Ty JohnsonNews Editor

Three days after the street closed for the Hillsborough Re-naissance, Hillsborough Street merchants are hoping for anoth-er big day of sales as the street hosts a St. Patrick’s Day Pajama hike.

According to Alan Lovette, owner of Melvin’s and Five O’Clock Sports Bar, the addi-

tion of the pajama hike came on the heels of this fall’s Haunted Hillsborough Hike.

The six “festivals” include the fall and spring hikes, the Taste of Hillsborough, Haunted Hillsborough Hike, the Renais-sance, and the St. Patrick’s Day Pajama hike.

“It’ll be great for business,” Lovette said.

Merchants will be offering incentives tonight, including

bar golf. Customers can pick up score cards at several locations on Hillsborough street, includ-ing Katmandu, East Village, Red Hot & Blues, and Sadlack’s. Lovette said the addition of the golf activity is intended to in-clude those who may shy away from wearing pajamas out in public.

“In case people don’t want to wear pajamas, they can wear golf clothing,” Lovette said. “Golfers

can wear just about anything.”Lovette said RPD’s approval of

six festivals a year should help out the businesses and clean up what he called “the front door of [N.C. State’s] campus.”

“The past couple years, the street has been at its all time low,” Lovette said. “But there are several things that will make it better.”

Lovette said Hillsborough Street merchants are looking to create a 100 foot buffer around campus to keep beggars away. They are also trying to persuade establishments to allow pay-ment through an on-campus meal plan and increase parking

awareness.One of the plans that will es-

pecially effect Melvin’s and Five O’Clock is the city of Raleigh’s facade grant assistance program. The program will pay 50 percent of businesses’ investment into their entrances.

“We’re putting in garage doors so it’ll be open,” Lovette said.

Lovette said the open doors will allow customers to sit out-side in the street and allow pass-ers by to hear the live music com-ing from inside the restaurant. The restaurant has already pur-chased special bistro tables with heaters inside to keep patrons warm while they sit outside.

“They make it ten degrees warmer,” Lovette said.

Lovette said the street’s future is dependent on the festivals, but said the revitalization of the area is very much connected with the renovations as well.

“Business will be much bet-ter overall in the future if the street is improved,” Lovette said. “[Hillsborough Street should be] a place where alumni, residents and students can congregate.”

And although rain kept many away during Saturday’s Renais-sance, Lovette has kept a close watch on today’s forecast.

“65 and sunny,” Lovette said.

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With the Raleigh Police Department’s approval in the fall of Hillsborough Street having six annual hikes, merchants are gearing up for tonight’s St. Patrick’s Day Pajama Hike.

Vandalism returns to campaigningCandidates have signs damaged, plan to distribute more this week

James CoxStaff Writer

As candidates for student body president enter the second week of campaigning, sandwich-board signs are littered about campus, though vandalism and staggered campaigning starts have limited the amount of visible signs.

So far, Jim Ceresnak, a junior in political science, and Anup Engineer, a senior in business administration, said they both have about 80 signs arranged around campus and Korne-lius Bascombe, a sophomore in criminology, said he has about 30 signs up.

Already there has been contro-versy concerning candidate sup-porters damaging the campaign materials of opponents.

Bascombe said Ceresnak’s supporters are tearing down his campaign signs. “Jim is a good, honest guy,” Baracomb said, but he said Ceresnak’s supporters are being disrespectful.

“It is dirty politics,” Bascombe said.

Bascombe said he talked with Andrew Tucker, chairman of the Elections Commission, about the vandalism, but Tucker said with-out names, there was nothing he could do.

Candidate Amber Joyner, a senior in political science, said all the candidates need to realize signs get broken.

“You plan for that to happen,” she said.

Engineer echoed Joyner’s senti-ments.

“Those things are fair game,” he said.

Engineer said he understands that to some on campus, signs make good skateboard jumps but denied not caring about the welfare of his signs.

“I’m a realist,” he said. “Ideally, I would place my signs wherever I wish.”

Adam Cloninger, a junior in international studies, said he would be angry if his signs were damaged but lamented that damaged signs are just the a part of the campaigning process.

“Skateboards tear stuff up and there’s nothing to do about it,” Cloninger said.

Another reason for the lack of signs around campus has been varying ideas on how to cam-paign. Ceresnak said signs were his “number one priority” and Cloninger said his signs will be “popping up” all over campus this week.

Joyner, however, is running her campaign with a focus on word of mouth rather than visible ad-vertisements.

Both views are different from Engineer’s.

“There’s a lot of people on cam-pus, even if we had 500 signs, there would still be people who didn’t know who we are,” Engi-neer said.

Ceresnak said there may be more signs outside today, where-as Engineer said he was done placing signs unless it was nec-essary for him to put up more. Cloninger and Joyner said they were planning to have more signs up today.

“I didn’t want to be in the first wave,” Cloninger said, adding he felt people get sick of seeing signs throughout the campaign.

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The training followed a pancake break-fast prepared in the field using materials that would be available to soldiers in an actual conflict.

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Andrea Beals, senior in biological sciences, watches as ‘Precious’ the pig sniffs her hand. “I love animals, every time they have Agriculture Awareness Week I come out. They’re really sweet. The cows and pigs are my favorite.” Agriculture Awareness Week serves the purpose of educating students about agriculture and its importance in their community.

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Agriculture Awareness Week continues today on the Brickyard and will go through Thursday. The annual event promotes ag-riculture and is sponsored by Alpha Zeta Fraternity.

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There will be an Alpha Zeta booth on the Brickyard as well, with raffle tickets and T-shirts sold throughout the week.

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President Barack Obama signed an ex-ecutive order March 9 nullifying the ban of federally funded embryonic stem cell research implemented by former President George W. Bush.

