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State budget cuts could mean tuition increaseN.C. State’s Board of Trustees has proposed yet another tuition increase in light of projected state budget cuts.
Brooke WalligStaff Writer
In addition to the already approved $750 tuition increase, in-state under-graduates students could be facing an-other $300 tuition increase approved Friday by the University’s Board of Trustees, if the University’s funding is further cut by the state.
According to Kelly Hook, student body president and member of the Board of Trustees, the proposal sug-gests a tuition increase of $300 for in-state undergraduate students and $600 for out-of-state and graduate students as a result of expected state budget cuts.
“Currently they are projecting be-tween a 10 to 15 percent budget cut, so tuition may be increased to make up for it. But I won’t be surprised if it is raised even higher than we have sug-gested,” said Hook. “Students should start preparing for it now.”
According to Hook, the proposal will be sent to the General Admin-
istration, headed by Erskine Bowles, who will evaluate the board’s sugges-tions and will accept, reject, or alter the proposal.
“This is simply a recommendation to the general administration as to what we think the increase should be,” said Hook. “This has two more stops before it is offi-cial, the general administration and then the state legislature. They may say that we have asked for too much, too little, or exactly the right amount. We just don’t know.”
According to Chancellor Ran-dy Woodson, an increase in tuition is unavoidable in lieu of the dramatic decrease in expected state funding, which could total up to $65 million.
“Even if the tuition were raised by 10 percent, which it isn’t going to since the amount is well within the 6.5 per-cent campus initiated cap on increases set by the Board of Governors,” said Woodson. “It would not close the gap between the funds we have and the
funds we need.”In a memorandum from the Chan-
cellor to the members of the Board of Trustees, Woodson said the Tuition Advisory Committee, co-chaired by Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Warwick Arden and Kelly Hook, recommended increases
of about 6.2 per-cent for under-grad residents, 3.5 percent for undergrad non-residents, 11.2 percent for grad-uate residents, and 3.4 percent for graduate stu-dents classified as “nonresidents” of North Carolina.
The advisory committee also suggested the money be used mostly for financial aid alloca-tions, funding for faculty promotions, and to “improve the quality and acces-sibility of the N.C. State educational experience.”
According to Woodson, the money may or may not be used for faculty promotional increases depending on the decision by the legislature to allow such increases.
“In the past three years, professors that have been promoted to higher level positions have not been allowed to have raises,” said Woodson. “This is because the current environment in the legislature.”
The advisory committee advised that about 4.8 percent of the money from the tuition increase be used for the purpose of faculty promotional increases.
Specifics of how the “quality and ac-cessibility” of the University experi-ence would be improved were not de-scribed, but Hook and Woodson said the about half of the money from the tuition increase would go to maintain-ing the quality of education.
“Quality of education is a really broad idea,” said Hook, “but some of what that means is keeping good professors, technology in classrooms, keeping class sizes small, and mak-ing sure there is enough need-based financial aid.”
Woodson said the money given to the University by the state accounts for a very large portion of the University budget, and these continuous funding cuts may cost students more than a couple hundred dollars.
“We are expected to deliver a world-class education, and these budget cuts
make that difficult. We have histori-cally been well-funded by the state, but now that the state is not provid-ing us with these funds it is becoming harder to keep the same level of educa-tion,” said Woodson. “If we continue to see these budget cuts, we are either going to have to look for more private sources of funding or we are going to see programs cut. We refuse to offer mediocre programs. Low cost and low quality are of benefit to no one.”
According to Woodson, if the Uni-versity sacrifices quality for low cost, the reputation of the University and the value of a degree from N.C. State would be tarnished.
“We are still the least expensive University among our peer institu-tions, and we want to be the least expensive University in the country,” said Woodson. “However, if we let the quality of our university slip because we are trying so hard to keep costs low, the reputation we worked so hard to achieve over 125 years will be lost very quickly.”
“We refuse to offer
mediocre programs.
Low cost and low
quality are of benefit
to no one.”Chancellor Randy Woodson
The first Tobacco Road Quidditch Cup won by N.C. State Sunday.
Aaron Andersen & Megan FarrellStaff Writer & Photographer
The Wolfpack Quidditch Club held their first Tobacco Road Quidditch Cup Sunday in Lee Field.
Each Quidditch team consists of seven players on the field at once: three chasers, two beaters, a keeper and a seeker. Teams are encouraged to have up to 20 members for substitutions and in case of injuries.
N.C. State won the tournament with an overall score of 430 points including the points from catching the snitch twice.
The other schools playing in the tourna-ment were University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Duke University.
UNC-CH came in second place in overall score with 170 points.
Duke and UNC-G trailed close behind, though Duke caught the snitch in every one of their three games, giving them second place in number of wins.
Nick Toptine, the commissioner of the club and a freshman in computer science, started the club in 2009 and now has over 40 members on the roster.
Toptine said he hopes next semester the club can host a tournament that brings all colleges in the Carolinas with a Quidditch club together.
The Tobacco Road Quidditch Cup will become an annual event for the Wolfpack Quidditch Club.
Toptine said he was “surprised at how many people actually showed up.”
“We had close to 350 to 400 people show up over all,” Toptine said.
Toptine said he was very happy with how the entire event turned out.
Members of the Wolfpack Quidditch Club cooked and sold various Harry Potter treats as a fundraiser, including cauldron cakes, chocolate frogs, and butterbeer.
“We made about $370 in concessions,” Toptine said.
