke said. “So it is very important for me to do so.”
Listening to her speak, it is clear that Burke has a desire to step into that leadership role. The passion in her voice makes it obvious that she is striving to achieve that.
“I want to try and get lost in the
A silver lining in the WolfpackWOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Junior forward Kody Burke drives to the net during the women’s basketball game against Michigan State in the Big Ten Challenge in Reynolds Coliseum Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. The Spartans lead the Wolfpack 39-32 at the half.
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Head coach of the men’s tennis team, Jon Choboy, knows what he is doing when it comes to re-cruiting.
Choboy and the rest of the coaching staff signed two excep-tional athletes, both from Texas, in November.
“We got two of the best play-ers in Texas,” said Choboy, refer-ring to Ian Dempster and Parker McGuiness. “They’re good kids who come from good fam-ilies. They work really hard, and so we are excit-ed to work with them.”
Choboy added that the Pack is currently pursuing another high-profile recruit.
“He’ll be a very inf luential player if we are able to get him,” said Choboy.
The incoming freshmen, whomever they may be, are going to have to rise to the occasion of a quickly accelerating N.C. State tennis program.
The 2012-2013 team has a more difficult schedule than Choboy has seen in many seasons. As a result, the coaching staff is mak-ing some definite adjustments.
“We have made practice re-quire a lot more of their atten-tion, a lot of more of their focus. It’s a lot more demanding physi-cally,” said Choboy. “That’s go-ing to pay off for us down the road.”
As far as Choboy is concerned, the development of his young athletes in practice needs to pay off in matches, and soon. Plenty
of freshmen and sophomores will play in the lineup against multiple nationally ranked teams.
Choboy expects Thomas Wei-gel, a freshman from Germany, to hold a spot in the top-six for singles, as well as a spot on court three doubles with sophomore Austin Powell. Another fresh-man, Simon Noreniusn of Swe-den, is on the second doubles team and is likely to play in the top six for singles as well. Soph-
omores Pow-ell and Robbie Mudge will be included in the rotation of top court sing les play.
So far, the lineup is show-ing a lot of po-tential, even af-
ter early concern that the dou-bles match-ups would not have enough time to mature.
“We did pretty well; young players have done really well in tournaments,” Choboy said.
Choboy believes it helps that the athletes get along well both on and off the court. Almost all of them live together, adding tre-mendously to the overall team dynamic.
“There’s a lot of camaraderie off the court with this team,” acknowledged Choboy.
The Wolfpack plays Penn State on Saturday. If all is well, the younger and older players alike will tap into the camaraderie and potential they showed in the fall portion of the season and come back to Raleigh with the first win of the year.
“There’s a lot of
camaraderie off
the court with
this team.”Jon Choboy,
men’s tennis head coach
“I feel like I
haven’t done my
part in being
consistent.”Kody Burke,
junior forward
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WednesdaySWIMMING AND DIVING V. VIRGINIA TECHCasey Aquatic Center, 3 p.m.
MEN’S BASKETBALL V. MARYLANDCollege Park, Md., 7 p.m.
ThursdayWOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. MARYLANDCollege Park, Md., 8:30 p.m.
FridayGYMNASTICS V. NEW HAMPSHIREDurham, N.H., 7 p.m.
WRESTLING V. AMERICANReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.
TRACK AT HOKIE INVITATIONALBlacksburg, Va., All Day
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ATHLETIC SCHEDULE
COMMENTARYMEN’S TENNIS
STORY BY NOLAN EVANS | PHOTO BY JOHN JOYNER