Delineating the various positive scien-tific advancements that the institution of federal funding will allow, Obama pays homage to advocates while admonishing respect for the “many thoughtful and de-cent people [that] are conflicted about, or strongly oppose, this research”.

According to Daniel Graham, adjunct political science professor, the conf lict

stems not only from a question of moral-ity but also from the rhetoric and tactics that influential individuals used on both sides of the debate.

“Of course, when you get two sides de-bating something that controversial, you are always going to spin it the way that makes your side look the most benign and their side look the most ridiculous,” he said. “[Then] it all goes back to the old abortion debates.”

This issue displacement enabled “our government [to] force what I believe is a false choice between sound science and

moral values,” Obama said. Corroborating Obama’s point, Dr.

Jonathan Horowitz, associate professor of oncology in the College of Veterinary Medicine in the department of molecular biomedical science, cited a lack of knowl-edge as a contribution to this perceived division.

“There is some confusion out there be-cause people think … maybe [stem cell research] can get along without all this fed-eral funding and it turns out that is really not true,” Horowitz said. “Yes, stem cells can be manufactured in other ways, and yes there are existing stem cells … but what it comes down to what we really need is the real thing and we need them form more sources, [so] we

definitely need the funding.” Graham said the cloudiness of the

political arena with extraneous and emotional, rather than fact-based, information has forced more divi-sions on the issue.

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The conflict surrounding the debate of whether to support em-bryonic stem cell research continues among students and faculty this week, especially at a research university like N.C. State.

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Adult stem cells hold the key

President Obama asserted that his administration’s policies are based “on the soundest science” in lift-

ing the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell (ESC) research and cutting federal funding for adult stem cell (ASC) research. While research on embryonic stem cells has yet to yield a single medical therapy, adult stem cells for which Obama refuses to provide funding have yielded treatments for more than 70 human conditions.

Early on, ESCs were expected to pro-vide breakthrough medical treatments. However, ESC research has been a colos-

sal failure. To date, not a single medical condition has been treated using embryonic stem cells. Until this year, the FDA had not approved a human trial for any ESC treatment. After more than 20 years of animal research, scientists do not have a way of preventing tumors caused by uncontrollable growth, immune-rejection of foreign cells and genetic abnormali-ties caused by ESCs. Meanwhile, adult stem cells provide a

Embryos are humans, too

President Barack Obama over-turned a ban on taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research last

week, which combined with a provision in Wednesday’s spending bill, will allow for research on hundreds of existing stem cell lines. Under former President Bush’s policy, federal funding for embryonic stem cell research was banned on all but 21 previously specified stem-cell lines.

Stem cells can be found in almost any multi-celled organism. They are special because they are able to differentiate into

any other kind of cell found in the body, and medical profes-sionals have hope that they will some day be able to use this capability to treat many conditions for which we currently have no cure. There are several different types of stem cells, and the type that finds itself the most entrenched in contro-versy is embryonic stem cells. In order to obtain these stem cells, researchers must collect them from an embryo. This collection process destroys the embryo when it is about five days old.

Support Stem Cell Research

Like many others across this coun-try, I was filled with excitement and hope as I watched President Barack

Obama sign the executive order to re-verse restrictions on stem cell research last week.

First and foremost, what a stem cell is needs to be clarified. For most Americans, one thinks only of the embryonic stem cells, but adult stem cells do exist and are an integral part of this medical research as well. The difference between the two

is that embryonic stem cells have the potential to become anything in the body, while adult stem cells already have a predestination to become a specific cell, tissue or organ. There are pros and cons with both and really which type of cell to use for a potential treatment in the future will depend on the patient and condition.

The hope is that adult stem cells would be able to help pa-tients who have damage to an area and can use their own cells that are working properly to replace the damaged cells. This would reduce the risk of rejection by one’s immune system.

Brittany Farrell Research associate, North Carolina Family Policy CouncilEconomics & Political Science alumna ‘08

Sarah Hardinsophomore, communicationPresident, N.C. State Students for Life

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Educate yourself about stem cell research

President Barack Obama reversed President George W. Bush’s ban on federal funding for the creation of new embry-onic stem cell lines March 9. Obama’s decision may have the potential to save lives, according to stem cell scientists.

It is important to understand that this news is relevant to students because people are doing research on stem cells in our own backyard. In fact, Wake Forest and Duke are some of the leading stem cell researchers in the country and are constantly in the media for their findings.

Though the N.C. State deals mostly with animal embryonic stem cell research, such as harvesting stem cells for bone marrow transplants for canines, Obama’s reversal of Bush’s restrictions opens up the possibility for more research on human embry-onic research on campus. The University may not have a medical school, but it is one of the best research institutions in the

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“You’ve got scientific disagree-ments…carrying over into po-litical and ethical debates and the media made it sound more absolutist than it really was,” he said.

Regardless of personal opinion, government funding has been approved and Obama reminded individuals to have reasonable expectations but encouraged excitement that many seem to share.

“It’s about time,” Horowitz said. “This is a very welcomed move by the president, and it is something most basic biologists have been hoping for years.”

With the initiation of Bush’s federal funding ban, scientific research in general was made far more difficult, Horowitz said.

“Imagine a situation where you laboratory is studying [embry-onic] stem cells and you have fortunately been able to obtain private funding for those stud-ies,” he continued. “Now, your laboratory may be receiving federal funding for a different project that has nothing to do with stem cells…because of the prior administrations position …a lab like that would have to have duplication of everything -- you could not use, for example, a pipette that was bought with federal funds [so] a whole bunch of money was totally wasted sim-ply because people had to build duplicate laboratories to do pri-vately funded research. It was unnecessary.”