Wolfpack Quidditch Club wins Tobacco Road Cup
MEGAN FARRELL/TECHNICIANNick Topine, a freshman in computer science, serves as the commissioner for the Wolfpack Quidditch Club. Toptine organized the first annual Tobacco Road Quidditch Cup Tournament, which took place Sunday on Lee Field. Toptine made sure that everything ran smoothly.
AARON ANDERSEN/TECHNICIANThe Wolfpack begins their attack on UNC-Chapel Hill during the Quidditch tournament Sunday. Jacqueline Garcia, a sophomore in fasion and textile management, Weston Sadovy, a material science and engineering, Cory Temple, a sophomore in Physics and Natalie Claunch, a sophomore in zoology, take off at the start of a game. In the beginning of a Quidditch match, all players must have their brooms on the ground and players must close their eyes. When the announcer calls “brooms up,” all players grab their brooms and charge to the center of the field, where all the balls are located.
NCCU administration publicly condemned the trashing of copies of the student newspaper.
Staff Report
In an apparent retaliation of two controversial stories published within the last six weeks, hundreds of cop-ies of the NCCU student newspaper, Campus Echo, have been trashed.
One such controversial story was published Oct. 6. This article, “Busi-ness School Blues,” covered the con-troversy over the dismissal of the NCCU Business School Dean Bijoy Sahoo.
Sahoo was replaced after a review by a university task force questioned his leadership. Shortly afterwards, hundreds of newspapers disappeared from the Willis Commerce Building.
Newspapers disappeared near the sociology building and student union after the second controversial story was published Nov. 3.
“Sociability Shortage in Sociology” detailed a conflict between student Dontravis Swain, who was later sus-pended from the university, and as-sistant professor of sociology, Dana Greene.
The person or people dumping the newspapers has not be found, but the action is illegal. Charges include lar-ceny, petty theft, criminal mischief or destruction of property.
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TOURNAMENT BREAK DOWN430 N. C. State points
170 UNC-CH points
150 Duke points
100 UNC-G points
3 Duke snitch catches
2 N. C. State snitch catches
2 UNC-CH snitch catches
0 UNC-G snitch catches
SOURCE: NICK TOPTINE
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Singing outPHOTO BY MARISA AKERS
Kyle Jackson, a senior in history, Chris Lazarek, a senior in history, Matt Gilm-ore, a junior in political sciences, and Logan Draughn, a senior in biochemistry, perform in Caldwell Hall during Windhover’s Open Mic night Sunday. The four
met in classes and YoungLife and formed their band, Tin Can Sailors, around a year ago. “We’ve never been a part of a joint poetry reading, mixed-media event. I could see us working it into another show,” Draughn said. “Any time Raleigh’s music scene can fuse with N.C. State, that’s solid. [Windhover] did a good job.”
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9:18 A.M. | TRAFFIC ACCIDENT/PROPERTY DAMAGEMain Campus Drive/Varsity Drive Vehicle from earlier accident backed into patrol vehicle at the scene. Minor damage. No injuries were reported. 9:52 A.M. | CONCERNED BEHAVIOR REPORTBiltmore Hall Concerned Report Behavior completed on non-student. Appropriate personnel notified and paperwork completed.
NewsTECHNICIAN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2010 • PAGE 3
Because of fall semester activities, the UAB budget is decreasing.
Caitlin BarrettStaff Writer
The Union Activities Board is broke and there are disputes over why that may be.
According to UAB treasurer Jeff Moan, this year the UAB has a budget of $430,897 and part of that comes from the $15.13 fee students are charged each year to support UAB.
This semester the UAB has put on two major events, Fri-day Fest and the Ludacris con-cert. The Ludacris concert cost them $35,000 and Friday Fest cost $90,000.
With $125,000 of their bud-get gone, plus the fees they have to pay every year, not much of the budget is left to plan events for the rest of the year.
Moan said last year the board had to take control of the cam-pus cinema, which they had never had to do in the past. The UAB currently spends $51,000 on stipends for cinema staff and concessions, which takes up a large part of the budget. When compared to the cost of Ludacris it is enough money to put on another large event.
This year’s free concert is not something students can expect to happen more in the future. The Air Force Reserve went to UAB and pitched them the idea of the concert and paid for what UAB could not cover. Without the Air Force Reserve such a high profile concert would have never happened, according to Moan.
Despite questions about how wise it was to have the concert he UAB feels great about the turnout and reactions to it.
“Anytime I think you can shove 7,000 students in a 60 year old building for a concert is incredible, even if you don’t like Ludacris I think the ener-gy you could feel in that coli-seum was just incredible,” Will Lamb, UAB president, said.
Byron Smith, a junior in business administration said the Ludacris concert was “un-believable.”
“If they had more things like that I would attend more of-ten,” Smith said.
Smith said he approves of UAB’s event planning, but said it could be better if they charged students to attend the events.
“Students could easily pay $5 to at-tend an event that is right here on cam-pus,” Smith said.
But UA B doesn’t feel the same.
“ We a r e not a revenue producing organization,” said Moan.
Moan said one of UAB’s mis-sions is to not charge for any events and he thinks that it has gone well considering the economy.
Victoria Johanningsmeier, a junior in psychology, said she thinks UAB has always done a good job with activities.
“Being a student organiza-tion, I think it is good students put in effort…it does take a lot of work,” Johanningsmeier said.
UAB officials said they think they are spending their money as efficiently as they can and providing activities for a wide variety of students.
Lamb said, “We have a pretty good idea of what kind of mon-ey we are going to spend, we kind of use those sort of things as guidelines for what we are doing.”
