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The Board of Trustees approved Chan-cellor Randy Woodson’s recommendation to increase in-state tuition $290 for the 2013-14 academic years during the board’s November meeting Friday. Student fees for all full-time students will increase $128.60.

This most recent increase, a 5.1 per-cent increase for in-state undergraduates, comes after a series of tuition increases in response to government budget cuts since the start of the recession, with the General Assembly reducing the N.C. State’s state-financed appropriation by 15.1 percent. Last November, the Board of Trustees ap-proved tuition to increase this academic year by $330.

The increases are part of the UNC System Board of Governors’ proposal in Febru-ary to set up a “catch-up” plan for the 17 member institutions of the UNC System through an increase of $1,500 over the next five years. Provost Warwick Arden said the University lost $80 million from the bud-get cuts and administrators are looking for ways to “diversify [the University’s] resources.”

The increases will affect out-of-state un-dergraduate and graduate students, who will have to pay $580 next school year, a 3.1 percent increase in their tuition.

Student Body President Andy Walsh, a member of the Board of Trustees, co-chaired the Tuition Review Advisory Committee with Provost Warwick Arden to make a recommendation to the Chan-cellor before board approval. Walsh said the board supported an increase of $374, or 6.5 percent, the maximum amount set by the Board of Governors. Walsh said he personally didn’t support the 6.5 percent recommended increase as a member of TRAC, and is glad to see the Chancellor

bring the percentage down to 5.1 percent.“This goes to show the Chancellor’s com-

mitment to keeping school affordable,” Walsh said. “I support him in that effort and for advocating for students. He recognizes the importance to grow our advancement at N.C. State for a multitude of reasons includ-ing scholarships and grants and for the state to continue to see the impact an investment in higher education makes to our economy. N.C. State is a land-grant university, and though the state is facing tough economic times, [I believe] college affordability is still important, especially for the largest univer-sity in the state.”

Though Walsh said he’s disappointed to see a greater financial burden placed on students and their families, he said he supports see-ing the majority of the money being invested in the classroom. About 62 percent of the increase will go to improve quality and ac-cessibility of education, with more course offerings and more average number of seats per classroom, according to a University press release. About 25 of the increase will fund scholarships, leaving about 9 percent to graduate student support plans and about 4 percent to raises for faculty.

“I’m very happy to see much of this money going back into the classroom,” Walsh said. “It’s good to know that this will impact stu-dents in a very positive way.”

Woodson stated in a press release that the lack of funding from the state has pushed the University to ask more from students.

“The budget shortfalls faced by state gov-ernments around the country reflect the fi-nancial challenges facing families across our state,” Woodson said. “Providing a world-class education that opens the doors to op-portunity and long-term success remains our task. We must remain committed to keeping

that education as affordable as practical.”The increase for student fees has gone

through a rigorous evaluation process throughout the fall semester, and the proj-ect to access needs within the Division of Academic and Student Affairs has been the biggest responsibility for the new vice chan-cellor, Mike Mullen.

The Board of Governors placed a 6.5 per-cent cap on student fees, and this year the increase comes in short at 6.3 percent in total. Student Senate President Regan Gatlin head-ed the student-fees effort with Mike Mullen, and the Fee Review Committee processed fee applications, which passed through the Stu-dent Senate for debate and recommendation.

Walsh said he was pleased to see the amount of student input included in the student-fees discussion, and said that the fee evaluation system this year exemplified student involvement in campus affairs.

“It just goes to show how administrators value student feedback,” Walsh said. “I’m glad to have seen so many students engage in matters that affect them on campus.”

The tuition and fee increases still must pass through the Board of Governors and then the General Assembly, where the increase may be subject to change.

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$558 | $2,129.95

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$896 | $1,824.47

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2002-2003

$3,827 | $4,920.79

1982-1983

$682 | $1,634.80

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$2,270 | $3,271.59

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Patraeus misses Shelton Leadership forumJessie HalpernNews Editor

General David Petraeus, the former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency who left his office in shame Nov. 9, 2011 after his extramarital affair became public, was going to speak at the University’s Shelton Leadership Forum. The event, held at N.C. State’s McKimmon Center, continued without Petraeus’ presence on Friday after-noon.

John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems, spoke in Petraeus’ place at the event, which is sponsored by the General H. Hugh Shelton Leadership Center. According to its website, the center’s mission is to “inspire, educate and develop values-based leaders committed to personal integrity, professional ethics and selfless service.” This goal was reflected in its annual forum, which ran from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Chambers used personal anecdotes to teach audience members about his journey to lead-ership.

“My mother taught me how to connect with people and have empathy and compassion for others, which is much more powerful than we realize,” Chambers said.

Chambers, who was a last-minute addition to the event’s program, had a positive impact on stu-dents like Alex Leonov, an undeclared freshman.

“I learned a lot about how to be a great leader,” Leonov said. “I’m a changed man.”

Students paid more than $100 to attend and hear Petreaus speak, but did

not seem upset by his absence. Ryan Eska-lis, a sophomore in communication, said he thought the forum was worth his time.

“We got to see professional perspectives from people in global corporations,” Eskalis said. “John Chambers provided a very excel-lent PowerPoint presentation on what his val-ues are and those values honestly transcend any aspect of leadership and any form that it takes. I’ve been happy with the forum.”

While Petraeus cited his affair with his

Megan Dunton Staff Writer

The Raleigh Civic Symphony cel-ebrated N.C. State’s 125th Anniver-sary with more than a hundred N.C. State students, alumni and general public attendees in Stewart Theatre Sunday afternoon.

The symphony performed three pieces all written around 1887, the year the University was founded. The pieces included Dudley Buck’s Festive Overture on a National Air: The Star Spangled Banner, Gustav Maher’s Songs of a Wayfarer, and Nicholai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sche-herazade. Karyn Friedman, a mez-zo-soprano, was a featured vocalist in Songs of a Wayfarer.

After the first piece, Randolph Foy, director of the Raleigh Civic Symphony, said the music “could have been heard by the first N.C.

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“My mother taught

me how to connect

with people...”John Chambers,

CEO of Cisco Systems

INCREASES THIS YEAR:In-state tuition increase: $290Undergraduate tuition for 2013-14: $6,038

Out-of-state tuition increase: $580Undergraduate: $19,493 Student Fees: $128.60 increase

SOURCE: SSN.C. STATE NEWS SERVICES

SOURCE: UNIVERSITY PLANNING AND ANALYSIS

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Katie SandersStaff Writer

After Alex Waelde, a stu-dent at the University of South Carolina, got a drink-ing ticket for underage pos-session of alcohol, he didn’t swear off bad behavior to keep his scholarship -- in-stead, he found a way to avoid future confrontation with au-thorities and is now helping students in similar situations.

His strategy to cop evasion? Twitter.

“Thirsty Thursday! What’s everyone doing tonight? Re-member to tweet police lo-cations at us and keep your fellow students safe!”

That tweet came from the Twitter-feed DrinkingTicket, the N.C. State-specific Twit-ter feed from Drinking Tick-et, Waelde’s new company. Waelde hopes to inform his followers of the locations of police checkpoints.