Despite the former difficulties, there is now renewed promise as more money becomes available for projects that were infeasible before.

“The federal government is still the number one source for research funding … and many projects never saw the light of day because there simply weren’t enough private funds to go around,” Horowitz said.

Horowitz also discussed the implications that Obama’s deci-sion could have on the Univer-sity, citing the Jimmy V Foun-dation, a cancer foundation that gave the University one million dollars “to help train high school, undergraduate, and graduate students in all kinds of aspects of cancer research.”

“The hope [is] that NCSU will play a big role in producing the next generation of cancer biolo-gists,” he said. “One of the ar-eas that students in the Jimmy V Program can study is in the area of stem cell research as it can have an impact on cancer research [since cancer cells and

stem cells are very similar both proliferating in a manner atypi-cal to normal cells].”

Dr. David Threadgill, head of the genetics department, added to Horowitz’s expected outcome with respect to the University saying that although, most of the stem cell research here in-volves animal embryonic stem cells the executive order allows for recruiting of new research professors with new interests and new modes.

“Given the severity of the dis-eases the biomedical research is trying to alleviate we need to be open-minded with the tools we have access to including hu-man embryonic stem cells [and the United States now] has the ability to explore therapies [that were] limited to other research-ers in other countries,” Thread-gill said.

Cecilia Robinson, a sophomore

majoring in human biology and Spanish, said she understands that human embryonic stem cell research will undoubtedly be a part of her future and is very

excited. “I understand the ethical issues

… but I feel like it is a necessary science,” she said.

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For this instance, those suffering from spinal cord injuries could benefit greatly and potentially regain their ability to walk again.

For other conditions such as type-1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, embryonic stem cells would be more beneficial since scientists could engineer new functioning cells to replace the nonfunctioning cells in the body – this is the fundamental benefit to using embryonic stem cells in research alongside adult stem cell research, the ability to grow new tissue and cells to replace damaged areas in the body where adult stem cells would be of no help.

Another potential benefit through this research would be easing the strain on our nation’s organ donor network. Most of us only think about organ donation when we decided whether or not to be an organ donor at the DMV when we filled out infor-mation for our driver’s license. Unfortunately, there are simply not enough organ donors in the United States to meet demands. Stem cell research could help lower the demand, by fixing the damaged organ with stem cell therapy as opposed to needing a donation. This would free up donations to critically ill patients. For me, this potential is personal since my mother suffers from multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease in which the immune system attacks the myelin in the nervous system.

For years, I have read about countries such as Japan pushing forward with stem cell research, but not un-der the best regulations. It was scary to think that one day a potential cure for her MS could come from a country with lax federal regulations, but I’m excited to finally see my country making progress. I hope one day she’ll never use her cane to walk, rely on post it notes for memory or not be able to sit on the beach because it interacts with her medication.

Over these next years, I hope you can share in the excitement with research breakthroughs and therapies because of the hard work of scientists with federal support. Until that day comes, all of those knowing someone with a disease or condition that could be cured by stem cell therapy will have to keep wearing our awareness ribbons and attending our fundraiser walks to support those that we love.

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Embryos eventually grow into fetuses two months after conception.

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This is the source of the controversy surrounding this research. Is it ethical to destroy a human embryo used for research, and is it even ethical to use a human embryo for this kind of research? Human embryos are living human beings, differing from the average college student only in their size and their development. At conception, two separate entities, the egg and the sperm, unite to form a single entity, the embryo. At this point, the embryo is a genetically unique being, something completely different than the cells it just came from.

An embryo is growing, so it is alive. An embryo comes from human egg and sperm, so it is human.

Obama’s overturn of Bush’s ban makes it legal for our money to pay for these experiments on these smallest of human beings.

Although there has been research on embryonic stem cells for about ten years, there are no approved treat-ments or even trials in humans using embryonic stem cells. Wouldn’t it make more sense for this research to be performed on other types of stem cells that don’t carry the ethical dilemma of destroying a human life? Even if the point at which human life begins was debatable, wouldn’t a good way to continue this research be to use adult stem cells found in umbilical cord blood? These stem cells are disposed of regularly as medical waste. Why not use waste rather than human life to experiment on new ways to im-prove human life and health?

Adult stem cells, like those found in umbilical cord blood, have proven to be successful. One example is of a woman who was thought to be paralyzed after a car ac-cident. Stem cells were taken from her nose and injected into her spine, and she is slowly regaining control of her limbs. Researchers found that stem cells from the spleen contain a protein that was previously thought to only be found in embryos. Another example is an FDA-approved study in which stem cells were taken from bone marrow and injected into the heart, where they differentiated into heart tissue and improved the lives of patients.

These adult stem cells carry all the benefits that many attribute to embryonic stem cells, but with none of the ethical dilemma or protest. In many cases, these stem cells are otherwise thought of as medical waste! If taxpayers’ money must go to fund stem cell research, why not make it research that does not involve taking a human life?

constant stream of medical successes. The FDA has approved more than 1,400 human clinical trials involving ASC therapy. The more than 70 human con-ditions currently being treated because of ASCs includes ar-thritis, brain tumors, bone, breast, leuke-mia, liver, lymphoma, ovarian, prostate and testicular cancers, cerebral palsy, con-gestive heart failure, corneal reconstruc-tion, coronary artery disease, Crohn’s dis-ease, fractures, graft vs. host disease, heart tissue regeneration, immune deficiency, kidney damage, Lu-pus, multiple sclerosis, nerve regenera-tion, neuroblastoma, organ replacement, Parkinson’s disease, pulmonary hyper-tension, sickle cell anemia, spinal cord injury, tendon and ligament damage, type 1 diabetes and more.