Caleb Fernandez, a sopho-more in business adminis-tration, said he is concerned about events planned for next semester.
“I feel like [UAB] does every-thing at the beginning of the year then everything fizzles out and it is hard to get excited about second semester events,” Fernandez said.
UAB officials said they have things planned for second se-mester like the Pan-African
event and the Psych college tour.
Lamb said he knows it is hard to ap-peal to every student on campus.
“We have w h a t l i k e 33,000 stu-dents on this
campus and that’s a lot of peo-ple…you can’t make them all happy, right?” Lamb said.
Lamb also said the rumors about them having absolutely no money left are false.
“People say we don’t have any money left but that’s not really true. We are paying for salaries, the committee chairs and executive board are paid stipends, and each committee has its own budget,” Lamb said.
Moan said he agrees that the UAB is spending their money wisely and the student body should not worry.
“Do we spend our money efficiently? Yes. Money is not wasted around here,” Moan said.
UAB facing financial trouble
“People say we
don’t have any
money left but
that’s not really
true.”Will Lamb, UAB president
We are Americans
When I transferred to State my sophomore year, I was excited to embrace the customs and traditions of my new University. As I prepare for graduation, I have no doubt I will forever be a faithful member of Wolfpack Nation. However, I wish to go on-record in disagreement with a certain tradition.
That tradition is the act of shouting “RED” and “WOLFPACK” during the playing of the National Anthem. ¬†While the Star Spangled Banner is played, we do not stand as Wolfpack, Tarheels or Blue Devils. We stand as Americans, united in honor, respect and remembrance of
those who have fought and are fighting for our freedom. We stand to defend the honor of the country we call home, not to exalt the comparatively trivial accomplishments of our respective teams.
I think 60 seconds of reverent reflection is a great prelude to three hours of sportsman-like division. Even if our team has a losing season, we bring honor upon ourselves by exhibiting good sportsmanship, and I hope that our students would lead the way to doing so.
Luke Augspurgersenior, mechanical engineering
A note on wasting time
In response to the Nov. 19 editorial, I would like to bring a few things to your, and the Student Body’s attention.
First of all, the Senate is a bureaucratic body by nature. It takes the Senate time to do things because that is way we are intended to operate under the Student Body Constitution.The idea for the bill was created jointly with the Executive Branch’s Academics Director and filed for Senate consideration in between the Roundtable and the Chancellor’s Liaison meetings.
The purpose of Senate is address large issues on behalf of the student body and to help bring them to the forefront of both the Administration and the Student Body’s attention. The Executive Branch serves to help erect change on campus on a faster timeline than the Senate can as we only meet every two weeks to consider legislation in front of the entire body.
Also, in response to the title of the Viewpoint article “Student Senate, stop wasting time,” I would like to redirect that at you, “Technician, stop wasting students time.” Yes, your coverage of Senate is wonderful, but in the same edition of the paper you have an article written - by a grad student - addressing how men should dress. You also forgo coverage of the annual “Protect the Tunnel” event that happens every year before the State-UNC football game as well as cover the start of the student designed T-shirts a week after they went on sale. Congratulations Technician, you have successfully become the pot calling the kettle black.
Patrick Devorejunior, meteorology
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The Board of Trustees has approved another cam-pus-initiated tuition in-
crease with hardly an utterance from the student body. If the UNC Board of Governors ap-proves this increase, then stu-dents will be looking at $300 more on their fall bill. While the summer’s $750 increase was a rushed surprise from the University, this increase has been in the works for months and there has been plenty of time for the student body to voice its opinion. At this point, students need to avoid the knee-jerk reaction of saying the increase is a surprise and learn from it.
Both the University’s Tuition and Fee Committee and Stu-dent Government have been asking for input and trying to inform people about the possi-
bility of an increase all semes-ter. There were three town hall meetings where students could voice their opinions, concerns and ideas. Student Govern-ment tried to advertise and make students aware of them, but attendance was abysmal. The moment to point fingers at the officials who were for-mulating these plans was at these meetings where all the facts were laid out on the table.
Student attendance at these meetings and constant e-mail feedback about ideas and the process would have made Uni-versity officials think harder about the considerations they were taking. And if they didn’t follow through with the sug-
gestions or ignored them, the students would have had something to hold over their heads in the end. Now, the stu-dents have nothing to hold the University to. This is a lesson to take University open meet-ings seriously. Those town hall meetings may have appeared to be a facade, but if people had attended and provided feedback, they may have been proven wrong.
The main question upset stu-dents need to ask is “where is the University going to get the money, if not from the student body?” The tuition increase has already been approved by the University, but is still waiting approval from the UNC Board
of Governors. At this point, students should contact the UNC Board of Governors or the chancellor, and urge them to send it back to the Univer-sity for another round of input and town hall meetings.
To prevent this in the future, students need to empower themselves. The Technician re-ceived a letter to the editor in response to a previous staff ed-itorial that scolded the student body for their lack of atten-dance at one of these tuition town hall meetings. The writer argued that the students’ voic-es don’t have any power and it would have been pointless to go. While this may or may not have been true, students are only making assumptions and giving the University the power to make their decisions for them.
The unsigned editorial is the opinion of the members of Technician’s editorial board, excluding the news department, and is the
responsibility of the editor-in-chief.
Speak for yourselfTHE FACTS:The last tuition increase passed in the summer and increased students’ tuition by $750. The Board of Trustees approved a campus-initiated $300 tuition increase for Fall 2011. The University is bracing for more budget cuts from the state.