Its recent tweets include things like “Cop on line-berry near u woods,” and “DUI checkpoint on ligon,” and have earned them 832 followers at N.C. State alone.

After Waelde researched alcohol related tickets and charges he discovered pro-grams that would allow him to clear his record.

This led Waelde to begin giving advice to other stu-dents on how to deal with

charges related to alcohol and underage drinking, and he eventually hired lawyers to advise him and started a small business.

“There are not a lot of re-sources for students that get drinking tickets,” David Bush, a senior in hotel and restaurant management at the University of South Car-olina and chief development officer of Drinking Ticket, said. “They kind of get fun-neled into these programs that they don’t understand. We broke down that system and gave them options.”

However, the company soon became controver-sial when it started us-ing Twitter to publicize the locations of pol ice . Waelde declined to comment.

“All of a sudden people started tweeting in where the police were downtown, so we started re-tweeting them,” Bush said. “Now we have 16 thousand followers here in Colombia.”

Once people Tweet in po-lice locations to the website, the company confirms the information through anony-

mous sources like bartenders, waitresses and bouncers, and re-tweets it to the rest of its followers.

While at first it only re-tweeted information about police around the Univer-sity of South Carolina, it has since created Twitter-feeds for Clemson University, Col-lege of Charleston and N.C. State. They are also planning to expand, trying to make it to every college in America through a mobile application being released in January.

“We be-l ie ve t hat we are, as a company, for the students by the stu-dents,” Bush sa id . “We understand their prob-lems -- get-ting a drink downtown is a thousand dol la r ex-

pense. So we feel that we are just using our First Amend-ment rights by letting people know where the cops are. And we’ve been incredibly successful.”

The whole operation is completely legal, and Bush argues that it may even be beneficial. The company still gives legal advice and plans to soon offer taxi services,

called Safe Ride.“In the past a lot of people

have said we promote under-age drinking, which I do not think is true at all,” Bush said. “It’s inevitable. It’s going to happen in college anyway. What we believe is that a col-lege student’s life shouldn’t be ruined over one bad deci-sion.”

Bush also said that contrary to the belief that his service was being used to evade the police while driving under the influence, he had received feedback that students had decided not to drive drunk at all after hearing that the cops were monitoring main roadways.

“We prevent DUI by letting people realize that the police are out and they need to get an alternative ride home,” Bush said.

Officers of the police de-partment at N.C. State can-not officially state opinions about specific websites, and therefore Chief of Police, Jack Moorman, would not com-ment on Drinking Ticket in particular, but stated that the N.C. State police department does not condone people us-ing such websites in attempt to dodge traffic regulations and checkpoints.

“[Traffic checkpoints] al-low us to deter and appre-hend a lot of drivers who are impaired or present a safety

risk,” Moorman said. “It’s not a game – it’s not about evading or avoiding appre-hension. Anyone who drives while they’re impaired is risk-ing their lives and the lives of other innocent people.”

Moorman therefore en-couraged students to be socially responsible when it came to using informa-tion available to them to get around the law.

“It’s not about citations or getting arrested – the prima-ry focus is anything we can do to make students aware of the consequences of driving while impaired,” Moorman said. “The last thing we want to do is have to make a phone call that one of our students was involved in a fatal crash.”

However, Drinking Ticket hasn’t changed how the police manage drunk driving - stu-dents were already sharing information online, and so Moorman said that websites like Drinking Ticket have not escalated the problem.

“Anytime you have a check-point, with the use of social media now, information trav-els very quickly,” Moorman said.

Therefore it is simply pro-tocol to change checkpoint locations and times every few hours.

Moreover, Drinking Ticket doesn’t appear to have caught on to the N.C. State student

community quite yet. Even though there are followers on Twitter, they do not provide enough information about checkpoints to the Drinking Ticket team for them to tweet much back.

“I started following them on Twitter because of a few of my friends did, and I fig-ured it would be a good re-source to see where there are speed traps and what not,” Trinity Hampton, a junior in psychology, said. “They haven’t tweeted anything re-ally. I mean, they’ll tweet ‘Be safe,’ and things like that, but there are not a lot of follow-ers. They’re not really that popular here yet.”

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CAMPUS CALENDAR

Monday“TOGETHER IN HARMONY” ART EXHIBITNC Japan Center, All day“Together in Harmony” exhibit by Hisako Kobayashi, New York Asian Modern Artist

FOOD, FUEL, PRICES AND CONFLICT1911 Bldg, Room 129, 11:45 a.m. — 1:30 p.m.What role should biofuels play in our energy future? Will their use help us liberate our foreign policy and reduce climate change? Or will biofuels exacerbate climate change and drive up food prices, leading to insecurity especially in poorer societies? Chris Galik (Duke and NCSU) and Mark Bellemare (Duke) will lead a discussion on these and related issues.

ART WITHOUT ARTISTSGregg Museum of Art & Design, 12 p.m. - 8 p.m.Art Without Artists probes whether art exists only in the eye of the beholder or remains forever stranded in some Twilight Zone in-between intention and chance.

LADIES IN REDStewart Theater in Talley Student Center, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.$10 Public, $8 Senior Citizens, Students, NCSU Faculty & Staff, $5 NCSU Students, children under 12 free with ticketed adult.

Tuesday“TOGETHER IN HARMONY” ART EXHIBITNC Japan Center, All day“Together in Harmony” exhibit by Hisako Kobayashi, New York Asian Modern Artist

ART WITHOUT ARTISTSGregg Museum of Art & Design, 12 p.m. - 8 p.m.Art Without Artists probes whether art exists only in the eye of the beholder or remains forever stranded in some Twilight Zone in-between intention and chance.

THROUGH JOANNAH’S LENS

Snapshots of studying abroad

Young Ni, a freshman in computer science, signs up to receive updates about the N.C. State Study Abroad program on Thursday Nov 15 in Caldwell Lounge. “I want to study abroad in Taiwan,” Ni said. The reveal displayed the framed the winners of the Study Abroad Photography Contest. The event displayed the final-

ists scrolling on a slideshow.

PHOTO BY JOANNAH IRVIN

CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONSSend all clarifications and corrections to Editor-in-Chief Mark Herring at editor@technicianonline.com

POLICE BLOTTERThursday11:05 AM | SAFETY PROGRAMOff Campus Officer conducted program for high school in Chatham County. 11:31 AM | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT Carmichael Gym Staff member and student involved in traffic accident. 11:54 AM | SAFETY PROGRAMAdmin II Officer conducted program for new employees. 2:47 AM | HIT & RUN-PROPERTY DAMAGEWestern Blvd. Student reported vehicle had been struck by another vehicle who fled the scene. 6:30 AM | SUSPICIOUS PERSONHarrelson Hall Report of suspicious subject in basement. Officer checked area but did not locate anyone. 8:26 AM | SUSPICIOUS PERSONWest Deck Report of subject sleeping in stairwell. Officer located subject. Subject was issued Trespass Warning.

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$5 NCSU students

Fall ConcertMonday, November 19 at 7pm Stewart TheatreNC State’s premier all-female a cappella group. The Ladies produce a unique, ear-dazzling sound with genres from jazz to hip-hop and alternative.

tonight!