Initial concerns regarding adult stem cells’ inability to differentiate into differ-ent cell types like ESCs were put to rest in 2007 when Japanese biologists were able to easily reprogram ASCs to an embry-onic state. Dr. Anthony Atala of the In-stitute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine also used ASCs from amniotic fluid to create “muscle, bone, fat, blood vessel, nerve and liver cells.”

In October 2008, a research team at the Salk Institute for Biological Stud-ies produced embryonic-like induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) from ASCs. Adult stem cells from a variety of sources like bone marrow, umbilical cord blood and placental tissues can now be repro-

grammed “to become all the cell types in the human body, including heart muscle cells and dopamine-producing neurons,” according to the Salk report. Dr. Juan Calos Izpisua Belmonte, who lead the research team sees tremendous benefit in this “efficient and practical way of generating patient-specific stem cells, which unlike human embryonic stem cells, wouldn’t be rejected by the patient’s

immune system after transplantation.”

According to Di-rector of Education for the Nat iona l Catholic Bioethics Center Rev. Dr. Ta-deusz Pacholczyk, “Research using adult cells is 20 to 30 years ahead of embryonic stem cells and holds greater promise… because stem cells are

part of the natural repair mechanisms of an adult body, while embryonic stem cells do not belong in an adult body (where they are likely to form tumors and be rejected as foreign tissue by the recipient). Rather, embryonic stem cells really belong only within the specialized microenvironment of rapidly growing embryo, which is a radically different setting from an adult body.”

Regardless of the ethical questions sur-rounding ESC research, the utter failure of ESCs to provide any medical benefit juxtaposed with the tremendous benefit already realized through ASCs should be enough “sound science” to direct scarce federal dollars toward research that has a proven history of yielding re-sults. President Obama’s executive order is clearly based on something less than the “soundest science” and he owes the American people an honest explanation for such irresponsible spending and dis-regard for both scientific results and ethi-cal practices.

“President Obama’s executive order is clearly based on something less

than the ‘soundest science.’”

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country and may become a likely place to study embryonic stem cells in the coming years.

Also, the University shares the De-partment of Biomedical Engineering with UNC-Cha-pel Hill, which connects N.C. State’s College of Engineering and UNC’s School of Medicine and in-creases the possi-bility of research-ing stem cells on campus in the future.

Understanding what scientists are researching on stem cells is just as im-portant as coming up with a stance on the subject may be important to what could happen in the future.

Learn the pros and cons of stem cell research on your own, and don’t adopt your political party’s stance on the issue without researching how this could affect people. Find

out what kind of research is going on, not only in our state but also in the world. Learn the implications of what could happen now and whether the positives outweigh the negatives or vice versa.

The University offers classes that touch on the issue of stem cell re-search, such as biotechnology eth-

ics, and there is also an exorbitant amount of credible literature on the subject of stem cell research on the Inter-net. There is a plethora of information on the subject, so take advan-tage.

Also, now that Obama allows federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, it is important to understand that you

have a voice in what happens to that money. Get in contact with your senators and representatives and let them know your stance on stem cell research, but realize the difference between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells and the implications for each one.

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“Find out what kind of research is going on, not only in our state but also in the

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the winning side, not on the side we may believe to be correct economically.

3. Mental Capital Trumps Real Capital. Capital comes in two types,

mental and real, and the former is far more valuable than the latter. Holding losing positions costs measurable real capital, but it costs immeasurable mental capital.

4. This Is Not A Business Of Buying Low And Selling High. It is,

however, a business of buying high and selling higher. Strength tends to beget strength, and weakness, weakness.

5. In Bull Markets One Can Only Be Long Or Neutral, And In Bear

Markets, One Can Only Be Short Or Neutral. This may seem self-evident; few understand it however, and fewer still embrace it.

6. “Markets Can Remain Illogical Far Longer Than You Or I Can

Remain Solvent.” These are Keynes’ words, and illogic does often reign, despite what the academics would have us believe.

7. Buy Markets That Show The Greatest Strength; Sell Markets That Show The Greatest Weakness. Metaphorically, when bearish we need to throw rocks into the wettest paper sacks, for they break most easily. When bullish we need to sail the strongest winds, for they carry the farthest.

8. Think Like A Fundamentalist; Trade Like A Simple Technician.

The fundamentals may drive a market and we need to understand them, but if the chart is not bullish, why be bullish? Be bullish when the technicals and fundamentals, as you understand them, run in tandem.

9. Trading Runs In Cycles, Some Good, Most Bad. Trade large and

aggressively when trading well; trade small and ever smaller when trading poorly. In good times, even errors turn to profits; in bad times, the most well-researched trade will go awry. This is the nature of trading; accept it and move on.

10. Keep Your Technical Systems Simple. Complicated systems breed

confusion; simplicity breeds elegance. The great traders we’ve known have the simplest methods of trading. There is a correlation here!

11. In Trading or Investing, An Understanding of Mass Psychology

Is Often More Important Than an Understanding of Economics. Simply put, “When they are cryin’, you should be buyin’! And when they are yellin’, you should be sellin’!”

12. Bear Market Corrections Are More Violent And Far Swifter Than

Bull Market Corrections. Why they are is still a mystery to us, but they are; we accept it as fact and we move on.

13. There Is Never Just One Cockroach. The lesson of bad news on

most stocks is that more shall follow — usually hard upon and always with detrimental effect upon price, until such time as panic prevails and the weakest hands finally exit their positions.

14. Be Patient With Winning Trades; Be Enormously Impatient With

Losing Trades. The older we get, the more small losses we take each year — and our profits grow accordingly.

15. Do More Of That Which Is Working And Less Of That Which Is Not.

This works in life as well as trading. Do the things that have been proven of merit. Add to winning trades; cut back or eliminate losing ones. If there is a secret to trading (and of life), this is it.