OUR OPINION:Students should not complain to the University for the increase or claim they never had a voice. The University and Student Government gave students ample opportunity to submit their input. If students still have ideas, they should contact the UNC Board of Governors to voice their concerns before it gets the final approval.
The power of poetryI recent ly attended two
events that seemed at first blush to be quite different:
a poetry reading delivered in Arabic and English sponsored
by CH A S S , and a dinner of U.S. Special Operations Command of-
ficers to which I’d been invited by Col. Ken Rataschack, Com-mander of N.C. State’s ROTC unit. The contrast between the two groups was striking. The young students, some in jeans and T-shirts, others wearing hijabs, slouched in a standing-room-only lecture hall in Ricks to hear poetry. The special op-erations soldiers, uniformed, beribboned, and standing tall with ramrod posture, made small talk before dinner.
Despite their differences in appearance, the groups were united in their common hun-ger for understanding. The students attended the poetry reading to understand and ap-preciate other, non-Western cultures. Whether through the lenses of poetry, history, religion, languages or litera-ture, they want to make sense of the world. They require no convincing that the wisdom of the humanities is essential to a world view that allows them
to understand others -- and themselves -- in a frame of ref-erence that is larger than their own narrow experiences.
As I shook his hand, Lt. Gen-eral John Mulholland made it clear he wanted to forge ties with our college, to create op-portunities for his soldiers to better understand these same issues -- and in the same ways. His comments to me, and those of the officers around our dinner table, underscored their intense desire to under-stand how people from other cultures view the world and their role within it. They -- like those at the poetry reading -- embraced history, literature, culture, social sciences and languages as a means for bet-ter understanding an ambigu-ous, changing and increasingly complex world.
Even as West Point has over-hauled its curriculum to re-quire more humanities courses, other universities are reducing humanities offerings. For ex-ample, SUNY-Albany recently announced they plan to close entire language majors. It is ironic that our military better understands the value of the humanities and liberal arts for preparing future leaders than perhaps some of our own universities.
We need to ensure our gradu-ates are ready to understand the languages and lessons of other cultures, and that they can rec-ognize, tolerate and even thrive on ambiguity. It is not just a question of being a well-edu-cated person; it is a question of surviving in a world that, as New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman has noted, is increasing hot, flat and crowded.
Therefore, even as we face what may be the worst budget cuts in N.C. State’s history next year, CHASS will seek to hire faculty to teach in Middle East Studies and Chinese, and will do its best to protect offerings and programs in the humani-ties and social sciences. We re-main committed to building a bridge founded on understand-ing each other’s world views. Ultimately, poetry may prove more powerful than weapons for achieving success and sta-bility in the 21st century.
Jeffery Braden is the dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and a professor of psychology. Braden received his masters from Gallaudet Univer-sity in developmental psychology and his Ph. D. from the Univer-sity of California at Berkeley in school psychology.
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How will you make up for the $300 tuition increase?
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“Financial Aid. I’m going to keep up my grades and if need be, I’ll get a job. I don’t want to put a financial strain on my parents.
Jared Davis sophomore, zoology
“I’ve got full financial aid from FASFA and scholarships, so I don’t really have to worry about it.”
David Hoffmanjunior, computer engineering
“Probably trying to save more money this summer. Work harder and have less outings with friends.”
Mallory Moransophomore, chemical engineering
“My parents will budget their money to figure it out.”
Sara Millerfreshman, First Year College
Encouragement to eat with our own families.
Christian O’Neal, sophomore mechanical engineering
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‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ follows the book more closely than previous movies.
Brooke ShafranekStaff Writer
Ever since Hagrid came to fetch Harry Potter from the dreadful Dursely family, his world—and ours—has never been the same. With the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One this weekend, the phenomenon continues.
The film is one of the darkest in the series, losing its chi ldren’s-book tone as the famous t hree friends Harry (Radcliffe), Ron (Grint), and Hermonie (Watson) begin their perilous journey to find the remaining horcruxes so that they may destroy them and, hopefully, Lord Voldemort (Fiennes). The film is action-packed, despite a good por-tion of the story being centered on the characters hiding out in a tent at random locations. The movie did a good job keeping the story faced-paced, which is a hard feat to accom-plish considering the slow points in the book.
Radcliffe, Grint, and Watson de-liver mature performances that were absent in the previous films, and show a new layer of depth that was otherwise only seen in the books. Radcliffe struggles with his loss of loved ones and Grint and Watson develop their on-screen romance. The actual age of the actors contrasts with the age of the characters in the
book in this movie, as the audience is supposedly watching seventeen year olds although Radcliffe is 21.
Director David Yates does a great job of staying true to the book, an aspect of each Harry Potter movie that fans love.
Freshman chemical engineering major Amy Lawrence said, “I read all the books, and I liked [this movie] because it was really the most accu-rately based on the book. It’s exactly
what I imagined when I read it.”
Anderson Foster, a fresh-man in food science thought t h e m o v i e stayed truer to the book than many of the other movies.
“It was a little darker than the
rest though,” Foster said. “And I thought a little too fast-paced.”
However, because the film closely follows the book it left non-book readers in the dark with little sense of what is going on or how it is happen-ing. For example, the film includes flashbacks that the readers under-stand completely, but others who did not read the books found themselves lost and confused.
Freshman Spanish language and literature and human biology major Jami Benson said, “The picture and special effects were really crisp and precise. They made it more serious than the other movies.”