Taylor O’QuinnStaff Writer

This past weekend WolfCopy and the All-Campus Office came to an agreement on a lower transaction fee for Wolf-Copy printing services.

Jim Hansen, assistant director for WolfCopy, said he and Sharon Loos-man approached the All-Campus Office in October to negotiate lowering the transaction fee for Wolf-Print services. The All-Campus Office wanted to change the fees to a 25-cent convenience fee for a $5 WolfPrint purchase.

After four to five weeks of negotiating, Hansen and Loosman finally con-

vinced the AllCampus Office to agree to a 25-cent conve-nience fee for a $10 WolfPrint purchase. With more than two dozen students com-plaining via email, and many more not voicing their opin-ions, Hansen began to look at the statistics for WolfCopy’s business.

“We analyzed our business and realized it was down 37 percent during August and September,” Hansen said. “We knew we needed to make a change.”

In August and September there were 32,600 print jobs that were under $10 that aver-aged about 37 cents per proj-ect. The total number of print jobs for August and Septem-ber was 507,000, which was down by 301,000 compared

to this point last year. Hansen said he was con-

cerned with the loss of stu-dent business earlier in the year. He conducted a study and asked a 40 member stu-dent focus group in the spring about which of them used their AllCampus account.

“Six weeks ago, we con-ducted a study and discov-ered that 12,000 WolfCopy student customers did not utilize their AllCampus ac-count,” Hansen said.

This created a problem when the AllCampus Office implemented their univer-sal $2 convenience fee when they merged with WolfCopy. Students who only put a few dollars on their AllCampus accounts were not happy with the convenience fee and this

showed in Hansen’s data.“We wanted to make

printing easier,” Hansen said.

The new convenience fee of 25 cents for a $10 WolfCopy purchase went into effect this past week-end. The 510 copiers and 160 student printers have seen a slight increase in usage since the implemen-tation but solid numbers will not be available until the end of the month.

All of the new informa-tion can be found online at the WolfPack One Card website. Students can now make deposits for WolfCopy access online or through the WolfPack One Card Office located in Talley Student Center.

Convenience fee tacked on to WolfCopy

New Twitter handle informs drinkers of police whereabouts TWEETS:NCSUEngineer Problems: “lets get this going! i check on here every weekend but nada. this has potential if ppl would just tweet.”

DrinkingTicket™ NCSU: “Seen cops around NCSU? Report police sightings to protect your fellow students. Your tweet could prevent unneeded incidents.”

DrinkingTicket™ NCSU: “DCops at Blue Ridge and Hillsborough”DrinkingTicket™ NCSU tweeted “undercover cop on hillsborough street in a tan tahoe”

SOURCE: @DRINKINGTICKET

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consequences...”Jack Moorman, Chief of Police

NewsAlex PetercuskieStaff Writer

About 700 students ex-ceeded their goal of packag-ing 125,000 meals Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. during a Stop Hunger Now meal-packing event, one of two annual Service N.C. State events.

Based out of Raleigh and founded in 1998, Stop Hunger Now is a non-profit hunger relief agency that distributes meals globally to families in distress in countries dealing with natural disasters and ot her hu-manitarian crises.

As part of a two-event series called Service N.C. State, The Center for Student Leadership, Ethics and Public Ser-vice hosted t h e S t o p Hunger Now event as well as an annual blood drive to promote and support community service and outreach efforts.

Stop Hunger Now began its meal packaging event in 2005 and the agency has since packaged more than 80 mil-lion meals, according to its website. At 25 cents, the pack-aged meals are inexpensive

and can last up to five years. One meal includes a mixture of rice, soy, dehydrated vege-tables and a seasoning packet that contains 21 essential vi-tamins and minerals.

The durable packaging also allows the agency to distrib-ute meals to regions in cri-sis, although the program is mainly dedicated to provid-ing lunch programs among struggling countries.

The organization’s philoso-phy, outlined on its website, entails that parents will more likely send their children to school if schools provide

meals, and t h e c o n -sequence would result in a better educational experience, a nd c om-bined with other efforts for soc ia l justice, can end the cycle of poverty in the develop-ing world.

This year, N.C. State’s Stop Hunger Now initiative set a goal of packaging 125,000 meals in honor of the Uni-versity’s 125th anniversary. But as students reached the 100,646 mark of packaged meals Saturday, that num-ber also resulted in about two million total packaged meals by the N.C. State community

since CSLEPS began hosting the event, according to Becca Bender, graduate assistant for CSLEPS.

Within two hours 40-50 people can assemble 10,000 meals during a meal packag-ing event, and a number of organizations hosts them, including schools, religious congregations and busi-nesses.

Just one packaged meal provides six servings, and by

Saturday afternoon volun-teers packaged 125,250 meals.

Kalavik McNamara, a ju-nior in Spanish education, said the event was the second year in a row she has partici-pated.

“It is a really powerful event because we don’t have to wor-ry about a meal in the United States, at least in this area,” McNamara said.

In 2009, a study by World Food Program of the United

Nations estimated that more than 1.02 billion people go without enough food to eat, and of those, more than 907 million live in developing countries. In addition, 60 childhood deaths in devel-oping nations result from hunger or malnutrition.

Bender said that volunteers must make a $25 donation to participate, which would pro-vide 100 meals alone.

With the support of out-

side sponsors, volunteers are usually asked to donate less money, though fundraising has been difficult during the past couple of years, Bender said.

Stop Hunger Now pro-vided the supplies for the event, while the donations that come in will be used to pay back the organization. Bender said the event raised about $1500 in donations.

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Stop Hunger Now exceeds goal of 125,000 meals

KATHERINE HOKE/TECHNICIANSenior in marketing Amanda Bravo (left) and senior in biological sciences Rebecca Bryant (right) box up bags of rice, dehydrated vegetables and soy protein for a meal packaging event hosted by CSLEPS and Stop Hunger Now in Carmichael Saturday Nov. 17. The event was held as a part of Service N.C. State 2012.

“It is a really

powerful event

because we

don’t have to

worry about

a meal in the

United States...”Kalavik McNamara,

junior in Spanish education

State students performed by traveling orchestras, as N.C. State did not have any student performing groups when it was founded.”

The members of t he s y mphony h ave b e e n preparing for the concert s i nc e S e ptember, a nd successfully delivered their performance that earned a standing ovation from the audience.

Dorothy Dai, a sophomore in civil engineering and Wendy Yan, a sophomore in international studies, are both members of the Arts Village and the Scholars program that attended the concert and shared their enjoyment of the event.

“It was a good mi x

of something new and something I already knew,” Dai said. “Even though I don’t play my instrument anymore, I still think it’s important to explore that creativity side. It’s been in me for so long, and I would like to keep it intact. “

Yan and Dai said keeping a creative side while studying at N.C. State was why they both decided to live in the Arts Village.

ARTS N.C. State hosted the event and offered students a discounted ticket price of $5 to ARTS N.C. State events, where as the general public admissions are $10. Alex Miller III, vice provost and director of ARTS N.C. State, said NCSU is the only university in the area that still offers this discount.