16. All Rules Are Meant To Be Broken — But Only Very, Very

Infrequently. Genius comes in knowing how truly infrequently one can do so and still prosper.

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Morgan McCormickSenior Staff Writer

Jazz is the kind of music I listen to when I need to get away from the rest of my music collection. I can only listen to so much Ice-landic metal, so much Lo-fi indie post-punk rock, so much Cher...I mean, Bob Dylan, before I just get tired.

I go to jazz when I need to close my eyes and quiet the world. I go to jazz to hear Nina Simone wail while her band hits any note they feel like, or Thelonious Monk to hear the best pianist that ever bebop’d his way out of North Carolina. I listen to it to hear the romance of a good vocalist, whose band are the arms and legs of softly played notes that just breathe.

And now, I listen to John Piz-zarelli.

“I think the lucky part is that I learned the repertoire, I worked with a lot of people twenty years older than me. They introduced me to the songs and not just the song writers,” Pizzarelli said. The Jazz guitarist/vocalist is re-flecting on how he learned his trade back in his 20.

“I found out about the history of the music, I was soaking it all in and not really knowing what it was. Learning all that, [the] in-formation started coming back to me‚“ Pizzarelli said.

Striking out on his own at 20, Pizzarelli’s travels over 25 years later will bring him to Stew-art Theatre, Wednesday night at 8pm. It’s hard to doubt the man’s massive catalogue, which has seen a new Pizzarelli album every year for the last 20-some years. “Prolific” doesn’t even seem to cover it.

“As a Jazz artist it’s not that hard. I think there’s so much

material, mostly as a vocalist,” Pizzarelli said. “It’s a pretty good world to choose material from. There’s so much of it. If you really do your homework, you can find tons of material. If I was writing my own material it’d take longer, but my tours are mostly record generated. When you make another record, you go on tour.”

Pizzarelli is known for using a

wealth of material from artists like Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole and even The Beatles. His latest album, With A Song In My Heart, looks at the body of work of the Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy, Pulitzer Prize winning Richard Rodgers of Rodgers and Ham-merstein, and it’s this album that will make up the second half of his performance here on campus.

“We’ll play pretty much the entire record within the evening,” Pizzarelli said. “We break the evening up into two halves. We play sort of a sum-mation of material of the 18 records from all that time, and then we’ll concentrate on the things from the Rodgers record.”

Part of the love he has for jazz is simply genetics. His father is Bucky Pizzarelli, the 83 year old jazz guitarist who is still putting out records to this day. I asked how much that had to do with how he got into the industry.

“I think it’s just...for me I was lucky because my father was in the business,” said Pizzarelli. “I was in the fam-ily business, but I could still stand on my own feet.”

His talent, more than any-thing, seems to have gotten him this far.

He spent ten years just play-ing bars, night clubs and any-where else he could find to get his music out there.

“I think the thing that was most important was the concerts,” Pizzarelli said. “I always treated them impor-tantly, they all had the same significance to me. You try to find your voice, and also re-alize the value of... knowing your material and trusting it.”

Jazz is not about over think-ing things like style and ex-ecution.

Jazz is all about taking you to a place, a moment in time, where there’s nothing but you and the music. That’s the way it should be with any good music, and that’s the way it is with Pizzarelli.

Pizzarelli to perform Wednesday

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Program buys student artMorgan McCormickSenior Staff Writer

It seems fair to say that art is something a lot of people are afraid of getting into. They look upon the work of other artists and say “I can’t do that,” and they repeat it to themselves like a mantra, saying it’s something only artists can do.

When I first heard about the Ninth Annual Student Art Pur-chase, that was the first thing that came to mind.

For those who don’t know, ev-ery year since 2001, Campus Arts Council (CAC) has re-quested that students inter-ested in having their work pur-chased by the University sub-mit their pieces at the end of March. It can be any two-dimensional work (paint-ings, photography, etc.) that is no larger than 52 inches by 52 inches, is ready to hang and is set at a price at or below $400.

I had to ask: Isn’t this really just for Art & Design majors and the like?

“Not at all, we really aim to invite all students to participate and be purchased,” said Tara Connolly. A junior in arts ap-plications, she’s also the student of CAC’s Student Art Purchase this year.

“We have as many of the engi-neers as we do design students submitting,” says Connolly. “The University purchased one by a Ph.D. Physics student last year, so no, we do not discriminate, we just look for good art.”

Not only did the art purchased last year include a Ph.D. in phys-

ics, it included two engineers, a communications major, a vet student and an art & design stu-dent who also majored in span-ish.

Where does the art go if the University decides to purchase it?

“Previously purchased art hanging on the third and fourth floors of Talley,” Connolly says. “This is not cookie cutter art. Each piece has a different flavor with ranging palettes, themes, tones, sizes and mediums. It is

a very dynamic collection that speaks to the diversity that each student brings to the NC State com-munity.”

Bracken Lin-er, a junior in ar ts applica-tions, is using this as her first opportunity to offer her art-

work for purchase. “I received a canvas from a friend of mine,” Liner said. “It’s the first I’d ever had and I painted on it and I didn’t know what to do [with] it. So I thought I’d try my hand at entering it in the Student Art Purchase. It would be a chance to get my name out to NC State Campus, to get my work posted and a chance to sell my first piece.”

The economy has affected the purchasing capabilities of the program.

“There are budgetary con-cerns,” said Connolly. “Budget was reduced, almost cut entirely due to the budget crisis. We will not be able to purchase many pieces this year but we still en-courage everyone to submit.”

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Jazz artist Ryan Leslie arranges, mixes, produces, writes his first studio album

“People keep thinking art is wasting money, they see it as friv-olous spending,” Connolly says. “But it’s just another industry.”