Benson said she thought the house elves were more believable and Dob-by was especially lovable.
“The movie was fast paced and ac-tion packed,” Benson said.
‘Harry Potter’ pleases fans of the series
COURTESY OF WARNER BROTHERSFrom left, Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger in Warner Bros. Pictures’ fantasy adventure Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1.
“The picture and
special effects were
really crisp
and precise.”Jamie Benson, freshman in Spanish
hlanguage and literature
WIZARDING WORLD OF HARRY POTTER RECENTLY OPENED Brooke ShafranekStaff Writer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part One is just a small fraction of the magic. The six previous film adaptations of the novels created one of the biggest franchises in the world. With Harry Potter’s popularity, Uni-versal Studious in Orland, Florida decided to bring this magic to life.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme area in Universal’s Islands of Ad-venture park opened this past summer to an opening day of over seventy-thousand “muggles”, dressed up and excited just as much if not more than they are at the mid-night showings of the movies.
The theme area depicts Harry Potter’s world in a very imaginative way. Snow cov-ers the rooftops of Olivander’s Wand Shop and Honeyduke’s sweet shop. Hogwarts lies in the background, which is the most breath-taking sight that left some people in tears.
Upon entering the new area, the Hogwarts Express emits steam out of its engine, and its conductors tell stories of the magical school for witchcraft and wizardry. Olivander’s allows one lucky guest to try out a wand for himself and allow the wand to choose him. Honeyduke’s has the delicious treat of chocolate covered frogs bouncing on the countertops.
Butterbeer is served by the cup, and guests could have a drink outside the Three Broom-sticks and the Hog’s Head, both of which are classic Harry Potter dining locations.
Previously called Dueling Dragons, the racing rollercoaster now takes the shape of the TriWizard Tournament Dragon Chal-lenge, where Hogwarts races against Beaux-batons Academy of Magic to win the com-petition.
Other features include the wanted posters for Siris Black displayed throughout the new park’s theme area and Moaning Myrtle cry-ing that can be heard in the girl’s bathroom.
The main attraction, though, is Hogwarts. The line for the ride inside, Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, takes guests through the Griffindor Common Room, the defense against the dark arts classroom, Dumbledoor’s office, and more. Holograms of Dumbledore, Harry, Ron, and Hermo-nie appear and begin talking to guests in an amazing display of technology. Also in the waiting area is the portrait room, which has hundreds of picture frames with the people depicted in them moving about, talking to you and to one another and switching frames. The movie prop of the Sword of Godric Griffindor can also be seen on the line for the ride.
The Harry Potter craze does not stop with the movies. Thousands of people flock Or-lando each week for their turn to see The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which is currently Universal’s most popular attrac-tion.
BROOKE SHAFRANEK/TECHNICIANThe main attraction at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter is Hogwarts Castle.
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Mark HerringStaff Writer
Engineering naturally tends to get a wrap as a college that bogs students down in tech-nical subjects, like advanced math and physics, which can lead to many late nights at D.H. Hill with too much caffeine. However, the largest college on campus is coming together all day Tuesday to focus on a broader picture than just the sum of its parts—design.
For the past eleven years, the College of Engineering has hosted Freshman Engineering Design Day, an all day program devoted to the presentation of various design projects that all 1350 first-year engineering student have worked on for the past few weeks.
“The event itself is a way for students to display and com-pete with their design proj-ects,” Hailey Queen, Engineer-ing Academic Advisor as well as event organizer, said. “In the introduction class E101, stu-
dents learn about the design cycle and in the last part of the course they actually work on these projects.”
Freshman students chose from nine projects to work on and will display their work, science-fair style, in the Mc-Kimmon Center. Examples of the nine options include a hovercraft design proj-ect, in which students must design a hov-ercraf t that can carry a five-pound bag of sugar, a projectile pre-cision launch-er that must hit a target, and a nuclear reactor probe, which is actu-ally tested in the university’s nuclear reactor.
Between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m., the first group of students, competing in teams of three or four, will present their projects, with the top three teams from each project winning awards.
“We’ll finish up the morn-ing session at about 11:30,” Queen explained. “Then that
will be followed up by speaker, Lloyd Yates, who is represent-ing Progress Energy and will be able to talk about things going on in industry.”
As part of the annual lecture series, Yates, president and chief executive of Progress Energy Carolinas, will speak from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m., af-
ter which the competition and presen-tations for the second half of students will begin, lasting until 3 p.m.
“This lec-ture is tech-nically sepa-rate from the event, but we encourage students to stay for this excellent op-
portunity for students to learn about the dynamics in the in-dustry,” Brian Koehler, Direc-tor of Engineering-Academic Affairs, said. “Progress Energy is a huge partner of the College of Engineering and NC State. They sponsor many opportuni-ties and recruit tremendously from our engineers as well as
non-engineers.” The College of Engineering
has put a large emphasis on the relationship between stu-dents and industry. In an ar-ticle in the Wall Street Journal published in September, N.C. State ranked 15th out of the top schools for connecting en-gineering students to careers. The Freshman Engineering Design Day parallels the col-lege’s outlook, and of the pro-fessors and faculty judging the students’ projects, representa-tives from industry, including GE, Progress Energy and IBM, will be reviewing the projects.
The goal of the program is to allow students to concentrate on the hands-on design aspect of engineering as well as learn how to take advantage of re-sources on campus.
“Students will have a $40 spending limit on their proj-ects,” Queen explained. “This mirrors much of the real world, since many projects will have a budget. Also, it’s a good oppor-tunity for students to utilize re-sources and opportunities on campus, like the craft center in Thompson Hall.”