“The year after we started our $5 ticket fee UNC-Chapel Hi l l and Duke

also introduced a $5 ticket price, but they have long since given up on that and raised their student ticket prices dramatically,” Miller said. “N.C. students are still getting a great bargain.”

Miller said last year all ticket revenue of $269,000 accounted for 7 percent of the entire ARTS N.C. State budget.

“The ticket revenue is such a small part of what we do, and every penny of that revenue goes directly back into making the ARTS N.C. State program possible by supporting the music concerts, the Center Stage performances, the University Theatre performances, and the dance concerts,” Miller said.

Several costs that come w ith put t ing on these concerts and performances include advertisement costs,

program costs and paying student technicians to run lights and sound in Stewart Theatre, Miller said.

“There are always costs in making the entire package come together,” Miller said. “When someone actually sees the performance, there are lots of behind the scenes expenses to making that concert happen.”

Despite all these costs and what little profit is made off of ticket sales, Miller said he believes that bringing arts to such a traditionally science and tech oriented university is crucial and worth it no matter what the cost.

“We provide the ar ts for students regardless of their discipline, but the students engaged in our arts program come from every discipline. If you go to a concert or a performance, you’re going to see students majoring in biochemistry and engineering,” Miller said. “They perform because they really love what they do, and they have a passion for it.”

Besides exploring and growing a passion in the arts, Miller said the art programs also provide balance for students.

“Many students have told us that being a part of ARTS

N.C. State has provided a balance in their college life. N.C. State is a tough school, and the ar ts programs provide a wonderful outlet for those students,” Miller said.

Future ARTS N.C. State include several performances of Alice in Wonderland performed by members of the University Theatre, a Ladies in Red a cappella concert, and a Quasquicentennial Celebration! 125 Years of Holidays at NC State, a concert presenting vocalists, a cappel la groups, jazz combos and N.C. State’s Pipes and Drums.

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Thanksgiving is this week, which means a

day of being grateful for all that we have. Whether the day means anything to

you on a personal level, the ideals of harmo-ny a nd mutual respect t h a t i t embod-

ies are worth remember-ing if you plan to enjoy the consumer holiday that follows: Black Friday.

However, even as the stores have grown better at managing the inherent chaos Black Friday brings with it each year, there are still accidents and over-zealous customers that give the day a bad reputa-tion. Such incidents could easily be avoided with just a few considerations.

If you’re going to go out and brave the late Novem-ber cold of Friday morn-ing, try to keep in mind the following few tips.

1. HAVE A PLANYou no longer have to

wait until Thanksgiving Day to know what items are going to be on sale. Though the newspaper ads are still a valuable re-source, most stores have

started posting their entire sale list online weeks ahead of the actual day. Websites such as bfads.net have served as valuable resources for Black Friday shoppers for several years.

Find the deals, know your budget and prioritize what stores you want to hit up first. The aisles are going to be crowded, so there won’t be much time for aimless brows-ing if you want to get through with the day quickly.

2. THERE’S NO NEED TO RUSHHaving a fast day is one

thing, but there’s no need to push and fight with other customers over stuff. If you want to get one of the big doorbuster deals, then be prepared to show up several hours early to try and claim a ticket. As for the smaller items like DVDs and video games, the stores will have plenty of each item in stock.

It happens too often that people start fighting over a toy for their kids that they could easily find another copy of if they ask an employee. Even if there isn’t, you have to go into the stores knowing you might not get everything you want. Instead, focus on the savings you do manage to get.

3. RESPECT THE STAFFIf you’ve been to Black

Friday before, it shouldn’t be hard to imagine why it’s the worst day of the year for

retail workers. They have to manage a large crowd, be at the store even earlier than the customers and deal with a ridiculously long shift. You don’t want to be the jerk that starts snapping at them over a Blu-ray and making their day even worse.

If there are times it seems like they are being strict with you, that’s because they need to keep things from get-ting out of hand. Deal with it. With some stores start-ing their sales at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving this year, the staff is going to need a friend-ly, orderly crowd to deal with if they’re going to get through the day without losing their minds.

4. HAVE FUNI know, this one might

seem a bit silly, but the truth is that Black Friday can offer a chance to really enjoy your-self. Whether you’re alone or with a group of friends or family, hitting up the stores and snagging an item at a dis-count is a great feeling. It can make the long lines and early hours seem worth it if you go in with a good attitude.

Black Friday may not be an official holiday, but it’ll continue to come each year. If you know how to make the most of the day, though, you’ll be able to get through it with little hassle. Who knows, you might even find yourself having a good time.

Derrick Freeland, junior in biological engineering

N.C. State’s association with the Gaza conflict

The current conflict in Gaza could po-tentially develop

into a new saga of bloodshed as intense as the Gaza War of 2008-09, i f t he violence of the last week continues as it has. After weeks and months of

scattered attacks from both the Hamas and the Israeli De-fense Forces (IDF), violence escalated on Wednesday with Israel breaking a truce by kill-ing the Hamas military chief Ahmad al-Jabari.

This has led to renewed at-tacks from both sides. Rocket strikes have been launched from the Gaza Strip into Is-rael — reaching as far as Jeru-salem Friday. The New York Times reported on Sunday that Israel has “pressed its bombardment of the Gaza Strip for a fifth day, deploy-ing warplanes and naval ves-sels to pummel the coastal enclave.” Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel is ready for a “significant” expansion of the Gaza offensive. This could re-sult in a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, with Israeli troops already having gath-ered on the Gaza border and the call-up of an additional 75,000 reserve troops hav-ing been authorized. As of Sunday, 56 people have been killed in this conflict, 53 of these Palestinians — more than 25 of whom were among the elderly, women and chil-dren — while hundreds have been injured.

The ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands by Israel has resulted in an entire popula-tion being dispossessed of its lands, with Palestinian terri-tories today only a tiny frac-tion of the area accorded by the UN’s 1947 partition plan. With Israel controlling and limiting access to the out-side world via land, sea and air, the Gaza Strip has been

reduced to an impoverished land, with 80 percent of its population consisting of refugees. The U.S. has given its unwavering support to the brutal Israeli settlement of Palestinian lands, even while the international community has decried this encroach-ment and the treatment of the Palestinian people as a violation of international human rights.

However, as part of this university, we are not with-out blood on our hands. One of the tactics used by the IDF to seize control of Palestinian lands has been the demolition of houses using armored bull-dozers, usually manufactured by Caterpillar Inc. — a com-pany enjoying an esteemed position in our university community.

Since 1967, in violation of international law, more than 27,000 homes have been demol-ished in Palestin-ian lands includ-ing Gaza, mainly using Caterpil-lar equip-ment. Apart from the Palestinian lives Caterpillar equipment has taken, on March 16, 2003, a Caterpillar D9 rode twice over American college stu-dent and peace activist Ra-chel Corrie and crushed her to death as she tried to protect a house from demolition (in plain sight, while wearing bright orange). Since at least 1989, Caterpillar has been aware of the destruction and oppression its equipment has supported, but has expressed no regret for lending support to such war crimes, let alone take action to stop its sup-port.