If art is a waste of money, I challenge people to stop listen-

ing to music, to stop reading. I challenge people to stop watch-ing movies, to miss their child’s first elementary school play. And after doing all that, I want some-one to tell me whether or not that is a world worth living in.

Art is something everyone is capable of, and in between the madness of the end of this semes-

ter and the many projects you’re trying to finish, I ask that people go out and make an art thing for themselves. You can draw what-ever, collage whatever, say what-ever. And know that come March 30th, there’s a way to put it back into the world.

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Every so often, music produc-ers are able to make the transfor-mation from behind the scenes to becoming a recording artist seamlessly. Such is the case with Ryan Leslie, who has emerged as a promising star in the R&B world, releasing what will be called one of the best R&B al-

bums of 2009, the self-titled Ryan Leslie.

Leslie, a Harvard University graduate by age 19, was first signed to Universal Records in 2003 and later released two singles, “Used to Be” and “The

Way That U Move Girl.” The singles failed to chart, and the album, Just Right was shelved in-definitely. Without support from his record label, the singer, song-writer, multi-instrumentalist and engineer began to produce for acts including Cassie, Danity Kane, and Beyoncé with the pro-ceeds financing his own project.

Ryan Leslie, the long awaited debut entirely mixed, produced, written and arranged by Leslie kicks off with the up-tempo retro R&B sounding “Diamond Girl”. On the track, Leslie sings of how he’s found the one that’s he’s ready to “put the rock on.” Throughout the album, Leslie does his fair share of rapping and it works.

Next up is the second single, “Addiction,” featuring Bad Boy artist Cassie and Fabolous, where Leslie explains his obsession with a lady love. The live multilayered arrangement makes it one of the albums best.

Fol lowing “Addiction” is “You’re Fly,” an ode to a woman Leslie feels is the pinnacle of beauty. The cut is reminiscent production-wise of legendary R&B group Frankie Beverly and Maze with its catchy melody and guitar riffs.

“Quicksand”‚ “Valentine” and the piano drive “I.R.I.N.A.” are stand outs on the album. “Quicksand”, a funky groove which sounds like a Neptunes production, has Leslie telling

how he is “emotional” falling deeply in an inescapable love, while the Keyboard-driven “Val-entine” has Leslie professing his love to a prospective mate.

On “Wanna Be Good” and “Just Right”, Leslie tries out his falsetto invoking the spirit of Curtis Mayfield, while pro-claiming how he lives to please the perfect woman for him.

The hard-hitting third single, “How It Was Supposed To Be”, featuring rapper Jadakiss, asks questions of what could’ve and should’ve been with a relation-ship gone awry, while the more melancholy while “Out of the Blue” and “Shouldn’t Have to Wait” conjure of feelings if in-fidelity.

Closing out the album is the very appropriately titled “Gib-berish”, seeing as you can only understand every 10th word. Vocoder and finger snaps in tow, Leslie expresses the moments of speechlessness that may oc-cur when we meet that special someone.

Ryan Leslie overall is a mid-tempo feel good album with tales love and longing, featuring a combination of live instru-mentation and heavily synthe-sized tracks. His fresh approach, multi-faceted production and engaging lyrics make him one of the best chances R&B music has to survive, but only if he con-tinues marching to the beat of his own drum.

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Sarah EwaldStaff Writer

A pack of blue dogs tears through city streets and al-leyways, barking at something ahead, unseen. These mangy hounds gallop at a frenetic pace, a perfect counterpart to the kinetic industrial electronica playing on the soundtrack while the open-ing credits roll. The dogs scatter people and upset outdoor furni-ture in their wake, and still keep running. Finally, one dog stops, then another, and soon enough, the entire pack is standing still at the edge of the sidewalk, look-ing skywards. They’re peering at a shadowy figure framed by a window on the top floor of a high rise. The figure pulls the window shade down.

So begins Waltz with Bashir, a critically acclaimed film that was Israel’s entry into the Best Foreign Language Film category for the 81st Academy Awards,

and one that made many critics year-end best-of lists. The film is based on personal experiences of the director, Ari Folman. The name “Bashir” refers to Lebanese politician Bashir Gemayel. Ge-mayel was assassinated before the Sabra and Shatila massacre, an event that serves as a focal point for the film.

The film is playing at Cary’s Galaxy Cinema, a theatre well-known for its emphasis on inde-pendent and foreign films.

Waltz with Bashir is equal parts meet-and-greet, flashback and dream sequences (also known as “did it or didn’t it happen?”). Many characters are introduced, for varying lengths of screen time, to lend Ari their recollec-tions so that he may piece togeth-er his own memory of army time served. Flashback and dream se-quences are distinguishable from each other through use of color. Flashbacks are fairly realistic, using desert hues such as olive

and tan. Dream sequences utilize very bright and unrealistic col-ors, making use of caution-tape yellow to illuminate the city dur-ing the massacre scene, and vari-ous electric blues for the dogs.

The animation style mainly deals in color blocks, adding in certain pertinent details with-out overwhelming the viewer with information. It is remi-niscent of Frank Miller’s color-blocking used in the movie “Sin

City” crossed with the story-telling detail of Daniel Clowes. The animation style is neither hyper-realistic nor excessively dream-like, allowing room for both realism and imagination in the course of the story.

The documentary aspect fig-ures prominently throughout the film, with new characters intro-duced with their full names giv-en in the right-hand corner of the screen, and written in both Eng-

lish and Hebrew characters. (The film’s characters speak in Ger-man.) It is also emphasized near the end when a couple of minor characters are interviewed. Dur-ing these exchanges, Ari is not seen within the frame (as he had been in times previously), but his voice is heard asking the inter-viewee questions.