Along with the design aspect, the event also aims to spur teamwork amongst students. “This project has definitely
helped us in our teamwork skills,” David Bohle, a fresh-man in mechanical engineer-ing, said. “I think that it will be good to see that one design is not the answer to a single prob-lem. This very much so is like the real world. If you need to build a bridge, then you need to see different designs and hear different opinions.”
Bohle. along with his part-ners Alton Russell and Austin Underwood, are working on a project to design a water foun-tain.
“Every E101 student must choose a project, so we chose the water fountain,” Russel, a
freshman in biomedical engi-neering, explained. “The objec-tive is to design a water foun-tain that would go in a foyer or a lobby of a building. I think we have a good chance to do well in the competition.”
The event is not exclusive to just engineering students. The McKimmon center will wel-come parents of the compet-ing students as well as students from K-12 school who are in-terested in learning more about engineering.
Freshman Engineering Design Day showcases student work
LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIAN ARCHIVED PHOTOTaylor Russell, freshman in aerospace engineering, adjusts a component of his E101 freshman design project.
“The event itself is
a way for students
to display and
compete with
their design
projects.”Hailey Queen, Engineering
Academic Advisor
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31st, when they shutout Bos-ton College 3-0. The first set was straightforward as State remained in the lead for the entire set, eventually winning 25-23.
Unlike the opening set, the second set was a back-and-forth affair with 13 ties and four lead changes. A contro-versial call by the referees highlighted the second set and resulted in the winning point for the Jackets, as they took the second set 25-23.
With the unfortunate call in the back of players’ minds, the Wolfpack ladies rebound-ed with a solid .455 attacking percentage in the third set and dominated Georgia Tech, resulting in a 25-15 win and bringing the match to 2-1.
State closed out the match with a 25-21 victory in the fi-nal set, which saw 15 ties and five lead changes. Smith said she was excited about break-ing the 11-year victory drought against Georgia Tech.
“It feels pretty good,” Smith said. “I’m glad that we could do that for the program. I’m really proud of my teammates.”
The second game of the weekend against Clemson was not nearly as one-sided. There were 38 ties and 23 lead changes in the match. Junior Kelly Wood notched a career-high 29 digs while both Smith and junior Luciana Shafer recorded double-doubles. De-
spite their performances, it was not enough to take home the win as the Tigers defeated the Wolfpack 3-1.
Despite the Senior Night loss, Angel said she was still proud to be standing with fellow seniors Smith and Pritchard after the three arrived at State as a part of a 10-player recruiting class.
“It was bittersweet because no one likes to lose,” Angel said. “I hated that that’s how it ended. I couldn’t have asked for a better senior night, though. So many people were there. It was really an amazing feeling. I came from a recruiting class of ten and to be standing there with the two other girls that had made it the whole time with me was kind of surreal.”
The team will cap off its sea-son on the road Friday night against rival North Carolina. The Wolfpack was swept 3-0 when the two teams last played in September, but spoiled the
Tar Heels’ Senior Night last season. Angel said she is hope-ful the team can mirror last year’s upset and put a happy ending on her career at State.
“I want to go out with a bang,” Angel said. “If I can’t go home for Thanksgiving, I’m kicking someone’s butt. It’s our last game against our big-gest rival. I want to beat those girls more than anything in the world. That would be the most amazing way to end my career for volleyball.”
SENIORScontinued from page 8
BBALLcontinued from page 8
LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANSenior setter Alex Smith jumps to hit the ball during the Friday game against Georgia Tech. Smith had 15 kills during the 4 sets. N.C. State defeated Georgia Tech 3 -1.
MIKAYLA CRAIG/TECHNICIANPlaying strong defense, sophomore center DeShawn Painter contains an opposing player in the game against Tennessee Tech on Friday, Nov. 12 at the RBC Center. The Pack ended the game victorious with a 82-69 win.
recording four points and five rebounds.
Coach Sidney Lowe and Co. will try to rebound from the Georgetown loss
when it takes on Fairleigh Dickinson at Reynolds Coliseum on Nov. 27.
off his hands to make a game-preserving catch as he fell to the ground.
Three plays later, thanks to a 15-yard completion on
third-and-16, the Heels found themselves in need of another fourth down conversion, this time on fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard-line. Yates faked a handoff, then dropped back and completed an easy touch-down pass to make it 27-25, State.
On the two-point attempt,
Yates rolled right, then fired a jump ball into the same corner of the end zone where Spencer scored a quarter earlier. Yates’ heave harmlessly fell to the ground and the Pack held on to a two-point cushion.
Leading by two, State was forced into a three-and-out and had to punt the ball back
to the Heels with just less than a minute to play. Senior Jeff Ruiz, who had not punted since the Pack’ overtime loss to ECU more than a month ago, picked a good time for a career-best 57 yarder that pinned the Heels on their own 4-yard-line. Redshirt sophomore linebacker Terrell Manning broke through the of-
fensive line to record a safety and his team’s seventh and final sack of the afternoon, making it 29-25, Wolfpack.
But the outcome remained up in the air during two onside kicks by UNC. State recovered the first one, but was penalized for moving before the snap to allow Carolina another op-
portunity. The Pack recovered the second one as well to al-low Wilson and Co. to kneel the ball and officially give the seniors a perfect 4-0 record against the rival Tar Heels.
“This is the greatest highlight of my career,” senior linebacker Nate Irving said. “So far.”