Jim Owens is the former Chairman and CEO of Cat-erpillar Inc. He served in this position from February 2004 to November 2010, an

interval including part of the Second Intifada. In 2009, our Poole College of Management named him its Person of the Year, and he now serves on our Board of Trustees. Cater-pillar is also one of the most prominent invitees to Poole College’s annual career fair. N.C. State professors and students have been doing re-search for Caterpillar, and at least in the past (as of 2005), N.C. State has invested its endowment in Caterpillar, owning 2,500 shares of Cat-erpillar Inc. stock.

Putting two and two to-gether — innocent people’s homes are being destroyed with the conscious backing of a company we support and maintain close affinity with.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has called on the internation-al community to treat the Is-raeli occupation of Palestin-ian territories as it treated the

apartheid regime in South Africa ― by divesting from Isra-el. Cater-pillar isn’t the only corpora-t ion we do busi-

ness with that invests in Is-rael. However, the amount of esteem bestowed on Cat-erpillar by our university is shameful, given the direct role Caterpillar plays in the atrocities against Palestin-ians. As long as Caterpil-lar is associated with us, by paying tuition to N.C. State, we are all complicit in violat-ing the Geneva Convention. Our support for apartheid and maintenance of friend-ship with those complicit in war crimes is intolerable, and thus, the only moral action students can take is to call for Caterpillar to leave our uni-versity community. Circum-stances call for — and have long called for — speaking out and taking action.

Silence, after all, is consent.

A guide to Black Friday

It’s time to get creativeOur money, made of cotton and

linen fibers, is dirty. And we don’t mean dirty as in “ill-gotten.” It’s

really dirty. In fact, around 90 percent of money has traces of cocaine on it — yeast and mold are likely growing on your green-backs, too. A smaller percentage of bills may even have E. coli, and salmonella growing on them. Gross, right? So you’ll be glad when we tell you you’ll have less dirty money to handle come next year because of the increase in tuition and fees.

The increases will total about $419 for in-state students ($290 of that represents the 5.1 percent tuition increase) and $709 for out-of-state undergrads.

Most of the tuition money (62 percent, ac-cording to a release by the University) will go

to adding seats and extra class sections, and 25 percent will go to support financial aid.

Fee money will likely go toward paying off the new Talley Student Center, Carmichael Gym expansions and other campus projects. But no matter how the numbers are broken down, students and their families will still ask, “Why? Why are you doing this to us?”

Well, the likelihood of the University getting more money from the state is slim, so families will have to make up for some of the differ-ence out-of-pocket. But, being the cheerful bunch we at the editorial board are, we’d like to tell you that it could have been worse … 1.4

percent worse.The tuition increase recommended to

Chancellor Woodson was $374 (a 6.5 percent increase for in-state students).

The University will have to make up for that 1.4 percent (and then some) somehow, so Chancellor Woodson and his advisors will have to get creative.

We suggest a University bake sale — it could be a joint effort by University Dining and ad-ministrators, and the cookies could be in the shape of dollar bills. If that doesn’t work, we could ask not just administrators, but also students, to do the unthinable and lobby for

the money at the General Assembly. Though that may mean missing class or another fac-ulty meeting, we may see results.

Present economic uncertainty demands compromise from everyone. Yes, we will have to pay more to attend this university, but there have to be other ways to maintain a strong academic reputation without putting too much burden on families.

Chancellor Randy Woodson knows this, and it is clear his focus is to improve the Uni-versity without asking too much (financially speaking) of students and families. However, there’s no question about it: Woodson and friends are going to have to get creative.

Send your thoughts to letters@technici-anonline.com.

Ishan RavalDeputy Viewpoint Editor

Jordan AlsaqaAssociate Features Editor

BY CHRIS RUPERT

What would you like to see your tuition and fees money go towards?

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“I would like to see increased infrastructure, recruiting of better professors and getting more books in the library.”

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“I would like to see improvement of the infrastructure, and more need-based scholarships.”

Abhay Gudptagrad student, computer science

“I’d like to see an improvement in the Wi-Fi network, and more indoor basketball courts for all recreational purposes.”

Paul Vandergriftsophomore, undecided

“An alternate form of transportation, like a metro from Central Campus to Centenial.”

Christin Warrensenior, international studies

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A river of beer was poured over the weekend in order to raise money for the hungry.

Homebrew for Hunger saw around 450 people gather at West End Public in Chapel Hill Saturday. Homebrew for Hunger is an annual event to raise money for charity.

According to organizers, the event showcased the beer of 32 different homebrewers and eight commercial brew-eries; all of whom freely do-nated their beer and time for the event.

One local homebrewer, Adam Rihner, had three brews ready for the event; a fig blonde ale, chamomile whis-key and butternut fennel ale.

“The butternut fennel ale is a take on the pumpkin ales, but instead of pumpkin I use butternut; instead of the pumpkin pie spices, I use fen-nel, coriander, black pepper

and molasses,” Rihner said. “It’s actually based on a soup recipe that my wife makes, so I took all the ingredients of the soup and made a beer out of it.”

Also in attendance were volunteers from the food science club and food sci-ence gradu-ate students.

“A l l t he homebrew-e r s h e r e a re rea l ly passionate about their beer,” Claire Svendsen, a senior in food science, said. “They are experimenting with great flavors.”

John Shepperd, a profes-sor of food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences was also at the event behind the tables. The N.C. State food science program donated two 5-gallon kegs of beer.

As part of that program, Sheppard and his graduate students research fermenta-tion. Beer just happens to be a by-product of that research.

“Both of our beers are tra-ditional German style beers,” said Blake Layfield, a doctor-

ate student in the food science pro-gram. “[We supplied] a pi lsner la-ger and a dark lager schwarzbier.

Lager m e a n s t o mature, so

what we do is ferment them at a cool temperature and then we mature them for about a month to a month and a half to really refine the flavors. It really accentuates the malt flavors that we want, while also giving a very slight taste of the hops we put in.”

Asheville-based gardening

and homebrew kit supplier, Fif th Season Gardening, spearheaded the event. Peo-ple Offering Relief for Cha-pel Hill-Carrboro Homes was chosen this year as the spon-sored charity.

“We started it last year, simply it was designed to be a homebrew festival modeled after modern [local] beer fes-tivals,” Ethan Johnston, one of the organizers of the event, said. “This year we teamed up with PORCH. We’ve cho-sen hunger and food relief organizations. Last year we worked with the food bank of eastern and central North Carolina.”

“PORCH is a grassroots all volunteer effort that identi-f ies families, community programs and food pantries,” Christine Cotton, one of the three founders of PORCH, said. “We identify what the needs are and then we reach out to our community mem-bers and our friends and our

neighbors and they donate food on a monthly basis. The goal for us is to just keep growing and get more neigh-borhoods and communities involved with PORCH.”

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Lindsey SchaeferStaff Writer

There are many ways in which students can advance their opportunities to at-tain jobs after they graduate from college. Internships, which are commonly offered through N.C. State, are given for students to participate in supervised training to help them qualify for a field they aspire to work in.

Another way in which N.C. State has begun to help stu-dents is with the Externship Program offered to Engineer-

ing students. Externships, unlike internships, are one day job-shadowing opportu-nities for first year engineer-ing students.