A couple of scenes stand out notably from the rest. One such scene concerns Ari’s friend Frankel, who has been assigned a smaller, less powerful gun than he normally uses. After attempt-ing to persuade a fellow soldier to switch guns with him, Frankel boldly strides into the center of the street (in front of the ditch where his comrades reside) and begins shooting. What follows is almost balletic. Frankel’s fancy footwork and graceful turns are similar to pointe work executed by a dancer’s toes.The camera swoops around him like a devot-ed supporting partner. The use

of tinkling piano music (instead of the usual techno) underscores the parallel to dance.

In the last few minutes of the film, the style abruptly switches from animation to real life. The switch occurs after the cam-era pans over the heads of the mourning women en masse, and when it becomes real foot-age, the camera focuses on the tear-streaked faces of each one for a few moments. The camera-work adds dimension, layering in shaky, hand-held effects and graininess of the image to lend pathos to the scene at hand.

In short, Waltz with Bashir is a stylized tale of one man’s search for the truth. For him, the truth involves violence and destruc-tion. Scenes are very well real-ized, some to the point that they haunt the viewer long after hav-ing been seen. The documentary style works well given the subject matter, and the story is highly ef-fective.

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Sportswhere N.C. State is. When people think of collegiate bass fishing, even in the professional realm, they know N.C. State.”

Josh Hooks, sophomore in in-dustrial engineering, agreed that the BassPack name alone would be enough to gain some attention for himself down the road.

“That’s something I would re-ally like to do in the future, and a prestigious name like N.C. State gets you out there a little further,” Hooks said.

Hooks participated in the Un-der Armour College Bass Na-tional Championships last year and participated on a team with Kozazcki in the College Bass East Super Regional March 7-8. The competition featured a two-day cumulative date, and each fish had to weigh a minimum of 12 pounds.

“It was open to the entire east-ern US,” Kozazcki said. “[Hooks and I] placed twelfth out of close to fifty teams.”

Eastern Kentucky University ran away with the competition after posting a score of 24.84, and N.C. State came in at 12th with a combined weight of 12.42.

“We had some boat trouble,

which pushed us back a little bit. We just never found the place where we could catch the kicker fish,” Hooks said. “We could have done better.”

Dziwulski, a Maryland native, and Kozazcki, who is from the Boston area, had impressive bass fishing pedigrees before their ac-ceptance into N.C. State. Both said the option of a bass fishing club was part of what lured them to N.C. State.

“I wanted to go to a school that had a really strong fishing team because I’ve grown up fishing all my life,” Dziwulski said. “I fished the Junior Bass-master Tra i l for kids 18 and younger and placed second in the world r ig ht before coming to N.C. State.”

The hobby was not only fun, but also profitable, according to Dziwulski.

“I made a lot more money fishing than I did working dur-ing high school, so I wanted to continue that into college,” Dzi-wulski said.

Dziwulski found out about the BassPack after posting on forums online. Jonathan Phillips, faculty advisor for BassPack, contacted him and invited him down to take a look at the school. It turned out to be the only school Dzi-wulski applied to.

“This year, I haven’t been competing so well because I don’t know any of these lakes really well,” Dziwulski said. “I’ve got at least three more

years here so I’ll be able to step it up.”

I n t h e imminent future, the BassPack will take on foes many N.C. State students will recog-nize. Several months ago, the BassPack

offered to take several Pack football players to Jordan Lake for a friendly competi-tion after it was discovered that the pigskin enthusiasts also enjoyed fishing in their spare time. The event will take place this weekend.

being successful are hard work, dedication, and teamwork. All three are philosophies Coach Al-len does a great job conveying to the team.”

The team faces the challenge of being young and having only three returning starters. Munoz said the team’s veterans look to continue to set the bar high through leading by example on the field.

“A lot of people think that club baseball is on the same level of preparation and competition as beer league softball,” Allen said. “Those people don’t go to the World Series or play for N.C. State. The ben-efit of having such a young team is that they are impres-sionable. We have real strong leadership and they do a great job of setting the example for how to prepare and play.”

Munoz currently leads the team, hitting .391 with 3 HR and 33 RBI.

“The new guys need to see us playing hard, hustling and hav-ing a positive and upbeat attitude towards the game,” Munoz said.

The club baseball team is three

weeks into the season and re-corded a 5-2 record as of March 13. Several players left the team due to injury or personal reasons

already during the season. “Even though we have lost

some guys, we are still in a great position to get back to [Fort Myers, Fla] and win the World

Ser ies ,” Mu-noz said. [Be-ing No. 4] we have a target on our backs and al l the teams we play are go-ing to come at us . We have just got to play fundamentally

sound baseball and keep work-ing to achieve our goal, a national championship.”

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Despite sickness, top-ranked freshman reaches NCAA Championships in first year of competition

Daniel EllisSports Editor

When redshirt freshman thrower La-wanda Henry traveled to Virginia for the Virginia Tech Elite Meet Feb. 6, she was already the first N.C. State woman to throw for more than 50 feet in the shot put. She had already achieved the unthinkable -- shattering the school record as a freshman. Nonetheless, she again outdid herself, recording the lon-gest throw of the ACC indoor season with a toss of 53-2 1/2.

“The first time [I broke the record] it was just barely, and I knew I had more in me,” Henry said. “So when I hit that 53-foot throw, it was definitely a big accomplishment for me.”

Henry has already topped the school record for the shot put seven times this season, dating back to her mark of 50-11 1/2 in the season-opener.

“I suspected that she was going to be the best we’ve ever had here,” assistant coach Tom Wood said. “She’s fulfilled that expectation. I’m very pleased with Lawanda and how well she’s done.”