UNCcontinued from page 8
A late layup by Richmond hands Pack its second loss of the season.
Staff Report
A late comeback attempt came up short for the women’s basket-ball team in its 81-75 loss to Rich-mond on Saturday, despite four players scoring in double figures. Marissa Kastanek followed up her career-high 25-point per-formance against Alabama on Wednesday with a 19-point ef-fort against the Spiders.
Junior Bonae Holston recorded her second double-double of the season with 14 points and 12 re-bounds. Joining Kastanek and Holston in double-digits were Amber White and Brittany Strachan, who notched 16 and 12 points, respectively.
Trailing 52-37 at halftime, the Wolfpack went on a 15-4 run to begin the second half, cutting the deficit to 56-52. State was able to draw within three points with 23 seconds left to play, but a layup by Richmond’s Brittani Shells se-cured a Spiders victory. After two wins to open the season, the Pack has dropped its last two games , evening its record to 2-2 on the season.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Pack falls to
Richmond
COUNTDOWN• 9 days until the men’s basketball team takes on
Wisconsin in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge
INSIDE• Page 7: A continuation of the stories
on football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball and volleyballSports
TECHNICIANPAGE 8 • MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2010
WEDNESDAYS COLLEGE NIGHT
Randy WoodsonChancellor
Kelly HookStudent Body President
Tommy AndersonWKNC General Manager
Mark ThomasCo-host of 620 The Buzz’s “The Insiders”
Julius HodgeFormer Wolfpack basketball star
Debra MorganWRAL TV anchor
Tyler EverettSports editor
Tucker FrazierDeputy sports editor
Sean KlemmDeputy sports editor
Taylor BarbourDeputy sports editor
Standings 84-36T-3rd
84-36T-3rd
78-4210th
85-352nd
79-419th
81-397th
83-37T-5th
80-408th
89-311st
83-37T-5th
N.C. State vs. North Carolina N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State N.C. State
No. 16 Virginia Tech at No. 24 Miami Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Miami Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Virginia Tech
No. 25 Florida State at Maryland Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State Florida State
Virginia at Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College Boston College
Duke at Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech Georgia Tech
Pittsburgh at South Florida Pittsburgh Pittsburgh South Florida Pittsburgh Pittsburgh South Florida Pittsburgh South Florida Pittsburgh South Florida
No. 8 Nebraska at No. 19 Texas A&M Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska Texas A&M Nebraska Texas A&M
No. 9 Ohio State at No. 20 Iowa Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State Ohio State Iowa Iowa
No. 13 Arkansas at No. 21 Mississippi
State
Arkansas Arkansas Mississippi State Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas
No. 23 Utah at San Diego State Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah Utah San Diego State Utah Utah Utah
Cross country teams to compete at NCAA ChampionshipsThe N.C. State men’s and women’s cross country teams will be competing in the NCAA Championships today in Terre Haute, Ind. The women’s 6k race will begin at 12:08 p.m. followed by the men’s 10k race at 12:48 p.m. Freshman Laura Hoer, winner of four of the five races she has entered this season, will pace the women’s team as it makes its NCAA-record 26th appearance. Junior Andie Cozzarelli and redshirt senior Kara McKenna, both All-NCAA Regional performers, will join Hoer as the team aims for a high finish. The men’s team, which is ranked No. 16 in the latest national poll, will be led by 2009 All-American Ryan Hill and 2010 All-NCAA Regional performer Andrew Colley. It will be the 23rd appearance at the NCAA Championships for the men’s team.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Football back in rankingsAfter its 29-25 victory over North Carolina on Saturday, the N.C. State football team reenters the national polls with a No. 21-ranking in the Associated Press Top 25 poll. It marks the third time this season the Wolfpack (8-3, 5-2 ACC) has been ranked. The other two occurrences came after wins against Georgia Tech on Sept. 25 and Florida State on Oct. 28. Coach Tom O’Brien and Co. have had a recent trend of short-lived stays in the polls, however, as the team lost its following game each time it entered the rankings.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
Smith out three weeksThe men’s basketball team was hit with bad news over the weekend as senior forward Tracy Smith underwent arthroscopic knee surgery Friday afternoon, however, no major damage was found. The preseason All-ACC selection played only six minutes in the Wolfpack’s win over East Carolina on Thursday before the sore knee forced him to the bench. Smith is expected to return to the hardwood in three weeks.
SOURCE: N.C. STATE ATHLETICS
State drops Heels in instant classicSeesaw fourth quarter ends with Pack laughing last, seniors sweeping UNC-Chapel Hill.
Tyler EverettSports Editor
Senior wide receiver Owen Spencer might want to consider a career in for-tune telling. Spencer said two days after his team’s win over Wake Forest last week that he expected a wild one in Chapel Hill.
“It’s going to be interest-ing,” Spencer said in an interview with the Techni-cian. “I’m looking forward to a good, clean, nas-ty, physi-cal, pret-ty, nasty game.”
Before his team’s 29-25 victory Saturday over the Tar Heels, such a prediction made little sense. But then his erased a nine-point defi-cit late in the third quarter, twice made SportsCenter’s Saturday night Top 10 and sealed the deal with a safety of all things. In hindsight, he probably couldn’t have said it better.
Throughout the first half and most of the third quar-
ter, the kickers were as involved as anybody in the rivalry show-down. The Heels built a 19-10 lead on the strength of four Casey Barth field goals before a back-and-forth final period ended in the most memorable of coach Tom O’Brien’s four consecutive defeats of UNC. The Pack’s first field goal came off the foot of Josh Czajkowski, whose season-long 47-yarder came a week after a hamstring injury sidelined him during his team’s win over Wake.