Leslie Bowman, a career counselor at N.C. State, started doing research for the program in 2007-2008 when other schools began to create a program like this one. The first pilot program was started in 2009 and was offered to nine students with six employers. The program has blossomed and become much larger; the spring 2012 program had 89 students and

12 employers.“One purpose of the pro-

gram is to help students decide if they’ve chosen the right major or the wrong major or if they’d even like to add on a minor,” Bowman said. “You’d rather change as a freshman than as a senior.”

The program helps students make career connections and establish networks for future employment, and teaches stu-dents how to apply their En-gineering major into a work-ing environment with people of similar backgrounds.

Mark Wooten, junior in

mechanical engineering, ap-plied and completed two ex-ternships, one with Archer Western, general contract-ing, and another with TLV Corporation, a steam trap industry in south Charlotte.

“The program really gave me the opportunity to land an internship,” Wooten said. “If it hadn’t have been for the externship program, I never would have gotten exposed to the company that I landed my internship with.”

While in the program, students are able to talk with people about what is done in

the company on a daily ba-sis, the history and progress of the company and the indi-vidual jobs within the com-pany. Students get to see as many aspects of the company as they can in the day.

Matt Hyman, sophomore in civil engineering, participat-ed in an externship program with Crowder Construction in Apex, N.C. He was able to receive a co-op through the company and will gain a year of work experience necessary to attain a Professional Engi-neer license. Co-ops are less likely to be offered than ex-

ternships and internships and are not currently available for all majors.

“It helped me realize where I wanted to be when I gradu-ate ... gave me insight on what I could do with my degree,” Hyman said. “I didn’t know what went into the process until the externship came along.”

The externship program will begin its fifth year April 10, 2013. Registration will open on ePACK in January and the program is offered on a first come-first serve basis.

Externships create opportunities for engineering students

Katie SandersSenior Staff Writer

Shewolf, a clothing line co-founded by sisters Tara and Amanda Thompson, originally came about in an unintentional way.

“We never thought of our-selves as entrepreneurs,” Tara Thompson, a graduate stu-dent in educational research and policy analysis, said.

Amanda Thompson didn’t study business either, and graduated from N.C. State with a master’s degree in adult education. Their slogan, Shewolf, was first created just for personal use to show their love for N.C. State.

“I kind of felt like a wolf-pack woman, and so in my head I was like ‘Man, I’m a shewolf,’ and I actually put that on my license plate,” Tara Thompson said.

When Amanda saw the slo-gan she loved it and put it on her license plate as well.

“Every time we would go somewhere around campus everybody thought it was cool and would take pictures of it,” Tara Thompson said. “They kept saying ‘You got to do something with that.’”

So about a year ago the sis-ters decided to put “Shewolf” into action by using it as a slogan for clothes for female students.

“They just took the boy logo and put it on girls’ cloth-ing,” Tara Thompson said.

The sisters therefore decid-ed to start a more feminine

line, one that would capture what they believed were the qualities of a shewolf student: strong, smart and fearless.

The original plan was to make Ms. Wuf the center-piece of the line. However, de-spite her popularity, there is no official Ms. Wuf graphic.

“We were incredibly dis-appointed, sad and a little frustrated. Our college is 43% women, in an engineering school and we can’t use our female mascot,” Tara Thomp-son said.

Instead of causing the sis-ters to give up, this just fur-ther inspired them to con-tinue with the project. They moved on to plan B: creating their own slogans and de-signs. This included creating their own wolf that appears occasionally in their designs, Sasha.

“She’s a little sassy,” Aman-da Thompson said.

The sisters said they are always brainstorming for designs and usually find in-spiration in the Wolfpack culture of their friends and families.

“Sometimes she’ll text me at 3 in the morning and say ‘Oh, just thought of this!’,” Amanda Thompson said.

The sisters have also been allowed to use a younger ver-sion of Ms. Wuf, the Ms. Wuf wolfpup, which does have a graphic.

“We just said, well, if we can’t have the adult Ms. Wuf, we’ll take the Ms. Wuf wolfpup and work with that,”

Amanda Thompson said. However, as the project

grew the Thompson sisters realized that it was becoming more than a clothing line to them.

“It needed to be about em-powering and encouraging women,” Tara Thompson said.

The eventual goal is to set up a non-profit with scholar-ships for women. Currently, a percentage of the company’s profits go to women’s chari-ties. The first charity they

chose was the Kay Yow Can-cer Fund.

“She is the epitome of being a shewolf,” Amanda Thomp-son said. “She was a very generous and very coura-geous woman and impacted so many other women in her lifetime.”

“I can’t think of anyone who has not been touched by cancer, and we have as well, so we feel like it’s a worthy cause and we are excited to be a part of it,” Tara Thomp-son said.

The sisters also find women at N.C. State that they believe exemplify being a shewolf and post short paragraphs about their examples on their website. The sisters said it has proven to be a valuable bond-ing experience.

“We’ve always been kind of close, but this has been really cool,” Tara Thompson said.

“We have found that we complement each other very well with our skills and per-sonalities,” Amanda Thomp-son said. “Tara is the creative

mind behind Shewolf, she’s the idealist of the two, and I tend to be the realist and business side of Shewolf.”

The project has become a family business, even pull-ing in Tara Thompson’s son Turner and daughter Avery.

“[Avery] tells all her teach-ers and friends about Shewolf and when she gets older I think she wants to be a part of the company,” Tara Thomp-son said. “We feel like we are part of a pack.”

KATHERINE HOKE/TECHNICIANCo-founders of Shewolf Tara and Amanda at Southern Charm Boutique in Cary Towne Center where their clothes are sold.

Homebrewers come together for charity

CHRIS RUPERT/TECHNICIANJohn Sheppard, a professor in food science, pours a beer at Homebrew for Hunger at West End Public in Chapel Hill. Homebrew for Hunger attracted brewers from around the Triangle and all funds were donated to PORCH a local charity helping the hungry.

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Sisters design for Pack women

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Young LeeAssociate Features Editor

Although some may think that comic books have a ten-dency to decrease social in-teraction, with the intimacy of comic book stores and with hyper-social comic book con-ventions, or “cons,” for many fans, the subculture that re-volves around comic books is incredibly social. And with the growing popularity of comic book conventions such as NC Comicon that took place at the Durham Convention Center Saturday and Sunday, comic book fans are finding more opportuni-ties to meet up and celebrate their love of comics and other aspects of pop culture.

With its fourth show in three years, NC Comicon showed the Triangle area that there are thousands of comic book fans thirsting for ways to celebrate their love for comics. Although final num-bers have yet to be released, according to Jeremy Tarney, chief operations operator of Ultimate Comics and an organizer of NC Comicon, attendance is projected to break 3,000, the largest NC Comicon ever.

“Every time I looked into the crowd, I was blown away by how many people have wanted to do this event,” Tarney said. “It has been re-ally great. There has been a lot of stuff going on and I’m really glad to have been a part of this.”

With a number of exhibits such as life-sized replicas of the Batmobile from Batman and the Mystery Machine from Scooby-Doo, panels, contests as well as comics and posters to buy, Tarney said that with NC Comicon, organizers hoped to have something for different kinds of fans.