Shortly after shattering her own re-cord, though, Henry came down with a severe illness that not only took her off the field, but into the hospital.

“The week before the ACC Champi-onship she lost a lot of weight,” Wood said. “She was in the hospital about 3 different times and couldn’t eat anything but yogurt for a week. That severely hampered her performance [when she got out.]”

Prior to the NCAA Championships, Henry worried that her performance would suffer from her weight loss and recovery.

“I’m not trying to give excuses or anything, but I’m nowhere near where I was before,” Henry said. “I lost about 10 or 15 pounds and was in the hospital almost all week.”

Despite her recuperation, Henry

mustered a 16th place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a distance of 47-7 1/4 and remains as the highest-ranked freshman in the nation.

“Getting sick like that is usually a pretty nerve-racking thing,” Wood said. “But she is just a freshman, so by going to the

NCAA’s, she’ll be able to overcome all that anxiety.”

Henry has already developed into a leader among the youth-laden lineup of throwers.

“Obviously, she’s going to be something to inspire and live up to,” Wood said. “She

is sort of a leader to all of them at this time now. She’s a leader with my group and I’ll be telling people about her for years.”

However, Henry didn’t always have people looking up to her. In fact, she had very little support at all during her high school career.

Originally from the small town of Dunn, Henry started throwing in the eighth grade for her middle school team in hopes of getting the “Most Athletic” superlative. Henry already competed for her school in volleyball, basketball and softball.

Henry would go on to continue throw-ing in high school, but admitted that her afternoon practices were far from exciting as she worked on her throws on a small concrete slab that the high school con-structed for her.

“It always sucked, because during prac-tice I had to be serious and I didn’t have anyone to talk to. I was kind of like a one-person team,” Henry said. “I’m so glad that I have my teammates now to joke around with and compete with now.

After two years, she transferred to Cape Fear Christian School to continue playing basketball. Throughout her experience in the predominantly white school, Henry stated that she was initially uneasy and at odds with her environment.

“It was a growing experience that took me out of my comfort zone,” Henry said. “In my other school, I was always used to being around a certain group of people, but when I switched I met some great people and I learned how to adapt. I was really able to find myself and mature.”

Since winning three N.C. High School Independent Athletic Association state championships, Henry has continued to mature as a thrower. Her strong desire to learn how to improve her throwing technique this season has enabled her to record the best weight throw distance in the ACC indoor season.

“She’s a very friendly young lady that is very personable, and has a great attitude about competing,” Wood said. “I just hope we have some more Lawanda’s in the future.”

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COURTESY OF N.C. STATE ATHLETICSFreshman thrower Lawanda Henry placed 16th in shot put with a mark of 47’07.25” at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in College Station, Texas. She was N.C. State’s only representative at the championship, as well as the only freshman compet-ing in the event.

TRACK AND FIELD

BassPack earns accolades

Ranked No. 4 in the preseason, the team seeks a national championship

Elliot G. BormanStaff Writer

N.C. State is home to suc-cessful athletic programs, but often the varsity teams are the ones that receive rec-ognition and publicity. The club baseball team is one of the programs to consistently achieve national nationally. The reigning South Atlan-tic North Conference and Southeast Atlantic Regional champion has put out eleven All-Americans in seven of the last eight years. The team was a national runner-up in 2004, and made the semifinals in 2008.

Since joining the National Club Baseball Association in 2001, the team dominated opponents with an overall re-cord of 180-69. Though State brought a new head coach on board for the 2009 season, the Pack does not look to quit battering its opposition.

“Things havenít changed around the field at all [since new coach Craig A l len stepped in],”second baseman Tyler Wilson, a senior in busi-

ness administration, said. “We’re only allowed [by NCBA] rules to practice once a week, but we’ve been putting in a lot of time out-side of practice to improve from last season.”

Before accepting the head coaching position, Allen served as the teamís hitting coach for several seasons. Allen’s experi-ence with N.C. State baseball has given him the ability to make an easy transition from assistant to head coach.

“Having been around the pro-gram, I’ve gotten a chance to see what works well and what could be tweaked slightly,” Allen said. “We’ve made a few adjustments to the practice schedule, some strategic adjustments for games, but mostly I’ve tried to instill a sense of ‘team’.”

Wilson and Greg Munoz, a ju-nior in business administration, agree unity and teamwork are the key focuses of the team, and one of the reasons for its current success. Munoz, a first baseman, said Allen made his transition into the position of head coach easier on the team.

“He is a guy we all trust and have faith in his baseball knowl-edge,” Munoz said. “It may sound cliched, but the keys to

Club Baseball looks to continue success

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BASEBALL

Bass fishing club drawing in prospects from around the country

Kate ShefteDeputy Sports Editor

BassPack, the club bass fish-ing team, has come a long way in a short time. Since the club was formed in 2005, it has won a national cham-pionship, placed high in nu-merous large tournaments

and snagged endorsement deals with companies such as Ranger and Yamaha. Now, its members can place another patch on their uniforms.

“We are now sponsored by Columbia Sportswear, they’re our newest and biggest spon-sor,” Mark Kozazcki, freshman in fisheries and wildlife sciences, said. “Each club member gets a certain amount of free gear, and in return we have to adver-tise and represent the Columbia company whenever we’re at an

event.” All three agreed they would

like to become professional fish-ermen after they graduate from N.C. State.

“[BassPack] has a lot of good things going for it,” Ben Dzi-wulski, freshman in agriculture business management, said. “We’re still the biggest team in the nation and definitely the most organized. Other schools are inching along, trying to get to

COURTESY OF MARK KOZAZCKIMark Kozazcki (right) with teammate Josh Hooks (left) hold up their catch at the College Bass Eastern Super Regional in Augusta, Fla. March 8.

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