The game’s final 16 minutes featured two ejections, the lon-gest run and most improbable touchdown pass of redshirt junior quarterback Russell
Wilson’s ca-reer, and a punt return for a touch-down, among a number of other mo-mentum swings.
With his team down nine points late in the third quarter, Wilson dropped back to pass on third-and-18, saw no open receivers open, then took off on a 34-yard-run to UNC’s 8-yard-line. A personal foul was as-sessed to the Heels for a late hit out of bounds on Wilson, giving the Pack first-and-goal from the Tar Heel 4-yard-line.
Three plays later, State’s de-cision to go for it on fourth-and-two paid off, as the Pack
converted on one of the most improbable touchdowns of the season. Redshirt junior quar-terback Russell Wilson rolled right, reversed field twice, and then, with a pass rush in his face, lofted the ball toward a crowd in the back corner of the end zone. The pass appeared to carom off the hands of Darrell Davis and into the arms of a diving Spencer, whose high-light-reel reception withstood an official review and was named SportsCenter’s No. 1 play in its nightly Top 10 high-light reel.
“It was a prayer, and it was answered,” coach Tom O’Brien said.
After the score, emotions still running high from the late hit on Wilson boiled over. An al-tercation between the Heels’ Kevin Reddick and the Pack’s Jarvis Williams resulted in both players’ ejections.
The defense quickly forced the Tar Heels to punt to junior wide receiver and return man T.J. Graham, who raced 87 yards untouched up the side-line to put his team ahead 24-19 with 14 minutes remaining.
After another stop by the de-fense, freshman running back Mustafa Greene and sopho-more running back James Washington led the Pack down the field for a field goal that made it 27-19.
But Carolina responded by advancing the ball to the N.C. State 12-yard-line, where it faced fourth-and-two. A play-action pass by T.J. Yates appeared to fall incomplete, but the Heels’ Josh Adams re-covered after the ball bounced
Seniors have a bittersweet final home game in loss to Clemson.
Josh HyattStaff Writer
The N.C. State volleyball team defeated Georgia Tech 3-1 Friday night before falling victim to Clemson the next evening on Senior Night by the same score, 3-1. The vic-tory Friday night marked the first time in 11 years the team has beaten the Yellow Jackets. The weekend’s results bring the Pack’s record to 14-17 overall and 4-15 in the ACC.
Saturday’s matchup against Clemson was the final home game for the three seniors on
the team, Alex Smith, Jana Angel, and Taylor Pritchard. Although the seniors played their last game in a Wolfpack uniform, Pritchard said the feeling had not quite set in yet following the contest.
“It was really sad,” Pritchard said. “I don’t think it’s actually hit me yet since we still have a week of practice and another game left. It will feel a little dif-ferent after we’re actually done. It’s really sad to know that was the last time I’ll be playing in front of our fans, my family, and with my teammates at Reynolds.”
The victory against Georgia Tech marked the first time the ladies won a match since Oct.
Pack can’t keep up with Hoyas
FOOTBALL
LUIS ZAPATA/TECHNICIANIn front of a packed house at Kenan Stadium, sophomore halfback James Washington is tackled by three UNC defensivemen Saturday. Washington had 45 rushing yards. N.C. State beat UNC 29 - 25.
MEN’S BASKTEBALL VOLLEYBALL
Volleyball downs Yellow
Jackets, falls to Tigers
SENIORS continued page 7
UNC continued page 7
Staff Report
The N.C. State men’s basketball team dropped its first game of the season Sunday night in an 82-67 loss to No. 20 Georgetown in the championship game of the Charleston Classic. A 15-0 second half run spurred the Hoyas to vic-tory over the young Pack team, which was play-ing without the services of senior forward Tracy Smith who underwent ar-throscopic knee surgery following the East Carolina contest.
State held the lead over Georgetown for much of the first half before head-ing into halftime tied at 37.
The second half began much like the first half ended, as both teams bat-tled for the lead. The Pack
held a 44-42 advantage fol-lowing two DeShawn Painter free throws with 16 minutes left to play, but a highlight reel dunk by Georgetown’s Austin Freeman sparked a 15-0 run and gave the Hoyas a lead they would never relinquish.
Sophomore Richard Howell had another big game for the Pack, finishing with 14 points and eight rebounds after post-ing a double-double in his previous game against George Mason. Painter filled in nicely for the injured Smith, finish-ing with 10 points and seven rebounds. The Pack did not have its best shooting day, go-ing 25-63 from the field and 4-17 from behind the arc.
The Wolfpack followed up its 85-65 tournament-opening victory over East Carolina on Thursday with a 78-65 win over George Mason on Friday. The team rallied past the Patriots
behind a strong second-half defensive effort. State used a team effort to build a 10-point lead by halftime, but George Mason did not shy away. The Patriots came out of the locker rooms hit-ting on all cylinders and claimed a 56-55 lead with 12 minutes to go. But the Wolfpack responded with a 19-2 run to reclaim the lead and would never look back, winning by the final score of 78-65.
With senior guard Javier Gonzalez in early foul trou-ble, freshman Ryan Harrow filled in and did not disap-point, leading all Pack play-ers with 14 points. Howell finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds while Painter played a career-high 27 minutes in Smith’s absence,
“It was a prayer,
and it was
answered.”Coach Tom O’Brien
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