“Basically if you have some sort of fandom that you re-ally enjoy, there’s a good chance that you’d some sort of it here,” Tarney said. “It’s a place where you can come, have fun, be yourself and just really enjoy all of these things that you love.”

According to Tarney, NC Comicon started when Alan Gill, the owner of Ultimate Comics, felt that he could

host better shows than small comic book events held in hotel rooms that had been some of the fe w oa s e s o f c o m i c book-centric geekdom for many years. However, with its re-cord-break-i ng e ve nt t h i s ye a r, Tarney said that organizers hope to do NC Comicon bigger and bet-ter next year.

“In the southeast general area, there are a couple shows in Florida, there’s DragonCon in Atlanta,” Tarney said. “Outside of that, there’s He-roes [Con] in Charlotte and then not a ton of other stuff. It’d be great if we could be one of the biggest Comicons in the region. I think that we have the capability to do it. I certainly know we have the perseverance and the want to do it. As a comic fan, as some-one who loves all of this, I just really love being able to bring

it to all of these other people. I love sharing it.”

And while some attendees still said that they wished NC Comi-con cou ld afford to put on a bigger show t h i s year, many were still re-ceptive and seemed eager to celebrate

their love for comics as well as to share some of their own brand of comic book wisdom.

Tanner Methben, a stu-dent at Wake Tech, came to NC Comicon for the first time this year and said that he came to see what’s new in comics and to see if there was anything he wanted to buy. He was also excited to see other fans who had dressed up or “cosplayed” as various comic book characters.

“[At conventions] I finally don’t have to be a self-hating nerd for once,” Methben, 19, said. “I can actually go around like, ‘Oh my God,

there’s a Slender Man. I know what that is. There’s a Red Hood.’ It feels great.”

Mandy Gooch, a gradu-ate student at UNC-Chapel in library science, said that “cosplaying” was a big part of conventions such as NC Comicon. Gooch came with a few of her friends dressed up as USO Girls from the movie Captain America: The First Avenger.

“I love every aspect of com-ic books, the art, the creativ-ity, the storylines, the char-acters, everything just draws me to it,” Gooch said.

Josh Morsell, a freshman in engineering, came with his girlfriend Abbye Ritter, 18, “cosplayed” as Marvel comics’ character Hawkeye to pair with Ritter’s costume of Black Widow, another Marvel character.

“We spent about a week [on Morsell ’s costume,]” Ritter said. “We had a very short time to do his costume because we found out about Heroes Con in Charlotte and so we wanted to throw together a Hawkeye because

I had already made a Black Widow costume. Cons give

us an opportunity to meet and bond with fellow nerds.”

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GETTING SOME COLOR

GREG WILSON/TECHNICIANKatie Ischinger, a sophomore in animal science, and Katelyn Kane, a sophomore in fashion and textile management, are covered with blue powder as they pass the one kilometer mark during The Color Run in Charlotte early Saturday morning. More than 10,000 runners participated in the 5k to raise money for Habitat for Humanity. At the end of each kilometer, volunteers cover runners in colored powder. At the finish line, participants are greeted with a large celebration and even more color called “The Color Festival”. The smiles on everyone’s faces certainly explain why The Color Run has been dubbed the happiest 5k on the planet.

Comic book fans flock to NC Comicon

GEORGIA HOBBS/TECHNICIANFans browse the wide selection of posters from their favorite TV shows, comics, and movies at NC Comicon Sept. 17.

GEORGIA HOBBS/TECHNICIANSamantha Boshoff, a sophmore in criminology, models her costume interpretation of the Firefox web browser at Comicon Sep. 17.

“I finally

don’t have to be

a self-hating nerd

for once.”Methben,

a student at Wake Tech

b i o g r a p h e r P a u l a Broadwell as the reason for his resignation from the CIA, some have speculated he may be taking the blame for the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. Consulate in Behngazi, Libya — a claim Georgia Senator Saxby Chambliss (R) told The Washington Times was false.

Despite the general’s ab-sence, Chambers made use of his time with students and attendees and left them with ten lessons he learned along the way to his success as a leader.

Remember to go to the bathroom before meetings so you can relax and focus

Never stop learning. Treat people the way you

want to be treated. Embrace collaboration…

it’s the future of learning.Take care of family and

friends.Focus on control and in-

fluence, don’t sweat detailsTake risks, don’t be afraid

to fail.Leadership is lonely.Create balance in life.Have fun.

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by Torry Holt. Palmer also re-corded 277 kick return yards, a school record and six yards shy of the conference re-cord. The 496 all-purpose yards set a new school and ACC record. Redshirt se-nior tight end Mario Carter caught seven passes for a ca-reer high 105 yards and one touchdown.

“Tobias and Mario both really showed up,” Glennon said. “Palmer really got to show what he can do, and some of the catches Mario had were really impressive. I think that they both had great games.”

Clemson sophomore wide

receiver Sammy Watkins and graduate student tight end Brandon Ford were the Tigers’ top receivers in yardage. Watkins caught 11 passes for 110 yards and a touchdown. Ford grabbed five passes from Boyd for 101 yards and two scores.

Clemson jumped ahead early with a field goal by red-shirt junior kicker Chandler Cantanzaro and a four-yard touchdown run by Boyd fol-lowed by another Cantanzaro field goal.

The Wolfpack quick ly retaliated. Following the second field goal, Glennon started the next drive with a 77-yard bomb to Palmer for a touchdown. The Pack held strong on the next Tiger possession, forcing a three-

and-out. Glennon struck on the following play throwing another touchdown pass to Palmer, this time for 49 yards.

After State forced Clemson to another three-and-out, Glennon drove the Pack 81 yards to the end zone, con-cluding the drive with an 18-yard pass to redshirt ju-nior wide receiver Rashard Smith. Following an inter-ception by redshirt freshman defensive back Juston Burris, sophomore kicker Niklas Sade kicked a 32-yard field goal to open up the second quarter.

The Sade field goal would be the only time the Pack would score in the second quarter. Clemson took over and scored 42 straight points, including a nine-yard rushing

score from Boyd at the begin-ning of the third quarter. Fol-lowing the Boyd touchdown, Palmer returned the kickoff 81 yards. Thornton then be-gan the drive by rushing 16 yards into the end zone for another Wolfpack touch-down.

On the next Clemson drive, graduate student safety Earl Wolff picked off his second pass of the season and re-turned the ball to the Clem-son six-yard-line. Glennon then threw a six-yard score to Carter, the fourth one-play scoring drive for the Pack. Boyd followed up with a 69-yard touchdown pass to Ford.

State began the fourth quarter with a 29-yard pass from Glennon to Palmer

for another Pack touch-down. The State defense forced Clemson to punt on the following drive, but State failed to reach the end zone and settled for a 40-yard field goal from Sade. The Tigers took over on the kickoff and ran out the clock to end the game.

Senior Scott Wood also went cold, going 1-for-11 from the field. His only successful attempt came from a three-pointer, making one of the six he attempted in the game. The Pack is currently ranked No. 5 in the nation in field goal percentage.

The tournament leaves the Pack’s record at 3-1 on the season. Before it heads to Ann Arbor, Mich. for the Big 10/ACC Challenge matchup against No.5 Michigan, it will take on UNC-Asheville in PNC Arena Friday.

RECORD BREAKING, EARTH SHAKINGTobias Palmer: Set a new ACC and N.C. State record in all-purpose yards with 496 yards. He broke T.J. Graham’s record of 366 yards set against Cincinnati.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

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INSIDE• Page 7: Continued coverage of the

Wolfpack’s loss to Clemson.

COUNTDOWN• 5 days until football returns to Carter-Finley Stadium

to face-off against Boston College.SportsTECHNICIANPAGE 8 • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19,2012

Randy WoodsonChancellor76-34

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Tom SuiterWRAL Sports Anchor73-37

Mark HerringEditor-in-Chief of Technician67-43

Jeniece JamisonSports Editor of Technician77-33

Sean FairholmDeputy Sports Editor of Technician71-39

Nolan EvansDeputy Sports Editor of Technician72-38

Jonathan StoutDeputy Sports Editor of Technician66-44

Pulse of the PackWKNC Sports Talk Radio Show75-35

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Despite riding high on two blowout wins against Penn State and UMass in the quar-terfinal and semifinal rounds of the Puerto Rico Tip-Off in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, the No. 6 N.C. State Wolfpack could not finish the job and fell to Okla-homa State in the tournament final, 76-56, leaving it with a second-place finish in the tour-nament. Freshman forward T.J. Warren was named to the All-Tournament team.

In the decisive 72-55 win against the Nittany Lions, State shot at 50 percent from the field and scored 22 points off the bench, all of them being courtesy of Warren, in comparison to two from Penn State. The Wolfpack also came away with the win despite being edged out in the rebounding category of the box score, 34-33.

Despite scoring seven points, going 1-for-10 from the field, and notching four assists in the first game of the tournament, junior guard Lorenzo Brown took command of the offense against the Minutemen, post-ing a double-double of 11 points

and 10 assists. He also swiped away three steals.

N.C. State also dominated the paint against UMass, scoring 50 points in the paint to the Minute-men’s 37. It also out-rebounded UMass, 41-38.

State was outmatched on the glass, 45-34, in the final contest and OK State guard Marcus Smart led the way for the Cowboys. He scored a game-high 20 points, pulled down seven rebounds and dished seven assists. Le’Bryan Nash also had a standout game for the ‘Boys, scor-ing 23 points.

Freshman guard Rodney Purvis had a stand-out game for State, scor-ing 16 points and ripping away two steals. Purvis was the only starter to register double-digit scoring totals. Brown’s performance on the defen-sive end was also a silver lining for the Pack, as he nabbed four steals from Oklahoma State.

In its two wins, Warren shined off the bench, scoring 43 total points. He also scored 15 points in the loss for the Pack. Warren currently leads the team in scoring at 17 points per game.

Junior forward C.J. Leslie, the Preseason ACC Player of the Year, didn’t perform to the lofty standards set for him in the final game. Leslie

was held to two points, going 1-for-5 from the field, and pulled down four rebounds. He also picked up a tech-nical foul in the second half. Leslie and senior forward Richard Howell

fouled out of the game early in the second half. Howell contributed six points and three rebounds.

The dark cloud of defeat has a silver lining to it — although the Wolfpack lost to the Clem-son Tigers, 62-48, many records were broken by both teams. The 110 total points was a Clemson Memorial Stadium record, but seven points shy of the confer-ence record set the previous week by Georgia Tech and UNC-Cha-pel Hill.

State’s 48 points were the most in school history for a loss. The 62 points allowed and the 754 to-tal offensive yards by Clemson were the highest the Pack defense has allowed in school history.

Graduate student quarterback Mike Glennon completed 29 of 53 passes for a career high 493 yards and five touchdowns, tied for another career high and the school record. Glennon’s pass-ing yardage broke the “Death Valley” record for most passing yards by any quarterback.

Clemson redshirt junior quar-terback Tajh Boyd threw 30 com-pleted passes for 426 yards and five touchdowns. Boyd also ran for 105 yards and three touch-downs. He was responsible for all eight Clemson touchdowns, a school record and an ACC re-cord. The combined 531 yards by Boyd was also a school record.

“We just could not get to [Boyd], and that’s something the defense has always depend-ed on” head coach Tom O’Brien

said. “He’s talented. There’s no ques-tion about it.”

Both Glennon and Boyd threw for more than 400 yards, a first in con-ference history. This is also the first time two schools had a 400-yard passer, a 100-yard rusher, and two 100-receivers in the same contest.

Freshman running back Shadrach

Thornton rushed for 114 yards on 21 carries and one touchdown in his second start for the Wolfpack. This marks the second game and the third time this season Thorn-ton has rushed for more than 100 yards. Clemson redshirt senior run-ning back Andre Ellington ran 130 yards on 22 carries.

Redshirt senior wide receiver To-bias Palmer had an immaculate per-formance against the Tigers, catch-ing seven passes for a career high 219 yards and three touchdowns. The 219 receiving yards were the third-most in school history, topped only

Swimming and diving finishes first in Chapel HillBoth the men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams earned the top spot at the 2012 Janis Hape Dowd Nike Cup Invitational. The men’s team finished with 1195.5 points and the women ended with 933. The Pack will return to action at the USA Swimming Nationals in Austin, Tx., Nov. 29 through Dec. 1.

SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS

Volleyball takes weekend matchesThe Wolfpack defeated Virginia, 3-0, and Virginia Tech, 3-2, in its final home matches of the season. With those wins, the Pack improved its record to 22-8 overall and 12-7 in the ACC. It’s now assured the Pack will finish no worse than fourth in the conference.

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Despite setting records, Tigers tame PackFOOTBALL

ETHAN HYMAN/NEWS & OBSERVERClemson defensive end Vic Beasley (3) hits N.C. State quarterback Mike Glennon (8), causing him to fumble the ball during the second half of Clemson’s 62-48 victory at Memorial Stadium in Clemson, S.C. Saturday, Nov. 17, 2012. N.C. State would recover the fumble.

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JOHN JOYNER/TECHNICIANJunior guard Lorenzo Brown dunks the ball during the exhibition game against Belmont Abbey in PNC Arena Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. State defeated Belmont Abbey 105-80.

ATHLETIC SCHEDULE

MondayMEN’S TENNIS AT ATLANTIC TIRE COLLEGIATE CHALLENGEIsenhour Tennis Complex, All Day

TuesdayWOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. CHARLESTON SOUTHERNReynolds Coliseum, 7 p.m.

Wednesday VOLLEYBALL V. UNCChapel Hill, N.C., 2 p.m.

FridayMEN’S BASKETBALL V. UNC-ASHEVILLEPNC Center, 7 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. FLORIDALas Vegas, Nev., 5:30 p.m.

SaturdayFOOTBALL V. BOSTON COLLEGECarter-Finley Stadium, 3 p.m.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. ARIZONA STATELas Vegas, Nev.. 5:30 p.m.

SundayWOMEN’S BASKETBALL V. NORTHERN IOWALas Vegas, Nev., 5:30 p.m.

Daniel WilsonStaff Writer

Wolfpack goes 2-1 in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off tourney

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thing the defense

has always de-

pended on.”Tom O’Brien,

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